The Subject of the Time Machine

Feng Tianyu forced himself not to roll his eyes.

This Yan Shaozhe was picking bones out of an egg; just because he hadn't moved from his spot, he had deducted 50 points, clearly desperate to keep him from getting a perfect score.

He trusted Grey Wolf; fighting a thousand-year soul beast wouldn't lead to any accidents.

Heh!

If he managed to get a perfect score, Yan Shaozhe's face would probably be a sight to behold.

Grey Wolf still remembered Yan Shaozhe, too; that bird-man's Phoenix Flame had burned it quite badly back then, and now that the bird-man was here nitpicking them again, it was truly infuriating:

"With my invincible skills, fighting a thousand-year soul beast is as easy as catching a little lamb. He even deducted our points—is he blind?!"

Feng Tianyu couldn't even be bothered to lift his eyelids:

"Grey Wolf, let's go. Shrek Academy isn't a place for us to linger anyway; let's head back to the Soul Guidance Department and continue our research."

"There are still plenty of projects waiting for us!"

Grey Wolf followed Feng Tianyu, huffing in anger:

"Sooner or later, I'm going to settle the score with that bird-man!"

Seeing Feng Tianyu and Grey Wolf about to leave, Yan Shaozhe shouted, unwilling to give up:

"Feng Tianyu, come back to the Martial Soul Department! Your talent is extraordinary; only in the Martial Soul Department can your potential be fully realized."

"With the combat capability of your martial soul, you are destined to be a key candidate for the inner court. Staying in the Soul Guidance Department is a complete waste of your talent."

Feng Tianyu didn't stop, merely waving a hand:

"Dean Yan, you saw us fight in the way of a soul master, so you assume we belong in the Martial Soul Department."

"Little do you know, if we had fought as soul masters, the battle would have ended even faster."

"Our assessment is complete. If there is nothing else, we will be taking our leave."

Feng Tianyu currently carried numerous Soul Tool inventions by Grey Wolf: Magnification Lamp, Shrink Lamp, Aging Ray Gun, Rejuvenation Ray Gun, Electric Charging Belt... they were just very taxing on soul power.

They still had many projects to research, such as the Energy Converter—how to convert the energy of heaven and earth into soul power on a large scale—and the Time Machine. With that thing, he and Grey Wolf could return to that pitch-black night and stop Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui from messing around. He wouldn't even need to lift a finger; he could just make that disgusting guy Yan Shaozhe vanish from this timeline entirely.

Yan Shaozhe's face turned livid. In the entire Shrek Academy, Feng Tianyu was the only one who dared to ignore him like this.

"Feng Tianyu, Grey Wolf, you cannot escape the palm of the Martial Soul Department. You are strong now, but my disciple Ma Xiaotao is stronger. She will beat you until you obediently return to the Martial Soul Department. Even the teachers won't say a word about battles between students."

Then, Yan Shaozhe shouted in a cold, sharp voice:

"The assessment continues!"

Yan Shaozhe seemed truly enraged; no one in the entire Great Beast Arena dared to speak loudly.

The students who could enter Shrek Academy were all gifted, each with their own pride and temper. They might talk back to a teacher occasionally, but they wouldn't dare to be arrogant in front of Yan Shaozhe.

Today, they had truly seen something new!

Someone actually dared to go head-to-head with Yan Shaozhe. Some of the usual troublemakers felt immense admiration for Feng Tianyu, sighing that this was their true role model.

After completing the upgrade assessment and showing off a little, Feng Tianyu and Grey Wolf returned to the Soul Guidance Department's workshop. They spent the entire day there, busy until the afternoon before preparing to return to cultivate.

As they were walking back to the dormitory, they were blocked by Ma Xiaotao, who had been sent by Yan Shaozhe. She stood with her hands on her hips, looking at Feng Tianyu and then at Grey Wolf, her expression filled with surprise:

"I heard about your performance in the upgrade assessment. It was quite impressive, I must say—a one-yellow, one-purple soul ring configuration, defeating a thousand-year Bloodthirsty Demon Bear head-on as a Soul Grand Master!"

"With this talent, there are few in the Martial Soul Department who can compare."

"I'll say it again: only the Martial Soul Department is orthodox. The Soul Guidance Department is just a place for untalented students to slack off!"

"Wasting your time in a place like that is the greatest insult to your talent, and it's a disservice to the cultivation my teacher has invested in you."

"Come back to the Martial Soul Department obediently. I'll look after you, and I guarantee you can walk sideways in the Martial Soul Department with their full support."

"If you don't agree, then I'll beat you until you do. Tomorrow morning, I'll be waiting for you at the Great Soul Arena."

Feng Tianyu's expression was indifferent, his gaze cold as he stared at Ma Xiaotao's proud face, which seemed incapable of accepting any defiance:

"Ma Xiaotao, has anyone ever told you that your high-and-mighty attitude, forcing your will upon others, is incredibly repulsive? Have you really never been beaten before?!"

"Perhaps not in the past, but you will be in the future. I know the academy's motto: encourage real combat; those who fear trouble are mediocre!"

"Then let it be tomorrow. It's the perfect time to settle our grievances. Let me teach you a lesson for this habit of interfering in other people's choices!"

With those words, Feng Tianyu led Grey Wolf past Ma Xiaotao and headed toward the dormitory. Words couldn't solve anything.

To deal with someone like Ma Xiaotao, who was spoiled and had a terrible temper, only an iron fist smashed into her face would bring her to her senses.

Ma Xiaotao turned around, watching the backs of the man and the wolf as they left. Her fists clenched until they cracked, her brows furrowed, and flames burned in her eyes. Her chest was filled with such rage it felt as if she might explode:

"Hmph! Treating kindness like a donkey's lungs. My teacher and I can't stand to see you wasting your potential and want to put you on the right path, yet you ungrateful brat dare to speak to me like that!"

"I, Ma Xiaotao, have fought across the entire Shrek Academy. Don't think I'll go easy on you just because you're young!"

The evil fire surged within Ma Xiaotao, making the murderous aura between her brows grow even heavier.

Compared to eight months ago, Ma Xiaotao was no longer a level 38 Soul Elder; she was a level 42 Soul Ancestor!

The evil fire within her was showing more and more signs of being uncontrollable, and it might erupt at any moment.

Yet her temperament is unruly and rebellious; she often indulges her evil fire rather than actively suppressing it. To put it bluntly, she just needs a good thrashing.

Perhaps beating her until she feels a deep-seated fear in her very bones would do the trick.

Only then might she have a chance to control her temper and suppress that uncontrollable evil fire in the future.

The news that Ma Xiaotao and Feng Tianyu would face off at the Great Soul Arena tomorrow spread like a gust of wind, sweeping across the entire campus in just a single afternoon.

One is the upperclassman bully, Ma Xiaotao, and the other is the troublemaker who jumped from the Martial Soul Department to the Soul Guidance Department, Feng Tianyu.

With these two set to clash, teachers and students from every grade were stirred into a frenzy.

Upperclassmen prodigies such as Dai Yaoheng, Chen Zifeng, Yao Haoxuan, Xixi, Ling Luochen, Gongyang Mo, and others had all made up their minds to watch the battle.

Even the first-year freshmen were highly interested in this fight between the academy's prominent figures, including Jiang Nannan, who had come to Shrek Academy to escape Xu Sanshi, and Xu Sanshi, who had followed her there.

The entire Shrek Academy became lively because of this impending battle.

Although everyone generally assumed Ma Xiaotao would win—after all, she was fourteen with level 42 soul power, and if she couldn't beat a six-year-old with level 23 soul power, it would be a laughingstock—the outcome was still a point of speculation.

However, Feng Tianyu possessed one yellow and one purple soul ring, along with a mutated external martial soul, so he might just deliver a spectacular performance.

Consequently, the number of teachers and students paying attention to this fight was by no means small.