At those words, Chen Ping looked at Xu Sanshi with a half-smile.
He still remembered how Ma Xiaotao had caught this fellow getting a massage at his shop last time, and how he had simply given up in front of her.
If he had not recommended a heat-clearing, fire-quelling tea package to send Ma Xiaotao away, he would have worried that she might lose control and tear his little shop apart.
Although, strictly speaking, Xu Sanshi could hardly be blamed for something like that. Anyone cornered by Ma Xiaotao, the Flame Maniac, probably had no better way of handling it than throwing in the towel.
But that was Xu Sanshi's own business. It was generous enough of Chen Ping not to settle a separate score with him.
Seeing Chen Ping's half-smile, Xu Sanshi could not help feeling a little uneasy. Clearly, the fellow himself knew that what he had done was not aboveboard.
Besides, Shrek was a school, after all. Other than gossip, nothing spread faster than news of someone breaking another record.
The news that Chen Ping had achieved an extraordinary score of 229, exceeding full marks in the Beast Fighting Arena, had spread as though it had sprouted wings.
Chen Ping had set the record that morning, and by evening, everyone in the Outer Court knew about it.
And Xu Sanshi was certain that he might not actually be able to handle the five-thousand-year Scorpion Tiger Chen Ping had beaten down.
In other words, if Chen Ping stepped into the Soul Fighting Arena with him, he might be the one getting beaten up. That was the fundamental reason Xu Sanshi had immediately started behaving himself.
There were two reasons news of Chen Ping breaking the record had spread so quickly. First, this year's second-years had produced five students