It has to be said, Cai Mei'er's words, at first listen, actually sound quite reasonable.
Listen, every word reveals the academy's concern for you, not wanting you to lose your life due to underestimating your enemies.
But in reality?
Cai Mei'er's words simply can't stand up to scrutiny; otherwise, they're full of loopholes.
The most classic example is working for them with your life without pay, and if you get injured on the job, which causes a slight oversight in another task assigned by the boss, they then deduct your pay in return.
Paying to work?
This might be the most hellish joke Lin Yun had heard in days.
And wasn't the main reason for the heavy losses in the Death Hand incident due to Xuan Zi, that good-for-nothing, being drunk and messing things up?
After observing the expressions of others, Lin Yun quietly retreated.
Except for Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng beside him, everyone else had pretty much the same expression, basically PUA'd by Cai Mei'er's words to the point of being disoriented.
No wonder the original Shrek Seven Monsters didn't include Ning Tian; she was too shrewd. In Shrek's words, she couldn't be tamed and wasn't worth investing too many resources in.
Lin Yun merely exchanged glances with her and noticed that her expression was similar to his own. After all, she had participated in this operation from start to finish. Moreover, her Nine Treasures Glazed Tile宗 disciples also needed to perform tasks for the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile宗, but how could they receive such treatment as in Shrek?
As for Xiao Xiao and Wu Feng, they simply followed in Lin Yun's and Ning Tian's footsteps.
So, Lin Yun didn't intend to say much more.
It's still the same phrase: let go of the urge to help, and respect others' destinies.
Since they were all willing to be brainwashed by Shrek, Lin Yun couldn't possibly go and seek justice for a group of people he didn't have much to do with.
It's just this Ma Xiaotao...
After Cai Mei'er's extreme brainwashing PUA, Lin Yun found that the proportion between Ma Xiaotao's slave seal and Shrek in her heart, the Shrek side had increased a bit. It was almost completely brainwashed successfully, but then it actually rekindled.
It seemed that the conditioning wasn't enough; he needed to continue to intensify his efforts.
After PUAing the inner court disciples, it was the turn of the outer court disciples' rewards. For these young ones who had not yet entered the inner court and whose PUA efforts were not yet sufficient, Cai Mei'er adopted a lenient policy.
First, there was Wang Yan.
His reward was a successful promotion to inner court special-grade teacher, bypassing the teacher promotion assessment, and he received three opportunities to borrow books from the Sea God Pavilion's secret library.
As for unlimited access to the library, time-limited but with no limit on the number of entries, as in the original work?
That certainly wasn't available.
After all, the reason they won this competition was ultimately because Lin Yun carried the team single-handedly, which had little to do with him as the team leader. A casual reward was enough to show appreciation.
The rest of the reserve team was also treated similarly.
They each received a valuable set of Shrek's auxiliary cultivation pills and herbs, though these were a step up in quality from previous years.
Finally, it was Lin Yun's turn.
Cai Mei'er did not suggest taking back the three ten-thousand-year soul bones awarded for the championship. On one hand, it was what Lin Yun deserved, and on the other, it was to curry more favor with Lin Yun using these three soul bones.
A soul master with ultimate attributes—three black and two red—their future soul ring configuration would definitely not be lower than three black and six red. And according to Lin Yun's mysterious method of increasing cultivation years, he might even become an unprecedented nine-red ultimate attribute Limit Douluo in the future.
In the eyes of the Shrek people, all the people in the reserve and main teams combined were not as valuable as Lin Yun alone.
Although Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao had twin martial souls, and their second martial soul also had the potential for a full ten-thousand-year configuration, this possibility was simply too small.
A ten-thousand-year soul ring couldn't simply be absorbed just by wanting to.
Even though there was now a method for cultivating twin martial souls, avoiding the need to ask Bibi Dong as Tang San did, and resolving the issue of soul power conflict in twin martial souls, improving the soul master's physical strength was still a significant problem.
If nothing unexpected happened, it would be normal for their second martial soul to absorb a minimum of five ten-thousand-year soul rings.
In the past ten thousand years, Shrek had seen far too many such examples.
Under Lin Yun's terrifying soul ring configuration, the value of their twin martial souls seemed much smaller. With the same soul ring configuration, a twin martial soul was definitely inferior to an ultimate martial soul.
No matter how many tricks you had, you couldn't compare to someone who was inherently a numerical monster.
The Golden Dragon was such an existence.
Primitive mechanism, Heavenly Venerate's stats.
A single punch could destroy all your flashy tricks.
Coupled with the fact that Lin Yun basically carried this competition, his rewards were destined to be the most abundant.
First were the heavenly treasures. Cai Mei'er didn't give Lin Yun pills or herbs, but instead directly took out a top-grade whale glue with a lifespan of fifty thousand years. This piece of whale glue was a sure-kill for Lin Yun.
It was foreseeable that a soul master with ultimate power attributes would never complain about having too much physical strength. Combined with Lin Yun's soul ring configuration, this fifty-thousand-year whale glue could at least boost the absorption year limit of Lin Yun's soul rings by a few thousand years.
This single piece of fifty-thousand-year whale glue alone already far surpassed the rewards of everyone else.
The second reward was an opportunity to meditate at the bottom of the Golden Tree.
Meditating at the bottom of the Golden Tree was different from cultivating within the Golden Tree. Even Ma Xiaotao, who frequently had access to the Sea God Pavilion, had only had one chance to meditate at the bottom of the Golden Tree, and that was when she first entered the inner court.
If you add the three soul bones from the competition championship, Lin Yun's rewards from this competition were truly overflowing.
The value of the three soul bones was at least several million gold soul coins, the fifty-thousand-year whale glue was equally valuable, and the opportunity to meditate at the Golden Tree was something money couldn't buy.
Calculating it this way, Lin Yun not only made a grand display but also earned tens of millions of gold soul coins...
Hmm...
It was still worthy of his asking price.
However, Lin Yun was a little hesitant about this last opportunity to meditate at the Golden Tree.
"Dean Cai, can the opportunity to meditate at the Golden Tree be saved for later? My sect has some matters, and I need to leave Shrek for a period, so I'm afraid I won't be able to use this reward," Lin Yun asked.
"Hmm? Are you sure? The opportunity to meditate at the bottom of the Golden Tree can allow a soul master to find their future path. The earlier you enter, the greater the benefits," Cai Mei'er was somewhat surprised.
"It's really not convenient," Lin Yun shrugged, appearing 'helpless'.
Cai Mei'er was at a loss for a moment and subconsciously looked towards the head seat at the end of the Sea God Pavilion.
There, was Mu En's position.
"Hehe... Of course you can. The reward has already been given to you. You can decide when you need to claim it."
An old, gentle laugh softly rang out.
(End of Chapter)
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