The True Young Master Saves the Soul Pet World by Eating Melons – CH178

Chapter 178: The Dean’s Tradition

[You can’t really blame him for having such a bad temper. He’s just particularly unlucky.]

[Vermilion Bird Mountain is perfect for nurturing fire. He raised a lot of fire seeds there.]

[Some of those seeds he obtained by risking his life, and others he bought at an enormous price.]

[And then you took more than half of them! His losses are worse than the other three deans combined.]

[You should know he poured all his private savings into that. Try to understand.]

[The other deans are either single or have other little private reserves.]

[Only him—he can’t even take out a single soul stone in the short term. Recently he’s been using the academy elders’ meal cards to eat.]

[He’s been mooching off the five great elders in turns, then under the pretext of “guiding work,” he’s made his rounds through the other elders and instructors too.]

[Tsk tsk tsk, so tragic—hahahahaha!]

Guagua laughed wildly in its heart.

But very soon it couldn’t laugh anymore, because it sensed killing intent from the Vermilion Bird Dean and immediately dove back into the soul pet space.

Si Er was already used to Guagua popping in and out lately. He just found it speechless.

How was I supposed to know those fire seeds were his?
How was I supposed to know those mushrooms and spirit herbs were planted by the deans?
Don’t they have their own land outside? Why do they insist on planting and raising things inside?
Isn’t it normal for uninformed students to take them away?

The four deans: What part of that is normal? In all these years, you’re the only freak!

[Of course they have their own land. It’s just that the environment isn’t as good as the Four Symbols Mountain.]

[The Greater Four Symbols Mountain is a blessed land to begin with. After years of careful maintenance, it’s one of the places on the continent with the thinnest baleful aura.]

[Planting things there is naturally far better than elsewhere.]

[So it’s perfectly normal for the deans to use their authority to secretly plant or raise a few things inside. The previous deans did the same—they all learned from their predecessors.]

[Except that only the Azure Dragon Dean’s mushroom field was discovered. The other three all thought they had done a perfect job keeping things secret.]

[But the only one who truly hid things well was the Black Tortoise Dean. The other three more or less knew what the others were doing.]

[They just all thought the others didn’t know, so they often mocked one another—while the Black Tortoise Dean quietly stayed hidden.]

[This “tradition” was also learned from the earlier generations of deans.]

So what did our dean plant?

Si Er grew curious.

[It’s not just this term’s dean. The past Black Tortoise Deans all planted things inside, and some are still there—some are even thriving.]

Si Er became even more intrigued.

So what exactly did they plant?

[Some planted moss, others planted algae. Black Tortoise Mountain has many springs, streams, and pools—it’s completely normal for those to grow there, so no one suspects they were deliberately planted.]

[Even wood-attribute alchemists rarely bother learning the different varieties of moss and seaweed. They usually only know the ones used in medicine.]

[But the past Black Tortoise Deans planted varieties that their soul pets loved to eat. So aside from their own academy’s people, it’s very hard for others to tell.]

I see…

Si Er had an epiphany.

So our dean is actually the most scheming one!

The Black Tortoise Dean: …Silly child, it’s fine if you know that yourself—why think it so loudly?

Oh wait, you didn’t say it out loud. But even thinking it isn’t safe!

Your body is like a sieve—none of your inner thoughts can be hidden.

Facing the probing gazes of the other three deans, the Black Tortoise Dean said calmly, “What are you looking at? We’re all the same. How could I be an exception?”

The White Tiger Dean clicked his tongue. “But you hid yours well.”

The Black Tortoise Dean shook his head. “You simply know too little.”

The other three: …

The Vermilion Bird Dean’s red hair looked like it was about to smoke.

The Black Tortoise Dean handed him a cup of tea. “Calm down. They’re just fire seeds. You can buy more later.”

“Easy for you to say! Do you know how many soul stones those cost me?”

The Black Tortoise Dean shook his head. “I don’t. But you’re definitely not getting the previous ones back. Being angry won’t help.”

“Since we’ve all suffered losses, just take it in stride.”

“Compensation is absolutely impossible. The rules are there.”

The Vermilion Bird Dean was furious but helpless. After all, there was a bit of a “you knew the risks when you gambled” element to it.

Before raising those fire seeds, he had known the place wasn’t completely foolproof. But everyone has a gambler’s mindset. He had thought setting up a few high-level concealment arrays would be enough to keep students from discovering them.

But Si Er was just too abnormal!

Guagua continued gloating inside the soul pet space.

[Those deans dared to raise things in there because they thought a few high-level concealment arrays would be enough.]

[Under normal circumstances, no student would discover them—but Er’er isn’t normal!]

What’s abnormal about me?

Si Er didn’t like the sound of that.

[Your perception is abnormally sharp! No matter whether you recognize an array or not, you can sense something’s off.]

[And your strength is abnormally great—you just punch and shatter the array.]

[If one punch doesn’t break it, then two. If two don’t work, then three. The concealment array around the fire seeds was the strongest, and you still destroyed it in three punches, didn’t you?]

Three punches…

The Vermilion Bird Dean nearly spat blood at that number. He had never imagined that the array he paid such a high price to set up would be destroyed in three punches!

[And the patch where the Gale Grass was planted was also very well hidden.]

[On its own, Little White could only wander outside the array and couldn’t enter at all. But you ruined that array in two punches.]

Two punches!

The White Tiger Dean’s face darkened. He knew full well he himself wouldn’t be able to break that array in two punches.

[As for the mushroom field, that was even funnier. Cui Cui was too amazing—it actually made the Wood Spirit Mushrooms pass through the array and fly to your side by themselves.]

The Azure Dragon Dean: Stop talking. My heart hurts. I can’t take it anymore.

It seems like the Black Tortoise Dean didn’t set up any arrays?

[That’s right. They thought mixing their moss and algae with the naturally growing ones would make them harder to detect.]

[Mainly harder for the other three academies to detect. Their own academy’s people could discover them easily.]

[For example, Qing Shui—that green-haired turtle—has eaten quite a lot of algae planted by the previous Black Tortoise Deans.]

[But Black Tortoise Mountain has abundant water sources. The moss and algae grow quickly, so they’re not afraid of being eaten by students’ soul pets.]

[Unlike what the other deans raised—how much remains depends entirely on your conscience.]

Did I take anything planted by our dean?

[You did. Didn’t you dig up a bit of every kind of moss and algae? The prettiest one was planted by him—you took quite a lot of it.]

[But compared to the losses of the other three deans, the Black Tortoise Dean’s losses are practically negligible.]

The Black Tortoise Dean: Nonsense. It still hurts a little. It’s just that the other three hurt more—hahaha!

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