Zhao Wuji said with a hearty laugh, "Compared to your method of poaching outstanding students from the major elemental academies and bringing them to our Blue Tyrant Academy for further study, what do my enrollment restrictions amount to? How many Soul Ancestor students do they even have? You brought them all to our academy."
Flender shook his head. "They can study further at our academy because some of those students were specifically sent by their academies to be trained as teachers for those academies. Do you think they'd kindly nurture their own students? If I don't squeeze some money out of them, how could that be worthy of the resources our academy has invested?"
Zhao Wuji asked, "Will their graduation requirements be the same as our academy's students? Do they also need to reach Soul Saint level before graduating? The spiritual energy is surging now anyway, so the resources we spend are relatively less."
Flender shook his head again. "The resources definitely won't be less. After all, what I agreed to back then was three years to become a Soul Emperor, not three years to become a Soul Saint. If it really is Soul Saint as you said, the resources consumed would actually be about the same. If they truly want us to train them into Soul Saints, I'll have to discuss it with their academies. They'll need to pay more."
Zhao Wuji said helplessly, "By then, Soul Emperors won't even be qualified to serve as teachers at advanced Soul Master academies. Wouldn't they have wasted a pile of Gold Soul Coins?"
Flender took a sip of tea and said smugly, "That depends on the higher-ups of those academies. We can renegotiate the training terms. They just need to add a little more money on top of the original price."