Chapter 65: Dugu Bo: Let Me Know Your Secret
"Flender, explain clearly, are you saying you're going to throw away everything we've worked for and run off to some Heaven Dou City to enjoy ourselves?"
Flender, questioned by Zhao Wuji, began to feel a headache.
This was actually within his expectations, and it was also the most difficult point to explain.
He'd originally brought a group of people together to open Shrek Academy in a moment of impulsiveness. He'd fooled so many brothers into running Shrek Academy with him for twenty years, instilling in them the philosophy of cultivating monsters, and now he was turning around and abandoning it all.
Gathering his thoughts, he began to explain.
"I won't forget Shrek's motto: cultivate only monsters, not ordinary people. So when we get there, the Academy will still be named Shrek," Flender promised. "Old buddies, you've all suffered so much with me, Flender, for so many years. You know the current situation at Shrek Academy better than I do. We can definitely survive if we continue here, but what then?"
"You're all not young anymore, and I don't want you to continue to be exposed to the elements in this wilderness. A dignified Soul Emperor or Soul Sage is forced to resort to cheap tricks to make a living."
Flender spoke sincerely.
This was a question he had truly reflected on, and Zhao Wuji's anger subsided.
He sat back and said, "What about the admission requirements?"
The admission requirements were the very soul of Shrek. If even these requirements couldn't be met, then all they would bring with them would be a Shrek name.
"I've asked Liu Erlong. She's a regular Academy, eligible to participate in the Soul Master Competition. When we get there, we'll follow the normal curriculum. With Dai Mubai's talent, we'll definitely shine in the next Soul Master Competition. Even if they don't perform well in the next one, they're still old enough to compete in the next. As long as they win the Soul Master Competition, we'll have made Shrek famous.
At that time, I'll restore the admission standards. Of course, the standard for twelve-year-old Great Soul Masters will be lowered to two levels: one for Great Soul Masters under fifteen and one for Great Soul Masters twelve."
He explained his idea.
"In the future, our group of brothers will teach the twelve-year-old Great Soul Masters in the inner courtyard, while the Great Soul Masters under fifteen years old and even weaker students will be in the outer courtyard."
Flender's words calmed Zhao Wuji and other teachers, and they initially approved of his plan.
As for the students, it didn't matter. After all, who wouldn't want to go to a better Academy?
"Well, although we need to relocate, it's not now. I still need to discuss it with Liu Erlong. Before that, your training will continue as usual." Flender's face was serious. "Next, Yu Xiaogang will also join your daily combat training."
What?
Him?
Dai Mubai and others showed doubtful expressions.
"Yu Xiaogang's strength is unquestionable. He possesses a thousand-year Soul skill and is an absolutely qualified Soul Master." Flender said, "Dai Mubai, Sun Qi, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Tang San, it was difficult to assign the five of you to groups. Now with Yu Xiaogang, there are six of us, just enough for a three-on-three battle."
When Yu Xiaogang first arrived, he said that the five of them were out of balance in terms of combat power. With one Soul Master, they could be deployed in a two-on-three configuration for daily combat training.
Now, the five students' cultivation hasn't changed much, but the imbalance is gone.
"Do you understand?" Flender asked loudly.
"Got it, Dean!" Oscar said.
The others echoed.
"Well, forget it for today. Don't be late tomorrow, because you're going to have your first battle."
Sunset Forest.
"Sister Yan, you seem to be very familiar with the layout of this Sunset Forest." Stone Monkey Sun Qi asked as he walked not far from Dugu Yan.
Dugu Yan chuckled and said, "Because my home is right on the edge of this Sunset Forest."
"Then Sister Yan, do you know where there are Soul Beasts suitable for me?" Stone Monkey Sun Qi's eyes lit up.
Dugu Yan was troubled by what she said.
"It's not that Sister Yan is stingy, it's that the Invincible Golden Body you asked for is too demanding, Xiao Qi."
The Invincible Golden Body can appear in many Soul Beasts, but it actually depends on whether the individual has awakened this Soul skill.
For example, the Soft Bone Rabbit has the Soul skill library of the Invincible Golden Body, but only one in ten thousand Soft Bone Rabbits can awaken this Soul skill, and they have to go through natural selection and reach a lifespan of at least a hundred years.
Other types of Soul skills may be inherited even without awakening, but the Invincible Golden Body is so rare that even if it is awakened, the chance of inheriting it is very low, let alone if it is not awakened.
This is a Soul skill that is not closely related to the bloodline of the Soul Beast itself.
"It's not necessary to have the Invincible Golden Body. An ape-like Soul Beast is enough for me. I'm not stubborn." Stone Monkey Sun Qi was speechless.
He had only reported the most ideal Soul Ring at the time, not the Invincible Golden Body.
"In that case, I know a thing or two."
Stone Monkey Sun Qi immediately asked, "What are they?"
"I don't know the specific species, but I know the general locations of several giant ape-like Soul Beasts. Also, there's a group of monkeys. There's a group of long-armed macaques living around one of my grandfather's medicinal fields, and they steal my grandfather's herbs to use in his winemaking."
Stealing?
Stone Monkey Sun Qi curled his lips.
Given Poison Douluo's intentions, keeping a group of long-armed macaques around his own medicinal fields wasn't like he was collecting free labor.
Poison Douluo was secretly monitoring the Royal Fighting Team.
He and Dugu Yan weren't in frequent contact, but they were quite frequent. When Dugu Yan wanted to participate in this Soul Hunt, Poison Douluo wasn't very happy.
"Our Yan doesn't need a Soul Ring, so why would she be captured and forced into service?
Upon learning that the Soul Hunt would take place in Sunset Forest, he breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to learn more about the situation.
After learning about the Soul Hunt from the three major education committees, he became interested in Stone Monkey Sun Qi again.
"Out-of-Body Spirit, ten years old, level twenty."
That alone would have been fine. The two most intriguing points were that Stone Monkey Sun Qi's registered innate Soul Power at the Spirit Hall was only level one, and that the Soul Hunting requirements he'd submitted to the Academy were millennium Soul Rings!
The first two were merely incidental; the real draw was, of course, the second ring absorbing the millennium Soul Ring. He then returned to observe Stone Monkey Sun Qi's Spirit cultivation progress, and since the Soul Hunting location was right outside his own doorstep, he followed him all the way.
He was also looking for an opportunity to get some alone time with Stone Monkey Sun Qi and learn the secrets of his cultivation.
Unfortunately, Stone Monkey Sun Qi, as if sensing danger or something, didn't act alone once, remaining closely following Dugu Yan.
"Hmph, since you got information about the Soul Beast from my Yan, it's not unreasonable for me to use intimidating tactics to get some information," Poison Douluo said coldly.
In his eyes, Stone Monkey Sun Qi had become a villain, deceiving his innocent granddaughter and getting something for nothing.
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