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 change the color of the heavens suddenly descended over Shrek Academy.
In an instant, everyone within Shrek Academy felt that even breathing had become an extremely difficult task beneath that pressure.
They wanted to circulate the Soul Power within their bodies to resist it, only to find their Soul Power flowing with unusual difficulty.
Inside the room, Tang San, who had only just awakened, suffered another heavy blow.
The lamp hanging from the ceiling fell straight down under the pressure and, by sheer coincidence, smashed into Tang San's back.
Feeling the pain in his back, Tang San wanted to cry out to ease it somewhat, only to discover 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 go over and 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 discovered that they had arrived at Shrek Academy's plaza.
And it was not just the three of them. The other teachers of Shrek Academy were present as well, 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 "sleeping soundly" on Dragon One's shoulder.
Bracing himself against the pressure, Flender barely managed to raise his head.
He felt that this pressure was 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 accordingly."
No matter what, he should lower his head first. The strength of the person before them clearly surpassed everyone on their side.
If he lowered his head first, then as the saying went, one did not strike a smiling face.
On that point 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 mistakes a little faster, and knelt a little more readily, perhaps Lu Li would not have acted against his little brother.
Liu Erlong might not have ended up at the Rose Hotel either...
Back in the Star Dou Forest, Dragon One had worn a black robe, specially arranged by Lu Li. Thus, Flender only found the pressure Dragon One emitted familiar and did not recognize him.
"Strange. Why does the woman on that man's back give off such a familiar aura?"
"She looks... she looks like Sister Erlong."
Looking at Liu Erlong on Dragon One's shoulder, Flender felt that she looked extremely, extremely similar to his beloved Sister Erlong.
But Flender quickly dismissed the thought.
How could his beloved Sister Erlong possibly be slung over a man's shoulder?
And if it truly were Sister Erlong, she would not make them endure such terrifying pressure!
Lu Li turned around and glanced at the people below, who were being pressed down by Dragon One's pressure until they could not raise their heads.
This was already after 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 the pressure."
Upon hearing that, Dragon One waved a large hand, and the pressure bearing down on everyone in Shrek Academy instantly vanished.
The moment the pressure disappeared, no one raised their heads first. Instead, they greedily gulped down fresh air.
Among them, Ning Rongrong was the first to lose patience.
As the young lady of the Seven Treasure 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 bandits' den, and now she had inexplicably been pressed down until she could not raise 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 had chosen this moment to jump out.
"Dragon One, seal her mouth and make her quiet."
Lu Li directly chose a physical method to cut off Ning Rongrong's next words.
Dragon One nodded, then fired a strand of Soul Power at Ning Rongrong. It landed directly on her mouth.
"Mmph! Mmph! Mmph!"
Ning Rongrong wanted to speak, but discovered that she could only make muffled sounds.
After dealing with the minor interruption, Lu Li turned his gaze back to Tang San and Yu Xiaogang. At that very moment, Tang San and Yu Xiaogang looked over at him as well.
"Strange. Why does this Grandmaster feel as though I have seen this person somewhere before?"
Looking at Lu Li's face, so handsome it seemed to belong on a screen, Yu Xiaogang felt that he had seen him somewhere before.
Lu Li had changed greatly over the past six years. Before he turned six, he had lived in the village, often going hungry, 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 Spirit Beast meat over a thousand years old at that.
Thus, his appearance and physique had both changed tremendously.
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 exceptionally sensitive to auras.
She stared at Dragon One.
To her senses, the aura emitted by the man before her was identical to that of the person from the inn that day.
It's over, it's over! He's here to settle scores after the fact!
He did not notice me at the inn before. Now he has come back for another round—he must be here for Sister Xiao Wu!
Lu Li walked straight up to Yu Xiaogang and looked at this "Grandmaster" who had been cuckolded.
"What, Gangzi? It has only been six years, and you no longer recognize me?"
There was a trace of amusement in Lu Li's voice.
Logically speaking, if Gangzi saw him, it would already be good enough if he did not curse at him immediately.
Yu Xiaogang looked at Lu Li in confusion.
The longer he looked, the more he felt that he had seen him somewhere before, but he simply could not remember where.
"Your Excellency, please enlighten me. Where did this Grandmaster come to know you?"
The other party had called him Gangzi right from the start, and Grandmaster Yu had originally been furious.
But after glancing at Dragon One behind Lu Li, he forcibly swallowed that anger.
Endure! Endurance was what Grandmaster Yu did best!
Once he trained 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.
"Sister Erlong!"
"Erlong!"
"Teacher'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 Sister Erlong!?"
Flender's voice was filled with rage, and seven Spirit Rings lit up beneath his feet in an instant.
He glanced at the unconscious Liu Erlong, especially at the bruises on her neck, and the fury in his heart immediately surged.
Bastards! That was his beloved Sister Erlong!
He had never even been willing to touch a single strand of her hair. How dared they knock her unconscious!
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