Douluo's Demon Blade Thousand Blades and the Original Martial Soul

Chapter 41 Oscar and Ma Hongjun

Upon arriving at Shrek Academy, Lin Yizhang first visited several of his teachers. After all, they had taken care of him for two years back then, so Lin Yizhang bought some small gifts for them.

After a brief chat with the teachers, Lin Yizhang went to find Zhang Fan and the others.

Upon arriving at the playground, they saw Zhao Wuji training Ma Hongjun and the others using his gravity-enhancing soul skill.

Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai were running within the effective range of their soul skills, while Oscar and Zhang Fan were cultivating while sitting cross-legged next to Zhao Wuji.

Ever since Lin Yizhang and Zhang Fan had a significant effect on training their bodies with Zhao Wuji's soul skills, Zhao Wuji added this course under Flander's "pressure".

Because Ma Hongjun and the others have different physical strengths, Zhao Wuji released his soul skills based on the pressure that Oscar, a support-type soul master, could withstand.

Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai, being physically stronger, ran. This level of pressure didn't have much effect on Zhang Fan, but it did slightly accelerate his soul power cultivation, so he also came here to cultivate.

Seeing Lin Yizhang approaching, Zhao Wuji withdrew his martial spirit and soul skill, greeted Lin Yizhang, and left, clearly leaving time for Lin Yizhang to catch up with Oscar and the others.

Ma Hongjun is a natural optimist with no great ambitions. His dream is simply to lie down and cultivate his skills, eventually inheriting Flander's mantle and becoming a dean.

To be honest, Lin Yizhang quite admired Ma Hongjun. Ma Hongjun was a typical "Dian Wei" type of person—simple-minded, kind to those who were kind to him, and never betraying his principles for personal gain. Although he had the flaw of being lazy, Lin Yizhang believed that his strengths far outweighed his weaknesses.

Especially now that Ma Hongjun has absorbed a fire-attribute soul beast with phoenix bloodline and resolved the drawbacks of the evil fire in his body, he is not fat. Although he is not as handsome as Dai Mubai and Oscar, he is definitely better looking than Tang San before his second awakening of the Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul.

He had never been taken to a brothel by Flander, and he didn't yet have the flaw of being lecherous. Even if he were lecherous, it wouldn't matter, since Ma Hongjun wasn't forcing anyone.

As for Dai Mubai? Lin Yizhang felt somewhat disgusted by him. It wasn't that he disliked him for having other women—after all, what prince would only have one woman? Rather, he disliked his lack of responsibility and accountability. Knowing that he and his fiancée Zhu Zhuqing were one, he still abandoned Zhu Zhuqing and fled alone, leaving Zhu Zhuqing to fight against Davis and Zhu Zhuyun alone.

Despite his dislike, Lin Yizhang wouldn't directly do anything to Dai Mubai. After all, even if Dai Mubai did abandon his fiancée, it was a choice made under duress.

You can't expect every man in the world to be willing to sacrifice himself to protect his woman, can you?

Moreover, this is a family matter of the Star Luo royal family. Their competition rules are just that ruthless. Rather than blaming Dai Mubai, it's more accurate to say that the competition mechanism itself is cruel. This has nothing to do with me. I can't just interfere in their affairs because I feel some sympathy for Zhu Zhuqing, can I? There are plenty of such things in the world. Am I supposed to interfere every time I encounter one?

Therefore, Lin Yizhang's idea regarding Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and Oscar is not to actively antagonize them, but rather to take them under his wing in the future, which would be a good option.

After Zhao Wuji left, Ma Hongjun was the first to excitedly speak up: "Brother Zhang, we heard you were back yesterday, and Oscar and I were so happy. Yesterday, the dean told me you've grown taller and more handsome, but I didn't believe it. Now that I've seen you, I believe it. Brother Zhang, tell me, what did you eat to grow so handsome?"

Lin Yizhang said with a laugh, "You guessed it. I grew up like this because I ate delicious food."

"What delicious food is it? I want to eat it too!" Ma Hongjun's mouth was practically watering at the mention of delicious food.

Lin Yizhang said seriously, "We eat two meals of thousand-year-old soul beast meat every day, and it has to be fresh. We also eat all kinds of rare and precious herbs, such as thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum and thousand-year-old wild mountain delicacies."

After listening, Ma Hongjun swallowed hard a few times and said with difficulty, "Brother Zhang... Brother Zhang, even if you sold me, I couldn't afford all this stuff! You're not kidding me, are you?"

Lin Yizhang laughed and said, "I'm not joking with you. I wonder if your teacher has told you that my grandfather is a Title Douluo? Do you think I would lack these things if I had a Title Douluo grandfather? Hongjun, why don't you just become my underling? I'll arrange all these delicious foods for you from now on."

Ma Hongjun swallowed hard, but shook his head and said, "Forget it, Brother Zhang, I'll just stay at the academy with my teacher. But I'll work hard to cultivate in the future. I want to become a Title Douluo as soon as possible so I can eat delicious food."

Lin Yizhang nodded and said, "Alright. With your talent, Hongjun, as long as you don't slack off in your cultivation, you have a good chance of breaking through to the Title Douluo level in the future."

Lin Yizhang turned to Oscar and said, "Little Oscar, you are the most talented support-type Soul Master I have ever seen. After you graduate, if you don't want to stay in the academy, you can come find me. Or if you want to gain powerful combat strength as a support-type Soul Master in the future, you can also come find me, and I might be able to help you."

Oscar exclaimed in surprise, "What! A support-type Soul Master can possess such powerful combat abilities? Brother Zhang, you're not kidding, are you?"

Lin Yizhang said, "Your martial soul is rather special. I only have some ideas right now. Although I'm quite confident I can give you powerful combat abilities, ultimately it depends on whether you're willing to trust me. Of course, even if I can give you powerful combat abilities, giving you the ability to protect yourself will be a piece of cake."

Oscar said, "I've got it, Zhang. I'll make plans after I graduate."

Lin Yizhang nodded and then said, "I brought some small gifts for you all. I hope you like them."

"Brother Zhang, what's this little gift?" Ma Hongjun asked excitedly.

Lin Yizhang pulled three black rings from his pocket. He said, "These three rings are storage soul tools. Although they are only two cubic meters in size, they are still hard to find on the market. Zhang Fan, Xiao Ao, and Hong Jun, you probably don't have any storage soul tools, right? I'll give these to you. As for Mu Bai, I saw that you also have a storage soul tool, so I prepared something else for you."

Lin Yizhang then took out a rare herb that he no longer needed from his storage soul tool and handed it to Dai Mubai.

Upon seeing the herb, Dai Mubai exclaimed in surprise, "It's actually the Healing Herb used to treat hidden injuries after body tempering!"

Lin Yizhang said, "I hope you like it."

Ma Hongjun took a storage soul tool and tried it out, exclaiming in surprise, "There's a whole bunch of gold soul coins inside! Brother Zhang, did you take the wrong one?"

"This is a little money I'm giving you, only a thousand gold soul coins, not much," Lin Yizhang said, trying to look cool.

Zhang Fan and the others rolled their eyes repeatedly. "One thousand gold soul coins?" "That's all?" "Not much?" Although they looked at them with disdain, they all thanked them repeatedly.

Lin Yizhang finally turned his gaze to Zhang Fan, awaiting his decision.

Zhang Fan said, "I've made up my mind. I'll apply to the academy to graduate and go with you later."

Upon hearing this, Lin Yizhang said happily, "That's great, Zhang Fan. With an expert like you, we're sure to achieve good results."

(End of this chapter)