Chapter 169: 187. Young Master Dai Lets Himself Go
Our Dai Mubai slipped out of the Star Luo Empire and arrived at his dream Shrek Academy.
It happened to be the enrollment season for Shrek Academy, so Dai Mubai went straight to register.
Although at 9 years old he didn't meet Shrek's enrollment requirements, Dai Mubai proposed funding Shrek Academy, which convinced Flender to let him join the academy.
His arrival also coincided with Shrek going through its most difficult time.
Among Shrek's students, not all were from mud-legged backgrounds; there were also students from noble families.
Two years ago, when Zhao Wuji took a group of students into the Star Dou Great Forest for soul hunting, due to his love for drinking, Zhao Wuji got drunk during the hunt, resulting in student casualties.
Shrek faced another public relations crisis. When dealing with mud-legged troublemakers, Shrek could strike back without hesitation, but the problem was that there were nobles among the students.
To make this noble shut up, Flender had to empty his pockets and lobby throughout the Barak Kingdom to help Shrek survive this dangerous phase. But with the money gone, Shrek Academy reached the brink of closure.
Dai Mubai's investment revitalized Shrek. Plus, Dai Mubai came from the Star Luo Dai family, with innate soul power of 9.5 levels and the potential for a Titled Douluo title. Flender naturally happily accepted this student.
(In the original work, Dai Mubai mentioned using family funds to invest in Shrek Academy. Later plot reveals Dai Mubai's identity and the bloody imperial throne inheritance system of the Star Luo Dai family. Dai Mubai ran out to escape the family fate, but him using family money to fund Shrek means he hadn't truly escaped the family's influence. Even his escape wasn't serious; running out was like running in place, showing no independence. This further illustrates that before Tang San arrived, this person was in a state of complete self-abandonment.)
Reborn once, Dai Mubai had a slight awareness of changes in the outside world, such as the emergence of sects like the Body Sect that wouldn't appear until thousands of years later in this era.
But so what if there were variables? As long as he hugged tightly onto Tang San's thigh, he would have a seat in godhood in the future. Coming to Shrek Academy, this rundown shack, Dai Mubai felt like he had obtained a ticket to godhood.
"Next, I just need to wait six years for Tang San to come register at the school. As for these six years—" Dai Mubai stretched his arms, breathing in the fresh air, and said: "This is one of my few periods of free time; I can't waste it."
Thus, our Young Master Dai let himself go just like that.
The outstanding family genes gave Dai Mubai a powerful martial soul along with a face that could captivate thousands of girls.
With such solid capital, Dai Mubai tasted the wild game he had been craving for decades~
Today he hooked up with this top courtesan, tomorrow he spent the night with Soto City's flower queen on a pleasure boat.
At his peak, he had to arrange five dates in one day, with the dates scheduled clearly. He might be boating with one woman by the moat in Soto City at one moment, confessing his deep affections, but in the next moment, he would appear a thousand meters away in a Soto City hotel, spending the night with another beauty.
Finally, Flender couldn't stand it anymore.
He pushed open the door of the hotel private room and walked in, seeing our Young Master Dai with a beauty on each arm, drinking and eating meat carefree. In front of him, a group of dancers were gracefully performing.
"Mubai, you're in the era of your best cultivation talent right now; how can you slack off like this?" Flender said.
Dai Mubai, eyes blurry from drink, said: "Dean, I'll cultivate diligently when it's time to cultivate. Don't worry about this. Besides, I've fought so many battles and eaten delicacies for so many years; can't I seek some wild game to taste?"
"What nonsense are you saying, kid? You're only a few years old; what battles have you fought for so many years?" Flender took it as drunken talk and warned: "Dai Mubai, you can play, but my requirement for you is over level 20 by age 12. Otherwise, even Shrek Academy can't accommodate a big Buddha like you."
"Alright, Dean, I guarantee I can do it, so don't worry about me." Dai Mubai said. It was just extracting a pinch of time from his managed schedule to cultivate—simple as sprinkling water.
Seeing Dai Mubai's attitude, Flender shook his head and turned to leave.
After Flender left, Dai Mubai looked at the stunned singers and dancers around him and said: "What are you waiting for? Keep playing the music and dancing."
"Wow, level 20 by age 12—Young Master Dai, can you really do it?"
"For you, Young Master Dai, that's a piece of cake."
"Wow, Young Master Dai is really amazing."
Flender was an opportunist; he founded the school with an opportunistic mindset.
In Flender's view, Shrek Academy truly lacked two things: first, excellent students; second, building Shrek's reputation.
Only by gathering enough excellent students, building a Shrek monster brand around them in the soul master circle, then seizing opportunities to rise—ideally achieving a ranking in the Continental Soul Master Tournament—could Shrek Academy's game be turned around. With a resounding reputation, there would be no fear of lacking students; with students, proper cultivation would produce fame.
Therefore, reputation was very important, and excellent students who could build the Shrek monster fame were also important.
Qin Ming, who graduated a few years ago, was one of them, but Qin Ming was just one person, not enough to form a team.
Excellent students were extremely rare; every academy was competing for them. When would it be the turn of Shrek, this backwater wild chicken academy, to compete?
No choice, Flender could only take the initiative.
Thus, he choked the Spirit Hall deacons' market. Before the annual Spirit Hall awakening month, when deacons went to the countryside, Flender would arrive in the countryside ahead of time to awaken martial souls for free.
Flender hoped these young children could bring him a miracle, but most of the time, he did useless work.
In his awakening lists, very few could become soul masters, let alone monster seedlings that met Shrek Academy's requirements.
Of course, this was just a stupid method. The shrewd Flender, besides doing this, had a more efficient way: using money to bribe Spirit Hall deacons, obtaining the martial soul awakening lists before they were reported, trying to find the students he wanted from those lists.
However, even so, he hadn't found the students he desired. For the seedlings awakened from mud-legged backgrounds who could become soul masters, Spirit Hall took them all in without discrimination, while Shrek's attitude was to take only the top handful.
For many years, Flender gained nothing until one day, the bribed Spirit Hall deacon gave him a report.
A sausage martial soul, innate full soul power quasi-soul master entered Flender's vision.
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