A Sneak Attack Without Honor

"Too slow. Still too slow."

Yao Shi muttered at that moment.

"What?"

Wang Dong turned back to ask.

"I said it's too slow. Even though we're running much faster than everyone else, relying on our legs alone is still a little too slow."

"What else can we do? Flying would be faster. Don't tell me you can fly?" Wang Dong curled her lip.

Yao Shi suddenly understood. "Right, fly! Wang Dong, can't your wings fly? Later, you can just hold me and fly!"

"B-but flying with my martial soul at such speed consumes too much soul power." Wang Dong could indeed fly using her martial soul, but considering her condition—and the fact that Yao Shi was a man—she found an excuse to refuse.

"Are you stupid? With my recovery abilities, you're actually worried about soul power consumption?"

Yao Shi lightly knocked Wang Dong on the head as if she were an idiot.

"I'm not stupid! Fine, I can hold you and fly later, but don't you dare get handsy."

Seeing that she had no reason left to refuse, Wang Dong could no longer put it off.

"Quit acting like such a granny. Hurry up and summon your martial soul."

"Fine, why are you in such a rush?"

As she spoke, the two stopped running. A golden glow quietly lit up around Wang Dong, and a pair of blue butterfly wings instantly unfurled behind her. Their shape and color were incomparably, flawlessly beautiful.

Ah—

The sudden appearance of such dazzling winged martial souls deeply shocked everyone, male and female alike. Nearly all the students cried out in amazement.

Ignoring the noise around her, Wang Dong walked behind Yao Shi and slipped both arms beneath his armpits, her chest lightly pressing against his back. Before taking off, she softly reminded him, "Remember, don't get handsy. I'm afraid I might accidentally throw you down."

"Okay, okay, don't worry. I promise I won't move around." Yao Shi laughed. Since their bodies were pressed close together, he could still smell the faint fragrance on Wang Dong.

With that, Wang Dong began flapping her butterfly wings and slowly rose into the air.

"Yao Shi, don't stop restoring my soul power! Otherwise, if I run out of soul power later, we'll both fall to our deaths!"

As she spoke, Wang Dong violently flapped the dazzling wings behind her and abruptly accelerated, carrying Yao Shi as she circled Shrek Square at high speed.

"Woohoo—"

Wang Dong flew incredibly fast. With Yao Shi continuously restoring her soul power, she could ignore the consumption and fly even faster. It was Yao Shi's first time in this world experiencing the thrill of a roller coaster from his previous life, and he could not help shouting excitedly.

Thus, with Wang Dong speeding around the square, they completed another hundred laps in less than half an hour.

The two had run two hundred laps in such a short time that Zhou Yi, watching from upstairs, finally began to panic.

Why hadn't they stopped yet?

Why could they still go so fast?

Could they really finish all three hundred laps?

Did she really have to resign from her position as an outer court teacher?

A string of questions pounded relentlessly at her mind. "No, no. I absolutely can't let them finish so easily."

Zhou Yi leaped down from upstairs and landed on the field, releasing the pressure of a Soul Emperor toward Yao Shi and Wang Dong. She had made up her mind. Before the two had fully grown and drawn the attention of the academy's higher-ups, she would stop them from completing the run by any means necessary, even disgraceful ones. Then she would expel these two monsters. She absolutely could not lose her status as a Shrek teacher.

Caught completely off guard, Yao Shi and Wang Dong suddenly felt an immense pressure descend upon them. Their bodies stiffened, and they began rapidly falling toward the ground.

It worked. It was about to work! At this speed, even if they didn't die when they hit the ground, they would be seriously injured.

Zhou Yi thought excitedly as she watched them plummet toward the ground. Hehe, what soul oath? As long as you're badly injured and can't finish the remaining hundred laps, I'll have a reason to expel you. Then I'll still be a teacher at Shrek.

Seeing that the two were about to slam into the ground, Wang Dong desperately beat her wings, but the pressure weighed heavily upon them, rendering her wings completely unable to move.

"Damn old witch, she actually resorted to dirty tricks."

Yao Shi spat in disgust and hurriedly transformed into his Abundance form. He immediately summoned countless vines from the void, wrapping the two of them tightly. At that moment, Yao Shi's face was less than a meter from the ground. If they truly crashed down, they would definitely be turned into meat paste. Though he could recover afterward, the pain at the instant of impact would still be there.

The vines slowly loosened. The moment their feet touched the ground, before Yao Shi could speak, Wang Dong was already cursing in Zhou Yi's direction, her tone returning to the arrogant manner she had before Yao Shi suppressed it.

"You fucking old hag! Calling you an old witch really wasn't wrong."

"Making us run three hundred laps was one thing, but just when we were about to finish, you had to pull a dishonorable sneak attack and release your pressure on us."

"Do you know how dangerous it is for a Soul Emperor's pressure to be unleashed on two two-ringed Soul Grandmasters in midair?"

Zhou Yi sneered. "Since you're so spirited, what's wrong with making things a little harder for you? Only pressure brings growth. Haven't you heard that strict teachers produce outstanding students?"

"Pah!"

Yao Shi cut in as well. He did not buy Zhou Yi's excuse about pressure.

"I think you just can't stand losing. What, you can't bear to give up the benefits of being an academy teacher? You think you're some strict teacher producing outstanding students?"

"I'm a locksmith. Are you qualified? To produce outstanding students, you first have to be an outstanding teacher. Are you?"

"Y-you two..."

The back-and-forth from the two of them made Zhou Yi so angry that her chest tightened, but with so many students present, she could not vent publicly.

"Teacher Zhou, if there's nothing else, we'll continue running. Of course, if you still want to interfere, I wouldn't mind reporting this to the academy leadership afterward."

Yao Shi signaled Wang Dong to prepare for takeoff, not forgetting to throw a threat at Zhou Yi.

Their shouting drew the attention of the surrounding students. Zhou Yi no longer dared to act rashly. If the matter truly reached the academy higher-ups and they learned what she had done, it would not be as simple as being fired.

Without Zhou Yi's interference, Wang Dong once again carried Yao Shi around the field and completed the remaining hundred laps.

They actually finished it!

Zhou Yi forced herself to remain calm on the surface, but inside she had already gone mad. The thought of the martial soul oath, of truly having to resign from her position as a Shrek teacher, left her frantic with anxiety.

There had to be a way to remedy this. There had to be.

No, I need to find Fan Yu. He'll definitely have a solution.

"Teacher, we finished all three hundred laps, and it was easy. You remember what you said earlier, right?"

Yao Shi and Wang Dong walked over.

"Hmph. I'll naturally honor my word. I'll go to the Academic Affairs Office to process my resignation later. Since you two have finished running, hurry up and get lost." Zhou Yi's face darkened at their words, and she snorted coldly.

Since the old witch was driving them away, Yao Shi and Wang Dong did not bother arguing. She would be leaving soon anyway. Then, the two strutted off with cocky, swaggering steps.