In the Black World, the people of Shrek Academy.
"I used to find it strange that the Flender in the parallel world had such a different personality from yours."
"You've never shown a friendly face to those major powers, yet he chose to join the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect."
"So that's how it was."
Zhao Wuji and Flender's other old friends suddenly realized the truth after hearing Flender's words on the heavenly curtain.
These old brothers were very familiar with Flender's personality.
Greedy, stingy, insidious, and cunning.
Although the current Flender had become more restrained compared to his younger days, he had still scammed quite a few people.
Yet, with a personality like this, Flender would rather watch Shrek Academy fall into poverty and destitution than seek out wealthy nobles for sponsorship.
Zhao Wuji and the others believed that if Flender were willing, he could certainly find nobles to invest in Shrek Academy.
If nothing else, if Flender simply revealed his strength as a high-level Spirit Saint with a high probability of becoming a Spirit Douluo in the future, even the Upper Three Sects would extend an olive branch to him.
But Flender simply refused to do so.
Aside from Flender's own proud and aloof nature, it was his almost undisguised loathing for those nobles.
"To be honest, I also find the idea of joining the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect surprising."
"Perhaps only my younger self could understand the version of me in the parallel world."
Flender shook his head, speaking with a somewhat complex expression.
The 'him' on the heavenly curtain was still his younger self; he hadn't yet experienced many of the things he himself had gone through.
Back when he was traveling the continent, he had witnessed far too many scenes of powerful and influential people committing evil.
Although Flender wouldn't claim to be a good man, the wicked deeds those people committed were truly hard for him to accept.
Many times, he wondered if he and those from noble and wealthy families were even the same species.
It was precisely because of such experiences that he was unwilling to associate with those people, even if it meant being poor.
The younger self on the heavenly curtain hadn't experienced those things, so his rejection of major powers was far less intense than his own.
For the current him, being friends with Yu Xiaogang was fine, but joining the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect was out of the question.
Yu Xiaogang, who was standing to the side, had remained silent the entire time.
Ever since the Yu Xiaogang and Flender on the heavenly curtain met and he discovered that the Martial Soul Fusion Skill still existed, his brain had somewhat stalled.
Regarding the Martial Soul Fusion Skill of the three—himself, Flender, and Liu Erlong—Yu Xiaogang had always felt that Flender and Liu Erlong's roles were to provide him with power.
This belief became even more firm after seeing Yu Xiaogang's Spirit constantly evolve and even undergo a second Awakening.
He had already decided that he was the cornerstone of their three-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
With Flender and Liu Erlong providing him with power, his Spirit could manifest the form it was always meant to have.
But now, a new problem had arisen.
Why could the Yu Xiaogang who had already completed his second Awakening and perfected his Spirit still perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Flender?
Yu Xiaogang could definitely not have misidentified it. Although the appearance of the Little Dragon after completing the second Awakening was slightly different, it was largely the same as the appearance of his Martial Soul Fusion Skill—the Golden Holy Dragon.
In other words, his Spirit should have been the Golden Holy Dragon; that was the form Luo San Pao was supposed to have.
He used the power of Flender and the other to make up for Luo San Pao's defects, allowing it to reveal its complete form.
This was the foundation of their three-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
But now, the Yu Xiaogang who already possessed the Golden Holy Dragon still had a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Flender and the others.
This doesn't make sense, does it?
It couldn't be that even after its defects were mended and it became the Golden Holy Dragon, the Little Dragon still wasn't in its strongest form, could it?
Then what would its strongest form look like?
Yu Xiaogang couldn't figure it out, so he could only secretly observe the situation on the heavenly curtain.
[The film continues...]
[After exchanging thoughts with Flender about the issue of noble families, Flender went home to pack his luggage.]
[To make it easier for Flender to pack, Yu Xiaogang specifically lent him two storage soul tools.]
[Seeing this, Flender immediately took them and thanked Yu Xiaogang repeatedly.]
[Who could understand the joy of receiving benefits before even starting work?]
[Watching Flender leave, Yu Xiaogang sat down and began to think about what to do next.]
[He already had enough things to do, and now there was an additional Martial Soul Fusion Skill.]
[Even though he was only thirteen years old, he felt as if he had already become a corporate slave.]
[The key was that these were all things he had brought upon himself; after all, he could have completely postponed or even abandoned many of the projects.]
[But Yu Xiaogang was unwilling to give up, so it turned into the state it was in now.]
["Truly a life of toil."]
[Yu Xiaogang shook his head and laughed.]
[Fortunately, his current toil was for his own benefit. After all the busyness, his strength had increased, and his status had risen.]
[If he were exhausted from all the work only for others to take all the benefits, while he just caught a whiff of the aroma and couldn't even get a drop of meat broth, that would be truly miserable.]
[Shaking his head, Yu Xiaogang said a few words to Bibi Dong, then returned to his room to write a letter to his father, telling him about Flender. After finishing this, Yu Xiaogang finally took out the items he had bought at Flender's stall.]
[The first was that atlas of the internal structure of Spirit Bone.]
["Basic structural unit for converting spirit power into Spirit Ability..."]
["What a long name. The name I came up with, 'Spirit Ability Core Structure,' is much simpler."]
[Yu Xiaogang complained in his heart.]
[After complaining, Yu Xiaogang began to carefully observe the functions of these Spirit Ability Core Structures.]
[He hadn't seen most of the structures in this book before; after all, these were things that could only be obtained by dismantling Spirit Bone.]
[With the Spirit Ability Core Structures provided by this atlas, his future research could save a large portion of Spirit Bone.]
["I just don't know how many years of age these Spirit Bone structures came from."]
[Yu Xiaogang carefully identified the few words in the atlas.]
[It was possible that this atlas had a companion book to explain the functions of these structures, so there was very little text describing them in the atlas.]
[Additionally, since the text used was all from the pre-civilization, Yu Xiaogang could only read it haltingly, with a partial understanding.]
[As for the other book, Yu Xiaogang had looked at it before, and there were even more parts he couldn't understand.]
[So, to prevent himself from making mistakes due to a lack of understanding of the text, Yu Xiaogang put off studying that book until after he had learned the pre-civilization script.]
["Fortunately, the Sect's library has these books; otherwise, I would have missed them even if I encountered them."]
[Yu Xiaogang felt lucky.]
[Knowledge is like that. You might feel it's useless when you're learning it, and there's a high probability it really won't be used.]
[But if you don't learn it, when that low-probability chance to use it appears before you, you can only stare at it helplessly.]