Conflict and Understanding: Tang 3's Complete Transformation

Chapter 94 Conflict and Understanding: Tang San's Complete Transformation

"Brother Ping, what's going on with the Spirit Hall? Ma Hongjun said you also sent them a terminal, could it be...?" that you were threatened by the Spirit Hall?

Zhu Zhuqing, who had been looking for an opportunity, finally spoke up.

Chi Ping sighed inwardly.

—I knew this would happen.

This was the fourth time he had been questioned. Flander, Oscar, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu all couldn't understand Chi Ping's decision.

The relationship between Yu Xiaogang and Chi Ping hadn't reached the point where it could be questioned. Although Ma Hongjun didn't ask, he still had a knot in his heart.

"A year ago, I reached a peaceful coexistence agreement with the Spirit Hall, resolving past grievances and coexisting peacefully ever since. The Spirit Hall and Shrek Academy are not enemies," Chi Ping said calmly.

Zhu Zhuqing was extremely puzzled, and even felt a sense of betrayal and anger.

Why?

The Spirit Hall's wolfish ambitions and desire to conquer the continent are common knowledge. "Those who submit to me prosper, those who oppose me perish" is the Spirit Hall's dogma. For the academy to befriend the Spirit Hall is tantamount to seeking a tiger's skin.

"What kind of ruling system isn't like this?" Chi Ping sighed. "Zhu Qing, I just want to stay at the academy and do the research I want to do, preferably with some fellow researchers. I've always shared my research knowledge for this purpose, as have my commitment to the academy and teaching."

I don't care who rules the continent, whether it's the Spirit Hall or not.

Moreover, in my eyes, the Spirit Hall and the Empire are not fundamentally different. Neither of them impressed me enough to make me abandon my beliefs and willingly submit to their systems and ideologies.

Therefore, as long as I don't do anything heinous or extremely cruel that harms living beings, I can coexist peacefully with any force.

Zhu Zhuqing clenched her fists.

Dai Mubai walked over and restrained Zhu Zhuqing, who was about to explode.

"Zhuqing, don't make things difficult for Pingzi," Dai Mubai said softly.

He looked at Chi Ping, his trust in his eyes undiminished. "I knew from the moment Pingzi made his vow before the Pope's Palace that he only wanted to open the academy. He wouldn't care about or concern himself with the conflict between the Empire and the Spirit Hall."

This is Hirako's choice, and we should understand it.

Hirako is willing to sacrifice himself for our safety, so why should we make things difficult for him because of our own thoughts?

As he spoke, Dai Mubai's gaze focused on Chi Ping's left arm.

This is a pain he can never let go of.

"But that's the Spirit Hall!" Zhu Zhuqing still found it hard to accept.

The Empire and the Spirit Hall are practically mortal enemies.

Chi Ping's desire to coexist peacefully with the Spirit Hall is like a best friend becoming friends with their mortal enemy—something Zhu Zhuqing simply cannot accept.

Dai Mubai continued, "Zhu Qing, why do you think we are enemies with the Spirit Hall?"

Before Zhu Zhuqing could answer, Dai Mubai continued, "Because I am the Crown Prince of the Star Luo Empire and you are the Crown Princess of the Star Luo Empire, our positions dictate that we cannot get along with the Spirit Hall, which is eyeing the Empire covetously. But Pingzi is different; he is just a free spirit, and the power struggles between major forces have nothing to do with him. Since he doesn't want to participate, we cannot and should not interfere."

"But we're best friends!"

"Friends should understand and respect each other, rather than imposing their own ideas on each other."

Zhu Zhuqing needed to calm down, so she put down what she was holding and left the kitchen.

Dai Mubai looked at Chi Ping apologetically, "Pingzi, don't worry about it. Zhu Qing just hasn't figured it out yet."

Chi Ping shook his head. "I can understand her feelings. It was my fault. The dean, Xiao Ao, Rongrong, and Xiao Wu have all said the same thing before."

Dai Mubai patted Chi Ping on the shoulder, "What does it have to do with you? You're just firmly walking your own path. No one is supposed to live according to other people's ideas."

Chi Ping nodded slightly.

"You go ahead and do your thing, I'll go and try to persuade Zhuqing."

At the same time, a young man who was over 1.9 meters tall, with broad shoulders and a very well-proportioned figure slowly walked to the gate of Shrek Academy.

Dressed in white, she was elegant and composed, exuding a unique aristocratic air in every gesture.

The student who had stopped Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing walked up to him and said, "Sir, today is the day of our Shrek Academy's admissions. If you wish to participate or visit the school, please present your Soul Master's Manual and other relevant documents."

Two minutes later, Chi Ping received a message from the terminal.

"Has the mistress arrived?"

"Has Third Brother arrived?" Xiao Wu pricked up her ears.

Chiping connects to the campus mycelium sensing system.

"She Yan texted me saying someone claiming to be Tang San applied to enter the school. I sensed someone there, and there was indeed someone at the school gate, but their aura was a bit off, somewhat like Tang San, but not entirely. Xiao Wu, do you want to go check it out?"

"go!"

"Alright," Chi Ping looked at Ning Rongrong, "Rongrong, pick me up for a bit, I'll take Xiaowu to the school gate to see what's going on."

Ning Rongrong gave a no-questions-asked gesture.

So Chi Ping teleported away with Xiao Wu.

"Hmm? Where's Hirako?"

Dai Mubai returned with Zhu Zhuqing and, finding Chi Ping absent, asked him what was wrong.

Ma Hongjun replied, "It seems Tang San has arrived. Ping-ge, take Xiao Wu to see him."

……

At the school gate, Chi Ping looked at the blue-haired man in front of him with a puzzled expression.

"You... are Tang San?"

He still couldn't connect this exceptionally handsome man with the unremarkable Tang San from before.

The difference is too big.

If the aura wasn't correct, it was still the aura of Blue Silver Grass, only much stronger, giving off a feeling of "rebirth," then Chi Ping had already activated the Soul Guidance Demon King Armor.

As for Xiao Wu, perhaps she had some special sensory ability, and after seeing Tang San for the first time, she immediately recognized him and hugged him.

They are now pouring out their hearts to each other.

She kept talking about "Third Brother" and "Xiao Wu".

It hurts my ears to hear it.

In these five years, only Xiao Wu and Tang San, as a couple, were separated. After such a long separation, the only way to release their pent-up emotions upon reunion was in this way.

"Brother Ping, it's me," Tang San said with a light laugh.

The aura is right, the expression is right, and the items on his body are also correct—it's the "Twenty-Four Bridges Under the Moon" that Yu Xiaogang gave to Tang San.

It's confirmed that Ikehira is the one.

This is indeed Tang San.

"What happened to you? You've changed so much!" Chi Ping asked curiously.

Tang San's situation is not like his disguise in Heaven Dou City; he has become an almost completely different person!

Tang San vaguely replied, "It was just some fortuitous encounters."

Whether it's the City of Slaughter or the Blue Silver Forest, these are secrets that cannot be told to others.

"This can't be explained by some kind of lucky encounter!" Chi Ping muttered to himself, but then smiled and said.

Welcome back!

Didn't he also have some extraordinary encounters?

Even gods have appeared, so Tang San's situation is not incomprehensible.

"It's quite a coincidence. You, Mu Bai, and Zhu Qing were the only three who didn't receive my gift, and yet you all arrived on the same day."

Without using teleportation, Chi Ping led Tang San toward the cafeteria.

"I thought you wouldn't be able to make it. If you miss this opportunity, I don't know when I'll be able to make up for it with the Praise of Life."

"Praise of Life? What's that?"

Another explanation followed.

(End of this chapter)