Yan Shaozhe: What Body Martial Soul? Trash!

"Sect Master Xu, Your Excellency Ming Feng, this is my younger brother."

Su Tian introduced Su Fan with a respectful expression.

Xu Yuan did not show any displeasure. He merely sized Su Fan up as usual.

What kind of aptitude could make Su Tian recommend him so highly?

He really wondered what sort of place Shrek was.

Yan Shaozhe was also observing Su Fan.

Observation alone naturally revealed nothing, so he questioned him directly.

"How old are you this year? What level is your Soul Power? And what is your Martial Soul?"

"Seven and a half. Level twelve Soul Power. Aperture Martial Soul." Su Fan answered concisely.

Upon hearing that, Yan Shaozhe revealed a disappointed expression.

What gave Su Tian the confidence to think that a seven-year-old at level twelve could recommend himself to him, the dean of Shrek Academy's Martial Soul Department?

He did not even have Innate Full Soul Power...

Noticing Yan Shaozhe's disappointment, Su Tian immediately said, "My brother's Martial Soul should count as a Body Martial Soul. It can form apertures inside his body. Moreover, his Innate Soul Power was only level one, yet he broke through to level ten in just a year and a half."

As those words left his mouth, Yan Shaozhe's disappointment faded.

"Oh?"

He showed an interested expression.

"A Body Martial Soul? Are you sure?"

Although reaching level ten from level one in a year and a half was astonishing, it was not something he had never seen before.

To be honest, with one Mystic Water Pill and one Soul Ascension Pill, immediately rising from level one to level six was not particularly remarkable.

Over at the Tang Sect, generations of sect masters had possessed ordinary Blue Silver Grass Martial Souls. They had used this method long ago.

Therefore, Yan Shaozhe's attention was not on Su Fan reaching level ten in a year and a half, nor did he explain this to Su Tian.

He was merely curious about the point Su Tian had raised regarding a Body Martial Soul.

"Is your Martial Soul a Body Martial Soul?"

"It sort of is." Su Fan said.

He had never intended to enter Shrek in the first place, so he would not go out of his way to promote himself.

When Yan Shaozhe heard Su Fan say that it sort of was, he fell into thought.

He was indeed considering whether Su Fan's talent counted as monstrous.

If it did, bringing him into Shrek would not be a bad idea.

If it did not, then he would naturally ignore him completely.

"What part of your body does your Martial Soul correspond to?"

"Meridian nodes?" Su Fan described it.

Yan Shaozhe frowned upon hearing that.

"What form does it take exactly?"

"..."

As they exchanged questions and answers, Yan Shaozhe came to understand many details.

He could not help curling his lip.

"What kind of Body Martial Soul is this? Meridian nodes are not the apertures you mentioned. You merely used a little trick to place those apertures at your meridian nodes."

Yan Shaozhe shook his head and decisively rejected Su Fan.

If it truly were a Body Martial Soul related to meridians, it would naturally have considerable potential.

But a Martial Soul that was forcibly attached to the concept of the body—

Yan Shaozhe could only call it trash.

"If you are confident in yourself, go take the entrance exam after you meet Shrek Academy's admission requirements."

Passing the exam himself and being personally brought into the academy were entirely different treatments.

If he wanted to use the back door, he needed to have the qualifications to do so.

At the very least, he had to be somewhat presentable, right?

Besides, Yan Shaozhe had come this time to specially recruit Xu Sanshi. If he also took Su Fan along, what would Xu Sanshi think?

Being internally recruited alongside someone whose talent was worlds apart from his—would he feel good about that?

Faced with Yan Shaozhe's merciless rejection, Su Tian could only leave.

Su Fan, on the other hand, remained calm. He had expected this and felt that this outcome was only natural.

What could he possibly expect from Shrek?

"Brother, let's go. Even without joining Shrek, I can still cultivate."

Su Tian forced out a strained smile at those words.

"Don't worry. I'll find you a good Soul Tool teacher another way."

Su Fan frowned upon hearing that.

"Brother, there's absolutely no need."

He hesitated and did not reveal his plans.

Only after they had traveled some distance from Mystic Nether City did he explain himself to Su Tian.

"Actually, I want to join the Body Sect."

"The Body Sect's whereabouts are unpredictable. How could we possibly find them?"

Su Tian gave a bitter smile.

The Su Family had produced Soul Masters throughout its generations. Although their Innate Soul Power was not high, they had once had a "genius" with Innate Soul Power as high as level three, who relied on the family's resources to reach the Soul King realm.

Because of that, the family still knew some information about many things on the continent.

Not deeply.

But they did know some.

The Su Family knew of the Body Sect's existence.

That was why Su Tian had emphasized before Yan Shaozhe that Su Fan possessed a Body Martial Soul.

He knew the potential of Body Martial Souls.

"We do not need to find them. We only need to let the Body Sect find us." Su Fan smiled. "As long as I gain some fame, the Body Sect will probably learn of me."

"You want to draw attention to yourself?" Su Tian could not help hesitating.

"There's no need to deliberately stand out. For example, at the Soul Master Tournament, if I can compete and perform well, the Body Sect will naturally come looking for me."

Su Tian's eyes lit up at those words.

That was indeed a good method.

But—

"Won't that delay your cultivation? Let me calculate it. You would need to be at least seventeen to compete in your peak condition. That is nearly ten years. Wouldn't you be wasting ten years for nothing?"

Su Fan waved a hand.

"If I still can't enter the official team by the age of twelve, I'll think of another way."

Su Tian's mouth twitched.

Competing in the Soul Master Tournament at twelve?

Was he really not just talking nonsense?

To compete on stage and achieve results, he would need to be at least a Soul Ancestor, right?

A twelve-year-old Soul Ancestor...

"Brother, don't worry. I know what I'm doing."

Su Fan's words sounded utterly unreliable to Su Tian.

However, he had no better solution for the time being.

The Body Sect was truly difficult to locate.

Under normal circumstances, Soul Masters with Body Martial Souls cultivated in seclusion and did not stir up trouble everywhere.

As for Su Fan, he had his own calculations.

He did not know what joining the Body Sect would be like, nor did he wish to join them now.

For him, the best outcome would be to have the Body Sect as backing when he needed it.

In this era of the Peerless Tang Sect, the first few years were still relatively peaceful, leaving room to develop. After the first Soul Master Tournament, the continental situation would begin to grow tense, while the second tournament would completely ignite everything.

After returning to Eastsea City, Su Tian began searching for a suitable advanced Soul Master Academy for Su Fan.

His focus was on the strength of their Soul Guidance Departments.

In terms of Soul Guidance Department development, Shrek Academy was not actually much stronger than the Douluo Three Empires.

It was only because Shrek Academy had gathered so many Soul Master geniuses that the Soul Guidance Department's students ultimately relied on their high cultivation to improve Soul Tool production techniques in reverse, making Shrek Academy seem stronger than the Douluo Three Empires.

In truth, the gap in technical expertise was not great. Shrek simply had Qian Duoduo, who could use the cultivation of a Title Douluo to forcibly stack Core Arrays and create eighth-rank Soul Tools.

"I compared the advanced Soul Master Academies in our Dou Ling Empire. Dou Ling Royal Academy is probably the most suitable for you. Their Soul Guidance Department is the strongest in the empire overall. They have five seventh-rank Soul Engineers and seventeen sixth-rank Soul Engineers."