A Teacher for a Day, a Teacher for Life

"Old Zhao, I'll keep watch. Go cripple that Diamond Tiger and bring it back for Mubai to absorb."

"Although we founded Shrek Academy to nurture monster disciples, we really have had things a little too easy these past few years."

"Once we get back, let's have the old fellows at the academy stretch their muscles."

"A Food-Type Soul Master with Innate Full Soul Power, a phoenix Soul Master, and a Soul Master with an Evil Eye White Tiger Martial Soul that rivals the Clear Sky Hammer, the greatest Tool Martial Soul under heaven."

"Shrek Academy has recruited so many geniuses, even monster students. If we can't nurture them into talents, then we teachers will have failed terribly in our duty."

"And if a monster disciple like that were to fall at eighteen, just as he reached adulthood, instead of making a name for himself in the Soul Master World,

"We can leave aside for now whether the student was responsible, but we teachers would certainly bear part of the responsibility."

Flender waved a hand and spoke in a relaxed tone.

"All right."

Zhao Wuji answered, baring a mouthful of white teeth in a grin. Then he used Martial Soul Possession and charged straight at the ten-thousand-year Diamond Tiger sunning itself at the cave entrance.

He wasn't as good with words as Flender, but at that moment, he showed his attitude through his actions.

"Thank you, Dean Flender, Teacher Zhao."

Seeing the two teachers declare their support, Dai Mubai felt waves of warmth flow through his heart and was deeply touched.

Although Heaven Dou Royal Academy and Star Luo Royal Academy had excellent, well-equipped teaching facilities, only at Shrek Academy would teachers be so devoted to their students.

"There's no need for thanks. I knew your family was no ordinary one, Mubai, and that you weren't short of money, but I never imagined you were the third prince of the Star Luo Empire."

"If you really want to thank me, buy me a couple of jars of good wine as a reward when we get back from hunting this Soul Beast."

Having used Martial Soul Possession and then immediately unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar, Zhao Wuji transformed into a Great Strength Vajra Bear. With his back to Dai Mubai, he waved a hand dismissively as he spoke.

"Haha, that old fellow Zhao Wuji doesn't have any grand ambitions, but I'm not so easy to satisfy."

"We old fellows will go through this struggle with you, Mubai, even if our bones fall apart in the process.

"And if you win the contest for the throne and become emperor of the Star Luo Empire one day,

"We old fellows will move Shrek Academy to the Star Luo Empire. When that time comes, as the Star Luo Emperor, you'll have to give your alma mater plenty of funding to help build and develop it."

"And in the future, we old fellows will all be counting on you, our student and the emperor of the Star Luo Empire, to look after us in our old age. Haha..." Flender said with a radiant smile.

"Haha... Flender, you old devil, you really are shrewder than me." Hearing Flender's words, Zhao Wuji, who was charging toward the Diamond Tiger, couldn't help laughing too.

"Of course. A teacher for a day is a teacher for life."

"If I can ascend to that position one day, then as your student, I'll certainly provide for you, Dean, and Zhao Wuji and everyone else, so all my teachers can enjoy a life of leisure."

"And as long as I have the power to do so, I'll make Shrek Academy famous throughout the Soul Master World and the entire Douluo Continent. I'll make it the number one Soul Master Academy on the whole continent."

Faced with the two teachers who valued him and were willing to give their all to fight alongside him, Dai Mubai immediately made his promise.

They had given him a wooden peach, and he would repay them with precious jade. Dai Mubai had always been someone who knew how to repay kindness.

Besides, all five of Shrek Academy's teachers were quite powerful, and his two fellow students, Oscar and Ma Hongjun, both possessed first-rate talent.

If Shrek Academy's teachers and students could become his core supporters,

They would be a great help to him in the future, whether he was competing to become heir to the Star Luo Empire's throne or actually sitting on it and governing the empire.

"Good, good, good..."

"Hahaha..."

Hearing Dai Mubai's promise, both Flender and Zhao Wuji were overjoyed, and they came to approve of and value him even more.

[Ding, character [Flender]'s favorability toward the host has increased by 3 points. Current favorability: 75%]

[Ding, character [Zhao Wuji]'s favorability toward the host has increased by 3 points. Current favorability: 78%]

At the same time, the system's notification sounded in Dai Mubai's mind.

Their frank, openhearted conversation just now had raised Flender's and Zhao Wuji's favorability toward Dai Mubai considerably once again.

"Roar!"

While Dai Mubai was talking to Flender, the ten-thousand-year Diamond Tiger ahead, lying asleep at the entrance of a cave set into a rock face behind the bushes, also caught sight of Zhao Wuji charging toward it in his Martial Soul Avatar form.

Soul Beasts were highly territorial, especially powerful ones and those with the bearing of a king.

This ten-thousand-year Diamond Tiger possessed both a kingly bearing and great strength, so its territorial instincts were even more pronounced.

Seeing Zhao Wuji, the intruder in its territory,

The Diamond Tiger, which had been lying lazily in the sun at the cave entrance, opened its mouth and let out a roar to assert its claim over its territory.

Sharp claws sprang from the pads of its paws, and it charged fearlessly at Zhao Wuji.

But Zhao Wuji was not the Great Strength Vajra Bear Soul Beast the Diamond Tiger took him for. He was a Seven-Ring Soul Sage in his Martial Soul Avatar form.

This Diamond Tiger had only just reached ten thousand years of cultivation.

A ten-thousand-year Soul Beast was equivalent in strength to a human Soul Master at the Soul King level, from level 50 to 59.

Even though the Diamond Tiger was a Soul Beast of high-grade bloodline and stronger than an ordinary ten-thousand-year Soul Beast, it was not strong enough to contend with a Seven-Ring Soul Sage.

In particular, Zhao Wuji's Martial Soul, the Great Strength Vajra Bear, had a bloodline no lesser than the Diamond Tiger's among Soul Beasts.

That made the gap between the Diamond Tiger and Zhao Wuji even wider.

Before the Diamond Tiger's sharp claws could touch Zhao Wuji, his second Soul Skill, Great Strength Vajra Palm, sent it flying;

The Diamond Tiger opened its gaping maw, but before its sharp fangs could sink into Zhao Wuji, his third Soul Skill, Gravity Enhancement, pressed it flat against the ground.

Crushed by Zhao Wuji at their first clash, the Diamond Tiger was even less able to fight back against his violent assault afterward.

And that was indeed what happened-

After the gravity field pressed the Diamond Tiger to the ground, Zhao Wuji followed up with his fifth Soul Skill, Gravity Squeeze.

In an instant, gravity squeezed the Diamond Tiger, renowned for its powerful physique, from every direction, breaking and twisting all four of its limbs out of shape.

That was not to mention Zhao Wuji grabbing the Diamond Tiger by the back of its neck with one hand.

With the other, he used Great Strength Vajra Palm to deliver a flurry of blows to its forehead.

The battle lasted less than a minute from start to finish.

The ten-thousand-year Diamond Tiger had been beaten to within an inch of its life by Zhao Wuji.

Only now did Dai Mubai truly witness the strength of Zhao Wuji, a level 76 Soul Saint.

The pride he had felt after testing his Soul Skill's power and knocking Zhao Wuji back while the latter was using Martial Soul Possession and Immovable Bright King Body vanished in an instant.

Zhao Wuji had not used his full strength in that earlier state.

Zhao Wuji had treated him as his own student, not an opponent or enemy.

Compared with Zhao Wuji and other true experts, he still had a long way to go.