"Good, good, good! Lan, you're the most..."
"Uh, the second most gifted genius I've seen in all these years!"
Liu Erlong's face brimmed with delighted surprise. Since both youngsters had reached bottlenecks, they could go soul hunting together tomorrow.
"Third."
Zhu Zhuqing spoke softly.
"Hmm? Zhuqing, do you know a genius even more talented than Lan?"
Liu Erlong exclaimed in amazement and asked curiously.
"He's my younger brother. His cultivation has already reached Soul Emperor."
Zhu Zhuqing murmured assent and raised her head proudly.
"Impossible!"
"That's absolutely impossible!"
Disbelief covered Xiao Wu's face. Soul Emperor cultivation, and he was Zhu Zhuqing's younger brother? That was even more monstrous than Ning Jiao and his cheats!
"Zhuqing, is your younger brother older than you?"
Liu Erlong looked skeptical too.
"No, he's my younger brother. He's younger."
Zhu Zhuqing shook her head, then looked questioningly at the silent Ning Rongrong.
If she remembered correctly, Ning Rongrong had said on their way here that she wanted to use Ning Jiao to show off before everyone...
"It's perfectly normal. If Zhuqing's brother has twin martial souls, or a martial soul that cultivates very quickly, then Soul Emperor cultivation isn't impossible."
"Take me, for example. If I were a genius with twin martial souls, my cultivation would already have reached Soul Emperor too."
Ning Jiao offered an explanation.
But you do have twin martial souls...
Are you also planning to do as Teacher said and give your second martial soul nothing but ten thousand year soul rings?
Tang Lan glanced thoughtfully at Ning Jiao.
"Is that so?"
Liu Erlong scratched her head and looked at Zhu Zhuqing.
"Yes..."
"My younger brother's martial soul has rather unusual attributes. He cultivates very quickly."
Zhu Zhuqing pursed her lips and spoke softly. Of course she would not be foolish enough to reveal her younger brother's devouring and evil attributes.
"There really is always someone beyond you, another heaven beyond the sky."
Liu Erlong sighed with feeling. She suddenly felt that this world had become a little unfamiliar.
Today in particular, she had experienced things more eventful than even her entire life.
As she marveled, a fawning voice suddenly sounded behind her.
"Teacher Erlong, with injuries this severe today, I'll skip..."
"It's you!"
"It's you people!"
The fawning expression on Dai Mubai's face vanished instantly as he leaned on his crutch, replaced by boundless murderous intent and hatred.
"Teacher Erlong, avenge me!"
"That pink-haired man was the one who beat me up like this!"
Dai Mubai's eyes were bloodshot. He panted like an ox, his gaze fixed unwaveringly on Ning Jiao opposite him.
"Tsk, tsk."
"What a sorry sight, Young Master Dai."
Ning Jiao clicked his tongue and slipped an arm around Zhu Zhuqing's waist mockingly.
"Hmm?!"
Zhu Zhuqing's pupils contracted, her body instantly tensing as she stared in disbelief at Ning Jiao, who had laid a hand on her without warning.
"What's going on with you?"
Liu Erlong looked at the panting Dai Mubai, then at Ning Jiao, who held Zhu Zhuqing with a sly grin.
To her eye, the two seemed to be fighting over a woman?
"Teacher Erlong, this is a private matter between us."
After a moment's silence, Zhu Zhuqing actually relaxed of her own accord. She placed her soft little hand on Ning Jiao's chest and leaned sideways against his shoulder.
"I know, I know!"
"Zhuqing is Dai Mubai's fiancée. Their families' rules say the winner inherits the throne, while the loser kicks the bucket."
"Dai Mubai didn't want to die, so he ran away alone, leaving Zhuqing to bear all the pressure by herself."
"Then Zhuqing and I met, we fell in love, and Dai Mubai started acting like a bastard again."
"Of course I couldn't stand for that. One Overlord Wind-Chasing Fist, and I beat the shit out of Dai Mubai."
Ning Jiao spoke with a grin, his hand rubbing Zhu Zhuqing's smooth, supple waist.
"I can testify. Yesterday, that lecherous tiger went into the Rose Hotel with his arms around a pair of twins. Then Zhuqing spotted him, and they started fighting."
"Then Dai Mubai lost, and yellow and green stuff went flying everywhere!"
"Maybe Ning Jiao really did beat it out of him!"
Xiao Wu also planted one hand on her hip. She loathed scumbags like Dai Mubai, so she firmly took Ning Jiao's side.
"Bullshit!"
"Aaaaargh!!!"
Dai Mubai's eyes were scarlet. When had he ever suffered such humiliation?!
If he could beat them, he would kill this pack of wretched women, then kill them again, and again and again!
"Enough!"
"Dai Mubai, I'm very disappointed in you."
"Not because you flit among the flowers, but because you've let down the person beside you."
Liu Erlong spoke icily. She had seen the resolve in Zhu Zhuqing's eyes.
If Dai Mubai had not been utterly beyond saving, how could Zhu Zhuqing have taken such a step?!
"Teacher Erlong, you're actually going to help a bunch of outsiders?"
Dai Mubai shouted in disbelief.
"Teacher Erlong, unfortunately, I need to reassess whether Shrek Academy is a suitable place for me to enroll."
Ning Jiao raised an eyebrow and looked at Liu Erlong with a smile.
"I don't see anything worth joining in an academy that turns out students like this."
Ning Jiao spread his hands, but with her support gone, Zhu Zhuqing beside him wrapped her arms straight around his waist.
Bastard!
Zhu Zhuqing closed her eyes and buried her face in Ning Jiao's chest.
"Hey, hey, that's not..."
"Don't! Dai Mubai might be a bit of a womanizer, but he..."
"But he..."
Fine beads of sweat formed on Liu Erlong's forehead. Think, you stupid brain! What good points does Dai Mubai have?
"Teacher Erlong, I'm an orphan."
"I've traveled to many places and seen many academies."
"And most academies in urban areas don't pay attention to their students' character."
"By chance, I learned that Shrek Academy existed."
"I wanted to see whether an academy that admitted commoners would be different."
"But the fact is, I haven't seen any difference."
Ning Jiao shrugged, and Zhu Zhuqing's face bumped against his chest again.
Blushing, Zhu Zhuqing reached her delicate fingers to the soft flesh at Ning Jiao's waist and twisted hard.
"Hiss..."
"See? It's even making me sick."
Ning Jiao shuddered and spoke with a perfectly straight face.
"Ah, are you not planning to enroll anymore?"
Liu Erlong let out a long sigh, her eyes filled with complicated feelings.
She did not insist. In truth, she also felt that her academy was not worthy of these children.
"Who said that?"
"What I mean is, the academy's atmosphere is a little foul."
"So I want a good environment."
"I'm sure Dai Mubai absolutely doesn't want to see me again either. As it happens, I don't want to see him."
"Teacher Erlong, academies have the right to choose their students, and students have the right to choose their academies."
"Teachers have the right to choose their students, and students have the right to choose their teachers."
"If deadly poison has already penetrated the limbs, then the best solution is to make the decision to cut those limbs off."
Snap!
Ning Jiao snapped his fingers lightly and spoke earnestly.
In truth, Ning Jiao's meaning was very simple.
He did not want to live in a ramshackle dormitory, and he did not want to run laps carrying a rock.
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