President of the Suo Tuo City Branch (Seeking Follow-up Reads~)

The man who arrived was none other than the former deacon of the Nuoding City Spirit Hall branch, Su Yuntao! Known to all as Brother Tao!

"Oh, it seems the little brother recognizes me?" Su Yuntao was a completely different person compared to before.

He looked much more spirited and significantly more confident.

"I remember now, you're that little brother with the innate full spirit power and the Blue Silver Grass! Tang San, if I recall correctly, right?" Su Yuntao nodded in sudden realization.

Su Yuntao still held a deep impression of Tang San; after all, he had innate full spirit power...

Back when he was still ignorant, he had indeed looked down on that trash spirit, the Blue Silver Grass.

But now...

"Regardless, since I've arrived in a new city, I must reintroduce myself." Su Yuntao wore a gentle smile as he made a fist with one hand and struck it firmly against his chest.

"Judgment Society—Soto City branch president, Su Yuntao. It is an honor to meet you all here." As Su Yuntao spoke in a loud, clear voice, his entire demeanor became quite solemn.

It was as if announcing the name of his organization was a matter of great gravity.

Du Hao watched him, his mouth twitching. How did this organization of living ancestors end up here?

He never expected that even after fleeing to Soto City, he would still run into these unlucky pests.

This fate... it was a curse.

"You, you, you! How are you here!?" Tang San was both shocked and terrified; he couldn't fathom how those lunatics from Nuoding City had made their way here!

Dai Mubai watched from the side.

"What? You know Brother Tao?" The familiarity in his tone was obvious to anyone with eyes.

The Judgment Society had only arrived in Soto City within the last few years, and they were a very strange organization.

What truly made this group famous was an incident of bullying that occurred the previous year.

At the time, a mercenary spirit master had gotten drunk and broken into a civilian's home... fortunately, members of the Judgment Society patrolling nearby had noticed the situation.

As for what followed, it was a crowd-pleaser.

That drunken spirit master was promptly arrested by a Spirit King from the Judgment Society and thrown into the Soto City prison.

This incident immediately earned the Judgment Society a great deal of favor among the people of Soto City.

That was why Dai Mubai had immediately behaved himself the moment he saw Su Yuntao.

One had to know, rumor had it that the Judgment Society...

Actually had a Spirit Douluo in their ranks!

Though he didn't know if it was true or not, it was better not to invite trouble if he could avoid it. After all, the strongest person in their academy was only a Spirit Saint; they were completely out of their league...

"My apologies, little brother Tang San. In this city, we might not be able to be as strict as we were before," Su Yuntao said comfortingly.

"Although there is tuition for schooling here, you can apply to us for financial aid."

"Once we fully take over this place one day, we can waive the tuition fees." Clearly, Su Yuntao had completely misunderstood the reason for Tang San's fear.

He assumed the boy was worried about tuition costs.

After all, Nuoding City was the base of the Judgment Society, a remote area where no one cared, so it was normal to be strict after taking control.

Because the outside world had yet to accept their philosophy, they still had to exercise some restraint.

Furthermore, Soto City was the most important and prosperous city in the Bala Kingdom, one of the four great kingdoms of the Heaven Dou Empire, and the Judgment Society had not yet fully infiltrated it.

Listening to Su Yuntao's consolation, Tang San's mouth twitched; he was practically at a loss for words.

Was that what he meant?

"Alright, enough with the pleasantries. What was the situation here just now?" After comforting Tang San, Su Yuntao turned his sharp gaze toward the hotel manager.

"Nothing, nothing at all!" The hotel manager waved his hands frantically and added, "We accidentally gave the room reserved by Young Master Dai to someone else, and I was just trying to negotiate a tenfold compensation."

Hearing the hotel manager say this, Su Yuntao nodded. "Reasonable and fair. And you?"

Seeing Su Yuntao's gaze shift to him, Dai Mubai also hurriedly explained, "I said the same! I was willing to offer double compensation! If that doesn't work, I'll just forget it!"

Seeing that neither party had engaged in any forced buying or selling, Su Yuntao turned his head back.

He looked at Du Hao and the others, his tone gentle. "May I ask, friends, is what they said true? If you have any concerns, do not be afraid; our Judgment Society will take full responsibility for this behavior!"

As he spoke, he handed a card engraved with a scale to Du Hao.

"If you encounter any threats, we will investigate them to the end!" Su Yuntao struck his chest with his fist again. "Clear away all obstacles! Judge all filth!"

They stayed for a little while longer.

After Su Yuntao repeatedly confirmed the situation and verified that there had been no unfair behavior, he soon left.

Everyone present let out a collective sigh of relief.

"Finally gone. That was hilarious." The hotel manager wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief.

He then looked at the group with a smile.

"How about it, little brother? Why don't you discuss it?" The hotel manager pulled a large bag of gold coins from his robes. "I'll offer 20 times the amount this time! How about it?"

"Forget it, forget it. I don't want it anymore." After what had just happened, Dai Mubai had long since lost interest in that sort of thing.

The twins beside them whispered a few words to each other before telling the two to head back the way they came.

They even gave them a small tip for their trouble.

They didn't even ask for the previous payment back, leaving the twins to depart in high spirits.

"Well, alright then." The hotel manager had nothing else to say and could only leave, feeling relieved.

Just as Dai Mubai was preparing to leave as well, Xiao Wu suddenly muttered from behind, "Brother Hao, why don't we skip Shrek... I have a feeling this place will end up just like Nuoding City before long."

The academic pressure back in Nuoding City had truly terrified this little rabbit.

If Du Hao hadn't kept the Hypnosis Phone on hand to maintain counter-hypnosis on those teachers, she reckoned she would have turned into a dull-witted rabbit long ago.

Hearing this, Du Hao began to consider the matter; he truly didn't want to stay here anymore.

He shouldn't have been so greedy for that 500-year spirit ring back then, nor should he have implanted those outrageous concepts into those people—it had reached the point where even he was starting to fear them.

He had only hypnotized fewer than 60 people initially, but the scale of their development now made even him, the creator, feel a sense of dread.

He truly regretted his actions back then!

"San, what do you think?" Du Hao turned around to ask, only to find he was talking to thin air.

Tang San had already returned to his room and was no longer in the spot he had been standing just moments ago.

"Where did he go?"

"He went upstairs to his room a moment ago," Zhu Zhuqing said, arms crossed, stating the facts.

"In that case..."

Before Du Hao could say anything else, Dai Mubai, who was not far away, returned and interrupted, "Wait a moment, brother! I heard you are also heading to Shrek?"