Douluo: Dragon King's Divine Elegy

Chapter 137 Oh, Yuanen's wife's family has arrived!

Drop drop drop.

The urgent ringing of the phone interrupted their leisurely time.

Nan Liujing took out his phone and answered: "Is the assessment over? Okay, I'll be right there."

After hanging up the phone, he said to Wu Siduo, "Let's go back to the training area."

Wu Siduo nodded.

The two rushed back to the training area, where the hall was already packed with people. Hundreds of students from all over the country were keeping absolutely quiet, but their expressions varied.

Some completed the assessment smoothly and looked relaxed, while others were killed by monsters, suffered a crushing defeat, and were ready to be eliminated.

"Little Lord."

As soon as Nan Liujing and Wu Siduo entered the hall, a person walked towards them.

She looked to be in her early thirties, with a high ponytail, red hair, and flame-like markings on her left cheek, giving her a cold and aloof appearance.

Luo Hongshao was the Dean of Studies at the Spirit Transmission Academy, personally chosen by Leng Yaozhu.

Nanliu Scenic Spot nodded, and Wu Siduo consciously returned to the main group, ignoring the hundreds of pairs of eyes that were watching her.

"Young Master, there are a few special students among this batch of trainees."

Upon arriving at the office on one side of the hall, Luo Hongshao immediately spoke.

"Special students?" Nan Liujing asked. "How are they special?"

Luo Hongshao said, "Look." She waved her hand, and several beams of light were projected down from the soul-guiding instruments on the ceiling.

"Tang Yue, Martial Soul Clear Sky Hammer?" Nan Liujing raised an eyebrow slightly as his gaze fell on the leftmost light screen. "Fourteen years and eight months old, level fifty-one Soul King."

Luo Hongshao said, "If nothing unexpected happens, this Tang Yue should be from the Haotian Sect, which has long been in seclusion."

Nan Liujing pinched his chin, staring at Tang Yue's other information with great interest.

Without a doubt, Tang Yue is a top-tier genius for breaking through to the Soul King level before the age of fifteen. However, given the resources of the Clear Sky Sect, cultivating a genius of this level is nothing special.

Of course, relying on conventional resources to quickly improve one's cultivation level is only applicable to those before becoming a Soul King. After that, resources and insights are indispensable. This is why young geniuses emerge one after another every year, but only a few make it to the end. Most of them are brilliant in their youth, but eventually fade into obscurity.

"There's no need to highlight this. People from the Haotian Sect can't possibly join the advanced academy," Nan Liujing said calmly.

"Yes," Luo Hongshao replied.

Looking at the others, Nan Liujing's eyes rippled slightly: "Yuan Enshi Yue, Martial Soul Titan Giant Ape, fourteen years and five months old, level forty-seven Soul Master."

Ah, so it's true that my wife's family has come to visit.

"Meng Qingge, martial soul Tianyin Qin, fourteen years and three months old, level forty-four Soul Master."

"Eternal Principles, Martial Soul: Ice and Fire Dragon Soul, Fourteen years and six months old, Level 48 Soul Master."

Luo Hongshao said in a deep voice, "This Qian Gu Zhengze belongs to a collateral branch of the Qian Gu family. His martial spirit is not the traditional Panlong Staff, but simply possesses the power of the dragon soul."

"Interesting." Nan Liujing smiled, his gaze falling on the last light screen, and he clicked his tongue.

"Le Zhengyu, Martial Soul: Holy Angel, 14 years and 4 months old, Level 44 Soul Master."

Without a doubt, Yue Zhengyu in this timeline has received an epic-level enhancement. In the original timeline, he was only at the third ring cultivation level, which was simply not worthy of his martial soul and background.

Luo Hongshao said, "This Le Zhengyu comes from the Southern Legion and is a direct descendant of the Holy Angel Family. His grandfather has a very high status and is the commander of the Southern Legion. Young Master, I personally think that this person can be won over."

"I'll keep an eye on it." Nan Liujing glanced at Le Zhengyu a few times, had some ideas in mind, and then left the office and returned to the lobby.

Instantly, everyone's eyes turned to them.

Nan Liujing looked around at everyone and said, "The assessment is over. Next, the instructors will take you to your dormitories. Also, those who pass the assessment will each be rewarded with one hundred learning points. As for what to do with the learning points, you will find out after the official start of the semester."

The group exchanged glances, their eyes filled with curiosity.

"As for those who failed the assessment," Nan Liujing added.

The atmosphere in the hall was somewhat tense; of the hundreds of people present, quite a few were quickly eliminated.

Nan Liujing smiled and said, "You were able to enroll, but you didn't receive any reward."

"what?!"

"Great!"

The sudden surprise instantly broke the silence in the hall, and cheers spread like a tidal wave. Those trainees who thought they were going to be eliminated were so excited that their faces turned red.

“But,” Nan Liujing interrupted.

Everyone immediately shut up.

"Students who fail the assessment will need to retake it after half a month. Those who pass will be exempt from further assessment, while those who fail will have to undergo another half month of assessment until they pass. If they fail the retake, they will need to complete the tasks assigned by the academy. Of course, these are all routine tasks, so you don't need to worry about them."

"I can tell you clearly that at the Spirit Transmission Academy, students are not expelled casually, but!" Nan Liujing released his spiritual power invisibly, surging out an astonishing pressure that shocked everyone present, "Those who violate the school rules will definitely be expelled."

"Alright, let's gather and head to the dorms. The college will issue a notice later regarding the specific class assignments."

"Wait a minute!"

Suddenly, just as the atmosphere in the hall was easing, a sudden voice rang out.

In the center of the crowd, a strong young man raised his right hand. His face was calm and composed, even somewhat ordinary, but his aura was quite powerful.

He was Tang Yue.

"What is it?" Nan Liujing asked calmly.

Tang Yue took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "Because of my seclusion, I was unable to go to Mingdu to participate in the Federation Grand Competition, nor was I able to compete with many peers. This is a great regret in my life. So I came to the Spirit Transmission Academy for only one thing, which is to see where my limits are and if you can give me some guidance."

The hall was immediately filled with discussion, and those with outstanding talent all showed expressions of anticipation.

They knew, of course, that they were no match for Nan Liujing, but they all wanted to fight him.

The reason is simple: right now, the gap between their cultivation levels and Nan Liujing's is at its lowest. In a few years, they will most likely only be able to look up to him, and probably won't even have the qualification to spar with him anymore.

Noticing the anticipation on everyone's faces, Nan Liujing didn't want to spoil the mood and said with a faint smile, "Alright, then I'll spar with you as a way of welcoming the new student."

"Thank you!" Tang Yue solemnly clasped his hands in thanks.

...

Training area, battle arena.

Hundreds of students and a group of instructors stood outside the soul power shield on a competition stage with a diameter of no more than eighty meters, where two figures stood.

"The market is open! The market is open!"

Before the sparring even began, some students were already speculating and preparing to place bets, but they weren't betting on who would win or lose, but rather on how long Tang Yue could last, or how many moves he could exchange with Nan Liujing.

Young people love to join in the fun, and many students immediately got involved, including Le Zhengyu, Yuan Enshiyue, and Luo Guixing.

"Those who open for business will receive a demerit!" Luo Hongshao said softly.

Upon hearing this, the students who had gathered together were startled and hurriedly ran away, leaving the students who had just opened the market dumbfounded.

"Considering this is your first offense against school rules, you can be exempted by copying the rules ten times." Luo Hongshao casually tossed out a pen and paper.

Upon receiving the paper and pen, the student almost burst into tears.

Luo Hongshao said calmly, "You're not at a loss either. At least you're the first person in the history of Chuanling Academy to be given a demerit, which is a kind of historical record."

"This..." The student who had just started trading was stunned. Did that mean I actually made a profit?

On the field.

"Time is short, let's begin," Nan Liujing said calmly.

Tang Yue narrowed his eyes, a thick and heavy aura swirled around him, and five soul rings rose from beneath his feet, purple-purple-black in color.

Upon seeing this, many people's expressions changed drastically.

A Soul King under the age of fifteen with top-tier Soul Ring configurations—based solely on their Soul Ring configurations, they would easily rank highly in the Federation Grand Competition's youth group. *Buzz*

Tang Yue made a grabbing motion from a distance, and a dark, intense light surged from his right palm. Immediately afterwards, a huge hammer-like martial spirit materialized.

This hammer is brownish-brown in color, with special textures on its surface and a faint sheen.

"It's the Clear Sky Hammer!"

Immediately, some students with keen eyesight recognized Tang Yue's martial spirit, and their exclamations triggered a chain reaction.

In Douluo Continent, the Clear Sky Hammer undoubtedly left behind a legendary martial soul. In ancient times, even in the prehistoric era, when there weren't so many types of martial souls, the Clear Sky Hammer was already hailed as the number one weapon martial soul in the world, especially in terms of power, which was almost the ultimate.

Without a doubt, any Clear Sky Hammer Soul Master can fight across ranks.

This exchange seemed to be more exciting than expected.

"Okay!"

Tang Yue stepped forward, and his first spirit ring lit up. The faint light emanating from the Clear Sky Hammer in his hand suddenly intensified, the patterns seemed to come alive, the space at the hammerhead trembled, causing the air to almost distort and shatter, and a heavy pressure swept across the arena.

As a power-attack type Soul Master, Tang Yue's speed wasn't particularly fast, but with a diameter of eighty meters, he could quickly pass by a Soul King.

When he was still nearly twenty meters away from Nan Liujing, he raised his hammer and smashed it down. The moment it hit the ground, a terrifying brownish-yellow shockwave exploded in a fan shape, with a low-frequency tremor hidden in it, as if the earth was roaring and howling. The floor shook as if mountains were shifting.

Lightning flashed in Nan Liujing's eyes, and lightning arcs surrounded his body. Strands of scorching lightning tore through the void, as if roots were planted into the earth. The roaring earth was restored to peace, as if it could not withstand the judgment of heaven. The original brown and yellow air waves had long since shattered into countless pieces, and deep light fragments scattered like rain.

"How is this possible?" Tang Yue's pupils shrank. He never expected that the other party could defeat his first soul skill simply by controlling the elements.

Even the most extreme lightning shouldn't be this outrageous.

Is this the strength of the number one player of the younger generation?

"Come again!"

Tang Yue turned around and leaped into the air, his third spirit ring suddenly bursting with dazzling light.

Third Soul Skill: Meteor Fall!

The Haotian Hammer surged with a deep, condensed light and flame, making his body shine brilliantly, as if a giant meteor had suddenly appeared in the sky, and his already powerful attack became even stronger.

The meteor fell quickly, and the ground seemed to be suppressed by an invisible giant hand, quietly cracking and even collapsing inward.

This scene made many trainees look serious.

Facing the full force of the Haotian Hammer, Nan Liujing did not dodge. A dark golden luster faintly emanated from under the skin of his right arm. He leaned slightly to the right, and during the process, all the muscles in his body tensed up like metal that had been forged a thousand times. The power of his bloodline surged, and he suddenly transformed into a ferocious humanoid beast.

moment.

His right fist, like a high-speed, swiftly moving dragon, emitted a roar that tore through the air, and with overwhelming force, it found the Haotian Hammer.

"Boom——"

In an instant, the Haotian Hammer collided fiercely with the fist.

With a crack, the floor beneath Nan Liujing's feet shattered instantly, countless fragments of stone exploding into dust. At the center of the collision, continuous shockwaves spread outwards, and the surrounding soul power shield emitted a blindingly bright light, so intense that many people squinted.

When the blinding light subsided, the trainees almost unanimously stared wide-eyed.

The dense, radiant light that had surrounded Tang Yue was easily extinguished, like a candle flickering in the wind. The aura that had been rapidly gathered through the release of his soul skills was also as fragile as glass, shattering under the impact of this pure power. The space within a ten-meter radius of his body visibly caved inward, with cracks as dense as a spider web.

A punch, a hammer blow, and they were still touching.

But everything came to an abrupt end.

Tick tock!

Crimson blood continued to drip, silently blooming into eerie blood-red flowers on the ground. Tang Yue's eyes were glazed over; his once incredibly powerful arms were now like shattered porcelain, covered in bloodstains, with some muscles bursting open to reveal veins and bones, a sight that inspired fear.

As his power dissipated with the loss of blood, Tang Yue was unable to maintain his martial spirit. The Clear Sky Hammer slammed into the ground with a muffled thud before collapsing, and his arms drooped involuntarily. His adrenaline surged, and although he didn't scream in pain, his whole body trembled violently, and his face turned pale in an instant.

Several healing-type Soul Masters quickly went up onto the stage.

"Your strength is good, but it's too forceful and lacks resilience. If you don't correct this, you'll be in trouble when you encounter an enemy who is good at using softness to overcome hardness."

Nan Liujing looked down at Tang Yue and spoke softly. He hadn't moved an inch from beginning to end, and the burning blood coursing through his body had quietly calmed down.

Tang Yue stared blankly at his trembling arms, which he could barely muster any strength for.

He proposed a friendly spar, not a challenge, because from the beginning he never thought he could win. He only wanted to spar with the recognized number one of his generation to explore his own limits; otherwise, he wouldn't have applied to leave his family and come to Shrek City. But he never imagined that he, as a Clear Sky Hammer Soul Master, would be completely and utterly crushed in terms of strength.

"Thank you."

He recovered extremely quickly after the treatment, and Tang Yue listened to the teachings with heartfelt gratitude.

"No need for thanks. The purpose of sparring is to identify problems, otherwise it would be a waste of time," Nan Liujing smiled gently, then said to everyone, "Next, you will follow the instructor to the dormitory and familiarize yourselves with the various locations in the academy."

"Yes."

The crowd responded in unison, and a strange light ignited in the eyes of many students.

The Spirit Transmission Academy has publicly stated that if a student is promoted from an ordinary student to an advanced student, they can directly become a core disciple of the Spirit Transmission Tower.

Whether for themselves or for their families, following a powerful figure destined to stand at the pinnacle of Soul Masters is of extraordinary significance to them.

Among the crowd, Yuan Enshiyue was perhaps the only student with a complicated expression.

“Grandpa, the person Ye Hui has chosen to follow is far more outstanding than you imagine. Perhaps the family should no longer remain silent in its own world.”

...

"Wow, no wonder it's the number one city on the mainland!"

Along the clean and tidy roadside, a cool and aloof young man gazed at the towering buildings that seemed to pierce the clouds in the distance, exclaiming in surprise.

The pretty girl with pigtails couldn't help but complain, "We have plenty of skyscrapers in Donghai City, why are you making such a fuss?"

"Just going through the motions." The cool and aloof young man was Xie Xie. He glanced at his handsome companion beside him and said, "Wu Lin, why didn't Teacher Wu come to Shrek City with us?"

"Teacher Wu has to go to Tiandou City. Besides, Teacher Wu always hoped to train us to enter Shrek Academy, but..." Tang Wulin sighed.

When this was mentioned, Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan both fell silent.

Upon learning of Shrek Academy's cheating, Teacher Wu drank a lot of alcohol, a rare occurrence, even getting herself drunk. Since then, Teacher Wu's willpower has noticeably weakened, as if she had lost her faith.

"By the way, Xiaoyan, have you talked to Brother Nan yet?" Tang Wulin changed the subject at the right time.

Xu Xiaoyan said with a grin, "Brother Nan told me that I should just go to the Spirit Transmission Academy to report for duty. He's been staying at the academy all this time."

“Very good.” Tang Wulin smiled. “Although we have joined different organizations, at least we can continue to maintain our friendship at the academy.”

Xie Xie said worriedly, "I wonder what the student resources are like at the Spirit Transmission Academy. We are just some weaklings from a poor, remote area. Compared to these cities with top-tier Soul Master resources, the gap is quite large."

"You'll know when you get there," Tang Wulin said calmly. "If the gap is large, then work hard to catch up."

"That's all we can do," Xie Xie sighed, then suddenly grinned mischievously, "By the way, Wu Lin, how are things going between you and Senior Mu Xi?"

Xu Xiaoyan blinked her big, innocent eyes.

Tang Wulin's serious expression immediately vanished, and his face flushed slightly as he said, "Why are you asking so many questions?"

"You're shy, aren't you?" Xie Xie teased.

Xu Xiaoyan also covered her mouth and chuckled.

"I'm not inviting you to dinner tonight," Tang Wulin said fiercely.

"No!"

Xie Xie screamed in agony.

"It's okay, I'll definitely pack up any leftovers I can't finish for you." Xu Xiaoyan patted Xie Xie's shoulder lightly.

"Thank you so much," Xie Xie said with a dark face.

"We're all brothers!" Xu Xiaoyan patted his chest and said without hesitation.