Douluo: Lord of Arms

Chapter 157 Completed
Shrek Academy.

Gu Yue picked up the jade bottle and carefully analyzed the green liquid inside.

It took more than a day, and we tried almost every method imaginable.

The final result left her feeling confused. She only managed to analyze that there was a rather peculiar power in this green liquid, which was not celestial energy.

However, if we only consider the therapeutic effect on life, it is no worse than that, and may even be much better.

Somewhat bewildered, Gu Yue swallowed the life essence, feeling as if her very essence was being gradually replenished. She lay on the bed and lazily closed her eyes.

Time passed slowly, and the sky outside gradually darkened. Gu Yue slowly opened her eyes.

Feeling that he had regained a trace of his original essence, a hint of joy welled up in his eyes, followed by a touch of disappointment.

'Too little!'

Her guess was correct; this stuff really does have a remarkable effect on healing injuries.

'If there were enough...'

Gu Yue unconsciously tapped the jade bottle with her right hand, and couldn't help but shake her head with a smile.

Such natural treasures, brimming with vitality, when abundant enough, can alter the surrounding environment to some extent.

Just like the Star Dou Great Forest in the past, it was the Lake of Life and the Gold of Life at its very center that created the largest primeval forest on the Douluo Continent.

The current environment on the Douluo Continent is clearly insufficient to nurture such a sacred land.

Although I think the possibility is slim.

Gu Yue still planned to keep a closer eye on Lin Xingyu, just in case.

……

Peak Rock City.

The Consul's Residence.

Huang Xing'en, dressed in a black formal suit, finished his work.

Although he is still tall and imposing at the age of 58, he has already shown obvious signs of aging.

Her hair had turned completely white.

This is quite rare in a world where Soul Masters generally age more slowly.

Peak Rock City is just a small city, and he also has quite a few secretaries, so the governor's work is not too busy.

In addition, he had been somewhat restless lately, so he simply finished the treatment hastily and touched her directly.

"Haofeng has been saying he wants to go to the sea lately. They're leaving tomorrow. Go and see them off."

Sitting in the soul-guided car, Huang Xing'en suddenly spoke to his driver.

"Yes!" As a veteran who had followed Huang Xing'en for over a decade, the driver clearly knew when to ask questions and when not to. He simply needed to carry out the tasks assigned to him.

Looking at the scenery rushing past outside the car window, Huang Xing'en felt his mood calm down a bit.

As a Soul Master with only two levels of innate Soul Power, I felt that I didn't have much potential on the path of a Soul Master, ever since the day I was appointed.

Huang Xing'en then embarked on his childbearing career, marrying five wives over the decades and fathering more than a dozen children.

Huang Haofeng is his twelfth child and the most outstanding of all his children.

With innate soul power reaching level six, he could already be considered a minor genius.

Let's send him away first, just in case something happens, at least we'll have someone to rely on later.

Thinking about the recent incidents involving evil spirit masters in various places, Huang Xingen always felt like something terrible was about to happen.

……

"After checking the past records, Huang Xing'en's route of action has mostly been around here. Did you notice anything?"

Lin Xingyu spread all the documents in his hand out on the table, carefully reviewed them, and then asked a question.

After waiting for a long time without hearing Ye Xinglan's reply, Lin Xingyu looked up and saw Ye Xinglan's innocent eyes.

He swallowed all the words he was about to say.

Expecting a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl who has grown up in cultivation to analyze and record in detail is unrealistic, even in this world where development is early. Some things are simply unseen and difficult to consider from other perspectives; that was my fault…

"What are you looking at!"

She noticed that Lin Xingyu's gaze seemed a little off, as if there was a hint of pity in it.

"It's like... like, yes, like looking at an idiot," Ye Xinglan said somewhat angrily.

"I wasn't looking at anything." He withdrew his somewhat impolite gaze.

Lin Xingyu continued, "Most of his movements are fine, but if you examine them yourself, you'll find that the number of times he runs south is too regular."

"I go to the south of the city about once a month, almost without fail. It's so regular."

"Even when you go out for fun, the time is very random. But he runs around so regularly that people who don't know him would think he's clocking in for work."

Upon hearing this, Ye Xinglan's eyes lit up.

"So that's probably where he met with the evil spirit master?"

"It's probably, or at least it's definitely one of his important strongholds."

"When will we do it?"

Ye Xinglan said somewhat impatiently.

"Follow him for two days. If nothing unexpected happens, he will make another trip to the south of the city in the next two days to see if we can find his exact location."

"If there's really no result, then just take action."

Ye Xinglan nodded, clearly agreeing completely.

Back in my room, I tidied up a bit and then entered a meditative state.

the next day.

After a quick breakfast and some simple disguise to conceal their striking appearances, Lin Xingyu and Ye Xinglan went straight to keep watch.

As for the surveillance method Lin Xingyu chose, it was quite simple.

First, stand guard at the target's doorstep and use magnetic field and mental power to memorize the target's life force.

Then they would leave far away, neither meeting nor getting close to their target, but keeping them at a distance through the power of their magnetic field and the spiritual power of their Lingyuan realm.

In this way, if he knows what the other party wants to do, it will naturally be difficult for him to do it.

However, if you only need to determine the other party's approximate location, then there is basically no difficulty.

at dusk.

Lin Xingyu, who had been drinking tea all day, couldn't help but have a slight change in expression.

After waiting all day, Huang Xing'en finally set off for the south of the city today.

Lin Xingyu couldn't help but reflect on his own actions.

This was my first time doing this kind of work, and I would say I did it quite sloppily.

The plan was mediocre, and he overestimated his patience; he didn't want to wait even a day longer...

'After returning, we need to intensify our efforts in developing our mental strength. Previously, we only practiced visualization techniques; simply focusing on increasing mental power isn't enough.'

'You also need to learn more techniques for using mental energy. So that if you encounter something like this again, even if you don't immediately perform a soul search, you'll at least be able to tell at a glance whether the other person is lying.'

They followed Huang Xing'en all the way to the south of the city.

Looking at the large villa several kilometers away, and sensing the life force emanating from it, Lin Xingyu couldn't help but let out a sinister smile.

"This is pretty much it! I'll make the first move, and you can stay behind and support me."

"Alright!" Without saying much more, Ye Xinglan exuded a chilling aura.

……

"Snapped!"

"How many times have I told you! Everyone, keep a low profile during this period, keep a low profile!"

Huang Xing'en slammed his fist on the table and roared at the three men in black robes in front of him.

The leader, a man in black robes, sat on the sofa and said casually, "They're just ordinary people. You can just report them missing, and to avoid trouble, no one will investigate further."

"Normally no one checks, but what's going on now?"

Huang Xingen said, barely suppressing his anger.

"You know how urgently they're urging us. There are many things we can't do, so we can only follow their instructions."

Most organizations in the world are united by either interests or ideals.

For such evil spirit master organizations, profit clearly takes precedence.

Organizations like this exploit their lower-level members quite ruthlessly.

Don't think that joining an evil spirit master organization will make you successful. In reality, most evil spirit masters, even if they join an evil spirit master organization, will still not change their nature as cannon fodder.

Even positive organizations will come up with all sorts of reasonable justifications for asking their members to die for certain things.

They were given generous treatment and honors.

And these evil spirit master organizations can send you to your death if they don't like you at first glance.

You don't even have a chance to resist, since most of the people who make it this far aren't good people.

The suppression of those below was naturally even more ruthless.

Although they weren't given a mission to die, the three men in black robes were quite relaxed, but the resources they were asked to collect were still considerable.

The three of them were well aware of the situation, but they clearly dared not disobey orders from above...

That can truly extract their souls and torment them!

"Three days! Whatever you're doing, you must stop after three days!"

Seeing that Huang Xing'en's attitude had softened, the man in black robes was about to agree.

Suddenly his expression changed as a loud noise came from outside the room.

All four completed the Martial Soul Possession simultaneously.

Nine points of light appeared on the leading man's body, and pieces of battle armor quickly appeared on his body.

Yellow, purple, black.

Six spirit rings appeared on his body.

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, the south wall of the entire room exploded instantly.

They hadn't even seen who it was yet.

The azure flames, accompanied by a crimson-gold sharpness, instantly enveloped the entire room.

The four people present held their breath, as an omnipresent and immense power, accompanied by a will to decide life and death, pressed down heavily.

This slowed their movements for a moment.

But in that brief instant, a streak of crimson-gold light flashed across the figure of the leading man.

A spear pierced his body, with the other end protruding through him. The immense force of the spear blasted him apart almost instantly.

The power of the judgment extinguished his life force almost instantly.

With a flash of flame, a Soul Emperor instantly turned to ashes, but a piece of bone remained, which surprised Lin Xingyu slightly.

Lin Xingyu's speed at this moment was simply too fast. The speed generated after elementalization was difficult even for him to control.

He could only control a general direction, but that was enough. Combined with his martial will, unity with heaven and man, and the suppression of magnetic field power, he defeated an evil soul emperor almost instantly.

With a turn of his spear, the second strike arrived instantly.

Only then did Huang Xingen and his two companions see the figure of the newcomer.

Upon seeing the five black spirit rings on the crimson-gold figure, Huang Xingen felt a slight tremor in his heart and completely gave up hope.

After the martial spirit possession was dispelled, the five spirit rings on his body—two yellow and three purple—also disappeared.

He sat down calmly.

Dealing with the remaining two Fifth Ring Evil Soul Masters was essentially the same as killing chickens for Lin Xingyu.

Even though the powers of evil spirit masters are generally more bizarre, they are basically useless to Lin Xingyu at this moment.

Powerful blood and qi, an elementalized body, and the mental protection resulting from the unity of heaven and man.

This made him completely immune to all attacks below the Soul Saint level.

The two Soul Kings, who didn't even have battle armor, followed in the footsteps of the former almost instantly.

He put away his weapon and looked at Huang Xing'en, who was sitting there with his neck outstretched, ready to be slaughtered.

"You're quite sensible." Lin Xingyu was somewhat surprised.

Huang Xing'en's lips twitched, forcing an awkward smile, and he said, "I had expected this day to come from the beginning, but I didn't expect it to arrive at this time."

"I wonder if you're from the Federation or the Temple of War? Never mind, it doesn't matter."

"There is a batch of rare resources that I have secretly hoarded below my cultivation room at home. I hope you will not make things difficult for my family, as they know nothing about it."

"As someone with innate soul power at level two, I have long since exhausted my potential with various pills, which also shortened my lifespan. However, I have enjoyed myself for more than twenty years, from the age of thirty until now, and I have had enough."

Seeing Huang Xingen looking like he was making his final arrangements, Lin Xingyu immediately sensed something was wrong and almost cursed out loud when he went over to take a look.

The original intention of saving him for last was to ask him some questions about evil spirit masters.

This guy is weaker and doesn't have the strange characteristics of those evil soul masters.

As a result, this guy committed suicide.

You've done so many despicable things, and now you want to end it all with death? It's not that easy!

With a flash of light, the Myriad Abyss Domain unfolded, and Lin Xingyu's long spear swept across, ending Huang Xingen's life first.

As Huang Xing'en's body turned to ashes in Naruto, his soul fell directly into the Abyss Domain.

Lin Xingyu, somewhat disappointed, began to clean up the mess.

"How about it?"

Ye Xinglan, who was responsible for blocking the outside to prevent anyone from escaping, saw that Lin Xingyu had finished the battle and walked over a moment later.

"This guy committed suicide. I was originally thinking of leaving one alive."

"However, this group of evil soul masters actually dropped a soul bone."

Upon hearing this, Ye Xinglan also looked at the item in Lin Xingyu's hand with great interest.

After a moment, he looked away with some disappointment. "This is a thousand-year-old soul bone, far from good enough. Selling it will be some extra income."

(End of this chapter)