Douluo Continent: Starting with a Heavenly Fire Judgment

Chapter 222 Borrow Your Boyfriend

At the gates of Shrek City, Ji Lin watched Xu Jiujiu and Nebula Douluo Manyi depart. Xu Jiujiu had to rush back to the Star Luo Empire to report to Xu Jiawei on the details of the meeting with Shrek Academy and to make final preparations for the Sacred Mark Project. Unlike Ji Lin, who enjoyed academy life every day, Xu Jiujiu was in charge of the affairs of the Free Gate and had to promote the Sacred Mark Project. She was already extremely busy. Ji Lin was very fortunate to have such a capable fiancée like Xu Jiujiu helping him behind the scenes. Otherwise, just thinking about those tedious matters would give Ji Lin a headache. He couldn't handle these troublesome things.

Chi Yuan was going back to the Zizaimen branch in Shrek City, where she still needed to look after Ice Bear King Xiaobai. This 200,000-year-old chubby boy had been having a blast in Shrek City lately, eating almost every kind of delicious food in the city. Having lived in the far north ice plains since childhood, Ice Bear King Xiaobai had never seen human food before. Ever since he tasted the food, he had been pestering Ji Lin for pocket money, running to the food street every day to find good food, and had even become familiar with the shop owners on the food street.

Fortunately, it knew that food costs money and didn't dine and dash. It also knew that Ji Lin was rich and kept pestering him for pocket money. Helpless, Ji Lin could only ask Chi Yuan to keep a close eye on the Ice Bear King Xiao Bai. Otherwise, if some ignorant person offended it, it would be quite troublesome if a ferocious beast went berserk in Shrek City.

After seeing them off for a long time, Ji Lin and Wang Qiu'er returned to the academy. The two walked side by side along the shore of the Sea God Lake, holding hands.

In the afternoon, the sunlight slanted across the lake, making the water shimmer and sparkle like countless dazzling diamonds.

As Wang Qiu'er felt the gentle breeze blowing in her face, her turbulent emotions gradually calmed down. Ever since she learned of the existence of the Holy Mark, she had been unable to calm down. She knew that Di Tian had always been worried about the future of the soul beasts, but she had never understood this before and had always been carefree. It wasn't until she met Ji Lin, until she secretly ran away from home and came to the human world without telling the Crimson King who was protecting him, that she learned about the conflict between humans and soul beasts. She didn't know what to do.

Having seen the Holy Mark today, she is certain that its appearance is the hope for soul beasts. As long as humans no longer need to hunt soul beasts for soul rings, the conflict between soul beasts and humans will no longer be so intense.

Seeing that Wang Qiu'er seemed distracted, Ji Lin asked with concern, "Qiu'er, what's wrong?"

Wang Qiu'er shook her head and said, "Ji Lin, do you think the appearance of the Holy Mark will improve the situation of soul beasts? Will it ease the relationship between humans and soul beasts?"

Ji Lin was speechless. So Wang Qiu'er was thinking about soul beasts! He smiled and said, "The fundamental reason why humans hunt soul beasts is that they need soul rings to continue cultivating. The appearance of the Holy Mark has changed this. As long as this has changed, the number of humans hunting soul beasts will decrease significantly. After all, when humans hunt soul beasts, they may also become prey. Without the reason to hunt soul beasts, there will still be people who hunt soul beasts solely for profit. But it's just like how you soul beasts also prey on each other. It's a natural law, and soul beasts won't easily become extinct."

"The appearance of the Holy Mark has changed the basic rules of the Douluo Continent, and the fate of soul beasts and humans will also change."

Wang Qiu'er understood. Just like she would hunt soul beasts for food, humans who no longer needed to cultivate would not hunt soul beasts on a large scale. She hunted soul beasts for food, and humans would also hunt soul beasts for money, but this behavior would not lead to the extinction of soul beasts, just as the mutual predation among soul beasts would not lead to their extinction.

Shrek Academy and the Star Luo Empire simultaneously dispatched personnel to the Douling Empire and the Tianhun Empire to prepare for the establishment of the Liyue Merchant Guild. Within Shrek City, the Liyue Merchant Guild headquarters has already begun planning and construction.

Meanwhile, the major cities of the Star Luo Empire also began to take action, with each city building a branch of the Liyue Merchant Guild.

Although Xu Jiawei's order to build a grand hall in every major city within the Star Luo Empire was puzzling, it was just a matter of building houses and did not attract much attention.

During this time, Zhang Lexuan's Soul Hunting Team returned to Shrek Academy, where Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Ling Luochen, and others successfully obtained Soul Rings and broke through their cultivation levels.

Upon returning from her breakthrough to Soul Saint, Ma Xiaotao's first priority was to seek out Ji Lin to suppress her evil fire. The higher her cultivation level, the more ferocious her evil fire became. Ji Lin had already helped her suppress it once on the day she emerged from seclusion. After absorbing her seventh soul ring and becoming a Soul Saint during her soul hunt this time, the evil fire became even more difficult to control. Therefore, the first thing she did upon returning was to find Ji Lin.

In a secluded spot on Poseidon Island, Ji Lin's cabin was located. A fiery red figure rushed into the cabin and, in front of Wang Qiu'er, pulled Ji Lin out. Ma Xiaotao's face was flushed, and her eyes flashed with black light. Seeing Ma Xiaotao like this, Ji Lin knew that she had erupted with evil fire, so he did not resist.

Ma Xiaotao grabbed Ji Lin and flew away, leaving only one sentence in the air: "Wang Qiu'er, can I borrow your boyfriend for a bit?"

Although Wang Qiu'er was very unhappy, she knew what was important. Ma Xiaotao was clearly about to lose control of her anger, so Wang Qiu'er let Ma Xiaotao take Ji Lin away.

She knew that Ji Lin would be exhausted every time he helped Ma Xiaotao suppress her evil fire, and would sleep at Ma Xiaotao's place for the night before returning the next morning. So she stopped waiting and sat cross-legged on the bed to start cultivating. She was about to break through to level 50, and Ji Lin had prepared a 60,000-year-old holy mark for her, which came from the 60,000-year-old soul beast, the Golden Earth Dragon. The Golden Earth Dragon had a trace of dragon blood, which was very suitable to become Wang Qiu'er's soul ring.

This holy mark was also given to him by Xu Jiujiu. He had Xu Jiujiu send people to find suitable soul beasts to extract their genetic information and make it into a holy mark suitable for Wang Qiu'er to fuse with.

Soul beasts with dragon bloodlines are hard to find. It took a lot of effort and several teams to finally find a soul beast in the Star Dou Great Forest that was the right age and had dragon bloodlines.

Not only Wang Qiu'er, but also Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao, as well as Zhou Sichen, Lan Susu, Lan Luoluo and others who joined the Zizai Sect, Ji Lin asked Xu Jiujiu to prepare suitable holy marks for them. As disciples of the Zizai Sect, how could they not have holy marks?

Unfortunately, Ling Luochen and the others went out to hunt for spirit rings ahead of time, otherwise they could have directly fused with the Holy Mark to obtain their sixth spirit ring. Even so, they could still fuse with the Holy Mark, but they wouldn't get a spirit ring attached. However, the amplification provided by the Holy Mark and the possible Holy Mark skills they could obtain would still enhance their strength.

(End of this chapter)