The three of them turned to look and saw a few students from Shrek Academy sitting nearby. The one who spoke was a blond boy with a domineering expression.
Anping counted the number of people and found exactly seven. He guessed that they were the new generation of Shrek Seven Monsters chosen by Shrek Academy.
"Le Zhengyu! Whether you have any talent or not is none of your concern. We didn't provoke you." Xu Xiaoyan glared at the blond boy and said angrily.
Wu Siduo sneered: "Hey, isn't this Xu Xiaoyan, the traitor of the academy? I wonder what benefits Sun Moon Academy has offered you."
"you..."
Xu Xiaoyan's face turned red with rage as she was called a traitor to Shrek Academy. She was at a loss for words.
"What? Are you speechless? A traitor is a traitor." Le Zhengyu pressed on, seeing that Xu Xiaoyan had no retort.
Anping lightly patted Xu Xiaoyan's shoulder and stood up, blocking her behind him. He said calmly: "Le Zhengyu, you have the Holy Angel Martial Spirit, the eldest son and heir of the Holy Angel Family, right?"
Le Zhengyu was slightly taken aback and snorted: "Humph, so what? Don't think that just because you beat a few first-year freshmen, you have defeated Shrek Academy."
Anping waved his hand and said, "I didn't say I beat a few freshmen. I said I beat all the students in Shrek Academy. I just have a question for you."
Le Zhengyu and Anping's words reminded Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi of their defeat. They all looked unhappy.
Tang Wulin stood up and said, "We admit our loss. We have nothing to say. We don't know who will lose next time."
"Yes, we won't lose again next time. We will reclaim Shrek's honor one day." Xie Xie agreed.
Ignoring Tang Wulin and Xie Xie, Anping looked at Le Zhengyu and said, "If I'm not mistaken, the Holy Angel Martial Spirit of your Holy Angel Family is inherited from Qian Renxue of the Martial Spirit Hall, who lived 20,000 years ago."
"The main reason for the destruction of the Martial Spirit Hall was probably because of Poseidon Tang San and Shrek Academy. My question is, if your ancestor Qian Renxue knew that her descendants had joined Shrek Academy and used her martial spirit, would she be so angry that she would come back to life?"
"You keep calling others traitors. Xiaoyan just left Shrek Academy and transferred to another academy. She became a traitor in your eyes. So, what does that make you, a direct descendant of the Martial Spirit Hall, who joined Shrek Academy? A betrayer of your ancestors?"
The words of AnPing shocked not only Le Zhengyu, but also the other students from Shrek Academy who heard them. The Martial Soul Hall was a power that had been annihilated 20,000 years ago. They didn't expect that Le Zhengyu had any connection to it.
Unlike the other students, Le Zhengyu was stunned because he never knew that he was related to the Martial Soul Hall. Although he was the heir of the Holy Angel Family, he was still young and many secrets had not been revealed to him by his family.
He also wondered how AnPing, who came out of nowhere, knew something that he didn't. And he felt a bit conflicted. If what An Ping said was true, should he have joined Shrek Academy at all?
Tang Wulin noticed Le Zhengyu's confusion and thought that he was troubled by his identity. He whispered to him: "The Martial Soul Hall was a thing of the past, 20,000 years ago. Even if you are really related to them, what does it have to do with you? The evil deeds of the Martial Soul Hall are not your fault. Do you think Shrek Academy is unaware of your background?"
Le Zhengyu ignored Tang Wulin and fixed his gaze on An Ping. He asked him with a serious tone: "Is everything you said true?"
"Why don't you ask your grandfather yourself if you doubt me?" An Ping said casually. He sensed that Le Zhengyu was shaken by his words and sent him a message with his mental power: "I'll tell you a secret. The Tang Wulin next to you is the biological son of your family's enemy, Poseidon Tang San."
Le Zhengyu was dumbfounded again after receiving the message from An Ping. He looked at Tang Wulin with complex emotions, then turned to An Ping and said: "I will verify it with my grandfather personally. If it's true, I hope you didn't lie to me. Otherwise..."
He left his words hanging and said to his classmates: "I have something to check. I'll treat you to dinner next time."
Then he turned around and left, apparently going to confirm An Ping's words. An Ping's words had indeed affected him.
An Ping shrugged off Le Zhengyu's threat, pushed Xu Xiaoyan back to her seat, and said: "They are all just kids, why bother with them? Eat up, didn't you say you wanted to go shopping after this? As for them, just ignore them. Besides, if you get bitten by a dog on the street, you won't bite back, right?"
Gu Yuena rolled her eyes at An Ping and said: "You sound like you are so old."
"I'm sorry I'm not older than you." An Ping joked.
Gu Yuena slapped An Ping's arm and said, "So you don't like me because I'm older and you want to find someone younger? Do you need my help?"
"Of course not. I only need you. I only like you." An Ping quickly apologized, feeling the pain in his arm.
Xu Xiaoyan laughed as she watched the two of them bicker. The others, who felt ignored, looked annoyed by their flirting and moved to another table further away from An Ping and his group.
An Ping and his friends were having fun, but the students from Shrek Academy were not. They looked grim after Le Zhengyu left. They knew that An Ping was trying to sow discord among them, but they had no way to refute him.
They were silent for a while, until Tang Wulin broke the ice. "Don't be like this. We came here to have a good meal and a good time. Do you really believe what he said?"
Ye Xinglan said seriously: "It's not about believing or not. When I was in the inner courtyard, I read a book that said that the direct descendants of the Martial Soul Hall had the Holy Angel martial soul."
Tang Wulin was shocked by Ye Xinglan's words. Ever since he joined Shrek, he had been focusing on cultivating and forging. Everything he did was to improve his strength. He didn't care much about anything else, let alone the history of 20,000 years ago.
He was born in a small city like Glorybound City, where he had no access to any secret information. His innate soul power was very low. Besides hearing some legends about Shrek and the Tang Sect from his parents when he was young, he had spent most of his time practicing after awakening his martial soul.
The others were in a similar situation as Tang Wulin. They didn't know much about the secrets of the past. And when they came to Shrek Academy and had a heavy workload, they had no time to learn about those things.
Seeing that everyone was looking at her, Ye Xinglan continued: "And according to the book, the Martial Soul Hall was indeed destroyed by Lord Poseidon, the first of the Shrek Seven Monsters. Apart from Le Zhengyu's family origin, what An Ping said was consistent with what the book said. It was basically the same as the records."