Flender looked awkward.
He was indeed not good at business; opening a shop to scam a little money all just went into Shrek Academy.
Zhao Wuji hurriedly shook his head. "You have to ask Flender about this; he's the one who wanted to get something for nothing."
Tang San silently took a step back, seemingly trying to use Ma Hongjun's body to block the Twenty Four Moonlit Bridges at his waist, fearing that Leon would snatch it away.
As for Dai Mubai and the others, it didn't matter. As students, they had already done enough. Asking them to put up something else as collateral? No one could justify that.
The key point was, they didn't have anything to use as collateral either!
Yu Xiaogang said with a gloomy face: "It is only a difference of eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins; we will definitely make it up to you in ten days."
"Damn it!" Leon couldn't help but curse, "You're someone who struggles to pull out five hundred Gold Soul Coins, so what the hell are you posturing for?"
"You..." Yu Xiaogang gritted his teeth in anger.
Low damage, high insult.
Leon continued his verbal assault: "Every single day you act all high and mighty. You have no strength, no money. Tell me, Yu Xiaogang, what do you have to posture about?"
"If I were your age, with no strength, no family background, no career, and no money or power—only able to act tough while being poor—I would have no face to continue living in this world."
Yu Xiaogang was pushed back a few steps by the retort. He clutched his chest with one hand and pointed at Leon with the other, saying, "You, you, you..." Finally, he closed his eyes and fainted directly.
This time, Xiaogang was truly broken. It was all true damage plus critical hits!
Flender hurriedly helped Yu Xiaogang up, held him, and shook him while shouting, "Xiaogang, Xiaogang, what's wrong with you? Xiaogang, don't scare me!"
Yu Xiaogang was also resigned. *I finally managed to faint from anger, why did you, this pit-maker, shake me awake again?*
Seeing Yu Xiaogang wake up, Flender secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at Leon and shouted angrily: "Enough!" "Leon, do not go too far."
Leon couldn't help but laugh. "I'm going too far?"
"You didn't have one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins on you, yet you bet one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins with me. It was obvious you wanted to scam me. Now that you can't come up with the remaining eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins, how do you have the nerve to say I'm going too far?"
"Now the debtor has become the boss?"
Flender felt a bit guilty upon hearing this, but he still gritted his teeth and replied in a deep voice: "It was I, Flender, who made the bet and owes the money. This has nothing to do with Xiaogang; do not give him a hard time anymore."
[ I am an Orphan: As expected of you! ]
[ Bo Saixi: I am truly impressed. You, Little Bastard, really have a silver tongue; you're even this good at arguing? ]
[ Bibi Dong: Liu Erlong, I have a question for you: does this Flender like you, or does he like Yu Xiaogang? ]
[ Liu Erlong:??? ]
[ Hu Liena: Does Flender like you more, or does he like Yu Xiaogang more? ]
[ Zhu Zhuyun: I'm going to die laughing. ]
[ Zhu Zhuqing: Although... but... Flender seems to really care about Yu Xiaogang. ]
[ Ah Yin: Do you all think Flender's brotherly bond with Yu Xiaogang is stronger, or his admiration for Erlong? ]
[ Number Nine: This is simple. One day, let Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang fight, and we'll know as soon as we see who Flender helps. ]
At this moment, Leon was speechless. *It really has to be you, Flender!*
"Fine!" "So now there is still a shortage of eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins, what do you suggest we do?"
Flender said in a deep voice: "I can write you an IOU first. I guarantee eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins in ten days; I will give you every single penny."
Zhao Wuji couldn't help but speak up: "Leon, how about we leave it at this for now?" "Give us some time to scrape it together."
Yu Xiaogang didn't dare to speak now; he had truly been broken by Leon's retort earlier.
Seeing Yu Xiaogang putting on that dead look, Leon couldn't be bothered to entangle with Flender and the others.
"Dean Flender, since we have talked to this point, I will give you and Teacher Zhao Wuji some face."
"Write the IOU now. If the eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins are not paid back in ten days, don't say that I, Leon, didn't value our old relationship then!"
Hearing Leon's words, Flender and his group finally breathed a sigh of relief. They immediately found paper and pen to write an IOU for the eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins for Leon.
Leon accepted the IOU, glanced at Yu Xiaogang, and said to the group: "Then our exchange between the two academies ends here today. We will come again when we have time."
"With a Spirit Grandmaster like Grandmaster as your teacher, you are truly blessed in the future. It would be hard for us not to win against you!"
"Pfft." Ning Rongrong and the others couldn't help but laugh.
Yu Xiaogang fainted from anger again, which worried Flender terribly.
"Xiaogang, Xiaogang, don't scare me!"
Seeing Leon and the others turn to leave, Zhao Wuji said with a speechless expression: "Alright, stop with the 'Xiaogang, Xiaogang' for a moment. Hurry up and get up to think about how we are going to scrape together the remaining eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins!"
"Hey, wait?" Dai Mubai suddenly called out: "Leon, you... you all can't leave yet. Our Martial Soul and Spirit Ability haven't recovered, and we are all Healing Spirit Masters right now!"
Ma Hongjun and Oscar also realized this. They looked at Leon and his group with bitter faces; what would they do if they left?
Leon turned around and replied with a smile: "Do you actually think that you can possess healing abilities forever?"
"In your dreams!" "Once the Nine Heart Begonia flowers on your Martial Soul completely disappear, your Martial Souls will recover."
After Leon finished speaking, he took his group and left.
The three of them, Dai Mubai, instantly breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that they could recover!
"Huh?" Zhao Wuji's eyes suddenly lit up. He said to Flender: "The healing ability that this Nine Heart Begonia grants them seems quite strong. Since we are so short of money now, we can let Xiao Bai and the others go and work as Healing Spirit Masters for a few days!"
Hearing Zhao Wuji's words, Flender's eyes also lit up: "That seems possible. We can earn quite a lot of money at the Spirit Arena, but it's too hard to scrape together eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins in ten days."
Dai Mubai and the others were numb. *Are you serious? We are already miserable enough, and you actually still want us to work as Healing Spirit Masters to make money? Are you even human?*
At this moment, Leon and his group had just left Shrek Academy.
Whoosh~ A figure suddenly descended from the sky, moving so fast that Everyone hadn't even reacted yet.
"Ah!" Xiao Wu saw that it was the Little Monkey who had landed, and asked with a puzzled face: "Little Monkey, where did you go? Hmm? Why do you seem to have Da Ming's aura on you?"
The Little Monkey kicked the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger to Leon's feet. The Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger also understood instantly that this was the true master.
The Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger hurriedly lay down by Leon's leg, rubbing its neck against Leon's leg, and started to curry favor with "woof woof" sounds from its mouth.
The Little Monkey jumped onto Leon's shoulder and chattered non-stop.
"Wait?" Ling Yuan and Ah Yin were suddenly shocked. Although the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger currently looked like a Big Kitty, they could both sense the aura on its body.
"This is a Soul Beast over fifty thousand years old?"
"No?" "This looks like a cat—oh no, it's a tiger, right? Why is it making a dog's barking sound?"
[ Ning Rongrong: [Image] (Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger, Big Kitty version) ]
[ Ning Rongrong: Sisters, does anyone know what kind of Soul Beast this is? Little Monkey just caught it. It looks like a cat, it should be a tiger, but it's making a dog's barking sound. ]
[ Everyone:??? ]