We Weren't Targeting Anyone, We Just Like Telling the Truth

Yu Tianheng, standing nearby, noticed the strangely infatuated look in Dugu Yan's eyes. His brows furrowed sharply as an intense, inexplicable sourness rose within him.

But before Yu Tianheng could flare up, Yu Feng and Osler of the main team, along with several male students from the reserve team, had already shifted their gazes past Ning Ze and onto Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu behind him!

When they clearly saw the three girls' breathtakingly beautiful faces, each magnificent in her own way, the male students nearly popped their eyes out. Wearing frivolous, self-important smiles, they crowded around them with snickering banter.

"Yo! Teacher Qin, we've never seen these girls before. Are they new junior students?"

Yu Feng flamboyantly flicked the loose hair from his forehead, then sidled up to Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing, striking a pose he believed exuded noble charm. Wiggling his brows, he grinned.

"You three pretty junior students have just arrived, so you're probably not familiar with the advanced class's practical combat lessons yet, right?"

"Want your senior brother to give you some private guidance later? I guarantee you'll be able to strut around Heaven Dou Academy without a care!"

Osler crossed his arms and let out a strange chuckle. "Exactly, exactly! Follow your senior brothers, and your practical combat experience will improve by leaps and bounds!"

The frivolous and lecherous tone instantly darkened the girls' beautiful eyes.

Ning Rongrong rolled her eyes in disgust. Frost gathered on Zhu Zhuqing's cool, pretty face, while Xiao Wu puffed up angrily, pricked up her rabbit ears, and pulled away.

Just as those spoiled young masters grinned and prepared to continue flirting with them—

Ning Ze's clear, indifferent voice drifted over lightly.

"No need for guidance."

"With your level of strength, you're far too weak."

Silence!

The originally noisy training ground fell into deathly silence the instant Ning Ze uttered the words "far too weak"!

"Huh?!"

Yu Feng's teasing expression instantly froze stiff. His eyes widened round as though he had just heard the most absurd joke in the entire continent!

Several senior students from the Heaven Dou Imperial Team's reserve squad immediately exploded, pointing at Ning Ze's nose as they shouted angrily.

"Brat! What the hell did you just say?!"

"A freshman whose feathers haven't even grown in yet, and you dare call us weak right in front of Teacher Qin Ming?!"

Osler's face darkened like water. Crossing his arms, he sneered mockingly.

"Heh, looks like someone thinks he's invincible just because he's got a pretty boy face. Afraid we'll steal your spotlight, are you?"

Osler then turned toward Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu, loudly attempting to drive a wedge between them.

"Junior sisters! Don't let this brat fool you! Guys like him, who only know how to talk big and act arrogant and conceited, are the most hypocritical and cowardly!"

"He doesn't even know his own limits. Don't get too close to him, or he'll drag you down and make you lose face!"

The boys had thought that this manly speech exposing the "pretty boy" would immediately earn the agreement and favor of the three stunning junior sisters.

However...

The moment their words fell—

"Pah! You're the ones who don't know your own damn limits!!"

Ning Rongrong sprang out on the spot like an enraged little leopardess. With both hands on her hips, her voice instantly rang throughout the entire venue.

"My Ning Ze is absolutely right! You bunch of self-righteous, useless pretty faces really are far too weak!"

"That's right! Every word Brother Ning Ze says is right!" Xiao Wu waved her little pink fists angrily, glaring at them.

"With you lot of flashy show-offs, you think you're worthy of comparing yourselves to Brother Ning Ze? You're not even fit to carry his shoes!"

Even Zhu Zhuqing, who had always been sparing with words and cold as ice, stepped forward without hesitation to stand protectively at Ning Ze's side.

"Those who humiliate themselves do not realize it."

The entire venue was utterly dumbfounded!

Yu Feng, Osler, and the dozens of Heaven Dou Imperial Academy students present all stood with their mouths agape, their minds buzzing!

What kind of mind-bending potion had these three exquisite young girls been fed?!

Ning Ze had openly looked down on elite senior students, yet not only did they not find him arrogant, they each rushed forward to defend him like protective mothers. They even trampled all the senior students present underfoot and ground them into the dirt?!

Yu Tianheng, the captain standing at the front, had also gone completely dark-faced. A cold killing intent flashed through his Blue Lightning Dragon eyes, and thunder crackled explosively around his body.

"Enough! This is outrageous!!"

Qin Ming, standing nearby, finally could no longer restrain his rage!

His face was livid, the veins on his forehead bulging. Pointing at Ning Ze and the other three, he laughed furiously.

"You four freshmen... are simply too ignorant of your own limits!"

"It would have been one thing when you gratuitously humiliated my alma mater, Shrek, in the office just now!"

"But now that you're on the training ground, you're wantonly trampling on my students! What exactly are your intentions?! Did you come here deliberately to cause trouble?!"

Facing Qin Ming's towering fury, Ning Ze merely raised the corner of his lips and said calmly.

"Teacher Qin, you've misunderstood."

"We weren't deliberately targeting anyone."

"We... simply like telling the truth."

"Pfft!" Ning Rongrong immediately covered her mouth and giggled. She promptly straightened her slender waist and loudly chimed in.

"That's right! My Ning Ze never lies. We just like telling the truth! If you're bad, are people not allowed to say so?!"

"Pfft..."

Hearing that righteous follow-up blow, even Dugu Yan, who had been immersed in Ning Ze's peerless beauty, could not help but laugh at the boy's scheming wit and sharp tongue. The interest in her beautiful eyes toward Ning Ze grew even stronger.

"Good! Very good! So you like telling the truth!!"

Qin Ming trembled all over with fury. The Soul Power of his sixty-first-level Soul Emperor was nearly impossible to suppress as it threatened to erupt violently!

As a mentor from a prestigious school, if he were publicly roasted by four inexperienced freshmen today, how could Qin Ming ever maintain his footing in the Soul Master world afterward?!

"Looks like unless I make you suffer for real, you truly won't understand that there are always greater people and higher heavens!!"

Qin Ming abruptly waved a hand, his furious roar shaking the surroundings.

"All members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Team, heed my command! Send out four people to fight these four in the arena!"

"I want to see with my own eyes just how much nerve these freshmen have, after trampling Shrek and the Heaven Dou Imperial Team into the dirt!!"

The instant Qin Ming's words fell—

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!

The dozens of talented students from the main and reserve teams throughout the training ground collectively erupted. Killing intent blazed in their eyes as Soul Power surged skyward, and they scrambled toward the enormous central arena.

"I'll go! I'm going to skin that pretty boy alive today!"

"Count me in! Let's teach these arrogant freshmen a proper lesson!!"

Yet just as they all clamored about teaching Ning Ze and the others a lesson, Ning Ze simply turned around and said, "We're leaving."

"Mm!"

The three girls nodded, then prepared to leave with Ning Ze.

Qin Ming immediately stretched out a hand to stop them. "You want to retreat without fighting?!"

Ning Ze gave Qin Ming a cold look. "Teacher Qin, we came here to study. When did we ever say we would fight you?"

After saying that, the four of them left without looking back, leaving Qin Ming staring blankly at their retreating figures.

Seeing this, the members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Team were dumbfounded as well.

Indeed, from beginning to end, Ning Ze and the others had never said they wanted to fight them.

This dispute had only arisen because Qin Ming wanted to prove himself and Shrek.