Douluo Continent: Newcomer Yuhao, thank you Lan Xuanyu

He touched Huo Yuhao's hair with his right hand as if to ruffle it, "Did you... grow up in a family like this before?"

Huo Yuhao rested his head on Ma Xiaotao's long legs clad in black stockings, his eyes closed.

"Well... my memories from that time aren't very clear, they're rather hazy. My mother was always risking her life to protect me, but things changed after I turned five."

Ma Xiaotao lowered her eyes. "Is that so... It really is as you said, quite a show indeed..."

She was sent to Shrek Academy from a young age because of her outstanding talent. She usually stayed at home and focused on her cultivation. With a "famous teacher" like Yan Shaozhe to guide her, it was not that she was ignorant of human relationships. It was just that she never expected that the gentle Dai Yueheng would actually be such a ferocious and terrifying person...

Even if he was an illegitimate child, he was still his own brother. How could he be so ruthless as to kill his subordinate?

This world is really not as wonderful as I imagined...

Huo Yuhao opened his eyes, but two-thirds of his vision was blocked by two oval objects.

"It's really terrifyingly big..." Huo Yuhao muttered to himself before speaking, "Sister Xiaotao, this world isn't all that beautiful. The darkness we see is just the tip of the iceberg. The entanglements of interests within it are even more complex."

"Do you believe it or not, right now, the academy's higher-ups might be playing a game of tai chi with Teacher Lexuan?"

Ma Xiaotao's hand, which was stroking Huo Yuhao's hair, froze. She instinctively lowered her body, making it even less visible to Huo Yuhao.

"You mean... this... this can't be right, can it? A teacher wouldn't be unable to distinguish right from wrong, would he?"

Huo Yuhao turned around and lay on Ma Xiaotao's lap, tilting his head, "How should I put it... my elders once told me that there is no distinction between good and bad when it comes to interests."

"Dai Yueheng, White Tiger Martial Soul, Level 64 Battle Soul Emperor, descendant of Dai Mubai, one of the original Shrek Seven Devils, and one of the Shrek Academy's designated participants in the next Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament."

"Given Shrek Academy's obsession with that so-called 'glory' and its connections with the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, they should be willing to keep this powerful Battle Soul Emperor to contribute to Shrek Academy's glory."

"..."

Ma Xiaotao wanted to retort, but remembering the countless times Yan Shaozhe had whispered in her ear about "Shrek's glory will live on forever," she couldn't say anything.

……

"Le Xuan, you're not a child anymore. How come you still don't know how to consider the bigger picture when you do things?"

Zhang Lexuan ignored Yan Shaozhe's earnest accusations, simply taking a sip of tea and speaking indifferently.

"Dai Yueheng and Dai Huabin plotted to harm my students, and as their teacher, I naturally had to seek justice for them. Expelling them from school was already a great favor to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion. Does Dean Yan mean to kill these two bastards? If so, I wouldn't mind."

Do you know what the Doctrine of the Mean is?

For example, if a group of people are crammed into a room, and you feel hot and want to open the window, but some people don't feel hot and don't want to open it, you can't say, "Let's open the window, it's so hot!" Instead, you should say, "Let's lift the ceiling, it's so hot!"

At this point, most people would agree with you opening the window; this is called moderation.

Zhang Lexuan's approach was the same: either let me kill these two, or let them go home; the choice is yours.

Yan Shaozhe's expression darkened further, a mixture of conflict and helplessness.

From a teacher's perspective, Zhang Lexuan's actions were not problematic. If this assassination attempt was not handled properly, she would be unable to teach students in the future.

But next year is the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament, and Dai Yueheng is one of the two main Soul Emperors of the Shrek Academy team. If he is expelled, Ma Xiaotao will probably be left to carry the team alone.

Just then, Ma Xiaotao burst in, kicking the door open. "Teacher, you don't need to say anything. I don't want teammates like Dai Yueheng either. They have to get out of here today!"

Yan Shaozhe was speechless for a moment, "You little brat, how can you be so insensible!?"

Ma Xiaotao, not to be outdone, craned her neck and said, "If someone can be so ruthless to their own brother, who knows when their teammates will also fall victim to his dirty tricks? I don't want to fall victim to my own teammates on the field, even if I don't lose to my opponents. Either you fire him, or I won't compete in next year's competition."

Ma Xiaotao's words were quite bold. Just as Yan Shaozhe was about to say something more, he heard Mu En's voice transmission in his ear.

Yan Shaozhe paused for a moment, seemingly wanting to say more, but then fell silent.

"...I understand, teacher."

……

Lan Xuanyu walked back to his dormitory in the foreign language department with a long face.

During this time, he rented a blacksmith shop in Shrek City to study his forging skills.

However, the progress was somewhat unsatisfactory. Ultimately, it was because he no longer possessed the Golden Dragon King bloodline, which symbolized ultimate power. His physical strength couldn't keep up, so he could only complete the hundred-times forging, and the success rate of the thousand-times forging was not high.

Unlike Tang Wulin, who started learning forging from a young age, he was at most a novice. When he was on Tianlong Star, he used the Divine Dragon Armor, and the final Six-Word Battle Armor was forged with Tang Wulin's help.

Lan Xuanyu was in a state of confusion. Whether it was his attitude towards his aunt Tang Wutong or the changes in his martial soul, Huo Yuhao's strange behavior made him extremely uneasy.

The bloodline of the Dragon God—without a doubt, it is the pure bloodline of the Dragon God!

Where did he get it from? Lan Xuanyu would bet his life that the Emotional God King he knew didn't have a single thing related to the Dragon God.

What should I do? Although I had thought about absorbing the Dragon God's bloodline from Huo Yuhao, it was obvious that I couldn't beat him at all... Going up there would just be asking for trouble.

Contact your grandfather?

My aunt has been in a coma for the past few days, and the trident of the sea god that the Tang family has inherited on her forehead has disappeared for some reason. The sea god aura on her body has also dimmed a lot, as if she has suffered a serious injury.

This was all thanks to Lan Xuanyu for not disturbing Wang Dong's spiritual sea, otherwise...

Before I knew it, I was back in the dormitory, and I saw a group of people carrying a lot of things down from the dormitory building.

A tall young man with short blond hair and sinister eyes stood at the door. He looked terrible and was muttering something under his breath, seemingly waiting for someone.

Lan Xuanyu didn't care; in this era, nothing could pique his interest.

He simply walked past Dai Yueheng, who was standing at the door, and went straight into the dormitory building...

"Damn it! Are these freshmen so disrespectful? Don't they know how to greet the upperclassmen?"