Dog-Training Plan Difficulty +1

Seeing Yan Shaozhe still lost in his fantasies, Lin Yan had no choice but to remind him, "Dean, Dean, can you make the exchange like this or not? Give me a straight answer."

"Yes, absolutely no problem!"

"If you have any other specific requirements for the Soul Beasts you need, state them all at once."

In his excellent mood, Yan Shaozhe finally showed a rare moment of generosity.

Lin Yan naturally did not stand on ceremony. "As for the requirements, first, the Soul Beasts must be alive when they arrive before me."

"Second, if it's a Thousand-Year Soul Beast, I can completely refine its Beast Fire in about seven days. If it's a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, I'm not yet sure how long it will take to refine its Beast Fire, but it should be more than fifteen days."

"Lastly, try not to provide me with the same species of Soul Beast more than once."

With every additional condition Lin Yan stated, Yan Shaozhe's heart ached a little more. By the time Lin Yan finished, the joy and excitement on Yan Shaozhe's face had completely vanished.

Thousand-Year and Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were already difficult to capture alive. Every single one required enormous effort and was worth a fortune.

More importantly, this was not a one-time transaction. They had to be supplied continuously over the long term!

Yan Shaozhe felt as though his heart were bleeding. The pain was so intense he could barely breathe!

But the words had already left his mouth. As the dean of Shrek's Spirit Department, Yan Shaozhe still had some pride to maintain, so he could only grit his teeth and agree.

"Thank you, Dean. You really are a good man!"

"Enough, enough. If there's nothing else, get out already. Stop being an eyesore."

Facing his biggest benefactor at the moment, Lin Yan naturally did not care about such "minor details" as tone. He briskly said goodbye and turned to leave.

But just as Lin Yan was about to step out the door, Yan Shaozhe called after him as though he had suddenly remembered something. "Wait. Go to Building Seven in the Inner Courtyard dormitory area on Sea God Island and bring my disciple, Ma Xiaotao, here. I need to speak with her about something."

Lin Yan paused and looked suspiciously at Yan Shaozhe, who "seemed" perfectly serious at the moment.

His sharp instincts immediately told him something was off—was the honey trap starting already?

But to borrow a famous saying, damn it, at least bring me a good one!

Lin Yan truly did not have much of a favorable impression of Ma Xiaotao.

Of course, Yan Shaozhe had just paid up, after all. Refusing such a small favor would indeed be a little unreasonable.

So Lin Yan could only agree "readily." "Sure, Dean. I'll go right away."

Yet after agreeing, Lin Yan seemed to suddenly recall something. He stopped where he was rather than continuing toward the door.

Yan Shaozhe asked in confusion, "Hm? Is there something else?"

"Dean, does our Outer Courtyard allow men and women to share dormitories?"

Yan Shaozhe could not make heads or tails of Lin Yan's sudden question. He casually replied, "Of course not! What's wrong?"

"Then why is a classmate in our class whose martial soul is the Light Goddess Butterfly currently sharing a room with a male student?"

Seeing the expression on Lin Yan's face, as if he were merely asking out of simple curiosity, Yan Shaozhe also realized what was going on.

Though he was petty, miserly, and narrow-minded, as Mu En's disciple, he still possessed this much knowledge—the Light Goddess Butterfly martial soul could only appear in women!

But the Light Goddess Butterfly?

If he remembered correctly, the one Clear Sky Sect had sent over this year possessed the Light Goddess Butterfly martial soul, didn't she?!!

No, why had she gone to the boys' dormitory? And even moved in with a male student?

At that thought, Yan Shaozhe was startled as well. He had known that Clear Sky Sect would be sending someone over this year, but with his daily "mountain of affairs," he had not paid much attention to it.

Yet if Lin Yan had not pointed it out today, he never would have imagined that she had disguised herself as a boy and actually moved into the boys' dormitory?!

At that moment, Yan Shaozhe's head began to throb.

Outsiders might not understand the current, long-secluded Clear Sky Sect, but Shrek, which had deep ties to the sect, still knew something about its internal situation.

And precisely because he understood their strength, Yan Shaozhe found this so troublesome. If Clear Sky Sect learned that their "little princess" was living under the same roof as a male student, who knew what kind of uproar it would cause!

Thinking of this, Yan Shaozhe was filled with confusion. Even if she really wanted to disguise herself as a boy to experience life, why not come to him?

Would it have been so difficult to ask him to arrange a private dormitory specifically for her?

As for why Wang Dong had managed to move into the boys' dormitory without issue, Yan Shaozhe did not find it strange.

First, at Clear Sky Sect's request, Wang Dong's true identity had not been widely publicized. Only he, Xuan Zi, and a handful of others knew.

Second, martial souls like the Light Goddess Butterfly were simply too rare. It was normal for the teachers responsible for class and dormitory assignments to be unaware of its characteristics.

Fortunately, it was only the first day of school. There was still time to fix everything.

Yan Shaozhe rubbed his temples and said with a headache, "I understand. I'll handle this matter. You don't need to concern yourself with it."

"Alright, then I'll be leaving first, Dean."

Seeing Yan Shaozhe wave his hand, Lin Yan did not linger and turned to leave directly.

The instant he turned around, the curiosity vanished from Lin Yan's face, replaced by a flicker of contemplation.

Judging by Yan Shaozhe's reaction, Wang Dong's placement in the boys' dormitory truly had not been deliberately arranged by Shrek.

Then there was a high chance that Wang Dong had "independently" developed the idea of disguising herself as a boy under the influence of Tang San's Divine Sense, while those two beast-traitors from Clear Sky Sect had perhaps received Little Scumbag's divine decree and deliberately gone along with it.

As for why Shrek had discovered this in the later stages of the original story yet did not stop it, perhaps it had noticed the beginnings of something between Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong and simply let the mistake continue.

Or perhaps Wang Dong had already lived there for too long, making it a done deal, so Shrek first contacted Clear Sky Sect to discuss how to handle it, only for Clear Sky Sect to refuse to let Wang Dong move out.

But regardless of how the original story had unfolded, with Lin Yan's intervention now, this matter had completely changed.

And the reason he had done this today was nothing else but to separate Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao ahead of time and make Little Scumbag's Dog-Training Plan a little more difficult!

After all, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong's first meeting had not actually been pleasant. It could even be said that they disliked each other.

Wang Dong looked down on Huo Yuhao for his poor talent, low Soul Power, and reliance on connections to get in.

Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao, who had suffered bullying since childhood and was inwardly sensitive and insecure, also disliked the faint but ever-present aristocratic superiority Wang Dong unconsciously exuded.

The true turning point when their relationship broke the ice and began to ease should have been during the period when Zhou Yi made the entire class undergo the punishment of running laps.

But Zhou Yi was still unconscious from the severe injuries Lin Yan had beaten her into. The opportunity that would have transformed their relationship had completely disappeared.

And with Yan Shaozhe about to intervene, the two of them would inevitably be separated from the same dormitory as well.

So, with the estrangement between them still present, their chance to spend every day together gone, and Huo Yuhao already being introverted, insecure, and poor at taking initiative, unless Little Scumbag made another move, who knew how many years it would be before these two could develop feelings for each other again!