"Stop! Stop!"
"Fatty, we can't chase anymore. The obstruction-avoiding pills Little San gave us are running out, and we're probably getting close to Peach Garden Academy's Forbidden Land. Not to mention whether they'll return Ye Lingling to us, it's hard to say if we can even safely leave this poisonous fog array."
"We must return the way we came immediately."
One of Dai Mubai's eyes was covered by a black eye patch, turning him into a cyclops, leaving only one eye with double pupils, vigilantly observing the surroundings.
Ma Hongjun was now lame. He could only walk normally with the reinforced prosthetic leg Tang San had made for him. Even after a year of special training, his movement speed was still slower than a normal Spirit Master. Watching the graceful figure disappear into the depths of the poisonous fog, the Evil Fire Fatty felt extremely regretful:
"My girlfriend! My Evil Fire vent!"
"Why didn't you keep an eye on her? You actually let her run away!"
Ma Hongjun slapped his thigh.
"Fatty, you're too lustful. If you hadn't been so eager, you wouldn't have scared her away so quickly."
"How could I not be eager? She's so beautiful, with such a good figure, and skin like snow! I've been craving her for so long!"
"Grandmaster even said she's an indispensable teammate in our team, the only support who can contend with that dead pink-haired Seven Treasure Glazed Tile. Now that she's run off, what do you say we do? How do we explain it to Grandmaster?"
"Sigh... you children... I was only talking to Teacher Fu and the others for a while, how could you cause such a commotion?"
Seeing the Shrek students return from the poisonous fog and learning the reason, Qin Ming sighed, his eyes filled with worry... "What?! You forced Ye Lingling away?!"
Grandmaster, who had returned with Tang San, let out a shocked cry in Sunset Forest, full of disbelief.
Don't you know Ye Lingling's importance? Besides Little San, she is the most important person in this team!!!
You made her run away from me?!
... "Lingling, it's you. Why haven't you left yet?"
At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the cold pond steamed with an eerie blue mist, and the fiery pool churned with golden-red hot waves. The two energies collided in mid-air, condensing into countless tiny streams of light that scattered onto Teacher Su Ran's body.
Teacher Su Ran had come out early and hadn't fully dressed yet, revealing his chest muscles with subtle, well-defined lines.
Seeing Teacher Su Ran's vaguely revealed perfect physique up close, Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu immediately forgot about Tang San and the others, their eyes filled with Teacher Su Ran, wishing they could pounce into his arms and smooch, smooch, smooch.
Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong's faces were flushed, their hearts pounding, their eyes hazy. Xiao Wu's little rabbit petals tightened, and her nose was about to bleed again.
Even Dugu Yan was astonished by Teacher Su Ran's Aura at this moment.
Over this past year, Teacher Su Ran had brought Rongrong and Xiao Wu to Cultivate at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well three times. Only after Rongrong broke through the fifth layer of the Golden Bell Shield and Xiao Wu fully grasped the Profound Truth of Tai Chi with the help of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well did Teacher Su Ran enter the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to temper his own body.
Only Teacher Su Ran absorbed the true power of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, miraculously drawing out the Ice and Fire Twin Dragon Spirits to temper his body.
The Ice and Fire Twin Dragons swam above the peach blossom immortal tree, causing Su Ran's eyes to reflect flourishing peach blossom. The twin Dragons coiled, their Dragon Spirits manifesting with his body. This Aura would make even the powerhouses of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan submit.
[Ice and Fire Refine Twin Dragons, Divine Show Peach Branch Spirit is infused with the power of Ice and Fire Twin Dragon Spirits!]
Just as Dugu Yan was somewhat captivated by Teacher Su Ran's Aura, she noticed a figure stumbling through the poisonous fog, struggling to rush in. Looking closely, who else could it be but Ye Lingling?
"Lingling, you're poisoned..."
"You left, then risked the poisonous fog to come back?!"
Ye Lingling's skirt was torn to shreds by thorns, stained with wet mud, and her broken hair clung to her sweaty forehead. Her snow-white skin had turned bluish-purple, and there were several bloodstains on her body. The bloodstains were not bright red, but purplish-black, clearly symptoms of severe poisoning.
At this moment, her disheveled appearance was very similar to Xiao Wu, who had also fled to Peach Garden Academy back then.
"Dugu Yan, Teacher Su Ran... I—"
Their gazes met. The moment Ye Lingling saw Dugu Yan and Su Ran, it was as if she had seen saviors. The strength that had supported her through the poisonous fog gave way, and she collapsed onto the ground:
"It's all my fault. It's me... I'm too foolish, too stupid... too slow..."
"Yu Tianheng, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun... they... they saw that I wanted to come back to you, and they were afraid I would also betray the Royal Fight Team. So... so they hinted that I should choose Dai Mubai or Ma Hongjun as a boyfriend, and give them my first time... that way they could tie me down. I was unwilling in my heart, so I found an opportunity to sneak away. When they found out, they kept chasing me from behind... I just kept running, kept running..."
Ye Lingling said, her voice filled with tears.
If Grandmaster hadn't taken Tang San away alone, and they didn't have enough obstruction-avoiding pills, she probably wouldn't have escaped at all.
She risked being poisoned to death by the poisonous fog, inhaling a large amount of it, just to avoid being caught by them and luckily ran back!
"Outrageous!"
"After more than a year, those Shrek hooligans are still so despicable, actually trying to tie down a girl's heart with such a thing. They're practically beasts!"
"No matter what, Yu Tianheng was your old captain. Did he just watch those two brutes treat you like that?"
"Yu Tianheng... he's changed."
"Truly wicked!"
"Teacher Su Ran, when does the Soul Master Competition start? I really can't wait to beat them up. That damned Grandmaster not only dared to challenge Teacher Su Ran excessively, but his students are also so hypocritical. I should have known better than to let them leave here so easily! Even breaking their legs and cutting out their tongues would be too light!"
"Right!"
"If they dare to chase in here, and I, the captain, encounter them, I will definitely let them taste the power of my mountain-splitting Inch Punch! I'll break all their bones!"
After hearing Ye Lingling's tearful complaint, Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong, who abhorred evil, clenched their small fists, filled with righteous indignation!
Even Teacher Su Ran, who was usually quite indifferent, now had a somewhat solemn expression. He had still underestimated the depravity of these Shrek individuals.
"These people are indeed accustomed to shamelessness. However, your Royal Fight Team just made a hostile bet with me. Why do you still dare to run to me? Aren't you afraid that we might do something to you too?"
Su Ran walked to Ye Lingling's side. Although his tone was light, he was already checking her physical condition.
Ye Lingling said with emotion: "No, Teacher Su Ran is clearly stronger than Grandmaster and Teacher Fu combined, but even though Grandmaster provoked you like that, Teacher Su Ran not only didn't overpower him with force but also accepted his challenge and was willing to let us leave safely. This shows that Teacher Su Ran is a man of principles, not someone petty, calculating, or cunning."
"You girl, you certainly know how to talk."
Su Ran finally showed a faint smile. Who doesn't like to hear praise?
"This girl has inhaled a lot of poisonous fog. Under normal circumstances, she probably wouldn't survive a day. Fortunately, the Nine Heart Sea棠 can save her life. She finally made it back here alive, Little Six, use your poison body to help her guide the toxins out of her body, and her life will be saved."
Su Ran turned to Dugu Yan and said.
Dugu Yan nodded, emitting purple-black spirit power fluctuations. A colorful snake lotus bloomed in her snake eyes, and four-colored Meridians, composed of white, yellow, purple, and purple-black, appeared in her palm.
This was the Three Flowers, Four Colors of the Minor Achievement Calamity Poison Art, indicating that she could already begin to transform her Blue Phosphor Serpent body into a Calamity Poison Body.
This Calamity Poison Art could digest all toxins within the body and slowly convert them into her spirit power. In layman's terms, she could level up by slowly consuming poison.
Once the Calamity Poison Art reached Major Achievement, releasing the Poison of Misfortune would instantly turn an area of several kilometers into a doomsday disaster zone, with withered vegetation and extinguished life.
Just as Dugu Yan was detoxifying Ye Lingling, Ye Lingling, holding onto her last bit of strength, looked weakly at Su Ran:
"Teacher Su... Teacher Su Ran, I still remember, over a year ago, at the Soto City Great Spirit Arena, you told me that you could help me solve my Spirit inheritance problem, and that if I was willing, I could come to your academy anytime. Was that true? Does it still count now?"
"My words, as long as they haven't been retracted, all count."
Su Ran said lightly.
As the toxins in her body gradually improved, the purple-black blood rings on Ye Lingling's snow-white skin slowly disappeared. She held Yanzi's hands, her eyes filled with gratitude: "Yanzi, thank you."
"Teacher Su Ran, a year ago, I was blind and failed to make the right choice."
"If you don't mind, I am willing to become your disciple, to revere you like my own father, and to Cultivate with you."
Ye Lingling's eyes sparkled, slightly tearful.
She had no father since birth, so a father held an extremely high position in her heart, and it was also her greatest sincerity: revering her teacher as a father.
"Teacher Su Ran~"
Another one wants to be a disciple, and a beautiful girl at that! Ning Rongrong stood to the side, looking a bit pitiful. She was standing in the garden, while a disciple came from the poison.
Oh well, oh well. Fortunately, this Ye Lingling is sensible. She said she would revere Teacher Su Ran as her own father. She surely wouldn't compete with Zhuqing and Meng Yiran for Teacher Su Ran's affection, right?
She wouldn't possibly think, 'Daddy, harder?'
No, no, she wouldn't.
Ning Rongrong breathed a sigh of relief at this thought.
"Very well, you've come at a good time. Since you are someone I chose a year ago, it's not too late to become a disciple now. Take this peach blossom token, and you will be the seventh student of my Peach Garden Academy."
A peach blossom token flew from Su Ran's fingertip, landing right in front of Ye Lingling.
As for the fact that Ye Lingling hadn't come to become a disciple for a year, Su Ran didn't mind. After all, he had only casually mentioned accepting a disciple back then. For a single-line Spirit Genius like Ye Lingling, who inherited it for generations, it would be abnormal if she casually left her original academy to become his disciple just because of someone else's words.
People teaching people about things may not succeed in a lifetime.
But things teaching people, one time is enough.
Clutching the peach blossom token, Ye Lingling bowed her head to Su Ran:
"Ye Lingling, greets Teacher Su Ran!"
[Accept Disciple Ye Lingling.]
[Age: 16 years old]
[Aptitude Rank: S+]
[Spirit: Nine Heart Sea Tang]
[spirit power: Rank 38]
[Reward Host spirit power Rank increased by 0.6, all spirit ring and Spirit Bone years increased by 15%.]
[Accepting the seventh disciple, successfully forming the Taoyuan Seven-person Spirit Master team, additional reward of 5% increase in all spirit ring years.]
...[Dean of Peach Garden Academy, Epic Immortal Master: Su Ran]
[spirit power Rank: 89]
[Main Spirit: Divine Show Peach Branch]
[Shared Spirits: Nine Nether Spirit Cat, Nine Treasure Golden Body Glazed Tile Pagoda, Two-Form Soft Bones Rabbit, Storm Fiend Sky Tiger, Undead Snake Staff, Jade Phosphor Serpent, Nine Heart Sea Tang]
[First Spirit Ability Year: Folding Branch Like a Dream — Increased to 2500 years.]
[Second Spirit Ability: A Dream Peach Sword Order — Increased to 3600 years.]
[Third Spirit Ability: Chaotic Red Flying Snow — Increased to 7000 years.]
[Fourth Spirit Ability: Scarlet Moon Peach Bloom — Increased to 18000 years.]
[Fifth Spirit Ability: Burning Flower Thousand Peach Slash — Increased to 40000 years.]
[Sixth Spirit Ability: Nine Luminaries Peach Blossom Sword — Increased to 77000 years.]
[Seventh Spirit Ability: Red Dust True Body (100,000-year accompanying ring Domain, Heavenly White Jade Capital), increased to 120,000 years.]
[Eighth Spirit Ability: Ability 1 — Shaking Falling Moon. Ability 2 — Shaking Falling Sun, increased to 120,000 years.]
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