Douluo Golden Shovel: One Hextech Gunpla every year!

Chapter 16 Ning Fengzhi Enters the Shop

A few million gold soul coins should be enough to hire someone to help hunt down a suitable low-level ten-thousand-year soul beast.

At that time, the fifth and sixth spirit rings, which are not in high demand due to their age of ten thousand years, will likely be secured.

As for going any further, Xu Yu could only say that he had done his best, and the rest depended on Honglian's own abilities.

But now, Honglian's starting point is the Azure Scale Giant Tree Soul Ring, which is over 7,800 years old. Xu Yu is already considering whether he can help Honglian get a suitable second Soul Ring.

Xu Yu certainly wouldn't ask Honglian to lower her expectations; he definitely wanted to give Honglian the best.

"Sigh, let's not think about that for now. You should prepare yourself. Since you have full innate soul power and your first soul ring is miraculously 7,800 years old, then we can't send you to a junior soul master academy in this small place like Wutan City. This place is not good enough for you."

Xu Yu said to Hong Lian, "We're planning to move and see which powerful Soul Master academy we can go to study at."

"I can still afford the tuition for a good Soul Master academy."

"It's perfect timing. There are many powerful soul masters in the soul master academy. A genius like you will surely be noticed by some people."

"If you become the disciple of a powerful Soul Saint or the Dean of the Soul Douluo Academy, your first few Soul Rings will be secured."

Xu Yu had always placed high hopes on Honglian.

Before Honglian awakened her martial soul, Xu Yu thought that if Honglian's talent wasn't that good, she could directly inherit his mantle in the field of soul tools.

After all, this line of work is really profitable.

It took them six years to repair and sell nearly two hundred soul tools of various levels. Combined with his own resources, he earned several hundred thousand gold soul coins.

He's only a Soul Master. You should know that even some Soul Kings and Soul Emperors might not have hundreds of thousands of gold soul coins.

After Honglian awakened her innate full soul power and top-level martial soul, Xu Yu began to consider paving the way for her.

"I think we should go to the Star Luo Empire instead."

Xu Yu said that he didn't actually have a strong sense of belonging to the Heaven Dou Empire because when he was a child, before his elders passed away, he heard them say that his hometown was not actually here, and it wasn't even on this continent.

Honglian also told Xu Yu that the person who forcibly bought Honglian Qingfeng Dagger was Ning Fengzhi of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School wields considerable influence within the Heaven Dou Empire.

Xu Yu had originally valued the Heavenly Dou Royal Academy highly, but now he realized he couldn't go there.

After all, there have been rumors in the Heaven Dou Empire over the past two years that Ning Fengzhi, the sect leader of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, has become the master of Crown Prince Xue Qinghe and is now the Imperial Tutor.

He'd better not bring Honglian closer to this person.

If we end up at the Heavenly Dou Royal Academy, in the Heavenly Dou capital, then we'll be right under the emperor's nose and on Ning Fengzhi's territory.

Therefore, Xu Yu felt that leaving the Star Luo Empire was a good idea.

Joining the Star Luo Royal Academy is also an option; the Star Luo Royal Academy is quite strong and worthy of Honglian.

As for whether Honglian would be rejected, Xu Yu hadn't considered it anymore. Not to mention the thousand-year-old soul ring, just the words "innate full soul power" would make any force refuse to cultivate such a genius as their disciple.

Hearing Xu Yu say this, Honglian also thought it was a good idea.

"Alright, Master, shall we pack our bags and get ready to leave in a couple of days?" "Okay, let's set the departure date for the day after tomorrow. I'll go and book a carriage that's willing to travel long distances across borders." Xu Yu replied.

But to Honglian and Xu Yu's surprise, before they could even leave, they encountered an uninvited guest in their soul tool antique shop.

The day before I left,
In Wutan City, Ning Fengzhi and his group, who had already attached the first spirit ring to Ning Rongrong, appeared in the city.

Ning Fengzhi walked around the city with a map provided to him by members of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

The round red dot on the map marks the destination of Fudu, which is none other than the soul tool antique shop run by Honglian and Xu Yu.

Because Ning Fengzhi had instructed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School to collect and purchase various soul tools, Honglian and Xu Yu's shop was noticed by the branch members of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

Because there are very few usable soul tools circulating, Honglian and Xu Yu auctioned nearly two hundred low-level soul tools that they had repaired and manufactured in various cities, as well as about one hundred that Xu Yu had accumulated before, and some that were directly acquired and were already usable...

Even Xu Yu and Hong Lian didn't notice such a quantity. Their shipments in the soul tool antique industry have accounted for more than 70% of the market for complete and usable soul tool antiques in recent years!

Although it hasn't reached a monopoly, it's not far off.

Even though they had already started auctioning off their items in different cities, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's branch members still noticed Honglian and Xu Yu's antique soul tool shop after some people investigated.

After all, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School truly possessed both strength and influence within the Heaven Dou Empire.

Ning Fengzhi came here for Xu Yu's soul tool, or to put it more bluntly, Ning Fengzhi and his group came for Xu Yu himself.

Perhaps in the original story, Xu Yu's abilities went unnoticed by anyone and faded into obscurity.

However, in the life of Honglian, Xu Yu's life trajectory as an ordinary Soul Master was changed, greatly enhancing his Soul Tool Repair and Manufacturing Techniques and Innovative Thinking.

However, this also brought Xu Yu and his team this risk.

The investigation report submitted to Ning Fengzhi by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School indicated that they suspected this antique dealer named Xu Yu possessed extensive experience and ability in repairing soul tools.

That's why Ning Fengzhi appeared in Wutan City this time.

Buying antique soul tools one by one at a high price is slow and expensive. It's much faster and cheaper to directly acquire people who can repair and make soul tools.

"Fengzhi, look, that closed shop up ahead should be the one, right?"

Gu Rong, who was carrying Ning Rongrong and walking to Ning Fengzhi's left, saw a shop with a sign that read "Closed, Do Not Disturb, Shop for Sale" because Honglian and Xu Yu were moving. She spoke to Ning Fengzhi.

"We're not so unlucky as to have come all this way for nothing, are we?"

"It's alright, let's go over and take a look."

Ning Fengzhi said, leading the group closer.

Upon approaching, Ning Fengzhi smiled slightly: "It seems the shop owner is still at home."

Upon approaching, Ning Fengzhi and his companions, with their combined strength, were naturally able to sense the life force emanating from Xu Yu and Hong Lian, who were tidying up inside the shop.

Seeing the "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door, Ning Fengzhi thought for a moment and decided not to knock and simply pushed the door open and entered.

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(End of this chapter)