Shrek Academy.
Before the main gates.
Yu Xiaogang stood with his hands behind his back, his expression solemn.
"Lin Tian, as of today, you are expelled from Shrek Academy."
Lin Tian, standing opposite him, raised his head.
Clad in simple black robes, his figure was tall and straight, his features handsome.
"Why?"
Yu Xiaogang looked at Lin Tian and spoke.
"Your martial soul is merely an Azure Lotus; it can neither provide support nor possess any combat capability."
"You have lingered at rank ten for years, unable even to absorb your first soul ring."
"With your talent, you don't even qualify to be a working student at Shrek."
Yu Xiaogang raised a hand and pointed outside the academy.
"Shrek only takes in monster geniuses, not mortals."
"As of today, leave Shrek."
Tang San, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and the others stood to the side, not a trace of reluctance on their faces.
Ma Hongjun crossed his arms over his chest and sneered.
"I've long since had enough of this freeloaders."
"Living with us every day yet not even having a single soul ring, good riddance."
Dai Mubai said indifferently.
"A trash martial soul should honestly remain a mortal."
"The world of soul masters is not suited for you."
Zhu Zhuqing's delicate brows furrowed slightly.
She glanced at Lin Tian, then looked back at Yu Xiaogang.
"Lin Tian has lived in Shrek since he was a child."
"Now that he's being made to leave Shrek, where can he go?"
Tang San shook his head.
"This world has always been about the jungle law."
"Even if he can't survive after leaving Shrek, that is simply his own destiny."
Zhu Zhuqing pressed her lips together and said nothing further.
Seeing that Lin Tian was still standing in place, Yu Xiaogang's expression gradually darkened.
"Not leaving yet?"
"If you linger here any longer, I won't be polite with you."
Lin Tian swept his gaze across the people before him.
These people had accompanied him for many years.
Yet today, aside from Zhu Zhuqing asking a single question, the others all wore an indifferent look as if it had nothing to do with them.
Finally, Lin Tian looked at Yu Xiaogang.
"A place where even a fraud can be a teacher is not worth staying in anyway."
Yu Xiaogang's expression changed abruptly.
"What did you say!"
Lin Tian said calmly.
"I said you are a fraud who trades on his name to deceive the world."
"Grandmaster?"
"Fraud Grandmaster, more like."
Yu Xiaogang's face turned beet red, his chest heaving violently.
What he cared about most was the name of Grandmaster.
Now that Lin Tian was stripping away that facade in front of Tang San and the others, how could he possibly endure it.
"Impudent!"
"Luo Sanpao!"
A pale purple, plump-looking soul beast appeared before Yu Xiaogang.
Two yellow soul rings rose up in succession.
Luo Sanpao crouched on the ground, staring with a pair of large eyes while making a rumbling noise in its throat.
Yu Xiaogang pointed at Lin Tian.
"Today I shall personally teach you a lesson, so you understand what respecting teachers and valuing the Way means!"
"Hahahahaha!"
Lin Tian laughed up at the sky.
He ignored Luo Sanpao, which was striking a battle stance, and turned to walk into the distance.
"Shrek Academy, I, Lin Tian, don't think it's much."
The black-robed figure walked further and further away.
Yu Xiaogang stood before the gates, his expression turning pale and blue by turns.
Tang San walked to his side.
"Teacher, there's no need to work yourself up over a piece of trash."
"Since he's leaving Shrek today, sooner or later he will understand his own situation."
Yu Xiaogang recalled Luo Sanpao and stared in the direction Lin Tian had left.
"Without Shrek's protection, he might not even make it out of Suotuo City."
After leaving Shrek.
Lin Tian walked forward along a country path.
He didn't look back, nor did he have a definite destination.
It wasn't until the sun gradually slanted westward that Lin Tian stopped by the side of a river.
The clear river water flowed slowly.
He sat upon a blue-gray stone on the bank, gazing at his reflection in the water surface.
"Where should I go next?"
To this question, Lin Tian temporarily had no answer.
He was not a native inhabitant of Douluo Continent.
More than a decade ago, Lin Tian transmigrated into this world, becoming an infant still in swaddling clothes.
Later, he was found by people from Shrek Academy and grew up within the academy since childhood.
When he reached the age of six, Lin Tian participated in the martial soul awakening.
His martial soul was an azure lotus.
The azure lotus possessed neither offensive capabilities nor supportive effects, and could not even properly absorb soul rings.
The rank ten soul power from his awakening had not increased by even the slightest fraction since then.
Lin Tian extended his right hand.
Azure light converged.
A lotus the size of a palm floated quietly in his palm.
The lotus leaves were verdant and the petals were in bud, looking quite pretty indeed.
Pity that it could only be used for viewing.
Lin Tian looked at the azure lotus and couldn't help shaking his head.
"I am, after all, a transmigrator."
"No supreme martial soul, no innate rank twenty soul power, and no old grandfather."
"Am I really going to be an ordinary person for my whole life?"
Just as his voice fell.
Ding!
A prompt rang out in Lin Tian's mind.
[The Hextech System has been activated.] [Please choose four options from the nine as initial talents, Host.]
Lin Tian paused.
Immediately following, he stood up from the blue-gray stone.
"System?"
Nine light screens of different colors appeared in succession before Lin Tian's eyes.
[Option One: Prismatic Transformation—Chaos.] [The martial soul undergoes an upgrade, randomly evolving into two divine-tier martial souls.]
Lin Tian's gaze paused.
Two god-grade Martial Souls!
His trash Martial Soul Azure Lotus could directly undergo a qualitative change.
The first item was a prismatic-tier talent.
[Option Two: Gold Coin Rain.] [For every rank of Soul Power gained, obtain ten thousand gold soul coins.] [Option Three: Yu Xiaogang's Theory.] [Obtain the complete set of Yu Xiaogang's theories.] [Option Four: Attribute Stacking Attribute Stacking Attribute.] [Immediately obtain four Attribute Forgers, with a higher chance of producing golden-tier and prismatic-tier forgers. Each level-up randomizes one forer.]
Lin Tian continued reading downward.
[Option Five: Golden Egg.] [Obtain a golden egg. Open it after ten years to receive bountiful rewards upon opening.]
"Ten years?"
Lin Tian touched his chin.
Though the waiting time was very long, the bountiful rewards specially marked by the system would certainly not be simple.
[Option Six: Tank Engine.] [For every rank of Soul Power gained, the Martial Soul's size increases accordingly, with all-around growth in attributes such as health, strength, agility, and defense.] [Option Seven: Pearlglow Gauntlet.] [All soul skills can trigger critical hits.] [Option Eight: Goliath Giant.] [Increase health points by two thousand.] [Option Nine: Windtalker's Blessing.] [Significantly boost healing-type soul skills, doubling healing ability.]
The nine options were neatly arranged.
Golden, purple, and colorful radiances flickered alternately, dazzling Lin Tian.
Martial Soul evolution, infinite growth, soul skill critical hits, and a golden egg that could be opened after waiting ten years.
Every talent had a unique function.
Yet he could only choose four from among them.
Lin Tian stood by the river, carefully examining the nine light screens in front of him.
This is too many!
Lin Tian stood by the river, his gaze sweeping across the nine light screens one by one.
Four options.
Choose four out of nine.
Each one could be considered powerful, and making a real selection was indeed a difficult task.
"First, choose the most important ones."
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