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

Chapter 193 Just come back
"Master, the exchange student quota from Shrek Academy has been sent."

In Mingde Hall, Lin Jiayi handed a list to Jing Hongchen. There was a hint of fatigue on his face, and even his body seemed to have become thinner.

"Okay, bring it over." Jing Hongchen took the list from Lin Jiayi and glanced at it briefly. "It seems that Shrek Academy is quite sincere. Huo Yuhao is also on the list as agreed."

After the voice fell, Lin Jiayi was slow to speak. Jing Hongchen looked up and saw that Lin Jiayi seemed to be in a trance.

"Jiayi, Jiayi!"

"Yes, Hall Master." Lin Jiayi came back to his senses.

"Are you a little too tired from being busy with the exchange students lately, or are you..." Jing Hongchen stretched out his voice, "thinking about your disciple?"

"Yes." Lin Jiayi's voice lowered. "Lin Xiao is indeed the most outstanding disciple I have ever seen, but..."

Jing Hongchen sighed softly and put down the list in his hand. "I never told you before that no matter how talented Lin Xiao is, he can never get in touch with the core of Mingde Hall."

"Master, why?"

Jing Hongchen glanced at Lin Jiayi. "Have you never doubted Lin Xiao's background? There are so many nobles in the Sun Moon Empire, how many of them are related to me?"

"You know those nobles well. Do you think Lin Xiao might be from one of those families? Or have you been avoiding this question?"

Lin Jiayi sighed lightly and did not respond, but he already had the answer in his heart.

Lin Xiao originally entered the Sun Moon Royal Soul Guidance Academy through special enrollment. At that time, Xu Jing had just taken office, and that group of students had some connection with the forces around Xu Jing.

The only non-noble people who could come into contact with Jing Hongchen were a force that even Xu Jing was unwilling to mention openly.

Jing Hongchen looked at Lin Jiayi's changing expression and stood up. "Whether you're a soul master or a soul mentor, the path of cultivation is never smooth sailing, and the force Lin Xiao is in is more prone to risks."

"Maybe he encountered a soul beast, or maybe he encountered danger while hunting soul rings, or maybe he met someone." Jing Hongchen patted Lin Jiayi's shoulder.

"In the past two years, news of the destruction of evil soul master strongholds within the Sun-Moon Empire has been heard frequently. You must have seen a lot of it."

"I just think it's such a shame for that kid to just disappear like that." Lin Jiayi shook his head. "His talent, his ideas, and his philosophy on soul guides—I can say he's better than most students I've ever met."

"Yes, and he also contributed a lot in the Soul Fighting Competition. It was he who helped Xiao, that kid, to change his mind." Jing Hongchen continued speaking following Lin Jiayi's words.

"Although I'm not on good terms with Shrek Academy, I'm indeed jealous of their students' talents. In my Sun Moon Royal Academy, there are very few students whose talents can compare to those of Shrek Academy."

"I also admire Lin Xiao quite a bit. It's a pity that when he didn't return to Mingde Hall on time, I asked the leader of the Holy Spirit Sect, but they didn't know where Lin Xiao was."

Lin Jiayi lowered his head slightly when he heard this, "Then there probably really is no news."

"Master, there isn't much time left before the date we agreed with Shrek Academy. I'll go and arrange their teachers and dormitories first." After a moment of silence, Lin Jiayi spoke again and talked about other things.

"Well, let's go."

Jing Hongchen nodded.

However, just as Lin Jiayi opened the door and was about to go out, a figure ran over quickly and almost bumped into Lin Jiayi.

"Mingde Hall stores quite a few sophisticated soul tools, so be careful." Lin Jiayi frowned slightly after recognizing the person who had arrived. "Yes, Director Lin," Ma Rulong, still panting, replied earnestly.

"What's the matter? Tell me slowly."

"Director Lin, I fished Senior Lin out of the sea while I was testing the soul guide."

Lin Jiayi paused for a moment, and before he could speak, Ma Rulong added, "That's Senior Lin Xiaolin."

"Where is he now?"

"It has been sent to the college's infirmary."

Lin Jiayi no longer cared what "fished out of the sea" meant, and without waiting for Ma Rulong to finish his words, he strode towards the infirmary.

Ma Rulong scratched his head as he watched Lin Jiayi leave, then turned to look into the room and found that Jing Hongchen's gaze was on him.

"Tell me how you pulled him out of the sea."

"Oh, okay, Hall Master." Ma Rulong nodded, stepped forward and started talking about the initial diving soul guide device test.

On the other side, after Lin Jiayi hurried to the infirmary, he saw the healing soul mentor inside slowly shaking his head and walking out of the ward.

Lin Jiayi took a step forward and asked, "How is Lin Xiao?"

The soul engineer looked up and saw Lin Jiayi, and suddenly remembered what the relationship between the person inside and the dean was, and hurriedly pressed his shoulder.

"Director Lin, don't worry. He's in good condition. I just shook my head because I've never seen such strange symptoms before."

"It seems he has entered a special meditative state. Judging from his physical condition, he hasn't eaten for a long time. However, there is a strange power in his body that supports his vitality and compensates for the damage to his body."

"And the student who brought him here said he was fished out from the bottom of the sea." The soul guide smiled and shook his head. "I've seen so many patients, but I've never seen a human being who could survive in the sea for a long time."

"If we humans could truly popularize this ability, then why would we still be researching underwater soul guides? Those sea soul beasts would have been within our hunting range long ago."

"I also checked and there were no signs of suffocation in his mouth or nose. I don't know what happened that made the student lie like that."

Lin Jiayi patiently listened to the words of the soul master in front of him, and then slowly said, "Can I go in and see him?"

"Of course you can, but it's better not to interfere too much. Otherwise, he might be affected after he comes out of that meditative state."

"Okay." Lin Jiayi nodded and pushed open the door of Lin Xiao's ward.

After not seeing each other for a year, Lin Xiao's appearance seemed not to have changed much. Lin Jiayi stood quietly beside Lin Xiao, wanting to say something but he hesitated to open his mouth.

Perhaps at the beginning he did accept Lin Xiao as his disciple because of Jing Hongchen, but after spending so much time together, he had long regarded Lin Xiao as his real disciple.

After a long silence, Lin Jiayi finally just sighed.

"It's good to be back."

(End of this chapter)