Yan Shaozhe's Bid to Win Him Over

After personally blasting the perverted old hag down, Bai Jingtian felt refreshed, as if he had put on a brand-new pair of underwear and greeted the morning sun on the first day of the new year.

As for how Shrek Academy would deal with Bai Jingtian, it no longer mattered to him.

In any case, Zhou Yi was bound to face a thorough investigation by the Martial Soul Department. Even if she sold herself to Fan Yu, he most likely wouldn't be able to protect her this time.

This time was different from any before. In the past, when Zhou Yi expelled students, the largest number of victims in a single case had been "only" a dozen or so. With Shrek Academy's strength, sweeping such matters completely under the rug had been easy.

But this time, not only had the wager been made in public in the packed Soul Fighting Arena, Zhou Yi had also lost like a clown. Even if Shrek Academy wanted to silence everyone, once it failed to do so immediately, there would be no way to do it later.

According to a postmortem by a Martial Soul Department teacher well versed in theory, if Zhou Yi had managed to exercise normal judgment for just ten seconds, Bai Jingtian would have had a hard time defeating her.

Even so, although Zhou Yi had made mistakes throughout the fight, and her actual fighting ability might not have matched that of a five-ring inner court disciple, Bai Jingtian had still blasted her down fair and square in a public battle, and with the strength of a Soul Grandmaster at that.

As long as not every member of the Martial Soul Department was a Blind Douluo, they would surely come up with a suitable plan to win Bai Jingtian over soon.

As for the Soul Tool Department...

With the "Blue Scientist" option, Bai Jingtian didn't need an instructor at all. He only needed to get his hands on the Soul Tool Department's textbooks and similar materials to understand the basic concepts and direction of development of mid- and high-level Soul Tools on Douluo Continent. Then, if he put in enough time and effort to study, he could become the greatest Soul Engineer in history.

As for textbooks, as long as he had money, was there any reason to worry he couldn't buy them?

Shrek Academy's Soul Tool Department wasn't unrivaled under heaven like the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and Mingde Hall. At most, its greater reputation and wealth allowed it to collect some Soul Tool blueprints and high-level Soul Tools from the Sun Moon Empire.

Therefore, even if Soul Tools were one of the answers heaven's will had given for this era's meta, Bai Jingtian didn't care much about Shrek Academy's Soul Tool Department, especially Fan Yu's opinion.

And if his plans changed in the future and Bai Jingtian had to go to the Sun Moon Empire and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, he could find a way then. He didn't have to fixate on the exchange program between Shrek Academy's Soul Tool Department and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

Thus, when Bai Jingtian learned that Mu Jin was taking him to meet Yan Shaozhe, dean of the Martial Soul Department, he remained completely relaxed.

Meanwhile, Yan Shaozhe, sitting in his office, was also in a wonderful mood.

Although Zhou Yi, as an outer court teacher in the Martial Soul Department, had a slight advantage over other teachers when it came to producing disciples who could successfully graduate from the outer court and enter the inner court,

she was no slouch when it came to stirring up trouble either. The lawsuits filed by the students she had expelled, and the subsequent handling of them, had caused Du Weilun and the others no small amount of grief.

If he could trade one controversial teacher like her for a top-tier genius, Yan Shaozhe would gladly sacrifice half the teachers in the Martial Soul Department's outer court.

A top-tier genius could do far more for Shrek Academy than a controversial outer court teacher.

Besides, even Yan Shaozhe's teacher, the master of the Sea God Pavilion, had personally instructed him to do his utmost to win Bai Jingtian over. He had even made a remark that left Yan Shaozhe jealous:

"Bai Jingtian has the makings of a Limit Douluo."

Back when Yan Shaozhe and the other three had become Mu En's students, none of them had received such an assessment.

Although Yan Shaozhe felt a little sour about it, he had immediately drawn up a proposal and was only waiting for Bai Jingtian to come and confirm it.

Before long, Mu Jin led Bai Jingtian into the Martial Soul Department dean's office, where he met Bright Phoenix Douluo Yan Shaozhe, the man who had perfectly inherited the legacy of the Sea God Pavilion master Mu En, the "Well-Fed Douluo"; who had produced a Holy Spirit Cult vice leader with a single thrust; and who was very likely a descendant of Ye Xishui, now a grand elder of the Holy Spirit Cult, and its Great Enshrined, Long Xiaoyao.

Tsk, why do I keep feeling like this guy is so much like that dog-donkey Lan Meng?

That smile, and that bearing—they always give me the feeling that he could break into a smug, triumphant smile and roar with laughter the very next moment, then reach out and weigh my little brother in his hand.

At first sight of this Shrek Academy dean, an expert at infighting and a novice at fighting outsiders, Bai Jingtian didn't have a very good impression of him. Although he looked prim and proper and might have been able to cosplay as the principal of Cassell College if he put on a pair of glasses, there was always something about his bearing that rubbed Bai Jingtian the wrong way.

Still, it wasn't convenient for Bai Jingtian to say anything here, so he could only bow to the Shrek Academy dean along with Mu Jin.

"No need for formalities, Student Bai, Teacher Mu. I invited you both here today to reward you.

"The talent Shrek Academy values most is monsters, and Student Bai, I believe you are an excellent fit for the academy's cultivation requirements.

"If you're willing, I can make the decision to have you become a core disciple of the Martial Soul Department right now, without taking the freshman assessment in three months. And when your cultivation reaches the Soul Ancestor level, you can graduate directly from the outer court and become an inner court disciple.

"In addition, I will personally help you obtain the Soul Rings best suited to you for your next two Soul Rings.

"Furthermore, when you become an inner court disciple, I can also make the decision to select a Soul Bone suited to you. What do you think?"

Yan Shaozhe spoke gently, laying out all the terms he had prepared.

Mu Jin stood to the side, listening with her jaw agape. As far as she knew, this was already the best treatment an outer court disciple of the Martial Soul Department could receive.

Bai Jingtian, however, only put on a shocked expression to play along with Yan Shaozhe's "performance." He didn't believe a single word Yan Shaozhe had said.

Of the bad checks Yan Shaozhe had written for Lao Huo in the original work, he had actually made good on very few. The Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone had been abandoned altogether.

As for Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao entering the inner court... that had been entirely thanks to their own abilities. Even without Yan Shaozhe's promise, their Twin Martial Souls alone had made it certain that they would become core disciples of the Martial Soul Department and enter the inner court.

However, Mu Jin still had to work at Shrek Academy, and Bai Jingtian wasn't yet strong enough to do certain things that would delight some spectators. So, after lowering his head and pondering for a while, he looked up again and answered:

"Sorry, Dean, but I'd still like to earn that treatment through my own abilities. Besides, I don't want to cause trouble for the other teachers because of my own affairs."