"Oh! My dear Yan, I can guess exactly what you're thinking. Believe it or not, when Brother Iggy comes back, I'll tell him about this?"
Hearing this, a threatening glint flashed in Dugu Yan's eyes.
"You wouldn't dare!"
"What's there I wouldn't dare?"
After looking around, Ye Lingling leaned close to Dugu Yan's ear again and whispered:
"Unless you let me examine your body again. What if you suddenly fall ill when that Ignaz comes back? That would be terrible."
"Impossible!"
Dugu Yan's cheeks turned red, but in the next second, she still gave in, saying faintly:
"Fine, but you have to let me examine you too."
"Huh? I'm a healer. Examining you is my duty as your sister. You're not a healer—do you even know medicine?"
Ye Lingling flatly refused Dugu Yan's proposal. Although Dugu Yan had grown graceful and charming, she was essentially still just a pure-hearted girl who knew only a little—easy to fool and fun to tease.
"Who says I don't know? Aunt Ye is a healer, my grandfather is famous for poison, and since ancient times medicine and poison have been inseparable. Wouldn't you say I count as half a healer?"
Ye Lingling stared at her curiously, full of surprise. This girl's wisdom had really grown today—she was actually using the principle that medicine and poison are inseparable to argue back.
It seemed that examining her body would become increasingly difficult in the future. But first, let's finish this duel, then when they returned to the dorm, she'd slowly persuade Dugu Yan.
As for herself, she knew her own body very well—she absolutely couldn't let Dugu Yan's little schemes succeed. Ye Lingling said straightforwardly:
"Fine, after this duel ends, I'll let you examine me too."
"That's good then."
At this moment, Shi Mo and Shi Mo nearby walked tremblingly to Dugu Yan's side, patting their chests and saying very confidently:
"Sister Yanyan, those Shrek people are looking at you with bad intentions. During the duel, we'll definitely make them pay."
"Good. Do you still remember how I usually spar with you?"
When Dugu Yan brought this up, Shi Mo and Shi Mo fearfully stepped back a few paces.
Every other day, they would go under a waterfall about sixty to seventy meters high, enduring the tremendous pressure from the cascading water flow. But when they were exhausted and could no longer continue the water pressure body training, Ye Lingling would immediately provide comprehensive treatment, and then Dugu Yan would require them to return under the waterfall to continue tempering their bodies. One round would take three full days.
Besides that, once a month they would also suffer Dugu Yan's loving beatings, helping them become more proficient in mastering their spirit abilities and physical strength.
This training method made them suffer greatly, but the benefit was that their spirit power also grew significantly. When they needed to advance, the spirit beasts were personally found by a Titled Douluo, and each one was a high-quality turtle-type spirit beast.
Furthermore, since the two had Dugu Yan's help, their families had more or less benefited from the Titled Douluo's influence, and their businesses were surprisingly good.
So the two brothers listened to Dugu Yan extremely well, almost to the degree where they would do whatever she told them to do.
At this moment, Mengshenji looked at that red-clothed fatty's perverted behavior with great displeasure, but still out of respect for Yu Xiaogang's face, he led Dugu Yan's four-person team toward Tang San's group to introduce them one by one.
"Everyone, this is Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and the brothers Shi Mo and Shi Mo."
"Hello, Dugu Yan."
Tang San stepped forward and friendly extended his hand in greeting. Dugu Yan looked at this rather friendly Blue Silver Grass Spirit Master in front of her and shook his hand as basic courtesy.
After the introductions were complete, each side returned to their respective areas to discuss pre-battle deployment.
Half a quarter-hour passed, and everyone stepped onto the spirit fighting stage together.
Heaven Dou Imperial Academy's first team formed a 2-1-1 formation centered on Dugu Yan, while the opposing Shrek team formed a 3-1-2 semi-encirclement formation centered on Tang San.
"When the match starts, we'll use our numerical advantage to attack first. We must take out their support-type Spirit Master first. Without that Ye Lingling's group healing, we'll have a much better chance of winning."
"Xiao Wu, you're responsible for containing the Shi family brothers. Fatty, you focus on protecting Rongrong and Oscar."
Tang San, with his shallow understanding of Heaven Dou Imperial Academy's first team, quickly used his rapid analytical abilities to arrange the optimal tactics.
Only now did he think of the usually most useless agility attack-type Spirit Master. If Zhu Zhuqing could fight alongside them against these four people, their chances of victory would be more assured.
"Understood. Brothers, activate your martial souls."
The six activated their martial souls, and 16 standard-configuration spirit rings appeared before the many spectators. Many of the watching students showed disdain, but the watching teachers' gazes focused on Tang San and Oscar.
"A sausage martial soul support-type Spirit Master who's already reached Spirit Elder cultivation—his future is promising!"
"And that Blue Silver Grass Spirit Master, under Grandmaster's theoretical guidance, must have encountered some opportunities to grow so fast."
...
As the six from Shrek activated their martial souls, Dugu Yan's four-person team showed no weakness, activating their martial souls one after another. Especially when Dugu Yan's Rock Jade Poison Scaled Dragon appeared, the originally very quiet spirit fighting arena became lively, with countless students shouting Dugu Yan's name in unison. This made the Shrek members extremely embarrassed, especially Yu Xiaogang, who was particularly angry inside.
His student had cultivated a Blue Silver Grass martial soul to Spirit Elder level—shouldn't the students on the scene be shocked by this disciple of his? Instead, they were cheering for a martial soul that was neither fully dragon nor snake. This was too disrespectful to their Shrek Academy students.
Only now, after revealing her martial soul, did Dugu Yan realize that the perverted little fatty was actually also a phoenix Spirit Master. No wonder she'd had that martial soul fusion technique feeling earlier.
Unlike Bingbing's Ice Phoenix martial soul, this Ma Hongjun's Fire Phoenix martial soul gave her an evil feeling.
At this moment, Tang San took the lead in launching his first spirit ability, the Bind skill, quickly dividing the enemy battlefield. Xiao Wu, following Tang San's pre-battle deployment, rapidly charged toward Shi Mo, who had become separated from his team while dodging the binding technique.
Relying on her speed, she quickly reached Shi Mo.
"Second spirit ability, Charm!"
Shi Mo's movements became sluggish, his eyes showing pink hearts as he stood there in a daze.
"Big brother, wake up!"
Shi Mo, who was on the left side ready to attack at any moment, said worriedly when he saw his brother had fallen for the trick.
Dugu Yan also hadn't expected that the rabbit Spirit Master on the other side could use control-type Spirit Master abilities.
"First spirit ability, Quicksand Domain."
As the entire arena changed, Shi Mo awoke from the charm technique. Just as Xiao Wu was about to get close and execute her waist attack technique, she was punched in the abdomen by the martial soul-possessed Shi Mo, and she flew backwards in pain.
"Xiao Wu—"
With Xiao Wu's injury, Tang San's fury ignited again. At this moment, Dai Mubai had already charged into the enemy formation.
"First spirit ability, White Tiger Barrier."
Dai Mubai's body swelled to twice its size. While his increased defense resisted the flying sand attacks, he was also rushing rapidly toward the direction where Tang San's Blue Silver Grass was transforming.