"We lost, we lost."
"Xiaogang! Didn't you say we had a seventy to eighty percent chance of winning?"
"This was a complete one-sided massacre!"
"It's over, everything is over! My Academy! Who can save my Academy?!"
"Are we really going to give away the Academy?!"
As Su Ran collected the victory reward from the Disciple-receiving System, Flender of Shrek beside him was full of complaints, almost clutching Yu Xiaogang's shoulder as he shouted. After speaking, he deflated like a punctured ball, his face drooping, deeply dejected.
Yu Xiaogang clenched his hands tightly on the railing, gritting his teeth, his expression uglier than if his own mother had died.
In fact, during the duel, the moment Dai Mubai was instantly killed by Zhu Zhuqing, Grandmaster's expression had already changed.
When Shrek was completely at a disadvantage, Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang was so angry he wanted to snap the railing in front of him.
In fact, he didn't just want to, he already had, but his own strength was too small; the railing didn't break, but he himself clutched his hand in pain.
"Grandmaster, it seems my teaching level is a bit higher. But you don't need to be too angry. Your spirit power is low to begin with, and your lifespan is at most seventy to eighty years. Getting angry and hurting your body would shorten your life, which isn't good."
Su Ran walked over at this moment and said indifferently.
"Su Ran! Don't get complacent. I admit you have some skill, but it's not necessarily that my teaching level is worse than yours. If Dai Mubai hadn't exposed a flaw at the beginning, Zhu Zhuqing wouldn't have defeated him so easily, and Little San wouldn't have given your students reaction time when using Hidden Weapons."
It would have been better if Su Ran hadn't spoken. The moment he did, Yu Xiaogang trembled with rage, huffing in rebuttal.
"Is that so? Perhaps you're right. We only barely won."
Su Ran smiled faintly; he didn't bother arguing with Yu Xiaogang at all.
If you were a university professor, would you argue academia with an elementary school teacher?
If you were a top student in an honors class, would you discuss the correctness of answers with a failing student?
Obviously not.
But, you'll see soon enough.
"Excuse me, are you the teachers of the Shrek Team and the Peach Garden Battle Team?"
"The match has ended. The Peach Garden Battle Team has won the Spirit Arena match. Please, teachers from both sides, proceed to the awards stage to complete the previously agreed-upon reward and penalty handover ceremony."
At this moment, as the host announced the winner and loser of the match, a staff member walked over and invited Su Ran, Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and the other Shrek teachers to the awards stage.
"We're not going," Yu Xiaogang said.
"Oh no, it seems it was your Shrek Team that requested this reward and punishment ceremony after the match, to award the winning team and supervise the losing side to pay ten thousand gold coins, hand over the Academy's land deed, and transfer students."
"Oh, right, I remember now. It was you who personally made the request to Manager Ao. Since it was your personal request, then your Shrek must comply."
The staff member said.
With the matter exposed, Yu Xiaogang, who was already furious from losing the match, lost even more face:
"Alright, alright, I know. You're truly pedantic and inflexible. That's why you can't become a manager of this Great Spirit Arena."
Yu Xiaogang angrily waved his sleeve. Under the staff member's supervision, he could only follow Su Ran to the Great Spirit Arena's awards stage with Flender and Zhao Wuji.
Su Ran shook his head faintly. This Yu Xiaogang was truly unskilled but overconfident, using all his brains for scheming.
He had simply assumed that Shrek had a greater chance of winning, believing that Tang San and Yu Tianheng joining forces made losing almost impossible. So, he wanted to prevent Su Ran from reneging on the debt, to make Su Ran embarrass himself in front of everyone, proving that he was the best teacher.
He never expected that in the end, he would be lifting a rock only to drop it on his own foot.
All the victory ceremony preparations for Shrek ended up benefiting Peach Garden Academy.
If your schemes fail and you're enraged, don't take it out on the staff.
They're just working people, after all.
...
On the Spirit Arena stage, the Great Spirit Arena organizers quickly cleared the battle traces, but the air still carried a scent of blood from the fight.
Sexy ladies, baring their midriffs and wearing only innerwear, with fair skin and enticing black whiskers, danced nearby in celebration.
Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, severely wounded and largely wrapped in white healing bandages, were carried back on stretchers. Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling, who had temporarily regained mobility after treatment, also reunited with Qin Ming and gathered.
Only Tang San, though still bearing many gruesome wounds, had his legs intact but couldn't even stand steadily. Xiao Wu and Oscar had to help him, otherwise he seemed ready to collapse at any moment, as if he had lost his Soul.
Oscar's heart ached as he saw his former teammates in such a miserable state. Although they had kicked him out of the team, and Little San was unwilling to teach him his so-called 'minor breaking face' tricks and fortune-telling methods, they were still teammates and classmates. No one would feel good about this.
"However, it's a good thing I didn't participate, otherwise I would definitely be lying here too," Oscar thought to himself.
Those students from Peach Garden Academy were truly too fierce in battle; they were simply not a Spirit Elder team that could contend with them. He really didn't know how the teacher of this Peach Garden Academy taught them.
If he could join the other party's Academy and become his Disciple... could he also become as powerful as Ning Rongrong?
Oscar fell into thought.
"..."
"Congratulations, Peach Garden Battle Team! You have created history in the Sotou City Great Soul Arena, a miracle of winning with lower spirit power levels and being outnumbered. This was created by you."
"According to the agreement, twenty percent of this event's ticket fees will be awarded. Standing tickets for this Spirit Arena match were one gold coin, outer seating tickets were three gold coins, and inner circle tickets were five gold coins... The total ticket revenue was over thirty thousand, and twenty percent of that is 6,350 gold coins, which belongs to your Peach Garden Battle Team."
"Additionally, this is the two thousand gold coins you wagered in the betting pool, with a return of twenty thousand gold coins."
"Peach Blossom Spring's Little Disciple — Warm My Teacher for Ten Thousand Years? This was your wager, one hundred thousand gold coins... with a return of — one million gold coins!"
Manager Ao distributed the rewards belonging to the Peach Garden Battle Team for this match. When he took out the gold card and read out the earnings, even he, as the Great Spirit Arena manager, was startled by the amount.
No wonder so many spectators cursed and went wild when Shrek lost the match; most of the money they lost went into the pocket of this girl from the Peach Garden Battle Team with the rather long name.
Before the match, who would dare to bet on the unremarkable Peach Garden Battle Team?
Ning Rongrong's hundred thousand gold coins wagered directly narrowed the casino's odds, causing everyone to flock to bet on Shrek, just to split her hundred thousand gold coins. As a result, Ning Rongrong became the biggest bettor on the Peach Garden Battle Team's side.
When the Peach Garden Battle Team won, over ninety percent of the betting pool was swept up by Ning Rongrong alone!
If he hadn't just witnessed the terrifying power of this Peach Blossom Spring's Little Disciple and her teammates, even Manager Ao might have harbored ill intentions.
This was a million gold coins, a huge sum no matter where it was placed, more than an ordinary person could spend in a lifetime of extravagance!
Hearing that Ning Rongrong had directly earned a million gold coins, Su Ran was somewhat surprised. This truly proved the saying, the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.
Although he predicted this girl could make a big sum, he didn't expect it to be this big!
Is this girl here to compete, or to start a business?!
"Hehe, Teacher, hurry, kiss me, kiss me. I'll donate all these million gold coins to the Academy, hurry, hurry~"
"Or I can kiss Teacher too~"
However, Ning Rongrong didn't seem to care much. Instead, she dangled the gold card in front of Su Ran, tapping it on her exquisite little face. Her head was already extended towards Su Ran, eyes closed, just waiting for Su Ran to kiss her.
As long as Teacher leans in to kiss, I'll twist my head, and the kiss can turn into a French kiss!
No, it has to be a wet kiss!
I want to feel Teacher's body temperature!
Hiss~
As Ning Rongrong imagined this scene, her face flushed red, and she thought, I'm truly a Genius!
In her eyes, the opportunity to be intimate with Teacher was far more important than a mere million gold coins.
"Alright, don't you know what kind of occasion this is? Stop messing around."
Su Ran patted Ning Rongrong's head, saying helplessly.
Ning Rongrong blinked: "So, Teacher, you mean it's okay in a private setting?!"
"You are challenging Teacher's bottom line!"
"Hiss..."
Manager Ao gasped, taking a cold breath. The teacher-student relationship of this Peach Garden Battle Team... was truly a bit blush-inducing and heart-pounding.
However, this Peach Blossom Spring's Little Disciple was truly generous. A million gold coins, just for a kiss from this masked teacher?
What kind of grand gesture is this? Even an emperor wouldn't dare to spend like this, would he? I really envy this Peach Blossom Spring teacher...
"Now, then, it's time for Shrek to fulfill the prior agreement. First, Shrek, please pay ten thousand gold coins to the Peach Garden Battle Team and transfer the Academy's land deed."
Manager Ao took a deep breath, finally recovering from the million gold coin incident, and looked at the Shrek members opposite him as he spoke.