Douluo: What the hell is the academic master development system?

Chapter 346 Time Flies, Seasons Change (4K)

These were naturally Chen Ping's excuses.

Although Chen Ping hasn't turned thirteen yet, he's already reached a point where he often needs to understand things on his own terms.

To be honest, the ultimate solo weapon is pretty useless.

The Ultimate Individual Soldier Program cultivates powerful individuals capable of single-handedly changing a war; the specific impact depends on their individual combat strength.

But to be honest, training a genius who is proficient in various special operations, has strong personal cultivation, and is also good at making soul tools seems no simpler than training a super Douluo.

The training strategy for ultimate individual soldiers is to use powerful Soul Master cultivation to wield powerful Soul Tools, so as to achieve a level stronger than the original one.

When necessary, one or two individuals can play a crucial role in breaking through the enemy's defenses and changing the course of the war.

The problem is that Shrek Academy's ultimate individual soldier training not only requires such a genius Soul Master to be able to use Soul Tools, but also to be proficient in the production of Soul Tools, to make outstanding achievements in the field of Soul Masters, and to be well-versed in the various precautions of special operations.

This is putting the cart before the horse.

Instead of wasting time on this, it would be better to have Mu En do some ideological work on Yan Shaozhe, and then prepare a set of level nine soul tools for Yan Shaozhe from head to toe. His combat power would most likely not be much lower than the maximum individual combat power envisioned by the soul tool system.

Currently, level nine soul tools cannot be manufactured, and we can only hope that the younger generation will produce them soon. There are no young soul masters willing to arm themselves with soul tools, so we can only start training them from a young age, which is why we have created this inexplicable extreme individual soldier project.

Such a idiotic project is something Chen Ping would never get involved in if his intelligence was above average.

The main reason why the plan wasn't stopped and the extreme solo mission was allowed to continue was because Huo was present.

Although in the original work, Huo Gua basically relied on having two or three times more soul skills than other titled Douluo to force his opponents to their deaths several times, and using a milk bottle was considered his ultimate solo combat ability, you can still say that this is a combination of a powerful soul master and a soul tool.

Since this matter could at least be accomplished with Huo Yuhao, and the academy would allocate more resources to the Soul Guidance Department because of the Extreme Individual Soldier incident, Chen Ping, as Qian Duoduo's disciple, naturally had no need to stop the Soul Guidance Department from making trouble.

When the academy allocates resources to the Soul Guidance Department, he also receives a share.

Now Chen Ping understood how those worthless projects on Earth had managed to exist so brazenly for so long without being swept into the dustbin of history. The livelihoods of millions of workers depended on this, and it was probably due to this.

Just as Qian Duoduo finished instructing the two on precautions and threw Huo Yuhao and He Caitou into the arena to fight against the Thousand-Year-Old Ink Scale Python and the Netherworld Wolf, Chen Ping slowly descended using his flying soul tool.

"You little brat, you're getting more and more lawless."

When Qian Duoduo saw Chen Ping arrive, he immediately laughed and cursed, "Using a soul tool to fly recklessly within Shrek Academy, only this kid from the outer academy dares to do that."

"Hehe, let's see who in the academy dares to investigate me," Chen Ping put away the flying soul tool on his back and said with a simple smile, "Anyway, as long as someone asks me, I'll just say that I'm helping you, teacher, test the passability of the new flying soul tool in complex environments. Whoever dares to deduct points from my score, I'll send them to find you."

Chen Ping's brash and unruly demeanor immediately amused Qian Duoduo: "How could I have taken in such a scoundrel as a student? You're just a bully, lazy, and a conman!"

Qian Duoduo used every negative word she could think of, regardless of whether it was appropriate or not, to describe Chen Ping.

But Chen Ping just kept smiling, letting it go in one ear and out the other, as if he hadn't heard what Qian Duoduo was saying at all.

Obviously, when Qian Duoduo criticized Chen Ping, what he should have criticized most was Chen Ping's shamelessness. As long as you have thick skin, all criticism is meaningless.

"Are you tired of talking, teacher? How about having some tea?"

Chen Ping handed Qian Duoduo a cup of hot tea with a grin. Qian Duoduo took the tea and drank it. He wanted to teach Chen Ping a lesson, but he didn't know how to start.

What a terrible mistake! How could I have taken on such a student?

Qian Duoduo was speechless; his apprentice's level was too high, and he could hardly handle him anymore!

"Teacher, please don't get anxious or upset. Take a look at this first."

Chen Ping chuckled and took out a simple map that he had just hand-drawn, handed it to Qian Duoduo, and gestured for Xian Lin'er next to him to take a look as well.

At this moment, Xianlin'er subconsciously leaned her head on Qian Duoduo's shoulder.

It's obvious that these two have only recently started dating, and they're already radiating the sweet, cloying scent of new love.

Chen Ping had previously taken a picture of the Dragon Girl and had Qian Duoduo sign for it, thus revealing Xian Lin'er's true attitude towards Qian Duoduo four or five years in advance.

In addition, Qian Duoduo has been shamelessly flirting with her all sorts of cheesy things lately, and has clearly achieved remarkable results, which is quite a bit like using a fake to cultivate one's true self.

Chen Ping pursed his lips, wondering if his master, now that he was indulging in such a tender embrace, would ever reach the level of a ninth-level Soul Master or a Super Douluo in this lifetime.

It seems the other party still doesn't understand the profound truth that women affect the speed of drawing a sword. What a pity.

Chen Ping silently clicked his tongue in his mind.

"what is this?"

Qian Duoduo leaned closer to the scrap paper and stared at the map Chen Ping had hand-drawn, which even included extremely detailed scales and contour lines. She was immediately stunned.

"You even trained Yuhao and Caitou to be extreme individual soldiers, and they can't even read a combat map?"

Xian Lin'er glanced at Qian Duoduo with some disdain before turning to Chen Ping: "Is this a hand-drawn map modified from the northern map of the outer area of ​​Star Dou Forest?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Ping immediately gave a thumbs up: "My master's wife has a good eye; she's much better than my master."

Qian Duoduo wasn't annoyed by Chen Ping's sarcastic remark; instead, she was delighted, looking quite proud.

Chen Ping nodded, and then began to explain, briefly recounting the series of events that had occurred recently when he and Ning Tian went out to obtain spirit rings.

"An imperial auspicious beast? Attribute guidance? Memory exchange? Such incredible things actually exist in this world? But what does this have to do with this map?"

Qian Duoduo scratched his head, still not understanding why Chen Ping had come to see them specifically for such a trivial matter.

"I suspect that the natural barriers in these outer areas that I marked on the map contain unexplored rare metal veins."

"The reason why our Douluo Continent has always lacked rare metals and is not as rich in mineral veins as the Sun Moon Continent is very likely because these mineral veins are all located in the Star Dou Forest, a forest of soul beasts."

“These mineral deposits are located in remote and sparsely populated areas with unique terrain. Low-level Soul Masters are limited by their cultivation level and cannot enter, while high-level Soul Masters have sufficient cultivation but lack the motivation to go, which is why they have remained undiscovered.” Chen Ping’s words made Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin’er shudder involuntarily.

Even He Caitou, who was fighting beasts below, almost tilted his turret when he heard these words, and it blew into Huo Yuhao, who was beating up the soul beast with the Ice Emperor's Claw.

A suspected undeveloped mineral vein!
Moreover, there is more than one suspected undeveloped rare metal vein!
Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo subconsciously looked around to make sure that, apart from the two of them, only the Sea God Pavilion's Quasi-Elder Gong Lao, Huo Yuhao who was undergoing testing, and He Caitou had heard the news. Only then did they breathe a sigh of relief.

At this moment, Huo Yuhao was still a little puzzled. While releasing his soul impact, he also used Ice Emperor's Wrath to instantly blast away the two thousand-year-old soul beasts in front of him.

"Brother He, is that mineral vein that Brother Chen Ping mentioned just now very precious? Why did Dean Qian and Dean Xian react so excitedly?"

Seeing the four soul beast gates reopen, Huo Yuhao remained vigilant and asked Cai Tou, who was equally excited.

"Junior brother, as a Soul Master, are you unaware of how difficult the situation is for our Shrek Academy's Soul Guidance Department regarding rare metals?"

“Although the rare metal mines in the other three Douluo kingdoms are extremely scarce and of very low purity, and it takes a lot of money to purify them after extraction, there are still rare metals available for mining. It’s just that it’s not as profitable as directly purchasing rare metals from the Sun Moon Empire, so we tend to buy them.”

"But our Shrek Academy is an incredibly powerful force, even larger than the Three Upper Sects and Tang Sect that were talked about on the continent ten thousand years ago."

“We own Shrek City and don’t have to pay taxes to any of the three great empires. This is a privilege that no other force in Douluo Continent has.”

"But when you change your perspective and consider Shrek Academy as a country, we at Shrek become incredibly small!"

"The small size of our land area means that our academy cannot have its own mineral veins. All rare metals must be imported to support the consumption of the academy's Soul Guidance Department."

"The three great empires, Tianhun, Douling, and Xingluo, have fallen out with the Sun Moon Empire. The Sun Moon Empire has cut off the supply of rare metals. However, they still have their own rare metal production lines that can refine high-priced rare metals."

"We at Shrek Academy can only hope that the three great empires have enough production capacity to meet their own needs and can also spare some rare metals for us."

"Although our academy is essentially a place for teaching and nurturing people, the soul tools we produce focus more on quality than quantity. There is no need to arm the border troops, so the demand for soul tools is far lower than that of the three great empires."

"But the soldiers on the walls of Shrek City need their equipment upgraded every few decades, don't they?"

"I heard Dean Qian say that every time our college is struggling to produce these equipment, it makes their faces turn red, like they can't poop."

"In this situation, just think about how significant it would be for our academy if Chen Ping suddenly said that he had discovered several mineral veins in the outer area of ​​the Star Dou Forest, even if they were just low-purity mineral veins."

Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao nodded in sudden understanding.

It seems that the news brought by Brother Chen is like a bottle of castor oil. The student is the unlucky guy who has been constipated for half a month. After taking this bottle of castor oil, the student will most likely no longer have to suffer from constipation.

That is indeed very important.
Huo Yuhao nodded in empathy. Before the freshman competition, he hadn't obtained the status of a core disciple, and sometimes he couldn't even afford to buy vegetables for meals, only eating dry rations. The feeling of squatting on the toilet must have been about the same as the pain of the school updating the Shrek City Guard's equipment.

Chen Ping had not expected Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er to react so strongly.

Fortunately, considering that after the war broke out in the original timeline, not long after the Sun Moon Empire successfully occupied Dragon City, the northern fortress of the Heavenly Soul Empire, it obtained a large amount of high-purity rare metal ore veins that were concealed by the Dragon City Lord and used as a political gift to the Sun Moon Empire.

Add to that the fact that the metal vein lies near the frozen forest between the far north and Dragon City.

Chen Ping personally believes that there should be quite a few rich rare metal veins on the original Douluo Continent.

Just as he guessed, they were all hidden in the Soul Beast Forest, which is why they had been ignored for so long.

"Stop talking. I'll organize some people to explore the locations you marked. Let Du Weilun lead the team. If we do well this time, it'll be good to reinstate Director Du to his original position."

Qian Duoduo waved his hand and put away the map drawn by Chen Ping: "If you're interested, you can follow Cai Tou and Yu Hao to practice extreme individual combat. If you're not interested, you can do whatever you want. I'm going to the Sea God Pavilion now."

After saying this, Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er, their faces flushed with excitement, happily left.

Chen Ping was left alone in the stands to watch Huo Gua and He Caitou continue their fierce battle against the thousand-year-old soul beast.

Oh right, and there's also Bow Master.

However, by the time Elder Gong realized how destructive Huo Yuhao and He Caitou were when they stood together, having killed more than a dozen of his thousand-year-old soul beasts in one fell swoop, and wanted to seek compensation, the person responsible was long gone.

To this, Chen Ping could only shrug.

He couldn't afford to compensate Huo Yuhao and He Caitou for the soul beasts they killed. He was just a pitiful, helpless little Soul Master who could eat a lot.

Soon, with Gong Lao fuming and unable to find anyone to compensate him, Chen Ping grabbed He Caitou and Huo Gua and ran away.

Although he couldn't possibly learn every single aspect of extreme individual combat training in detail, he could at least gain some knowledge in many areas by exploring them.

It was precisely because of this that Chen Ping soon met Gao Sheng, the makeup teacher who only appeared once in the original work.

Just as described in the original work, this teacher was truly unpredictable in terms of gender and height.

Perhaps because he knew he only needed to attend one class, Chen Ping was clearly much more enthusiastic than He Caitou and the other two.

Unfortunately, Chen Ping's muscular physique is too conspicuous, which means he is destined to have little success in the fields of makeup and transformation.

Afterwards, Chen Ping followed the two to meet Lu Xiaoxiao, Shrek Academy's exclusive nutritionist, and ate a meal of what was described as a dark dish of Lingyun sea urchin that had been fermenting for at least ten days in a sweltering environment, resembling rotten salted fish.

Chen Ping ate with great relish because he found this stuff to be much tastier than the cheap, high-potency pills he used to eat, which cost a few silver coins to make a handful.

Chen Ping's seemingly delighted act of happily eating the sticky, slippery, damp, dark, and foul-smelling sea urchin in front of him immediately startled He Caitou and Huo Yuhao.

No wonder Chen Ping didn't need to take the extreme individual combat course.

This guy is a top graduate right from the start; he's just here to bluff his way into these courses.

However, Chen Ping was eventually kicked out of the classroom by Lu Xiaoxiao, a beautiful woman in her thirties, because Chen Ping ate too much.

The spirit sea urchins she prepared were all transported live from the east coast of the Douling Empire. Eating them raw could not only relieve mental fatigue but also clear the mind. Each one cost several thousand gold soul coins.

Once Chen Ping got his hands on something delicious, he ate more than ten sea urchins in one go, using up all the sea urchins she had prepared for the next few classes!

(End of this chapter)