A Luxurious Villa

"Of course not. It is our honor to have the Young Master come to our Shrek Academy."

Flender reacted fastest and hurriedly agreed.

If he refused today, who knew what might happen?

Zhao Wuji's eyes were still filled with defiance.

But Flender shot him a fierce glare, forcing him to back down.

"Don't get any crooked ideas. I will always be guarding the Young Master. If I learn that you've done anything you shouldn't, it won't be as simple as just a few of you dying."

Only after hearing their agreement did Black Panther nod in satisfaction and leave.

He still had to find the very best construction crew to build a residence for His Highness.

As for the other buildings at Shrek Academy destroyed in the battle just now, he paid them no attention whatsoever.

What did they have to do with him?

Beneath a collapsed wooden hut in Shrek Academy's dormitory area, Oscar, temporarily forgotten by the academy's teachers, watched everything unfold.

The visual impact of this scene was simply too overwhelming.

"Was the world... really this vast?"

At that moment, a seed called ambition sprouted in young Oscar's heart.

Shrek Academy had suffered an undeserved calamity.

"Who knows whether this is a blessing or a curse?"

Having recovered a little of his strength, Flender surveyed everything with a bitter smile.

The next day, all his dejection vanished at once, leaving only excitement.

That esteemed Soul Douluo had directly hired the finest construction team in Suotuo City and was actually going to build a luxurious villa inside Shrek Academy.

Although Flender had taken a beating yesterday, it was nothing compared to the lavish building the academy would gain.

Most importantly, none of this required him to spend any money.

"Zhao, look! That's the hide of a ten-thousand-year Radiant White Tiger, beams made from thousand-year vajra wood, foundations of dark gold glazed stone... any one of these would be worth ten thousand gold if you took it out to sell..."

"Extravagant. Far too extravagant."

"Just thinking that this building will belong to our Shrek Academy in the future, that we'll be able to live somewhere like this too, makes me so happy, so excited..."

Like a country bumpkin dazzled by the sights, Flender gazed at it all in rapture.

Zhao Wuji was truly speechless.

With their strength, would obtaining these things to improve their lives be difficult?

It would indeed be somewhat difficult, but it was not impossible.

It was just that this old brother of his had always been stingy and simply loved getting things for free.

The villa went up quickly, taking less than five days to complete.

The three-story building included dedicated bedrooms, cultivation rooms, a study, a reception room, a game room, and more.

There were also two secret chambers underground, their walls constructed by fusing lead powder mixed with graphite and rare metals, providing absolute physical protection against prying.

Never mind him-even a Titled Douluo would be unable to probe inside the chambers with spiritual power.

Building this one little villa alone completely drained the money Black Panther, a Soul Douluo, had on him.

And even that was not enough.

For this, Black Panther made a special trip to the treasure vault of a wealthy noble household in Suotuo City.

This was the first task His Highness had entrusted to him, and he would spare no effort to complete it.

Once the little villa was finished, Black Panther left.

He did nothing further.

"Wait, what is this supposed to mean?"

"They're only building this one?"

Watching Black Panther simply leave with the construction crew, Flender froze on the spot.

Over the past few days, he had been filled with anticipation and pleasant surprises.

Because of this, he had not even restored the buildings destroyed earlier, and when Zhao Wuji prepared to build some houses, he refused to allow it.

He had made the teachers stay out in the open with him for five whole days.

He had also arranged for their only student, Oscar, to stay with nearby villagers.

He had assumed that after this man built a villa for that so-called Young Master, he would build a few buildings for them while he was at it. They did not have to match this little villa; something a little worse would have been acceptable.

Yet the man had simply left.

All that anticipation, all that excitement, for nothing.

What was this supposed to be?

"Boss Fu, forget it. We should repair the buildings ourselves."

"If you're willing to pay, I can build you a few stone teaching buildings and dormitories too."

Seeing Flender looking as though he had lost his soul, Zhao Wuji spoke up to console him.

"Forget it. Let's just repair them ourselves."

Only when he heard that he would have to spend his own money did Flender come back to his senses.

But looking at the little villa not far away, he truly found it an eyesore.

How could he describe the feeling?

It was like a chamber pot with a gold rim. Their Shrek Academy was the chamber pot, and that little villa was the gold rim.

It really was rather hard to accept.

"Your Highness, everything is ready."

Black Panther found Dai Mubai just after he finished cultivating the Purple Demon Eye. His bearing was even more deferential now, his attitude more respectful.

Only after consuming that stalk of nine-grade purple ganoderma had he understood its value more clearly.

His cultivation speed was now at least twenty percent faster.

Moreover, he felt as though he had no bottlenecks.

At this rate, he might truly become a Titled Douluo within ten years.

This favor was simply far, far too great.

"All right, let's go take a look at Shrek Academy."

Dai Mubai stretched, and a series of cracks and pops immediately rang out from within his body.

They sounded like the cries of tigers and leopards.

Over these five days, apart from cultivating the Purple Demon Eye and occasionally enjoying the Rose Hotel's special massage services, he had spent all his time cultivating Indestructible Vajra.

He had finally gained complete control over what he had obtained from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, breaking through to yet another level.

"Such abundant blood energy, this physique..."

Feeling it at close range, Black Panther clearly sensed the formidable power of Dai Mubai's breakthrough.

Supremely hard and supremely yang, his blood energy was like a dragon.

By Black Panther's rough estimate, even a Soul Master at the Soul King level could not compare to His Highness in physique.

Afterward, Dai Mubai headed to Shrek Academy.

When he saw the detached little villa and the people of Shrek Academy laboring away to build their own wooden huts, even Dai Mubai was somewhat stunned.

The completed detached villa with its little courtyard had truly exceeded his expectations.

His instructions had been for Black Panther to build something simple, so long as it was not too shabby.

He had never expected Black Panther's ability to carry out a task to be quite so far beyond the standard.

"Where did you get the Soul Tool lamps and the automatic plumbing Soul Tools for the whole villa? We don't seem to have these things in the Star Luo Empire."

After entering the villa and inspecting it, Dai Mubai was very satisfied.

Still, many things inside were not even available in the Star Luo Empire. Wasn't that a little absurd?

"They were dismantled from a noble's home in the city. When it comes to these luxurious comforts, our Star Luo Empire is indeed inferior to the Heaven Dou Empire."

Hearing Dai Mubai's question, Black Panther immediately grew nervous.

He feared that his work might fail to satisfy His Highness.

"Not bad."

"There won't be any hidden trouble, will there?"

Dai Mubai truly thought it was quite good and casually offered some praise.

He was merely a little surprised. Hadn't it been said that Soul Tools in the Douluo I era were all obtained from ancient ruins, and that people lacked the ability to forge them altogether?

Wasn't this clear evidence that they could manufacture Soul Tools?

Even if these were only the simplest, crudest ones.

As long as they could begin manufacturing them, they could research them, delve deeper, and make them more powerful.

At the root of it, they simply did not value them.

However, he had no intention of getting involved in Soul Tools.

The returns would not be proportionate to the effort.

There was absolutely no need.

"Rest assured, Your Highness. That noble guaranteed he wouldn't cause any trouble. Not only that, he was quite happy to help."

Black Panther hurriedly answered.

"All right. Find somewhere to cultivate, or become a teacher at the academy. The choice is yours."

Dai Mubai asked no further questions.

Because he had already spotted a target.

Oscar!

At that moment, Oscar was standing in front of Dai Mubai's villa, looking it over.

Who knew what he was thinking?

Naturally, Dai Mubai had not asked Black Panther to build a villa purely for his own enjoyment. He had another purpose.

That was to create a contrast.

Only then could he carry out his plan more effectively.