She was originally thinking about whether she should find a time to go to Nuoding City to deliberately create a chance encounter and get to know him.
Using the excuse of going out to clear her head, she would have her grandfather take her.
When she suddenly met the two of them, perhaps Dante wouldn't be able to help but complain about her in his diary, and might even mention how to help them neutralize the poison?
For now, this was just an idea of hers; she was still thinking about how to convince her grandfather.
But thinking about it now, she absolutely had to go to Nuoding City!
She had to abduct Dante to Heaven Dou Royal Academy!
"Sigh, I don't know when Grandpa will be back."
"The enrollment conditions for Shrek Academy are truly too ridiculous. Surely no one is stupid enough to disregard their future just to enroll there?"
In Dugu Yan's view, it didn't matter where one attended Elementary and Intermediate Soul Master academies because the difference wasn't large.
But the choice of a high-level academy directly determined a Soul Master's future ceiling.
What could an academy without resources provide to its students, no matter how strong the teachers were?
Could they give students ten-thousand-year Spirit Beast meat to eat? Could they provide top-tier Simulated Environments?
No!
Then what's the point of going!
...And Dante's diary continued.
[Besides the harsh enrollment conditions, Shrek has an even more disgusting rule.]
[And that is the registration fee!]
[Ten Gold Soul Coins per person!]
[And the most outrageous part is that this money is paid before the test.]
[As long as your Soul Power doesn't meet the standard, or your bone age is over by even a day, you're disqualified immediately!]
[As for those ten Gold Soul Coins? Sorry, no refunds!]
[Isn't this freaking highway robbery?]
[You should know that a two-ring Spirit Grandmaster only gets ten Gold Soul Coins for a month's allowance from Spirit Hall!]
[That old bird Flender is clearly using these commoner Soul Masters with dreams to fill his shriveled wallet!]
[To put it bluntly, he's using the "only accepting monsters" gimmick to pull a scam!]
[Even more ridiculous is that if you pay the money and actually get selected, you'll find that this crappy academy has nothing!]
[Mimicry Cultivation Ground? None!]
[A decent cafeteria? None! The food is worse than what pigs eat! (Steamed buns and pickled mustard tubers)]
[They don't even have decent school dorms; they live in the villagers' old wooden houses!]
[This is the so-called "high-level Soul Master academy"?]
[I can only say that Flender really knows how to "get something for nothing."]
...Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.
Ning Rongrong looked at the diary, her originally exquisite little face full of astonishment.
"Ten Gold Soul Coins?"
"And no refunds?"
"This is way too stingy and pathetic, right?"
As the little princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, she usually spent hundreds or thousands of Gold Soul Coins just to buy a piece of clothing.
She truly couldn't imagine that an academy run by a dignified Spirit Saint would actually scam commoner students out of their money for a mere ten Gold Soul Coins.
"Truly a disgrace to Spirit Saints!"
Ning Rongrong wrinkled her nose in disgust.
[Flender also brags all day, saying that although their academy is poor, the teaching staff is powerful.]
[Saying things like there are more teachers than students, every teacher is at least a Spirit Emperor, and there's even him, a high-level Spirit Saint.]
[In the past, when I was young and ignorant, I thought that seemed pretty impressive.]
[But looking at it now, this is a classic case of looking at the sky from the bottom of a well!]
[What is the standard configuration for a high-level Soul Master academy?]
[You must have a Spirit Saint in residence just to be eligible to apply!]
[And for academies that are even slightly famous on the continent, like the three Committee Members of Heaven Dou Royal Academy, they are all Spirit Douluo above Rank eighty!]
[As for the deans of the Four Element Academies, which one isn't a Spirit Douluo?]
[Yet here Flender is, a Rank seventy-eight Spirit Saint, bragging about having invincible teaching staff?]
[I completely understand now why, in the original work, after Ning Rongrong was mistreated upon entering the school, she would point at Flender's nose and curse him as a "mere Spirit Saint."]
Boom!
Seeing this sentence, Ning Rongrong's large, expressive eyes instantly widened.
"In the original work, I would go to that crappy academy? And I even cursed at Flender?"
Ning Rongrong was startled, but immediately after, an inexplicable sense of satisfaction welled up in her heart.
"Well cursed!"
"Exactly! He's just a Spirit Saint; he wouldn't even count as high-level management in my Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School."
"Grandpa Sword and Grandpa Gu could crush him with the flick of a finger!"
[Many people who saw that part said Ning Rongrong had princess syndrome and that she didn't know the height of the heavens or the depth of the earth.]
[But in my view, that's just hating for the sake of hating.]
[First of all, she is the little princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School; what's wrong with having a bit of a princess's temper?]
[Isn't that only natural?]
[Secondly, why did Ning Rongrong get angry?]
[It was because of Flender's brain-dead training method!]
[He actually made a support system Soul Master run twenty laps around the village!]
[The reason was: support Soul Masters have no self-defense capabilities, and only by running fast can they have a better chance of survival.]
[Hahaha!]
[When I heard this theory, I almost laughed my teeth off.]
[What kind of bullshit logic is this?]
[What is the position of a support system Soul Master? They are the core of the team! They are the objects everyone protects!]
[If a team falls to the point where the support system Soul Master needs to run for their life, then the attack system and defense system teammates might as well find a piece of tofu to bash their heads against!]
[That's trash!]
[What is the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda? It is the number one support Martial Soul on the entire continent!]
[With just two rings, it can provide a thirty percent boost, and when this boost lands on a Spirit Grandmaster, they instantly leap to the combat power of a Spirit Elder.]
[And if teammates are boosted like that but still can't protect a core support, then they should just change teammates; they're impossible to carry.]
[What? In future team battles, when the opponent's Spirit Ability flies over, Ning Rongrong is supposed to just ditch her teammates and run away?]
[Besides, in the face of absolute strength, what use is running!]
[Doesn't Flender know that high-level Soul Masters have spirit power pressure?]
[For someone at the level of Ghost Douluo, with just one look, you wouldn't even be able to move a finger!]
[You run? Where are you going to run?]
[In this situation, training physical stamina is a false proposition!]
[What truly should be trained is positioning, awareness, and spirit power control!]
[Instead of running laps like a fool!]
[If it were just running a few laps to warm up or something, Ning Rongrong probably would have run; it's not like she hasn't run in her Sect.]
[After all, support Soul Masters also need to have good physical fitness, so basic exercise is definitely necessary. As Ning Rongrong's father and the continent's number one support, Ning Fengzhi certainly understands this logic.]
"Well said!"
Ning Rongrong was so excited her little face turned red; this truly spoke to her heart.
"Exactly! This Young Miss is a support! A support!"
"Where is the logic in making a support train for long-distance running?"
"If I encountered a Titled Douluo, even if this Young Miss ran until her legs broke, I still wouldn't be able to escape!"