Douluo: The Peerless Sun and Moon Mechanical God

Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, Grade 5, Class 1.

The warm afternoon sun shone through the window, gently illuminating the girl's delicate face. Meng Hongchen rested her chin on her hands, her long, snow-white hair styled into youthful pigtails, eagerly awaiting the school bell to ring.

Today is Friday. She and Lin Qing made a promise that night to have dinner together at Mingdu Food Street after school to discuss the details of manufacturing the Level 6 Soul Guidance Armor.

In Miss Meng's strategic plan, traveling alone with a man and a woman is no different from a date for couples, and she has taken a crucial first step.

Seeing his younger sister's budding romantic feelings, Xiao Hongchen sighed helplessly, rubbing his forehead. His little cotton-padded jacket was already tattered and leaking, and she even went so far as to feed her brother the poison of the ice toad!

However, Xiao Hongchen has no time to restrain Meng Hongchen now. He is focused on preparing for the selection competition and welcoming the Qingxiao Peak Battle. His life motto has quietly changed from "Xiao Hongchen is invincible among his peers" to "The outcome is still uncertain, and we are all dark horses!"

After a week of study, Lin Qing and Ye Guyi gradually got used to the classroom rhythm of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and smoothly integrated into it.

Miss Angel was particularly diligent and hardworking, shuttling between the teaching building, the library, and the simulated training ground every day, cramming for knowledge every moment, showing a determination to catch up with Lin Qing.

"Attend class."

Class teacher Zhou Qin entered the classroom as the bell rang, glanced at the thirty-two students, and nodded almost imperceptibly.

Very good. The fifth grade is at a critical stage of preparing for the Mingde Hall exam. Apart from a very few students who are still unresponsive, most students are studying diligently on their own.

"This afternoon is for live-fire training. Everyone, line up."

Zhou Qin called for everyone to get up and set off.

Whether you are a Soul Master or a Soul Instructor, the first priority of cultivation is always practical combat. Practical combat is divided into many types, such as sparring between classmates and bloody battles where it is a matter of life and death.

In recent years, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy has become increasingly aware that its students lack combat experience and often suffer heavy losses in life-or-death battles. Jing Hongchen has begun to pay attention to this aspect of daily training and has invested heavily in building a beast fighting area.

Soul beasts and soul masters are naturally at odds, and they will never show mercy to humans, making them suitable as opponents in life-or-death battles.

Jing Hongchen is not the only clever one in Douluo Continent; countless others have designs on soul beasts, yet very few soul master academies in the four great empires have established beast-fighting zones.

Because each soul beast has different habits, skilled craftsmen need to build various environments for the beasts in a limited area. They must ensure the stable survival of the soul beasts without diminishing their innate wildness. In addition, there is the daily food supply, which is destined to be an astronomical expense of gold soul coins.

The Soul Master Academies willing to build the Beast Fighting Zone are all top-tier institutions of the Empire, and those that raise ten-thousand-year-old Soul Beasts are even rarer. Only the four Imperial Academies and Shrek Academy, which has the right to collect taxes independently, have confirmed that they have the financial and material resources to do so.

The Sun and Moon Royal Colosseum is located at the westernmost corner of the academy. The black buildings are tall and solemn, and the metal fences have been specially treated with stone.

The jagged, protruding tips resemble spears and halberds, and the overall appearance is that of an ancient and weathered arena, commemorating the life-and-death battles fought one-on-one between human warriors and spirit beasts in the past.

Zhou Qin took out a lottery tube, and the students randomly drew lots to determine their order of appearance.

After the draw, Lin Qing looked down at the number 32 wooden stick in his hand and realized that he was the last to go. He fell into deep thought.

Is this reasonable? Such bad luck.

Please, auspicious beast, bring us good fortune!

The fifth-grade students took their seats in the Beast Fighting Area spectator stands. Lin Qing was firmly occupied on either side by Ye Guyi and Meng Hongchen. The two super beautiful girls were stunningly beautiful, and their fragrant scent slightly dispelled the sadness and self-doubt in his heart.

The student who drew number one was an old acquaintance, Lan Xiu, whose worldview had been shattered in a battle against someone of a higher level.

Four figures hovered at the four corners of the arena, with the instructors in the fighting area ready to rescue their students at any moment. Once everything was ready, the alloy gates rose with a roar.

"hiss--"

With a sharp hiss, a giant snake over ten meters long burst out of the tunnel. It had pale red wings on its back, a bright red crest on its head, a thick, long body covered with scales, and a beautiful fan-shaped tail.

Phoenix-tailed Crested Serpent, with three thousand years of cultivation!

Its combat power is average, it has no powerful talent soul skills, but its flight speed is extremely fast, and few soul beasts of the same level can catch up with the Phoenix-tailed Crested Serpent.

The fifth-grade students were used to training in the Beast Fighting Zone. Lan Xiu calmed his mind, and nine clusters of silver light shot into the sky, blooming with a cold light on the sky.

"Nine Luminaries is different now..."

The students in the audience noticed something unusual. The Nine Luminaries used to be only the size of a fist, but now it was a whole size larger. The soul guide patterns engraved on the outer shell of the sphere were intricate and exquisite, with silver lines intertwined and the hollow structure interlocking.

At this moment, the aura emanating from Jiuyao was exceptionally powerful, as if it had been sublimated by high-level energy, almost to the point of being reborn!

The Phoenix-tailed Crested Serpent's wings suddenly flapped, its pale red wings drawing two dazzling arcs. Its more than ten-meter-long, winding body soared into the air at an astonishing speed, transforming into a streak of crimson lightning, and opened its massive mouth to bite down on Lan Xiu.

Facing a speed-type soul beast skilled in assassination, Lan Xiu remained calm and composed. He established a connection between his mental power and his soul tool, and three spheres precisely intercepted the Phoenix-tailed Crested Serpent's path, releasing rings of silver light.

The serpent's head slammed into the Nine Luminaries defense line with all its might. The silver halo suddenly expanded outward the moment it made contact with the Phoenix-tailed Crested Serpent. The Phoenix-tailed Crested Serpent felt as if its head had hit a high wall that was both indestructible and extremely elastic.

An immense repulsive force surged forth, traveling along the muscles and bones, causing the entire body to tremble and go numb. The already small brain of the Phoenix-tailed Crested Snake shook violently within its skull, and the world spun around it.

Lan Xiu smiled crookedly, his gaze falling on Lin Qing, who stood in the stands with his arms crossed, and he gave her a thumbs-up from afar.

A million Gold Soul Coins—worth it!

Boss Lin is extremely kind-hearted. He not only helped him refine the rare metals of the Nine Luminaries, but also added a brand-new soul guidance array. After leaving Lin Qing's room, the Nine Luminaries underwent a transformation, adding an extra ability to the basic reflective ray.

Resisting the halo.

The crested snake was caught off guard and suffered a great loss. The dizziness from the concussion made it unable to concentrate, and its flight posture became erratic.

Lan Xiu naturally wouldn't give the soul beast a chance to recover. The nine silver stars moved swiftly, forming an impenetrable encirclement that trapped the Phoenix-tailed Crested Serpent in the center.

Nine Luminaries unleashed a barrage of reflective rays, the continuous beams containing a nauseating elasticity. The Phoenix-tailed Crested Serpent was pushed about, then attempted a desperate counterattack, opening its blood-red maw to bite a silver ball.

Before the fangs could even touch the sphere, Nine Luminaries unleashed its resistance aura, pushing away the stubborn Phoenix Tail Crested Serpent once again.

One push, two pushes, an endless loop.

The three-thousand-year-old soul beast was reduced to a ball kicked around by the Nine Luminaries, its fan-shaped snake tail scales shattered, and the fleshy crown on its head torn open.

"Boom—"

After a loud crash, the Phoenix-tailed Crested Serpent slammed onto the ground of the fighting arena. The metal ground cracked open with a net-like pattern, and the serpent's body lay limp and boneless. Its head tilted to one side, and its cold, vertical pupils turned into spinning mosquito coil eyes.

"The victor is Lanxiu."

The referee loudly announced the outcome of the battle.

"I, Lan Xiu, am already among the top five of my generation!" Lan Xiu laughed loudly, looking up at the sky.

The left hand deflects rays, the right hand resists halos.

Which control-type soul master is more disgusting than me!

Exchanging a million gold soul coins for a set of level four soul tools seems like a huge loss at first glance, but in fact, it's quite the opposite!

That's not wages, it's clearly a friend-making fee!

The premium raised Lin Qing's psychological threshold. As a result, even if a Sun Moon Academy student were to offer to upgrade their Soul Guidance Device in the future, Lin Qing would subconsciously compare the vast gap between new and old customers!

After the waves subsided, Lin Qing realized that Lan Xiu was the most generous customer, and his favorability towards him skyrocketed!

This is the social skill that Lan Xiu's father taught him from a young age!

Class 1 of Grade 5 is too insignificant. Lan Xiu's goal has already been set on the remaining two Soul Master Competitions, and even the grand journey after graduating from Mingde Hall.

A mere million gold soul coins is but a drop in the ocean, utterly insignificant compared to the precious friendship of ultimate gold!

In the following time, the fifth-grade students took turns to perform according to the order drawn by lot: Ye Guyi vs. the 6,000-year-old Swift, Meng Hongchen vs. the 8,000-year-old Plate-Armored Rhinoceros, and Xiao Hongchen vs. the 10,000-year-old Mighty Gorilla...

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy employs a full range of practical training strategies. Based on the students' cultivation level and Soul Master rank, it selects Soul Beasts with similar combat power to create pressure on the students and achieve its training objectives.

"Please welcome student number thirty-two to the stage."

The combat training lasted from afternoon until dusk. Lin Qing was reading "Don't Lose Because You Can't Express Yourself" out of boredom. Finally, the referee called for him to speak. He lightly bumped fists with the two women beside him and flew off onto the battlefield.

The setting sun cast long shadows on the tall figure, and the young man stood quietly between heaven and earth, exuding a cool and resilient spirit that seemed to have been transformed from a ten-thousand-year-old bamboo.

Meanwhile, in the clouds above, three figures looked down at the ground. Lin Jiayi was half a step behind his two companions. The dignified Dean of the First Soul Master Academy on the continent, a peak level eight Soul Master in his prime, had been reduced to a smiling servant.

There was nothing Director Lin could do; he had run into a powerful figure.

Kong Deming, the pillar of the empire, and Jing Hongchen, the master of Mingde Hall!

"Master Kong, you've come to watch the battle?" Jing Hongchen bowed and scraped, his left ear throbbing slightly.

Kong Deming, with his hands behind his back, said, "I heard that today is the fifth grade's practical training, so I came to come and see."

Having lived for 150 years, I have seen countless strange and wonderful things, but the ultimate martial spirit is truly unprecedented. Not to mention me, even the oldest generation of soul masters on the Douluo Continent have only heard of the ultimate martial spirit but never seen one.

Xiao Jing, I'd like to see the full power of the Ultimate Gold in battle, to broaden my horizons and also to study how to train him in the future.

Are there any suitable ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts for the Soul Battle Zone?

"this……"

Jing Hongchen pondered quickly and said, "Yes, I captured that soul beast alive in the Demon Forest half a year ago. Considering its bloodline is extremely rare, I intend to spare its life."

But that beast was inherently ferocious and bloodthirsty, relentlessly charging at the fence and indiscriminately attacking all the spirit beasts. Only injections of sedatives could calm it down. The personnel in charge of the beast fighting area were overwhelmed and repeatedly submitted joint reports, hoping I would approve its execution.

"Send it up here. I'll watch from here. Ultimate Gold is safe and sound," Kong Deming said calmly.

"Yes, Master Kong."

Jing Hongchen gave Lin Jiayi a look. Rank matters, and Director Lin reluctantly carried out the hall master's orders. When he reappeared, he gestured to the two big shots that everything was settled.

The alloy gates of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy's Beast Fighting Zone rose for the thirty-second time.

From the depths of the dark passage came a chilling rustling sound, like the sharp, piercing sound of a sharp spear tip scraping against the ground.

"唳——"

A ferocious shriek suddenly exploded, and high-frequency sound waves spread in all directions. The students in the stands covered their ears and squeezed out painful expressions on their faces. Xiao Hongchen frowned tightly. The newcomer was extraordinary, far surpassing the ten-thousand-year-old mighty gorilla!

Suddenly, eight scarlet lights shone from the depths of the darkness, like eight burning, bloodthirsty beast eyes, fixed on the figure at the other end of the arena.

A giant net burst forth, then swelled in the wind, spreading in the blink of an eye into a dark purple curtain that blotted out the sky, hanging above the arena, its silk threads reflecting a dark purple luster.

"rustle……"

The faint sound spread, and everyone who heard it felt their heart race. Their biological instincts warned them to leave immediately and run as far away as possible.

A purplish-black spider of exaggerated size emerged upside down, its millstone-like body exceeding five meters in diameter, its entire body covered by a thick purplish-black carapace.

Eight spear-like long legs stretched out, like a demon with four pairs of demonic wings. Drops of deep purple liquid condensed at the tips, dripping down as the spider slowly moved, splashing onto the alloy floor with a hissing sound, corroding a shocking trail along its path.

The spider's exposed abdomen is truly horrifying, with stark white patterns contrasting sharply with its dark carapace, forming a lifelike woman's face with a sinister and cruel smile playing on its white lips.

"The Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Human-Faced Demon Spider..."

A fifth-grade student shrank back and cried out the name of the soul beast in terror.

"No, this is definitely not a human-faced demon spider." Ye Guyi shook his head in denial. "The human-faced demon spider can only spray webs a limited number of times, it's impossible for it to be as extravagant as this spider, using webs to walk at high altitudes."

"Gu Yi is right."

Meng Hongchen clenched her fists and continued, "Grandpa mentioned this spider to me in private. It is a hybrid demon king born from the combination of the human-faced demon spider and the death demon spider. It possesses the combat abilities of both types of demon spiders, but its appearance is more like that of the human-faced demon spider. Its name is the Death Demon Spider."

In theory, the Annihilation Spider is a fusion of the two great spider emperors, the Death Spider and the Soul-Eating Spider, but it is also a top-tier venomous soul beast. Its Annihilation Poison is a mixture of the neurotoxin of the Human-Faced Spider and the deadly venom of the Death Spider that kills on sight.

The Extinction Spider had a cultivation level of approximately 12,000 years. My grandfather originally intended to kill this spider to make my fifth soul ring.

However, the venom of the Extinction Spider is extremely potent, and he was worried that the Extinction Spider Soul Ring would trigger a backlash of cold poison. I also preferred to absorb the Zhu Qing Ice Toad, which is the same as my Martial Soul, as my first ten-thousand-year Soul Ring in my Soul Master career.

Who would have thought that the academy would release the Demon Spider to fight Lin Qing...