After the evening's arena match ended, everyone gathered to prepare to return to the academy.
Flender left the group to check on his shop and asked Dai Mubai to lead the others back.
Ma Hongjun decided to split off, planning to "relieve some evil fire," and even called for Dai Mubai to join him.
Dai Mubai glanced at Zhu Zhuqing, then at the others around him. "Fatty, you don't need to drag me into that kind of thing. Don't tarnish my reputation."
Ma Hongjun laughed. "Boss Dai, who doesn't know what you're really like? You've had more wild fun than I ever have. Don't forget about those twins."
Dai Mubai immediately looked embarrassed. "Fatty, just go if you want to. Why are you talking so much? Want me to beat you up?"
Ma Hongjun, quick to react, took one look at Zhu Zhuqing and the other girls, then ran off in a flash.
Xiao Wu asked curiously, "What exactly is that fatty going to do? He mentioned going to some place called a 'brothel', what kind of place is that?"
Everyone's expression darkened at her words. Tang San quickly pulled Xiao Wu aside and whispered something to her, and her face visibly turned red.
Ning Rongrong looked like she wanted to say something, but Yang Xiong gave her a warning glare. She immediately fell silent, clearly remembering what he had told her earlier.
Xiao Wu pouted a little. "San-ge, you're absolutely not allowed to go to places like brothels. If you do, I'll have to teach you a lesson!"
Tang San looked extremely awkward and quickly said, "Xiao Wu, don't worry. Someone like me would never go to that kind of place. I'm not like Fatty."
Everyone couldn't help but laugh at Tang San and Xiao Wu's exchange.
Ning Rongrong chimed in, teasingly: "Little Xiongzi, you seem pretty familiar with what a brothel is. Don't tell me you've been there before?"
Yang Xiong smiled. "I've never even left the sect growing up. How would I know what a brothel is? Besides training, I'm not interested in anything else."
Oscar elbowed Yang Xiong in the waist. "Bro, you look pretty well-off. I bet you've experienced even fancier stuff, haven't you?"
That piqued Ning Rongrong's interest. "Little Xiongzi, tell the truth. You're always missing in class, did you secretly get a bunch of girlfriends and sneak out of the sect to have fun?"
Yang Xiong looked speechless. "I skip class because I want to focus on training. Even the teachers allow it. Don't tell me you don't trust the teachers?"
Xiao Wu's playful side came out again, especially since she and Ning Rongrong were both mischievous. The two of them stuck together like lifelong best friends.
"Rongrong, were you classmates with Little Xiongzi before? Why was he always missing from class?"
Ning Rongrong replied, "Yes, we were. He's always been a bookworm. He'd bring a book to class and just read, not listening at all. Later, he stopped coming altogether and hardly talked to anyone. I didn't want to go to class either, but my dad said if I could rank first in academics like him, I could skip classes too."
"Sadly, the teachers seemed to favor him. They let him come to school just once a week. I haven't even seen him in the past six months. I seriously suspect he's been fooling around in brothels."
Xiao Wu nodded in agreement, clearly siding with Ning Rongrong.
Yang Xiong rolled his eyes. "You little bunny, wait, I should call you an old bunny, I'm pretty sure I'm older than you. You should be calling me Brother Xiong or at least Yang Xiong."
Xiao Wu glared back. "If Rongrong can call you Little Xiongzi, then so can I. In fact, everyone should call you that from now on."
Before Yang Xiong could respond, Ning Rongrong nodded in agreement. The two girls seemed to bond instantly, like they were long-lost soulmates.
Looking at everyone, Yang Xiong felt helpless and silently complained in his heart: You ten-thousand-year pervy bunny, always messing around. Believe it or not, one day I'll turn you into a soul ring.
Tang San watched Xiao Wu playing around and looked a little embarrassed, but his eyes were full of affection for her.
After joking around for a while, the group didn't have any real conflicts and returned together to Shrek Academy.
The next day, class was still taught by Flender. However, when class began, everyone was present except for Oscar.
Flender's expression was dark. "Mubai, go fetch Oscar. How can someone so young be this lazy?"
Tang San quickly stepped in. "Dean, when I left the dorm, he was still meditating. He probably got deep into his training and didn't wake up in time."
Before Dai Mubai could go, Oscar came running excitedly from the dormitory.
Flender snorted coldly. "Oscar, looks like you need more laps. You dare show up late to class?"
Oscar quickly said, "Dean, please let me explain, I just broke through to level thirty!"
Flender's expression instantly turned joyful. "Good! Excellent! Oscar, you didn't let me down. Looks like we finally have our second Soul Elder in the academy!"
Yang Xiong glanced at Oscar and thought, Just like in the original plot. Looks like it's time for me to make my move too.
Then Flender addressed everyone: "Today's class will focus on Oscar. Everyone must eat at least one of the sausages he makes."
The moment he said that, the whole group was shocked, especially the three girls, whose faces were full of disgust.
Yang Xiong, however, seemed unfazed. "Oscar, make one sausage each using your two soul skills for me."
Oscar, initially a bit downcast, immediately lit up. He quickly made two sausages: one from his first soul skill, the Super Recovery Big Sausage, and one from the second, the Detoxifying Little Sausage. However, his incantations were pretty gross: "I have a big sausage" and "I have a little sausage."
Everyone looked at Yang Xiong and Oscar with disgust. Clearly, they found Oscar's incantations revolting, and couldn't believe Yang Xiong was okay with them.
Yang Xiong didn't care. He directly took the sausages, stuffed them in his mouth, and even nodded in praise. "Not bad. Really good. The taste is decent, and the effects are clearly strong. This is definitely worthy of being a top-grade spirit with innate full soul power."
Oscar was deeply moved by his words, as if he had finally found someone who understood him. "Brother Xiong, you really get me. From now on, you're my big bro!"
Yang Xiong laughed. "Oscar, you're older than me. Just call me Little Xiong or Yang Xiong like my family does."
Ning Rongrong looked thoroughly disgusted. "Little Xiongzi, don't you think the incantations combined with those sausages are a bit revolting? I just can't eat them."
The other six all nodded in agreement, clearly sharing the same opinion.
Yang Xiong looked at them and sighed. "The world of soul masters is far more brutal than most people imagine. I once ventured alone into the Soul Beast Forest. That hunger, that lack of soul power, it was utterly despairing. If I had Oscar's sausages back then, I would've had much more confidence facing the beasts."
"Not to mention battles between soul masters, life and death can be decided in a moment. Sometimes you're out of power, sometimes poisoned. That can be fatal. Oscar's sausages can help immensely during combat and may even turn the tide. Compared to that, the incantations don't matter."
"Besides, don't you think his incantations perfectly match the function of the sausages? Maybe this is the artistic touch of someone with innate full soul power."
Everyone was left speechless.
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