Master Zhou Yi

"Damn it... what kind of bullshit teacher is this..."

Lan Xuanyu cursed bitterly in his heart as he limped around the Shrek Academy plaza.

Relying on a quota from the Tang Sect, he had managed to get into Shrek Academy, and he had even been lucky enough to run into his aunt, Tang Wutong, who was still going by the name Wang Dong.

At first, he had found it strange that he hadn't met his uncle-in-law, Huo Yuhao, yet, but he figured his own rebirth and time travel must have caused history to diverge. It wouldn't be too late to pull Huo Yuhao into the Tang Sect once he finally met him.

He had originally intended to enjoy a rare period of student life—after all, in his previous life, most of his time had been spent cross-dressing while carrying out infiltration missions on Tianlong Planet. He hadn't expected this old hag named Zhou Yi to start off by berating the class the moment she arrived, calling them trash and waste. Before they could even retort, the old woman demanded that everyone who had gotten into a fight over the past few days step forward.

Naturally, no one wanted to stick their neck out, but to his surprise, the old hag pointed directly at Wang Dong, claiming he had fought, and then insulted them all as a bunch of cowards afraid to cause trouble. She forced them all to run laps around the Shrek plaza, demanding one hundred laps within an hour, and even he, a wounded man, was not exempt.

Of course, Wang Dong, who had actually fought, had to run one hundred and fifty laps... because in Teacher Zhou's eyes, he was not a coward.

His leg had been pierced by a Human-Faced Demon Spider back in the Star Dou Great Forest and hadn't fully healed yet, so he tried to request an exemption, but he hadn't expected Zhou Yi to hit him with this:

"On the battlefield, will the enemy spare your life just because you're wounded?"

Lan Xuanyu had no choice but to follow the main group and run laps around the Shrek plaza.

Well... the logic holds, but any commander with actual combat experience knows to move the wounded to a relatively safe area. If someone is already injured, do you really expect them to keep running on the battlefield?

It just went to show that those who had never seen real war were always so self-righteous.

As he ran, the pain in his leg made it nearly impossible for Lan Xuanyu to keep going. He wanted to ask for a break several times, but the old hag simply wouldn't allow it. This made Lan Xuanyu grind his teeth in hatred, thinking that this person was just as deserving of death as those fake dragons on Tianlong Planet!

Just then...

A figure dashed out from the Shrek plaza, landed behind Lan Xuanyu, and immediately, a pair of blue butterfly wings snapped open, wrapping around him from behind.

"Ah!"

Those wings were truly stunning. Their color and patterns were a deep violet-blue, the entire surface shimmering like the blue sky inlaid with a string of brilliant halos—shifting between deep blue, azure, and light blue. The white markings on the wings looked like inlaid jewels, radiant and mesmerizing.

The sudden appearance of such magnificent wings was so shocking that almost every student, regardless of gender, let out a gasp.

Lan Xuanyu was startled as well, and he instinctively looked back, meeting Wang Dong's face.

"Circulate your soul power to make your body lighter," Wang Dong said, flapping the dazzling wings on his back to suddenly accelerate, carrying Lan Xuanyu as they flew at high speed around the Shrek plaza.

"Oh, oh."

Don't let the fact that Wang Dong had been beaten black and blue by Huo Yuhao's bare hands the other day fool you; his Radiant Goddess Butterfly martial soul, wherever it came from, was a top-tier martial soul in every sense of the word. Even if it wasn't quite as good as the Tang Family's uniquely inherited top-tier plant-type martial soul, the Blue Silver Emperor, it was certainly no worse than the power-type martial soul, the Clear Sky Hammer—not to mention it could fly.

At the very least, among this year's freshmen, Wang Dong's strength was worth noting, and carrying Lan Xuanyu was no problem at all.

Lan Xuanyu was stunned. It wasn't his first time seeing the Radiant Goddess Butterfly martial soul; his younger sister, Dai Ying, also possessed it, though he hadn't felt much about it back then.

But at this moment, he realized just how beautiful this Radiant Goddess Butterfly martial soul actually was...

He had always thought of his aunt, Tang Wutong, as a vase-like character—not to say she was useless in the Tang Family, but just a pretty face with no substance.

Calling her "pretty" was even a bit of a stretch; Bai Xiuxiu and his mother, Gu Yuena, were both far more beautiful than her.

But now... looking at Wang Dong's delicate profile, Lan Xuanyu's heart, which had been entirely filled by Bai Xiuxiu, was faintly stirred.

It seems... she isn't entirely without merit...

[Tang San: Plan successful...]

With his aunt carrying him, Lan Xuanyu finally didn't have to push through the leg pain, and he managed to finish the hundred laps before Zhou Yi's deadline.

After expelling a few disobedient students to establish her authority, Zhou Yi gave them time to change their clothes and began her first lesson.

"Alright, now that everyone is here, let's officially begin the class."

She turned around and, under the gaze of everyone, wrote the two characters for "Offense" and "Defense" on the blackboard.

"Today, we will talk about the simplest thing among soul masters—offense and defense."

As she spoke, Zhou Yi's gaze fell on Lan Xuanyu, and she asked bluntly.

"Lan Xuanyu, answer my question. There are various factions among soul masters: power attack, agility attack, defense, control, and so on. Tell me, among these factions, which ones are more inclined toward offense, and which are more toward defense or support?"

Lan Xuanyu, being called out, was stunned for a moment before a confident smile appeared on his face. How could such a childish question stump someone whose knowledge and perspective came from twenty thousand years in the future?

Lan Xuanyu stood up and answered confidently: "If a soul master's martial soul and bloodline power are strong enough, regardless of the faction, whether it's offense or support, they can do it all by themselves!"

Just like himself, possessing the Dragon God bloodline!

When he was still relatively weak, he could use the Gold-Patterned Blue Silver Grass and Silver-Patterned Blue Silver Grass to support his companions and help them grow stronger, acting as a support-type.

And once he became powerful, the unparalleled combat strength brought by the Dragon God bloodline made him, without a doubt, the strongest among all God Kings in both offense and defense!

"..."

There was no applause as expected; he was met with looks from the entire class, including Wang Dong, as if he were an idiot.

Zhou Yi's mouth twitched, and she raised her hand, using a burst of soul power to force him back into his seat. "I really wonder how you were specially admitted. What kind of nonsense is that? Sit down and listen to the lecture properly; stop daydreaming!"

Then, Zhou Yi turned around and wrote three words on the blackboard: Soul Guidance Device.

"In this era of increasingly developed soul guidance technology, the concept of offense and defense has become blurred. Even a support-type soul master can unleash massive destructive power using a powerful soul guidance device..."

Ah...

Lan Xuanyu finally realized that the soul masters of his era all possessed Battle Armor; even soul guidance technology was merely the icing on the cake for powerful soul masters and could not truly blur the lines between power-attack and defense-type soul masters.

On the contrary, bloodline power still played the most significant role even twenty thousand years later, as bloodline power basically determined a soul master's future development. Those with divine bloodline inheritances in their ancestry naturally cultivated faster.

My mistake, my mistake... why bother talking about bloodline power to these people who are no different from cavemen...

But Lan Xuanyu didn't have a negative view of soul guidance technology; after all, he possessed the most powerful [Di Tian Warship] in the universe.

That was a weapon with enough firepower to wipe out a planet with a single shot... he might as well let Di Tian continue to serve as a warship in this era.