Lu Li watched for a while before withdrawing his gaze.
As long as Tang San could successfully obtain the Demon-faced Spider's Spirit Ring and the Eight Spider Lances later on, a few deviations in the plot did not matter.
If those deviations allowed Tang San to obtain even more powerful opportunities, Lu Li would support him with both hands.
After all, the more and stronger opportunities Tang San obtained, the more and stronger things Lu Li could replicate.
After finishing the last cup of tea in his hand, Lu Li was just about to rise and return to his room to rest when the inn's tightly shut wooden doors were pushed open.
From where Lu Li sat, he had a clear view of the doors. He did not need to look deliberately to see the two figures outside.
"That's... Meng Yiran."
Lu Li's hand paused as he set down his teacup.
Meng Yiran was strikingly beautiful, and with that heavy dark-blue smoky makeup, she was hard to mistake for anyone else.
"Looks like the old woman beside her is her grandmother, Chaotianxiang."
Lu Li's gaze fell on the elderly woman beside Meng Yiran. The old woman held a serpent staff in her hand.
The aura she gave off was somewhat cold and sinister.
Downstairs, the people from Shrek Academy also noticed the grandmother and granddaughter.
There was a wild saying:
Shrek Academy students possessed a certain innate domain. Whenever a pretty girl appeared nearby, their gazes would automatically latch onto her.
This was especially true for the first generation of Shrek Academy students.
Lu Li had only heard about it and did not know whether it was true.
But now, it seemed that it probably was.
The moment Meng Yiran entered, the Shrek Academy group downstairs fixed their eyes directly on her.
Especially Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun.
With Zhu Zhuqing absent, Dai Mubai did not conceal his appreciation of beautiful women in the slightest.
As for Ma Hongjun, there was even less need to mention him. He was a complete lecher.
From the instant Meng Yiran entered, his eyes had been locked on her.
His small eyes kept wandering between Meng Yiran's developing breasts and hips.
The expression on his face was as obscene as could be.
Anyone unaware of the situation might have thought Ma Hongjun was about to start a wild romp the very next second.
Completely different from Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun were Tang San and Oscar.
There was no need to say much about Tang San.
The great God King Tang was pure and immaculate, and with Xiao Wu beside him, he naturally did not follow Dai Mubai and the others' gazes.
Oscar, meanwhile, liked the pure and cute type—preferably a loli!
Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun's gazes were intensely invasive. Meng Yiran did not need to sense carefully to feel those two pairs of eyes constantly roaming over her body.
Worst of all, Ma Hongjun even gave her an incredibly lewd whistle!
"Insolence!"
Chaotianxiang had already noticed Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun's gazes, but considering that her granddaughter had spent the entire day riding in a carriage and was both tired and hungry, she had not made much of it.
But that whistle completely ignited a grandmother's fury.
The pressure belonging to a Soul Emperor suddenly descended from Chaotianxiang. Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai, who had still been admiring Meng Yiran's beauty and indulging in wild fantasies, were immediately forced flat onto the ground by that pressure.
The shattered chairs were deftly carved by the pressure into two sharp spikes. Under Chaotianxiang's control, the spikes pierced precisely into Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun's thighs.
Pig-like shrieks suddenly rang through the entire inn.
Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun curled up together, clutching their respective thighs as their bodies trembled uncontrollably.
They wanted to pull out the spikes piercing their thighs, yet the intense pain left them too afraid to move.
"Your Excellency, my classmates merely looked at your granddaughter. It's not like she lost a piece of flesh. Wasn't it a little unreasonable for you to strike so heavily?"
Seeing his classmates suffer such serious injuries, Tang San immediately became displeased.
Yes, he admitted that Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun had indeed been somewhat impolite just now.
But so what!
Shrek Academy's guiding principle was:
Those who did not dare cause trouble were mediocre talents!
Had Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun not merely been carrying out that principle?
What was that called?
That was called good students! Good students who strictly upheld their Academy's principles!
Even if the process had been somewhat wrong, couldn't they simply apologize afterward?
Besides, Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai were so talented. What was wrong with being noticed by the two of them?
Perhaps Meng Yiran was the one losing out!
"Unreasonable? Tell me, what exactly is unreasonable about it?"
"Your two classmates came in and immediately looked at me with such lewd eyes. They even made frivolous gestures toward me."
"If my grandmother had not been here, I might already have been..."
Meng Yiran did not finish her words, because a middle-aged man wearing glasses and looking every bit like a profiteer appeared in the center of the hall.
What left Meng Yiran even more speechless was the seven Spirit Rings that appeared beneath the middle-aged man's feet!
"Yiran, get behind Grandma."
Chaotianxiang also released her Spirit Rings, shielding her granddaughter behind her.
"Damn it. If that old man were here, I wouldn't be in such a passive position."
Dragon Duke Meng Shu.
This time, she had not come alone to hunt Meng Yiran's Third Spirit Ring. Her husband, Meng Shu, had come as well.
But Meng Shu was not here now. He had entered the Star Dou Forest ahead of them to search for a suitable Third Spirit Ring for Meng Yiran.
After all, with Meng Shu's cultivation as a Soul Douluo, as long as he did not rashly enter the Core Area, nothing would happen to him.
"Headmaster! You came at the right time. Look at that old hag—she beat Hongjun and Mubai so badly!"
The moment Tang San saw Flender appear, he immediately straightened his back.
Their headmaster was a Soul Saint, while that damned old woman before them was merely a Soul Emperor. She was no match for their headmaster at all.
"Headmaster, y-you must avenge your disciple! I... I want that damned old hag to watch with her own eyes as I humiliate her granddaughter!"
Ma Hongjun also became emboldened at this moment.
He could not defeat that damned old woman, but his headmaster could!
That damned old hag—wasn't she so protective of her granddaughter?
Later, he would make her watch with her own eyes as he made merry with her granddaughter!
Ma Hongjun glared viciously at Chaotianxiang. If Chaotianxiang had not been so old, he would have wanted to humiliate both of them together!
Flender glanced at Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai, who was still groaning softly, and his aura abruptly changed.
The pressure of a Soul Saint suddenly bore down on Chaotianxiang.
"Heh heh. If Meng Shu were here, this headmaster would not be so biased. But unfortunately, he isn't."
Flender knew Chaotianxiang. The Dragon Duke and Snake Granny were famous enough that it was impossible for him not to know them.
If Meng Shu had been here, Flender would have appeared the moment Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai whistled at Meng Yiran.
But Meng Shu had not appeared, which could only mean that he was not here. Only the Snake Granny was present.
That was also why Flender dared to openly favor his own students.
Otherwise, even if someone gave him ten thousand times the courage, he would not dare.
"Your Excellency heard it as well. My two students meant no harm. On the contrary, you struck my Academy so viciously. Shouldn't you give me an explanation?"
How could Chaotianxiang, a Soul Emperor, possibly withstand the pressure of a Soul Saint?
Chaotianxiang was publicly forced to the ground by that pressure.
"Your Excellency, I am Chaotianxiang, known as the Snake Granny. Though you are a Soul Saint, if my old man learns of this, I fear neither you nor your so-called Academy will have an easy time."