Flender Flew into a Rage and Attacked? Shut the Gates! Release the Clear Sky Douluo!

At this point, Lin Wu raised his index finger and lightly wagged it at Flender.

"Now even a dean like you has come running over to compare seniority with me and put on airs."

Lin Wu narrowed his eyes slightly, extending a fair index finger and gently wagging it at the livid Flender, his tone brimming with undisguised contempt.

"To be honest, I've already lost even the last bit of interest in making a move against your shabby little village sideshow."

The moment he finished speaking, Zhao Wuji, who was sprawled in the haystack nearby and groaning, let out a perfectly timed, miserable scream, making the already oppressive atmosphere seem utterly ridiculous.

Flender's old face turned from white to green, then from green to red. He clenched his fists tightly, his knuckles cracking from the excessive force.

As Shrek's dean and the renowned "Four-Eyed Owl" of the soul master world, when had he ever suffered such a humiliating, in-your-face insult?

Besides, Zhao Wuji was his brother-in-arms. So what if this arrogant brat could defeat a Soul Sage? That rough brute Zhao Wuji had never been a top-tier powerhouse anyway. It didn't count!

He was, after all, one of the famed Golden Triangle, a ruthless figure who had dared to join forces with Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong, even daring to confront a Title Douluo head-on at critical moments!

Even a clay figurine had its temper, let alone Flender, who was fiercely protective of his own.

"You insolent brat, don't be so arrogant!"

Flender could no longer suppress the fury churning within his chest. With a roar that tore through the air, the enormous owl wings on his back burst open, and golden Soul Power radiance shone so brightly that it was impossible to keep one's eyes open.

Four purple and five black—nine dazzling soul rings rose fiercely from beneath his feet!

The pressure of a Soul Sage poured forth without restraint. Flender became like a bolt of lightning ripping through the night sky, launching himself at Lin Wu's face in a sudden attack!

His first strike was an all-out killing move. Clearly, rage had clouded his mind, and he intended to teach this brat who did not know his place a profound lesson.

Yet Lin Wu's face showed not the slightest ripple before this thunderous blow from an enraged Soul Sage.

There was even a teasing glint of just as expected in those deep black eyes.

It was as though Flender's desperate, cornered reaction had long been within his expectations.

"That's it?"

Lin Wu chuckled, too lazy even to summon his martial soul.

Just as Flender's claws came within a few feet of him and the fierce wind cut painfully across his face, Lin Wu's waist bent backward in an extremely bizarre arc.

His body seemed boneless as it drifted lightly aside, effortlessly evading the violent attack.

Not only that, as he sidestepped, Lin Wu swept out his right hand and pulled Tang San—whose watery black eyes were full of stunned disbelief—tightly into his arms. He carried her back several meters with incomparable ease and landed steadily at the edge of safety.

The entire movement flowed as smoothly as clouds and water, swift as a ghost, without the slightest trace of panic.

"Brother Xiao Wu..."

Tang San, forcibly shielded behind Lin Wu and completely unharmed, froze on the spot.

Feeling the warmth emanating from Lin Wu's chest and seeing the young man's calm composure in the face of a Soul Sage's ambush—while still protecting her behind him at the first possible moment—her heart was instantly filled with tears of emotion.

At that moment, Tang San felt that the Lin Wu before her was shining with a brilliance as dazzling as a god's.

"Master... you're so good to Xiao San..."

Tang San's excited voice trembled faintly. The hearts in her watery black eyes were practically overflowing.

Her urgent desire to protect her husband and her utter worship intertwined within her heart. If they had not been in the middle of a battlefield, she would have wanted nothing more than to cling to Lin Wu and never come down.

Meanwhile, Flender, whose attack had missed, hovered in midair with an expression too ugly for words.

He had thought that even if that claw did not seriously injure the brat, it would at least force him into a fluster. Who would have thought that not only had the other party dodged with ease, but he even had the leisure to embrace someone and flaunt his affection?

This was simply the greatest insult to him, a Soul Sage dean!

"However..."

Lin Wu casually patted dust that did not exist from his sleeve, not even lifting his eyelids as he directly interrupted Flender's impending second wave of attacks.

A playful, mocking glint flashed through his dark pupils. His voice was not loud, yet it clearly reached everyone present.

"Since you kept talking about 'seniority,' 'background,' and 'foundation' just now, then today, out of the kindness of my heart, I'll let you, a frog at the bottom of a well, open your eyes and take a good look..."

Lin Wu lifted his chin slightly, the corner of his lips curling into an arc of supreme disdain.

"At what true, absolute backing really is!"

After saying that, Lin Wu could not even be bothered to raise his hands. He silently activated the [Love God Contract] within his mind.

Buzz—!

An extremely concealed and profound divine ripple traveled along the unbreakable spiritual bond between him and Tang San, spreading explosively through the surrounding void like ripples on water!

Facing the blood-red sunset clouds on the distant horizon, Lin Wu raised his right hand with exceptional swagger and casually snapped his fingers at Flender in midair.

Snap!

The crisp snap of his fingers sounded especially piercing in the deathly silent clearing of Shrek Academy.

Then, beneath everyone's uncertain and startled gazes, Lin Wu did not look at the furious Flender at all. Instead, he turned his head and glanced sideways at the seemingly empty space above the dead treetops.

He curled his lips and shouted in a haughty, overbearing voice that carried across the entire field:

"Hey! You brat who hides in the dark and peeks every day—I'm talking about you, Tang Hao!"

"Your daughter's master is calling you out to work now! Stop playing dead up in the treetops and get the hell down here to back me up!"

Silence.

A deathly silence!

That utterly arrogant, almost blasphemous shout struck everyone's minds like divine thunder from the nine heavens, exploding with world-destroying force!

Yu Xiaogang, sprawled in a corner, was laboriously rubbing his swollen, pig-like face.

The instant he heard the words "Tang Hao," his eyeballs nearly popped out of their sockets, and his entire pig-faced expression twitched violently.

Tang Hao?!

That present-day god of slaughter, Tang Hao, the Clear Sky Douluo who had shaken the Douluo Continent and once severely injured several Spirit Hall Title Douluo single-handedly?!

Had this brat gone mad?! Who the hell did he think he was?!

He actually dared to call the mighty, peerless Clear Sky Douluo out to "work" in the same commanding tone one would use to summon a watchdog?!

In the distance, Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing's delicate bodies shuddered violently, their beautiful eyes filled with absurdity, shock, and disbelief.

Had everyone at Shrek Academy been kicked in the head by a donkey? Why did this Lin Wu look like something was wrong with his brain too?!