Peerless: The Evil Soul Master's Guide to Saving the World

The competition is in full swing.

Although there are established powerhouses like Shrek Academy and Clear Sky Sect, and rising dark horses like Mingyu Sect, no one will back down. After all, even if the top three are out of reach, it would be good to fight for fourth or fifth place.

The prestige of the All-Continent Soul Master Tournament is beyond doubt. Regardless of the fact that Shrek Academy has been the number one for thousands of years, and the second-place team that competes with everyone else, the academy teams that can enter the top sixteen are all the targets of various forces to win them over.

For passionate young people, the temptation to defeat their opponents and gain honor under the spotlight is irresistible.

However, after the fierce battle between Haotian Sect and Mingyu Sect on the first day, the so-called competition seemed much less exciting.

Even though few teams dare to hold back their trump cards due to the elimination rounds, and Soul Kings are not the norm, only three or four out of ten teams have Soul Kings. After witnessing the power of the battle between the two Title Douluos, even the audience has become more discerning.

The cheers weren't as enthusiastic as they had been at the beginning.

Even for some teams with only the Soul Sect leader, the cheers were faint and weak, while the academies (sects) that had wasted a long time and were still just weaklings fighting each other were unwilling to surrender and hurriedly stepped down from the stage after the winner was determined.

"Delicious food..."

Wang Dong'er stretched.

A light blue dress clung to her delicate body, outlining her graceful figure under the sunlight. Her arms were slender yet strong, and even though she often stayed by the furnace, her skin remained as white as snow, unlike the dark skin of other craftsmen.

"It's a pity that the Heavenly Spirit Sect is too weak; it's not even our turn to make a move."

Stretching her back, the girl lay back down on the chair, basking lazily in the sun with her head in her hands, her long, straight legs swinging gently, her beautiful eyes glancing unintentionally at the young man beside her.

He was still incredibly handsome, but he had gained a touch of masculine maturity and lost some of his striking good looks. After all, three years ago, anyone who saw him for the first time would have thought he was just a pretty face.

I cautiously moved a little closer to the side.

She gently sniffed the scent of the person beside her, a blush spreading across her pretty face all the way to her earlobes.

She felt both embarrassed and annoyed.

She cursed herself inwardly, "Can shyness feed me? Even Sister Qiu'er has succeeded. Now, I'm probably the only one left who's foolishly holding back."
A man is only truly yours once you've had him.

"What do I look like to you?"

Wang Dong'er pursed her lips, looked around to make sure no one was there. Everyone was busy with their own affairs. After watching a match between Haotian Sect and Mingyu Sect, they all left on the second and third days.

Only Cain, Wang Qiu'er seems to have something urgent to attend to, but she will probably be back soon.

"Like a peacock spreading its tail..." Xu Cheng tilted his head back, a hat covering his face, his voice calm.

"Ah..." Wang Dong'er was stunned for a moment, then kicked his shin lightly in embarrassment and annoyance.

"I didn't get a good night's rest, could you please let me off the hook?" Xu Cheng's tone was weak and sincere.

"You didn't get enough rest?"

Wang Dong'er's beautiful eyes widened, her light blue pupils flashing with suspicion.

He tentatively asked, "Another night with them?"

Seeing that Xu Cheng did not reply.

Wang Dong'er's red lips trembled, and her expression was somewhat blank.

It's like having something you love and cherish carefully treated being treated roughly by someone else—that's also a form of silent NTR.

"Ugh……"

Xu Cheng sighed softly, but still didn't take off his hat.

"On a."

“One…” Wang Dong’er’s pale face finally looked a little better, but her expression was blank.

"I never imagined the difference between humans and gods could be so vast. Damn, it's like he has endless energy. I feel like if it weren't for the competition today, he could have lasted for months..." Xu Cheng rubbed his lower back, finally lifting his hat to reveal his pale face, his gaze blankly fixed on Wang Dong'er.

"My back feels like it's been torn apart."

"What do you mean by female superior? In the end, I have to use my mental power to support the bed all the time, otherwise even the ten-thousand-year-old Xuanbing Jade Marrow Bed would have collapsed." Xu Cheng gritted his teeth, his face full of rage.

Wang Dong'er: "..."

What's the difference?
It's like your favorite goddess getting kicked by a blond-haired PE student...

No!

Absolutely not!
Seeing Wang Qiu'er and Cain approaching side by side, a new plan formed in her mind.

"From now on, if you want me to forge something, at least... once!!!" Wang Dong'er leaned close to Xu Cheng's ear, her beautiful eyes fixed on him angrily.

Xu Cheng: “…”

He glanced at Wang Dong'er's already formed and rather full figure, raised an eyebrow, and said, "Not bad, the price is not bad."

……

“That’s right, it’s the place Elder Mu once instructed us to contact Elder Long…” Xuanzi frowned as he looked around the tavern.

It looked like it had been renovated. There were quite a few customers inside, perhaps because of the recent competition. Many of them were outsiders whose clothing and habits were noticeably different from those of people from Mingdu.

Of course, he was one of them.

Long ago, before Elder Mu perished here, he had given him some instructions. After all, he was one of the few people who knew about the love triangle between Ye Xishui, Elder Mu, and Elder Long.

These secrets, however, cannot be known to the world.

Otherwise, if Shrek Academy were to make a big splash with its banner, but then secretly collude with evil spirit masters, its reputation would be completely ruined.

“That’s strange. Elder Mu instructed that the place to contact Elder Long in the future would be this tavern. All we need to do is say the slogan—three cups of Mingniang—to notify Elder Long, but…”

He glanced at the busy shop assistants and his brows furrowed even more.

He repeated the secret code several times, and the waiter happily served him more than a dozen cups of fine wine, filling the table. He wolfed them down, but Long Xiaoyao still did not appear.

"Elder Xuan, are you sure this is the code?" Xian Lin'er, who was standing to the side, hesitated and asked, feeling a little sorry for the gold soul coins.

"Absolutely right!" Xuanzi's expression was grave. "Then there's only one possibility..."

As Xian Lin'er looked on expectantly, Xuan Zi slowly uttered a few words: "He went to wander the continent."

Xianlin'er: "..."

"Elder Xuan, I have a feeling that something might have happened to Elder Long." A look of worry flashed in her eyes.

"For the past three years, it has been as if our eyes have been blinded. The Sun Moon Empire has surrounded Shrek Academy and other forces from the far north to the Star Dou Great Forest in the south. We have no secret agents in the Sun Moon Empire, let alone in the past three years... We simply cannot infiltrate it."

"Old Mu's previous plan resulted in the exchange students losing both their wife and their troops, and even Le Xuan... Now it is highly likely that they will target the Holy Spirit Cult."

Just as Xianlin'er was about to continue speaking...

But then I heard a snoring sound.

The old man sitting opposite them was already slumped over the table, his nose flushed red from drunkenness, fast asleep.

Xianlin'er: "..."

……

"Oh, is there anything else?"

A look of surprise flashed in Xu Cheng's eyes.

In the original novel, it was only known that Long Xiaoyao and Mu En had been in secret contact, but no one expected that they had agreed on a secret code.

But yes.

The fact that Mu En was able to borrow "troops" from Long Xiaoyao to slaughter Zhang Lexuan's family suggests that their relationship was much closer than people imagined.

Even Ye Xishui might not know about this.

"Brother, what should we do?" Nana stood behind Xu Cheng, toying with a short dagger in her hand, a cold glint flashing in her beautiful eyes.

Long Xiaoyao, along with most of the Holy Spirit Cult, was wiped out long ago. The grass on his grave is now almost a meter tall.

"We're on our own turf, how could we let him fool us?" Xu Cheng chuckled.

"If I'm not mistaken, he's looking for Long Xiaoyao either to contact Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao, promising them conditions so he can backstab us when the war starts, or... to gather intelligence on the Sun Moon Empire. After all, the Holy Church is now the state religion of the Sun Moon Empire and holds a very high position."

"Fine, let our people from the tavern contact him at the Shrek Hotel. Let's meet at the usual place (the tavern). I'll go and meet him myself."

"Alright!" Nana paused, her hand gripping the gleaming dagger in reverse, and she strode away with her long, beautiful legs.

But Xu Cheng stopped him.

With his face covered by a hat, he spoke in a leisurely voice: "Don't be so impetuous. You're the vice leader now, be more composed."

"Hehe, it's all thanks to you, bro."

Nana bent down, took off her hat, smacked her lips, put the hat on Xu Cheng's hand, smiled sweetly, swayed her slender waist, waved her hand, and left without looking back.

Xu Cheng: “…”

Wang Dong'er was a little envious.

Why is it that they can kiss anytime, anywhere, but I can't?!

He secretly approached Wang Qiu'er.

She didn't like eating alone, so she would invite her sister to join her—of course, she wouldn't say that she was a little embarrassed to do so.

"Ugh……"

Youyou sighed.

Xu Cheng sat up with a dejected look, resting his chin on his hand as he looked down at the audience.

Today is the third day of the elimination rounds.

After today, there will be two more rounds of elimination matches.

With over 500 teams participating, including more sects, the number of teams in this competition was more than double that of previous years, and the elimination rounds naturally changed from two rounds to three rounds.

After a period of intense competition, only about sixty teams remained.

Only then will they enter the group stage and begin a new round of fierce competition.

Until the top sixteen are selected.

That would be at least a week from now.

As for the present moment.

Xu Cheng yawned.

Since three years ago, he has been promoting the research and development of artificial soul rings, liberating the lives of tens of thousands of soul beasts, and has also obtained the blueprints for interstellar warships from the system. In these three years, no matter how hard he racked his brains to get rewards, they were mostly insignificant and dispensable.

As for the blueprints for the subsequent interstellar warships that he wanted, they never appeared.

Then I'm afraid...

The only option left is to unify the continent.

Xu Cheng frowned slightly.

Only with such a record can one likely earn the effective rewards from the system at this stage.

After all, Douluo Continent has been around for so many years.

After numerous wars, the only time when several countries came closest to unification was ten thousand years ago when the Spirit Hall was destroyed by Tang San.

But it didn't work.

He also knew that after tens of thousands of years of evolution, a continent couldn't remain divided forever. Most likely, an invisible hand was manipulating things from behind the scenes—perhaps it was the Asura God in the past, but now…

"The leader."

Jiang Nannan, as agile as a pink rabbit, quietly appeared beside Xu Cheng. Her pair of long, straight, beautiful legs were particularly eye-catching, attracting the attention of many male students as soon as she arrived. Her outstanding appearance made Xu Sanshi unable to forget her.

The beauty leaned down gently and whispered a few words in Xu Cheng's ear.

Wang Dong'er was furious.

They've all started hiding things from me!
Hmph, you stinky rabbit! I even had a personal soul tool crafted for you just two days ago!

"How is your mother?" Xu Cheng asked, taking a sip of tea.

“My mother is doing well and is also remembering you,” Jiang Nannan said softly.

"That's good……"

Xu Cheng turned his head and glanced at the stunningly beautiful face so close to his.

Six years ago, Shrek Academy forced the girl to come to the Sun Moon Empire. By chance, she escaped the pursuit of the Xuanming Sect and was then recruited into the Holy Spirit Cult.

Now that the Holy Spirit Cult has changed its banner, the girl's strength has increased to the level of a Soul Douluo, and her status within the cult has also risen rapidly.

Although she can't compare to Nana, she's not far off.

However, she disliked fighting and killing, and happened to be of commoner origin. In line with Xu Cheng's original strategy of recruiting talent from among the commoners, she took on this position and became the face of the Holy Church.

The once dark and evil Holy Spirit Cult has now transformed into a truly holy cult, dedicated to saving all sentient beings...

"It's even more beautiful now," Xu Cheng remarked.

"Woo~"

Jiang Nannan's pretty face flushed red instantly, like a steampuffed steam, her mind went blank, and her whole body froze on the spot.

“Look, I still prefer interacting with young, innocent girls. Saying a few words that you consider utterly bland and tasteless makes you blush like this.” Xu Cheng leisurely sipped his tea and said calmly, “Unlike you… you poor, lecherous old men, all lusting after my body.”

"Don't lead them astray!"

Jiang Nannan's head drooped, and the high temperature could be felt even from several meters away.

"..."

Wang Dong'er bared her little tiger teeth and glared angrily.

Meanwhile, Wang Qiu'er calmly wiped the golden spear, glanced at Xu Cheng indifferently, lowered her gaze slightly, and parted her red lips slightly: "Don't even think about sleeping tonight."

Cain was also elegant, dressed in a deep purple dress, his narrow eyes flashing, but he said nothing.

"Ugh……"

Xu Cheng glanced at the two sisters who looked so alike, snorted, and then lazily lay back in his chair. "With just the two of you, just don't beg me to end this later. You're both bad at the game and love to play."

"..."

"But, Nan Nan... that turtle wouldn't be interested in you, would it?" Wang Dong'er glanced at Shrek Academy, which was ranked in the top sixteen. There was always a gaze there that hadn't disappeared since Jiang Nan Nan appeared.

"The Shrek group is really weird."

She curled her lips.

“I remember when I first came to the Royal Academy for an exchange, Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi were acting strangely, and Tang San was even more outrageous. He kept pestering Ning Tian until I beat him up and he finally calmed down.”

"If you run into him again next time, do you want me to beat him up for you?"

She carried the signal axe on her seemingly delicate shoulder, a hint of excitement in her eyes.

“This…no need.” Jiang Nannan quickly waved her hand.

He then said in a cold voice.

"I will settle my score with him personally." (End of Chapter)