The Legendary Divine Beast Bi'an

"Dean, this is the file on the new student Elder Mu favored in the Heavenly Curtain."

Seeing dean Yan Shaozhe suddenly appear, Director of Studies Du Weilun immediately handed over the file.

[Name: Shao Zhuang]

[Gender: Male]

[Age: Twelve]

[Martial Soul: Tiger (Note: Compared to ordinary tiger-type martial souls, it possesses many unique characteristics)]

[Soul Power Level: Level 29]

[Soul Ring Configuration: Two Yellow]

[Letter of Recommendation From: Lord of Xuanyao City, Heaven Dou Empire]

"This new student must receive greater cultivation from our Martial Soul Department."

After reading Shao Zhuang's file, Yan Shaozhe instructed Du Weilun.

As the Martial Soul Department Dean, he was generally also referring to the Inner Courtyard Dean.

After all, the Inner Courtyard was the foundation of Shrek Academy.

Over at the Outer Courtyard's Martial Soul Department, aside from the Outer Courtyard Dean, Director of Studies Du Weilun held the most important position.

The Outer Courtyard's affairs were also largely handled by Du Weilun.

"Yes, dean." Du Weilun naturally had no objections.

A genius student with such immense potential, personally favored by Elder Mu—if he still failed to take it seriously, then he might as well not be the Director of Studies.

The two of them then continued discussing the details of a cultivation plan for Shao Zhuang.

As for Huo Yuhao, who often greeted Elder Mu, neither of them mentioned him throughout the entire conversation.

The reason was simple. If his talent had truly been decent, Du Weilun would certainly have submitted his information as well.

But since that step had been absent, Yan Shaozhe naturally understood what it meant.

Thus, Huo Yuhao was never brought up during their discussion.

It was a very realistic matter. There was no such thing as love without reason in this world.

Only those with outstanding talent would receive such grand treatment;

Kindness and good manners only became genuine bonus points when possessed by talented people.

"This so-called Heavenly Curtain really is a double-edged sword."

As he left the office, Yan Shaozhe could not help but sigh.

With the Heavenly Curtain's revelations, the progress of Elder Mu's personal monologue had reached the era they currently lived in.

Even the dullest person could more or less understand one thing.

That was, the contents revealed by the Heavenly Curtain could also indirectly predict the future.

Knowing future events, even if only in fragments, was tremendously useful.

For good things, one could act in advance and seize the initiative;

For bad things, one could prepare ahead of time and stop them before they happened...

Yet at the same time, revealing future events in advance would also throw the continent into greater chaos.

Take the present, for example. Without the Heavenly Curtain's revelations, the best possible development for this new student Shao Zhuang would have been:

His teacher, Elder Mu, would discover his immense potential, secretly support and cultivate him, and eventually help him become a supreme powerhouse.

After all, for his teacher to predict that he would surely become a Sea God's Pavilion Elder in the future and the nemesis of Evil Soul Masters across the world, Shao Zhuang's talent was self-evident.

The Dragon God Douluo's judgment carried unquestionable weight. On this point, not only Yan Shaozhe, but ninety-nine percent of the Soul Masters in the world believed it without hesitation.

Originally, only Shrek Academy's upper ranks should have known about this matter.

Now, the whole world knew.

As a result, Shao Zhuang's original life trajectory had been completely rewritten.

Within the academy alone, many people's attitudes toward Shao Zhuang would undergo enormous changes.

Not to mention the outside world.

Goodwill would be manageable.

But Shao Zhuang would also have to face far more dangerous malice from hostile forces, even assassination attempts by Evil Soul Masters.

After all, the better Shao Zhuang's talent, the more worried hostile forces would become.

Especially that prediction from his teacher—"the nemesis of Evil Soul Masters"—which would make Evil Soul Masters everywhere feel as though they were sitting on pins and needles, eager to nip him in the bud.

Looks like I need to find a suitable guardian for this child. Yan Shaozhe stroked his chin and began considering appropriate candidates.

Since the Heavenly Curtain had already revealed everything, not only did greater cultivation and resource allocation need to be put on the agenda.

His personal safety, the most important matter of all, should also be made the highest priority.

Furthermore, Yan Shaozhe was considering what kind of gift he should give Shao Zhuang when they met later.

The gift's value would definitely be enough to make him take notice.

Only then could Shao Zhuang see the sincerity of their Martial Soul Department and Shrek Academy.

Yan Shaozhe could be said to have used this tactic to win over talented students time and again.

Of course, only a wealthy institution like Shrek Academy could use such a tactic so often.

For other factions, reaching that extent would be exceedingly difficult.

[What I did not expect was that Shao Zhuang did not need the academy's help to complete the awakening of his martial soul.]

[After breaking through Level 30, taking leave to hunt Soul Beasts, and absorbing his third soul ring, his martial soul completed its awakening and revealed its true form.]

[So the legendary Divine Beast Bi'an was not a tiger-type martial soul carrying Bi'an bloodline, but a true Bi An Martial Soul! No wonder I sensed from that child an aura of justice and fairness, supreme holiness and judgment!]

[Xuan Zi, who possessed the Divine Beast Taotie Bloodline, could grow into a Level 98 Super Douluo. Then what kind of achievements would Shao Zhuang, who possessed a true Divine Beast Martial Soul, achieve in the future? It seemed that I had still underestimated this child's potential.]

[Without question, once Shao Zhuang's talent truly revealed itself, he instantly became highly sought after. Since he also cultivated in the Soul Tool Department, the two major departments naturally fought over him. Shao Zhe and Lin'er even brought the dispute over his affiliation to Sea God Pavilion.]

[I naturally understood that this child was extraordinary. After investigating and confirming that he was a native of the Heaven Dou Empire rather than a spy from the Sun Moon Empire, I decided to increase the academy's efforts in cultivating Shao Zhuang.]

[After all, if a Soul Master with a Divine Beast Martial Soul grew up, it would bring enormous benefits to Shrek. So, while personally approving Shao Zhuang as a Core Disciple of both the Martial Soul Department and Soul Tool Department, I also accepted him as my Last Disciple.]

[When the academy went on break, I instructed this child to remain at the academy. His talent had deeply shocked me, so during this holiday, I planned to teach him Reign Over the World ahead of schedule.]

"The legendary Divine Beast Bi'an?!"

Yan Shaozhe had not expected Shao Zhuang's true martial soul to be revealed so quickly.

Bi'an was no obscure, lesser-known Divine Beast. Its origins were astonishingly great.

Legend had it that the Dragon God had nine sons.

And the Divine Beast Bi'an was the Dragon God's seventh son.

Bi'an was said to resemble a tiger, so it was no wonder Shao Zhuang's martial soul had appeared as a tiger-type martial soul before awakening.