The Deal

"Trade?"

Xu Xingyu was familiar with this term, but now, thinking back, it seemed she had made a lot of deals with the Shrek Academy.

Although many of the events are related to Ma Xiaotao and the Spirit Contract Pagoda, the fact that they are always making deals with the Shrek Academy still makes people wonder.

Fine, let's hear what kind of deal Mu En wants to make first. It can't be that he wants to pass on the position of the Sea God Pavilion Master to me, can it? I'm a member of the Spirit Contract Pagoda, and no one with a brain would hand over such an important position to an outsider.

With this in mind, Xu Xingyu said, "Let me hear the details of this deal first, and then I'll make a decision."

Mu En was not surprised by Xu Xingyu's answer and began to explain what this so-called transaction actually was.

"It's more like multiple transactions than a single deal."

"Firstly, Shrek hopes to purchase a large quantity of Soul Spirit and Soul Tool produced by the Spirit Contract Pagoda. The former goes without saying, but the latter is mainly because Shrek Academy's concept of Soul Tool is far behind that of the Sun Moon Empire."

"In this respect, only your Spirit Contract Pagoda can compare at this stage. Therefore, we want to take this opportunity to allow students to come into contact with Soul Tool Soul Tool no longer reject them. Shrek plans to hold an exchange program with the Sun Moon Royal Academy Shrek Academy, which will improve our knowledge of Soul Tool."

"However, this will still leave our Soul Tool equipment lagging behind the Sun Moon Royal Academy, given the already significant equipment gap. Therefore, in addition to combat-use Soul Tool, we also want to acquire Soul Tool for auxiliary research and other types."

"However, such a large quantity of Soul Tool will certainly not be cheap. Therefore, if possible, we hope to purchase these Soul Tool at 80% of the original price. In exchange, Shrek is willing to provide your Spirit Contract Pagoda with one spot for both the Outer Court and Inner Court academies each year, which can be used by anyone in your Spirit Contract Pagoda or any of its affiliated families. At the same time, we are also willing to recommend any graduate of the Outer Court or Inner Court to work at the Spirit Contract Pagoda every year, and we will write a letter of recommendation for them to work at the Spirit Contract Pagoda."

"This is also a good opportunity to gradually eliminate the unpleasantness between Shrek and Spirit Contract Pagoda through this cooperation. After all, although our two families are cooperating, there are still some people who are unhappy about it, aren't there?"

"Xu Xingyu, what do you think of this deal?"

"Hmm, I understand. But you said there were multiple transactions, so there must be more than these, right?" Xu Xingyu wasn't surprised by Mu En's idea. In the original story, Mu En was dedicated to resolving the prejudice between the Martial Soul Department and the Soul Tool Department.

However, Shrek Academy is missing Huo Yuhao, who was able to steal the technology by memorizing a large number of Soul Tool blueprints from the Mingde Hall through Spiritual Detection. Therefore, even if their Soul Tool Technology has improved through exchanges, catching up with Sun Moon Academy will not be a matter of a day or two.

Therefore, it is perfectly normal to choose to purchase the Spirit Contract Pagoda, whose technology is no less advanced than that of the Sun Moon Empire. In fact, if these Soul Tool did not have the function of preventing disassembly, Mu En would definitely have the Shrek people reverse-engineer these Soul Tool.

Returning to the present topic, after hearing Xu Xingyu's question, Mu En nodded and continued to explain his request.

"My other request is that I remember during your Inner Court assessment, you stole a treasure from the Holy Spirit Cult and used it to assist the Shrek team, even briefly transforming Xuan Zi's Martial Soul into a complete Taotie."

Having said all that, Xu Xingyu could easily understand Mu En's words. He wanted Xu Xingyu to use the power of the Myriad Beasts Blood Stele to completely evolve Xuan Zi's Martial Soul into the Taotie.

As Xu Xingyu had predicted, Mu En continued, "Shrek will lack a top-tier combatant without me, and Zhang Lexuan and others who are capable of replacing me haven't grown up yet. The only one who can advance to the Limit Douluo in a short time is Xuan Zi."

"Xuan Zi is currently lacking an opportunity to take another step forward. Therefore, if Xuan Zi can successfully evolve his Martial Soul, reaching the limit will not be a problem."

However, just as Mu En finished speaking, Xu Xingyu suddenly interjected, "If you want Xuan Zi's Martial Soul Evolution into the Taotie, I can indeed do it, but the risks involved are much greater than you imagine."

Zhang Lexuan, standing to the side, asked in confusion, "Risk? You mean the problem that Xuan Zi has to eat almost every moment?"

As one of the victims of this side effect, Zhang Lexuan knew very well that although Xuan Zi was the second strongest in the Shrek Academy, his attention was always distracted due to the side effect.

Whenever he was assigned a bodyguard or similar job, if Xuan Zi were to become distracted by eating and fail to pay attention to his surroundings, it could potentially result in numerous casualties.

Xu Xingyu gave an affirmative answer to Zhang Lexuan's question, "That's right, it's related to the side effects of him constantly eating food. Once Xuan Zi's Martial Soul becomes a true Taotie, this side effect will be amplified infinitely, creating a Limit Douluo who is more troublesome than any current Evil Soul Master."

Everyone present was stunned by these words. Limit Douluo is more troublesome than any current Evil Soul Master? Isn't this saying that once Xuan Zi's Martial Soul successfully evolves, he will become Evil Soul Master?

Before anyone else could ask, Xu Xingyu began explaining why there was such a risk.

"The so-called Taotie is a mutated descendant of the Earth Dragon King, possessing the ability to devour everything. This ability stems from Taotie's primal desires. This will continuously amplify Xuan Zi's appetite. At first, food can satisfy him, but after a while, he will be dominated by Taotie's devouring desires, and ordinary food alone will not be enough to satisfy him. At that point, he might devour anything that appears before him—humans, Soul Beast, ores, etc.—all will be consumed by his desire to fill his stomach."

"If Xuan Zi truly evolves into the Taotie Martial Soul and reaches the limit at the same time, then the energy level of what he needs to eat in a day would be equivalent to that of three Limit Douluo."

"If he cannot be satisfied, Xuan Zi will inevitably go berserk and begin to devour everything around him until he is full."

These words shocked everyone present. A pure Taotie could be such a ferocious creature! Now, the few people present understood why they had never seen a pure-blooded or even hybrid Taotie Soul Beast in this world.

This thing is the embodiment of disaster! Everything in the world becomes its Taotie! No wonder Xu Xingyu said that evolving Xuan Zi's Martial Soul would be a very troublesome matter!