A Little Shock for Flender

Not troublesome at all. The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had already been bound. With a single thought from the host, she could immediately travel to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well anytime, anywhere.

Chu Zhao: ???

It could be used like this?

Wasn't this equivalent to gaining a portable space and a lifesaving talisman? Whenever she encountered danger, she could simply blink into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. No one else could enter, and they would not even know where she had gone.

Chu Zhao murmured softly, "Tang San truly is a Child of Destiny. The reward for saving him is actually this generous."

This was something Chu Zhao had never even dared dream of before.

Appearing in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Chu Zhao looked at the valley that had been encompassed within it, at the vast stretches of land, and her farming heart began pounding wildly.

Was there anywhere more suitable for farming than this?

No!

Saving Tang San had been absolutely the right move. She had gotten such a wonderful place for free.

Even if the rewards from the Death God Cultivation System were all deducted afterward, I still wouldn't regret it. A Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and a Ten Thousand Year Spiritual Skull are indeed treasures, but they pale in comparison to this.

"??? Why weren't they deducted? So it can be played like this?"

She looked at the five soul rings on her Death God Scythe martial soul—four black and one red—as well as the spiritual-attribute skull safely stored in the system space.

Chu Zhao fell silent for only a moment before being overwhelmed by ecstasy.

"Th-This is too good! Doesn't this mean I can eat and take everything, squeezing every last bit of wool from the sheep?"

After this whole ordeal, Tang San had suffered no losses whatsoever. Not even a scar remained on his arm.

Chu Zhao had only spent a little effort, yet the returns she received were simply enormous!

This was a guaranteed profit with no loss involved—a true win-win.

Previously, Chu Zhao had been complaining that these opposing missions were ridiculous. Now, she hoped more missions like today's would come along so she could fleece the sheep a little more.

After absorbing the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and soul bone, Chu Zhao's strength had shot from level fifty-one to level fifty-six. She felt that the increase was a little too abrupt and needed to find someone strong to practice against and consolidate her Soul Power.

"You'll do, Four-Eyed Owl Cat Flender."

With the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as her backing and a one-time Impeccable Aura on her, Chu Zhao admitted that she was getting a little carried away. She even dared to challenge a long-famous Soul Saint.

And she intended to defeat him.

"Dean Flender, it's been a while."

When Chu Zhao found Shrek Academy, Flender was counting Gold Soul Coins.

Chu Zhao had not disguised herself. Her martial soul was recognizable enough that a disguise would have been useless. Thus, Flender recognized her at once, though he had not expected her to suddenly visit Shrek Academy.

"Why are you here?"

As Flender stuffed Gold Soul Coins into his Storage Soul Tool, he watched Chu Zhao warily.

"I came to seek an answer from Dean Flender."

Chu Zhao was still dressed in black. If the moonlight had not been so bright, she would have nearly blended into the night itself.

"What do you mean?"

Flender looked puzzled because he never would have imagined that Tang San had reanalyzed the information he received from him and passed it on to Chu Zhao.

"Who told you that danger would appear around me?"

Chu Zhao did not beat around the bush and asked directly.

"Tang San told you? Why can't that brat keep anything to himself? No one told me, and besides, I have no obligation to tell you that."

Flender was furious at being betrayed from behind. He should have kept his mouth shut.

"I already know even if you don't tell me. Tang San's father, Clear Sky Douluo Tang Hao, was the one who told you, wasn't he?"

"What Clear Sky Douluo? That's a Titled Douluo. How could I possibly meet someone so important? Besides, why would he tell me something like that?"

Flender stubbornly denied it, and his feigned surprise and reverence were perfectly measured.

Yet Chu Zhao ruthlessly exposed him, bluntly and directly.

"Your acting is good, but you were surprised by the wrong thing. If you had never met the Clear Sky Douluo, you should have been shocked by the identity of Tang San that I mentioned."

"I really haven't met the Clear Sky Douluo. Could he have written me a letter? I..."

Halfway through, Flender himself realized that this excuse did not hold up, and his attempted argument abruptly stopped.

Being questioned speechless by a child made Flender lose face. When he spoke again, there was a trace of embarrassed anger in his voice as he tried to drive her away.

"Go on, get out of here. This isn't something a child like you should be asking about, and this isn't a place you can just come whenever you please."

If she were going to leave so easily, why would Chu Zhao have come all this way?

"My apologies."

First courtesy, then force. The courtesy was over now.

Chu Zhao directly hurled a Scythe at him, so fast it became an afterimage.

Fortunately, Flender was a Soul Saint of the Agility Attack System, and his reactions were swift. Otherwise, he might truly have been hit by Chu Zhao's sneak attack.

"You've got some nerve, challenging a dignified Soul Saint like me."

Although he had neutralized the attack, Flender's anger had already been provoked.

"I've always had plenty of nerve."

Chu Zhao answered Flender, then remembered that Tang San and the others should be returning soon and suggested, "Let's change to somewhere more secluded. We wouldn't want to tear down your home."

With Flender's money-grubbing, hoarding personality, destroying his buildings and making him spend money to rebuild them would probably hurt him more than slashing him twice.

Flender thought of that as well and immediately agreed to Chu Zhao's suggestion, changing locations.

They arrived at a small forest near Shrek. Last night, this was where they had met Tang Hao.

"You've got courage, little girl, daring to challenge me. I'm not comparable to that brute Zhao Wuji."

"Is it really alright to badmouth your friend behind his back?"

After saying that, Chu Zhao did not waste any more words. Whether she could beat him or not, she would only know after fighting.

That had merely been a probing attack. Chu Zhao had not even used a Soul Skill yet.

"First Soul Skill, Reaper Scythe Shadow Kill!"

Chu Zhao no longer held back and directly unleashed all her strength. Though she had only activated her First Soul Skill, it was fast and unexpected, and it often succeeded.

This attack of hers did indeed land.

The main reason was that when Flender saw her soul rings, he was so shocked that he forgot to dodge.

The scythe shadows opened two wounds across his back.

"N-No, aren't you only twelve years old? How do you have five soul rings? And they're black, black, black, black, red! How can you possibly be a Soul King?"

"Weren't you still a Soul Grandmaster with two yellow soul rings when you enrolled yesterday?"

Flender was stunned by those five soul rings. He had never imagined that he would see five soul rings on a young girl, much less such a color combination.

"I understand now. You must have used some special skill to create this illusion."

Flender believed he had seen through Chu Zhao's disguise and found the answer. Having successfully calmed down, he finally felt the pain in his back and sucked in a cold breath.