How Should Teacher Ethics Be?

God-given Soul Rings!

And two of them at that!

Naturally, Ling Feng, who knew the plot well, understood the value of God-given Soul Rings.

There was no need to hunt Soul Beasts—they could grant him the Soul Skills he needed most!

The greater the limit one could withstand during absorption, the higher the quality of the Soul Ring obtained!

As long as his body was strong enough, even a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring was not impossible!

Of course, that only existed in theory.

Unless the check-in system directly rewarded him with the cultivation of a Titled Douluo.

Or unless it gave him enough ten-thousand-year whale glue to last him a lifetime.

If he ate it for, say, thirty to fifty years?

He should be able to use a God-given Soul Ring to absorb his third Soul Ring as a hundred-thousand-year one.

But after thirty to fifty years, it would all be too late. What place would there still be for him?

"Did my martial soul splitting into two, with both gaining Soul Rings, cause me to reach Rank 30?"

"Ten-thousand-year whale glue... now that's good stuff!"

"Perfect. I've reached a bottleneck, and the system even gave me two God-given Soul Rings."

"I can use the ten-thousand-year whale glue to strengthen my body first, then absorb the God-given Soul Rings."

"A hundred thousand years is impossible, but maybe I can make a push for ten-thousand-year Soul Rings?"

At that thought, Ling Feng excitedly licked his lips.

Besides, he now had an answer for why two thousand-year Soul Rings had appeared on his body when he used his Spirit Eyes earlier.

The Soul Rings were naturally not truly thousand-year Soul Rings, despite how they appeared.

"Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion First Soul Ring current age: 5,539 years (limit: 400,000 years)"

"Spirit Eyes First Soul Ring current age: 5,539 years (limit: 1,000,000 years)"

Looking at the Soul Ring information provided by the system, Ling Feng stroked his chin and guessed, "It should gradually increase the age and power of the Soul Rings as my physical condition improves."

As someone in the Ling Family whose talent rivaled Ling Luocheng's, Ling Feng had received nearly the best resources the Ling Family could provide since childhood.

He had not gone so far as to eat ten-thousand-year whale glue like snacks.

But he had eaten plenty of hundred-year and thousand-year whale glue, and he had never lacked medicinal baths made with heavenly treasures.

That was precisely why, with cultivation not even at three rings, he could withstand a Soul Ring age that others could only bear with their fourth Soul Ring!

As for the second Soul Skills of his two martial souls, they naturally did not receive such treatment.

The Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's second Soul Skill was locked at one hundred thousand years, while the Spirit Eyes' second Soul Skill retained only its original three-thousand-year level.

The Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's second Soul Skill was also not Huo Yuhao's original Emperor's Chill: Snow Dance, Shining Sun. Instead, it had been replaced with Ultimate Ice Amplification.

However, Ling Feng had painlessly absorbed the Ice Empress's torso Soul Bone.

Its power, though, could likewise only be displayed at a thousand-year level.

Ling Feng did not find that regrettable.

It was not as though it would remain at the thousand-year level forever.

Besides, he was about to break through to three rings.

Perhaps it would reach the ten-thousand-year level once he had three rings!

"This is what a system is!"

Just his first check-in had already brought Ling Feng an abundant haul.

He did not dare imagine what rewards it would give him if he checked in a few more times.

Maybe it would even directly reward him with a divine position!

"As for the change to the second Soul Ring..."

"Could it be because the original second Soul Ring belonged to the Snow Empress? And my Ultimate Ice has not yet reached the point where it can accommodate the Snow Empress's abilities?"

"Or is it because of plot reasons?"

"After all, Electrolux, including his necromancy, was not given to me either..."

After thinking for a moment, Ling Feng tossed the matter to the back of his mind.

"Who cares!"

"In any case, what I can be sure of now is that this is a conscientious system that won't screw me over!"

"As for what comes next..."

Ling Feng looked out the window.

The check-in process had been even faster than he had expected.

He estimated that less than half an hour had passed since he entered the dormitory building.

"Nothing better to do anyway. I'll go check in at Sea God Lake first!"

After leaving the dormitory building, Ling Feng went around the freshmen teaching building and headed east along the southern side of Shrek Plaza.

Half of the students coming and going were around Ling Feng's age, and none wore the uniforms that marked them as Shrek Academy students. This proved that most of them were either here to take the entrance test or freshmen who had already finished it.

Many of them were plainly dressed, carrying large and small bags in their hands or over their shoulders.

Clearly, these people did not possess storage soul tools at all, which meant their families were not well-off.

"Basic storage soul tools aren't expensive, yet they still can't afford them."

"As soul masters, far stronger than ordinary people, they've actually fallen to such a state."

"If Spirit Hall still existed, they might not have lived in luxury, but they definitely wouldn't have needed to worry about basic necessities."

Although Spirit Hall was hardly made up of good people, it had been relatively kind to commoners.

Seeing the determination on these youths' faces—determination that did not belong to people their age—Ling Feng could not help feeling emotional.

In this era, awakening a martial soul, even with innate soul power, did not necessarily offer one a chance to turn their life around.

Even Jiang Nannan, now a fourth-year student in the outer academy, a future inner academy prodigy and one of the Shrek Seven Monsters, had once been driven by hardship to sell herself...

Even someone as talented as Jiang Nannan had been forced into that.

Ling Feng did not dare imagine what life was like for students with ordinary talent and poor families.

Perhaps they foolishly looked forward to undergoing a complete transformation at Shrek, changing from ugly ducklings into swans.

But they would never realize it.

Most of these impoverished students who had come all the way to Shrek to study would be eliminated by its harsh assessment system.

If it were merely due to talent, then the strong devouring the weak was simply the way of the world. Aside from regret, they had no one to blame.

But many of them would not even get the chance to undergo the assessment.

Just because their grades ranked at the bottom, their talent was lacking, or their martial souls were poor, some crazy old woman could casually find an excuse one day to expel them, denying them even the chance to keep working hard!

She was not even as good as that Grandmaster.

At least Grandmaster would say things like, "There are no useless martial souls, only useless soul masters," dangling false hopes before the students.

Thinking of this, Ling Feng's impression of that crazy old woman worsened again.

Because his attention was focused on his thoughts, he did not even notice that a youth had suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Ow!"

Ling Feng was naturally fine given his physical strength, but the youth was nowhere near his equal.

It was as though the youth had slammed into a wall. His body tilted to one side, and the things in his hands scattered all over the ground.

"I'm sorry! I'm really sorry! I didn't see you..."

Before Ling Feng could help him up, the youth had already scrambled to his feet, his face red as he repeatedly apologized.

Looking down, Ling Feng saw several patches on the youth's clothes. There was also a large bundle on the ground, filled with bedding and other things the youth had brought from home.

With a single glance, Ling Feng understood what had happened.

He had clearly been too absorbed in thought and bumped into the other person!

The youth had such a large bundle slung over his shoulder that it blocked his view. Of course he had not seen Ling Feng.

"I should be the one apologizing. I wasn't paying attention and bumped into you."

Ling Feng crouched down and picked up the items that had scattered across the ground one by one.

After reorganizing them and handing them back, an honest, simple smile appeared on the youth's face.

"Thank you, you're really a good person!"