Beast King Domain

Winning Oscar over had not taken much time or effort.

It amounted to little more than being a bit more serious with him afterward.

But something that happened soon afterward greatly surprised Dai Mubai.

Who knew what had gotten into Flender? He had actually started building the academy.

Although the buildings were nowhere near as luxurious as the villa Dai Mubai lived in, they were at least respectable wooden cabins and stone houses.

Flender was a Soul Saint. If he truly wanted to make money, he had countless ways to do so.

If nothing else, he could simply announce outside the Star Dou Great Forest that he would help people hunt Soul Beasts and charge hefty fees.

That was without even mentioning resorting to underhanded methods.

This was what made him so bizarre.

Call Flender greedy, and he clearly had so many ways to make money yet used none of them; call him ungreedy, and he clung desperately to every bit of money within his sight.

It was simply absurd.

His plans to build the academy made that plain.

He had already begun building the academy, yet he still could not bear to spend money. Instead, he and the others served as laborers themselves, fetching huge logs and blocks of stone from the Star Dou Great Forest and hauling them back to build with their own hands.

Still, with Zhao Wuji, a Soul Saint who could control the earth element, around, the academy they built looked quite respectable.

At least from a distance, it could just barely pass for an academy.

Dai Mubai could never have guessed how Flender's mind worked.

One reason Flender was building the academy this time was that he genuinely could no longer stand living in the old place. The other was that, once the academy looked respectable, if someone attacked it again, he could make them pay more compensation.

"Could my interference really end up turning Shrek Academy into a proper academy?"

Dai Mubai was somewhat dumbfounded by the changes before him.

Still, he did not dwell on it and continued cultivating diligently over the days that followed.

During this time, he had Black Panther collect more Soul Beast bones with metal attributes.

He used them to construct a dedicated cultivation room inside the villa. The room boosted his Soul Power meditation and cultivation, but more importantly, it could help improve his Indestructible Vajra physique.

"Your Highness, are you building a Mimicry Cultivation Environment to gain control of the beast king domain?"

Although Black Panther knew it was somewhat inappropriate, he still voiced the question on his mind.

"The beast king domain? What's that?"

Dai Mubai was puzzled. He truly knew nothing about this.

"Your Highness, there are records about it in the imperial library."

"According to legend, the Martial Soul passed down through our Star Luo Imperial Family wasn't the White Tiger, but the Radiant White Tiger. Its first wielder was even one of the great powerhouses who followed the Angel God. Unlike the White Tiger Martial Soul, the Radiant White Tiger ranks among super Martial Souls and possesses the beast king domain."

"Within this domain, aside from pure-blooded true dragons or Soul Masters with top-tier True Dragon Martial Souls, all other Soul Masters with beast Martial Souls are suppressed by the beast king domain."

"Within its range, all of the user's attributes increase by ten percent, while all of the enemy's attributes are suppressed by ten percent."

"But as the bloodline thinned over time, the Radiant White Tiger Martial Soul never appeared again. Afterward, the White Tiger Martial Soul embarked on a path of fusion and development with the Nether Civet Martial Soul..."

"During this period, there was also a Titled Douluo who constructed a Mimicry Cultivation Environment around the skeleton of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Holy Light White Tiger, thereby gaining control of the beast king domain that only the Radiant White Tiger could command. Later generations tried again, but no one ever succeeded..."

Black Panther then told Dai Mubai all the information and details he knew.

"The beast king domain... To think something like that existed."

This greatly surprised Dai Mubai.

In this era, domains were unquestionably top-tier existences.

The Blue Silver Domain, Slaughter Domain, and various other domains Tang San commanded had all brought him tremendous improvements to a considerable degree.

Aside from those, as far as he knew, the only Martial Souls born with domains were the Six-Winged Angel and Bibi Dong's Death Spider Emperor.

As for whether Chen Xin's Seven Kill Sword Martial Soul had possessed the Seven Kill Domain from birth, that was not entirely certain.

It was precisely for this reason that many people had considerable criticism of Chen Xin's combat record.

He had support from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, possessed a domain of his own, and was a rank-96 Titled Douluo, yet he had hardly fought any pinnacle battles.

Why were those two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest so powerful in battle? Partly because they possessed extraordinary bloodlines, and partly, of course, because they had innate domains.

At present, the only known way to obtain a domain through external means was Slaughter City.

He had never expected that the Star Luo Imperial Family had once possessed a method of acquiring a domain later in life.

That was certainly astonishing.

Although he possessed all of Xiong Jun's power, Xiong Jun was not a Ferocious Beast with a domain.

After all, in a sense, Xiong Jun followed the path of strength. His metal attribute was built upon strength as its foundation.

The Golden Crocodile King Martial Soul was another example: a super Martial Soul rarely seen in this era, yet it had no domain either.

There were also distinctions between domains. Domain-type Soul Skills granted as Soul Skills were entirely different from domains one personally controlled.

In a sense, a domain one personally controlled could evolve further and could be used without Martial Soul Possession. Both domains innate to a Martial Soul and domains mastered later could be deployed without using one's Martial Soul.

"Perhaps I really could give it a try."

At this thought, Dai Mubai felt he could begin making an attempt.

His Martial Soul Origin was the White Tiger. It had only evolved into the Darkgolden Tiger King through the aid of Immortal Herbs and Xiong Jun's origin power.

It could be counted among super Martial Souls, but it had not developed an innate domain.

If he could obtain a domain through external means, his strength would advance further.

Even if he ultimately failed, he could still use these things to improve his Indestructible Vajra.

"Take care of this. Don't worry about money."

With that thought, Dai Mubai took action and tossed Black Panther a Storage Soul Tool containing a considerable sum of money.

He would not need to worry about the rest.

Once that was done, Dai Mubai continued cultivating.

Black Panther, meanwhile, began gathering the various Soul Bones they needed.

Not only that, during this process, he quietly established a small underground force in Suotuo City, with the aim of helping His Highness resolve troublesome matters whenever he needed it.

Indeed, Black Panther had climbed from the army's lowest ranks to become one of the Star Luo Empire's Enshrined Douluos. His abilities were beyond reproach.

While Black Panther was busy, Dai Mubai happily enjoyed his leisure, savoring the various delicacies Oscar and Shao Xin made early every morning and visiting Suotuo City for some fun whenever he had nothing to do.

Before long, Flender brought back another chubby boy. It was none other than Ma Hongjun.

This surprised Dai Mubai somewhat.

Ma Hongjun and Zhu Zhuqing were the youngest of the Shrek Seven Devils, and Zhu Zhuqing was even a few months younger than Ma Hongjun. Why had she awakened her Martial Soul so much earlier than him?

Only after asking around did he learn that the reason was simple: Zhu Zhuqing came from nobility, so she could undergo Martial Soul Awakening once she was around the right age.

Ma Hongjun, on the other hand, had to wait for the annual Martial Soul Awakening, hence the difference of several months.

Compared with winning Oscar over, winning Ma Hongjun over was even easier.

In less than half a month, Ma Hongjun was following Dai Mubai around all day, calling him big brother.

Flender wore a very strange expression when he saw this.

What on earth was all this?

He had finally gained another student, yet after just a few days, this student had ended up following Dai Mubai too.

He felt utterly helpless.

Since he could not beat him, Flender could only choose to join him.

He then took the initiative to approach Dai Mubai, and sure enough, once they got to know each other, his misgivings soon disappeared.

The reason was simple: Dai Mubai was generous with his money.