Shrek Academy is very efficient. Just three days later, a simple document appeared on the desk of Du Weilun, the director of the outer courtyard of Shrek Academy.
"Thank you for your hard work this time, brother. Take this to the city lord to claim your reward."
Du Weilun wrote a note and handed it to the masked man in front of him who was covered in a black robe.
"Director Du, you are too polite. It is an honor for us Shrek people to work for the academy."
The masked man put away the note, and the eight soul rings on his body flashed slightly, and disappeared in Du Weilun's office.
"You are indeed a genius who walked out of our Shrek outer courtyard. With you here, our Shrek will not fall."
Du Weilun looked at the direction where the masked man disappeared with great appreciation, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
The latter was a student of Shrek Academy, but failed to be admitted to the inner courtyard. After graduating from the outer courtyard, he joined the city defense army of Shrek City and was under the jurisdiction of Shrek City. He has been serving ever since and is the fastest soul fighter in the city defense army.
Dean Yan personally told him to do things quickly, so Du Weilun did not dare to neglect it and went directly to the city defense army to find the latter for help.
His eyes fell back on the simple materials on the table, Du Weilun frowned, thought for a while, picked up the materials, and walked towards Yan Shaozhe's office.
"Although Xu Tianxi failed to awaken the Xuanming Turtle, he has an innate seventh level soul power. He is still a pretty good talent. Please let the dean make the decision personally…"
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"Oh? A rare spiritual martial soul Yueying, an innate seventh level soul power? This kid's talent is not too bad. Unfortunately, it looks like his martial soul has undergone a malignant mutation. Even with the Xuanshui Pill and the Xuanwu Divine Pill, it is only at the innate seventh level. If there is no pill, I'm afraid it might not even be at the innate third level."
Yan Shaozhe slapped the information that the spy had urgently delivered on the table, with a faint sneer on his face.
"Wei Lun, in your opinion, what is this boy's talent? Can he graduate from the outer courtyard? Can he be admitted to the inner courtyard?"
"Let me see... unless his martial soul has some special features that we don't know about, he may barely be able to graduate from the outer courtyard, but he will not be able to enter the inner courtyard."
Du Wei Lun's tone was firm, and then he analyzed calmly: "The innate level 7 soul power has reached the minimum level for our outer courtyard disciples to graduate. No more than 50 students can graduate from our outer courtyard every year, and their innate soul power will not be lower than level 7."
"The spiritual martial soul is somewhat special compared to other martial souls. If he can practice diligently, he will have a chance to graduate from the outer courtyard."
Shrek Academy gathers countless geniuses from the Three Kingdoms. Every year, some people will be eliminated. Among the geniuses who can enter the sixth grade, there are almost no geniuses below level 7.
Geniuses with innate levels 8 or 9, or even full innate soul power, are rare outside, but they are common in Shrek Academy, and they come in continuously every year.
Although Titled Douluo are no longer so rare after ten thousand years of development, the innate spirit power of most of the Titled Douluo in the original Three Kingdoms is still above level seven, with almost no exceptions. This is also one of the reasons why the threshold for graduation is set very high in the outer courtyard.
"As for the inner courtyard... although there are occasionally geniuses with innate level seven spirit power who pass the assessment, it is almost impossible for Xu Tianxi with this spiritual attribute, unless the Xuanming Sect is willing to spend a lot of resources on him."
Du Weilun fully considered Xu Tianxi's background and made the most prudent judgment.
Yan Shaozhe smiled and asked, "That's impossible. Why are you so sure?"
"Dean, you have a keen eye. Why bother asking me again?"
Du Weilun smiled and shook his head, then said seriously, "The reason is simple. Spiritual attribute soul beasts are too rare, and powerful ones are even rarer. Even with our academy's thousands of years of heritage, it is difficult to find a suitable soul ring ratio for him, let alone the Xuanming Sect."
"If he can't find a suitable soul ring, it will be difficult for him to cultivate his martial soul. It's not easy to cultivate to the seventh ring. Where can he find a suitable soul beast in the future? You can't go to the Sun and Moon Empire to find the evil eye."
Du Weilun himself thought his words were funny. The Demon Forest is a soul master forbidden area that is no less dangerous than the Great Fierce Land of the Star Dou Great Forest. Even the Titled Douluo are very afraid of it.
Even if the Xuanming Sect has a foundation, I'm afraid it won't be spent on this hopeless junior. The competition among them is very fierce.
"By the way, what about the situation of that old monster Xu and the head of the Xu family? Have you investigated them together?"
Yan Shaozhe thought of the two people in Xuanming Sect who were closest to Xu Tianxi and asked cautiously.
If old monster Xu was determined to cultivate Xu Tianxi, he really couldn't do anything to Xu Tianxi.
"This is a coincidence. Our people just sent back news that the head of the Xuanming family, Xu Fu, was handing over the affairs on hand with other clansmen these two days and claimed that he would go to the back mountain for retreat; we didn't get any news from old monster Xu."
"It's normal that we didn't get it... Send a message to Xue Lingxun. Let her decide whether to agree or not."
Yan Shaozhe paced for a while with his hands behind his back and made a decision.
"Okay." Du Weilun agreed and turned around to make preparations.
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Xuanming Sect, the master's wife's bedroom.
Xue Lingxun, dressed in a simple and elegant palace dress and with a luxurious temperament, held the letter in her hand and frowned.
After closing her eyes and thinking for a long time, she opened her beautiful eyes, waved to the two maids standing respectfully beside her, and asked:
"Xue Han, Xue Nuan, what do you think?"
The two women looked at each other and said in unison: "It's all up to your highness to decide."
The two of them were Xue Lingxun's personal maids brought from the Douling Empire. They were given the surname Xue and were absolutely Xue Lingxun's own people.
"Let me decide... Ha, this matter is a headache, what should I do?" After marrying into the Xuanming Sect for many years, Xue Lingxun had a little understanding of the strength of the Xuanming Sect. One word to describe it is unfathomable.
She had thought of taking Sanshi and her husband back to Douling to meet her relatives, so that the royal family could use this as an opportunity to invite the Xuanming Sect to join Douling as a national defense sect, which would be of great benefit to both her husband's family and her natal family.
But she did not expect that her natal family would have a great opinion of her husband who eloped with her. Even though her husband had revealed his identity as the leader of the Xuanming Sect and showed his cultivation close to that of a Titled Douluo, her father, who once loved her the most, did not like them very much, not to mention the nephew who had just ascended the throne.
When her husband was young, he was also a generation of genius, not a clay man without temper. He could not stand the sarcasm and all kinds of contempt, and soon they parted unhappily.
Although she returned with her husband and was not deprived of her princess title, she, a princess of the previous dynasty, did not have much influence left in the Douling Empire.
The dean of Shrek Academy asked him to embarrass Xu Tianxi, but he was so shameless.
"This matter can be big or small, it still depends on the weight of that boy in the husband's heart."
Xue Lingxun slowly made up her mind, turned her head and instructed the two women:
"Xue Han, you take people to prepare whale glue soup, invite the sect master tonight, I want to have a candlelight talk with the sect master."
"Xue Nuan, you take people to the market to buy more toys that children like, the more types the better, send them to Xu Tianxi of the second house in my name tomorrow, and also see if he is short of any good things, and make up for it all for him."
Xue Han's cheeks flushed when she heard this, and she responded respectfully. Whale glue is a tonic for aphrodisiac, she certainly knew what "talking by candlelight" meant, Her Royal Highness the Princess was thinking about the sect master.
Xue Nuan was confused and asked in confusion, "I am stupid and don't know what your highness means by doing this?"
"What meaning can it have? It's just to treat him better and give him whatever he likes, so that he can indulge in pleasure and not practice hard. Isn't this how the royal family keeps playboys?"
Xue Lingxun brushed her hair lazily and said with a smile, "The child just lost his mother. It is my duty to care about him. As for whether this is useful or not, it is none of my business."
"I have done this and tried my best. I hope they will pay more attention to Sanshi. After all, I am just a little soul king. They can't let me do it."
"Okay, you two go quickly. Let Xue Xin and Xue Ling come in. I want to take a bath and dress up. I haven't seen the sect master for a long time. I miss him a lot. He said he would go into seclusion for two or three years. I haven't seen him now, but I will miss him in the future."
"Yes." The two women bowed and turned to leave.
Seeing that no one was in the room, Xue Lingxun's eyes were filled with sarcasm.
The people of Shrek are so arrogant that they really think everyone is a fool willing to be their gun. If they were not afraid of the Sun Moon Empire, how could the three empires tolerate such an emperor riding on their heads and acting arrogantly?
Especially for the royal family, the threat of the Sun Moon Empire is terrible, but how can Shrek, who can overthrow their throne at any time, not be terrible?
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At night, Xu Fu, who was summoned by Xue Lingxun in the name of "discussing business", was surprised to find that the eldest lady had changed into an elegant dress and was waiting for him.
The golden hairpin was worn in the false bun, and the flower ornaments were hanging on the step-shaking, embellishing a large area of floating white on the chest.
After a few bowls of whale glue tonic soup, there is no need to say more about the rest.
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At noon the next day, Xu Tianxi, who was flipping through books in the library, looked at the pile of antique toys, miscellaneous books, and a golden soul card that Xue Nuan brought people to send, and question marks appeared on his forehead.
"Chen Wu, Yue Lao, what do you think the Madam means by this? Why did she give me these?"
Xu Tianxi picked up an arrow for pitching pots and twisted it, his eyes thoughtful. This thing is good, but why give it to him for no reason? He didn't go to pay his respects to her.
Yue Lao frowned and thought, Chen Wu said casually: "I think she just wants to show off her status. How about you go and play with the second young master?"
"That makes sense."
Without much talk, Xu Tianxi directly asked Xu Xiaoyun to help find Xu Sanshi, who had been avoiding him these days, and said with a smile:
"Second brother Sanshi, I have something to ask you to solve..."
After quickly speaking about his doubts about Xue Lingxun, Xu Sanshi frowned and thought for a long time before answering a sentence.
"I don't know about other things. When I went to pay my respects to her this morning, I found that she was still lying in bed and couldn't get up. Then I asked my mother's personal maid, and she said that the old man was invited by my mother last night, and the two of them tossed around all night..."
"My mother was very happy at that time, and she also gave me a gold soul card and asked me to spend it freely when I returned to Shrek."
Xu Tianxi: "...???"
What's going on? Could it be that Xu Fu was happy with her service, so she wanted to give some rewards everywhere?
Thinking about it this way, Xu Fu is quite righteous. Xue Lingxun is at the age of being as fierce as a wolf and a tiger. He works so hard, and he can be said to be using his body to seek benefits for the two of them, even if he doesn't need it much.
"It seems that the old man is a good person."
Xu Tianxi sighed in an inexplicable tone. Although he couldn't be completely sure of Xue Lingxun's motives, he didn't need to think too much because the ancestor was standing behind him.
"Yes, the old man is really a good person." Xu Sanshi touched the gold soul card he had just received and agreed sincerely.
Xu Xiaoyun stood in silence, his eyes flickered, and he smelled something familiar.
"Let's go ask Xu Fu later..."