The remaining examinees were despairing, why are they so unlucky that they have to go against such geniuses?!
The group decided to leave and head to their fourth and final assessment, just then, a uncle with beard that covered most of his face came walking into the village square shouting.
"Fresh sausages, Fresh sausages for sale!' he yelled as he turned the sausages on the grill.
Xiao Wu, who was tired and hungry asked Tang San "Xiao San, can you buy me some of those? I'm really hungry" as she said this, her stomach grumbled.
Tang San nodded, as he prepared to buy some of the sausages the uncle sold, Dai MuBai walked towards the uncle.
"Xiao Ao! How many times did I tell you, do not sell your disgusting sausages in the academy!" he said angrily as he bonked him on the head quite hard
Bonk
"MuBai, why are you being so harsh to the uncle?" Xiao Wu said, outraged that Dai MuBai would do something like this to an old person.
"U-uncle? Uncle?!" the uncle stood up immediately, yelling at Xiao Wu.
"I'm only a few months older than you all, I'm still a handsome teenager, you know?!" he said before Dai MuBai sighed.
"Say that when you shaved your beard, Xiao Ao." Dai MuBai said before looking at the others.
"This is Oscar, he, just like me, is a student at shrek academy. As for why you shouldnmt eat his sausages. Xiao Ao! Make me a fresh sausage" Dai MuBai smirked while looking at Oscar.
"Boss Dai, is there really such a need?" he said sadly, hoping Dai MuBai would pity him and won't have him do it, to which he was ignored.
Sigh
"I have a big tasty sausage!" Oscar yelled out before a sausage materialised into his palm.
Seeing this, the girls immediately covered their mouth.
"Even if it doesn't taste bad, why does it have such a lewd chant" Xiao Wu couldn't help but say.
Oscar, hearing this immediately became emo and dehectedly pushed his cart away.
"Let's not waste time, we still have your final assessment to do." Dai MuBai instructed as they made their way to an open field.
"Right, we haven't introduced ourselves to each other yet." Liu Yan said during the walk.
"Let's introduce ourselves right now then. I'm Ying Xuan, martial soul: crystal phoenix" Ying Xuan piped in.
"Liu Yan, martial soul: crystalline glory."
"Tang San, martial soul: blue silver grass"
"Xiao Wu, martial soul: soft boned rabbit"
"Ning Rongrong, martial soul: seven glazed treasure pagoda." The blue haired girl said while putting out a charming yet childish smile ag Liu Yan, hoping to maybe charm him and bring him into her sect.
Lastly, it was the girl in the leather black dress's turn. "I'm Zhu ZhuQing, martial soul: hell civet cat"
As they got familiar witb each other, they heard a loud voice from the open field. There sat a burly and muscular man, barely reaching 170cm in height, a thick shoulder plate on his right.
"Teacher Zhao! There might be hope for Shrek Academy after all" Dai MuBai ran forward and told Teacher Zhao about the 6 people that skipped the second and third assessment.
"Ho? 6 people, interesting. Let's see how great they are, I'll personally take them on for the fourth assessment." When Dai MuBai heard this, he was about to protest when teacher Zhao looked at him sternly, daring him to protest if he wanted more severe training.
Sigh
Dai MuBai walked back to the group and gravely said "You all seem to have bad luck, the fourth assessment is a combat assessment. Usually, I am the one you would be facing but now Teacher Zhao has decided to be the one in charge instead."
"He gave you all half an incense stick worth of time to discuss how to beat him. His name is Zhao Wuji, a level 78 soul saint. His nickname, the immovable king." Dai MuBai said with seriousness in his tone.
"Huh? The immovable king?!" Out of everyone, Ning Rong Rong was the only one who gave a big reaction.
"So you know of him, then you should also know what he had done before"
"Yeah, Zhao Wu Ji was said to have been ambushed by various soul saints and even a soul douluo from the martial soul hall. Not only did he successfully escape being besieged by them, he had even killed some of the soul saints and injure the soul douluo" Ning Rong Rong said, the others, except Liu Yan were shocked when they learnt of this
"His martial soul is the Vigorous Vajra Bear, a defense and attack type martial soul. So I recommend not facing him head on" Dai MuBai looked at Liu Yan, because Liu Yan was in the same situation as Zhao Wu Ji, a attack-defense type soul master.
Half an incense stick of time passed…
"Are you ready?" Zhao Wu Ji stood up while stretching his shoulders.
"Don't worry, I won't bully you all, I'll use only up to a soul ancestor's strength" he smirked, "It's been a while since I got to stretch my old bones"
Liu Yan and the others stood in formation, summoning their martial souls.
Zhao WuJi immediately noticed Ning Rongrong's seven glazed treasure pagoda.
"Alright, this really is a group of little monsters. Don't blame me for being ruthless then!"
Though he was a strength and defense soul master, crossing such a short diatance as a Soul Saint wasn'r hard. He appeared in front of Liu Yan who was positioned at the front,
Bang
Liu Yan tried to block the attack but is sent backwards a few feet.
"First soul skill: Entangle!"
Blue silver grass grew, coiling around Zhao Wuji.
"Seven glazed treasures, first day: strength, second day: speed!" Two bright rainbow lights flew from the pagoda and enveloped Zhu ZhuQing and Xiao Wu.
They began efficiently striking at Zhao WuJi, who made no move to escape from the blue silver grass.
"Hahahaha, are you trying to tickle me?" He laughed, before suddenly bursting from the blue silver grass.
"First soul skill: Motionless Bright King Body!" Energy explodes from his body and shatters the blue silver grass.
Crack
A shadow appeared above him, Liu Yan had flew up using the momentum of construct creation.
Ying Xuan flew out beside him, both of them yelled out.
"Soul Ring Fusion skill!"
Zhao WuJi suddenly grew shocked, "a fusion skill! This could be dangerous" he thought.
"Both of you get down! Third soul skill: Gravity increase!" But it was futile, Liu Yan and Ying Xuan had already initiated it.
Far away, Flander was sleeping in his house, when the sky grew very bright.
"Why is it so bright?" He covered his eyes as he looked out the window, as if there were sparkling jewelry outside.
As his eyes slowly adjusted to the blinding light, he saw something that shcoked him.
Thousands upon thousands of crystals and feathers materialised, shooting down onto Zhao WuJi like bullets.
Bang, Bang, Bang
The floor looked like it was a disco party.
Zhao WuJi blocked the crystals that shot at him but using his first soul skill yet again.
The fragments began to gather up, forming a mist, blocking Liu Yan and Ying Xuan from view.
"Don't think you can hide! Fourth soul skill: Position Trace!" He finally located them.
"Teacher Zhao, you seem to forget about us!"
Xiao Wu suddenly kicked at his hind knee, as Tang San began targeting his weak spots with hidden weapons while entagling him with more blue silver grass.
"Enough! Vigorous Vajra Palm!" a large burst for forward energy directed at Tang San.
Xiao Wu got in front of it and toom the brunt of the hit, and was sent flying.
Crash
Ning RongRong and Zhu ZhuQing had caught her, but still crashed to the ground.
As the mist above began to dissipate, Tang San became enraged, he took out Dragon Beard needles and aimed at Zhao WuJi's eye, throwing it with precision.
Kang
A crystal wall formed and blocked the needles, Liu Yan dropped down and punched the wall, sending it straight at Zhao WuJi and knocking him into a building.
Liu Yan immediately turned around and stared at Tang San
"Tang San, what are you doing?! Why did you aim for his eyes!"
"You shouldn't have stopped me! Move aside!"
"You're mad he hurt Xiao Wu, isn't it? You should know that this is a soul master fight, even if it is just an assessment. You should have expected her to be hurt. If you want to blame anyone, blame yourself for not being strong enough." Liu Yan glared at Tang San, this was something he didn't lime about Tang San.
Tang San was about to say something to retaliate, when he abruptly stopped. A few seconds passed before his body relaxed and he looked at Liu Yan solemnly.
"You're right. I shouldn't have been so shortsighted. I'm sorry." He bowed slightly.
Sigh
"At least he understood, if I can change this habit from the start, he won't be so reckless." Liu Yan thought as he nodded before looking at Zhao WuJi, who was slowly emerging from the building.
He was badly beaten up, his nose crooked.
"Mr. Zhao, did we pass?" Liu Yan asked respectfully.
"Yes, yes. Oscar! Come here now! MuBai, bring them to their dorm rooms." He said as Oscar aproached.
As they left, Tang San carries a barely conscious Xiao Wu to the girls' dormitory to put her on the table.
While the girls settled down, MuBai brought Liu Yan and Tang San to their own dormitory.
"Speaking of which, Liu Yan. What's your relationship with Ying Xuan?" Dai MuBai couldn't help but ask.
"Well… we're not official. It feels official though." He said calmly while thinking about it.
"I would usually warn you of our third schoolmate, who also has a phoenix martial soul. But you seem to be able to handle it." Dai MuBai said as they arrived at their dorm.
The dormitory room was quite modest, not too big but not cramped either. Very sizable for two people to live in.
"Alright, lesson starts tomorrow morning. Don't be late" Dai MuBai said before leaving.
At night, everyone had settled down and were slowly falling asleep. In a forest nearby, a figure cladded in a ragged hood stood, watchingn Tang San. "This Liu Yan will be useful in helping Tang San… good." The figure said before disappearing into the night.
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Hello my readers.
I am very sorry for such a delay and hiatus. I had my midterms recently which lasted a month somehow. I will be publishing new chapters everyday like previously.
Hope you all have a wonderful day!