Fierce Battle with Ma Hongjun

Zhao Wuji did not make a move against Dai Mubai. After all, Dai Mubai had only snickered at his embarrassment and had not done anything excessive.

Zhao Wuji was not that narrow-minded.

"This batch of new students includes a few little monsters. The coming days will be perfect for drilling them properly."

Zhao Wuji clenched both fists and knocked them together in front of his chest.

In his mind he was already imagining how he would use training as an excuse to settle the score for today's humiliation.

Once the thought crossed his mind, Zhao Wuji felt completely at ease and swaggered off toward his own room.

Since today was the first day of enrollment, there were no teaching duties. After Flender introduced the teachers of Shrek Academy and the new students including Li Luo, he let Li Luo and the others move about freely.

Xiao Wu was extremely curious about the new environment of Shrek Academy and kept clamoring to look around.

Ning Rongrong had grown up in luxury and had never been to such a remote countryside, so she was also curious and wanted to go out with Xiao Wu.

The two girls insisted on dragging Li Luo along. Since Li Luo happened to have nothing to do, he let them pull him outside.

Tang San followed the principle that wherever Li Luo went, he would go too, so he joined the three of them.

Shrek Academy was located in a village outside Suotuo City and occupied very little land. The four of them quickly reached a village at the academy's boundary.

At that moment, a discordant voice rang out.

"Cuihua! Just give it to me once!"

"No! I don't want to!"

Following the sound, they saw a chubby youth in red clothes tugging at a plainly dressed rural girl.

Seeing this, Xiao Wu assumed someone was bullying an innocent girl and immediately spoke up to demand justice for her.

"Stop! You beast, let go of that girl!"

Xiao Wu shouted, startling both the arguing youth and the girl.

The chubby youth was furious at being interrupted.

"Who are you? How dare you meddle in my business!"

The chubby youth's crude words instantly enraged Xiao Wu. She warned him angrily.

"Watch your filthy mouth!"

The chubby youth paid no attention to the warning. The moment he saw Xiao Wu, he was deeply captivated by her.

Xiao Wu was at the most beautiful age of a young girl, her charm fully on display.

The chubby youth was clearly a lecher. He froze at the sight of her and habitually wiped the corner of his mouth.

"Wow, where did this little beauty come from? How about you keep me company instead, and I'll let her go."

The chubby youth released the rural girl's hand and stared at Xiao Wu with a lecherous expression.

Xiao Wu found Ma Hongjun's appearance utterly disgusting. Her temper flared at once and she prepared to teach the chubby youth a lesson.

A faint shadow of her martial soul appeared behind Xiao Wu, and three soul rings slowly rose beneath her feet—yellow, yellow, purple.

The chubby youth grew interested upon realizing Xiao Wu was also a soul master. When he saw her first soul ring, his face showed disdain.

When the second soul ring appeared, he dropped the disdain and grew serious.

But the instant the third soul ring rose, undisguised fear appeared on the chubby youth's face.

He could tell that the beautiful girl before him was no ordinary person—she was a soul master even stronger than himself.

Yet the chubby youth somehow found the courage to activate Martial Soul Possession as well.

A shadow of a grass chicken appeared behind him, and two yellow soul rings rose beneath his feet.

"Hmph, what's so great about that? I'm a soul master too."

"Let me introduce myself properly. My name is Ma Hongjun, a twenty-seventh-rank assault-type battle soul master. My martial soul is the Evil Fire Phoenix."

This chubby youth was indeed Ma Hongjun. He felt confident because he was Flender's personal disciple at Shrek Academy.

He had assumed that once he revealed his martial soul, the others would be shocked by the Evil Fire Phoenix, since phoenix-type martial souls were top-tier beast martial souls.

Xiao Wu, however, showed no surprise. Instead, upon seeing Ma Hongjun's martial soul, she burst into laughter.

"What Evil Fire Phoenix? That's clearly just a grass chicken!"

Ning Rongrong could not help laughing either, though she maintained her refined young-lady demeanor in front of strangers and merely covered her mouth while chuckling.

Tang San's expression was equally strange—he had never seen a phoenix that looked like a grass chicken.

Li Luo remained indifferent. He showed neither surprise nor mockery; he already knew Ma Hongjun's situation.

His face betrayed no emotion whatsoever.

Ma Hongjun flew into a rage when Xiao Wu mocked his Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul.

"Hey, what are you laughing at?"

"Your martial soul is obviously a grass chicken, yet you insist it's a phoenix. Since when do phoenixes look like that?"

Xiao Wu spoke her mind directly, completely unbothered by Ma Hongjun's increasingly darkened expression.

Upon hearing someone call his martial soul a "grass chicken," Ma Hongjun flew into a rage, his first soul ring flashing.

"First soul skill, Phoenix Fireline."

Ma Hongjun shot a line of fire directly at Xiao Wu.

Seeing this, Xiao Wu's third soul ring flashed, and her figure vanished instantly.

Ma Hongjun's Phoenix Fireline missed its mark, striking the ground behind where Xiao Wu had been standing.

At that moment, Xiao Wu's figure appeared behind Ma Hongjun; she raised her leg and kicked him squarely in the backside.

Unable to dodge in time, Ma Hongjun stumbled forward and fell flat on his face.

Ma Hongjun pushed himself up from the ground, his entire face flushed red with fury, and his first and second soul rings flashed in succession.

"Second soul skill, Bath of Fire Phoenix."

"First soul skill, Phoenix Fireline."

Flames erupted all over Ma Hongjun's body as he sprayed fire toward Xiao Wu.

Xiao Wu dodged rapidly, and Ma Hongjun followed her movements, continuously spewing flames.

However, Xiao Wu was far too agile; not a single spark of Ma Hongjun's fire managed to touch her.

But the battlefield was located in a rural village, surrounded by houses, and a stray flame could easily ignite the flammable structures and cause a disaster.

This dispute was technically started by Xiao Wu, and although Li Luo stood on her side, none of this had anything to do with the innocent villagers.

Therefore, Li Luo took the initiative, summoning the Blue Silver King to sprout a circle of Blue Silver Bamboo Poles that blocked the wild firelines.

The bamboo poles stood between the houses and Ma Hongjun, preventing the flames from igniting anything flammable.

Generally, plants would ignite instantly upon contact with fire, but when Ma Hongjun's fireline struck the Blue Silver Bamboo Poles, it simply extinguished without setting them ablaze.

Xiao Wu continued to tangle with Ma Hongjun; seizing a gap in his firing, she blinked behind him, her first soul ring flashed, and a single Waist Bow sent him flying into the sky.

With a loud "Bang!"

Ma Hongjun crashed heavily back down from the sky, kicking up clouds of dust.

Just then, the village girl suddenly spoke up.

"Stop it, don't fight anymore!"