Douluo Continent: I can nurture soul beasts and even perform super evolution.

Chapter 39: Eaten out of house and home by three pet beasts...

Yan Shaozhe led the three of them back to Shrek City overnight.

early morning.

The enormous Shrek City was already in operation, with vendors pushing carts blocking the streets from south to north, and all sorts of shops lining the main streets.

In a small courtyard in the south of the city.

Looking at Jiang's mother on the hospital bed, Old Zhuang glanced at Yan Shaozhe with a surprised expression, and at Jiang Nannan, who looked on with expectation. "Shaozhe, you have to ask me to treat such a simple illness?"

"Elder Zhuang, this matter is a bit special..." Yan Shaozhe's lips moved slightly, and his forced voice entered Elder Zhuang's ears, giving a brief explanation.

Jiang Nannan is actually the face of Shrek Academy's transformation—a commoner.

As an academy, rather than a royal one, the most important people to recruit and cultivate are actually "commoners." These "commoners" include small families without resources or strength, as well as true commoner geniuses like Jiang Nannan and Su Wen.

The latter is even more important.

In fact, many of the elders of the Sea God Pavilion came from commoner backgrounds, but as they rose to high positions and lived a life of luxury for a long time, few people knew about this.

Therefore, he would champion Jiang Nannan's name to attract many ordinary geniuses to apply to Shrek Academy...

There are also many underlying health issues among them.

For example, very few commoners on the entire continent can awaken their martial souls, because unlike ten thousand years ago when the Spirit Hall provided free awakening services, even if they do awaken their martial souls, the priority given to commoners is the sects that provide them with the opportunity to awaken their martial souls, rather than Shrek Academy. Local sects are like individual soul cliques, tightly controlling the resources available to commoners. Even if Shrek Academy has enough prestige, it dares not easily break this delicate balance.

Secondly, he also wanted the Martial Soul Department to go to various places to awaken the Martial Soul for the common people, but every time he proposed it, he was strongly opposed by the elders. The reason was that this was done by the Martial Soul Hall, and doing so would only allow the Martial Soul Hall to rise from the ashes.
He wanted to cancel the city lord's letter, but the elders said that the ancestral laws could not be changed.

He didn't understand until the very end.

The elders only wanted him to be a "qualified" dean of the Martial Soul Department, not a "saint".

Far away.

As Yan Shaozhe explained, Elder Zhuang suddenly understood, and his expression became more serious.

He stretched out his palm, and a surge of green energy emerged from it, from which a lush green seedling sprouted. Then, a flower stamen quickly grew, and the petals grew larger at a speed visible to the naked eye. Old Zhuang tore off three delicate pink petals and handed them to Jiang Nannan.

"Take one tablet daily, and the illness will be cured in three days."

"Thank you, thank you..." Jiang Nannan's beautiful eyes were filled with excitement.

"If you want to thank someone, thank that little guy. If it weren't for him, the academy wouldn't have known your mother was seriously ill." Old Zhuang shook his head.

"Sister Nannan, give it to Auntie to swallow." Seeing Jiang Nannan's grateful look again, Su Wen changed the subject and urged her.

"it is good."

As Jiang's mother took the medicine, her face visibly regained its radiance. Her face, which had been somewhat haggard and sallow due to illness, became even more radiant and beautiful.

But thinking about it, it's easy to understand that Jiang Nannan is one of the top three beauties in the original novel, so her mother's genes must not be too bad either.

The days passed by.

Besides his daily cultivation, Su Wen would occasionally visit Jiang's mother, practice the Ice and Fire Dual Heaven technique with Ma Xiaotao in the bathtub, and discuss the true meaning of ice with Ling Luochen. Half a month had passed in the blink of an eye.

Inside the golden tree house.

Su Wen let out a long breath. His face was filled with joy: "Finally broke through to level thirty-two. One level in just over a month, not bad, right..."

With the spiritual energy of the Golden Tree, the three pet beasts increasing their strength by devouring the flesh and blood of soul beasts, and the support of spiritual pills and various rare and precious materials, his cultivation speed is getting faster and faster. When he was in his teens, it would take one or two months to increase his soul power by one level. Now that he is at the Soul Venerable realm, it takes about the same amount of time to increase his soul power by one level.

Although Little Gold, Ice Emperor, and Hurricane are soul beasts, their cultivation levels don't improve as quickly as humans. However, by consuming the flesh and blood of soul beasts, they are equivalent to humans consuming rare and precious herbs. In just half a year, their sizes have increased considerably.

However, today marks the end of winter break, and a batch of new students are moving up to the second year.

Su Wen stood up, dressed, and headed towards the outer courtyard.

Fighting beast area.

The gray, fortress-like city walls separated the soul beasts from the academy.

The usually sparsely populated Beast Fighting Area was packed with first-year students today. They would face their second test here—directly confronting spirit beasts. Compared to the brutal first test (a three-by-three elimination tournament), this one was much milder. As long as they weren't too bad, choosing a hundred-year-old spirit beast or performing extremely poorly wouldn't be too difficult, and they would be allowed to pass normally...

"Old Master Gong, it's their competition today, why did you call me over?" Su Wen saw the white-haired old man from afar, greeted him, and asked curiously.

"I called you over here to take a look..." Old Gong glanced sideways at Su Wen.

"How much can your spirit beasts eat?!"

Su Wen: "..."

Seriously? It couldn't even last half a month?
Your Grand Arena consumes a third of the academy's revenue, at least tens of millions of gold soul coins annually. You can't even afford to feed my mere three little guys? How stingy…

Su Wen pouted.

"Hey, don't you dare disagree." Old Gong exploded.

He led Su Wen to a rockery.

Little Jin lay leisurely on it, surrounded by a small mountain of meat. It picked up a piece with its paw and stuffed it into its mouth. Old Gong's eyes nearly spit blood. "That's all flesh and blood of ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts! Your soul beast is incredibly picky; it won't eat a single bite of anything less than ten thousand years old! It even prefers the best quality raw meat from ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts. Its appetite alone is comparable to that of several ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts! In just half a month, I've spent at least three million gold soul coins! And that doesn't even include the Wind Baboon and the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion!"

Su Wen: "..."

His lips twitched.

No wonder his cultivation level improved so quickly; it turns out this guy was carrying a heavy burden.

Judging from this, what Elder Gong said makes sense. The annual expenses for the three soul beasts would probably be tens of millions of gold soul coins, which wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that they would empty the entire Great Arena.

There's no way around it; that's how it is when you raise them. If you release them into the Star Dou Great Forest, you won't have to pay a penny, but it might attract the attention of Xiong Jun, Di Tian, ​​and even the Silver Dragon King. Before your strength rises, it's best to keep a low profile...

However, simply feeding these soul beasts their flesh and blood isn't a solution. I wonder if there's any treasure similar to the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, which stores enormous energy, that could provide some of these pet beasts with some peace and quiet for a while.

"Alright, Elder Gong, I'll take it with me then," Su Wen said, waving his hand.

"Hey, wait a minute, what's the rush? Help me finish this match and teach those arrogant brats a lesson." Old Gong grinned.

"You were just complaining that my Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear ate too much," Su Wen raised an eyebrow.

"I'll cover your meals for another half month!" Old Gong said through gritted teeth.

"Deal!" Su Wen grinned.

(End of this chapter)