Douluo Continent: The Book of Witness and Peerless Tang Sect

"Lots of money!..."

The sudden appearance of Qian Duoduo caught Yan Shaozhe off guard. Yan Shaozhe wanted to temper Long You's character, not to hand over talent to someone else.

So Qian Duoduo hurriedly finished stating all the conditions, and Yan Shaozhe, realizing what was happening, was eager to speak. However, someone was faster than Yan Shaozhe.

"I am willing to study in the Soul Guidance Department. Thank you, Dean Qian, for appreciating my talent and for being willing to mentor me!"

The speaker was Long You. Yan Shaozhe had barely opened his mouth when Long You's voice forced him back down. Considering that the scoundrel Long You had deliberately used a megaphone, Yan Shaozhe's voice was completely unheard by anyone except for a few people sitting relatively close to the viewing platform.

"Okay, okay, let's go, let's go to my office to talk in detail."

A gust of wind swept by, and Qian Duoduo, Long You, and Fan Yu disappeared from the assessment area.

The Dean's Office, in the Soul Guidance Department's teaching building. "Hahahaha..."

A loud and unrestrained laugh echoed from the office, lingering for a long time.

"Oh my, Xiao You! You cooperated so well. Hahahaha, you didn't see it! Yan Shaozhe's face was particularly interesting when you directly shut him down."

Hehehehehe, just thinking about the expression on Yan Shaozhe's face makes me feel incredibly happy from head to toe!

"Dean, it's thanks to your thorough prior intelligence and well-thought-out plan that I was able to transfer to our Soul Guidance Department. Otherwise, judging from Dean Yan's subsequent reaction, there would probably have been some disputes regarding my transfer."

Now that Dean Yan has personally stated that I do not meet the requirements for a core disciple of the Martial Soul System, it seems unlikely that Dean Yan will take back his words.

Even if Dean Yan wants to take it, we can keep pressing this issue. Of course, the pressure on Dean Yan is beyond my current capacity; I'll have to trouble Dean Qian for that.

"Don't worry, Xiao You. I'll handle that old bastard Yan Shaozhe. That old man is obsessed with saving face, and I'll make him suffer in silence this time."

Shifting the focus back to the assessment area, Qian Duoduo and Long You's collaboration directly confirmed Long You's status as a core disciple of the Soul Guidance Department, bringing a moment of silence to the entire assessment area.

As the champion team, Bei Bei and Tang Ya were positioned very close to the stands, which allowed them to clearly see Yan Shaozhe's facial expressions.

Neither of them were stupid. Now that they had calmed down a bit, seeing Yan Shaozhe's expression change as if he had swallowed a fly, and recalling Long You's obviously too fast response and the speaker-guided device he had pulled out as if he had been prepared, they suddenly realized that things were not so simple.

"Unbelievable, Xiao You is really... he actually used the two of us as tools. We worried about him for nothing."

"That damn guy, Sister Xiaoya has to teach him a lesson, otherwise he has no idea what it means to respect his teacher!"

Once Beibei and Tangya understood what was going on, they decided to leave the assessment area instead of staying any longer.

The new class assignments wouldn't be finalized until the afternoon, and it was a bit early to go for lunch now, so the two of them decided to head towards the Soul Guidance Department.

Based on their understanding of Long You, they knew that even if he didn't say anything beforehand, he would definitely give an explanation afterward.

Sure enough, after walking only a few steps, Beibei received a message from Long You on her personal telegraph machine: Come quickly, to the Soul Guidance Department teaching building, a surprise is coming.

At this moment, Bei Bei and Tang Ya suddenly remembered that Long You had told them before that as long as the freshman competition caused a big stir, the Soul Guidance Department would give them a surprise.

Summoned, Beibei and Tangya stopped their walk and quickly rushed to the Soul Guidance Department teaching building with the anti-gravity soul-guided skateboards that Longyou had made for them.

While Beibei and Tang Ya were on their way, Long You in the dean's office was still a little dazed by the big surprise that Qian Duoduo had pulled out.

It was a soul bone, a left arm bone that was over 50,000 years old. Feeling the special soul power fluctuations emanating from the soul bone, Long You was certain that his eyes were now radiating an uncontrollable greed.

After a long while, Long You forced himself to look away from the left arm bone. Taking a deep breath to calm the turmoil in his heart, Long You finally spoke:

"I can't accept a reward without merit. The fact that the Soul Guidance Department has given me the treatment of a core disciple is already a reward for the talent I've shown. I really covet this soul bone, but I also know that my current performance can't earn me it."

"Don't even mention winning the freshman tournament. That's just the freshman tournament; it's merely an intra-school warm-up competition. If I were to win the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament, I would absolutely not hesitate."

“Very good,” Qian Duoduo said, a genuine smile returning to his face as he saw that Long You was able to control his greed for the soul bone. “Those who can control their desires are the ones who can continue to grow in the future.”

To be frank, your current performance is indeed not worth me sacrificing this soul bone, but the most profitable investment is never one that waits until the investment target demonstrates its corresponding value before making a move.

The investment stories that investors truly enjoy talking about are those where the value of the investee was still hidden beneath the surface, yet the investor had already recognized that value and made a decisive investment.

Right now, I'm investing in you. As the vice dean of the Soul Guidance Department, I, Qian Duoduo, have the authority to make various preparations for the development of Shrek Academy's Soul Guidance capabilities in my own way.

Kid, dare you take this? This is an investment worth a soul bone.

Qian Duoduo's frankness was somewhat unexpected for Long You, but Qian Duoduo's words suddenly revived Long You's bleeding heart.

There's a big difference between accepting angel investment when you're broke and accepting a reward without any effort. Accepting a reward without any effort means you owe the other party a huge favor and will have to do everything in your power to help them in the future. But if you accept angel investment, as long as you're capable of not being controlled, and you can make the investor profit afterward, then it doesn't matter whether you owe them a favor or not.

Long You doesn't mind helping Shrek Academy advance its technology, but he's unwilling to play the game of binding himself to another.

Or rather, Long You was confident that he could obtain a soul bone through his own abilities, so Long You, who still retained his youthful spirit, was not willing to sell himself for a soul bone.

Well, saying it was sold doesn't seem quite accurate. Oh well, it's not important. Anyway, since Qian Duoduo said this soul bone is an investment in Long You, then Long You will accept it.

Longyou can guarantee right now that Qianduoduo will start to see returns on this investment in at most one month.