Douluo Jueshi: Who let him join Shrek!

Chapter 820 Mingjiang doesn't exist, right?

When Jiang Ming arrived at the Shrek Grand Hotel, Jing Hongchen was not in the hotel. Instead, she was strolling around Shrek City that morning with two attendants. Or rather, it would be more accurate to say she was being monitored. These two attendants were actually Xu Tianran watching over Jing Hongchen.

If those two followers hadn't gone to report to Xu Tianran through the Sun Moon Empire's intelligence channels at Shrek Academy last night, they probably would have caught up with the conversation between Jiang Ming and Jing Hongchen.

"Master of the Red Dust Hall, out shopping?"

Jiang Ming greeted Jing Hongchen very warmly, without even glancing at the two wary attendants beside Jing Hongchen.

When Jing Hongchen saw Jiang Ming approaching, her expression was somewhat complicated.

When he returned to the hotel last night, he happened to run into two of his men who had just come back after reporting him.

Even though he knew that these two guys were placed by Xu Tianran to monitor him, it was still very frustrating for the dignified Mingde Hall Master, a top-level ninth-rank Soul Master, to be questioned by two eighth-rank Soul Masters about what he had been doing!

If it weren't for the fact that these two were placed by Xu Tianran, and his grandchildren were still in Mingdu, he would have killed them on the spot if they dared to question him like that!

But now... sigh.
He didn't sleep a wink all night, constantly thinking about what he had discussed with Jiang Ming.

Anyone with eyes to see can tell that something is wrong with the current state of the Sun Moon Empire.

If, before the tournament, the Sun and Moon Empire had a greater than 50% chance of launching a major war to unify the continent, then...

Now, the possibility of the Sun Moon Empire launching a war to unify the continent has been reduced to ten percent, or even lower!

Because he had been hit hard by Jiang Ming several times, and had been betrayed by Ming Jiang. Well, you can't really call it betrayal, since Ming Jiang was an undercover agent.

After experiencing all these things, Xu Tianran's paranoia grew stronger.

They doubted him, even Kong Deming, and even more so, they doubted the Empress's oranges!
Moreover, several times the nation's top forces were gathered to besiege Jiang Ming, but Jiang Ming escaped each time. He even obtained many level-nine fixed-position soul-guided cannon shells. Jiang Ming is now the strongest person on the continent.
From his perspective, this was almost a complete defeat.

why?
Even if the Sun Moon Empire forcibly launches a war, Jiang Ming can easily take a bunch of fixed-position soul-guided shells and blow the entire Ming capital into the sky!
The scariest thing is that no one can stop it!
The nation's leaders are becoming increasingly paranoid, the enemies are growing stronger, and the remnants of the Holy Spirit Cult within the country have not yet been eradicated. All of these factors are detrimental to the Sun Moon Empire.

He knew that Xu Tianran had not given up the idea of ​​waging war. He even understood that Xu Tianran wanted to unify the continent and change Douluo Continent to Sun and Moon Continent, but...
But he truly saw no hope!
"Master of the Red Dust Hall, we agreed to take you to visit our Shrek Academy today. Let's go."

Jiang Ming didn't waste any time and went straight to the point, leading Jing Hongchen and the other two towards Shrek Academy.

Shrek City is quite a distance from Shrek Academy. After leaving Shrek City, you can see an area outside Shrek City undergoing extensive construction.

That was Beast King Gong Changlong leading the academy's Soul Masters in building a new, large-scale Beast Fighting Zone.

Soul Masters are incredibly capable when it comes to infrastructure, especially those with Earth attributes; one of them can do the work of dozens!
Jing Hongchen saw it when she came to the construction site, but she was on a mission and didn't pay much attention to it.

But now he was invited by Jiang Ming, or rather, forced to stay, so he naturally asked about these unfamiliar phenomena whenever possible.

"What are you doing over there?"

Jing Hongchen looked toward the area where construction was in full swing.

Jiang Ming followed Jing Hongchen's gaze and saw the place where Beast King Gong Changlong had told him about the decision to build an independent beast fighting area. He replied, "That's the beast fighting area that our academy is building. It's for raising some thousand-year-old and ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts. The academy's existing beast fighting area can't accommodate them all, so we need to expand it."

As he spoke, Jiang Ming said meaningfully, "After all, our academy is developing quite fast now. The area for the Beast Fighting Zone, the Outer Academy, the Martial Soul Department, the Soul Guidance Department, and so on is not enough. We always need to expand."

He made no attempt to hide these details.

Jing Hongchen narrowed his eyes slightly, and the expressions of the two attendants beside him also changed subtly.

Clearly, they took Jiang Ming's words to heart.

Shrek Academy is developing rapidly, expanding as a whole and increasing its strength. This is definitely not a good thing for the Sun Moon Empire!
But this is indeed a rather important piece of information.

Moreover, they gained a deeper understanding of Shrek Academy's strength.

Raising thousand-year-old soul beasts is one thing, since their strength can be easily suppressed by powerful individuals.

However, ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts have gradually approached the level of human intelligence, and their combat power has made a qualitative leap!
With their combined cultivation levels, they couldn't even defeat some powerful ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts!

Besides the newly built Beast Fighting Zone, there was another building between Shrek City and Shrek Academy that caught the attention of Jing Hongchen and the others.

Hell Week Training Camp!

This thing was already created more than ten years ago, when Jiang Ming first got involved in the development of the Martial Soul system.

As time went by and the economy developed, the academy put a lot of effort into this training camp.

After all, the requirement for entering this Hell Week training camp is to be a core disciple among the new students of the outer academy! These are all good prospects who can enter the inner academy, so they naturally need to be well-trained in the early stages.

However, this place has existed for more than ten years. With the spies that the Sun Moon Empire had previously infiltrated in Shrek City and Shrek Academy, they had already figured this place out thoroughly, and it was an open secret.

Moreover, even knowing the contents of Hell Week training camp wouldn't help. It's a tempering of true geniuses, based on the abilities of a Soul Master and guided by the abilities of a Soul Instructor. If the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy dared to blindly copy it, then the freshmen admitted to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy would be in dire straits.

In fact, when this model reached Jing Hongchen's ears, he did come up with a similar plan, but he also made major changes to it!

After all, Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and Shrek Academy have different strengths; their focus is on Soul Masters.

And believe it or not, with the introduction of this model, several batches of even more outstanding talents have emerged from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and entered the Mingde Hall! Moreover, the first batch of geniuses who experienced this model have gradually begun to assume important positions in the Mingde Hall.

Shrek City and Shrek Academy are not far apart. Even if the group walked at a normal pace, they had already arrived at the entrance of Shrek Academy.

Jiang Ming led Jing Hongchen and the other two directly inside. Shrek Academy did not have any gatekeepers or security guards. After all, there were more than twenty Title Douluo in Shrek Academy. Who would dare to mess with them?

After entering Shrek Academy and walking along a wide road, you will arrive at Shrek Square.

Jiang Ming and his friends were quite lucky; there were classes being held in the square.

"That's... a flying soul tool?"

Jing Hongchen immediately noticed the various flying swords displayed in front of the students! As the head of Mingde Hall, he had specifically studied these flying sword-shaped, knife-shaped soul tools, and various other flying soul tools after Shrek Academy developed them.

But he didn't think this thing had any future.

It's very simple. The flying soul tool that a person can stand on is a level more difficult to control than the ordinary soul tool that is worn on the back!
Flying soul tools are already difficult to learn, and making them even more difficult makes them even harder!
Of course, Jing Hongchen also noticed that the materials used in these flying soul tools were relatively hard. Because of the hard material and the fact that they were shaped like weapons, these things could also be used as combat soul tools.

If you have the energy, wouldn't it be better to do them separately?
Jing Hongchen simply couldn't understand why Shrek Academy's Soul Guidance Department would develop such a thing.

Soon, as Jiang Ming and his group headed in that direction, the class had already begun.

The students in the first row carefully stepped onto the flying sword soul guides after releasing their martial spirits.

Immediately afterwards, the row of students slowly took to the air, supported by the flying soul tool.

When Jing Hongchen saw the spirit rings shimmering on these students, his eyes widened in surprise.

"Third Ring?! Your Shrek students start learning flight soul tools at the third Ring?!"

You should know that a flying soul tool is at least a level four soul tool! It would be one thing if an individual genius used a level four soul tool in the third ring.

But judging from this, the whole class is doing it!

Seeing Jing Hongchen's surprised expression, Jiang Ming blinked and laughed, "Yeah, you can learn to use flying soul tools at the third ring level. What's so special about that? Since the invention of the milk bottle sealing technology, it's become common for soul masters to use soul tools beyond their level, hasn't it?"

Baby bottle encapsulation technology!
When Jing Hongchen heard about this technology from Jiang Ming, the corners of her wrinkled eyes twitched violently.

Xuan Ziwen!
This baby bottle packaging technology was developed by Xuan Ziwen at Mingde Hall! Now Xuan Ziwen has left Mingde Hall, come to Shrek City, and joined the Tang Sect, and this baby bottle packaging technology...
Sigh, he should have realized this when he saw Xuan Ziwen appear here.

"Your academy's soul tools have developed quite well!"

When Jing Hongchen said this, there was a hint of gritted teeth in his voice.

He thought that any student in any class at Shrek Academy could use a soul tool beyond their level, but it turned out it was because of the sealed milk bottle!

With the sealed baby bottle, as long as there is still soul power in the bottle, there is no need for the soul master to continuously send soul power into the soul tool, so there is naturally no problem using the soul tool beyond one's level.

Given the original capabilities of Shrek Academy's Soul Guidance Department, even with rapid development, it would have been impossible for them to have researched and developed the technology to encapsulate baby bottles so quickly!

Even a genius like Xuan Ziwen only managed to get this thing working thanks to Mingdetang's advanced technology and vast resources.

But now, Shrek Academy and Tang Sect have gotten the better deal!

Hey!
He increasingly felt that his decision to engage in exchanges and cooperation with Shrek Academy was an incredibly foolish one!

Without that collaboration, the Shrek Academy students would never have entered Mingde Hall and would never have been able to contact Xuan Ziwen!

Jing Hongchen felt utterly foolish!
Hearing Jing Hongchen's gritted teeth, Jiang Ming blinked, smiled, and said, "Yeah, I also think it's developing quite well."

Afterwards, Jiang Ming did not stay there, but led Jing Hongchen and the other two towards the Soul Guidance Department.

He had already told Qian Duoduo, the vice dean of the Soul Guidance Department, when he was at the Sea God Pavilion that he should appropriately and unintentionally 'reveal' some things.

Core secrets are naturally impossible to expose, but exposing something that looks scary but has no practical effect can put more pressure on Jing Hongchen's side!

Just like the baby bottle packaging technology we just discussed, you know I have it, but you can't do anything about it, you can only watch.

Upon arriving at the Soul Guidance Experiment Building, Qian Duoduo was already waiting at the entrance with a group of senior Soul Guidance Masters.

At a glance, Qian Duoduo, Fan Yu, and several level-eight soul masters from the Soul Guidance Department all had hearty smiles on their faces.

Looking at this scene, Jing Hongchen had a vague feeling that something was wrong.

Sure enough, the next second, Qian Duoduo warmly welcomed him into the Soul Guidance Experiment Building.

Before they could exchange many pleasantries, they began discussing key areas of knowledge related to level-nine soul tools.

Even if Qian Duoduo becomes a level nine Soul Master, he is still no match for Jing Hongchen, the top Soul Master of the Sun Moon Empire.

Now that Jing Hongchen has arrived, he naturally has to take advantage of her.

Of course, it's a bit difficult to get this kind of benefit out of you. Jing Hongchen doesn't respond directly, and even if he does, it doesn't mean he's right.

Therefore, we need to resort to some methods.
At noon, Qian Duoduo led all the level eight and level nine soul masters of the Soul Guidance Department to pour wine for Jing Hongchen one by one!

Logically speaking, Jing Hongchen, a Title Douluo, shouldn't be able to get drunk, but Qian Duoduo and the others went all out, bringing Xuan Lao's finest wine!

After a few rounds of drinks, one by one, the level eight Soul Masters gathered around Jing Hongchen, talking about the difficulties they encountered in breaking through to level nine.

Even though the Soul Guidance Department now has three level-nine Soul Guidance Masters—Jiang Ming, Qian Duoduo, and Fan Yu—Jing Hongchen is clearly more professional in providing guidance.

Despite appearing to be drunk, Jing Hongchen answered all the questions posed by the numerous Soul Masters with remarkable fluency and eloquence.

The two attendants initially tried to stop them, but Qian Duoduo knocked them out with just one look.

As for resistance, haha, this group of Soul Masters are all at a level no weaker than them. If they make a move, the two of them will definitely be finished!

In the end, the two attendants were drunk and passed out, and Jing Hongchen, after answering many questions, also collapsed onto the table with a flushed face.

Jiang Ming leaned over for a look, but Jing Hongchen grabbed his hand.

Jing Hongchen's face was flushed, her eyes almost slits as she looked at Jiang Ming and murmured, "Mingjiang doesn't exist, does it?"

(End of this chapter)