Spirit Hall Agricultural Academy - The Demon Pill Descends

However, Qian Daoliu still offered his niece a bit of advice:

"Qian'er, you don't have to be so rigid! This Seat will lend you one million gold soul coins for now. Even though your research is still in the experimental phase, you could sell it to some nobles at a high price first!"

"The nobles of the two great empires will surely go crazy for such heaven-defying technology, especially the Heaven Dou royal family's Swan Spirit—it is simply too weak. If they knew it could raise their innate spirit power, wouldn't they buy it like madmen?"

Qian Daoliu, that old fox, chuckled with a wicked "Heh, heh, heh":

"When the time comes, sell it to them for one hundred thousand or even a million gold soul coins. Doesn't Heaven Dou City have an auction house? You can auction it there and let the nobles drive the price up!"

Qian Xunqian, that little fox, suddenly realized the truth and sighed that ginger is indeed spicier when it's old! She had truly muddled her brain with scientific research; why was she talking about scientific ethics with blood-sucking nobles?

Hard cash was what mattered!

"Uncle, hurry up and give your niece that million gold soul coins! Don't worry, I will definitely pay you back!"

Qian Daoliu looked embarrassed and said:

"Qian'er, wait a moment, I need to go pool some together with your uncles..."

Finally, after gathering enough funds for the school, Qian Xunqian built the Spirit Hall Agricultural Academy on a vast grassland between several villages.

It was also the first higher education institution in the history of the Douluo Continent that was not for spirit masters.

As long as the pay is sufficient, a school can be built in no time.

In less than a year, the Spirit Hall Agricultural Academy was successfully established.

At the same time, within that year, Qian Xunqian also became a regular at the Heaven Dou Empire Royal Auction House.

The Innate Spirit Power Cultivation Device was bid up to an astronomical price at the auction house. A single tiny pill actually sold for one million gold soul coins—she broke even with just one sale, which completely shocked Qian Xunqian.

Her uncle and those uncle-level titled douluos had to scrape and scrounge to pull together a million gold soul coins, yet she never imagined that in the tiny Heaven Dou Empire, a member of the royal family could produce that amount without the slightest effort.

It really is true that comparing people only leads to anger; one could only say that Qian Daoliu, this Limit Douluo, had truly lived his life in vain all these years. Having lived for so long, he still had to borrow a million gold soul coins from his old brothers.

Now, Qian Xunqian could be considered a wealthy woman, but while the money came in fast, it went out just as quickly.

At the beginning, recruiting for the Agricultural Academy was extremely difficult; spirit masters looked down on it, and commoners were unwilling to give up their work to study so-called agriculture.

Since people were unwilling to come and study, Qian Xunqian spent money to invite them.

Anyone who enrolled in the Spirit Hall Agricultural Academy received free tuition, room, and board, with a monthly subsidy of 5 gold soul coins for spirit masters and 10 gold soul coins for commoners.

Those who graduated with excellent grades could apply for jobs with the principal, and Qian Daoliu would send people to clear land in the Star Dou Forest, dividing the reclaimed fields among them for cultivation.

Furthermore, the Spirit Hall Agricultural Academy would purchase the agricultural products grown by the students at high prices.

Coupled with frantic promotion, for a time, applicants arrived in an endless stream, nearly breaking down the doors of the Spirit Hall Agricultural Academy.

Once the student pool grew, they could be screened, and the quality of the students improved instantly.

As the Spirit Hall Agricultural Academy flourished, the Star Dou Forest also began to suffer.

One could only say that the Star Dou Forest was perfect in every way, except for the one fatal flaw of being right next to Spirit City.

Heh, heh, heh—striding toward the industrial age required massive amounts of agricultural products, and massive amounts of agricultural products required massive amounts of arable land. Since Qian Xunqian couldn't bear to enclose the farmers' land, she could only enclose the spirit beasts' land!

Spirit beasts: Woe is us, even this is being enclosed.

This year, besides the opening of the Spirit Hall Agricultural Academy, there was another major event: the future second villain—Qian Renxue, the Demon Pill, had descended into the world!

One could only sigh that the corrective power of destiny was too strong; not only was Qian Renxue born, but just like in the original story, she began to suffer from a young age.

In the original, it was Bibi Dong who did not love this daughter, but now, it was Qian Xunji who did not love his own daughter.

After all, she was born from a lowly maidservant during a time of sexual repression, and from the very beginning, Qian Xunji had shown no kindness to the mother and daughter.

After all, forcing a maidservant and having it be known by others was equivalent to a Pope in the European Middle Ages forcing a nun and having it become public knowledge.

This was truly too damaging to Qian Xunji's image as Pope.

As a Spirit Hall that worshipped the Angel God, even if one played wildly in private, one had to maintain a pure and holy appearance in public.

And Qian Xunji, quite obviously, had failed to do so.

He, Qian Xunji, prided himself on being pure and holy; he would rather not have this daughter than compromise his pure and holy image as Pope!

But alas, spilled water cannot be gathered!!!

Every time he saw this daughter, memories of the past would surge in his mind, constantly reminding him that this Pope was a beast!

"Ahhhhh! The shame! The shame!"

Qian Xunji sat in the Pope's Palace in a fit of impotent rage. Today was the day his daughter was born, and he couldn't even be bothered to take a look.

Except for Qian Xunji, almost the entire upper echelon of Spirit Hall witnessed the birth of Qian Renxue.

Why say "almost"? Because the poor Qingluan Douluo and Ling Yuan were still playing with the Ice Jade Scorpion in the Far North!

Qian Xunqian was the first person to hold her little niece, aside from the nurse.

"Coo-coo-ga-ga, I'm finally not the youngest person in Spirit Hall anymore!"

Qian Daoliu was the most joyful; there was another account for him to train.

The main account, Qian Xunji, was a failed build, and the middle account, Qian Xunqian, was a skewed build. Qian Daoliu always felt that this was just a coincidence, not a reflection of his poor teaching ability!

From this day on, he would carefully cultivate this small account to redeem his reputation as a level 99 Limit Douluo!

Qian Daoliu thought to himself: Tang Chen, it's one thing that my son couldn't compare to your grandson, but there's no way my granddaughter is inferior to your great-grandson!

Qian Xunqian: Oh no! It actually is! How about this, you old geezer, why don't you just admit your failure in education and let me, her aunt, take over the teaching instead?

To be fair, Qian Daoliu's ability to educate was actually far superior to Tang Chen's. Why?

Because Tang Chen didn't care about his two grandsons at all, letting Tang Hao and Tang Xiao grow up freely without teaching them a thing.

And Tang Hao, the future Clear Sky Douluo, fully inherited his grandfather's educational philosophy.

Regarding Tang San, he also adopted a free-range style of parenting, and not only did he let Tang San fend for himself, he even made Tang San take care of him, the father, in return.

And in the end, Tang San became a god!

Tang Chen's free-range approach allowed Tang Hao to become the youngest Title Douluo; Tang Hao's abusive approach allowed Tang San to become a god!

Counting the events in Legend of the Dragon King, Tang San not only let Tang Wulin fend for himself, he didn't even act like a father to him, yet Tang Wulin still turned out successful in the end.

Qian Daoliu, you old geezer, it's time to reflect on your encouraging style of education; you need to use violent education on children! This is the era of abusive parenting!

Qian Daoliu: My fault, my fault.

(The above is all in jest. The author of the series has skewed values, so everyone should not imitate his way of raising children. Of course, one should not be as overly doting as Qian Daoliu either. One must possess both majesty and gentleness, and most importantly, treat children with fairness, justice, and sincerity!)

Similar to the circumstances surrounding the births of Liu Bang, Li Yuan, Zhao Kuangyin, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the moment Qian Renxue was born, the sky turned seven-colored, descending with auspicious light, with a golden dragon faintly circling above.

There are even historical records stating that the nurse delivering Qian Renxue suddenly smelled a refreshing, intoxicating fragrance during the process.

At a glance, it was clear this child was destined for greatness.

Qian Xunqian: Is there a possibility that was just my natural scent?