Douluo: Peerless Light...

Chapter 247: Get Ahead and Get Promoted

Compared to the active sacrifice of soul beasts, hunting and absorbing soul rings is much slower. Minghui spent a whole day and night to successfully absorb the soul ring. After that, he did not rush to absorb the soul bone, but immediately put the body of the Silver Moon Wolf King into the soul guide and set out to leave the Jingyang Mountains.

Who knows how many people Jing Hongchen will bring with him? It's better to be safe than sorry.

On the morning of the second day after Minghui left, Jing Hongchen and other ninth-level soul masters conducted a large-scale search with the help of multiple high-altitude detectors. They finally found the valley and soon discovered the big pit created by the Silver Moon Wolf King.

By evaluating the outline of the pit and the remaining blood and fur, Jing Hongchen was almost certain that this was the Silver Moon Wolf King that had surrounded and killed them.

"Did someone get there first?" one of the companions frowned.

“But this is too much of a coincidence, isn’t it?” Another ninth-level soul master followed up, “The hall master summoned us as soon as he returned to the academy, so there was no time to spread the news. As for Arthas, who left the hall master, Xiao Meng, and Xiao Xiao’s sight for a while, he was still being besieged by the wolf pack led by the Golden Wolf King. And even if we could pass the news to Shrek Academy, the distance was too far.”

Mingdetang doesn’t even have the ability to conduct cross-border communications.

"It couldn't have been Arthas." Jing Hongchen said in a deep voice, "He didn't have the conditions and ability at the time."

"It's either a coincidence or there is a spy among us." Another ninth-level soul engineer frowned.

The colleague next to him suddenly looked angry and instinctively connected something together.

"Damn it, who is this spy?"

"Previously, an unregistered eighth-level top soul guide produced by Mingde Hall appeared at the Xingluo Empire Starlight Auction House, and now the news of the discovery of a 100,000-year soul beast is being sold. What on earth does this guy want to do!"

Upon hearing this, Jing Hongchen also felt that there was a problem within Mingde Hall. It had not been discovered before, but now it has appeared again to cause trouble. The key point is that it disgusts him!

He had promised to use the flesh of the Silvermoon Wolf King to nourish the bodies of his grandchildren and Arthas!
Now that the duck that was about to be caught has flown away, I am very angry!
"Let's go back first!" he said with a gloomy face.

The only ones who knew about the Silver Moon Wolf King were those attending the meeting. He planned to let the Worship Hall led by Kong Deming help investigate them one by one!
Several people rushed back angrily, speeding up as fast as possible.

Flying in a straight line at full speed, they returned to the academy in less than two days, and Jing Hongchen rushed to the palace as soon as possible.

"How could this happen!" The emperor and Kong Deming were both furious when they found out, and Xu Tianran was also extremely dissatisfied.

It's fine to resell the eighth-level soul guide, after all, it's just a finished product, not a blueprint, and it's hard for the outside world to copy it. But a hundred thousand year soul beast, that's full of treasures, it can directly improve the high-end combat power of the empire, and they dare to resell this kind of information.

The bottom line has undoubtedly been reached!

"Investigate, investigate thoroughly for me!" The emperor's face was gloomy. "Mr. Kong, you must fully assist Master Jingtang."

"This kind of black sheep must not be allowed to stay in the empire. No matter who they are or what their identities are, as long as they are found out, they will be charged with treason! Including their followers, bring them all to justice!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Kong Deming said.

"Also, go and test Elder Ye." The emperor's expression returned to calm and he continued.

"Since the other party dared to spread the news of Silver Moon Wolf King, they must have been promised great benefits, such as soul bones. And from the situation described by Master Jing, the Silver Moon Wolf King was defeated without much resistance. There is no ninth-level soul master with such strength in Mingde Hall now, so the other party must have asked for help. And there are not many helpers in the country who can do this."

He couldn't guarantee it for others, but Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao could definitely do it.

"I understand." Kong Deming said.

Jing Hongchen also understood, and immediately bowed to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, during this period of time, I will pay close attention to whether the ninth-level soul masters in Mingde Hall have the ability to be promoted suddenly. As for their relatives, I will trouble Your Majesty for this."

Some ninth-level soul masters are royal relatives themselves, so it is not convenient for him to check the relatives of these people.

"I will arrange this as soon as possible." The emperor nodded. "If it is indeed a member of the royal family, then it may be time for my royal family to be thoroughly cleansed. For the sake of the empire, I will never allow anyone within to hold us back."

I don't want to leave a mess for my son.

He would solve the problem if he could, even if he would be cursed. He had killed his own brother for the throne, let alone other relatives.

"." Xu Tianran naturally understood that his father was preparing to use this opportunity to pave the way for him, and his heart, which had been silent for many years, was inexplicably touched. Although his father had not taken care of him much when he was disabled before, he did what he should do after he was truly designated as the heir.

Perhaps, this is the ruthlessness that one must possess when working in an imperial family.

While thinking, Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming received the order and left.

After returning to the academy, Jing Hongchen immediately found Arthas who was in seclusion at home to explain the situation and apologize, saying that the promised Silver Moon Wolf King meat would be compensated elsewhere. In response, Arthas pretended to be helpless and said it was okay.

He also comforted Jing Hongchen and reminded him that the news leaked so quickly that there might be internal problems.

Jing Hongchen said that the academy would definitely investigate thoroughly and catch this black sheep.

Arthas said no more and watched Jing Hongchen leave.

"Oh, I feel a little guilty about always cheating Jing Hongchen." Arthas sighed.

Although they serve different masters, from his point of view, Jing Hongchen's family is really good to him.

"If Jing Hongchen improves his strength further, it may have a significant impact on the war situation. On the contrary, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen have almost no influence on the future situation. In this case, I will make some compensation to these two people. After the unification of the continent is completed, the main body may recruit these two people to work for the Soul Palace." Since the main body wants to promote the soul system, it naturally involves more than just the original three empires.

"We can recruit some people from the Sun and Moon Empire to manage it. This can be regarded as learning from the foreigners to defeat them."

While thinking about it, he walked towards the rooftop training room.

In the evening, Shrek Academy.

Minghui returned to his residence in the inner courtyard, took the soul bone from Zhang Lexuan and began to absorb it.

It only took a few hours to absorb all the energy, and his soul power was raised to level 69. Including the soul ring, it was barely increased by two levels. This increase was brought by the soul bone. With his current physical strength, the improvement in cultivation that the soul bone could bring was very small.

"At this rate, I will definitely be promoted to Soul Saint before the Soul Master Competition begins."

“It feels so good to be able to cheat!”

Minghui was very satisfied, and then began to concentrate on consolidating his cultivation and comprehending his new abilities.

After all, it was a hundred thousand year soul ring, which brought him two major soul skills, namely mental shielding and elemental affinity.

The former can be regarded as a major racial talent of soul beasts such as silver wolves. In the original novel, Huo Yuhao used all his strength to perform soul attack on a silver wolf with a cultivation level of 3,000, but the wolf was able to get up and fight again, which shows the powerful mental defense brought by this talent. When the silver wolf reaches a cultivation level of 10,000 years, it can actively release this ability.

As for the 100,000-year cultivation, this ability has evolved again. Not only can it defend against spiritual attacks and block other people's spiritual perception, it can also further block the opponent's spiritual power. However, to do this, it is necessary to absolutely suppress the opponent's spiritual power. If not, it is only equivalent to a weakening skill.

"It's a good idea to use it together with the Mental Weakness skill." Minghui said with a smile.

Although the ability is more of an auxiliary one, he thinks it is a good skill if used properly. He originally thought that he would gain the skill of mental confusion like Huo Yuhao in the original novel.

The second soul skill is elemental affinity. To be more precise, it is affinity with the eight elements of water, fire, earth, wind, light, darkness, space, and time.

After using it, the affinity for these eight elements will be greatly improved, reaching the level of Silver Moon Wolf King. As for the extended application, it depends on your own understanding.

Minghui felt that once this skill was used, the function of the sixth soul ring turned into a signal amplifier.

"Ah, this is the difference between sacrifice and normal absorption of spirit rings." He sighed.

If the Silver Moon Wolf King took the initiative to sacrifice, he felt that his body would have a high probability of directly inheriting this elemental affinity. As for hunting and absorbing spirit rings, this talent would become a skill attached to the spirit rings, which needed to be actively triggered to bless the body in order to obtain it.

These are two completely different concepts. The former is a physical endowment, while the latter is temporarily acquired through the enhancement and blessing of external forces.

I feel helpless, but there is nothing I can do.

"Anyway, it's better than nothing." Minghui didn't dwell on it too much, because his mental strength would only be stronger than that of the Silver Moon Wolf King in the future. With this foundation, as long as he could comprehend the spirit ring more in the future, he was confident that it would truly become a physical talent.

It just takes more time.

Anyway, you have to spend time to understand the derivative applications of these elements, just treat it as a form of practice.

Thinking this way, he focused his attention on the soul bone skills.

The first skill is Moon Shadow Sprint, which calls upon the energy of soul bones and the power of the moon contained within to bless oneself, greatly increasing one's speed while gaining the ability to become invisible. It is more effective at night, especially when there is a moon in the sky.

Because it can continuously absorb the power of moonlight to maintain this state, it is more durable and more effective.

The second skill is Silver Moonlight Blade, which consumes the moonlight power contained in the soul bone and instantly explodes, kicking out countless moon-transformed light blades to attack the opponent. It is a pure light attribute skill, and it is moonlight. Minghui thought of the left leg bone that Tang San obtained by absorbing the evil killer whale king in the original work. The attached killer whale shattering tooth slash skill has a similar effect, but the attributes are different.

At the same time, we can roughly guess why this skill appears in the soul bone.

Because he absorbed the spirit ring with the spirit attribute of his spirit body, the spirit attribute did not match the moonlight. Although the power of the moonlight could improve the spirit power, it needed to be transformed and could not be directly integrated into the spirit. Therefore, all the moonlight power stored in the Silver Moon Wolf King's body was transferred to the spirit bone and turned into the corresponding attribute skills.

Of course, this was also a skill originally mastered by the Silver Moon Wolf King.

It's just because it's incompatible with the martial soul's attributes that it didn't become a martial soul's soul ring skill, but was attached to the soul bone.

"Not bad, after all, I can absorb the moonlight for cultivation." Minghui commented.

"Also, when practicing with Le Xuan, you can consider pulling it out and integrating it with Le Xuan's soul power to help her further refine her soul power. In this way, although it is not the soul ring and soul bone absorbed by Le Xuan, it can also bring her improvement, and it can also feed back to me."

“It can be considered a mutual benefit.”

Thinking of this, my mood suddenly became better.

Then I sensed something new coming to the altar in the plane of the undead.

Minghui immediately chanted a spell, opened the Door of the Dead, and fished out the letter inside.

After opening it, he couldn't help but fall into thought. They actually came to ask for the flesh of the Silver Moon Wolf King. One reason was to refine the essence and improve themselves, and the other was to help Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen replenish their bodies. He also suggested that after the continent was unified in the future, these two people could help manage the branch of the Soul Palace.

The most important thing is that the two of them will not pose a threat to him in the future, so it is worth taking the risk to train them in advance.

With his current level of cultivation, he can easily kill people in the Soul Master Competition. As for what happens afterwards, Xiao Hongchen and his sister will pose no threat to him.

To be precise, they couldn't keep up with the rhythm and were just two supporting characters looking at each other's backs from afar.

Minghui agreed with this. If the continent is unified in the future, the people of the original three empires are foreigners after all, and they will inevitably be excluded. Recruiting local people to assist in management can indeed save some trouble and speed up the implementation of the soul system.

"Come to think of it, Xiao Hongchen is still my younger brother." In the bet, whoever lost would be the younger brother, and he was the winner.

"Oh, I have to go chat with Yan Shaozhe again." Minghui sighed and slowly stood up.

This time, asking Xuanzi and others to help hunt the Silver Moon Wolf King in Jingyang Mountains is not free. According to the agreement, the soul rings and soul bones belong to him, and the wolf meat belongs to the academy.

There was no way. The matter happened suddenly and time was limited. Even if he wanted to go to the Body Sect to call for help, it would be too late.

It can be said that Yan Shaozhe worked hard to get some benefits.

Soon, Poseidon Pavilion.

"It's just a clone. He doesn't really need to fight in person. Why should I help him improve his strength?"

Yan Shaozhe was somewhat reluctant.

"And there's so much meat to share."

After all, it was an internal consideration of the Soul Palace, and Minghui did not say that he would help Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen improve their strength.

“That’s not the case.” Xian Lin’er said, “If Arthas hadn’t tipped off the situation in time, the Silver Moon Wolf King would have been hunted down by Jing Hongchen and his men.”

"If the other party really uses this to create some powerful soul guide, it will also be a threat to the academy."

"Also, Arthas was besieged by wolves this time, which was indeed a big risk. Improving his strength and self-protection ability will also help him to better implement the lurking plan, right?"

"I don't think this is too much to ask, both for his many contributions and for future considerations."

Yan Shaozhe still wanted to fight for it, at least to get Minghui to pay some money.

Ever since his only disciple Ma Xiaotao followed Minghui and always acted in a disloyal way, he has been angry.

"Alright." Moon said decisively, "It's settled now, don't say anything more!"

"Also, everyone should not fall into the wrong thinking in the future. Although Arthas is Xiaohui's clone, he has an independent personality. We should not simply regard him as a tool, but as a complete person. We should look at his achievements and requirements with a normal perspective."

"The request made by Arthas this time is very legitimate. As an ally, we should support it."

Seeing that Moon called him an ally and took him seriously, Yan Shaozhe had nothing to say and had to agree.

So Minghui took away an entire front leg.

(End of this chapter)