Chapter Ninety-Two: Shrek’s Movements, Part One

Watching Qian Renxue’s departing figure, Xiao Yu narrowed his eyes. He had his own reasons for trying to win her over.

Given the current trajectory of Spirit Hall’s growth, a clash between them and Xiao Yu was inevitable in the future. But Xiao Yu was not Tang San. He bore no deep blood feud with Spirit Hall, and there was no need to wipe out the entire organization.

In Xiao Yu’s view, Spirit Hall’s existence was a blessing for the continent, especially for common spirit masters.

Had it not been for that, after the God King Tang destroyed Spirit Hall, the era of the second generation would have been overrun by evil spirit masters, with Titled Douluo and even Super Douluo among them by the handful.

Had it not been for that, after Spirit Hall’s fall and the disappearance of spirit master subsidies, the chosen one of that age, Huo Yuhao, would have had to sell fish just to pay his tuition.

The many problems Spirit Hall revealed at this stage stemmed more from the reckless expansion that followed Bibi Dong’s rise to power.

So from the very beginning, Xiao Yu’s target had been crystal clear: his enemies were the radical fanatics led by Bibi Dong.

And as for the Angel Clan, the thousand-year legacy of Spirit Hall, Xiao Yu intended to use Qian Renxue as the opening wedge to separate them from Bibi Dong. In the future, Spirit Hall should still exist, only as a neutral institution for spirit masters.

Yes, all of this was for the sake of future plans. Absolutely not because Xiao Yu’s worldly thoughts were stirring again.

“Right, this is a military camp. Mind your behavior.”

At that moment, Qian Renxue’s voice reached him through spirit power. Her body did not turn even slightly; without looking back, she simply walked farther and farther away.

Heaven Dou City, Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

“Dean Flender, you’re leaving the academy?”

Inside the Student Affairs Office, Meng Shenji looked regretfully at the man with the shoehorn-shaped face before him.

Although Meng Shenji had been removed from office years ago over the conflict between the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the Nine Stars Hall, anyone with a clear eye knew he had simply been made the scapegoat for the Heaven Dou royal family. After two years, once the storm had passed and Xiao Yu no longer pursued the matter, the royal family quickly restored him to his position.

As for the man standing before him, with such a distinctive face, there could be no second person but Flender, the founding dean of Shrek Academy.

Flender nodded hard. “I ask that Dean Meng Shenji forgive us. Heaven Dou Royal Academy is simply not suited to Shrek.”

What exactly had happened? The story had to begin from the start.

As in the original tale, after Tang San and the others returned from the Great Star Dou Forest with their spirit rings, the legendary figure of the Douluo Continent, the famous master of living off women while acting righteous, the great Master Yu Xiaogang, arrived at Shrek Academy and began his teaching plan that would go down in history.

After making the Shrek Seven Devils carry stones for a full month, Yu Xiaogang became extremely confident that the team’s strength had risen to a new level, and he led them to Soto City to register for team battles.

At the same time, Qin Ming, an outstanding graduate of Shrek whose fifth spirit ring was only a thousand years old, brought the Royal Fight team to Soto City as well.

Because Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling had already withdrawn from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, the Royal Fight team, in addition to the original Yu Tianheng, Shi Mo, Oslo, and the others, had two new members.

One of them was named Xue Ying, a princess of the Heaven Dou Empire. Her mother was the younger sister of Emperor Xue Ye, though she did not inherit the royal swan spirit; instead, she inherited her father’s family spirit, a scepter that controlled the element of fire. As the team’s control-type spirit master, her current spirit power level was thirty-five.

The other’s spirit was even more famous: the world’s foremost support spirit, the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda. This support-type spirit master of the Royal Fight team was Ning Li, Ning Fengzhi’s son, twenty years old, a level thirty-three auxiliary weapon spirit master.

This talent would not be considered bad outside, but within the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Clan, he was nothing more than a floor tile. That’s right: Ning Li was the least gifted of Ning Fengzhi’s several sons. And if not for the fact that the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Clan and the Nine Stars Hall were doing business in elixirs, it was still doubtful whether he could even have broken through to level thirty.

Although Ning Rongrong had once said that if she had not gone to Shrek, she would most likely have entered Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

In truth, that was only polite talk from Ning Fengzhi to the royal family. With his shrewdness, how could he fail to see the gilded shallowness of Heaven Dou Royal Academy? How could he bear to let the clan’s most outstanding genius, Ning Rongrong, be corrupted by the academy’s atmosphere? Even if Ning Rongrong had not joined Shrek, Ning Fengzhi would only have personally supervised her training.

If not for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s move toward the Heaven Dou Empire in recent years, and if not for the fact that even Yu Yuanzhen’s eldest legitimate grandson, Yu Tianheng, had joined Heaven Dou Royal Academy, the royal family’s repeated hints notwithstanding, he would never have been willing to send even this least gifted son into the academy.

Because they had lost Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan, the Royal Fight team’s soul battle against the Shrek Seven Devils ended even faster and more miserably. Shrek’s plan to lure the enemy in deeper succeeded. After Yu Tianheng was dogpiled and beaten down, and with no Nine-Hearted Begonia healing to support him, he lost all fighting ability and was eliminated on the spot.

Yu Tianheng was the Royal Fight team’s captain, their strongest offensive force, the soul of the team. His swift defeat plunged Royal Fight into instant chaos.

Shrek seized the moment of panic and launched a full assault.

Xiao Wu used a flash-step to cut straight into the back line, then unleashed a sequence of eight brutal throws that left Ning Li utterly dazed.

As for the young and impressionable Ning Rongrong, after being indoctrinated time and again by the three masters of manipulation Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Tang San, she had already come to regard herself as part of Shrek. Seeing her own brother thrown around so brutally by Xiao Wu, she did not think Xiao Wu had used excessive force at all. Instead, she believed that for Shrek’s honor, anything was worthwhile.

On the front line, Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing completed their martial soul fusion. Under Ning Rongrong’s full support, the enormous Dark White Tiger swept forward like an unstoppable tide, shattering the Royal Fight team’s defenses and eliminating the two defense-type spirit masters, Shi Mo and Shi Mo.

Barely three minutes into the battle, only Xue Ying, Oslo, and Yu Feng remained on the field. The three of them had lost even the courage to continue and simply admitted defeat.

After the soul battle ended, Qin Ming, the Royal Fight team’s leader, and Flender shared a moving reunion of father and son—ah, no, teacher and student.

After a round of pleasantries, courtesies, and evasions, under Yu Xiaogang’s direction, the famous plan to borrow a chicken to lay eggs was freshly hatched. From that day on, Shrek rose from rags to riches, and its past as a makeshift academy was forever left behind.

On the day of enrollment, provoked on purpose by the fourth prince, Xue Beng, our proud and arrogant Young Master Dai, in keeping with the academy motto that those who are too timid to cause trouble are no better than fools, gave Xue Beng and the others a thorough beating.

What a pity Dai Mubai could not reveal his identity. Otherwise, the third prince of Star Luo would have been able to beat the fourth prince of Heaven Dou without even using spirit power, and the Star Luo Empire could have strutted proudly before the Heaven Dou Empire for once.