"Teacher?"
Yan Shaozhe called out tentatively.
A glimmer returned to Mu En's cloudy eyes, and vitality stirred within him. "Good. Very good. What a fine heir to the Clear Sky Sect!"
There was some anger in Mu En's voice, but far more helplessness.
Shrek Academy and the Clear Sky Sect had longstanding ties, after all. Yet the other party refused to show them even this much courtesy. It was outrageous.
They had truly let down their ancestor Tang San's alma mater!
Yan Shaozhe could tell what Mu En was thinking and explained, "Teacher, Gu Yunxiao said he only offered these terms out of consideration for the ties between our two sides."
Mu En: "..."
The ties between our two sides?
Honestly, if all the earlier clues had not pointed to Gu Yunxiao, he would have suspected that Gu Yunxiao was not an heir to the Clear Sky Sect, but an heir to the Star Dou Great Forest!
Forty Soul Bones, with additional requirements-and five of them had to be at the hundred-thousand-year level...
Was Gu Yunxiao treating Shrek Academy as his wholesale supplier?
Mu En even wondered whether Gu Yunxiao was preparing to establish his own faction.
"Well..."
Yan Shaozhe hesitated for a moment before continuing, "Teacher, Gu Yunxiao actually offered another condition. If the academy can meet it, we won't need to pay in Soul Bones."
"Whew..."
Mu En exhaled, doing his best to remain calm. "What condition?"
"Gu Yunxiao said that if Shrek Academy can produce a supreme treasure of the true dragons at no less than the hundred-thousand-year level, he can suppress Xiaotao's Evil Fire as well," Yan Shaozhe said cautiously.
He felt that this condition of Gu Yunxiao's was even harder to fulfill than the first.
Supreme treasures of the Dragon Clan were already rare, let