Chapter 41: Oddball Shilaike, Soul Fighting Arena

Ning Rongrong, who wouldn't suffer much hardship from Ning Fengzhi, got off to a rough start right away.

Under Luo Ye's reminder, although Ning Rongrong felt very tired and kept cursing Flandre in her heart, she still managed to finish the whole course.

She wondered, having already run twenty laps exactly as Flandre said, circling the track, what other way he could find to cause trouble for her.

After the evening gathering, Flandre's gaze lingered on Ning Rongrong, his look becoming quite strange.

"It shouldn't be; how did Ning Rongrong actually manage to run twenty laps? With her spoiled, pampered nature, she should never obey meekly."

"After all, I'm only a Soul Saint; before the vast Seven Treasure Glazed Sect I'm hardly worth mentioning, yet she actually followed my orders and ran twenty laps?"

Flandre began to doubt his life, for the first time feeling he had misjudged a person.

His original intention was that if Ning Rongrong didn't finish the run, or stopped midway to eat lunch, he would harshly scold her in front of everyone to achieve the effect of 'killing a chicken to scare the monkeys'.

So after chatting with Tang San, Flandre secretly followed Ning Rongrong all along, only going to eat after watching her complete the twenty laps.

Although she grew so tired her steps staggered, she gritted her teeth and persevered.

This is no spoiled young lady; she's clearly a persistent little genius.

Sensing Flandre's bewilderment, Ning Rongrong snorted, proudly puffing out her chest; though small, she was quite adorable.

Since Ning Rongrong finished the course, Flandre naturally had no reasonable excuse to bother her; if he deliberately targeted her for no reason, he'd be like an old man eating arsenic, complaining his life is too long.

Ning Rongrong's background is no inferior to Tang San's at all.

Thinking of this, Flandre gave two dry coughs and said.

"Oscar and Ning Rongrong performed very well; they followed my order to run twenty laps around the village. If they want to stay and train at the academy, they must obey the academy's rules, not defy my instructions—my word here is law."

"Next, we'll begin your first lesson. Don't blame me for not warning you beforehand—if your performance isn't good enough, you could lightly get injured, or worse, endanger your lives."

"Alright, let's set out now."

Everyone followed Flandre toward Suoto City, though Zhu Zhuqing and the two other girls couldn't help muttering complaints in their hearts.

Sure enough, as Luo Ye said, Shilaike Academy hardly resembles an academy, and Flandre is even less like a dean.

Constantly saying they must obey orders—is he treating them like subordinates?

An academy being stricter than a sect in this regard is absolutely unreasonable.

Just as they were secretly complaining, the diary in their minds jumped again.

【Hahaha, is Flandre stupid? Thanks to my reminder, Ning Rongrong no longer slacks off as in her past life; she earnestly completed the whole run, foiling his plan and leaving him no way to continue suppressing her.】

【With the advantage of rebirth, I can easily sabotage Flandre and Tang San's conspiracy.】

【But I can't become complacent just from a small gain; since I don't want the past tragedy to repeat, I must never let my guard down.】

【Come to think of it, Flandre is preparing to take us to Suoto City's Soul Fighting Arena to participate in soul battles—what a hands-off manager.】

【Other colleges earnestly teach their students, unlike Shilaike, which just tosses students into the Soul Fighting Arena and washes its hands of them.】

【Oh wait, it's not that he doesn't care; he's actually placing his bets on us, making us earn money for him, then hypocritically claims it's to train students' combat ability, using this lofty excuse to deceive them.】

【If students are in the Soul Fighting Arena every day, what use are the dean and teachers of Shilaike? Which academy on the continent operates like this?】

【Besides soul fighting, it's just running—these are Shilaike's two teaching methods, simply a bizarre oddity.】

【No wonder so few students graduate successfully from Shilaike Academy; they either die hunting for soul rings or meet with accidents in the Soul Fighting Arena.】

【Tsk, if it weren't to take Zhu Zhuqing and the two others away together, I truly wouldn't want to stay a single second in this disgusting place.】

【If we're to engage in soul battles, besides individual matches there are also team and double battles; unfortunately, I'm already a Soul Elder and cannot team up with a Great Soul Master, otherwise I could seize this chance to form a two-person team with Ning Rongrong to grow closer.】

【But it's fine; I can completely let Zhu Zhuqing team up with her—given Zhu Zhuqing's current relationship with me, Zhu Zhuqing pairing with Ning Rongrong is practically the same as me teaming with her.】

【Once our relationship grows closer, persuading Ning Rongrong to leave with us won't be difficult; the problem is Xiao Wu isn't easy to handle.】

Xiao Wu really wanted to tell Luo Ye that she now wishes to leave Shilaike with them, but she couldn't say it.

Today, because her attitude changed too quickly, Luo Ye almost noticed the abnormality; from now on she must restrain herself and not be so eager.

Moreover, she has already agreed with Zhu Zhuqing to approach Luo Ye under Zhu Zhuqing's name, ensuring that, whenever reasonable, she will try to shorten the time needed to grow close to Luo Ye.

On this point, even Ning Rongrong wholeheartedly agrees.

However, unlike Xiao Wu, who has many scruples, Ning Rongrong is different.

Anyway, she currently has no deep ties to Shilaike, so she can freely approach Luo Ye without any issues.

After all, everyone on the continent knows that, due to martial soul restrictions, the Seven Treasure Glazed Sect has always liked to recruit talents.

A talent like Luo Ye, who reached three-ring Soul Elder at such a young age, would likely prompt even Ning Fengzhi to seek ways to invest and court him, possibly even actively matchmaking Ning Rongrong with Luo Ye.

Ning Rongrong now really wants to complain; she's truly convinced that Shilaike Academy and Flandre are highly unreliable.

No wonder Flandre said that if they perform poorly, they'll lightly get injured, or worse, even die.

The number of soul masters who die in the Soul Fighting Arena is countless; once stepping onto the soul battle platform, it's a matter of fate whether one lives or dies, riches or poverty.

After all, in soul masters' battles, often they can't control whether to hold back; a moment's carelessness can kill someone—or get them killed.

Letting freshmen just enrolled go to the Soul Fighting Arena—really, it's to Flandre's credit that he could come up with such a method.

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