The Outer Court Cafeteria? It's Master Ye!

Meanwhile, at the cafeteria of Shrek Academy's outer court.

Among the group of teenage students, Bai Ran, a six-year-old child who had only just awakened his martial soul, stood out sharply.

As Bai Ran searched past one cafeteria window after another, he still could not find any sign of his uncle.

Bai Ran: Strange. Wasn't Uncle working in the cafeteria at Shrek Academy? Why can't I find him?

As noon classes ended, more and more outer-court disciples came to the outer-court cafeteria to buy lunch.

Soon, Bai Ran, a little boy whose every action seemed strange, drew the attention of some students—especially the female students.

"What an adorable child. Beibei, look how anxious he is, running around in circles. Let's go help him."

"Hey, Tang Ya, don't do anything reckless."

The speakers were third-year students Tang Ya and Beibei, who were also the current sect master of the Tang Sect and the Tang Sect's senior brother.

Tang Ya was not some rash person. On the contrary, she was quite shrewd.

A child who could appear here was definitely the son of some faculty member at Shrek Academy.

Even if she could not help, getting acquainted and making herself familiar was still a good thing. What if some important figure stood behind him?

Even if not, doing a good deed would at least make her feel comfortable inside.

"Little brother, have you run into some trouble?"

Bai Ran had just been about to look for the cafeteria manager and ask where his uncle was cooking.

When a beautiful young girl suddenly appeared before him. Judging from her appearance, she was about fourteen or fifteen.

Seeing this kind of big sister, Bai Ran immediately thought of the scene two years ago when he had been surrounded by a group of big sisters.

"Tang Ya, can you not run so fast?"

Originally, Bai Ran had planned to just run away.

However, along with a young man appearing beside the girl, and the name the young man spoke.

Bai Ran immediately stopped in his tracks.

Tang Ya?

That current sect master of the Tang Sect?

Then that meant the person beside Tang Ya was Beibei.

After all, among the men who could stay by Tang Ya's side without being disliked, aside from Beibei, there was only Huo Yuhao.

But judging by how close the two of them looked, it could clearly only be Beibei.

So Bai Ran changed his mind and said, "Big sister, I can't find my uncle."

With Tang Ya's many years of experience living in the academy, finding someone should be an extremely easy matter.

The Tang Sect might have declined, but when it came to gathering information, it was still fairly authoritative. Besides, Tang Ya was outwardly outgoing and had made many friends, so she knew more or less about matters within the academy.

"Little brother, who is your uncle?"

Tang Ya was very willing to do a good deed like helping a child find an adult, especially when the little brother was so adorable. (Wasn't this last part the real point?)

"Ye Tian."

"Ye Tian?"

Hearing this name, Tang Ya began to look thoughtful. Was there such a teacher in the outer court?

However, Beibei, who was beside Tang Ya, had his pupils suddenly shrink after hearing that name.

"Little friend, is your uncle Master Ye Tian?"

"Mm-hmm."

"The Ye as in leaves, and the Tian as in sky?"

"That's right. Are there a lot of cafeteria chefs named Ye Tian in the academy or something?"

Faced with Beibei's repeated questions, Bai Ran was a little puzzled, but when he thought of how many people there were in Shrek Academy, he figured there really might be quite a few people with the same name.

Cafeteria chef?

Hearing the child's words, the corner of Beibei's mouth could not help twitching.

Master Ye was the chief person in charge of the inner court cafeteria, and also the highest-ranked food-type soul master in the academy.

The "dietary supplements" he personally made were extremely difficult for even inner-court disciples to reserve. Without some real ability, there was no way to get them.

When Beibei had first entered the academy three years ago, he had been lucky enough to eat them once. The reason he had been able to was thanks to that woman he called "big sister."

Unfortunately, he, Beibei, had only treated her as a big sister and had never had any other thoughts at all. And after getting to know Tang Ya, he had practically cut off contact with that woman.

Who would have thought that in this outer-court cafeteria, he would actually run into Master Ye's own nephew?

As Master Ye's own nephew, this little fellow could practically strut around the outer court—no, even the inner court.

In the inner court, especially among inner-court students whose soul power had not yet broken through rank seventy, they all looked forward every month to eating the "dietary supplements" personally made by Master Ye.

If they learned that Master Ye had reduced the monthly supply of "nutritional supplements" because his nephew had been bullied at the academy...

There would be no need for Master Ye to lift a finger himself. The furious little gluttons alone would be enough to tear the bastard who bullied their little brother to pieces.

"Beibei, who's Master Ye?"

At that moment, Tang Ya looked utterly confused. Although she knew the situation in the outer court extremely well—even if she could not be said to know everything, she was not far off—once it involved the inner court, the true Shrek Academy, she was completely in the dark.

"Master Ye is..."

Beibei leaned in close to Tang Ya's ear and whispered to her.

"Really!"

Tang Ya instantly grew excited, and the way she looked at Bai Ran was as if she had discovered some heaven-shaking treasure.

Tang Ya: He's practically a priceless treasure.