As Tang San pulled the Dragon Whisker Needle out of Flender, this farce finally came to an end in this somewhat absurd fashion.
Despite Flender's angry barks, the group from Shrek Academy did not make any retaliatory moves against Tang San.
Yet it was obvious.
After this farce, their relationship with Tang San had undoubtedly ruptured.
Even though they could not change the fact that Tang San and Yu Xiaogang had both joined Shrek Academy, at least one thing was certain to them.
That was their attitude toward this master-and-disciple pair.
"Wow!"
"I succeeded in absorbing it!!"
Not long after.
Oscar, who had been concentrating on absorbing his soul ring the whole time, suddenly opened his eyes with great excitement and jumped up.
Clearly, he was extremely satisfied with this soul ring.
Because with this soul ring, he could finally become an indispensable presence within the team.
He might even become a hot commodity.
Although he was still a far cry from a genius of Yang Jian's caliber, setting Yang Jian aside, he was the second person in the entire team to reach the Soul Elder realm.
On top of that, he possessed such a powerful soul skill. Who was to say Yang Jian wouldn't have times when he needed to ask things of him later on?
At the thought of this.
Oscar stayed right where he was, breaking into a foolish grin once more.
He remained completely oblivious to how extremely delicate the current atmosphere was.
"Little Ao, come over here quickly and tell us what the effect of your third soul skill is."
As the second backbone of the Shrek Academy members in everyone's hearts besides Yang Jian, Dai Mubai did not continue to immerse himself in this atmosphere.
Instead, he took the initiative to wave Oscar over.
Oscar, who had no idea that everyone's emotions had been suppressed to such a heavy degree, ran over with a full face of smiles. "Boss Dai, do you guys want to guess what the effect of my third soul skill is?"
"It couldn't really be the ability to fly, could it?"
Ma Hongjun probed.
Hearing this, Oscar merely smiled, still giving no direct answer.
However.
Before he could put on airs for long, he was met with a "critical strike" from Dai Mubai, who delivered a smack to his head. "Ow! Boss Dai, what did you hit me for?"
"You're still trying to act cool on us? If I don't hit you, who do I hit? Hurry up and confess. What on earth is the soul skill?"
"Oh, alright."
Oscar rubbed his head, and a moment later, excitement bloomed across his face once more. "That's right, it's flight! My third soul skill is flight!"
"Holy shit, it really is flight!"
Ma Hongjun found it somewhat hard to believe.
Generally speaking, for a auxiliary soul master to manifest a soul skill of this caliber, it usually had to come from a ten-thousand-year soul ring at the very least.
For a thousand-year soul ring to produce such a heaven-defying flight soul skill was simply incredible.
Seeing this, Ning Rongrong also held Oscar in slightly higher regard. A fourteen-year-old auxiliary-system Soul Elder whose third soul ring possessed the ability to fly.
This simply signaled that his future prospects were boundless.
If a person like this could be pulled into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, it would undoubtedly be advantageous and harmless to the sect.
However.
That being said, while a genius of this caliber was scarce, he didn't hold that great of an attraction for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
After all, a genius who had yet to mature remained nothing more than a genius.
What if they were to prematurely perish?
In comparison, Yang Jian's talent was the most heaven-defying and peerless through the ages.
A fifteen-year-old four-ring soul ancestor was already a paragon among the younger generation.
If things truly turned out as Dai Mubai had guessed... then that meant a fifteen-year-old five-ring soul king.
Both in terms of talent and strength, this was enough to qualify him as a son-in-law to the master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Let alone a son-in-law, she would even be happy to let Yang Jian serve as the sect master himself.
After all, no one would doubt Yang Jian's talent. Even if he were to break away and establish his own faction, he could rapidly cultivate into a powerhouse of the Titled Douluo tier.
At the thought of this.
Ning Rongrong's lips gently curved upwards, but they quickly fell flat again.
Because the difficulty of conquering Yang Jian was simply too great!
"Not bad, Little Ao. Tell us, how long does the duration last?"
"Let me taste that feeling of having wings added to a tiger."
"Haha."
Dai Mubai's mood improved as well, and he clapped a hand onto Oscar's shoulder.
"Hehe, one minute."
"One minute?! Little Ao, are you messing with us? This is way too useless." Dai Mubai wore a speechles expression.
"That's right, Little Ao. With your one minute, you can't even fly across a small ditch. Furthermore, if a real fight breaks out, your one minute won't be worth a damn."
Ma Hongjun chimed in with complaints.
"What if my one minute is calculated using the speed of that Millennium Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent..."
"Roar-!!!"
Before Oscar could finish showing off the ability of his third soul skill with a smug attitude, everyone heard a deafening, ferocious beast's roar.
Immediately following that, a sensation of the earth shaking as if an earth dragon were turning over transmitted up through the soles of their feet.
"What's the situation?"
Dai Mubai barely managed to steady his footing and hurriedly looked in the direction where Zhao Wuji and Flender were.
It wasn't that he didn't want to investigate the source of that sound; it was truly that he lacked the strength to do so.
This was because the roar of this ferocious beast directly blanketed the airspace above their current location.
He genuinely couldn't tell where this sound was coming from.
"This is... the Titan Giant Ape?!"
Flender said in shock.
This fellow was unlike other soul beasts; he was a bone-fide overlord of the forest.
Earlier, against a fellow overlord-level soul beast-a three-and-a-half-thousand-year-old Three-Headed Flood Dragon Wolf King-they had already been overwhelmed and forced to rely on Yang Jian's help.
Now Yang Jian was off to the side absorbing a soul bone, so how could he possibly have the leisure to make a move?
Moreover, both he and Zhao Wuji had previously used their Martial Soul Avatars. If they forcefully used them again in the short term, the side effects would be immense, and they wouldn't be able to unleash much power either.
Not to mention, the momentum of this Titan Giant Ape was far, far stronger than that of the Three-Headed Flood Dragon Wolf King.
If a real fight broke out, there was no telling-everyone might just kick the bucket right here.
Yet with Yang Jian in his current state, escaping was impossible, and Flender himself couldn't bring himself to run away and abandon Yang Jian here to be killed by the Titan Giant Ape.
It was truly a situation where neither fighting nor running would do.
"Respected King of the Forest, we had no intention of disturbing you. If possible, can you let us leave?"
"Actually, we don't have any other motives. It's just that one of our students is cultivating here and has slightly delayed things in a public space."
"However, please rest assured. As soon as our student finishes cultivating, we will leave immediately."
"Hehe..."
Seeing that Flender was still dazed and hesitating, Zhao Wuji's lone-ranger mindset from his youth immediately took the upper hand in such a situation.
This series of pleas for mercy was delivered in a manner that was airtight.
"Roar-!!!"
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