Douluo Continent: I am the true master

Chapter 60 School Opening

(P.S.: This is a transitional chapter; the Tianxing Academy arc is nearing its end. Next up is the Seizing Opportunities arc.)

Although Tianxing Advanced Soul Master Academy is newly opened, its popularity is no less than that of the established advanced academies.

The first batch of students admitted to the first category of Soul Masters at the start of the semester totaled 413. This number is roughly equivalent to the total number of students in several grades at other advanced Soul Master academies.

This group of Soul Masters included both nobles and commoners, but without a doubt, they all reached level 20 in cultivation.

However, the vast majority of these nobles were ordinary nobles of lower status. The truly powerful nobles already possessed cultivation environments in their own homes that were comparable to some of the most prestigious academies.

As for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon School, since they owed Ye Wen a favor, they couldn't just leave without doing something this time. So they sent a few less important collateral descendants of their families to enroll.

Fortunately, what they inherited was the family's martial spirit, so it didn't seem too perfunctory.

As for the Spirit Hall, it already has the most advanced academy on the entire continent, so naturally it wouldn't send its students here to study.

As for the Angel Family, which is the core of the Spirit Hall, it's not up to Ye Wen to train them. However, they did generously bring 100 million gold soul coins as a back-to-school gift for Ye Wen.

The two empires were equally unwilling to be outdone, after all, money was just a number to them, and they could easily afford a mere 100 million gold soul coins.

However, it doesn't seem to be the congratulatory gift they originally brought; it's more like something they took out to avoid being outdone by the Spirit Hall.

Although the 300 million gold soul coins solved the academy's urgent need for working capital, Ye Wen was somewhat disappointed. He had thought that these powerful forces would be generous enough to offer a ten-thousand-year soul bone as a congratulatory gift.

After all, even the lowest-grade ten-thousand-year soul bone can fetch millions of gold soul coins these days.

Although Ye Wen himself doesn't need it, it's a good choice to enhance the foundation of some of his personal disciples who are not very talented.

Moreover, to be honest, Ye Wen had already found a steady way to make money. Although ordinary people had very little money, every little bit helps.

With targeted treatments using special drugs, most of the medical problems of ordinary people can be solved even without much medical expertise.

Although selling them requires a great deal of manpower and resources, among Ye Wen's friendly forces, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School is undoubtedly the leader in this field.

With technology as equity, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School is responsible for production and sales. Although Ye Wen can only receive 10% of the total profit, it is enough.

Ye Wen calculated that this amounted to about 600,000 to 700,000 gold soul coins per year.

A Soul Master Academy obviously doesn't need such a large amount of funding. So, although the 300 million gold coins sent by the three empires solved Ye Wen's immediate problem, it became a useless burden that was neither useful nor worth discarding. It could only be used to purchase rare metals as reserve funds for researching Soul Tools.

As for the claim that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School stole Ye Wen's formula to make money.

Haha, the biggest difference between the feudal era and the capitalist era is that in the feudal era, as long as you had status, the other party would absolutely keep their promise, because this era emphasized that a person cannot stand without integrity.

Once your reputation is ruined, no one will cooperate with you. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, which started by supporting martial souls, is even stricter in this regard. Things like a big shop bullying its customers will never happen in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

As for capitalist societies, because they emphasize the law, there are plenty of loopholes for capitalists to exploit.

Naturally, the good virtue of integrity also deteriorated. In any case, as far as Ye Wen knew, in his previous life at the beginning of the founding of the country, some old Chinese medicine practitioners were cheated out of their formulas by capitalists, who then emptied their pockets. Some were even falsely accused and imprisoned. These were considered the better cases. Some unscrupulous people even killed people to silence them in order to seize the formulas.

Foreigners have taken patent law to an even more creative and innovative level.

China is clearly the birthplace of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), yet many of its prescriptions have been preemptively registered by South Korea and Japan. Chinese people have to pay patent fees to use them themselves—it's shameful! What a disgrace!

Another issue concerns the second category of students recruited. It's not that no one was recruited; a total of three were recruited. Their martial souls were also unusual, and their innate soul power met the requirements.

Fang Qiaoqiao, seven years old, with the martial soul Black Shadow, has a congenital soul power of level six, and her current soul power is exactly level ten.

Bister, 15 years old, Martial Soul: Mist Demon, Innate Soul Power Level 6, Currently Soul Power Level 25.

Kong Hua, eight years old, martial soul scroll, innate soul power level five, currently soul power level ten.

All three were children from families near Tianxing Academy, and they came to enroll because they heard of Ye Wen's reputation.

Except for that guy Bicester, who came from a wealthy family and had equipped his martial soul with two hundred-year spirit rings, but because of the problem with his martial soul, he hadn't made any progress at all, so he decided to try his luck with Ye Wen.

As for the other two children, they came from ordinary families, and because of the special nature of their martial souls, they had no idea how to use them.

Therefore, the direction of choosing a spirit ring naturally became a mystery. However, since the family had finally produced two promising talents, their parents were unwilling to let their children casually attach spirit rings, so it has been delayed until now.

However, what seemed like a difficult problem to ordinary Soul Masters was quite simple to Ye Wen. After all, Ye Wen's knowledge far surpassed that of this era.

Martial soul mutations are rare to begin with, and some mutations lead directly to the evolution into higher-level soul beasts of the same kind. As for malignant mutations, they don't have much innate soul power at all, although there may be quite a few examples of martial souls that are very similar to Yu Xiaogang's.

However, Ye Wen said that he does not have time at the moment, and even if he changes his mind, the upper limit he can reach in the future will probably be very low, unless he invests a lot of resources. But Ye Wen has no intention of making such a losing deal with someone he has no connection with.

In addition, most commoners in this era were illiterate and probably didn't even read Ye Wen's recruitment notice. Under these circumstances, only three students with mutated martial souls were recruited.

If the two younger ones develop their martial souls well, they should actually be no less capable than their own disciples.

As for Bicester, he was just average, a typical student at an advanced soul master academy.

He also chose the wrong martial soul. Although the first two soul skills might not be useful later on, given that Bicester's innate soul power is level six, he can only ever reach the level of a Soul Saint at most. Unless he has a special opportunity, he can't even dream of becoming a Soul Douluo.

Furthermore, he was only 15 years old with innate soul power at level six, and now he only has level 25 soul power. It's safe to say that this guy is usually lazy, so his potential rating has dropped even further. You have to know that this age is the best time for soul power cultivation.

Although these three are classified as Category II students, they actually attend classes with the regular students.

However, their only special privilege is that Ye Wen will guide them in the direction of cultivation.

The reason Ye Wen recruited these students was not because he wanted to conduct research on martial soul mutation, but because he wanted to see if he could find a disciple with extraordinary talent that had not yet been discovered.

After all, there are many examples of pearls being covered in dust.

(End of this chapter)