Mu En's Reputation in His Twilight Years

As he spoke, Chen Ping lowered his one and only Hundred-Year Soul Ring into view.

He looked ready to fight them to the bitter end if necessary and see who would come out on top.

"You... you're only a One-Ring Soul Master?"

That made Wu Feng feel even worse.

Wait, had she just been thrashed by a One-Ring Soul Master?

That couldn't be right. This guy's physical capabilities, whether strength or speed...

Even without receiving the young mistress's enhancing light, he was definitely at the level of a Soul Grandmaster!

"What, looking down on One-Ring Soul Masters?"

Chen Ping raised an eyebrow. "Either I'll go with you, and you can open your eyes wide and see what's really going on with the dormitory up ahead."

"Or we can keep fighting. The Recording Pearl at my waist is still running. Once we're done, whether I win or lose, neither of you will escape disciplinary action."

At that point, Chen Ping looked every bit the villain who refused to let the matter drop, frightening the two girls so badly that their faces went white.

What none of the three knew was that, not far away, an old man with a white beard was cheerfully observing them with his spiritual power.

Dragon Transformation at level twenty? This red dragon martial soul really does have its own unique strengths...

Another child from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. Not bad.

Oh, this boy really is rotten. Stealing someone else's enhancement, twice in a row at that, and both times by leaping over her head. He's so wicked he's practically smoking.

What does he mean, the Shrek Academy administrators are all useless freeloaders, which is why Shrek has mixed-sex dormitories?

What the hell does he mean, beat up the white-bearded old man lying outside the dormitory entrance too, if you've got the guts?

The white-bearded old man abruptly sat up, nearly wrenching his old back, which he had barely used in years.

Seriously? I'm over two hundred years old, and someone can still call me a dirty old lecher?

A few minutes later, when they saw male and female students coming and going outside the dormitory building in the distance, Wu Feng and Ning Tian's faces flushed crimson.

They really had misunderstood him, and they had nearly beaten him up!

No, they had already attacked him.

It was only because Chen Ping had spent the past two months taking pills and stuffing himself with food, sending his physical capabilities soaring, that the two girls hadn't gotten their way.

Now, Chen Ping was helpfully looking up the disciplinary regulations they had violated today.

"Besides choosing to engage in soul fighting outside the Soul Fighting Zone, and launching a sneak attack on your opponent..."

"You also ganged up on someone outnumbered, and attacked a Soul Master a whole realm below your own."

"Four violations stacked together mean four disciplinary penalties. Congratulations, you two. You've probably broken the record for the fastest accumulation of four penalties since Shrek was founded."

As he spoke, Chen Ping gave the two girls a thumbs-up.

For a moment, both Ning Tian and Wu Feng wilted like eggplants struck by frost.

In the end, Ning Tian stepped forward first. "S-sorry. This is all my fault. I failed to keep my guard in line."

"If necessary..."

Before Ning Tian could finish, Wu Feng grabbed her and said urgently, "I was the one who attacked you. It had nothing to do with our young mistress."

"If anyone has to be punished, it should be me alone."

Seeing them each scramble harder than the other to take responsibility, Chen Ping's simmering anger subsided somewhat.

"First, tell me which bastard told you Shrek Academy has a girls' dormitory?"

Chen Ping sighed as he questioned the two girls.

Ning Tian scratched her head sheepishly. "At our Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, the disciples' dormitories are separated by sex. I thought Shrek's dormitories ought to be the same."

"Then, before Wu Feng and I came here, we contacted Senior Bei Bei..."

Chen Ping raised an eyebrow. So Bei Bei had told them?

"Senior Bei Bei introduced us to a Senior Chen. We ordered a dish from him and arranged to meet at the entrance to the girls' dormitory."

"That's precisely why we thought the dormitory ahead of us was exclusively for girls, and thought you were s-stalking us..."

By this point, Ning Tian felt her face burning fiercely.

But when she raised her head and cautiously checked Chen Ping's reaction, she discovered that his expression was just as embarrassed as hers.

In fact, he looked a little more embarrassed.

Silently picking up the soul communicator hanging at his waist and injecting soul power into it, Chen Ping pressed the callback button.

The next moment, the soul communicator at Ning Tian's waist rang.

For a moment, the three stared at one another in speechless silence.

That solved the mystery.

Chen Ping took a deep breath. So the fucking root of the problem was actually me?

"I sell this jar of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall to other people for six hundred gold soul coins. For you, it'll be a thousand, and we'll consider this settled. Any objections?"

Ning Tian and Wu Feng first nodded vigorously, like chicks pecking at grain, then realized something was wrong and shook their heads like a pair of rattle drums.

In the end, Wu Feng took out a bag containing a neatly prepared thousand gold soul coins without another word, directly demonstrating the sincerity of their apology.

Whenever Ning Tian bought anything, Wu Feng had always been the one to pay.

Inside her Storage Soul Tool, she kept several prepared bundles of every denomination, from one gold soul coin to a hundred thousand, mainly so she could pay at a moment's notice.

Honestly, if this matter had had nothing to do with him, Chen Ping certainly wouldn't have raised the stick so high only to bring it down so gently.

But there was no helping it. Although Ning Tian had dreamed up the idea of Shrek having a girls' dormitory herself...

When he answered the communicator and heard her mention it, not only had he failed to deny it, he had even said he knew where to deliver the food.

That had further led the two girls to subconsciously assume Shrek really had a girls-only dormitory building, rather than a mixed-sex one.

So, with the whole thing ending in such a ridiculous misunderstanding, he really couldn't claim he had played no part in it.

For the sake of their being from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, he would let it go.

He could always skim a little more fat off these two in the future.

Customers this generous were hard to find anywhere on the Douluo Continent.

A man might refuse to bend his back for five pecks of rice, but five tons of rice deserved at least some consideration.

He tossed the Recording Pearl straight to Ning Tian. Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief and hurriedly erase the recording inside.

Collecting four disciplinary penalties before classes had even begun, breaking Shrek's record for the fastest four penalties-she didn't dare imagine how her mother would scold her once she went home.

Something like that was simply too embarrassing.

Chen Ping caught the Recording Pearl Ning Tian tossed back and hung it at his waist again.

"We'll consider this settled, but I'm letting it go for Bei Bei's sake."

As the saying went, one person's account was private, while two made it public; often, a single person's word couldn't make the truth clear.

That was why, ever since his previous life, Chen Ping had made a habit of leaving a record of everything.

See? Hadn't it come in handy already?

After all, Bei Bei had referred this business to him. If things turned truly ugly, it would put Bei Bei in an awkward position too.

That was the real reason Chen Ping hadn't pursued the matter further. When doing business, how could he always indulge his own temper?

"Then we'll be going, Senior. Once classes start and we have some free time, I'll invite Big Brother Bei Bei, and we can get together again."

Ning Tian scratched her burning cheek with her fair fingers, hurriedly took Wu Feng's hand, and left, shooting Wu Feng a resentful look as they went.

Her meaning was obvious: You just had to be suspicious of everything, didn't you? Now you've caused another ridiculous misunderstanding!

Still, at that moment, curiosity stirred in both Ning Tian and Wu Feng.

Shrek actually had a senior with only one ring?

Although his physical capabilities were clearly unlike those of a One-Ring Soul Master, just how had a One-Ring Soul Master managed to stay at Shrek Academy?