Chapter 767: Returning to Shrek Academy

"Huo Wu, are you ready?"

None of the three took these attackers seriously.

Shui Bing'er walked up and took Huo Wu's hand: "What kind of wedding ceremony are you planning to hold together?"

Huo Wu quietly glanced at Qin Jian and then looked away: "A ceremony or whatever, isn't it just going through the motions to let everyone know? It's very simple..."

Qin Jian felt a slight sense of foreboding: "How do you plan to let everyone know?"

Huo Wu let go of Shui Bing'er's hand, came over, grabbed him, and walked forward: "You'll know when you get there."

Inside the academy, it was a sea of people, all of them Blazing Academy students.

Waiting at the very front were, naturally, Huo Guanglie and his wife, as well as a disgruntled-looking Huo Wushuang.

Before Qin Jian could even greet them, he heard Huo Wu put her hands on her hips, lift her head, and shout in one breath: "Dad, Mom, and Brother, today Qin Jian and I are becoming husband and wife, please bear witness! And I ask all my junior brothers and sisters to bear witness as well!"

Qin Jian: "..."

A large-scale social death scene...

A circle of black lines clearly appeared on the foreheads of Huo Guanglie, his wife, and Huo Wushuang; they hadn't expected Huo Wu to marry herself off so casually.

"Congratulations to the Senior Sister on your new marriage! May you be together for a hundred years!" Some meddlesome students reacted immediately.

As a result, Huo Wu put her hands on her hips: "What hundred years? It's ten thousand years, ten ten-thousand years, a million years, ten thousand times ten thousand years!"

Everyone: "..."

"Con... congratulations Senior Sister, may you be together for ten thousand times ten thousand years..." the student stammered.

"That's more like it." Huo Wu nodded in satisfaction.

The students looked at each other, but in the end, they respected the wishes of the parties involved and wished in unison: "Congratulations Senior Sister, may you be together for ten thousand times ten thousand years!"

Huo Wushuang covered his eyes, unable to bear the sight.

On the contrary, Huo Guanglie and his wife looked at each other and smiled: "Although this girl Huo Wu has grown powerful enough to destroy the heavens and the earth, this innocent heart of hers has remained unchanged."

Qin Jian turned his head to look at Huo Wu's expression.

Under the brilliant sunshine, she revealed the most radiant smile, so beautiful.

"Thank you everyone, the ceremony is over, disperse, disperse!"

Huo Wu waved her hands carelessly, pulled Qin Jian, and grabbed Shui Bing'er: "Follow me."

Qin Jian and Shui Bing'er passively followed her, crossing the Blazing Academy plaza and heading straight into the depths of the academy.

"Eh? The environment here is quite nice!"

Shui Bing'er was somewhat surprised to find that the further they went, the climate didn't actually become any hotter.

Huo Wu stopped and pointed ahead: "This is the residence Mom and Dad left for me; it will be our home from now on."

Qin Jian looked up.

He saw a lush green forest and a medium-sized lake.

A small, pale red building was built beside the lake, as if embedded in a landscape painting.

"I heard that an active volcano erupted a few years ago, changing the topography of the academy, and this place slowly turned into what it looks like today," Huo Wu explained.

Qin Jian smiled slightly: "A volcanic eruption may seem like destruction, but it also brews new life; the interaction between destruction and life is nature."

"I always feel like you're implying something," Shui Bing'er glanced at him: "Eruption, new life, destruction, life? What are you trying to do?"

Qin Jian looked blank: "I was just lamenting the laws of nature, I wasn't trying to do anything..."

Shui Bing'er's cheeks flushed for no reason.

"Don't worry, Bing'er, I've thought it through. There's a large room on the first floor and one on the second floor; we'll each take one, and there won't be any more 'interactions' of that sort," Huo Wu said carelessly.

"Interaction..."

Qin Jian always felt he had been tainted by them: "What exactly are you two thinking about?"

"Isn't it because we're afraid you'll act blindly like last time?" Shui Bing'er said with a blushing face.

"I won't," Qin Jian stroked their long hair dotingly: "That time was a last resort. As long as you aren't willing, I won't act recklessly. The most important thing is to be happy; this is your wedding after all!"

Huo Wu and Shui Bing'er looked up blankly, watching Qin Jian's gentle expression, and couldn't help but be mesmerized.

"Jianjian, don't wrong yourself either."

Shui Bing'er tugged at his sleeve.

Qin Jian laughed: "Love is mutual; it's not just about satisfying one party's needs. If you are happy, I will be happy too."

A few words made the two girls feel deeply affectionate, and in the end, he carried them both inside.

That day, Qin Jian slept with Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu in the first and second halves of the night respectively, but by the next day, the two were so entangled that they weren't satisfied with the time Qin Jian spent with the other.

From the moment Huo Wu knocked on Shui Bing'er's door, the ice-and-fire duo happily interacted again...

Three days later, Qin Jian went as promised to find Zhu Zhuqing.

He searched the Star Luo Empire with his Domain, but found nothing.

"Everyone has such ideas of their own..."

Qin Jian detected her aura, moved at high speed, landed, and arrived on a country path.

Looking up, he saw a tattered wooden sign with the five green characters "Shrek Academy" written crookedly on it.

Qin Jian stood quietly with his hands behind his back, watching for a long while.

Then he sighed softly and stepped inside.

Of those who cultivated here together back then, Tang San and Yu Xiaogang were mentally crippled and living in misery, Oscar had become an ordinary person, Ma Hongjun lacked the aptitude, and conversely, without divine temptation, Flender and Liu Erlong might still be accompanying Yu Xiaogang.

Ning Rongrong was more attached to the days at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Xiao Wu had presumably returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, and in the end, the one who missed the academy most turned out to be Zhu Zhuqing.

"Hm? There are quite a few people."

Walking in and taking a look, Qin Jian was surprised.

The one flapping about on the roof fixing it, was that Zhao Wuji?

Is that Li Yusong waving a dragon-patterned staff to clear the weeds?

And is that the Star-Luo Chess player Lu Qibin tidying up the trash?

Finally, is that the Sugar Bean martial soul Shao Xin humming a tune while busy in the kitchen?

"Why have all you teachers returned?" Qin Jian couldn't help but ask.

Zhao Wuji jumped down with a thud; he was as sturdy as ever, and his laugh was just as hearty: "We brothers were originally planning to find a place to retire, but after Grandmaster arrived, there were endless disputes, especially after you seven little monsters separated; we slowly forgot our original intentions and got mixed up in the Dalu war..."

He shook his head: "We didn't want to get involved in these things, and we felt that taking sides among you children went against our hearts, so the four of us put our heads together and decided to come back here to retire."

"We heard that little girl Zhuqing is going to marry you here, and it made us old fellows incredibly happy," Li Yusong chuckled.

Lu Qibin looked at him kindly: "We don't care what happens outside, nor do we care how your relationship with Grandmaster and Flender ends up; as long as you come back, we welcome you."

"Right, right! I've researched quite a few delicacies over these past few years, and they finally have a place to be put to use, haha!" Shao Xin popped out from the kitchen.

Qin Jian was stunned for a long moment, then couldn't help but sigh: "I never expected that it would be you teachers who kept your original intentions..."

He suddenly looked up at the sky, and a faint glimmer flashed across his God-Forbidden Domain.

Zhao Wuji and the others subsequently discovered that their soul power bottlenecks, which hadn't budged for a long time, began to stir and reached the verge of breaking through...

(End of this chapter)