Captain, Your Wife Is Here!

At the moment of greatest peril.

Flender flashed in front of the Shrek Seven Devils and crossed his arms, blocking the attack for them.

Lin Ye frowned slightly. "Outside interference means you've lost."

"According to the terms of our wager..."

"You need to leave the Heaven Dou Royal Academy now."

Cheers immediately rose from the crowd.

They had long disliked these country bumpkins from Shrek. Lin Ye driving them away was exactly what everyone wanted.

"Outsiders have never been allowed to interfere in Soul Fighting."

"Is this how Soul Masters from Shrek Academy conduct themselves?"

"Go home!"

"Get out!"

"The Heaven Dou Royal Academy isn't a place for you."

"..."

More and more students joined in denouncing Shrek Academy.

Xue Beng's voice rang out especially loud!

He had only been pretending to be a spoiled brat picking on easy targets, yet Dai Mubai had beaten him black and blue.

Now that Lin Ye had thrashed Shrek Academy too, he finally had an outlet for his anger.

"You..."

Dai Mubai wanted to charge over and take on the shouting students.

He couldn't beat Lin Ye.

But surely he could handle these pampered noble brats?

However...

Before he could move.

Flender stepped in front of him and stopped him.

"Let's go."

Flender understood that the Heaven Dou Royal Academy could no longer be their next home.

They could brazen it out and meet the academy's education board. Its members might even accept them under the terms they had agreed on earlier.

But...

He could not join the Heaven Dou Royal Academy as a loser.

That would be fucking surrendering to the enemy!

Shrek Academy would never be able to hold its head high again.

"How pathetic."

"One guy knocked all of you down."

"How are you all so weak?!"

"..."

Zhao Wuji grumbled without pause on the way down the mountain.

He had expected this group fight to be a one-sided rout in Shrek Academy's favor.

Instead...

Tang San's expression was equally grim.

Ever since his Martial Soul Awakening, he had always stood head and shoulders above his peers.

Yet today, he had been helpless against Lin Ye.

Lin Ye was a few years older than him.

But would he have reached Lin Ye's current level of cultivation by that age?

And then there was...

His Blue Silver Grass had been utterly unable to restrain the Mystic Ice True Dragon. He couldn't help wondering whether Blue Silver Grass really was a Trash Martial Soul.

The other six from Shrek had taken a heavy blow as well.

Their dreams of entering the Heaven Dou Royal Academy had crumbled to dust.

Each of them was lost in different thoughts.

Yu Xiaogang said nothing either.

He didn't dare!

He was afraid someone would ask about Lin Ye's Soul Ring Configuration, and he would have no answer.

Meanwhile.

Lin Ye had won a sweeping victory over Shrek Academy.

The entire Heaven Dou Royal Academy erupted with excitement.

"Holy shit."

"That was incredible."

"Lin Ye was only level forty-eight a while ago. He's already broken through to Soul King?"

"I know why..."

"Come on, tell us!"

"He married Shui Bing'er, of course. The Shui Family gave him loads of cultivation resources."

"I thought it was because they were cultivating together."

"Heh heh—"

"That's possible too."

"..."

The gossip around Dugu Yan made her blood boil.

Cultivating together, my ass!

The two of them hadn't even slept together.

She wanted to rush over and rip those people's filthy mouths apart.

Yu Tianheng looked at Lin Ye with mixed feelings.

They both had dragon Martial Souls...

But Lin Ye was so much stronger than him!

Just then.

Osler, known for his speed, hurried over with news. "Captain, your wife is here."

"What wife?"

"Who?"

Osler looked utterly speechless. "Shui Bing'er. Your wife."

"Oh..."

Realization dawned on Lin Ye.

He had almost forgotten he was a married man.

Well...

He couldn't be blamed for that.

He and Shui Bing'er had barely spent any time together, much less had any intimate exchanges.

Osler added, "Captain, why not bring Shui Bing'er into the Imperial Fighting Team? We'd leave every other team in the Heaven Dou Empire eating our dust."

"He has a point!"

"Shui Bing'er is the captain of Skywater Academy's team."

"I heard she recently broke through to Soul Ancestor. If she joins the Imperial Fighting Team, she and the captain will make a formidable pair."

The Shi Brothers chimed in from the side.

They genuinely hoped a powerful teammate would join them.

"No!"

Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling spoke in unison.

Of course they didn't want Shui Bing'er joining the Imperial Fighting Team, but they couldn't find a reasonable excuse to refuse.

After all, Shui Bing'er was Lin Ye's wife in name and in law.

"I'll go see..."

Lin Ye didn't know why Shui Bing'er had come looking for him.

But he could rule out her coming to mate with him.

Outside the academy.

Shui Bing'er paced back and forth.

She muttered to herself, rehearsing how she would greet Lin Ye.

The moment Lin Ye appeared, she clasped her hands behind her back and rubbed her fingers together.

Lin Ye asked, "What do you need me for?"

Shui Bing'er parted her red lips.

Oh no!

Every carefully prepared opening she had come up with vanished from her mind.

"To..."

"Tomorrow's a rest day."

"My father... My father asked me... to come cultivate with you."

After stumbling over her words for ages, Shui Bing'er finally explained why she had come.

Well...

It was her father's instruction, but she wanted to come too.

Their joint cultivation in the Frozen Forest had given her a taste of the benefits.

No Soul Master could turn down a nearly twenty-percent increase in cultivation speed.

"Just cultivate?" Lin Ye asked teasingly. "Your dad didn't tell us to do anything else?"

Shui Bing'er's face flushed scarlet.

Would Lin Ye believe her if she said no now?

"Come with me."

Lin Ye thought Shui Bing'er had arrived at just the right time.

His Martial Soul had evolved into the Mystic Ice True Dragon. He didn't know whether it could still resonate with Shui Bing'er's Ice Phoenix.

Well...

They had to try.

"Where?"

Shui Bing'er asked.

"To my dorm, of course."

"Huh?"

"Our dorm building isn't what you're imagining. Everyone on the Imperial Fighting Team has a private room."

"I know!"

Shui Bing'er needed to make that clear.

Otherwise, who knew what sort of person Lin Ye would take her for?

She had said "huh" because Lin Ye didn't have a place of his own in Heaven Dou City.

She was actually going to spend the night in a dorm.

Didn't that mean the entire Heaven Dou Royal Academy would know about it?

She couldn't bear to imagine how many rumors would spread through the academy after tonight.

Meanwhile.

Meng Shenji flew into a rage when he learned that everyone from Shrek Academy had been driven away.

"That brat Lin Ye does nothing but cause trouble."

"Those children from Shrek Academy are rare talents."

"If we could bring them into the Heaven Dou Royal Academy, our decades of teaching would have been worth it."

"It's too late for that now."

"I heard the two sides made a wager over a fight. Shrek lost and slunk away."

"Still, you have to admit..."

"That brat Lin Ye has improved again. He's a Five-Ring Soul King now."

"He defeated all seven from Shrek with a single Soul Skill."

"You're praising him at a time like this?"

"He deserves praise."

"Then bring him here anyway."

"If I don't set that brat straight today, he might cause an even bigger disaster down the road."