"Oh no, Fatty, what a terrible idea you came up with!"
"You boys are too wicked! So dirty, can't you be as pure and clean as our Third Brother?"
Seeing Zhu Zhuqing run in disarray to Peach Garden Academy, Tang San and Xiao Wu understood what might have happened and blamed Ma Hongjun.
Ma Hongjun also felt a bit guilty; he admitted that he did have a hand in instigating it, but he never expected Boss Dai to be so brave, nor did he expect his fiancée to resist so fiercely.
At this moment, Dai Mubai stood outside Peach Garden Academy and shouted:
"Zhu Zhuqing, you are my fiancée. What good does it do to hide in someone else's academy? With our parents' orders and matchmakers' words, can you really escape?"
Wang Sheng put on a pair of iron gauntlets in the Peach Garden Academy's training ground, which would enhance the power of his Tiger Form Fist. He stood at the entrance of Peach Garden Academy with his arms crossed, staring at Dai Mubai outside the academy.
If Dai Mubai dared to force his way in, he would strike with heavy punches!
Inside the academy, Su Ran's figure finally appeared.
However, a pink and white-clad girl followed behind Su Ran. Ning Rongrong looked radiant and very lively now.
Previously, she only liked to call him 'teacher' when she had questions about ultimate techniques. Now, she liked to call him 'teacher' whether she had something to ask or not.
Moreover, with the formation of the second layer of the Golden Bell, she could easily handle some basic training, and even cancel it. What she needed more was blood refinement and bone refinement, which were mainly catalyzed by diet and spirit power circulation. Therefore, she had more time to pester Su Ran.
Ning Rongrong saw several bloodstains on Zhu Zhuqing's body and couldn't help but gently cover her mouth. She stepped forward to help Zhu Zhuqing up, feeling a bit distressed, and applied the white medicinal jade muscle cream given by her teacher to her wounds:
"What happened to you? You're so injured."
"Fortunately, the injuries aren't serious. What's going on?"
Su Ran asked.
Zhu Zhuqing, however, knelt directly before Su Ran.
Ning Rongrong was stunned.
"Teacher, I've finally understood the problem you mentioned earlier. Since I've decided to follow a unique path with you, I should move forward without hesitation and not care about the restraints behind me."
"I want to become stronger, not just to survive, but to live for myself. I want to defeat Dai Mubai, and I want to break free from the constraints of my family!"
"Please accept me as your disciple, Teacher!"
When Ning Rongrong heard Zhu Zhuqing's last words, her eyes widened.
What? I'm here, worried about your injuries, giving you medicine, and you're trying to snatch my teacher?!
"Have you thought it through?"
"I have thought it through."
"Very well. Go fetch tea, kowtow to me three times, bow three times, and recite this oath. From then on, you will be my disciple."
Su Ran waved a peach blossom token from his sleeve, and it floated into Zhu Zhuqing's hand.
Zhu Zhuqing, dragging her injured body, brought a cup of peach blossom tea from the Peach Blossom Spring Pavilion. She knelt before Su Ran with a thud, kowtowed three times, and bowed three times.
Behind the peach blossom token was this oath:
"In this world, I, Zhu Zhuqing, have only one teacher, who can move mountains, sever rivers, overturn seas, open the heavens, command gods, and pluck stars!"
[Ding~]
[Disciple Zhu Zhuqing accepted. Zhu Zhuqing's talent level is S, age 12, level 27.]
[Disciple acceptance rewards issued: spirit power increased, all spirit ring years increased by about 10%, rewarded with a 30,000-year Hell Beast Spirit Bone (disciple absorbs, teacher can share use), rewarded with one of the three great Hell-type ultimate techniques (to be chosen).]
[Su Ran]
[Level: 73]
[Spirit: Divine Show Peach Branch]
[Disciple Shared Spirits: Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, Hell Civet]
[First Spirit Ability: Folding Branch Like a Dream — Illusion skill, 850 years → 935 years]
[Second Spirit Ability: A Dream Peach Sword Order — A peach branch sword flying out as if from a dreamland Peach Blossom Spring, capable of piercing souls and killing people, 1500 years → 1650 years]
[Third Spirit Ability: Chaotic Red Flying Snow — Peach branches form chaotic flying swords, creating a turbulent flow, 4200 years → 4620 years]
[Fourth Spirit Ability: Scarlet Moon Peach Bloom — Peach Immortal dances under the peach moon, scarlet peach moon descends, bursting with a hum, causing a violent explosion, 11200 → 12210 years]
[Fifth Spirit Ability: Burning Flower Thousand Peach Slash — Instantly unleashes one hundred peach slashes, incredibly powerful, 22300 years → 24530 years]
[Sixth Spirit Ability: Nine Luminaries Peach Blossom Sword — Combines the power of the nine luminaries: Sun, Moon, Fire, Water, Wood, Gold, Earth, Rahu, and Ketu, giving birth to nine peach blossom swords, each with different effects and powers, 44300 years → 48730 years]
[Seventh Spirit Ability: Red Dust True Body, 77300 years → 85030 years.]
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"Go back. Zhu Zhuqing has already become my disciple. From now on, she will be a student of Peach Garden Academy and will have no further connection with your Shrek Academy."
"As for you, Dai Mubai, you'd best not bother her anymore."
At the academy gate, Su Ran, wearing a mask, slowly walked over and spoke calmly to the Shrek group outside.
Upon hearing this, the Shrek students exchanged glances.
"Zhu Zhuqing really joined Peach Garden Academy?"
"Damn, this Peach Garden Academy is a bit abnormal, always snatching our academy's students."
"What? Am I the only girl left at Shrek?" Xiao Wu asked, full of doubt.
Dai Mubai's face also turned ashen:
"Teacher Su Ran, isn't this going too far? Zhu Zhuqing is already a student of our Shrek, how can she join your Peach Garden Academy again?"
"So what?"
"Did she take a teacher from your Shrek as her master?"
"Well, no."
"If that's the case, students have the right to choose which school to study at, and also the right to withdraw. Moreover, she has already become my disciple, so joining Peach Garden Academy is only natural."
Su Ran said calmly.
"But she's still my fiancée, what right do you have to tell me not to seek her out?"
Dai Mubai felt somewhat aggrieved. Ever since Peach Garden Academy appeared opposite Shrek, he hadn't encountered anything good.
"Fiancée, she is merely a fiancée. Even if they were married, would she not have the right to leave?"
Su Ran said coldly.
"Aren't women just accessories to men? This is a family marriage alliance, how can she just leave if she wants to?"
"Why can't she leave? You also chose to escape and left your clan. Are you the only one allowed to escape, and others aren't allowed to choose to leave?"
Su Ran's words were like a dagger plunged into Dai Mubai's heart.
Dai Mubai gritted his teeth, a dark glint in his eyes:
"My marriage with her is not an ordinary family alliance. If you interfere, do you know what consequences you'll face?"
"Since I, Su Ran, have accepted this disciple, no matter what trouble comes later, I will face it."
Su Ran was completely fearless.
Isn't it just a marriage alliance between prominent families in the Star Luo Empire?
Although the Star Luo Empire's wolf-like soldiers were formidable, there weren't many powerful Spirit Masters. As long as he taught well and nurtured Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, with the feedback from the disciple acceptance system, he might break through to the Spirit Douluo realm within two years, even possessing a 100,000-year spirit ring. No one in the entire Star Luo Empire could make him afraid.
"Then let's follow the rules of our Star Luo Empire. Let Zhu Zhuqing come out and have a Spirit Master duel with me. Whoever wins, the other listens."
Dai Mubai shouted.
Su Ran glanced at Dai Mubai indifferently, with a hint of disdain in his eyes, then turned and returned to the academy:
"Spirit Master duel? Are you even worthy?"
"Within a year, I can teach her to be stronger than you."
The White Tiger Spirit, with its sacred beast bloodline, possessed astonishing killing power, but its ancestral White Tiger Bodyguard Barrier defensive Spirit Ability, what kind of waves could it make?
"If that's the case, why don't you dare let her fight me? Don't you play by the rules?"
"The reason for not fighting is simple: your Star Luo rules say whoever is stronger calls the shots. Right now, I am stronger, so I call the shots."
Su Ran stood under the peach blossom tree, and a peach branch from the heavens broke through the sky, like a divine miracle!