Douluo: Divine Disciple Recruitment—Choose Three of Nine Traits
Chapter 9

Tai Chi: Yin-Yang Hand!

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Dai Mubai, broad and powerfully built, strode up to the Trait Entry Detection Platform with his head held high.

He even flicked his hair at the girls who had been dejected after failing to meet the Apprenticeship Standard due to their low-quality Trait Entries, trying to look cool.

Once he detected nothing but Supreme-Grade Trait Entries, wouldn't these girls be completely smitten with him?

He had looked carefully. Among the girls gathered beneath Immortal Mountain were some of Suotuo City's finest—beautiful faces, great figures, respectable backgrounds. Every one of them was top-notch and perfectly suited to his tastes.

"Ten Gold Soul Coins just to test Trait Entry talent? That's pretty damn pricey."

Dai Mubai took ten Gold Soul Coins from his robes and tossed them into the Detection Platform like everyone before him, his voice cold.

[Ding] [Coin insertion successful] [Testing the student's Trait Entries] [Trait Entry grades from lowest to highest: Inferior White, Ordinary Yellow, Good Purple, Excellent Black, Top-tier Red, God-tier Gold]

This student's detected Trait Entries are:

Trait Entry 1: Evil-Eyed White Tiger (Black)

Trait Entry 2: Excellent Power Attack System Soul Master potential (Black)

Trait Entry 3: Innate Soul Power Rank Eight (Black)

Trait Entry 4: White Tiger Coward (White)

Trait Entry 5: Royal Family Scum (White)

Trait Entry 6: Breeding Tiger (White)

Trait Entry 7: Low Moral Character (White)

Trait Entry 8: Bullies the Weak and Fears the Strong (White)

Trait Entry 9: A Star Luo prince by nature wild, frivolous in youth and fond of drink. He relied on courage and bravado while taking strategy lightly, faithlessly neglecting his fiancée. His arrogant eyes often scorned common-born scholars, and in anger he wielded blades without cause. Though his mighty frame concealed proud bones, his character was vile, making him scum. (Yellow)

Choose three of the nine Trait Entries. The highest three Trait Entry grades are: Black, Black, Black. Unfortunately, you fall far short of the Apprenticeship Standard.

Very soon, Dai Mubai's detected Trait Entries were made public.

"The Evil-Eyed White Tiger? He's a member of the Star Luo Empire's royal family—what is he doing in Suotuo City?"

"Innate Soul Power Rank Eight already puts him among geniuses, only one rank below Rongrong. And his martial soul is the White Tiger, one of the best power attack system martial souls, yet he was still turned away. Immortal Mountain's Apprenticeship Standard really is strict."

Ning Fengzhi noticed Dai Mubai's Trait Entry results and could not help but sigh.

He and Sword Uncle had come to Immortal Mountain intending to demand an explanation and take that disobedient little devil girl home.

But after arriving at Immortal Mountain and witnessing everything here firsthand, he felt that this Immortal might truly possess something extraordinary.

Chen Xin merely nodded slightly. He was not particularly surprised by the White Tiger Martial Soul.

"The admission standards are indeed high enough."

"But the White Tiger Martial Soul is only that much. There are thousands of Star Luo royal family members, yet not a single Titled Douluo has emerged from them in a hundred years. Only by relying on the Martial Soul Fusion Skill with the Hell Spirit Cat—the Hell White Tiger—can they barely unleash a decent amount of power."

"Besides, judging from his detected Trait Entries, his temperament is poor. So I do not think this brat has greater potential than our Rongrong."

Chen Xin spoke calmly.

Hearing that, Ning Fengzhi felt much better. Sword Uncle was right!

But Dai Mubai's expression darkened.

He could accept the first three Trait Entries.

But weren't the ones after that exposing his shortcomings and insulting him?

How was he supposed to pick up girls in the future like this?

Meanwhile, Ma Hongjun, who had originally been timid and submissive, saw that Dai Mubai's overall Trait Entry quality was actually worse than his own and could not stop himself from bursting into laughter.

"Hehehe, Boss Dai, you're no good either!"

"Forget Supreme-Grade Trait Entries—you've got a whole bunch of White Trait Entries. Isn't that a little too pathetic?"

Dai Mubai gave Ma Hongjun a cold look and said in a deep voice, "Are you sure you have nine Supreme-Grade Trait Entries?"

Meeting Dai Mubai's vicious gaze for a second, Ma Hongjun swallowed and nodded guiltily.

"O-of course. Don't you know what kind of talent I have?"

"It's because I know you too well that I don't believe it," Dai Mubai snorted.

"Come on, Boss Dai, don't take it so seriously. So what if your Trait Entries are a little worse? This Detection Platform gives random results. You can't trust it."

"Look at that girl. She met the Apprenticeship Standard, but how miserable is she after becoming an apprentice? She's an auxiliary system Soul Master, yet she plays around punching rocks beneath a waterfall every day. Her pretty little face and fair skin have turned wheat-colored. Ah, if she had been willing to become my girlfriend and leave with me back then, how great would that have been? Why suffer like this?"

Ma Hongjun pointed at Ning Rongrong, who was practicing her punches beneath a mountain waterfall.

His tone carried three parts mockery and three parts pity. Such a delicate auxiliary system Soul Master ought to be kept at home and raised properly as a turret. How could she train like this?

"She, an auxiliary system Soul Master, detected more than three Supreme-Grade Trait Entries?"

Following Ma Hongjun's finger, Dai Mubai also saw Ning Rongrong.

Naturally, he could not see the profound mysteries in the martial art she was practicing.

All he saw was a delicate-looking auxiliary system girl weakly throwing punches beneath the waterfall, and he could not help but sneer.

"She could test three Supreme-Grade Trait Entries, while I don't even have one?"

"Even you have nine Supreme-Grade Trait Entries, while I have a whole page of White ones?"

"Fraud! This Immortal Mountain is a mountain of frauds."

"I'll smash it! Damn it!"

"You called me a White Tiger Coward, didn't you?"

"You called me scum, didn't you?"

"I'll show you what the divine might of the White Tiger is!"

Dai Mubai's temper flared as well.

He directly activated White Tiger Possession and smashed a heavy fist into the Detection Platform, intending to blast it into pieces.

Ma Hongjun was so frightened that he retreated again and again. He found it thrilling, yet terrifying.

He had wanted to smash it last time too, but he could not afford to provoke Immortal Mountain's Immortal.

Dai Mubai hammered away furiously, yet the Trait Entry Detection Platform did not budge in the slightest. It remained completely intact.

That only made Dai Mubai angrier, and he struck it with increasing ferocity.

Seeing this, Immortal Mountain's female admirers could no longer stand by. They stepped forward one after another to criticize him.

"What's wrong with you?"

"You got angry out of shame because you failed the test?"

"If you're no good, why take your anger out on the Detection Platform?"

"The Trait Entry Detection Platform really is accurate. You're just a bad-tempered guy with low moral character!"

"Get lost."

Dai Mubai did not take kindly to pressure.

A powerful wave of soul power burst from his body and blasted them all away.

"Damn it, White Tiger Fierce Light Wave!"

Immediately afterward, he took two steps back. The yellow Spirit Ring beneath his feet flashed faintly, and a milky-white orb of light shot from his mouth toward the Detection Platform.

But at that very moment—

"Tai Chi: Cloud Hands."

"Tai Chi: Yin-Yang Reversal Hand."

A pale yet powerful jade hand caught the orb of light directly. Then, it formed a circle before her chest, tracing the pattern of a yin-yang fish and the positions of the Eight Trigrams before pushing out with a reverse palm.

The White Tiger Fierce Light Wave actually flew back along its original path and struck Dai Mubai in the mouth.

Caught completely off guard, Dai Mubai was blasted dozens of meters away by his own White Tiger Fierce Light Wave.

When he climbed back up, he saw that Ning Rongrong, who had just been practicing beneath the waterfall, was already standing before the Detection Platform. She said calmly, "Immortal Mountain's Trait Entry Detection Platform is fair and objective. Everything it reveals is the truth. Petty villains will not be allowed to cause trouble here. Go back wherever you came from."

Dai Mubai felt a sharp ache across his face. He touched his mouth with his right hand and found it covered in blood. Two of his front teeth had been smashed to pieces, and he flew into a rage at once, shouting through the gaps in his teeth, "Damn it, I'll kill you!"

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