Tang Sect Descendant

"Yes, I recommended him. Your child's name is Tang Xiaolong, right?"

Chen Ping immediately breathed a sigh of relief. His mind raced as he forced a professional smile onto his face, quickly recalling which case the other party was referring to.

As long as these big brothers did not start beating him up, everything was negotiable.

If he explained things clearly, he might even be able to talk the parents beside them into buying a few packages for their own children.

"Bullshit, Tang Xiaolong. My son's surname is Wang. Remember it: Wang Xiaolong. He takes my surname! Don't listen to his mother's nonsense."

Before Chen Ping, the burly Soul Elder immediately spoke up in dissatisfied explanation.

But he seemed to think of something else, and his expression darkened further. Hesitantly, he said, "Anyway, that Tang Sect only has a few stragglers left. If my son takes the Tang surname, wouldn't that be jumping into a fire pit?"

Chen Ping never took the initiative to inquire into matters involving client privacy. He merely nodded hurriedly.

"Yes, yes, Wang Xiaolong. I remembered incorrectly. Innate Soul Power of two and a half, eight years old this year, Soul Power Level Five, and your goal is for him to get into Heavenly Soul National Seventh Academy, right?"

"It's close to home, well-known, and since it's a national academy, the tuition isn't high. It's a pretty good school. If he works hard, he has a good chance."

Chen Ping rapidly rummaged through the basket for documents, speaking as he searched and confirming the information with the Soul Elder before him.

Seeing that Chen Ping remembered his son's details so clearly, the man's originally stern expression softened considerably, though he still looked somewhat indignant.

After all, Chen Ping's fees were simply too high.

"What you said is fine, but why are you, you profiteer, making my son switch from a Control System Soul Master to a Healing System Soul Master?"

"Do you know my child has the same Martial Soul as Sea God Tang San from ten thousand years ago? And with the Tang Sect's secret arts, he'll definitely—"

The middle-aged man rambled on at Chen Ping, but Chen Ping merely pulled out a statistical sheet that still carried the scent of fresh ink from the basket.

"Heavenly Soul National Seventh Academy is one of the top twenty advanced academies in the Heaven Dou Empire. For Control System Soul Masters, the admission requirement is to reach Level Twenty before the age of fifteen, while graduation requires reaching Level Thirty before graduating at age twenty."

"But for Support System Soul Masters, reaching Level Eighteen before fifteen is enough for admission. To graduate, they only need to reach Level Twenty-Five before turning twenty."

"Over the past twenty years, Heavenly Soul National Seventh Academy has had a graduation rate of 91%. On average, nine out of every hundred students fail to graduate."

"Among those students who fail to graduate, the vast majority have Innate Soul Power of only Level Two or Three. They worked diligently before enrollment, sometimes even reaching higher levels than Soul Masters of the same age with Level Four or Five Innate Soul Power."

"But once they enroll, the slightest slackening causes their progress to fall behind. If they cannot meet the minimum graduation requirements, all they can receive is a completion certificate."

"These days, aside from Shrek, which advocates strict admission and strict graduation, most other higher academies have lenient admission standards but strict graduation standards."

"Getting into a good school is not easy, and getting a diploma is even harder. It is especially so for Soul Masters with Blue Silver Grass Martial Souls."

"The Tang Sect's secret arts may be good, but they are not necessarily suitable for everyone."

"As parents, we certainly do not want our children to end up without even a graduation certificate because of a problem that could have been avoided, right?"

"Besides, while I do not know much about your family's circumstances, if he takes the Support System Soul Master route, can't he also learn from his mother?"

The middle-aged man's eye twitched several times as he watched this brat, who was barely older than his own son, repeatedly talk about "us parents." Yet Chen Ping's words had genuinely sunk in.

What Chen Ping did was simple, but effective: he laid out the most straightforward data and let the man weigh the pros and cons himself.

Though he had no idea where Chen Ping's data had come from, Chen Ping's words had undeniably struck right at the middle-aged man's pain point as a parent.

These days, Soul Masters needed educational credentials to find jobs as well. Many positions required a graduation certificate from a proper Soul Master Academy.

A Soul Master like him, who had not even managed to obtain a diploma from an intermediate Soul Master Academy, could only earn a living doing hard labor at the docks because of his Martial Soul. He had been born stronger than many Soul Masters of the same level.

"But the Healing System..."

The middle-aged man was still conflicted. Was it really reliable for a Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul to follow the path of a Healing System Soul Master?

In response, Chen Ping merely rummaged through the basket again, pulled out a newly printed manuscript, and quickly flipped through several pages.

"Look, this is a statistical chart of the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul's base attributes. Among plant-type Martial Souls of the same category, its basic attributes—toughness, length, flexibility, pulling force, and so on—are all near the bottom."

"As for the additional attribute column, the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul is simply blank. There is no need to look at things like poison intensity or elemental damage modifiers."

"We needn't dwell on things that do not exist. We can talk about it once your child's Martial Soul mutates into a Thunderclap Hell Vine."

"On the entire base attribute chart, the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul's best values are its growth speed and recovery speed. It can rapidly produce a large patch while consuming very little Soul Power."

"Under such circumstances, rather than competing for a Control System Soul Master position against Soul Masters whose four core attributes surpass yours by a huge margin, it is better to play to its strengths and avoid its weaknesses by choosing the Support System Soul Master route."

"Do not forget, that is only Blue Silver Grass competing against other plant-type Soul Masters for Control System Soul Master positions. Control System Soul Masters are not limited to plant types."

"If it comes up against any elemental Control System Soul Master, a Blue Silver Grass Control System Soul Master basically has no advantage at all."

Chen Ping spoke very sincerely. Having a Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul follow the Control System route had always been absurd.

If Tang San's Blue Silver Grass had not concealed the bloodline of the Blue Silver Emperor, and if he had not obtained two Immortal Herbs—the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Infernal Delicate Apricot—

Forcibly granting his Martial Soul immunity to both ice and fire.

Elemental Control System Soul Masters of the same level would have strung him up and whipped him.

From the middle-aged man's lowered head and pensive expression, it was clear that Chen Ping had persuaded him. However, the man still had other thoughts.

"But that Tang Sect ancestor from ten thousand years ago..."

Chen Ping waved his hand. Naturally, he would not directly reveal that Tang San's Martial Soul was the Blue Silver Emperor. Instead, he used a more universally applicable answer. "Can the Blue Silver Grass in his hands possibly be the same thing as the Blue Silver Grass in ours?"

"Forgive me for asking, but your child's maternal family should be from the Tang Sect, right?"

"Listen to me. When you get home, have the child properly learn a few Tang Sect secret arts from his mother."

"Especially that Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track. A Support System Soul Master with strong survival abilities is welcome everywhere. Then you can just wait to enjoy the good life."