Douluo Jueshi: I Don't Want to Be an Evil Soul Master

Chapter 156 Conferred God
The two soul masters who stopped Lin Xiao at the entrance of the academy were stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted. Soul rings instantly rose up and blocked the way in the air.

The shrill alarm sounded throughout the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Guidance Academy. Several rays of light illuminated the night sky and in the blink of an eye fell on the person who flew up first.

However, just as the attacks from those soul guides were about to fall, a protective shield also rose up around the man in the air, blocking all those attacks.

Ninth-level soul mentor.

Lin Xiao's eyes narrowed.

As a soul guide, he could feel the power contained in the attacks launched from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Guide Academy. The fact that the man was able to take them so lightly showed his level of cultivation.

"Humph!"

A cold snort sounded from the academy. Lin Xiao, who was standing at the entrance of the academy, felt a shock of soul power in his body. The next moment, a rose-gold light also flew into the air, and Jing Hongchen's voice came from it.

"I have been very kind to you, haven't I? Why did you betray me and the academy?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Xiao had already guessed the identity of the other person in the air.

If his guess was correct, that person was the one who built the Conferred God Platform, sealed the Snow Empress' embryo in it, and then handed it over to the people of the Star Luo Empire.

Actually, Lin Xiao was a little curious. The status of a ninth-level soul guide in the Sun-Moon Empire was not low, and from the few contacts he had made in the beginning, it was clear that the teacher had a strong interest in soul guides.

He was from the Sun-Moon Empire and had access to the Mingde Hall, which had the most advanced soul guide technology. He could not figure out the reason why the Conferred God Platform would be handed over to the Star Luo Empire.

Even if he has other purposes, it shouldn't be difficult to achieve them with his status as a ninth-level soul engineer, right?
"I'm sorry, Hall Master. I didn't mean to betray Mingde Hall, and I haven't betrayed Mingde Hall."

The man was flying in the air, and the light around him enveloped him, making it impossible to see his movements.

"Then tell me, how did your soul guide appear at the Xingluo Empire's auction house?"

Jing Hongchen spoke in a low voice, filled with suppressed anger. His short and fat body was completely different from before, exuding the oppressive aura of a Titled Douluo.

"Master, if it weren't for the Xingluo Empire, I would have collapsed in the Far North long ago."

The teacher's eyes flashed, and his soul power surged out and filled the sky above the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Guidance Academy, completely blocking out the sound in the air.

"Master, after leaving the academy, I traveled alone to the Far North in search of a breakthrough."

“There, I found the opportunity to break through to the ninth-level soul master, and also encountered the so-called hundred thousand-year soul beast.”

Jing Hongchen frowned and listened to the person in front of him continue talking.

"At first, I also thought it was just a hundred thousand year old soul beast. It was in the critical period of transforming into a human. I thought that with my cultivation and soul guide, it would not be difficult to deal with such a soul beast."

"However, that soul beast's cultivation was far more than a hundred thousand years old. I fought it for a long time. Although it was successfully sealed, I no longer had the strength to leave the Far North."

"The snowstorm in the Far North once buried me. It was the Star Luo Empire's team that went to the Far North to hunt for spirit rings that discovered me and rescued me back to the Star Luo Empire."

"In order to repay them for saving my life, I left them my only ninth-level soul guide, but I absolutely have no intention of betraying the academy or Mingde Hall."

"Given the Xingluo Empire's research into soul guides, they absolutely cannot dismantle the Conferred God Platform, nor can they learn the soul guide technology of Mingde Hall!"

Jing Hongchen was silent for a long time after hearing this, and then he sighed softly, "Yes, so you left a hundred thousand year spirit ring, a hundred thousand year spirit bone, and even a martial spirit in the Xingluo Empire."

"Your story really moved me, but how can I believe it?"

Jing Hongchen practically roared, "How can I believe that the Xingluo Empire is willing to let a ninth-level soul master like you return to the Sun-Moon Empire?"

"If you could leave a level-nine soul tool and a 100,000-year-old soul beast to the Star Luo Empire, how can I believe you didn't leave anything more behind? How can I believe that after returning to the academy, you will still work for the academy as before, instead of working for the Star Luo Empire?" "Hall Master! If that's really the case, why would they put that soul tool up for auction?"

"Yes..." Jing Hongchen nodded gently, and suddenly his eyes turned cold. "But you still betrayed me! The secrets of Mingde Hall cannot be leaked in the slightest. I have devoted so many years and so much effort to Mingde Hall. I don't want to take that gamble."

"Hall Master!"

The teacher shouted again, but Jing Hongchen remained unmoved. In the rose-gold light, soul guides took shape on his body.

"boom--"

There were bursts of noise in the air, and the dazzling light illuminated Mingdu like the sun, even covering the light of the soul guides on both sides of the street.

Lin Xiao, standing at the gate of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Guidance Academy, kept looking up at the sky, but at this moment he could not look directly at the light in the sky and raised his hands to cover his eyes.

"boom--"

The next moment, something fell in front of him.

Lin Xiao lowered his head slightly and saw the teacher who had invited him to study soul guides not long ago lying on the ground. His body was charred black, and traces of blood kept flowing out from the corners of his mouth. His breathing had almost stopped, and it seemed that he was about to lose his life completely.

"Master——"

He uttered two words, but the rest of his words were blocked by the blood flowing out of his mouth. The next moment, he stopped moving.

"When did you come back?"

Jing Hongchen's deep voice sounded from behind Lin Xiao, and Lin Xiao turned around abruptly, "Hall Master."

"I just got back and haven't had time to enter the academy yet."

"I have received the news about the Soul Fighting Competition. Why didn't you come back with the others?" Jing Hongchen took two steps forward and stood next to the corpse.

“They were invited to receive their prizes and I came back early.”

"Yeah." Jing Hongchen seemed to be asking casually, nodded and didn't continue asking.

"Do you think I'm a little heartless?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiao just lowered his head and said nothing.

"Don't worry, I won't make things difficult for you. After you, I will also allow other disciples of the Holy Spirit Church to study in Mingde Hall. But I also hope that you won't take things from Mingde Hall to other places besides the Holy Spirit Church like he did."

"Yes, Hall Master."

Lin Xiao bowed again, and only when Jing Hongchen walked into the academy gate with the corpse did he look up at Jing Hongchen's gradually disappearing back.

He didn't know what the two people said in the air, but looking at Jing Hongchen's expression, he was obviously not at peace.

He spread out his right palm, and a shadow was constantly moving left and right in the palm.

After "Assassin", "Soul Eater" and "Nightmare", let's call you "God".

Lin Xiao looked at the residual soul in his right palm and whispered in his heart.

(End of this chapter)