Douluo Continent: The True Body and Blood Soul, Starting from Blacksmithing

"...What do you mean?!"

Faced with Flander's questioning, Lin Yu smiled and waved his hand.

"It's nothing, I just guessed why this student had so many hidden injuries."

Having spent so much time with Lin Yu, Xue Qinghe could almost guess what the kid was up to just by looking at Lin Yu's expression.

At this point, he naturally and very cooperatively asked a question.

"Guessing? You can even guess how the hidden injury happened?"

Lin Yu nodded, then walked past Ye Lingling, who had made way for him, and came to Liu Ning's side, pointing to the spot with the hidden injury that Ye Lingling had just pointed out.

"In a contest between trainees, who would target those incapacitating positions, and yet do so with such precision without causing a fatality?"

Speaking of "precision", Ye Lingling thought of the business her family had been busy with recently, and couldn't help but twitch the corners of her mouth.

Although she inherited the Nine Heart Begonia, many of her relatives inherited healing-type martial souls.

When the Heavenly Dou Royal Academy and the Soul Arena collaborated to send students to the Soul Arena for training every year, many other academies on the mainland began to follow suit.

When you go to the Soul Arena for training, you can encounter all sorts of opponents, including quite a few with twisted minds who specifically target the most malicious and underhanded tactics!

After Lin Yu's reminder, Ye Lingling finally understood how the student had acquired his hidden injuries.

Ye Lingling wanted to speak, but the First Prince and Lin Yu had already started the Great Soul Battle Arena together.

Ye Lingling wisely kept quiet.

Although she kept quiet, her grandfather's first comment after seeing him that day still echoed in her mind.

"Don't get too close to that Lin Yu."

Although she didn't know why her grandfather would say that to her, Ye Lingling prepared to leave with perfect understanding.

She bid farewell to the eldest prince and prepared to leave.

Before pushing open the door, Ye Lingling heard Lin Yu's mocking voice.

"Shrek Academy has so many teachers and so few students. Even if all the teachers' salaries were squeezed from the students' tuition fees, it wouldn't be enough."

salary?

These past few days, her grandfather had brought up this topic quite often in front of her, so Ye Lingling paused for a moment and continued listening to what he had to say.

"Let me guess, do the teachers at your academy also make money by placing bets when their students fight in the Soul Arena?"

Upon hearing Lin Yu's words, Ye Lingling turned her head and looked at Flander.

This dean seems to be at the Soul Saint level.

This Soul Master with a food-type Martial Soul is said to be a Soul Emperor, and the group of teachers from Shrek Academy outside also seem to be quite strong.

But there were actually fewer students from Shrek Academy than teachers!

Ye Lingling didn't know what it was like in other places, but at the Royal Academy, the stronger the teacher, the higher their salary.

If Shrek Academy wanted to pay salaries to certain teachers, how much would it need per year?

This money has to come from the students' tuition fees? Which parents would spend so much money on tuition?

Since parents won't spend that much money on tuition, the money will have to come from the students themselves.

Tsk, she's still so naive.

When she first heard that the student's injuries were from the Soul Arena, she naively thought that Shrek Academy wanted to replicate the practice of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy in having its students train in the Soul Arena.

I can't believe Shrek Academy would actually make money through such means! What do they take their students for?

If a student has a higher reputation in the Soul Arena, the Soul Arena will adjust their win rate accordingly.

Is it true that as long as it can make money, the academy will even sell the students' intelligence information?

Could we go even further and have the academy dean drug the students' food to affect their performance in order to make money?

Or, could they find specific opponents in the arena to ambush and eliminate?

At first, she thought it was perfectly normal for the academy to send students to the Soul Arena for training. Why did the academy impose so many restrictions: only one team could go per year, each team had to bring three teachers, and teachers and students were not allowed to place bets in the Soul Arena…

Now it makes sense, everything makes sense!

She understood why the Heavenly Dou Royal Academy had to get involved in this kind of thing, and why the Soul Arena was so lively now!

No wonder, no wonder the Royal Academy was because of

Doctors naturally possess an extraordinary capacity for empathy, let alone a young girl like Ye Lingling!

Almost instantly, she figured out who those teachers at Shrek Academy were, and she also understood the Royal Academy's good intentions...

We received quite a bit of information today.

Taking a deep breath, Ye Lingling pushed open the door.

A shadow blocked the sunlight from entering the room.

Looking up, Ye Lingling saw two members of the teaching committee of Tiandou Royal Academy: Meng Shenji and Zhilin.

The two men were standing outside the door, and judging from their calm and composed demeanor, they seemed to have been standing there for quite some time.

Inside the room, Flander, who was arguing with Lin Yu about "whether it's a problem to earn some extra money while training students," stopped arguing when he noticed the noise at the door.

Ye Lingling lowered her head, gestured to the two education committee members, and then prepared to go back to talk to Yanzi and the others about what was happening here.

Anyway, this place is not a good place to stay for long.

In the corridor, Ye Lingling also took the time to observe some of the teachers from Shrek Academy.

The teachers all exuded a powerful aura; none of them were weaker than a Soul King! But wait, there was also a Great Soul Master.

Tsk, a high-level Soul Master has managed to sneak into an advanced Soul Master academy. He's probably got connections or is just freeloading.

Reassessing the powerful figures, Ye Lingling couldn't help but think to herself: What's the point of an academy keeping so many strong guys? Do you have the money to keep so many?!

After mentally complaining for a moment, Ye Lingling looked at the students.

That sleazy-looking man with the big beard and that greasy fat man were truly disgusting to look at.

Only that blond guy looks somewhat decent; he's twelve years old, almost a Soul Master, and his talent and strength are quite good.

As for the two figures, one in blue and one in red, they looked to be only eight or nine years old, but they were both at the second level and had good talent.

These students are truly blind to have chosen to attend such a ruthless academy as Shrek.

Being in an unfamiliar place and being looked at with such disdain and contempt by a pretty girl, who would feel good about that?

Ma Hongjun immediately jumped out.

"Hey, beautiful, what kind of look is that? If you keep looking at us like that, believe me, your brother Hongjun will teach you a lesson about being a woman tonight!"

Ye Lingling turned her head away and quickened her pace to leave.

Before she had gone far, Ye Lingling heard a greasy voice whispering to the fat man.

"Fatty, you're something else! You dare to sleep with these aristocratic girls?"

"What aristocratic nonsense! Look at how she's crossing her legs; maybe in private..."

Upon hearing this, Ye Lingling ran even faster.

It's a shame she even pities these students who are exploited by Shrek Academy. There's a reason why some of them are stuck in the mud!

Damn fatso and greasy guy, if I can make you walk out of Tiandou Royal Academy standing up today, even if I, Ye Lingling, have few connections!