Douluo Continent: The Eternal Order of the Azure Sky.

It was under the attraction of her martial spirit instinct that Zhang Lexuan made such a move tonight, which was completely out of character for her. However, at the beginning, she only intended to experience it up close and would never have rashly requested the fusion of soul power.

What prompted her to make that choice?

As they walked further away, Zhang Lexuan looked up at the sky. Ever since they arrived on the island, the weather had been overcast, the stars had been completely obscured, and there was not a trace of moonlight.

She couldn't help but smile and shake her head.

What a strange person.

Just then, a tremor far stronger than any before suddenly surged from the depths of my soul.

As if electrocuted, Zhang Lexuan subconsciously released her martial spirit.

Suddenly, a light shone behind her, and a crescent moon quietly appeared, as if hanging on a treetop, its clear light illuminating the surrounding darkness.

Zhang Lexuan suddenly turned around.

In the darkness, only the lonely crescent moon shone, illuminating her face, which was filled with a mixture of surprise and realization, followed by a complex smile.

She smiled gently.

Inside Kong Tianxu's dormitory, after a brief search of the entire room, a dazzling full moon rose.

Kong Tianxu raised his fingertip, and the hazy purple light faded away. After his brilliant silver soul power came into contact with the moonlight he had intercepted, his silver dragon soul power suddenly entered a boiling state as if he had taken a powerful tonic, bursting out with indescribable brilliant light.

Clearly, it was the existence of this divine light membrane originating from the God of Destruction that prevented Zhang Lexuan's soul power from merging with his; this was a fundamental difference.

Perhaps it shouldn't be called fusion, but rather integration. Zhang Lexuan's Moon Martial Soul was simply the best nourishment for him, much better than Kong Deming's Silver Moon, which was relatively more space-oriented.

With a slight thought, Kong Tianxu clenched his fist, and the deep purple light membrane slowly covered him again, gradually calming down his nearly burning soul power.

Xue Di sneaked in from somewhere, her small face close to his from behind, and she whispered the findings she had discovered.

Kong Tianxu listened quietly, silently circulating his soul power. His first night at Shrek Academy passed peacefully in this tranquility...

However, in the distant Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, the situation was quite different.

"Junior brother, how's it going? Have you memorized the structure of those physical testing instruments?"

Taking advantage of Huo Yuhao's help pushing the wheelchair, He Caitou asked quietly.

One of their most important tasks in coming to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy was to take advantage of this exchange and learning opportunity to master as much of the Sun Moon Empire's advanced soul tool technology as possible.

If relying solely on their memory and learning abilities, even if they studied for three years without eating or drinking, they would only grasp a tiny fraction of the Sun Moon Soul Guidance Technology, barely impacting the overall gap in Soul Guidance levels. However, with Huo Yuhao's mental detection divine skill, everything changes completely.

Through close-range mental probing, he can quickly imprint the complete structure of the soul tool, including the manufacturing method of the core magic array, into his mind. Then, by quickly creating images from everything imprinted, he can steal all the scientific research crystallizations of the Sun Moon Empire. This is the power of an ultimate individual soldier.

"I'm sorry, Second Senior Brother, those soul tools seem to be surrounded by a powerful mental barrier, and I have no way to break through them."

As soon as he entered the room, Huo Yuhao painfully started pulling at his hair.

The plan was supposed to be flawless, but today, when Huo Yuhao confidently used his mental detection on the soul guide device, his usually reliable mental power suddenly failed him. Under the powerful mental interference of the mental shielding soul guide device, he was unable to penetrate the internal structure of the soul guide device at all, and even covering its surface was extremely difficult. Naturally, it was out of the question to gain a deeper understanding of it.

Chapter 164 The Destruction Ape and Cai Tou's Provocation of Dai Huabin

The academy had invested so many resources and poured so much effort into nurturing these two individuals, yet the very first step of the plan had suffered such a tremendous setback. Huo Yuhao felt immense pain and self-blame.

Especially when he saw how huge the gap in soul guidance technology was between Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy today, the harsh reality brought him a strong sense of crisis, but he was powerless to do anything about it.

This fact made it even harder for him to accept.

He Caitou's face was also a little pale, but he tightened his grip on the armrests of his wheelchair and still forced himself to remain calm as he spoke to Huo Yuhao:

"It's alright, junior brother. Even without mental detection, you are still a soul tool genius cultivated by the Extreme Individual Soldier Project. Even on your own, you can definitely achieve enough results for the academy."

"And no matter what, junior brother, you can always do better than me, right?"

He paused, a bleak smile appearing on his face:

"Look at me now, neither male nor female. Not only will my future development as a Soul Master be limited to a pure artillery-style build, but my vital energy will be severely depleted, greatly impacting my future cultivation. Even more so, even more so..."

He Caitou's voice began to tremble, his emotions gradually agitated, and his body trembled slightly uncontrollably.

Huo Yuhao hurriedly got up, but didn't know how to comfort him.

As his emotions grew stronger, Cai Tou's trembling became more and more intense.

You said I—

What's the point of living?!

He Caitou seemed to lose control, suddenly letting out a low growl and began to violently pound his empty trouser leg.

He was already burly, and with his shaved head, his dark skin glistened with oil in his excitement. He swung his arms wildly, and from a distance, he looked like a legendary Titan ape, which was truly terrifying.

Huo Yuhao was initially taken aback by his sudden outburst, but the intense training of extreme individual combat quickly calmed him down. He lunged forward, tightly grasping He Caitou's self-harming hands, forcing back a sob:

"Second Senior Brother, don't be like this. You must trust the academy's education and trust ourselves. We are elite individual fighters! Let's work together, live well, and rebuild the glory of Shrek Academy and Tang Sect..."

Seeing the once strong and powerful man reduced to this state, how could Huo Yuhao not feel heartbroken?

After all, during the period when he was not valued by many people, He Caitou was one of the few people who took the initiative to open up to him.

It took a long time for He Caitou to calm down. After taking He Caitou back to his room, Huo Yuhao returned to his dormitory with heavy steps.

He closed the door, slumped heavily into the chair, raised his arm to block out the glaring light in the room, and once again his question echoed in his mind.

"Brother Tianmeng, is there really no way to remove that mental interference?"

"It's very difficult, extremely difficult." Tianmeng Bingcan's voice carried an unusual solemnity.

"The essence of that barrier is not pure mental power, but rather a two-layered protective barrier of mixed soul power and mental power that is actively generated after sensing mental fluctuations. The strength of a single barrier is generally average, but when the two resonate at the same frequency, they can form an extremely strong protective interference. The design is so ingenious that it can be called genius. The power of human soul tools is indeed different from what it used to be."

Tianmeng sighed and then encouraged Huo Yuhao:

"With your current mental strength, it will be very difficult to penetrate it. Perhaps only after reaching the boundless ocean and the realm of tangible matter will you be able to break through this barrier. Therefore, your most urgent task is to improve your mental strength cultivation as soon as possible."

After a long while, Huo Yuhao's chest heaved violently. He slightly moved his arm away, and the bewilderment in his eyes was quickly replaced by the firmness of his faith.

"I understand, Brother Tianmeng."

"Wait! Yuhao, about Xue Di..."

Huo Yuhao had just calmed himself down and was preparing to process the day's gains when Bingdi's voice rang out again, inevitably making him a little impatient:

“Ice Emperor, we’ve already discussed this. It’s possible that they just look alike. If that person is really the Snow Emperor as you say, then she’s the third-ranked of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts. How could she possibly be attached to a human Soul King like that? Besides, you yourself said that the aura is different, and it’s even less likely that she’s the 100,000-year-old embryo from back then. A Soul Beast that’s nearly 700,000 years old can’t possibly be reborn as a human.”

Ice Emperor wanted to say something more, but Huo Yuhao had already blocked the voice from the Sea of ​​Spirit. Now, he had more important things to do.

……

"Shao Zhe, how is the situation?" Xuan Zi asked Yan Shao Zhe, who was standing in front of him.

Yan Shaozhe said, "The quality of the soul masters in this batch of Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy is surprisingly high. The most outstanding one is not the grandson and granddaughter of the Mingde Hall Master, but a female soul master named Xue'er. She is not yet twenty years old, but she is already a six-ring Soul Emperor. Her martial soul is the Snow Spirit, an excellent ice attribute martial soul. Her use of ice elements in actual combat is even more amazing."

"Where is that guy?" Xuanzi continued to ask.

He didn't say who the person was, but the two people he was referring to were obviously tacitly understood.

Yan Shaozhe rubbed his fingers awkwardly, his expression slightly complicated: "His progress is faster than we expected. In just over a year, he not only broke through level 60, but his physical combat skills are now on par with Ye Huan's. Even more unbelievable is that he somehow managed to upgrade his third soul ring to the 100,000-year level and evolve it into his second ultimate attribute—Ultimate Fire."

"Unfortunately, due to time constraints, we were unable to test his soul skills."

In the past century, very few 100,000-year-old soul beasts have been hunted. Especially in the Star Dou Great Forest, where the strength of the soul beasts has been constantly increasing, they have already declared that if any 100,000-year-old soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest are actively hunted by humans, then the most terrifying revenge will be launched.

As the dean of Shrek Academy, Ming Feng Douluo, a super-level powerhouse who has been famous for over sixty years, even his ninth spirit ring was a little short of the 100,000-year level. Although it did not affect his potential to break through to the limit level, it was still a bit of a regret.

A 100,000-year-old soul beast is enough to elevate the strength of a Title Douluo by a whole level. It brings not only an additional soul ring and soul bone with a soul skill, but also a terrifying all-around enhancement to the soul master.

It can be said that possessing a 100,000-year-old ninth spirit ring means having the substantial resources to inevitably break through to level 95 Super Douluo.

Xuanzi immediately frowned. "A 100,000-year soul ring? Could it be the 100,000-year soul beast embryo that the Star Luo Empire auctioned? If so, we need to remind Yuhao to terminate one of the two missions as soon as possible."

Besides stealing the soul tool technology, Huo Yuhao's other major goal on this trip was to use his mental detection and simulation abilities to obtain that extremely precious 100,000-year-old soul beast embryo.

Although Shrek said that absorbing the embryo might not be a good thing, the temptation behind it was hard for anyone to resist.

They have no shortage of powerful ninth-ring experts!

If a second martial soul can truly be formed, then one will be a twin martial soul master at the Super Douluo level. After perfectly adding soul rings, one will be no less powerful than an ultimate martial soul, and may even have the qualifications to directly reach the limit.

Even if they fail, given Shrek Academy's resources, they will never let their spirit rings and spirit bones go to waste.

Yan Shaozhe nodded. "That possibility cannot be ruled out, but I did not find any obvious traces of him absorbing a 100,000-year-old soul bone. We still need to observe him further. As for Yuhao, it is best not to let him make any rash moves, lest the people of Mingde Hall become suspicious."

Xuanzi sighed and said, "That's true. Poor Yuhao. As for Kong Tianxu, since that's the case, let's proceed according to our established plan. Although his main purpose in coming with the team this time is as collateral, everything in teaching will proceed as normal. Shrek Academy should try its best to make him feel a sense of belonging. Even if Douluo Continent eventually becomes Sun Moon Continent, Shrek Academy must still be Shrek Academy."

"Sigh, it's all because of my incompetence as an old man. All the pressure has to be borne by the children. If Xiao Tao asks in the future, just say that I was the one who insisted on pushing everything forward."

By the end, tears were welling up in his eyes.

Upon seeing this, Yan Shaozhe bowed slightly in greeting.

"Elder Xuan, there's no need to blame yourself. I believe in Xiao Tao; she will surely understand the academy's good intentions."

……

His eyes shone with inner light, devouring the fleeting purple hue on the eastern horizon. A sense of enlightenment washed over him, and Kong Tianxu let out a long sigh of relief.

A wisp of white mist carrying a faint fragrance emanated from his mouth, swirling around him and filling the entire room with vibrant life, as if a misty, emerald light were flowing within it.

Although there are no plants or trees, spring is in full bloom.

After patting the Snow Empress, who was fast asleep in his arms, Kong Tianxu took off his Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy uniform, which was already damp at the chest, and changed both himself and the Snow Empress into the inner courtyard's red attire before leaving the room separately.

Shrek Academy's inner court was quite efficient. When they delivered his school uniform in the morning, they told him the specific time of the Soul Hunting Operation, and he also received the list of participants for the operation.

Zhang Lexuan's name was prominently listed, while the others were not familiar to Kong Tianxu.

Because the requirements for obtaining spirit rings are quite high, it is said that an elder of the Sea God Pavilion will personally lead the team as the overall commander of this operation. In addition to him, Jin Yehuan is also among them. This Soul Douluo powerhouse, of course, does not need spirit rings and is only going to assist.

We will depart the morning after tomorrow.

With the issue of the spirit ring resolved, Kong Tianxu was in a good mood, and the food in the inner courtyard canteen made him even happier.

Because of its own limited resources of spirit beasts, the Sun Moon Empire had to purchase some rare ingredients from various places. Shrek Academy, on the other hand, was located at the intersection of the three kingdoms of Douluo Continent and was backed by the abundant resources of the Star Dou Great Forest, making it almost as good as being at home.

The inner courtyard canteen was already quite lively in the early morning, the fragrant aroma of food mingling with the hushed chatter of the students. Kong Tianxu chose a seat by the window, where a feast of jade sea cucumber gelatin, stewed dragon meat, and hibiscus crystal rice was laid out before him. Not only did it look and smell delicious, but the meal alone cost over a thousand gold coins, attracting frequent glances from many inner courtyard disciples who secretly envied this extravagance.

Most of the meals for inner court disciples in the dining hall are free, but there are occasionally some extremely precious meals that will be charged for, such as the stewed Heavenly Dragon meat.

Even though the disciples of Shrek Academy's inner court receive subsidies, and members of the inspection team also receive a generous reward for their inspection missions from time to time, very few people can afford to live like that.

"Kong Tianxu." A deep voice, clearly carrying a hostile tone, broke the harmony of the area. A tall, blond-haired young man stood not far away, broad-shouldered and with double pupils, staring intently at Kong Tianxu with a gloomy expression.

Behind him were several teenagers who looked to be around the same age.