Douluo: Lord of Arms

Chapter 156

"Also, there's the Temple of War. You can go visit them when you have time."

"Since you've decided to develop your career in the Temple of War, there are certain things that are inevitable. Besides, given your current situation, you probably won't need more than two years to graduate directly from Shrek Academy."

Lin Xingyu pursed his lips and said, "You know what the situation is like over at the Temple of War. There's a lot going on there. I'll go after I graduate."

Since Lin Xingyu became Mu Ye and Zhen Hua's apprentices, the treatment he received at the Temple of War Gods has improved significantly, even arousing jealousy among many prospective students.

However, according to the information Lin Xingyu obtained from his communication with Duanmu Yan, most of the tasks assigned to students within the War God Temple will not be given to him.

At this moment, in the eyes of the War God Temple's higher-ups, his status as a disciple of Zhenhua far outweighed his own value in training.

The Temple of War would rather invest resources in him to maintain a good relationship with Zhenhua, rather than let him go on a mission and cause everyone to panic if something went wrong.

In short, he became a diplomatic gift.

After dealing with the unusual phenomena caused by the breakthrough, [the person] finished dealing with them.

Lin Xingyu immediately took his leave, as Wu Changkong had almost destroyed the communication soul tool in his hand.

This time, Lin Xingyu left alone, heading south and using his flying soul tool, successfully reaching Tiandou City in a day.

If a Soul Master is not a flying-type Soul Master, they can generally only gain the ability to fly after reaching the Soul Saint level or possessing a two-word battle armor.

With Lin Xingyu's current physical condition, he can naturally bear the weight of a two-word battle armor, but his battle armor is not yet fully completed.

He's still missing two parts to complete his battle armor: the headband and the chest armor. However, at his current rate of nurturing, it should be finished in three months at most. Then, with a few more months of work, it can be upgraded to a two-word battle armor.

From the start of manufacturing the battle armor to now, it has only been a year and a half, which is quite fast.

It is much faster than a normal Soul Master simply creating Battle Armor.

After a brief exchange with Zhenhua, they boarded the Soul Guidance Train and headed to Shrek City.

……

"Dance teacher!"

Upon returning to Shrek Academy, Lin Xingyu went straight to Wu Changkong's office to report in first.

Looking at Lin Xingyu's already flawless skin, it now appears even more vibrant, and his overall demeanor is more refined. Standing there, he is like a vast starry sky, attracting everything around him.

The words stuck in his throat. What could he say? Was this intentional on the other party's part? When a Soul Master enters deep meditation, they often postpone everything.

Furthermore, looking at Lin Xingyu now, Wu Changkong suddenly felt an extremely dangerous feeling rising in his heart.

"Now that you're back, attend classes on time. Because you were late, Ye Xinglan's make-up exam was also affected. Go back and talk to them first, then you and Ye Xinglan can come together." Suppressing his inner turmoil, Wu Changkong said calmly.

"Yes."

Lin Xingyu wasn't worried about the make-up exam at all. Nowadays, unless he encountered a particularly monstrous Soul Master, he could basically dominate the younger generation.

Watching Lin Xingyu's departing figure and sensing the dangerous aura emanating from him, Wu Changkong silently replaced the exam content in his mind.

……

"Captain, are you really not afraid of being expelled from school? You were late for the start of the semester." Ye Xinglan complained when she saw Lin Xingyu finally return, "My make-up exam was postponed along with yours."

Ye Xinglan's personality can be described as quite self-centered, or even quite aloof. In her mind, besides the Shrek Glory she learned from childhood, there is only the Star God Sword in her hand.

Or rather, she basically didn't care about anything other than the Star God Sword in her hand, she didn't compete or fight, and even seemed somewhat indifferent.

"I've made some progress in my spiritual practice, so I'm returning a little late."

He briefly explained his behavior.

"The changes are indeed significant, and there has been a considerable breakthrough in his cultivation." Looking at Lin Xingyu, who exuded a unique life force, Gu Yue couldn't help but say.

"Xingyu, welcome back!" Xie Xie said with a smile as he walked over and gave Lin Xingyu a hug.

"Congratulations on breaking through to Soul King!" Tang Wulin also came up and gave Lin Xingyu a hug, saying with considerable envy.

"Me too!" Xu Xiaoyan seemed to follow suit, giggling as she stepped forward and gave him a hug.

Then, Wu Siduo also stepped forward and gave Lin Xingyu a hug.

Wu Siduo's feelings for Lin Xingyu stemmed partly from her own typical admiration for the strong. As a top genius since childhood, she naturally sought someone who could defeat her in the pursuit of her other half.

After spending time together, she naturally acknowledged Lin Xingyu's all-around strength and believed that only someone like him was worthy of her.

Seeing Xu Xiaoyan step forward, she followed suit, feeling somewhat resentful.

"I owe you a favor from the Star Gazing Platform. If there's anything I can do to help you, just ask." Ye Xinglan didn't make a move, but simply stood not far away and spoke quietly.

"It was just a coincidence. The starlight I drew down resonated more with me, and you also enhanced that resonance. It's not like I owe you anything." Lin Xingyu shook his head.

"Congratulations!"

Gu Yue's actions stunned everyone. Gu Yue, who usually avoided physical contact with boys, also stepped forward and gave Lin Xingyu a hug.

Lin Xingyu was also taken aback for a moment.

Looking into Gu Yue's eyes, his intuition, enhanced by his "high-dimensional vision," gave him a chilling feeling.

It wasn't admiration, it wasn't affection; rather, it felt like suddenly discovering a treasure.

Suddenly, Lin Xingyu had a thought. He recalled the function of his supernatural power, Life Surge, which could transform the primordial energy of heaven and earth into pure life essence. This transformed life essence could nourish and replenish the body and soul.

The life essence can significantly replenish one's depleted life force and repair all injuries suffered.

His body had just been nourished by a large amount of vital essence.

If he remembered correctly, after the female dragon in front of him formed two personalities, its own essence underwent a certain degree of split.

'Damn it, what a mistake! I shouldn't have come back directly. It's all because my strength increased so much after breaking through to Soul King, giving me a strange sense of confidence. And what's with your dragon nose?!'

'This lousy academy is unbearable to stay in. I'll just take leave and leave after I finish Wu Changkong's exam.'

His brain raced as he considered a way to escape.

Lin Xingyu said with a smile, "On my way back to the sect, I came across a place where rare and precious treasures gathered. I condensed my soul core there and also brought you some gifts."

"Soul core!"

Xie Xie couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

Lin Xingyu took out a box from his soul tool and opened it to find a series of jade bottles inside.

The jade bottle contains raindrops collected during Lin Xingyu's breakthrough.

Although it cannot compare to the life essence condensed by Lin Xingyu, it still contains a considerable amount of vitality.

I gave each of them a bottle.

"The water inside the bottle contains abundant life force; you can drink it when you are injured." After feeling the life force contained in the liquid in the bottle, Xie Xie reluctantly handed the item back.

"Captain, you should keep this for yourself."

"What did you call me?"

"Captain." Xie Xie was taken aback.

"Then accept it."

Lin Xingyu smiled.

Gu Yue took the bottle and sensed the strange life force contained within it. In Gu Yue's opinion, the life force contained within it was quite small.

However, its essence is quite peculiar, possibly even superior to the gold of life.

It was just too thin and too little, so its effect on her was almost negligible.

What good luck! Is he really not the chosen one of this era?
Or perhaps he had misjudged the situation due to a significant decline in his abilities? Gu Yue was plunged into deep self-doubt.

After glancing at Gu Yue, feeling that he had finally managed to evade the question, Lin Xingyu immediately changed the subject.

"Xinglan, do you know anything about the content of our two make-up exams?"

"I can guess what the exam content will be, but the makeup exam depends entirely on what difficult questions they ask," Ye Xinglan said slowly, shaking her head.

……

evening.

Lin Xingyu and Ye Xinglan arrived at Wu Changkong's office together.

"The assessment we prepared for you this time has been changed at the last minute. Your task should be handed over to the senior students of the inner academy, but the task itself is not too difficult. In addition, given that the two of you are of average ability, it is difficult to find any difficulty in the assessment."

"So I'm temporarily assigning this task to you. This task itself is somewhat dangerous. Of course, you can refuse, but if you do, you'll only get a passing grade."

"We accept!" Ye Xinglan's voice rang out without hesitation as soon as Wu Changkong finished speaking.

This effectively shut down Lin Xingyu's attempt to ask about the specifics of the mission.

"very good!"

Wu Changkong nodded with some satisfaction.

"During your assessment, there were quite a few attacks by evil spirit masters. For your safety, the school had no choice but to gather you all together."

"So, Teacher Wu, our mission this time is related to evil spirit masters?" Lin Xingyu asked with some confusion.

"That's right. Since that day, the academy has been active everywhere and has found a lot of traces of evil spirit masters' activities. Although they tried their best to hide, they were still caught red-handed."

"This mission, which was specifically chosen for you, is not very dangerous."

"It's in a small city called Fengyan City in the northwest. We found traces of evil spirit masters' activities there."

"The person you are going to investigate this time is not very strong. He is a Soul King, the governor of Peak Rock City, and he has colluded with evil Soul Masters. The evidence is quite conclusive."

"You two just need to take care of him, but the premise is that you don't let anyone notice. If you can gather enough information about evil soul masters, that would be even better."

"Teachers will accompany you to ensure your safety during the operation. However, if a teacher takes action, it means you have failed the assessment."

"Do you understand everything?" Wu Changkong asked the two of them one last time.

"understand!"

"Clear!"

Ye Xinglan hesitated for a moment and then asked, "Since the evidence is already quite conclusive, why not hand him over to the Federation for processing? That would save both time and effort."

“If he is handed over to the federal government, he will most likely not be sentenced to death, but at most to life imprisonment. He also has people behind him. During his tenure, he embezzled a lot of money to maintain relations within the federal government.”

As Wu Changkong spoke, he handed a folder to the two of them.

"Here is the information we've gathered. You two can take action after you've read it."

Lin Xingyu curiously took the document bag, opened it, and after a moment he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that there were still too many humanoid creatures in this world.

Previously, he had only seen the brighter side of Douluo Continent. Even with all the conflicts, many things were not shown to him.

Today, he finally came into contact with some of the darker aspects of society.

The Federation has existed for tens of thousands of years. Over such a long period of time, much like entropy increases, many things inevitably decay.

Even though the Federation appears bright on the surface, there are always many unspeakable dirty deeds going on behind the scenes.

In the document Lin Xingyu saw, embezzlement was considered a relatively minor crime.

……

Peak Rock City.

Lin Xingyu and Ye Xinglan arrived here and first found a hotel and booked two rooms to stay in.

"What do you think we should do next?" After packing his things, Lin Xingyu looked at Ye Xinglan and asked for the next steps.

“We’ll find a suitable time and just storm into Huang Xing’en’s house and kill him. Anyway, we already have enough evidence.”

Huang Xing'en is the Soul King who colluded with the evil Soul Master.

Ye Xinglan said without hesitation.

Lin Xingyu couldn't help but press his temple in pain.

“If it were such a simple matter, you could have done it all by yourself. Why would you have arranged for both of us to come together?”

"Furthermore, even if the two of us kill him now, the rating probably won't be very high."

Lin Xingyu said, somewhat speechless.

"what does that mean?"

"Since he colluded with evil spirit masters, it means that he himself has some connection with evil spirit masters. There may be a gathering place for evil spirit masters in this city."

"It's even possible that the academy has already discovered it, but they just haven't told the two of us for the purpose of assessment."

"How do we investigate?"

"Find an opportunity to capture him and interrogate him directly. Few people who can cooperate with evil spirit masters are of firm will. We can probably find evidence."

"What if I can't find it?"

"We're both new to this place and have no connection to anyone. Our martial spirits aren't suited for investigations, so they won't assign us complicated tasks. Just search the places he's been before; we'll eventually find him. Every place he's been leaves a trace."

(End of this chapter)