Beyond the Sky Screen, on the Douluo Continent.
Inside Shrek Academy, Flender clutched the stone pillar beside him, his eyes bloodshot and his heart wracked with pain.
Ma Hongjun was his proudest disciple, even if he was usually lazy, gluttonous, greedy, and lecherous.
But in Flender's heart, the boy was like his own son.
Watching that once lively fatty become a cripple with a severed leg in the blink of an eye, wailing in the mud,
Flender felt as though his heart were bleeding.
"That damned place! Those damned rules!"
Flender roared through gritted teeth, but all he could do was stare helplessly at the Sky Screen.
On the Sky Screen.
"My leg! My leg's gone! Aaaah!"
Ma Hongjun clutched his profusely bleeding stump in terror, tears and snot streaming down his face. He was on the verge of a complete breakdown.
Tang San clamped a hand over Ma Hongjun's mouth, his gaze frighteningly cold.
"Fatty, don't scream! You might attract other supernatural things."
He quickly pulled supplies to stop the bleeding from the Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges.
He roughly scattered them over Ma Hongjun's stump, then tore off strips of cloth and bound it tightly.
"Fatty, calm down! You're still alive! One leg for your life-you came out ahead!"
Beside him, Oscar desperately pinned down Ma Hongjun's struggling body and growled, his eyes red.
Under Tang San and Oscar's forceful restraint and quiet reassurance, Ma Hongjun finally regained a shred of reason.
Though his whole body convulsed with pain, he bit down hard on the hem of his clothes and forced back his screams.
"I... I'm all right now." Pale as death, Ma Hongjun stood on his remaining leg with Oscar supporting him.
"Stay close. Step exactly where I step. Not one step out of place."
"Do something stupid