Soul Guidance Department, Spirit-Eating Carving Knife

Hearing those words, Zhou Yi's body trembled violently, and the fear in her eyes spread.

"You... you wouldn't dare!" Zhou Yi gritted her teeth and let out a piercing shriek at Zhuang Minghui. "My boyfriend is Fan Yu! He's the disciple of Qian Duoduo, vice dean of the Soul Guidance Department, and the future successor of Shrek's Soul Guidance Department! If you dare lay a finger on me, he'll never let you off!"

At the name Fan Yu, Zhuang Minghui not only showed no fear, he instead seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world and could not help bursting into loud laughter.

"Fan Yu? Him? He thinks he's worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as me?"

Who was he?

He was Zhuang Minghui.

The grandson of Elder Zhuang, one of Shrek's Sea God Pavilion elders.

The most outstanding monster in talent, with twin martial souls, and the number-one voice in the Soul Guidance Department aside from Xian Lin'er.

A mere successor of the Soul Guidance Department thought he was qualified to show off in front of him?

In his dreams!

Looking at the terrifyingly calm expression on Zhou Yi's face, she screamed in panic, "You... what are you trying to do?"

"What am I doing? Eat my big hand!" Zhuang Minghui did not bother giving much of a reply and directly grabbed Zhou Yi in one hand.

He clamped her by the neck and lifted her up like a beaten dog.

Zhuang Minghui turned his head and grinned at Gu Yue. "Gu Yue, let's go. We're going to the Soul Guidance Department."

A faint silver light flickered in Gu Yue's eyes. Zhuang Minghui's domineering, completely unorthodox actions were quite to her liking.

She said nothing more. She merely swept Zhou Yi with a cold glance, then strode forward on her long legs, her figure drifting along closely behind him.

Mu Jin, left standing to the side, watched the scene with her red lips slightly parted, her pretty face filled with shock.

These two freshmen... were far too lawless!

They had actually abducted an outer courtyard teacher by force in front of everyone, and they were even heading straight to smash up the Soul Guidance Department's turf?

Zhuang Minghui's and Gu Yue's identities had been concealed by Elder Zhuang and Di Tian.

The former did it because he did not want Zhuang Minghui's identity as the grandson of a Sea God Pavilion elder to affect the course of his life in the outer courtyard.

The latter did it because Gu Yue herself was a soul beast.

Therefore, no one in the outer courtyard knew their identities except Du Weilun.

But seeing that there were still dozens of Class 1 students on the field with frightened, helpless expressions, Mu Jin took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down.

So she suppressed the horror in her heart, turned to the students, and shouted, "All of Class 1, listen up! No one is allowed to spread a word about what happened today! Dismissed immediately. Return to your dorms and rest!"

This matter had to be taken to Director Du. No... perhaps even the vice dean had to be consulted.

"Yes, Teacher Mu." With Zhuang Minghui and Gu Yue taking Zhou Yi away from this place, the students of Class 1 finally relaxed.

As for our Huo Yuhao, he had personally witnessed Zhuang Minghui and that youth named Gu Yue, with the cultivation of a Soul Ancestor and a Soul Elder, completely defeat Zhou Yi.

In his heart, there was not only an indescribable envy, but even endless jealousy.

If he had possessed power as mighty as theirs...

His mother would not have died in the White Tiger Duke Mansion!

And he would have had the chance to make the White Tiger Duke Mansion disappear from this world.

Huo Yuhao yearned more and more for those two powerful forces possessed by Zhuang Minghui and Gu Yue.

He had already begun to fantasize about himself using those two mighty powers to stand above the very pinnacle of the world!

But what he did not know was that the things he had done earlier had made the students of Class 1 bear a grudge against him.

The students of Class 1 were quietly discussing the relationship between Huo Yuhao and Zhou Yi.

"Could that guy be in league with Zhou Yi?"

"Looks like it to me. How could some level-thirteen trash possibly pass the entrance assessment? He didn't stick with the group when he was supposed to."

"And when he wasn't supposed to stick with the group, that's when he did."

"This guy is a menace."

Wang Dong'er, who had been lying on the grass, had finally caught her breath by now.

The life energy that had radiated from Zhuang Minghui earlier was like an invisible thread, tightly tugging at her heartstrings.

Watching Zhuang Minghui's departing back, she bit her pearly teeth and forced her somewhat weak and aching body to stand.

"Dong'er, your body right now..." Xiao Xiao cried out in alarm, wanting to hold her back.

"I'm fine, Xiao Xiao." Wang Dong'er shook her head with a complicated look in her eyes. Then she lightly tapped the ground with the tip of her foot and forcibly urged the little soul power she had left, following in the direction Zhuang Minghui and Gu Yue had gone.

Shrek Academy, Soul Guidance Department experimental area.

At this moment, the experimental area was utterly silent. There was only the faint scratch, scratch of a carving knife for soul tool core formations scraping across metal.

Qian Duoduo, vice dean of the Soul Guidance Department, was standing before a massive alloy forging table. Beside him stood his disciple.

The most intimidating absolute genius in the Soul Guidance Department, his future successor, Fan Yu.

The two of them were attempting to research a soul tool that could be applied to the Ultimate Soldier Project, but for now, they were still stuck at a bottleneck.

Bang!

Suddenly, an earth-shattering boom shattered the silence of the research lab.

The office's heavy alloy security door had actually been kicked in from outside by a tremendous force, warping as it flew off and slammed hard into an experiment cabinet beside it, sending sparks flying everywhere.

"Who dares make trouble in the Soul Guidance Department?!" Qian Duoduo flew into a rage and looked toward the doorway.

Fan Yu's expression changed as well. The carving knife in his hand stopped abruptly, and his icy gaze turned toward the door.

However, before they could make out who had come, a limp body, accompanied by a pained muffled groan, landed with a thud at their feet, thrown there like a sack of trash.

"Fan Yu... save me..."

Zhou Yi's weak, distorted cry for help sounded especially grating in the chaotic office.

Fan Yu fixed his eyes on her. When he finally saw clearly that face covered in blood and mud, yet incomparably familiar, his entire body jolted violently, his pupils shrinking to pinpoints. "Zhou Yi?! How did you become like this? Your face—how did you become a cripple?"

"I didn't expect Vice-Dean Qian Duoduo to be here too. In that case, this matter will be easy to settle."

A young man's voice, tinged with a bit of mockery and laziness, came from the doorway.

Zhuang Minghui walked in leisurely with both hands in his pockets. Behind him, the cold-faced Gu Yue and the panting Wang Dong'er also stepped through the entrance one after another.

At first, seeing his dear daughter-in-law reduced to a cripple had left Qian Duoduo absolutely furious, and he had been ready to kill the person responsible on the spot.

But once he realized the one who had come was Zhuang Minghui, his whole person seemed to shrink.

"I was wondering who it was. What great wind blew you here?"

Zhuang Minghui chuckled. "Nothing much. I'm just here to handle a small matter. Did you get my Spirit-Eating Carving Knife?"

"I got it, I got it." As he spoke, Qian Duoduo held out the carving knife with both hands and presented it to Zhuang Minghui. It was very small, about half a foot long, only as thick as a finger, and its whole body gave off a faintly ancient, simple aura, though it also seemed somewhat gloomy.

"Very good." Zhuang Minghui took the Spirit-Eating Carving Knife from Qian Duoduo without the slightest hesitation.

The Soul Guidance Department truly was the strictest father of soul tool developers within the three great empires.

The Spirit-Eating Carving Knife was something they could take as soon as they said the word.

Qian Duoduo looked at Zhuang Minghui with a cheeky grin and said, "Young Master Zhuang, you still haven't told me what all this huge commotion today is about."