The next day, Shrek Academy's headmaster's office.
Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Yu Xiaogang, wearing his usual coffin-face expression, spoke quietly around the desk.
"I never expected something like this to happen during your soul hunt."
After hearing Zhao Wuji recount what had happened in Star Dou Forest, Yu Xiaogang remained expressionless.
"The Titan Giant Ape, the king of the forest, had at least fifty thousand years of cultivation, but it had not yet reached the level of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
"You were fortunate to survive its hands." Yu Xiaogang spoke calmly.
In truth, he did not care much about the others. As long as his disciple Tang San was safe, that was enough.
Hearing Yu Xiaogang's conclusion, Zhao Wuji immediately frowned.
"Fifty thousand years? Master, have you seen that Titan Giant Ape?
"Qian Ni said it was a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast capable of commanding a beast tide. That isn't something a fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast could do."
Although Zhao Wuji had not witnessed Qian Ni fighting two opponents alone above Star Lake, Qian Ni had still roughly explained the Titan Giant Ape's situation.
The moment Yu Xiaogang heard Zhao Wuji's rebuttal, he became somewhat displeased.
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
How could he possibly have seen a Titan Giant Ape? This information had merely come from books and the words of others.
Though he did not know much about Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, Yu Xiaogang was certain that the Titan Giant Ape they had encountered could not have been one. Otherwise, they could never have returned alive!
After suffering two setbacks in love, Yu Xiaogang had become increasingly stubborn. He was so immersed in fantasies of theoretical research that he could not tolerate anyone else's refutation.
If not for that rotten temper and that rotten face of his, he would not have fallen