At the mention of the Star Luo Prince, Shui Bing'er's expression didn't change in the slightest. If anything, a deep look of disgust flashed across her face.
"The Star Luo Prince? Before Rainbow Academy, you're nothing."
She gave a soft snort and raised her jade-like hand. Frigid Soul Power gathered in midair, forming a mass of azure frost and snow.
"No... don't!"
Amid a series of terrified, desperate screams,
the frost and snow instantly enveloped and froze Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai from the waist down.
The bone-piercing cold drilled in from their thighs, bringing pain so deep it seemed to reach their marrow, as though thousands of needles were stabbing through their hearts. They let out pig-like squeals.
"Get lost."
Shui Bing'er waved her hand. The ice encasing them burst apart, leaving their legs coated in white frost and their meridians necrotic.
Ma Hongjun didn't dare stay another second. He scrambled away on all fours, fleeing in disgrace without the courage to look back.
Meanwhile, inside Rainbow Academy's reception hall,
Yu Xiaogang's face was so dark it looked ready to drip, and he slammed both palms onto the white jade table before him.
"What did you say? I'm not qualified to meet your dean?"
Yu Xiaogang ground his teeth, struggling to suppress his fury as he snapped in a sharp voice.
The Rainbow Academy instructor at the reception merely gave him a cold glance and replied flatly,
"Our dean is in secluded cultivation and is not receiving any guests. Besides, you don't even have a formal letter of introduction. Rainbow Academy isn't a place just any stray cat or dog can enter."
"You! How dare you!"
Yu Xiaogang trembled with rage. He pointed at the instructor, unable to get another word out.
Though he wasn't particularly strong in the Soul Master World, wherever he went, the major powers had treated him as an honored guest, thanks to his reputation as a Grandmaster of theoretical knowledge.
Yet today, at this little Rainbow Academy, an ordinary reception instructor had turned him away—and even insulted him by calling him a "stray cat or dog"!
"Rainbow Academy, indeed! What arrogance!"
"!!!"
Yu Xiaogang stormed out, his heart brimming with venom and humiliation.
As soon as he left the hall, he ran into Flender and Liu Erlong, who were hurrying toward him.
"Xiaogang, this is bad! Something's happened!"
Flender looked anxious, and cold sweat even gleamed on his forehead.
Behind him, Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and Oscar were supporting one another as they limped toward them.
The three of them looked utterly wretched.
Their uniforms were in tatters, and their lower bodies in particular had turned purplish from the cold. They walked awkwardly, their faces contorted with pain and slick with cold sweat.
"What happened?"
Yu Xiaogang frowned and hurried forward.
The moment Ma Hongjun saw Yu Xiaogang and Flender, he burst into wails, tears and snot streaming down his face as he began wildly embellishing the story.
"Grandmaster! Dean! You have to get justice for us!"
"The people from Rainbow Academy are downright bullies!"
"We only greeted them by the roadside and asked for directions. They insulted Shrek, saying we were a bunch of unwanted strays!"
"Boss Dai couldn't stand it and argued with them. Then they attacked us and crippled us with some vile cold poison!"
At those words, Yu Xiaogang's already-suppressed fury erupted.
"Bastards!"
He shouted, the veins on his forehead bulging.
"Rainbow Academy, you really think a little background gives you the right to look down on every Soul Master under heaven?"
Dai Mubai was pale. He clutched his upper thigh, his eyes filled with terror and despair.
"Grandmaster, I... I feel like I've lost all sensation in my lower body..."
Ma Hongjun began to sob as well.
"Me too... That cold was terrifying. My Evil Fire Soul Power can't dispel it at all. It's over... Are we really crippled?"
Flender's expression darkened at their words.
Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai were Shrek's absolute pillars. If the two of them were truly crippled, Shrek's future would be over!
Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun were filled with boundless resentment. A sick thought even crept into their minds:
Could it be... that only after the Sky Screen's rundown ends later, when it grants some divine-grade antidote as a reward, will we be saved?
Yu Xiaogang turned to Flender and Liu Erlong, who had just arrived. A fierce glint flashed in his eyes.
"Flender, Er Long, we can't let this go!"
"How can we let this little Rainbow Academy trample on the reputation of the Golden Iron Triangle?"
"Come on. We'll make a scene and demand an explanation from Rainbow Academy!"
"Today, unless they make the student who attacked us kneel and kowtow in apology, then hand over a miraculous medicine to heal us, the Golden Iron Triangle will flatten Rainbow Academy!"
Hearing Yu Xiaogang's words, anticipation appeared in the eyes of Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and the others.
That's right!
With the Golden Iron Triangle stepping in, this little Rainbow Academy would surely pay a terrible price!
However, they had no idea.
At that very moment, deep within Rainbow Academy, inside the Elemental Space shrouded entirely in nine-colored mist,
the space was completely cut off from the outside world.
In the void, boundless elemental forces roared and surged like a vast ocean, churning wildly.
With an ancient and noble dragon's roar,
a gigantic Nine-Colored Divine Dragon, a thousand zhang long, slowly manifested in the void.
Every scale on its body shimmered with the dazzling aurora of nine different attributes.
Wind, thunder, water, fire, earth, light, darkness, time, and space.
The nine most fundamental Laws of heaven and earth circled its immense body, swirling together obediently like stars surrounding the moon.
The Rainbow Divine Dragon merely parted its jaws, and the Laws within the entire space rang out in joyful resonance, its might overwhelming the heavens.
"The feeling of controlling the elements is pretty good, I suppose."
Long Yun felt the boundless power within his body, vast as the universe, and seemed quite satisfied.
In the next instant,
nine-colored light blazed.
The Rainbow Divine Dragon, so immense it could crush the Divine Realm, instantly drew in its power and transformed back into a handsome young man in a moon-white robe, looking completely at ease.
Long Yun stretched, then casually rolled his wrists.
After that, he set off and slowly walked out of the Elemental Space.
He had just reached the Pool of Life outside
when a graceful figure drifted over.
She was a woman of incomparable beauty.
She wore a fitted, lustrous white gown that perfectly outlined her striking curves.
Her long white hair fluttered in the breeze. Her features were exquisitely sculpted, as if by heaven itself, and her deep blue eyes were filled with reverence.
She was none other than the Demon Soul Great White Shark princess, Xiao Bai, transformed into human form.
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