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

Chapter 389 The Tip of the Iceberg of the Ten Thousand Years' Sect's Strength

Ji Juechen walked away with a limp, saying something strange as he went: "Sword intent without sword technique is just a castle in the air. That's great. He's gradually understanding everything."

This made Chen Ping a little worried about Ji Juechen's mental state.

He felt that Ji Juechen was a bit strange; he could leave so happily even though he was beaten black and blue by Xue Di.

For a long time afterward, Chen Ping's life was relatively peaceful. The only minor incident was when Jing Ziyan came to confront him after hearing that Ji Juechen had been beaten up.

Then Chen Ping casually beat her up too.

Ji Juechen, on the other hand, entered a period of deep meditation every few days. Although each deep meditation session only lasted for one or two weeks, he quickly mastered various sword techniques.

Although in Xue Di's eyes, Ji Juechen's swordsmanship has only gone from being mediocre to being flashy but mediocre, over the past few months, Chen Ping has been able to feel Ji Juechen's suppressive power more and more.

Clearly, with Xue Di constantly feeding him sparring techniques, Ji Juechen essentially became the disciple of all the great swordsmen of the Douluo Continent in one go. His originally meager sword skills rapidly became abundant under Xue Di's guidance.

At this moment, Ji Juechen was only one step away from a true transformation: he needed to transform all the sword techniques he had learned into a self-created soul skill similar to the Dragging Blade Slash.

By then, Ji Juechen will probably truly possess the ability to defeat a seventh-ring Soul Saint.

This made Chen Ping increasingly reluctant to fight Ji Juechen.

This guy's progress is indeed fast. Ever since the opponent was able to steadily withstand his numerous staff techniques and even come up with many deadly moves involving single-edged swords and spears, Chen Ping realized that he was going to lose to this guy.

This guy's talent in swordsmanship is indeed strong. He used to just sit there and figure things out on his own, and his improvement wasn't that fast. He was able to keep up with Chen Ping, a player who slowly practiced by following the Complete Manual of Staff Techniques.

Now that he has the Snow Emperor's spirit as his private tutor, this guy has basically achieved enlightenment just like Longchang, and his sword cultivation level is rising rapidly.

Of course, the second reason why Ji Juechen's combat power grew so fast that Chen Ping felt he would be suppressed was that Ji Juechen was truly cooperative when conducting experiments.

In the past few months, Chen Ping has upgraded Ji Juechen's extraterrestrial meteorite iron sword twice.

From a fire poker that would deform after being hit a couple of times by the Jade Scorpion Staff, it transformed into a meteorite iron sword blank of a hundred-times-forged quality, and now into a thousand-times-forged meteorite iron greatsword.

What was originally just a strip of wood, a fire poker that had barely taken on the shape of a sword after ten years of relentless refinement by Ji Juechen, has now become a true sword, a weapon capable of being used for killing.

Meanwhile, inside Laboratory No. 6, Ji Juechen was watching intently as Chen Ping once again threw his Thousand-Refined Meteorite Greatsword into the furnace to melt it.

His martial spirit is not a sword in the true sense, but rather a sword spirit similar to a concept.

That is why his martial spirit can attach itself to anything that can be called a sword, even if that thing is essentially just a fire poker.

Watching the meteorite iron sword, which had acquired special metallic properties after being sacrificed with his blood, being reforged into a metal ingot, it would be a lie to say that Ji Juechen wasn't panicked at all.

However, the prospects that Chen Ping described to him were simply too tempting in Ji Juechen's eyes.

Having just completed the thousand-times-forged meteorite iron sword, Ji Juechen already had the illusion of having upgraded from a slingshot to a cannon, becoming almost omnipotent when using it.

If the spirit forging Chen Ping mentioned is successful, the sword spirit can be attached to it. At the same time, because of the properties of spirit forging metal, the spirit forged meteorite sword that can be integrated into the body is essentially no different from his martial spirit!
The flames in the furnace were reddish-white; it was a soul-guided furnace specially made by Chen Ping. After being infused with soul power, it could spew out high-temperature flames similar to those of soul skills like Phoenix Fire Line, melting metal at an extremely fast speed.

At this point, Mo Fang's belongings were almost entirely gone from his laboratory; only Chen Ping's own equipment remained. These included the furnace, the blacksmith's table, and even the power hammer and quenching tank.

Of course, Mo Fang certainly had no objection to this.

After spending only about a month in the undead demiplane and having weathered the initial storm, Mo Fang, along with Nana and the others, went to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School's branch in Mingdu.

Because of the Young Sect Master's token brought by Chen Ping, Mo Fang and the others were able to truly witness the strength and foundation of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School.

In order to ensure the safe and reliable delivery of these people out of the Sun Moon Empire, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School dispatched four Soul Masters at the Soul Douluo level, as well as a Soul Saint of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School at level 70.

Considering the amplification effect of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, it's practically like having four titled bodyguards!
Even Mo Fang was taken aback when he heard about their equipment for this trip, feeling that the young sect leader's token that Chen Ping handed him was a bit too hot to handle.

To ensure that nothing went wrong along the way, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School even opened a separate smuggling route that hadn't been sealed off for many years.

Along the way, from various checkpoints to the border guards, everyone turned a blind eye and gave them the green light.

Their cooperative relationship with the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School has lasted for decades or even centuries.

They were simply smuggling a few rare metals into Douluo Continent, and they had already bribed everyone involved. It was just a hard-earned money business. Who would be so foolish as to stop such a big customer?
A monthly salary of 300 copper soul coins? What are you risking your life for?
If you investigate the owner of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, will you make everyone rely on the meager allowances from the Empire to support their families from now on?
The fact that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School's caravan could travel unimpeded from Mingdu into the Heavenly Soul Empire surprised not only Mo Fang, but also Chen Ping, who was greatly shocked when he heard about it.

The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, a sect that received almost no attention during the Douluo Continent II: The Peerless Tang Sect period, seems to have a control over the secular world that is in no way inferior to Shrek Academy!
If Shrek Academy's control over the secular world is overt, it's due to both its reputation and its strength.

The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School's control over the secular world is covert, achieved through an invisible network woven from wealth and connections.

The strength of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School lies not only in its overwhelming financial resources, but more importantly in the network of human relationships it has cultivated over millennia.

Putting aside everything else, the cooperative relationships between the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School and various forces, which have lasted for decades or even centuries, are something that ordinary smugglers can only dream of.

Smugglers are after money, and quick money at that.

They didn't know if they would have descendants, let alone do what the predecessors did: planting trees so that future generations could enjoy the shade.

However, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School can.

If you want to establish a power base, don't do anything right away; first, cultivate relationships for ten years.

During this period, they didn't make any excessive demands, but instead spent money to raise the favorability of the entire faction from top to bottom. Is this something that ordinary factions can do?

Compared to the Haotian Sect, which has been sitting on Haotian Peak entertaining itself for ten thousand years, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's casual display of its strength is just the tip of the iceberg, truly showcasing the true power of a sect with a ten-thousand-year heritage.

This is the final form that a sect can evolve into through development in a society like Douluo Continent.

Above that, there's Shrek Academy, which is neither a country nor an academy, and is just waiting to be nuked by a God-Devouring-level fixed-position cannon.

It's likely that there's a master within the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School guiding them. At least in Chen Ping's view, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School's low profile shows no intention of developing in that direction.

(End of this chapter)