Leave the Body Sect One Sect Master Short Again

Sea God Pavilion meeting hall.

Yan Shaozhe frowned and said to Xian Lin'er, "Lin'er, this child is destined to become a Limit Douluo. Having him study Soul Tools would be abandoning the roots to chase the branches, wouldn't it?

The Douluo Continent still belongs to the strongest Soul Masters. Soul Tools only play a role in battles between low- and mid-level Soul Masters.

To Soul Masters at the pinnacle, Soul Tools are nothing more than toys. Even the Sun Moon Empire's most formidable Level 9 Soul Engineers can, at best, contend with a level ninety-five Super Douluo. They cannot compare to a Limit Douluo at all.

And your entire Soul Tool Department lags behind the Sun Moon Empire's soul guidance technology by who knows how far. You cannot even produce a single Level 9 Soul Tool.

With standards like that, how could you possibly educate an unparalleled genius like Chen An properly?

So, no matter what, I refuse to let your Soul Tool Department teach this child! He should be taught by our Martial Soul Department!"

Yan Shaozhe looked at his teacher, Dragon God Douluo Mu En, seated at the head of the table. "Teacher, let our Martial Soul Department teach this child.

I can guarantee that, with our department's careful instruction, he will become a Soul Elder before twelve, a Soul Saint before twenty, a Titled Douluo before thirty, and a Limit Douluo at fifty!"

Hearing this, Xian Lin'er boiled with anger. What did he mean, their Soul Tool Department could not teach this child properly? What did he mean, Soul Tools were merely toys for the strongest experts?

How utterly outrageous! She was a level ninety-four Titled Douluo, yet she could not teach a six-year-old child?

Xian Lin'er glared at Yan Shaozhe and snapped, "Soul guidance technology is advancing at such tremendous speed, yet you're still looking at Soul Tools through the same old lens?

Yes, it's true that four thousand years ago, the Douluo Three Kingdoms defeated the Sun Moon Empire under Shrek Academy's leadership. Back then, the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Tools could not threaten the strongest Soul Masters, those at the Titled Douluo level and above.

But things are different now. The Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells developed by the Sun Moon Empire are so powerful that even Super Douluos would suffer severe injuries. With enough of them, even a Limit Douluo would be unable to withstand them.

And that is only the soul guidance technology the Sun Moon Empire has revealed. No one can say for certain what strength they have hidden, or how powerful the new Soul Tools they have developed might be!

Soul Tools are the tide of the times. In a few more decades, when the Sun Moon Empire's soul guidance technology becomes even stronger—so strong that even Limit Douluos cannot resist it—it will all be too late.

By then, the Douluo Three Kingdoms may well be invaded and conquered by the foreigners of the Sun Moon Empire.

It was precisely because of this concern that Teacher strongly supported the establishment of the Soul Tool Department.

But what about you, Yan Shaozhe? Every time your Martial Soul Department recruits students, you use every means possible to take away the best ones, leaving our Soul Tool Department nothing but the scraps at the bottom.

Without outstanding students, without geniuses joining us, how is our Soul Tool Department supposed to develop? How are we supposed to improve?"

The more Xian Lin'er spoke, the angrier she became, her words coming faster and faster. Finally, she rose straight from her chair and pointed at Yan Shaozhe's nose as she berated him.

Xian Lin'er stood around a hundred and seventy centimeters tall. Though she was actually almost a hundred years old, she looked only fifty, with fair skin and black hair neatly pinned up, giving her a tidy, brisk, highly capable appearance.

As dean of Shrek Academy's Soul Tool Department, Xian Lin'er was a disciple of Dragon God Douluo Mu En and had been Yan Shaozhe's girlfriend in her youth.

However, Yan Shaozhe had later cheated on her. In her anger, Xian Lin'er entered a sham marriage with Qian Duoduo, who had always pursued her, intending to give Yan Shaozhe a bitter taste of his own medicine. (She and Qian Duoduo were husband and wife in name only.)

Beside Xian Lin'er sat a man who appeared to be in his fifties, with white hair like steel needles and a somewhat weathered appearance. He was tall and powerfully built, standing over two hundred and twenty centimeters, with broad shoulders, a wide back, bronze skin, and solid muscles.

Seeing Yan Shaozhe being berated, he could not help laughing. "Lin'er is right!"

The man echoing Xian Lin'er was Qian Duoduo, vice dean of Shrek Academy's Soul Tool Department, whose Martial Soul was the Black Dragon Shield. He was a level ninety-four Titled Douluo.

Qian Duoduo had loved Xian Lin'er ever since his youth. After she broke up with Yan Shaozhe, he became her husband in name only.

Despite being married for decades, he had never so much as touched Xian Lin'er. He was truly a fighter jet among lapdogs.

Qian Duoduo smiled. "Shaozhe, whatever your Martial Soul Department can teach, Lin'er and I can teach too. And what your department cannot teach, we can teach as well.

So, in my opinion, our Soul Tool Department is the best place to educate Chen An."

Yan Shaozhe ignored Qian Duoduo. He merely looked at Xian Lin'er and frowned. "Lin'er, you..."

Yan Shaozhe wanted to say something in rebuttal. In the end, he raised a finger, then lowered it again.

He had always felt guilty toward Xian Lin'er. After all, he had cheated on her with another beautiful woman back then, and Xian Lin'er had caught him...

But guilt was one thing and duty another. As dean of the Martial Soul Department, Yan Shaozhe had always kept personal and professional matters separate. He still had to fight for talented Soul Masters.

While Yan Shaozhe remained silent,

a beautiful middle-aged woman beside him said with a smile, "That is mistaken. For an unparalleled genius like Chen An, time is immensely precious.

Especially before the age of twenty, he cannot afford to waste even a moment.

Studying Soul Tools requires a tremendous amount of energy, which would undoubtedly affect the progress of Chen An's cultivation.

For that reason, I believe it would be best for Chen An to concentrate on cultivating as a Soul Master before he turns twenty.

As for Soul Tools, he would be better off studying them once his cultivation has reached great heights."

This beautiful middle-aged woman was Cai Mei'er, vice dean of Shrek Academy's Martial Soul Department, Yan Shaozhe's wife, and a level ninety-five Super Douluo. She was also the beauty with whom Yan Shaozhe had cheated in his youth.

Seeing that Yan Shaozhe had fallen silent under her scolding, Xian Lin'er had been ready to settle down. But hearing that two-faced Cai Mei'er smilingly argue back made a ball of fire rise in her chest.

Xian Lin'er snorted. "Fine! Before Chen An turns twenty, I'll teach him Soul Master cultivation. After he turns twenty, I'll teach him about Soul Tools!"

"You're being unreasonable."

The smile faded from Cai Mei'er's face, and she said calmly, "When it comes to researching Martial Souls, how can the Soul Tool Department compare to the Martial Soul Department?

Xian Lin'er, an unparalleled genius like Chen An does not belong to you alone. He belongs to Shrek Academy. Do not hamper his cultivation for your own selfish interests."

Xian Lin'er's eyes widened. "Cai Mei'er, say that again! You're saying I'm hampering him?!!"

While the four deans of Shrek Academy's Martial Soul and Soul Tool Departments argued endlessly,

Elder Song, who sat immediately to Mu En's left, spoke. She was Xian Lin'er's mother, a level ninety-seven expert, and Shrek Academy's third-strongest member.

"This is a Sea God Pavilion Meeting. You four juniors are making such a racket—where is your decorum? Lin'er, especially you. Sit down! Keep this up and you can leave."

Reprimanded by her mother, Xian Lin'er did not dare talk back. She cast Cai Mei'er a displeased glance, snorted, and sat back down.

The other Sea God Pavilion Elders were thoroughly accustomed to the four Shrek Academy deans seated at the foot of the table.

A Sea God Pavilion Meeting where these people did not argue would have been the truly strange occurrence.

Elder Song looked at her daughter and sighed inwardly. What a sorry mess.

She's been married to Duoduo for decades. Why is her heart still set on Yan Shaozhe?

But Elder Song could do nothing about matters of the heart. She could only hope that her son-in-law Duoduo would one day move her daughter's heart.

With Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, and the other two deans falling silent, a brief quiet settled over the Sea God Pavilion meeting hall.

Just then, Xuan Zi's craving for food struck. He took a chicken leg from his Storage Soul Tool and began gnawing on it, then brought out a wine gourd and took a couple of swigs. After wetting his throat, he continued.

"Once a Soul Master's cultivation reaches the Titled Douluo level, every breakthrough becomes an enormous test of both physique and spiritual power.

But Chen An's true self Martial Soul is blessed by nature. His physique and spiritual power far surpass those of his peers. What is an insurmountable chasm to ordinary people would probably be no more than a little mound of earth to him, something he could step over with ease.

Such talent is truly without equal in the world. No body Martial Soul this powerful has appeared in the past ten thousand years."

At this point, Elder Lin, Lin Huiqun, who oversaw Shrek Academy's commercial affairs, furrowed her brows and asked, "Xuan Zi, are you certain that a Soul Master with such a powerful body Martial Soul is not a disciple of the Body Sect?"

Relations between Shrek Academy and the Body Sect were extremely hostile. Even the founding of the Sea God Pavilion was closely connected to the Body Sect.

Two thousand years earlier, one of the Body Sect's forays into the world had caused a great disaster.

At the time, numerous Body Sect experts had infiltrated the Star Dou Great Forest and killed seven hundred-thousand-year soul beasts in succession, directly provoking the forest into unleashing a beast tide.

Because the Body Sect's actions were so overbearing and dangerous, Shrek Academy had prepared to teach them a lesson.

But who could have expected the Body Sect to be so powerful? Shrek Academy at the time was actually no match for them.

To deal with the Body Sect, Shrek Academy issued the Shrek Summoning Order, recalling the continent's foremost experts who had graduated from the academy. It then established the Sea God Pavilion and concentrated all its strength, finally defeating the Body Sect.

Thus, a feud was born between the Body Sect and Shrek Academy.

The event that caused their relationship to deteriorate sharply, however, had occurred a hundred years earlier.

It was a battle between the previous Body Sect master, Du Bisou, and the Sea God Pavilion Master, Dragon God Douluo Mu En.

Their battle made heaven and earth change color. In the end, Du Bisou fell, while Dragon God Douluo Mu En suffered severe injuries.

The Body Sect's master had been beaten to death by Shrek Academy's Sea God Pavilion Master, forging a deep and bitter enmity between the two sides.

A great battle had erupted between their experts at the time, finally ending with the Body Sect retreating into seclusion.

As soon as Elder Lin, Lin Huiqun, raised this question, the expressions of the Sea God Pavilion Elders present changed.

They all began wondering whether a child with such a formidable body Martial Soul was a disciple of the Body Sect.

If Chen An truly was a Body Sect disciple, then, knowing the sect's usual ways, they did not even need to think to know what deranged things it would do.

Seeing that everyone's expressions had turned uneasy, Xuan Zi hurriedly waved his hands.

"No, no, Chen An isn't a disciple of the Body Sect. He's an ordinary child born in Qinghe Village in the Heaven Dou Empire. His parents are just ordinary hunters. He hasn't a single Gold Soul Coin's worth of connection to the Body Sect."

Hearing this, the elders present all relaxed.

Good, he isn't a Body Sect disciple. Then there's no need to worry about the Body Sect coming to our door to cause trouble.

But Xuan Zi's next words nearly made every elder present spit out a mouthful of blood.

Xuan Zi said, "When that girl Zhang Lexuan was hunting a soul beast for Chen An in the Star Dou Great Forest, she did run into a Body Sect disciple.

That Body Sect disciple was arrogant beyond all bounds. He showed no regard for our Shrek Academy and tried to snatch Chen An away and take him to the Body Sect.

I taught them a lesson and sent them packing."

Elder Lin, Lin Huiqun, stared at Xuan Zi with wide eyes, her face full of disbelief. "You sent them packing?"

Xuan Zi nodded. "That's right. I even broke that Body Sect brat's legs. In the end, the others had to carry him away."

Elder Lin was struck speechless and tilted her head toward the sky. "Xuan Zi, what were you thinking? Why did you let them go?"

Another elder was equally speechless. "Xuan Zi, you should not have let that Body Sect disciple leave. Now that he's gone, he'll take information about Chen An back to the Body Sect.

Given Du Busi's temperament, how could he possibly allow such a talented body Martial Soul genius to remain in our Shrek Academy's hands? There is an eighty or ninety percent chance he'll bring the Body Sect's experts here to seize him."

Elder Song sighed. "Eighty or ninety percent? I'd say a hundred percent. When that happens, there will be another great battle between us."

Only then did Xuan Zi grasp the implications. It seemed he really should not have let that Body Sect disciple go.

Xuan Zi looked deeply vexed, even losing his appetite for his chicken leg. "My fault, my fault. At the time, I thought I'd spare that junior out of consideration for that old monster Du Busi, so he wouldn't accuse me later of bullying a youngster."

For a time, the entire Sea God Pavilion meeting hall descended into a clamor.

Clearly, everyone had already foreseen that it would not be long before the Body Sect came storming to their door.

Not a single person doubted this. After all, the Body Sect was even more fiercely protective of its own than Shrek Academy.

Putting themselves in the other side's shoes, if an unparalleled genius from Shrek Academy with the potential to become a Limit Douluo were taken away by another faction,

Shrek Academy would certainly never let the matter rest. They would inevitably storm that faction's door and refuse to leave until they had brought their unparalleled genius back.

While the elders were discussing the matter among themselves,

Dragon God Douluo Mu En slowly opened his eyes in his aged, deeply wrinkled face. His golden pupils radiated a majesty that made hearts tremble with fear.

"Enough. Everyone, quiet down. Chen An is still young, only six years old. Let him focus on cultivating for the next few years. As for what path he wishes to take afterward, let him choose for himself.

As for the Body Sect? If Du Busi truly dares to come, I wouldn't mind leaving the Body Sect one sect master short again!"