Flender, Veteran Bootlicker

Inside Shrek Academy, Flender summoned Shao Xin and fed Tang San several candy beans.

Only then did Tang San's injuries stabilize, and he regained consciousness.

On the other side, Dai Mubai had just driven Ma Hongjun away and was preparing for the next assessment.

But amid this peaceful scene, a pressure powerful enough to make the heavens change color descended upon Shrek Academy from above.

In an instant, everyone within Shrek Academy felt that even breathing had become an extraordinarily difficult task beneath this pressure.

They tried to circulate the Spirit Power within their bodies to resist it, only to find that its flow had become abnormally obstructed.

Inside the room, Tang San, who had only just awakened, suffered another heavy blow.

The lamp on the ceiling fell straight down under that pressure and, by sheer coincidence, smashed into Tang San's back.

Feeling the pain in his back, Tang San wanted to cry out to lessen it somewhat, but he discovered that under this pressure, he could not even open his mouth.

"Xiao San!"

Seeing his disciple's back suffer a second injury, Yu Xiaogang wanted to check on him. But a pulling force enveloped him, Flender, and Tang San together.

The next moment, Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Tang San felt their vision blur. When things returned to normal, they found themselves on Shrek Academy's plaza.

And it was not just the three of them. The other Shrek Academy teachers were also present, along with Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar. Even Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong, who had yet to join Shrek Academy, were there.

On the steps at the center of the plaza, Lu Li stood with his back to the people of Shrek Academy. Dragon One stood beside him, while Liu Erlong was "soundly asleep" on Dragon One's shoulder.

Bracing himself against the pressure, Flender barely managed to raise his head.

He felt that this pressure was extremely, extremely familiar, as though he had experienced it not long ago.

"Your Excellency, may I ask when Shrek Academy offended you? Please tell us, so that we may compensate you."

No matter what, he needed to lower his head first. The person before them was clearly stronger than everyone they had here.

If he lowered his head first, then as the saying went, one did not strike a smiling face.

Based on that alone, Lu Li felt that Flender was far smarter than his good brother Yu Xiaogang.

If Yu Xiaogang had been a little more low-key in Notting City, admitted his mistake a little faster, and dropped to his knees a little more readily, perhaps Lu Li would not have laid a hand on his little brother.

And Liu Erlong might not have ended up at the Rose Hotel...

Back in the Star Dou Forest, Dragon One had worn a black robe, something Lu Li had specifically arranged. Thus, Flender only found Dragon One's pressure familiar and did not recognize him.

"Strange, why does the woman on that man's back feel so familiar?"

"She looks... she looks like Second Dragon Sister."

Looking at Liu Erlong on Dragon One's shoulder, Flender felt that she looked very, very much like his beloved Second Dragon Sister.

But Flender quickly dismissed the thought.

How could his beloved Second Dragon Sister possibly be carried on a man's shoulder?

And if it really was Second Dragon Sister, she could not possibly let them suffer such terrifying pressure!

Lu Li turned around and glanced at the people below, whose heads were bowed beneath Dragon One's pressure.

This was only because he had told Dragon One to restrain himself somewhat. Otherwise, given how heavy-handed Dragon One was, he might have crushed these people into meat patties.

"Enough, Dragon One. Withdraw your pressure."

At his words, Dragon One waved a hand, and the pressure imposed upon everyone from Shrek Academy immediately dissipated.

The moment the pressure vanished, no one raised their heads first. Instead, they all greedily gulped down fresh air.

Among them, Ning Rongrong was the first to lose her patience.

As the young lady of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, she had never suffered such humiliation since the day she was born!

First, she had come to an Academy that resembled a bandit den, and now she had inexplicably been pressed down until she could not lift her head or breathe properly.

"Hey!"

Ning Rongrong's shout successfully drew Lu Li's gaze away from Yu Xiaogang and Tang San.

Lu Li clicked his tongue inwardly.

The good show was about to begin, yet this young lady chose this moment to jump out.

"Dragon One, seal her mouth and make her quiet."

Lu Li directly chose a physical method to prevent Ning Rongrong from saying anything further.

Dragon One nodded, then fired a strand of Spirit Power at Ning Rongrong. It landed directly on her mouth.

"Mm! Mm! Mm!"

Ning Rongrong wanted to speak, only to discover that she could currently make nothing but muffled noises.

After dealing with that minor interruption, Lu Li turned his gaze back to Tang San and Yu Xiaogang. At that very moment, Tang San and Yu Xiaogang also looked toward him.

"Strange. Why do I feel like I've seen this person somewhere before?"

Yu Xiaogang looked at Lu Li's face, so handsome it seemed to belong on a screen, and felt as though he had seen him somewhere before.

Lu Li had changed greatly over the past six years. Before he was six, he had lived in the village, often going without food after one meal or another, so he had been somewhat thin and small.

But after awakening his Martial Soul and leaving, Lu Li had eaten nothing but Spirit Beast meat, and it had all come from Spirit Beasts over a thousand years old.

Thus, both his appearance and physique had changed enormously.

It was only natural that Yu Xiaogang could not recognize him.

Of everyone present, Xiao Wu was the most nervous.

As a Spirit Beast, she was extremely sensitive to auras.

She stared at Dragon One before her.

To her senses, the aura emanating from this man was exactly the same as that of the person at the inn that day.

It's over, it's over! He's here to settle old scores!

He didn't notice me at the inn before, but now he's come back. He must be here for Sister Xiao Wu!

Lu Li walked straight over to Yu Xiaogang and looked at this "Grandmaster" who had been cuckolded.

"What, Gangzi? It's only been six years, and you don't recognize me already?"

Lu Li's words carried a trace of amusement.

Logically speaking, if Gangzi saw him, it would already be good enough if he did not start cursing immediately.

Yu Xiaogang looked at Lu Li in confusion.

The longer he looked, the more he felt that he had seen him somewhere before, yet he simply could not remember where.

"Your Excellency, please enlighten me. Where did this Grandmaster make your acquaintance?"

The other man had called him Gangzi right from the start, and Grandmaster Yu had been furious.

But after glancing at Dragon One behind Lu Li, he forcefully swallowed that anger back down.

Endure! What Grandmaster Yu excelled at most was enduring!

Once he raised Tang San into a Title Douluo, everyone who had offended Grandmaster Yu—

Grandmaster Yu would settle accounts with every last one of them!

"It's fine, Gangzi. It's fine if you don't recognize me. But do you recognize her?"

Lu Li smiled and clapped his hands.

The next moment, Dragon One stepped forward from behind him and set down Liu Erlong, whom he had been carrying on his shoulder.

Upon seeing Liu Erlong, Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Tang San were all stunned.

"Second Dragon Sister!"

"Second Dragon!"

"Master's wife!"

Three people, three different forms of address.

The first to react was neither Gangzi nor Tang San, but Flender, who deeply loved Liu Erlong.

"What did you do to Second Dragon Sister!?"

Flender's voice was filled with fury, and seven Spirit Rings lit up beneath his feet at once.

He glanced at the unconscious Liu Erlong, especially the several bruises on her neck, and the anger in his heart instantly surged.

Bastards! That was his beloved Second Dragon Sister!

He had never even been willing to touch a single hair on her. How dared they knock her unconscious!