Finding a Substitute: Liu Erlong. Tang San the Simp

Shrek Academy had only one girl, and that girl was Tang San's girlfriend.

Though neither of them had admitted it, that did not stop Dai Mubai and the others from guessing.

As the saying went, a friend's wife was not to be trifled with. No matter how much of a bastard Dai Mubai was, he could not steal his friend's woman.

That night, an extremely ordinary carriage entered through Soto City's gates.

The carriage stopped directly outside the Rose Hotel.

"Headmaster, we've arrived in Soto City."

The carriage driver climbed down and stood respectfully to one side.

"Soto City... This should be the thirty-sixth city, shouldn't it?"

From inside the carriage came a seductive voice that could make any man stand at attention.

Then, a voluptuous woman with an utterly seductive aura stepped out.

If Yu Xiaogang had been there, he would definitely have widened his eyes before turning around and running for his life.

Because this woman who exuded seduction from head to toe was none other than Liu Erlong!

"Yes, Headmaster. Soto City is the thirty-sixth city."

Ma Fu answered respectfully.

Over the past six years, Liu Erlong had almost completely stopped managing Blue Tyrant Academy. Instead, she had devoted herself wholeheartedly to searching for Yu Xiaogang. Every time she arrived in a city, she would stay for two months.

Those two months were spent solely searching for Yu Xiaogang. If she failed to find him after two months, she would move on to the next city and continue her search.

"Xiao Gang, this is the thirty-sixth city. I hope it will be the last."

Madness flickered in Liu Erlong's eyes.

Ma Fu kept his head lowered from beginning to end, his entire body trembling slightly as though he feared something.

Liu Erlong closed her eyes and imagined finding her beloved Brother Xiao Gang, fighting him more than a dozen times a day. Then, the expression on her face suddenly changed.

"You. Come inside with me."

Disgust showed on Liu Erlong's face.

After speaking to Ma Fu, Liu Erlong entered the Rose Hotel directly.

"Headmaster, today I..."

Just as Liu Erlong reached the entrance of the Rose Hotel, Ma Fu's voice sounded from behind her.

Liu Erlong turned back to glance at Ma Fu, and the pressure of a Soul Saint abruptly descended upon him.

Ma Fu was immediately crushed to the ground by that pressure, and only then was his face revealed.

Ma Fu's face was actually seventy to eighty percent similar to Yu Xiaogang's!

"Don't be ungrateful. If you didn't look like Xiao Gang, you would never have become my male consort in your entire life!"

Over the past six years, Liu Erlong had stopped pretending to be reserved. She no longer sought out mannequins plastered with Yu Xiaogang's portrait, instead finding a living person who was eighty percent similar to Yu Xiaogang.

However, Liu Erlong had always believed her body belonged to her beloved Brother Xiao Gang. Thus, whenever she used Ma Fu to ease her longing and desires,

she would make Ma Fu lose consciousness, then use Spirit Power to form a protective layer. That way, her body had not truly been taken!

When Ma Fu heard Liu Erlong's words, his body visibly shuddered.

"Yes... yes, Headmaster..."

Only after Ma Fu agreed did Liu Erlong withdraw her pressure and walk directly into the Rose Hotel.

Ma Fu looked hopelessly at the sky. He took out a medicine bottle from his robes, swallowed more than a dozen small blue pills from it, then followed after her.

The next morning, several people stood on Shrek Academy's training grounds.

Though calling it a training ground was generous. It was really just a slightly larger patch of open land.

Flender glanced at Tang San and the other four on the training grounds and nodded.

"Mm, everyone's here. Let's go!"

On the road to the Star Dou Forest, Xiao Wu had been in low spirits the entire time.

Seeing Xiao Wu so downcast, Tang San slowed down and moved closer to her.

"Xiao Wu, what's wrong? Why have you been so unhappy?"

Tang San's tone was full of concern.

After living together for six years, Tang San had realized that whenever Xiao Wu was happy, he was happy. Whenever Xiao Wu was sad, he was sad.

Whatever Xiao Wu liked to eat, he liked to eat. Whatever Xiao Wu wanted, he would run himself ragged going to Soto City to buy it.

There was one word that described this kind of behavior perfectly.

Simp.

Xiao Wu glanced at Tang San.

She knew that this trip to the Star Dou Forest was to hunt Tang San's Third Spirit Ring.

"Xiao San, do you think humans and Spirit Beasts really can't reconcile?"

Tang San looked at Xiao Wu in confusion.

He did not understand why Xiao Wu was asking him that.

What did she mean, Spirit Beasts could not reconcile with humans?

Humans needed Spirit Rings to grow stronger. With that alone, how could reconciliation be possible?

Besides, the Spirit Beast meat he bought back from Soto City every time, along with those carrots that could turn into Spirit Beasts—

didn't Xiao Wu enjoy eating them?

"Xiao Wu, isn't it only natural for humans to hunt Spirit Beasts?"

"To grow stronger, we have to hunt Spirit Beasts to obtain Spirit Rings. With that alone, how could Spirit Beasts and humans possibly reconcile?"

Tang San was actually right, but that only applied to humans. Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast Transformation.

At present, she was still fundamentally on the side of the Spirit Beasts. As for later, when her lovesick brain kicked in,

what did she care whether Spirit Beasts lived or died? As long as her Brother San could grow stronger, that was all that mattered.

"Hmph! Go play by yourself!"

Xiao Wu's little face was full of anger. She shoved Tang San aside and accelerated straight ahead.

"Hey, Xiao Wu!"

Seeing Xiao Wu get angry, Tang San did not understand why she was angry, but he still wanted to go comfort her. After all, when Xiao Wu was angry, he was angry; when Xiao Wu was sad, he was sad!

But just as he was about to go after her, he remembered that whenever Xiao Wu got angry, she seemed to dislike him bothering her further.

"What the hell is going on? What's wrong with Xiao Wu?"

Tang San felt unusually restless. He nearly scratched through his scalp but still could not figure out how he had offended Xiao Wu.

At that moment, Oscar, who had watched the entire show, came over.

"Hey, Xiao San, what happened between you and Xiao Wu? I saw her shove you just now, then run ahead with an angry look on her face."

Tang San had already been annoyed, and Oscar's words only annoyed him further.

Damn it, can't he read the room?

Can't he see that I'm upset? Why come over and ask me now?

What's wrong with you? Why does Xiao Wu look so angry?

"Nothing."

Tang San answered coldly, then ran ahead by himself.

Oscar scratched his head, completely bewildered.

He could not understand why Tang San had looked angry too.

Because Flender was extremely stingy, Tang San and the others' means of travel to the Star Dou Forest was their own legs.

They saved money, sure, but the problem was that they did not reach an inn near the Star Dou Forest until nighttime.

"Alright, let's rest at the inn ahead for the night. We'll enter the Star Dou Forest tomorrow."

Flender appeared from the shadows and pointed at the inn ahead as he spoke to Tang San and the others.

Originally, he had intended to make Tang San and the others pitch tents.

But after thinking it over, he realized that he, as their headmaster, was already stingy enough that Dai Mubai and the others had started to resent him.

So he had to salvage his image in the eyes of Dai Mubai and the others.

Holy shit! The iron rooster finally plucked a feather!

That thought appeared in Dai Mubai and the others' minds at the same time.

After entering the inn, Ma Hongjun eagerly ordered a huge pile of food.

Their headmaster had finally loosened his purse strings for once. He could not let this chance go.

On the second floor, Lu Li, who had changed direction halfway through his journey, glanced down at the Shrek Academy group stuffing themselves below.

"Strange. Wasn't Dai Mubai level thirty-seven when he first appeared? Why is he only level thirty-five now?"

"Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing aren't here either."

Lu Li sensed the fluctuations of Dai Mubai's Spirit Power and looked at him in confusion.

Lu Li understood the current timeline very well. He only knew that Tang San broke through level thirty in the Star Dou Forest, which was why he had changed course halfway through his journey.

He had originally only wanted to rest for one night before entering the Star Dou Forest, but he had not expected to run into Tang San here.

What he had not expected even more was that Dai Mubai's Spirit Power was only level thirty-five, and neither Zhu Zhuqing nor Ning Rongrong was present.