Suotuo City, the Rose Hotel.
Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai had just emerged from their respective themed suites, each accompanied by beautiful women.
"Well, well, Fatty. Not bad. Quite a powerful voice you've got there." Dai Mubai winked at Ma Hongjun, teasing him.
"Boss Dai, stop making fun of me. How could I compare to you battling two women all night? Even after I fell asleep, I could still hear your bed shaking."
Ma Hongjun smiled sheepishly.
The girl beside him, dressed like a flower in full bloom, coquettishly tapped his fleshy chest. Her obedient manner, letting him do as he pleased, gave Ma Hongjun plenty of face and left him beaming.
The twin girls beside Dai Mubai naturally refused to be outdone.
Before long, Dai Mubai felt the urge to book another room.
However, he still had things to do and could not afford to waste time. He had no choice but to hold back for now.
"Go on, get going. Don't get in the way of my important business. I'll favor you again tomorrow. Be good."
An wicked grin spread across Dai Mubai's exceptionally handsome face. With a sweep of his hands, he slapped both girls on their bottoms at once.
Just then, a girl's clear voice suddenly rang out from the entrance.
"Dai Mubai, you have some nerve! You too, Ma Hongjun!" Ning Rongrong stood at the hotel entrance, pointing at them and trembling with anger.
"Teacher Zhao sent us out to buy supplies, and this is where you came to shop? Oscar and I were the only ones who went back to the academy last night."
Ning Rongrong's anger boiled over, especially when she recalled Zhao Wuji asking her where Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun had gone.
"What the hell is it to you?" Dai Mubai picked at his ear and replied impatiently.
Seeing his attitude, Ning Rongrong's face flushed, and heat surged through her body.
"I was such a fool. Truly."
"If only I'd listened to Grandpa Bone and stayed in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect."
Hearing this, Dai Mubai interjected from the side, "Then go back to your Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect."
"You! Just you wait!" Ning Rongrong stamped her foot, turned, and left.
Oscar cautiously followed her. When Ning Rongrong had gone to confront Dai Mubai earlier, he had been standing a short distance behind her.
Although none of them were particularly close, Oscar still felt uneasy about letting Ning Rongrong face Dai Mubai alone.
In this timeline, without Tang San and Xiao Wu serving as the glue at Shrek Academy, the relationships among the others had become considerably more awkward.
"Ning Rongrong." Ning Rongrong turned to look.
"Why are you following me? Did you come to laugh at me?" Ning Rongrong did not have a particularly good impression of Oscar.
There were those bizarre sausages, as well as his enviable talent of innate full soul power.
Whenever she saw Oscar, the things Flender had said to her still echoed in her ears.
"Food-type." "Innate full soul power." "You're the worst." "Given time, he'll replace the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect."
What right did Flender have to say that about her?
She refused to accept it!
Ning Rongrong folded her arms and looked coldly at Oscar.
"Do you really think Shrek Academy is a good academy?"
Ning Rongrong posed a soul-searching question.
Oscar froze. He had not expected her to bring this up.
Then he fell silent.
"Nothing to say? So you think Shrek Academy is rotten too?"
"With just a handful of teachers like that, what good students could they possibly produce? The students are rotten too. All they do is eat, drink, and play all day, ignorant and unskilled."
"And they claim they only accept monsters."
"What a joke!"
"If someone can be called a monster, that only proves they were exceptional to begin with. Whether they're at Shrek Academy or not, they can still soar into the sky.
Right now, I can't see a single glimmer of hope in this academy.
But it's not as though I have to stay here.
What a shame. I thought going away to school would be fun."
Ning Rongrong took a few steps toward Oscar, stopping a meter away from him.
Looking earnestly into his eyes, she said, "Since you're a food-type support Soul Master with innate full soul power, I can have Grandpa Bone take you back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with me."
"Come with me, Oscar."
Ning Rongrong paused, then continued.
"Don't think you're invincible just because you're a support Soul Master with innate full soul power."
"Did you know? The new disciple of Spirit Hall's Great Enshrined, Qian Daoliu, can help others increase the age of their Soul Rings, permanently. Do you know what that means?"
"What? How is that possible?"
Oscar was stunned. Although he knew that the Great Enshrined had recently taken on a support-type Soul Master as his disciple, he had never imagined that Jin Yang's Soul Skill would be something like this. How were other Soul Masters supposed to compete?
"How do you know that?"
Ning Rongrong sneered. "I'm from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. My father is its sect master, and both my grandfathers are Titled Douluo.
Naturally, I'm entitled to know things like this.
But you, if you keep staying here..."
"Well... I... I need to think about it."
Oscar hesitated. After all, Flender had brought him to Shrek Academy after he awakened his Martial Soul at the age of six.
It would certainly be a lie to say he felt no attachment.
But that attachment was hardly so deep that he would spend his entire life overflowing with gratitude toward Shrek and Flender, remaining absolutely loyal to them.
"What is there to think about? In what way is our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect not better than this lousy academy?"
Ning Rongrong snorted.
"I'll give you three more days to think it through. If you want to leave, I'll take you with me. If you want to stay, suit yourself."
With that, Ning Rongrong turned and headed toward Shrek Academy without looking back. Forcing an offer on someone was no way to do business. She had given Oscar time; now it was up to him to seize the opportunity.
Oscar watched her retreating figure, his eyes filled with conflict.
He looked down at his hands and sank into thought, remaining silent for a long time. Then, as though he had finally made up his mind, he clenched his fists, and his gaze turned resolute.
Flender, Shrek Academy, I'm sorry.
Oscar ran after Ning Rongrong.
"Sunlight Blooms All Around!"
As the soul incantation was recited, Mini Sunflowers blossomed above Yao Zi and the others, radiating brilliant light that illuminated the training ground, which had been dim beneath the trees' cover.
Accompanied by the Mini Sunflowers' chorus of singing.
Yao Zi and the others felt power constantly surging through their bodies and exchanged looks.
"This support boost... probably only the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda could match it, right? I can feel that my body's at least thirty percent stronger."
Yao Zi exclaimed in astonishment.
Fang Qiong withdrew the Snow Lotus Martial Soul resting in an upturned hand and casually stretched.
Every cell felt strong and powerful, brimming with inexhaustible, oxlike strength.
The urge to fight now surged, and confidence soared.
"Wouldn't this be incredibly powerful when paired with a power attack system Soul Master?"
"As expected of the disciple the Great Enshrined chose, Spirit Hall's future Holy Son. This Soul Skill is just amazing!"
"Exactly. Isn't this the perfect support Soul Skill for a team battle?" Yao Zi brushed at the Mini Sunflower above her head. Feeling the happiness its singing conveyed, she could not help nodding appreciatively. "It even comes with an encouragement effect. Really good, and very well-rounded."
Looking at the shadow her outstretched hand cast on the ground, she added seriously, "And it can blind the enemy's damned eyes, too."
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