Eating Cake at the Cake Shop, Eating Bread at the Bakery

Flender led everyone around the academy, introducing its facilities, but his mind was clearly elsewhere. Several times, he stopped halfway through a sentence, pushed up his glasses, and glanced toward the academy gates.

Ning Rongrong leaned close to Xiao Wu's ear and whispered something. Xiao Wu pressed her lips together and smiled. Zhu Zhuqing walked at the rear of the group, with several Gugas following behind her.

Guga brought up the rear, humming a tune it had picked up somewhere.

"Eating cake at the cake shop, eating bread at the bakery, eating dumplings at the dumpling shop..."

Starry Guga looked back at it.

"What are you singing, guga?"

"Sounds good, doesn't it, guga?"

Lin Yuan suddenly stopped and turned toward the academy gates.

Flender stopped too. Heavy footsteps came from the gates, each step making the ground tremble slightly and sending leaves fluttering down from the roadside trees. The footsteps weren't quick, but every one fell in the same steady rhythm.

Tai Tan.

The patriarch of the Strength Clan, a level eighty-six Power Attack System battle Soul Douluo, and the supreme bearer of the Great Strength Gorilla martial soul. He stood nearly two and a half meters tall, with shoulders broad enough for three people to stand side by side. His hair and beard were white, but his muscles bulged in thick knots. Tai Nuo and Tai Long followed behind him, one on either side. The red footprints on the father and son's faces had yet to fade.

Tai Tan stopped ten paces from Lin Yuan. Flender stepped in front of Lin Yuan and pushed up his glasses.

"Senior Tai Tan, what happened earlier was a misunderstanding. Tai Long was the one who first..."

Tai Tan turned his gaze straight back to Lin Yuan. Flender's words caught in his throat,