[Shao Xin the Sugar Bean, Food Soul Saint]
"All right, thank you, Teacher Shao." Feeling Shao Xin's warmth and kindness, Dai Mubai was very happy too.
Because of the Favorability System, he needed to raise certain people's favorability.
But compared with other people outside the academy, the teachers at Shrek Academy were well worth the effort, and he was more than willing to raise their favorability.
These teachers were genuinely good people, good teachers who truly cared for and cherished their students.
By comparison, Yu Xiaogang had taken Tang San as his disciple partly because he valued Tang San's talent, and partly because he wanted to use Tang San to prove his theories correct to the Soul Master World.
Yu Xiaogang not only experimented on Tang San, but also wanted to use Tang San to gain fame and fortune for himself.
Shao Xin, on the other hand, was a level 71 Food System Tool Soul Saint. If he joined the Heaven Dou Empire, becoming a marquis and receiving a noble title would be a breeze.
Yet he was willing to teach and nurture students at Shrek Academy, to stay in the countryside, and to cook steamed potato rice with cured pork and long beans for the students himself...
How could Dai Mubai not feel respect and affection for a teacher like that?
Compared with such a good teacher, Yu Xiaogang was simply dog shit!!
"System, scan and inspect Shao Xin's personal information." Taking the big bowl heaped with fragrant potato rice that Shao Xin handed him, Dai Mubai also gave the system an order in his mind.
As you command, host~ the system replied in his mind. The next second, Shao Xin's personal information panel appeared before Dai Mubai's eyes.
--[Information Panel]-- Name: Shao Xin Sex: Male Age: 54 Martial Soul: Sugar Bean Soul Power: Level 71 Soul Rings: Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black Soul Skills: [First Soul Skill · Agility Blue Sugar Bean] [Second Soul Skill · Healing Green Sugar Bean] [Third Soul Skill · Mighty Strength Red Sugar Bean] [Fourth Soul Skill · Defense Yellow Sugar Bean] [Fifth Soul Skill · Soul Recovery Purple Sugar Bean] [Sixth Soul Skill · Refreshing Gold Sugar Bean] [Seventh Soul Skill · Martial Soul Avatar · Sugar Bean] Soul Bones: \\ Character favorability: 65% (deep trust) ----------
Shao Xin was only 54, yet his Soul Power cultivation had already reached level 71. His talent was undoubtedly at the genius level among his generation.
The vast majority of Soul Masters from commoner backgrounds had a white ten-year First Soul Ring; few possessed a yellow Hundred-Year Soul Ring.
Yet Shao Xin possessed the optimal Soul Ring combination of "yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black."
This showed that Shao Xin was exceptionally talented and had also encountered opportunities of his own in the past.
At the same time, as a Food-Type Soul Master, he had been a hot commodity in the teams and factions he had joined in the past. Otherwise, as a support-type Food-Type Soul Master with no combat ability,
he could not have possessed such a Soul Ring combination. After all, he needed others to help him hunt Soul Beasts and obtain Soul Rings.
Moreover, Shao Xin had cultivated and developed his Sugar Bean Martial Soul until it was extraordinarily powerful.
His seven Soul Skills provided both recovery and healing and boosts to combat attributes. They could be said to combine the abilities of Ning Rongrong's Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and Oscar's Sausage Martial Soul.
Although it was a weakened version of those abilities, that did nothing to diminish how powerful and rare Shao Xin's abilities were.
Of course, more than any of that, Dai Mubai's attention was focused on the character favorability at the very bottom of Shao Xin's personal information panel-
Has his favorability already reached 65%? I clearly haven't done anything. I didn't expect it to have risen by two points compared with when I left half a month ago.
The teachers at Shrek Academy were good people who cared deeply for the academy's students.
Thus, when Dai Mubai had transmigrated half a month ago, he had checked everyone's favorability and found that they had basically all reached the 60% level of deep trust.
Zhao Wuji's had been the highest at 69%, while Li Yusong had been deeply disappointed by "his" past despondency, decadence, and self-indulgence.
There had been a sense that the deeper the love, the sharper the rebuke, that he hated to see iron fail to become steel. His favorability had therefore been the lowest, at only 60%.
But 60% was the level of deep trust, above trust, and was already quite high.
Shao Xin's favorability toward him had been 63%. He hadn't expected that, after returning to the academy half a month later and merely exchanging a few words while getting food,
Shao Xin's favorability toward him would rise from 63% to 65%.
Because the change in favorability had not exceeded three percentage points, it had not triggered a system notification. He had only discovered it now by scanning and checking the system panel.
Still, this was a good thing, and Dai Mubai felt nothing but happiness about it.
At the same time, he quietly resolved to raise the five teachers' favorability as much as possible during the time he would spend at Shrek Academy.
Only then, when he left the Heaven Dou Empire and returned to the Star Luo Empire,
would these teachers be willing to leave their homes behind and accompany him to the Star Luo Empire.
"Boss Dai, did your trip to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Soul Beasts go smoothly?"
"The Soul Rings your Martial Soul swallowed during its mutation have all been attached again, right?"
"Boss Dai, you attached three Soul Rings in a row. Your Soul Power cultivation must have increased quite a bit too. What level has your Soul Power cultivation reached now?"
Dai Mubai had just sat down with his bowl when Oscar and Ma Hongjun both looked at him with curiosity written all over their faces, firing questions one after another.
"With Dean Flender and Teacher Zhao, two Seven-Ring Soul Sages, accompanying me, hunting the Soul Beasts went very smoothly, though searching for the ones we wanted took some time."
"Now I've not only successfully attached my Third Soul Ring, but also reattached the two Soul Rings that were swallowed before."
"As for my current Soul Power Level, Little Ao, Fatty, are you two sure you want to ask?"
Dai Mubai raised an eyebrow and asked in return, wearing a somewhat mischievous grin.
"Go on, Boss Dai."
"We know your talent is monstrous. Your Martial Soul Mutation already shocked me and dealt me a blow once before. This time, no matter how high your Soul Power Level is, I won't be shocked."
Ma Hongjun spoke with a somewhat resigned air.
Oscar, beside him, also wore a cheeky grin. Although he said nothing, what he meant was much the same as Ma Hongjun.
He really had developed a bit of immunity to Dai Mubai's monstrous talent.
Seeing how curious the two were, Dai Mubai held nothing back and answered frankly, "My Soul Power Level isn't all that high right now. It's only level 35."
"What?! Σ(ŎдŎ|||)ﾉﾉ"
"Boss Dai, your Soul Power cultivation has reached level 35? How is that possible? Didn't your Soul Power cultivation only just break through to the level 30 Soul Elder realm half a month ago?"
"You've only attached three Soul Rings. Even if your Soul Power Level increased, there's no way it could have risen by five levels in just half a month."
Ma Hongjun, who had confidently declared he would not be shocked, was still stunned when he heard Dai Mubai say that his Soul Power Level had already reached level 35.
And it wasn't just Ma Hongjun; Oscar was the same.
"(*ﾟﾛﾟ) Boss Dai, although I know your talent became even more monstrously abnormal after your Martial Soul mutated, isn't this a bit too abnormal?"
"You're thirteen, and your Soul Power Level has already reached 35. I'm only a year younger than you, but my Soul Power cultivation is only level 25."
"Half a month ago, I was only five levels below you. Now, half a month later, the gap between our Soul Power cultivation has widened to a whole major realm. Th-th-this..."
Looking at the person before him, Oscar was also too shocked to find words for a moment.