"Yes, I recommended him. Our child's name is... Tang Xiaolong?"
Chen Ping breathed a sigh of relief, his mind racing.
He forced a professional smile and quickly remembered which deal the other party was referring to.
As long as these guys didn't start beating him up, things would be fine for him. If
he explained things clearly, he might even be able to persuade the parents next to him to buy a few more meals for their children.
"Tang Xiaolong my foot! My child's surname is Wang, remember that, his name is Wang Xiaolong, he takes my surname! Don't listen to his mother's nonsense."
The burly Soul Master in front of Chen Ping immediately spoke up, somewhat dissatisfied.
But then, as if remembering something, his expression darkened, and he hesitated, saying, "Anyway, the Tang Clan is down to just a few big and small members.
If my son takes the surname Tang, wouldn't that be like jumping into a fire pit?"
Chen Ping never inquired about matters involving client privacy, and simply nodded quickly.
"Yes, yes, Wang Xiaolong, I misremembered. He has a level 2.5 innate soul power, is eight years old, and has a soul power level of 5. His goal is to get into the Seventh Academy of Tianhun National University, right?"
"It's close to home, has a good reputation, and the tuition isn't high since it's a national university. It's a pretty good school. With hard work, he has a good chance."
Chen Ping quickly rummaged through the basket for information, checking the details with the Soul Master in front of him as he searched.
Seeing that Chen Ping could remember his son's information so clearly, the man's originally cold expression softened considerably, but he still showed some resentment.
After all, Chen Ping's fees were too high.
"What you said is fine, but why did you, you unscrupulous businessman, make my son switch from a control-type soul master to a healing-type soul master?"
"Do you know that my child shares the same martial soul as Tang San, the Sea God from ten thousand years ago?
Plus the Tang Sect's unique skills, he's bound to..."
The middle-aged man kept rambling on to Chen Ping, but Chen Ping only took out a statistical table that still smelled of ink from the basket.
"The Seventh Academy of the Heavenly Soul Empire, ranked among the top twenty advanced academies in the Heavenly Soul Empire, requires control-type Soul Masters to reach level 20 in cultivation before the age of fifteen for admission and level 30 in Soul Power before the age of twenty for graduation."
"However, for support-type Soul Masters, reaching level 18 in Soul Power before the age of fifteen is sufficient for admission, and reaching level 25 before the age of twenty is enough for graduation." "
For the past twenty years, the graduation rate of the Seventh Academy of the Heavenly Soul Empire has been 91%, meaning an average of nine out of every hundred students fail to graduate."
"The vast majority of these students who fail to graduate do so because their innate Soul Power is only level two or three.
They cultivated diligently before enrollment, even surpassing Soul Masters with innate levels four or five in their cohort." "
But after enrollment, a slight slackening or insufficient progress prevents them from meeting the minimum graduation requirements, resulting in only a certificate of completion."
"These days, apart from Shrek Academy, which emphasizes strict entry and exit requirements, most other high schools are lenient in entry but strict in exit requirements."
"Getting into a good school is not easy, obtaining a diploma is even harder, especially for Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul Masters."
"The Tang Sect's unique skills are excellent, but they're not necessarily suitable for everyone."
"As parents, we don't want our children to end up not even getting a diploma because of a problem that could have been avoided, right?"
"Besides, although I don't know much about our child's family situation, can't he learn from his mother if he chooses the support-type Soul Master path?"
Watching this young man, only a few years older than his son, repeatedly addressing him as "we parents," the middle-aged man's eyes twitched a few times, but he clearly took Chen Ping's words to heart.
What Chen Ping did was simple, but effective: presenting the most direct data so the man could weigh the pros and cons himself.
Although he didn't know where Chen Ping's data came from, it had to be said that Chen Ping's words truly hit the middle-aged man's sore spot as a parent.
These days, Soul Masters need qualifications to find jobs; many jobs require a diploma from a legitimate Soul Master academy.
A soul master like him, who couldn't even get a diploma from an intermediate soul master academy, was only able to work as a laborer at the docks thanks to his own spirit—he was naturally stronger than many soul masters of the same level.
"But a healing type..."
The middle-aged man was still somewhat conflicted. Was it reliable to pursue a healing-type soul master path with his Blue Silver Grass spirit?
To this, Chen Ping simply rummaged through his basket again, took out a very new manuscript, and quickly flipped through a few pages.
"Look, this is the basic stat panel for the Blue Silver Grass martial soul. Among plant-type martial souls of the same type, its basic attributes like toughness, length, agility, and tensile strength are all at the bottom." "
As for the additional attribute slots, the Blue Silver Grass martial soul is completely empty. We won't even look at things like toxicity or elemental damage correction coefficients."
"We won't dwell on what's missing; we'll deal with that when the child's martial soul mutates into the Thunderous Hell Vine."
"On the entire basic stat panel, the Blue Silver Grass martial soul's best values are growth speed and recovery speed; it can spawn a large area with very little soul power." "
In this situation, instead of competing with soul masters whose four-dimensional attributes are far superior for the control-type soul master position, it's better to play to its strengths and avoid its weaknesses by choosing the support-type soul master route." "
Don't forget, this is just the case of Blue Silver Grass competing with other plant-type soul masters for the control-type soul master position; control-type soul masters aren't limited to plant-type."
"Any elemental control-type Soul Master facing him will find the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul to have virtually no advantage."
Chen Ping spoke sincerely. The Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul's focus on control was already quite absurd.
If Tang San's Blue Silver Grass hadn't been the hidden Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, and hadn't also obtained two celestial-grade herbs—the Eight-Cornered Mystic Ice Grass and the Blazing Apricot Blossom—
effectively granting his Martial Soul immunity to both ice and fire,
any elemental control-type Soul Master of the same level would have utterly crushed him.
Judging from the middle-aged man's pensive expression, Chen Ping had already persuaded him, though he still harbored some other thoughts.
"But, that Tang Sect ancestor from ten thousand years ago..."
Chen Ping waved his hand. Of course, he wouldn't directly say that Tang San's martial soul was the Blue Silver Emperor, but instead used a more generic answer:
"The Blue Silver Grass in his hand and our Blue Silver Grass, how could they be the same thing?"
"Excuse me, but the child's family should be from the Tang Sect, right?"
"Listen to me, go back and let the child learn a few Tang Sect techniques from his mother."
"Especially that Ghost Shadow Step, a support-type soul master with strong survival abilities, is highly sought after everywhere.
You'll be enjoying the good life then."