The results of Shrek's outing at the auction house today were not bad: one Tyrant Tiger Soul-Refining Blade plus a full set of fixed-guidance soul tool cannon shells, as well as that Heaven and Earth Splitting Cannon. This time, Wang Yan didn't dare to put these things away himself. The Tyrant Tiger Soul-Refining Blade was paid for by Dai Yueheng, so he naturally put this rare level-eight close-combat soul tool directly into his own bag. As for the full set of level-six fixed-guidance soul tool cannon shells and the Heaven and Earth Splitting Cannon, Wang Yan gave them directly to He Caitou. When it came to soul tools, no one among the Shrek members knew more than him. It was naturally for the best that he was the one to keep them and take the fall.
He Caitou put away the twelve fixed-guidance soul tool cannon shells and the Heaven and Earth Splitting Cannon with great care. Due to his excitement, his dark face was even a little flushed. He did not notice the strange expression on Wang Yan's face when he put away the Heaven and Earth Splitting Cannon.
In He Caitou's view, even if the price of this soul tool cannon exceeded expectations, their soul tool department had ways to disassemble it for research, which would undoubtedly allow the Shrek soul tool department to advance further in the field of soul tool research.
Ling Luochen had returned to her residence at the Star Emperor Grand Hotel alone long ago. She remembered what Huo Yuhao had said to her. After some simple preparation, she came to the rooftop of the hotel, waiting for the owner of that voice to arrive.
Just as Ling Luochen was alone, leaning on the rooftop railing and gazing at the night view of Star Luo City, a subtle spatial fluctuation came from behind her. Her heart felt something. She hurriedly turned around, only to see several young men and women who had appeared behind her at some unknown time.
"You are..." Ling Luochen only felt that the person leading the group was somewhat familiar. She quickly flipped through the information about the other party in her mind, and finally fixed on the wanted notice issued by the academy not long ago.
"Huo Yuhao?"
"Senior Sister is really smart, but no one will like a girl who is too smart," Huo Yuhao clapped his hands. Although his words were frivolous, his eyes were clear, seemingly unaffected by the cold and beautiful face of the woman before him.
"I didn't expect it to be you. Aren't you afraid that I'll call Dean Yan and the others to capture you on the spot?" Ling Luochen looked coldly at the youth before her, even taking up a combat stance.
"No, you won't," Huo Yuhao held up a finger and wagged it at her. "Let's not even talk about whether they have the ability to capture me. Even you yourself are probably a little disappointed with Shrek today, right?"
"What do you mean?" Ling Luochen's beautiful eyes narrowed. "What are you trying to say? To sow discord?"
"Looks like another idiot brainwashed by Shrek's glory," Xie Huanyue sneered at Ling Luochen's attitude. Ever since he had been placed on Shrek Academy's wanted list, he had instantly lost all good feelings for this sanctimonious number one academy on the continent.
"Sowing discord? Senior Sister, you think too highly of yourself, don't you?" Cui Yejie also let out a chuckle. "What can you do alone? Worthy of Yuhao trying to rope you in at all costs? Just with your trash ice element control that isn't even Ultimate Ice?"
"You..." Ling Luochen was instantly enraged. She immediately prepared her fifth soul skill.
"Alright, no need to provoke her," Huo Yuhao smiled and turned his head to look at Ling Luochen. "Senior Sister, I came to find you to discuss a business deal."
"As you thought, that Ice Jade Scorpion left arm bone is indeed in my hands. But I can tell you that it is impossible for you to absorb it."
"What do you mean? What are you trying to express?" Ling Luochen's pretty brow furrowed, not understanding Huo Yuhao's meaning.
Huo Yuhao didn't plan to hide it from her either and introduced the pride of the Ice Jade Scorpion clan to her.
"If you want to instantly lose a left arm, I won't stop you. Go ahead and absorb it. After you're done, I'll take it back," Huo Yuhao casually took out the box containing the Ice Jade Scorpion left arm bone from his storage soul tool and threw it directly at Ling Luochen.
Ling Luochen did not dare to rashly catch the thing Huo Yuhao had thrown over but instead dodged to the side.
The box fell to the ground and instantly shattered, revealing the Ice Jade Scorpion left arm bone inside.
Ling Luochen's beautiful eyes shook. Wasn't this the Ice Jade Scorpion left arm bone she had been longing for? Huo Yuhao had actually thrown it over so casually!
Ling Luochen hurriedly bent down to pick up the soul bone. The thick energy fluctuation on the soul bone directly proved everything; it could not be faked.
"Come, Senior Sister, I'll give you a chance. Absorb it in front of me. I swear to your respected Sea God that I will absolutely not go back on my word during your absorption process," Huo Yuhao showed a strange smile, encouraging her, not forgetting to make an oath to the Buddha.
Seeing the other party so fearless, Ling Luochen's mentality was suddenly a little chaotic. She realized that what the other party said was very likely true. The gods controlled the continent. A mortal who recklessly cursed a god would be punished by the god. Even if the God Realm was swept away by the spacetime turbulence, this law still existed.
This point could be known by referencing the time in the Dragon King Legend period when the Underworld King Harosa had insulted Tang Wulin's parents and had suffered a backlash.
So even if Huo Yuhao had planned the policy of pulling down the God-King Tang San with his own team, he had also deliberately instructed them not to casually curse the so-called gods. This was the reason.
Ling Luochen held this long-dreamed-of soul bone in her hand. For a time, she was inevitably a little confused. If she really rashly absorbed this soul bone, it was really possible to have an arm crippled on the spot.
In that case, the latter half of her life would be ruined. Having lost an arm, her strength would surely plummet. Whether she could smoothly graduate from the inner court in the future was another matter.
"State your conditions. Since I cannot absorb this soul bone, I don't know what else there is to talk about between us," Ling Luochen forcibly suppressed the desire for this soul bone in her heart and let out a long breath.
"What if I said I can help you evolve your martial soul into Ultimate Ice?"
A single, understated sentence from Huo Yuhao instantly broke down all of Ling Luochen's psychological defenses. What the two words "Ultimate" represented to her, she herself would never not know.
"What... did... you... say?" Ling Luochen pounced at Huo Yuhao like a madwoman, grabbed her by the collar, and stared at him with her beautiful, bloodshot eyes, saying one word at a time.
"You don't believe me?" Huo Yuhao was not angry at being grabbed by her. He turned his head to look at his companions. "Partners, open your martial souls!"
The next moment, accompanied by Xie Huanyue and the others all completing their martial soul possession, Ling Luochen's entire person was stunned.
What's with that huge Blazing Flame Dragon? And that bird, why does it look a bit like the legendary Jade-Green Devil Bird? There's still an eight-story Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda in this world? What the hell is that snow-white monkey? Wait, is that mountain-sized nine-tailed fox real?
Ling Luochen's entire person was numb. These rare martial souls that should have only existed in the ancient era, how did they pop up one after another? Are these people all his partners? Did he help them all evolve?
Huo Yuhao was not anxious at all, because these scenes would surely be discovered by the experts stationed at the Star Emperor Grand Hotel. So he had long since used his simulation soul skill to disguise the rooftop. Even if a Titled Douluo flew past here, it would be absolutely impossible to see anything.
"You... you..." Ling Luochen sat down on the ground without any image, her face full of shock. She somewhat couldn't believe that all of this was real.
"Now do you believe me? The martial souls of my companions were all evolved with my help. If they continue to grow at this rate, in less than twenty years, the lowest of them will become a Limit Douluo who is invincible on the continent!" Huo Yuhao extended his hand to her, his relaxed and carefree smile the same as before.
"Can you really help me?" Ling Luochen only felt that a great heavenly opportunity was placed before her. If she could not satisfy the other party, she would very likely miss this one and only opportunity in her life.
"That's natural," Huo Yuhao grinned, revealing his white teeth.
"What do you want me to help you do? If you also make me sign an indenture that binds my future like the Star Luo imperial family, then I will absolutely not agree..." Speaking to the end, Ling Luochen herself didn't even know that her own voice was already like that of a mosquito or fly.
A monstrous wave had already been stirred up in her heart. If she really evolved into an Ultimate Ice element user with Huo Yuhao's help, even if she were to fight Dai Yueheng fair and square with her current level of cultivation, she would have a two hundred percent certainty of instantly killing him.
This was the terror of an ultimate attribute!
"Very simple. After you return to the academy, I will notify you to help save a person," Huo Yuhao maintained his posture of extending his hand to her. "Also, I hope that after you graduate from the Shrek inner court in the future, you will let go of your attachment to Shrek and leave in a timely manner."
"Just that?" Ling Luochen looked at him with some disbelief. It seemed this condition was not difficult to achieve. It was just, who did he want her to save? That evil soul master who was captured by the master of the Sea God Pavilion?
"My word is out, I will never go back on it," Huo Yuaho's other finger pointed at the giant nine-tailed fox behind Cui Yejie. "Do you see that thing? It's called a soul spirit. I believe that in the near future, you will hear this term on the continent."
"Alright," Ling Luochen was not a coy person either. She took his hand and stood up again. "I promise you."
"It's just, how will you improve the quality of my martial soul?"
"A mountain person has their own clever plan," Huo Yuhao gave her a "be calm" gesture. At the same time, he had his partners retract their martial souls and soul spirits.
Immediately after, Huo Yuhao immediately shielded his spiritual sea and, with some caution, took out the Ice Jade Scorpion with a cultivation of over fifty thousand years from the depths of the Kamui space.
For no other reason than that if the Ice Empress saw this, she would surely scold him until he was covered in dog's blood. But for the sake of his future grand plan, he could only apologize to the Ice Empress first.
This is...
Ling Luochen stared intently at the beautiful scorpion that Huo Yuhao had grabbed from who knows where. She could clearly feel the coldness coming from its body that was enough to suppress her own.
"An Ice Jade Scorpion?" At this time, if Ling Luochen still couldn't completely react, then she would really be an idiot. There would be no need for cooperation.
"I will have it become your soul spirit. In the future, it will add at least four soul rings for you. You are now already at the Soul King level. Until you achieve Titled Douluo, you probably won't have to worry about your soul rings anymore."
You can even play like this? Ling Luochen only felt that her usually clear train of thought was a little insufficient. The soul spirit that Huo Yuhao spoke of was clearly a product that overturned the current cognition of the soul master world!
Xie Huanyue looked with hot eyes at the Ling Luochen who was about to obtain a soul spirit. Among them, besides Cui Yejie, the others still hadn't been able to have a real soul spirit yet!
This Ice Jade Scorpion that Huo Yuhao had brought out had long since been trained countless times by him with Monarchy and his spiritual pressure. At this time, it was honestly prostrating on the ground, awaiting Huo Yuhao's disposal.
"The soul beast origin of this Ice Jade Scorpion should be able to help you raise your martial soul to Ultimate Ice. And it will most likely also produce another soul bone for you, but that will depend on your luck," Huo Yuhao patted the back of this Ice Jade Scorpion and said with a smile.
Ling Luochen let out a long, turbid breath. Her beautiful eyes slowly closed and then fiercely opened. "Aren't you afraid I'll go back on my word?"
Huo Yuhao only shrugged at this. "Even if you want to go back on your word in the future, I won't give you this opportunity, because I will have many more good things in the future to attract you."
What Huo Yuhao didn't say was that while forming the soul spirit contract for Ling Luochen, he would also plant a spiritual imprint on her. Even if Ling Luochen really turned traitor on the spot, he could also instantly kill her from a thousand li away.
"Alright, let's do it!" For the first time, a strange light appeared in Ling Luochen's eyes as she looked at Huo Yuhao. She fiercely puffed out her proud assets and made the most important choice of her life: All in!
Really has the goods! The corner of Huo Yuhao's mouth twitched as he thought to himself.
...
The next day, when the members of Shrek set off for Star Luo Plaza to compete, just as they reached the stairs, the people from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy also happened to come out of their rooms. The two teams happened to go downstairs together.
The one leading the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy was another old man. He smiled and nodded at Wang Yan, and Wang Yan also returned the courtesy. But between the students of the two sides, it was not so harmonious.
Cao Jinxuan saw Xiao Hongchen at a glance. A victor's smile appeared on his face as he said with a grin, "Yo yo yo, isn't this the Sun Moon genius who almost became a twin martial soul? It's only been one night, how did you get so lame?"