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"Rebellion! Utter rebellion! Qin Ming, how dare you show no respect for your teacher?!"
Flender felt as though he were about to cough up blood from sheer rage.
On this Douluo Dalu, respecting one's teachers and elders was a fundamental principle that every Soul Master had to strictly abide by. This principle was not merely about respecting the inheritance of knowledge and experience; it carried a deeply rooted, ancient history.
Otherwise, there wouldn't be a widespread belief in this world that one could only take a teacher once in a lifetime. Yet right now, Qin Ming's words were driving Flender mad with fury.
If this hadn't been the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, Flender would have absolutely possessed himself with his Martial Soul and slapped Qin Ming across the face.
However, Qin Ming merely stared back at Flender with cold, indifferent eyes: "My teacher was never you."
It was blindingly obvious that Qin Ming did not consider Flender to be his teacher at all. In Qin Ming's eyes, his only true teachers were Zhao Wuji and the other instructors.
"You... You..."
"Get out!" Qin Ming snorted coldly, his voice booming with rage.
"Good, good, good! We'll leave! I don't give a damn about this Emperor Team anyway. Just you wait. Sooner or later, your Emperor Team will be utterly crushed by my Shrek!"
With that parting threat thrown out, Flender turned on his heel and stormed off, taking Ma Hongjun with him. Following closely behind, Yu Xiaogang let out a few cold sneers before immediately trailing after them.
Dai Mubai hesitated for a brief moment, but in the end, he also followed behind Flender and the others. He still needed Ma Hongjun and Oscar's help, so he couldn't afford to leave the group just yet.
However, right before stepping away, Dai Mubai turned back and barked loudly at Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing.
"Oscar! Zhu Zhuqing! What are you two still waiting for?!"
Hearing Dai Mubai's shout, Oscar hesitated for a long time. Ultimately, he still chose to follow behind Dai Mubai. Their trio of brothers simply couldn't be separated.
Yet, at that exact moment, Zhu Zhuqing finally spoke up.
"I have decided to join the Emperor Team."
As Zhu Zhuqing's crisp, chilly voice rang out, Dai Mubai whipped his head back, staring at her in absolute disbelief.
His face was a mask of utter astonishment, looking at Zhu Zhuqing as if he had just been deeply betrayed. A moment later, Dai Mubai roared furiously, "Zhu Zhuqing, what kind of crazy mental fit are you throwing now?!"
However, just as Dai Mubai was about to use the rules of the imperial family to suppress her, Zhu Zhuqing's cold, merciless voice cut through the air and pierced his ears once again.
"From the moment you chose your third soul skill and your Martial Soul underwent that change, you should have known this day would come."
"If you hadn't abandoned me, chosen to flee on your own, and chosen those other soul skills, it might still have been possible for us to use our Martial Soul Fusion Technique. But now, since that possibility no longer exists, I have no reason to follow you around anymore."
"In any case, I am no longer a threat to my elder sister and the others."
Zhu Zhuqing's words laid Dai Mubai's failures bare, making him look like an absolute clown.
By now, Dai Mubai's vision was swimming with a blood-red haze of rage. He wanted nothing more than to force Zhu Zhuqing to leave with him. As Dai Mubai marched right up to Zhu Zhuqing and reached out to violently grab her by the arm, two figures suddenly intercepted him.
Yu Feng and Osler appeared beside Zhu Zhuqing in a flash. Flanking her on the left and right, they tightly gripped Dai Mubai's arms, their voices dripping with cold hostility.
"What do you think you're trying to do to our companion?"
"Do you really think you can bully our beautiful junior sister right in front of us?"
Immediately after, Qin Ming also directed a freezing glare toward Dai Mubai: "Zhu Zhuqing is already a member of the Emperor Team. It is not your place to act presumptuously here."
With those words, Qin Ming unleashed the oppressive aura of a Soul Emperor, channeling it directly toward Dai Mubai.
Still nursing his unhealed injuries, Dai Mubai let out a muffled groan.
Lingering fear gripped his heart as he quickly pulled his hands back. Realizing that it was impossible to forcefully take Zhu Zhuqing away with Qin Ming standing in his path, Dai Mubai choked down his anger and let out a strained, furious roar.
"Zhu Zhuqing, you will regret this!"
Without looking back a second time, Dai Mubai stormed away.
Left behind in the Emperor Team's training grounds, Zhao Wuji and the other teachers could only look on with helpless expressions.
"Qin Ming, I'll treat you to drinks next time!"
Zhao Wuji patted Qin Ming on the shoulder, preparing to lead the remaining instructors away from the Emperor Team's area.
The other teachers shook their heads in resignation, turning around to make their departure.
"Teacher Zhao Wuji, do you and the other teachers really intend to keep following Shrek?"
Suddenly, Qin Ming's voice drifted over from behind them.
Dumbfounded, Zhao Wuji and the others halted in their tracks and turned back to look at Qin Ming.
"Qin Ming, what do you mean by that?"
"I mean... Teacher Zhao, wouldn't you all prefer to teach here at the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy?"
Qin Ming waved his hand dismissively, offering a warm smile to his former instructors.
"Sigh, as for that... this Old Zhao will have to pass."
"I just can't stop worrying about Oscar and the others."
Zhao Wuji was extremely protective of his shortcomings.
He had invested true feelings into Oscar and the rest of the kids, so after politely declining Qin Ming's kind intentions, he departed.
Shao Xin and the other teachers felt the exact same way.
They placed immense value on Oscar, so they also bid farewell to Qin Ming and followed suit. It wasn't until a considerable amount of time after Zhao Wuji and the others had left that Qin Ming finally snapped out of his lingering reluctance to see them go.
Back during those Soul Fights, it was entirely thanks to Zhao Wuji, Shao Xin, and the other instructors holding him in such high regard. That was the only reason he hadn't ended up like his other classmates—afflicted with severe, incurable injuries.
"Zhu Zhuqing, welcome to our Emperor Team. I'll have someone arrange your accommodations right away," Qin Ming said, turning his head to look at Zhu Zhuqing with a warm smile on his face.
Qin Ming knew just how bitterly hard Zhu Zhuqing, who only possessed Rank 7 Innate Soul Power, had to train to achieve her current soul power level. Because of this, his impression of her was exceptionally good.
Yu Feng enthusiastically volunteered himself, "Teacher, let me take Junior Sister to the girls' dormitory!"
"Get lost!"
Qin Ming laughed and cursed, swatting Yu Feng across the back.
"All of you better focus on your cultivation. If you haven't become Soul Kings in two years, humph!"
Watching Qin Ming's starkly contrastive attitude toward the Emperor Team versus Shrek, Zhu Zhuqing's mood brightened considerably.
A rare, faint smile couldn't help but grace her lips.
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On the other side.
The Shrek party had just walked out of the Emperor Team's territory.
When Flender and Yu Xiaogang noticed that Zhu Zhuqing hadn't come out with them, their expressions instantly turned incredibly grim.
"This Zhu Zhuqing learned my Seven-in-One Fusion Technique, and now she actually went and joined the Emperor Team."
Yu Xiaogang's face was by far the darkest. He felt as though Zhu Zhuqing had stolen his intellectual wisdom.
Aside from him, Dai Mubai's expression was also black as charcoal.
Zhu Zhuqing's betrayal made him burn with absolute fury. Without Zhu Zhuqing, how was he supposed to defeat Dai Weisi? The mere thought of failing in the struggle against Dai Weisi meant death, and it filled Dai Mubai's heart with sheer terror.
Since Ma Hongjun might become a crippled person in the future, Dai Mubai's sole remaining thought was to bind Oscar completely to his own ship.
With Oscar, who possessed Innate Full Soul Power, by his side, they could entirely develop a faction that wouldn't be any weaker than the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Meanwhile, Ma Hongjun remained completely silent by himself.
Ever since hearing that he might become a cripple in the future, a strange, inexplicable urge for destruction had begun to brew in his heart. It was like a misanthropic sentiment felt by those who once held power and strength, only to lose everything.
If he was going to become a cripple in the future, then no one else should think about living peacefully either, nor should they think about becoming Soul Masters. Those geniuses shouldn't even dream of having a bright future.
Once these thoughts took root, the evil desires in Ma Hongjun's heart slipped entirely out of control. His tiny eyes, squeezed tight by the fat on his face, were completely filled with malice.
However, because Ma Hongjun still held a shred of hope right now, he hadn't become completely extreme just yet.
Elsewhere.
In the Sunset Forest, near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
Xiao Lin was currently researching Tang San's External Head Soul Bone.
Xiao Lin discovered that the evil force within this External Soul Bone, while called evil, was indeed very sinister in nature. However, this kind of thing was actually identical to a curse. It still depended on the intensity of the curse and the strength of the evil force.
As Xiao Lin's mental strength continuously improved, he actually discovered a possibility to uproot this evil force. Nevertheless, this method only treated the symptoms and not the root cause. It would still be best to have a power with the holy attribute to truly purify it.
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