Provocation from Shrek Academy

Because of Medicine King Pavilion's booming business, the forging shop on the first floor had also been driven to prosperity, with no shortage of people coming every day to buy metals.

The Level Seven Soul Forged Metals forged by Bear Lord were the most popular. Many powerful Mecha Masters and Battle Armor Masters wanted to purchase them.

Since he had nothing else to do during the day, and since forging more could improve his understanding of metals and help him break through to become a Level Eight Saint Craftsman, Bear Lord forged for nearly ten hours every day.

With his formidable physique, forging continuously for ten hours was not difficult at all. If he did not need to set aside time to teach the other Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears how to forge, he would probably have forged several more hours. To him, forging was not tiring at all.

With such long forging hours, coupled with his Soul Forging success rate exceeding eighty percent, he could produce seven or eight pieces of Soul Forged Metal every day.

Once all of it was sold, it could bring in tens of millions in profit. Including metals of other grades, the forging shop's daily revenue could reach fifty or sixty million. This was likely among the very highest forging incomes.

Forgers at the Saint Craftsman level were extremely profitable, especially highly productive Saint Craftsmen like Bear Lord.

The metals he forged in a single month matched the amount some Saint Craftsmen forged in an entire year. How could that not be profitable?

Dragon Phoenix Hall was flourishing in an orderly manner. Everything was going smoothly.

Over these five months, Yun Ze's daily life had been rather simple. He read in the morning, forged metals and built Mechas in the afternoon, and cultivated at night.

He usually cultivated until three in the morning. Nearly eight hours of cultivation allowed his Soul Power to improve quickly.

Over the five months, his Soul Power had risen by six levels, averaging more than one level per month. It had now reached Level Twenty-Eight, and he would soon break through another level.

That day, Yun Ze was reading materials as usual in the Library on the fifth floor. He had already finished all the books on Soul Tools and Mechas, and had read more than half the books in the Battle Armor section.

Simply reading those books was not enough—he had memorized and mastered all of them. Once his Soul Power met the requirements, he would be able to directly begin making them.

While he was absorbed in his reading, a group of unwelcome visitors arrived outside Sun Moon Royal Academy.

"Students of Sun Moon Royal Academy, listen up! The five of us are from Shrek Academy, with an average age of fourteen. We have come to challenge your strongest students under the age of twenty. We are here only to tell you the gap between yourselves and the continent's strongest academy!"

"Students of Sun Moon Royal Academy, listen up..."

The voice was thunderous, rolling into Sun Moon Royal Academy and reaching the surrounding streets as well. Perhaps afraid that people had not heard clearly, the speaker repeated it several times.

The students within Sun Moon Royal Academy all frowned, while some hot-tempered students slammed their hands on their desks and stood.

"What nerve! A bunch of fourteen-year-old brats dare provoke Sun Moon Royal Academy? Brothers, come with me and teach them a lesson!"

"Let's go!" Quite a few people angrily stood in response, ready to follow the call and go outside to teach those troublemakers a lesson.

"Sit down, all of you!" the middle-aged teacher standing at the podium shouted sternly. His voice carried Soul Power, and the shout made the agitated students tremble.

"Teacher, they've come right to our doorstep to provoke us. Are we supposed to just sit here?" the student who had spoken first said indignantly.

The middle-aged man's expression was ugly, not because of the students, but because of the people shouting outside.

From those arrogant words alone, he had recognized where they came from: Shrek Academy, Sun Moon Royal Academy's old rival. The two academies had deep grievances between them.

Though he also wanted to go out and beat those people up, he had not lost his reason. He glanced at the angry students, satisfied inwardly, but maintained a stern expression as he said, "Didn't you hear me? Sit down, all of you. The academy will handle this matter. You do not need to concern yourselves with it."

"I'll count to three. If anyone is still standing, don't blame me for being harsh."

This teacher was clearly quite authoritative. Upon hearing that, the students immediately sat down fearfully, causing the desks and chairs to thump loudly.

Even the student who had stood up first hurriedly sat down after receiving a glare from the teacher. He no longer dared to clamor about going out to teach them a lesson.

Quite a few students had been enraged by the announcement, but the teachers who were currently holding class suppressed them all and prevented them from causing trouble.

Gu Yue Na, who was making Soul Tools in her own private laboratory, also heard the voice and paused her work.

She walked to the window, drew back the curtains, and looked toward the academy gates with slight confusion, her delicate brows faintly furrowed.

"Why has my bloodline suddenly become restless?" Gu Yue Na murmured to herself. After thinking for a moment, she walked out of the laboratory.

At the academy gates, three boys and two girls stood side by side, all appearing to be fourteen or fifteen years old.

The moment the voice first rang out, quite a few academy staff had rushed outside. Many nearby onlookers had also gathered, discussing the matter among themselves.

The academy's dean of instruction, Duan Jingliang, walked up to the five of them with a gloomy expression. "Shrek Academy?"

The boy standing in the middle of the group stepped forward, nodded, and said, "We are from Class One, Year One, of Shrek Academy's Outer Courtyard."

The boy was over 1.7 meters tall and well-proportioned. Though his body was not particularly muscular, it gave off a sense of immense strength. He was very handsome and had a pair of beautiful large eyes.

Facing this middle-aged man, who was far stronger than himself, he remained neither servile nor overbearing, without disgracing Shrek Academy.

"Very good. It seems getting into Shrek Academy has made every one of you incredibly arrogant. You really don't take Sun Moon Royal Academy seriously at all, do you?"

Duan Jingliang laughed in extreme anger, feeling deeply humiliated. Since when could even Shrek Academy students who had just enrolled come and casually challenge them?

Wu Lin flashed a brilliant smile and said seriously, "You misunderstand. We came to challenge Sun Moon Royal Academy precisely because we hold it in high regard. We would not even bother going to ordinary academies. What would be interesting about challenging them?"

The four people behind him nodded in agreement. If they did not hold Sun Moon Royal Academy in high regard, they would never have come here.

"Good, very good. Then we truly ought to thank you for thinking so highly of us," Duan Jingliang sneered.

If those old monsters from Shrek Academy's Sea God Pavilion had said they thought highly of him, he might have felt better. But hearing it from these students made him uncomfortable no matter how he heard it.

"Come with me. Sun Moon Royal Academy accepts your challenge." With that, he turned and headed into the academy first.

After hesitating briefly, Wu Lin and the other four followed him. They were not worried that they would encounter any danger after entering.

First, Sun Moon Royal Academy should not stoop to making things difficult for a few teenagers like them.

Second, they were from Shrek Academy. If these people harmed them, it would mean becoming enemies with Shrek Academy. Surely they would not dare do that.

Inside the first building, Duan Jingliang led Wu Lin and the others toward the elevators.

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