Ning Fengzhi's shock: Was he really eighteen?

Outside Shrek Academy.

Qin Xiao and the others from Shrek also noticed Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo.

"Grandpa Sword!"

"Dad!"

Ning Rongrong cried out delightedly from the crowd.

Could these two be Sword Douluo and Ning Fengzhi, the sect master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect?

In an instant, everyone guessed their identities.

"Teacher Zhao, may I go over for a moment?"

Ning Rongrong did not forget to ask Zhao Wuji's permission.

"Go ahead."

Zhao Wuji nodded, then said to everyone behind him, "Now that we're back at the academy, go about your business. You have today off. Classes resume as usual tomorrow."

With that, he turned and led the way back into the academy.

Like a young swallow returning to its nest, Ning Rongrong hurried over to Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo and began chattering away.

Qin Xiao withdrew his gaze as well, intending to return to his lodgings.

Just then, a voice came from behind him:

"Your Holiness."

Qin Xiao turned, somewhat surprised, for it was Zhu Zhuqing who had stopped him.

After all, this baby-faced, large-breasted ice beauty was not clingy like Ning Rongrong. She had always kept her distance from him.

"Do you need something?"

He was curious about why Zhu Zhuqing had called out to him.

"Could you come with me for a moment?"

Zhu Zhuqing asked with a troubled expression.

Qin Xiao nodded. With so many people around and prying eyes everywhere, this was indeed no place to talk.

Soon, he and Zhu Zhuqing disappeared from everyone's sight.

Creak.

Watching the two leave, Dai Mubai unconsciously clenched his fists.

But his "good brothers" noticed this too.

"Boss Dai, I know you have your sights set on Zhu Zhuqing, but I'd advise you to give it up."

Ma Hongjun patted Dai Mubai's shoulder as he spoke.

"Fatty talks a lot of nonsense all day, but he's right about this. Give up, Boss. There are fragrant flowers everywhere under heaven..."

Oscar wholeheartedly agreed.

He thought his feelings for Ning Rongrong were much the same as Dai Mubai's feelings for Zhu Zhuqing...

As someone who had been through it himself, he ought to offer some advice.

However.

It would have been better if they had said nothing. The more they tried to console Dai Mubai, the angrier he became.

But how could his situation be the same as Oscar's?

Oscar's love was unrequited, but Zhu Zhuqing was his fiancée...

And now she had gone off on a date with someone else...

"Come on, Boss. We've been away for so long. Let's find somewhere to unwind."

"You enjoy yourself, and I'll foot the bill!"

As Ma Hongjun spoke, he pulled Dai Mubai toward Suotuo City.

Oscar glanced at Ning Rongrong, then gritted his teeth. "Count me in."

Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi teased, "Rongrong, it looks like your Grandpa Sword matters more than your own father."

"That's not true..."

"Then why did you call Grandpa Sword first instead of Dad?"

"Grandpa Sword, look, Dad's getting all picky..." Unable to answer, Ning Rongrong could only turn to Sword Douluo for help.

Sure enough.

She had made the right choice. Sword Douluo said, "Sect Master, you're being petty. It's just a greeting. I don't think it matters who comes first."

Ning Fengzhi was utterly speechless. She called you Grandpa Sword first. If she had called Dad first, I'd say the same thing.

Unfortunately, neither the old man nor the young girl before him cared about his feelings.

"You've lost weight."

Sword Douluo spoke with a pang of concern, then raised his hand above Ning Rongrong's head to gauge her height.

"But you've grown taller too..."

Ning Rongrong giggled. "How long has it been since you last saw me? Of course I've grown! I think your beard is longer than the last time I saw you too, Grandpa Sword."

"Haha." Sword Douluo shook his head with a laugh. "You're still the same little clever imp. You haven't changed at all."

Ning Rongrong smiled again and asked curiously, "Grandpa Sword, Dad, you didn't come here just to see me, did you?"

Well, this...

Having been exposed by his daughter, Ning Fengzhi was somewhat embarrassed.

He tried to change the subject. "If I'm not mistaken, you went soul hunting, didn't you? Where did you go? Did anything interesting happen?"

"Of course!"

It had to be said that Ning Fengzhi's attempt to change the subject worked remarkably well.

Ning Rongrong nodded excitedly. "Of course something did! You might not believe this, but we even encountered a hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape on this trip! It was so huge and so fierce!"

"What?! A hundred-thousand-year soul beast!"

After hearing Ning Rongrong's words, Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo exclaimed almost simultaneously. This was simply too astonishing!

"But even an ordinary Titled Douluo is no match for a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, let alone a hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape. Not even a rank ninety-five Titled Douluo would dare confront such a powerful overlord among soul beasts lightly. How did you escape danger?"

Ning Fengzhi soon began to doubt whether the story was true.

"Hehe, Dad, that question is easy to answer."

Ning Rongrong giggled and said mysteriously, "Because there was a Titled Douluo in our party."

Yet after hearing Ning Rongrong's words, Sword Douluo and Ning Fengzhi were shocked once again.

"Shrek Academy has a Titled Douluo?"

Once his surprise passed, Ning Fengzhi gave a wry smile. "You little demoness, do you really think your father is that easy to fool? I investigated before. The dean, Flender, is only a rank seventy-eight Soul Sage, and Zhao Wuji isn't even as strong as Flender. How could there be a Titled Douluo?"

"That imposing man just now must have been the Immovable Wisdom King, Zhao Wuji, the second-strongest person at your Shrek Academy."

"Tch..."

Hearing this, Ning Rongrong waved her hand. "Dad, that information is ancient history. I'm really not lying to you."

"Do you remember the most handsome young man in the party just now?"

The most handsome?

Ning Fengzhi shook his head. He truly had not paid attention.

"Rongrong, do you mean the young man at the very back of the party?"

Sword Douluo's reaction, however, was the opposite of Ning Fengzhi's. Qin Xiao's figure instinctively surfaced in his mind!

Could it be him?

Earlier, he had felt that there was something strange about that young man, something that gave him a sense of danger.

But before he could probe the young man's actual strength, Ning Rongrong had come over...

"Yes, that's him!"

Ning Rongrong's eyes lit up. "He's Thunder Emperor Douluo, Qin Xiao. Teacher Zhao told us privately that His Holiness the Thunder Emperor is a rank ninety-two Titled Douluo.

"We escaped from the Titan Giant Ape because His Holiness intervened. Everyone even agrees that His Holiness the Thunder Emperor has already slain that overlord among soul beasts!"

"Rongrong, is that true?"

Seeing how detailed and convincing Ning Rongrong's account was, Ning Fengzhi could not help believing it a little. "But he doesn't look very old. How could he already be a Titled Douluo?"

Ning Fengzhi's words also voiced Sword Douluo's thoughts.

"I know the answer to that."

Ning Rongrong puffed out her chest and said proudly, "His Holiness the Thunder Emperor isn't old. He's only eighteen."

"How old?"

"Eighteen?"

Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo exchanged a glance, then shook their heads in unison.

"Rongrong, that's too outrageous. Even exaggeration needs limits."

Ning Fengzhi frowned and said gravely, "There has never been an eighteen-year-old Titled Douluo in the entire history of the Douluo Continent! Even the youngest Titled Douluo on the Douluo Continent was in his early forties."

If she had said that young man was an old monster who had mastered the art of preserving his youthful appearance and was actually fifty or sixty, they could have barely accepted it.

But if she insisted he was eighteen, who could believe her?

"There's no way it's false."

"On the day we enrolled, His Holiness the Thunder Emperor said himself that he was eighteen. I believe him without a shadow of a doubt."

As she spoke, a fervent gleam appeared in Ning Rongrong's eyes, making her look like a little fangirl. "That was because His Holiness the Thunder Emperor wasn't around before. If he'd been born earlier, the Douluo Continent would have had a record of an eighteen-year-old Titled Douluo long ago."