"Dean Su Ran, can we discuss something?"
"What is it?"
"That… can we not pay the ten thousand gold coin and the academy's land deed?"
"No," Su Ran refused directly.
"Your Peach Blossom Spring Academy has already won the competition, and this girl even got a massive million gold coin. You don't lack this ten thousand gold coin at all now. Can't you be lenient when you have the upper hand? I really can't afford ten thousand gold coin right now."
Flender rubbed his head guiltily and explained to Su Ran.
"Flender, do you have any backbone left? Why humble yourself to beg him? Are you still being stingy and trying to save ten thousand gold coin at a time like this? We earned a lot from the Great Spirit Arena this month; just yesterday's reward was ten thousand gold coin. Just give it to him; don't let people look down on us."
Yu Xiaogang stood with his hands behind his back. Although his face was displeased, he still needed to save face in front of everyone.
Flender spread his hands:
"Xiaogang, this time it's not that I'm stingy and don't want to give it; it's that I truly can't come up with ten thousand gold coin."
"This matter is actually still your fault. You said that our Shrek and Royal Fight Team joining forces had a seventy to eighty percent chance of winning. Yesterday, I also heard that a girl bet one hundred thousand gold coin on Peach Blossom Spring Academy to win, pulling the betting pool ratio to about 4:6. I thought about taking ten thousand gold coin to bet on us to win, and if we won, we could earn seven to eight thousand gold coin. I just didn't expect so many people to follow suit and bet, pulling the betting pool for us to win to over one million… and in the end, we lost the competition…"
"Moreover, our Shrek doesn't have a land deed, and that land isn't mine; it was acquired from the village."
"What?!"
After hearing Flender's words, Yu Xiaogang completely exploded:
"Flender, what can I say about you! You're clearly just insatiably greedy, incapable of success but adept at failure! How dare you push the responsibility onto me."
"I'm not getting involved in this; you handle it!"
Yu Xiaogang angrily flicked his sleeve, turned his back, and acted as if it had nothing to do with him.
"So, you neither have the compensation agreed upon beforehand, nor can you make decisions about the academy's land?"
Su Ran's immortal eyes under the mask narrowed slightly:
"This ten thousand gold coin, and the campus land of your Shrek Academy, I don't actually care much about them."
"However, this battle for survival was initiated by your Shrek. Yu Xiaogang personally came to our Peach Blossom Spring Academy that day, challenged me, and provoked me.
Now my students have painstakingly won this battle, but you can't even afford the most basic wager. Although I don't care that much about these things, I'm not the kind of person who swallows insults and lets my students suffer a loss."
Su Ran's tone gradually grew colder: "If you can't afford this ten thousand gold coin and Shrek's campus land deed, my demand is also simple: you will pay with blood."
At this moment, countless peach blossoms floated out of thin air and landed on the Great Spirit Arena.
Even the scent of blood was completely covered by the fragrance of peach blossoms.
But amidst such beautiful peach blossom dances, Zhao Wuji's body trembled uncontrollably.
It was this very scene, when Su Ran alone stormed into Shrek, demanding an explanation, that there were also such falling peach blossoms.
At that time, he had even mocked it, saying it was a woman's Spirit, too beautiful and gentle.
But the vast murderous intent and sharpness hidden within those peach blossoms were only known to those who had experienced them.
He could transform a single Peach Blossom Branch into a heavenly sword, and with just one strike, it could pierce through his Vigorous Vajra Bear, leaving him utterly helpless.
That was a truly top-tier Spirit, the power of a peak Spirit. Even the top-tier Spirits of the Upper Three Sects from back then would appear slightly inferior beneath those peach blossoms.
"Give it to him!"
"Old Flender, Gangzi! Quickly get the money out!"
"Quickly!!!"
"Everyone, get your money out!!!"
A peach blossom landed on Zhao Wuji's shoulder, causing cold sweat to stream down his face and his body to tremble in shock. He quickly shouted at Flender and Yu Xiaogang.
Even a second of hesitation would be disrespectful to life!
At the same time, he had already directly dug into his own pockets, taking out over a thousand gold coin, and respectfully presented them to Su Ran:
"Dean Su, this is all my worldly possessions."
"Calm down, please don't resort to violence. Harmony brings wealth!"
"Still short eight thousand."
Su Ran didn't even blink, merely stating calmly.
That terrifying pressure, far from disappearing, was intensifying.
Even Flender felt suffocated, let alone Shrek's students. Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, already heavily injured and not fully healed, were panting and flushed.
"I still have over three thousand gold coin left here." Flender gritted his teeth and emptied his last savings for his wife.
"I also earned a bit selling Sausage before, and I earned a lot from the Great Spirit Arena this month, so I've saved over a thousand gold coin." Oscar sighed and also took out money for emergencies.
"Still short four thousand."
"Xiaogang, do you have any savings on you?"
"That's your business; don't ask me," Yu Xiaogang said grumpily.
"I'll give it. Little San and I earned the most from the Great Spirit Arena. Here, this card should have over four thousand gold coin. No need for change."
Fortunately, at this moment, Xiao Wu took out a gold coin savings card and handed it to Su Ran.
However, as Xiao Wu approached, her gaze kept lingering on Su Ran's mask. She took a deep breath, trying to smell the scent on Su Ran, to see if it resembled the bathing fragrance of that immortal-like man from back then. She desperately wanted to see the face beneath the mask.
Hurry up and finish paying the money so we can proceed with the academy merger! She was already impatient to join Peach Blossom Spring Academy!
I can nag that immortal-like brother from Star Dou Great Forest, but I can't have you guys dawdling here.
"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing getting so close? You really have no sense of propriety." Seeing Xiao Wu move closer to Su Ran, Ning Rongrong's protective instincts kicked in.
"..."
"Where's the land deed?"
Su Ran continued to ask at this point.
Honestly, the campus environment of Shrek was worse than any farm owner's estate.
However, since it was a wager, I can choose not to use it, but you cannot choose not to give it.
"Where's the land deed, Old Flender? Quickly resolve the land deed issue, damn it, hurry up!"
Zhao Wuji pulled Flender, urging him anxiously.
"I hear you, I hear you! But your urgency is useless; that land isn't mine, and I don't have money to buy it! Damn it!"
Flender looked utterly dejected and said to Yu Xiaogang:
"Xiaogang, you set this wager. Now that we've lost, you can't just walk away and do nothing, can you?"
"That's right, Grandmaster, you can't act like this, can you? If it weren't for you challenging Mr. Su, Old Flender and I wouldn't have agreed to fight Peach Blossom Spring Academy. You have to take responsibility for this too!"
Zhao Wuji also felt a bit of dissatisfaction towards Yu Xiaogang. When there's no trouble, he acts like a big shot, but when trouble arises, he goes offline and runs away, right? How can that be allowed?
"Alright, you two are truly useless. I'll handle the land deed matter."
Yu Xiaogang took a deep breath and said to Manager Ao:
"Please help me summon the Bishop of the Soto City Spirit Hall branch."
"Alright."
Manager Ao dared not say much at this moment, already intimidated by the aura emanating from Su Ran. This masked teacher seemed young, but in reality, he was at least a Spirit Saint level powerhouse; he couldn't be provoked!
As the governing force for Spirit Master, Spirit Hall naturally had close ties with Sotou City Great Soul Arena. In no time, he invited a Vice-Bishop from Soto City.
Yu Xiaogang mysteriously led the Vice-Bishop to a corner, seemingly showing him something.
Immediately, the Vice-Bishop actually bowed respectfully to him, showing extreme reverence.
"I understand your meaning. Our Spirit Hall branch will be responsible for purchasing the land of Shrek Academy in the south of the city, and then the land deed will be sent to Peach Blossom Spring Academy."
The Vice-Bishop of the Soto City Spirit Hall branch said.
"Holy crap, Xiaogang, what did you show him? You can even command people from Spirit Hall?"
"Grandmaster, you've been hiding your true strength!"
Seeing this scene, Flender and Zhao Wuji both stared at Yu Xiaogang, somewhat dumbfounded.
At this moment, Grandmaster's figure once again appeared towering!
He was always so mysterious, astounding everyone when no one thought highly of him!
Flender: Now you know why I indulge Grandmaster so much, right? He has too many secrets.
…
"Alright, alright, the matters of the gold coin and the land deed are both settled now!"
"Just consider me, Flender, unlucky. I accept that the academy is gone. From now on, I will serve diligently at Peach Blossom Spring Academy and be a good teacher."
"Mubai, Little San, Fatty, although you lost this duel, you don't need to take it too hard. From now on, we'll all study hard with Mr. Su. Mr. Su will definitely be able to transform you."
Flender sighed, speaking helplessly.
"Old Zhao, Xiaogang, what do you think?"
"It would, of course, be my honor to be a teacher under Dean Su."
Zhao Wuji said with a fawning expression. He was truly scared of being Su Ran's opponent, but being on Su Ran's team was another matter entirely.
Actually, in this competition, if Shrek had won, Flender and Zhao Wuji would have been very happy. If they lost, it wasn't so difficult to accept. Joining Peach Blossom Spring Academy meant Shrek would simply exist under another name.
Moreover, they would no longer have to worry about the academy's expenses and costs.
Yu Xiaogang stood tall and proud: "I won't casually join someone else's academy, but according to the wager, Little San also has to join Peach Blossom Spring Academy, so I will reluctantly serve as a teacher at Peach Blossom Spring Academy for a period. But let it be known beforehand, I will only teach Little San alone."
"Otherwise, I won't go."
"..."
"Wait?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Did I say I was going to recruit you to be teachers at Peach Blossom Spring Academy?"
Su Ran's face was full of question marks. I don't think I ever mentioned them becoming teachers at my Peach Blossom Spring Academy, did I?
These two, they changed their tune quite quickly, already calling me Dean Su?
Have some shame?
Do my students need you to help teach them???