"Oh? You can't do it?" Hearing this, Lin Xuanchen heaved a deliberately regretful sigh. "Ah, what a shame."
"Since your esteemed academy can't manage it, I'll just have to withdraw." Lin Xuanchen raised an eyebrow. "If I remember correctly, the Heavenly Soul Empire, Dou Ling Empire, and Star Luo Empire all have academies, don't they?"
"And failing that, there's always the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in the Sun Moon Empire! I hear the master of Virtue Hall has a granddaughter, and she's quite a beauty! Since Shrek Academy can't do it, I'll just have to see whether I can win his granddaughter over."
"After all, living off a woman is a pretty sweet deal!" Lin Xuanchen nodded with a smile.
"What?! You're going to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy?" Yan Shaozhe sprang to his feet and shouted the moment he heard that.
"Living off a woman? Where's your pride as a genius?! Where's your backbone as a genius? Why is living off a woman all you can think about?!" Yan Shaozhe pointed at Lin Xuanchen, his eyes bloodshot as he roared, panting like an ox.
"So what?" Lin Xuanchen replied, utterly unbothered. "Living off a woman takes skill, too. If you can't manage it, you should look at yourself and ask why. Maybe you haven't been trying hard enough."
"Huff. Huff. Huff."
Yan Shaozhe gasped for breath, clearly infuriated by Lin Xuanchen.
"You can't go to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy." After calming himself, Yan Shaozhe sat back down. "As for those conditions you just mentioned, I can't meet them. You can ask for something else. Unless you commit fully to Shrek Academy, it'll be very difficult for me to agree to those demands."
By now, Yan Shaozhe understood that Lin Xuanchen was no easy mark. He would probably have to bleed a little today, or this cooked duck would fly right out of his grasp-and straight into the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, which had always been at odds with Shrek.
He's taken the bait, Lin Xuanchen murmured inwardly. Then he lightly flicked his Storage Ring, took out three prescription scrolls, and slapped them onto the desk in front of Yan Shaozhe.
From the beginning, Lin Xuanchen had never expected an iron rooster like Yan Shaozhe to compensate him with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone or a Level 8 Soul Tool.
His plan had been to start with demands so outrageous that Yan Shaozhe could never accept them, then lower them to something Yan Shaozhe would consider tolerable.
Of course, Lin Xuanchen certainly wouldn't lose out himself. His prescriptions included magic cores, and on the Douluo Continent, those magic cores went by a resounding name: Soul Bones!
So Yan Shaozhe would definitely have to bleed heavily this time. Lin Xuanchen refused to believe that this iron rooster wouldn't panic even after he threatened to withdraw.
He had complete confidence in his talent. There surely wasn't anyone on the Douluo Continent more heaven-defying than he was, and Shrek desperately needed someone who could lead it to glory.
Although that person certainly wouldn't be him, that wouldn't stop him from freeloading off Shrek before making his escape.
As for the prescriptions, he was even less worried about them leaking. Without the corresponding refining methods, they would be useless to Yan Shaozhe.
It was like handing a Heaven-tier cultivation method to someone who couldn't cultivate. It wouldn't do them the slightest good.
"Dean Yan, then please prepare the medicinal ingredients listed in these three prescriptions for me," Lin Xuanchen said, a calculating gleam flashing through his azure eyes.
"Just that? Nothing else?" Yan Shaozhe paused, looking somewhat surprised.
A moment ago, Lin Xuanchen had looked as though he wouldn't stop until he had fleeced him. Now he only wanted some medicinal ingredients as compensation? Wasn't that far too simple?
"Is that not possible?" Lin Xuanchen put on a deeply regretful expression. "Surely the dignified dean of Shrek Academy, Bright Phoenix Douluo Yan Shaozhe, can manage this tiny bit of compensation for me?"
"Of course I can," Yan Shaozhe answered instinctively.
"Good. I'll leave it to you, then, Dean Yan." Lin Xuanchen smiled slyly. The next instant, he activated Three Thousand Lightning Movement, turned into a streak of blue lightning, and dashed out of Yan Shaozhe's office.
Why does this feel like a trap? Yan Shaozhe wondered in bewilderment as he watched Lin Xuanchen disappear.
As he pondered this, Yan Shaozhe picked up one of the three prescription scrolls on the desk and unrolled it.
Written on the prescription were the following words:
Sixth-grade pill: Spirit-Rhyme Tranquility Pill.
Required ingredients: one stalk of green vine grass, three ink-pattern flowers, four portions of cold moon azure lingzhi, and two fifth-tier magic cores.
"Hm? What's a magic core?" Yan Shaozhe scanned the medicinal ingredients on the prescription, only to pause when he reached the entry for magic cores.
Soon, Yan Shaozhe noticed a line of small print at the very bottom of the prescription.
A fifth-tier magic core is equivalent to a fifty-thousand-year Soul Bone.
Before long, an enraged shout suddenly erupted from Yan Shaozhe's office. "Lin Xuanchen! You little brat!"
Meanwhile, Lin Xuanchen had already strolled leisurely out of Shrek Academy. After a few turns, he found a hotel nearby, booked a room, and extended the booking to a full year.
After entering the room, Lin Xuanchen activated his Blue Silver Emperor's innate domain skill-Blue Silver Myriad-Forms Domain!
With the Blue Silver Myriad-Forms Domain activated, the aura within the room was completely sealed off.
Only after finishing all this did Lin Xuanchen clamber onto the bed and sit cross-legged.
"Whew."
Lin Xuanchen took a deep breath, then lightly flicked his Storage Ring and took out the Blade of Life's Watch, which glowed with green light.
One reason Lin Xuanchen had gone to such trouble to leave Shrek Academy and book a hotel room was to fuse with the Blade of Life's Watch.
He was afraid that others might detect the life force spilling out during the fusion process.
The other reason, however, was rather funny: he no longer wanted to stay in Shrek's dormitory, because he had realized there was a very serious problem.
One floor of Shrek's Outer Academy freshman dormitory housed over eight hundred students in more than four hundred rooms, each measuring roughly ten square meters.
If Lin Xuanchen continued living at Shrek Academy, he would have to face a very serious problem-the toilets!
Judging by the number of toilets at Shrek Academy, more than eight hundred people had to fight over two toilets every day. How could he possibly stand that?
So he simply went to a hotel not far from Shrek Academy and booked a room. Not only was it more comfortable than Shrek's freshman dormitory, but it also had a private bathroom, sparing him the daily struggle of fighting for a toilet.
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