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At home, Lan Yue is crying to Tang Zi Ran about Wulin's hand injuries, but Zi Ran comforts her and tells her that Mang Tian told him Wulin was gifted, and that if he doesn't succeed as a spirit master he can definitely succeed as a soul mentor. When they go to dinner, they see Nuo Er feeding Wulin and smile. Before bed, Wulin shows Nuo Er his BSG, and tells her she will also have a spirit when she turns 6, before falling asleep on the bed and Nuo Er soon falling asleep beside him. Zi Ran comes in later to apply ointment to Wulin's hands, but they are completely healed, and an unnoticed golden pattern retreating into his eyebrows. He is confused, as this shouldn't be an effect of BSG.
At home, Lan Yue is crying to Tang Zi Ran about Wulin's hand injuries, but Zi Ran comforts her and tells her that Mang Tian told him Wulin was gifted, and that if he doesn't succeed as a spirit master he can definitely succeed as a soul mentor. When they go to dinner, they see Nuo Er feeding Wulin and smile. Before bed, Wulin shows Nuo Er his BSG, and tells her she will also have a spirit when she turns 6, before falling asleep on the bed and Nuo Er soon falling asleep beside him. Zi Ran comes in later to apply ointment to Wulin's hands, but they are completely healed, and an unnoticed golden pattern retreating into his eyebrows. He is confused, as this shouldn't be an effect of BSG.
3 years later, Wulin has grown much taller, taller than any of his peers, and is well built. Even with BSG, he has become quite popular. Wan Yun originally tried to bully Wulin due to BSG, but was swiftly beaten and eventually became his friend. Wan Yun was the first in the class to reach 10th level to gain a soul, and Wulin is close behind, being gifted in meditation. Upon awakening, Nuo Er did not display any spirit, shocking everyone. As a result, she goes to the ordinary school to learn normally, and Wulin spoils her, often getting into fights to protect her - generally a fight each day for some reason or another.
3 years later, Wulin has grown much taller, taller than any of his peers, and is well built. Even with BSG, he has become quite popular. Wan Yun originally tried to bully Wulin due to BSG, but was swiftly beaten and eventually became his friend. Wan Yun was the first in the class to reach 10th level to gain a soul, and Wulin is close behind, being gifted in meditation. Upon awakening, Nuo Er did not display any spirit, shocking everyone. As a result, she goes to the ordinary school to learn normally, and Wulin spoils her, often getting into fights to protect her - generally a fight each day for some reason or another.
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Wulin declines because he is busy, wishing Xiaoyan luck. Chen Yi enters the class. She announces that they are going to have some practical combat training by sparring with a teacher of their choice. Chen Yi leads the class to Shrek's Proving Ground, equipped with the latest forcefield and analysis equipment. Wulin tries to keep order as the teachers are making preparations but his status in the class has lowered due to the absence. Chen Yi announces the rule. Winning gives perfect mark. Otherwise, scores are based on performance. The teachers will use their full power except for power armor. The class have 5 minutes to make plans. The first group to fight is the class committee.
To Zi Duo's confusion, Wulin plans to pick Wukong. While he is stronger, his abilities are known to class 0. Gui Xing, awfully aggressive like he wants to take over the leadership, asks Wulin to explain Wukong's abillities. Gui Xing also assigns his plan: Wulin tanks, Zi Duo sneak attacks, he is the main controller while Gu Yue stay behind as the artillery. Gu Yue tries to protest but Wulin stops her. They follow Gui Xing for now.
They get on the stage. Wulin assures Zi Duo he can buy them time but cannot stop Wukong completely. Gui Xing asks for 3 seconds. Chen Yi signals to start as the forcefield comes down. Wulin charges in for the initiative, 3 purple rings surrounding him. He releases the BSG, which has more intricate patterns without changing in size. He fires Bind as Wukong while also activates Golden Dragon Body and Golden Dragon Claw; scales covering his right side like a half-armor. Wukong also releases his sword, 2Y 3P 2B. He uses his first skill, Mist Mark. Wulin bites his teeth and covers himself with a BSG shield.
The BSG only gets frozen as its durability has doubled. Gui Xing manages to Space Lock Wukong right before he activates the next skill, cancelling it. Zi Duo also arrives with a Hell Rush Stab to Wukong's waist. Wukong spins around and slashes at Zi Duo but she gets teleported away right on contact. Wulin follows up with his claw, now accompanied by 5 streaks of darkness. Wukong is surprised and uses what seems to be Mist Mark again. On closer inspection, he has weaved thousands of Mist Mark together for a powerful attack, clashing with Wulin's claw. However, Wulin is not pushed back. He activates Golden Dragon Body and draws out the Golden Dragon Great Claws, 5 golden blades of 7m length. Zi Duo also gets teleported back and activates Hell White Tiger, also throwing a claws strike. Gu Yu assists with a quad-elemental artillery lance from above. In reaction, Wukong points his sword at the sky. An energy storm covers the arena, blinding everyone and devouring the students' attacks. In the eye of the storm, a 7m blue-light greatsword emerges, sending out sword qi that knocks Wulin and Zi Duo to the air. The sword splits into 7 blades and aims at Wulin as Zi Duo has already been teleported away. This is a combination of Wukong's 4th skill, Mist Ice Whisper, and 5th skill, Mist Whispers to the Moon, spelling Wulin's certain doom. Fortunately, Wulin gets teleported away at the last second. Everyone is impressed that Gui Xing manages to complete such a feat, saving both his teammates. However, Gui Xing is in disbelief as the person Wulin appears next to is Gu Yue.
Zi Duo warns everyone of the incoming attack as she charges again at Wukong, but her fusion body is near transparent. Wukong traps her with his 2nd skill as the Mist Ice Whisper blade comes flying at the remaining 3. Wulin moves forward to tank the hit. He coils his BSG around them like a giant tree as well as activates BSG array for additional reinforcement. However, even this type of defense can only buy time. Gu Yue conjures a quadtra-elemental whirlpool: wind, earth, ice and space. She uses it to move only her Wulin away, abandoning Gui Xing. However, Wulin grabs Gui Xing with a strand of BSG, earning some scold from Gu Yue that he is too nice. On Gui Xing, he is utterly horrified by Gu Yue's ability as Zi Duo didn't tell anyone about her battle. He wonders why Gu Yue accepts Wulin as a leader. However, Gu Yue's whirlpool is broken, cancelling his thoughts.
Zi Duo has already turned into a block of ice. Wukong ends the match with a Heavenly Mist Cleave, freezing the rest. Wukong coldly calls them stupid. This is because their teamwork already has already fallen part once Gui Xing pullled his teleport stunt. All 4 of them have difficult on their face. Zi Duo glares at Wulin and Gui Xing and wanders off to cool down. Wulin attempts to defuse the situation by taking responsiblity. Gu Yue yells at Gui Xing for trying to mutiny. Gui Xing has some anger in his eyes, looking at Gu Yue but she doesn't care.
Wulin stops Gu Yue. He convinces Gui Xing and Zi Duo to cooperate as the other groups are bigger threat than infighting. He also reveals his status as a rank 5 blacksmith for additional enticement. Gui Xing and Zi Duo grudgingly accept and shakes hand with him. Gui Xing warns Wulin he would still wait for him to slip up. The group does a huddle while Chen Yi is watching them with a smile.
The other groups don't fare much better though Yu Cheng and Nian Xia's group survived the longest. The teachers dismiss the class immediately so they can do their own analyis. The committee goes for lunch and Wulin demonstrates his inhuman appetite. Zi Duo expresses her astonishment but Gu Yue dismisses her, which helps Gui Xing realizes what is going on between her and Wulin. After that, they go to elder Feng and rent a workshop for a 1k a month. Wu Yu tells Wulin that he can stay for 2 hours before forging study. Inside the workshop, Zi Duo and Gui Xing bring forward their chosen material. Zi Duo chooses the dark-element Netherword Iron while Gui Xing picks the space-element Thousand Moment/Machine Copper.
Gui Xing exclaims that elder Feng is good to Wulin. His workshop is 150m^2 large and equipped with the most advanced tech yet costs so little. Wulin smiles and tells everyone to focus on the work first, starting with forging. He asks Gu Yue to explain her design. Gu Yue takes out a schematic for a right arm, specifically the hand and the forearm. For Wulin's armor, she attachs a transforming circuit in his palm so the gauntlet can expand to fit his transformation. On the back of the hand, she attachs a circuit that boost his vitality and spirit power. She also designs finger slots for Wulin's claws. Gu Yue carries on her meticulous explanation, fascinating Wulin as this is his first time learning about the circuit cores. Seeing Zi Duo and Gui Xing looking very matter-of-fact, Wulin understands that Gu Yue's complex designs are actually very suitable. Gu Yue goes on to explain that each piece of power armor requires at least 3 circuit cores. 2-word armor tends to have 5 of them. The cores receive spirit power from the user through the metal. Therefore, forging is a very important step.
Wulin proposes that he would perform a double refinement on the metal to increase the metal's durabilty while keeping it thin and flexible. Gui Xing is surprised that Wulin can use such a complex technique, admitting that it would make his job easier. Wulin then tells the others to finish the final designs while he is working on the metal. After just an hour, 4 pieces of spiritual thousand-forging shine brilliantly, earning Zi Duo and Gui Xing' admiration. Gu Yue asks if Wulin has any special request for his design. Wulin expresses his trust in her decision and says his goodbye. After he leaves, Gui Xing asks if Wulin has always been this good. Gu Yue sarcastically answers whether he has heard of innate talent. Gui Xing changes the topic back to the schematic with a smile.
Yuan En Ye Hui is back at the dorm in her usual male uniform. She notices that the dorm looks especially clean today. She carries a bucket of water into her room and is surprised that her room is also very clean. It can't have been the big eater Wulin or that rude jerk Zheng Yu, she thought. By process of elimination, Yuan En thinks of Xie Xie, the lanky arrogant boy with a crude smile and full of indecency. Yuan En hmphs and clenches her fist. She slams open the door and splashs the water bucket then slams the door close again. Yuan En stills carries a grudge. She sighs and raises the curtain as everyone already knows her identity. She removes her wig and undressess, adjusting her bones to reveal her true womanly figure and facial features. Suddenly, there is a look of agony on her face. She falls on the bed hugging her head as her body goes weak and begins to seize. Her eyes become blood red as tears uncontrollably fall. A scene of massacre appears vividly in front of her. She loudly screams no and sits up, gasping for air. Suddenly, someone breaks down the door and barges in, asking if Yuan En is okay.
Xie Xie gulps. He has been hiding nearby with Shadow Dragon Clone to see Yuan En's reaction to his cleaning. Yuan En angrily yells at Xie Xie to scram as he runs away with tail between his legs. She wipes away her tears and grips the bedsheet tightly.
Back at the workshop, Wu Yu begins his lesson. He first asks Wulin what is the biggest change after a blacksmith reaches spirit forging. Wulin answers simply that he/she is capable of spirit forging as Mu Chen only teaches to Wulin's rank. Wu Yu insults Mu Chen's short-sighted teaching, declaring his belief that a blacksmith should have a comprehensive knowledge of his trade. He reveals the answer a spirit-forging blacksmith gains a special intuition after he has mastered the basic of forging. As a result, he/she can forge alloy.
Wu Yu asks the 2nd question: what is the most difficult part of spirit-forging. Wulin correctly answers that it is using the blacksmith's own vitality to give life to the once-lifeless metal. Wu Yu expands on the answer. He explains that this process involves a special type of energy called "life-creating energy". It is unperceivable to living beings but has great influence on inanimate objects. This is the reason why a failed spirit-forging wastes away the material. The success rate is based on the material's capacity to withstand this energy. This difficult step is called "creation guard", which Wulin somehows flukes through. Even a Saint Artisan only has 30% success rate. That's why blacksmiths tirelessly search for away to strengthen metal's durability and one such method is alloy.
Unlike the alloy used in mech suit, the spirit-forging alloy has to be manually forged by the blacksmith himself, which can creates something even better than spirit-forging. Therefore, Wulin will study alloy until he can create 10 types before proceeding to his 2nd spirit-forging.
Wulin feels that after he enters rank 5, his knowledge is reset to square 1. Wu Yu's lesson begins with the synthesize recipes, splitted into common and rare grade. Alloys of 2 to 3 metals are mostly done with common recipe. However, more than 3 metals require rare recipes, which are considered the top secrets in the blacksmith world.
In this stage, inheritance is important as even the most common recipes need to be bought. Fortunately, both Wu Yu and Mu Chen have amassed a trove throughout their careers. Wu Yu's teaching is different from Mu Chen's. While Mu Chen is very patient, the elder has a short temper that won't tolerate mistake. After 4 hours and a lot of yellings, Wulin is dead hungry and asks to leave for dinner. Wu Yu tells him to return for another 3 hours as his alloys' ratio is still inconsistent. After Wulin leaves, the anger on Wu Yu's face turn to smile as the old man dances around. He exclaims that Wulin is a monster as he has made great progress just on his 1st try. Incidentally, the relic that Wu Yu gave him is named tens-thousand-year Jade Marrow.
Mu Chen is surprised Wu Yu is teaching alloys as this is rank 6's knowledge, which requires 6 types of dual-metal alloys and 3 types of tri-metal alloys. Mu Chen tells Wulin to demonstrate what he has learned and the teacher will give pointers. Mu Chen explains that creating spiritual alloys is a huge step toward Saint Artisan. Wulin forges his specialty, heavy silver mixed with magic silver. He first hundred-forges the heavy silver then the magic silver. He then switches to dual-forging on both pieces, an advanced technique, while calling out his spirit. Mu Chen is surprised Wulin has reached lv30 so fast. Slowly, the 2 pieces merge together as Wulin shift from heavy to light strikes. He spins the single piece around while striking it, another technique called total forging.
Mu Chen thought that Wulin would forge using his brute strength like before but it seems his student has picked up some new tricks. Mu Chen is astonished again when Wulin shows he can forge without using spirit power as crutches. This technique, while requires a lot of control, minimizes consumption as spirit power is only spent on the metal itself. After an hour, Wulin is still going strong. It takes 3 hours until he reaches his limit. Taking a deep breath, Wulin activates Golden Dragon Body and begins the final stretch. As his strikes rain down, the white light originally covering the metal is replaced with a golden glow forming a whirlpool. Finally, Wulin withdraws 1 of his hammers and throws down the final strike yelling "Up!". From the middle of the whirlpool, a white light flies up 5m in the sky. As the light reaches it apex, some blue vines coil around it like a flower blooming as a golden light rises another 3m up. It is completed, 1st-grade spiritual thousand-forging. Mu Chen shouts that it is actually spirit-rising fusion-forging. Wulin smiles as this is his first successful alloy.
The scene before was Wulin's spirit-rising, symbolizing a complete fusion: the blue vines were his BSG and the golden light is his Golden Dragon. A rise of 3m is very special as even 1m is impressive. The white, blue and golden light lasts for 20 seconds. In the middle is Wulin's alloy, Jade Silver. Mu Chen evaluates it at 91% harmony rate. Wulin is disappointed that it is so low but Mu Chen explains that 60% is considered a successful alloy. Even a Saint Artisan can't guarantee 90%. Wulin asks if he can take the alloy home.
Mu Chen allows him as alloy has a special property that they can be re-forged multiple times. Mu Chen wonders how to educate Wulin from now on to match his potential. Mu Chen tells Wulin to only come once a month to study. The master decides to gift his notebook containing the recipes and knowledge he has accumulated. He also changes Wulin's 4-star orange medal to a 5-star white one. The new medal is spirit-forged by Mu Chen. It has the special effect "mental focused" that stimulates Soul force's growth and keeps the user focused. The 5 purple stars themselves are soul-forged so Wulin can feel out the next level of forging. After some more bantering, Wulin leaves to the dorm.
Wulin visits Zheng Yu's room. Their relationship turns sour after Wulin asked to change the trade conditions from the 2 one-thousand-year relics to a two-thousand-year relic. Wulin decides to make peace with a piece of Meteorite Iron, which seems to loosen Zheng Yu's expression. Moreover, Wulin also flashes his 5-star medal, surprising Zheng Yu who lunges at his shirt. At this moment, the passing by Xie Xie sees the whole scene, wondering what the 2 boys are doing. His eyes go wide when Zheng Yu crouches down. Wulin pushes away the astonished Zheng Yu whom has confirmed the medal's validity. Wulin turns to leave, discreetly dropping the Jade Silver. Attracted by the pecuiliar clang, Zheng Yu is surprised yet again by the alloy piece. Zheng Yu asks to do its appraisal, hooked in by Wulin's bait. Wulin heads the canteen in a good mood, not noticing Xie Xie who takes a gulp then leaves.
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After dinner, Wulin performs a series of training, starting with the BSG, Tang Sect techniques, dragon mode to his version of Long Jing Tian. Long Jing Tian is only 1/3 completed, failing midway. Wulin decides to train Mysterious Heaven art to recover.
At the dorm, Xie Xie rushes to Gu Yue who has just returned. He asks to speak to her in private, shooing Xiaoyan away. Xie Xie has 2nd though but Gu Yue forces him to spit it out. He is just about to talk when Yuan En passes by. She and Gu Yue exchange nods. Xie Xie wants to whisper into Gu Yue's ear but she makes him speak out loud. Xie Xie says Wulin is in an illicit relationship with Zheng Yu. In the distance, Yuan En breaks the door grip while Gu Yue is frozen. Xie Xie tells Gu Yue to prepare an intervention for her sake. Gu Yue's feet are unsteady as she is still in disbelief. Xie Xie describes what he saw as Gu Yue's face turns grey-white. She runs like the wind to Wulin's training spot in the woods.
Gu Yue grabs Wulin's lapel and asks him to explain. Because Wulin doesn't undertand, Gu Yue questions, smiling shakily, why he likes men. Wulin's eyes go wide, denying Gu Yue's claim. Gu Yue seems to have finally calmed down and blushes, telling Wulin the culprit. Wulin grits his teeth and goes to find Xie Xie. Xie Xie obliviously asks if he has met Gu Yue.
Wulin tells Xie Xie to follow him into the wood for an "explanation" to Xiaoyan's confusion. Bitter screams echo from among the tree. When they return, Xie Xie doesn't have any visible wounds but he is clearly shakened. Gu Yue explains to Xiaoyan what Xie Xie did and turns to him. It's her turn to do the "explanation. More screams ring out from the wood. Wulin was holding back but not Gu Yue. Xie Xie's face looks like a dumpling.
The next morning, Gu Yue tells Wulin about Xiaoyan's situation. She needs a high-quality thousand-year familiar but it is too expensive though can be obtained another way. Gu Yue says they should attempt the Tower Assault challenge.
The participants can climb 108 floors of the Familiar Tower situated at the Pagoda HQ. Clearing a floor allows the challengers to buy familiars on that floor at 50% discount. The participants can be the Pagoda's staff like Gu Yue or people with potential who have been cleared by the Pagoda. Gu Yue can help them with the latter. The Tower's challenge can be undertaken with a team of 7 as max with difficulty correspondingly adjusted. Thousand-year familiars can be found up to floor 18. From floor 18 to floor 36 are tens-thousand-year familiars. Floor 36 and above have the strongest tens-thousand-year Spirit Beasts. The last 9 floors are those on par with the Great Beasts. The challenge has a maximum age of 30yo. Moreover, participants must be within a 3-year gap.
Xie Xie with his swollen face chimes in why he hasn't heard of anything this good. Gu Yue glares as him, saying the challenge is only available at the Pagoda HQ. Gu Yue then tells Wulin to find 3 more people while the background checks are being done. The 3-year gap dashes Wulin's plan of inviting Wukong, limits his choice to up to the 2nd grade. Xie Xie recommends Yuan En but he is stared at by the others because their relationship is not that good.
Wulin narrows down the candidates to Zi Duo, Gui Xing, Yu Cheng, Nian Xia, Zheng Yu and Yuan En. However, Xiaoyan makes a request not to recruit anyone in their grade as she doesn't want the secret of Star Wheel Ice Scepter to come out among their competition. Therefore, Wulin decides on Zheng Yu and Yuan En. For the last spot, Wulin whispers a name that earns everyone's approval.
Wulin visits Zheng Yu, who is in a better mood. He tries to hug Wulin's shoulder, whom dodges because of yesterday's incident. Zheng Yu offers to make a contract with Wulin. He would provide 2 tons of Heavy Silver and Magic Silver in return for any products that exceed 90% harmony rate. They will negotiate the final price. Wulin asks for time to consider but he will sell his piece of Jade Silver as the piece is only thousand-forged. Zheng Yu agrees, promising the material will arrive within 3 days.
It seems that the appraisal's result has surprised Zheng Yu's family. ~90% rate is the best their clan's Saint Artisan can do. Even so, the Holy Angel clan promotes independence among its youths so Zheng Yu has limited access to such items. Moreover, Zheng Yu is fascinated with Jade Silver as it has great compatibility with him, raising both elemental and physical attributes. Additionally, for each 5% above a 60% harmony rate, the alloy has an additional chance to be re-forged with another type metal. 91% means 6 additional types of metal despite it only being thousand-forged.
Wulin also brings up the Tower Assault matter, offerring Zheng Yu the remaining piece of Meteorite Iron. Zheng Yu agrees. Wulin leaves the room but hesitates to go to Yuan En's. He decides to delay the matter.
Shrek Academy has a very peculiar style of teaching despite its wide variety of training facilities. Students are expected to be independent in their training with minimal guide from teachers. For Wulin, with a plant-type spirit, he mostly utilized a training dimension called Tens-thousand-tree Forest(a Buddhism concept for "all things in existence") that doubled his effiency. In return, it costs 500 points/hour. Other than him, Gu Yue, Xie Xie and Xiaoyan are also very busy, with Xiaoyan making the most effort.
Before a 2-day vacation, Wulin visits Yuan En. She coldly greets him if he is there to pay and nearly slams the door on him. Wulin manages to wedge in a 70% piece of Jade Silver into the door, attracting her attention. Yuan En changes her tone when she knows Wulin has reached rank 5. Wulin says his exclusive deal for her still stands; the 20k fine is her deposit. He then explains Xiaoyan's situation. On hearing about the Tower Assault, Yuan En's eyes light up. She agrees to join as long as she also gets a right to pick a familiar. Wulin is surprised that Yuan En is lv40. He replies that he needs to talk with the others.
Back at their room, Xiaoyan wants to refuse because she doesn't want to put too much on Gu Yue. However, the others approve Yuan En's condition, with Xie Xie being the most enthusiastic. Xiaoyan glares at him as Xie Xie has been hopelessly doing chores for Yuan En. Gu Yue changes the topic back, saying that she can't guarantee Yuan En's request will be accepted.
There is a knock on the door. It's Xu La Zhi, who has grown to 1m8 tall with a very rotund shape. A couple of days ago, Wulin called him for recruitment and he readily agreed with no conditions. La Zhi congratulates everyone on making it to Shrek as a co-op students. Xiaoyan asks about the inner school situation. It seems they are making huge changes as the inner school would only accept armor masters from then on. Students like La Zhi will be transferred out into the outer school. La Zhi says to call him whenever they are ready. Xiaoyan thanks him from the bottom of her heart, making him blush. Wulin invites La Zhi for dinner. A legend is born in the Shrek Academy as for the first time, the academy has run out of food even with extra preparation for Wulin. Xiaoyan helps as a waitress out of gratefulness to La Zhi and the plates soon pile into mountains. La Zhi has been training to catch up to Wulin. Because of a relic, he has turned into his current size. As a result, they are equal rivals; both still hungry after the canteen is out. La Zhi is jealous Wulin doesn't get fat from that much food. He invites everyone to a noodle store. Gu Yue rubs her forehead and refuses the invitation as she remembers Zi Duo's words. In the end, only the 2 food friends happily march out of the academy.
The store owner is a middle-aged man of average size. He has short hair, bronze-colored skin and a muscular body. It seems La Zhi is a regular. He orders 20 special-size bowls. The owner is surprised that there is someone who is match for La Zhi. He leads the 2 to a private room. The store has a classical, quaint feeling and is half-full. Wulin's nose tells him the food is not that simple. The noodles are served to Wulin's table. The bowl is 1m in diameter, with a spicy smell that stimulates the appetite. Swallowing the first spoonful, Wulin feels very hot inside. He sweats profusely and can't comfortably talk as his spirit power starts rumbling. La Zhi explains the owner uses a lot of special ingredient. Wulin's eyes go wide when he hears the price, 2k points or 20k federal coins a bowl. Thankfully, La Zhi has more than enough points to cover. The meal costs 40k points. La Zhi notices he has beaten Wulin though their methods of digestion are different: Wulin burns food for energy while La Zhi stores it. Wulin says farewell to La Zhi; both of them intend to work off the food.
On the way back, Wulin feels his spirit power is beginning to rampage. He makes it into the woods near the dorm when the golden ring escapes. Wulin starts to circulate his qi according to Long Jing Tian. 10 days of training only lets him complete 50% of the cycle but there is a huge improvement today. There are loud dragon roars as Golden Dragon Body activates on its own. His internal organs are on fire as his clothes burn to cinder except for the forging medal which keeps Wulin awake. The roars get even louder as Wulin's body seems to expand.
Reaching 80% of the cycle, Wulin hits a bottleneck. The qi begins to gather at his chest, overloading into a time bomb. Old Tang rings out, telling him to send the excess qi to Jin Guang the snake. Wulin listens and slowly returns to normal. Old Tang tells him he is far from the next breakthrough and to be patient as his body is full of wonders. Wulin goes into deep meditation. After some unknown amount of time, he wakes up and sees a cute schoolgirl sleeping under a tree. The scene strikes something in Wulin. The girl opens her eyes and smiles at Wulin. It's Gu Yue who has been keeping watch on him. Wulin rubs her hair and tells her to go back to the dorm with him. For some reason, he doesn't want to say thank.
At noon, Gu Yue leaves to the Pagoda HQ while everyone continues their daily routine. Gu Yue returns long after dark but she has managed to secure the 2 spots for familiar rights, to Xie Xie's celebration. They plan to begin the challenge after the next day's breakfast. Xiaoyan clenches her fist and resolves herself.
The next day, the 7 members have gathered at the co-op students' dorm. Yuan En stands the farthest away from the rest, especially Zheng Yu. Zheng Yu and Wulin are discussing something while Gu Yue comforts Xiaoyan. Xie Xie's eyes keep wander to and away from Yuan En with a distinct fear in his eyes. Wulin finally begins the meeting and asks for any special request. Yuan En replies that they have to continue to help her after getting Xiaoyan's familiar. She adds that she doesn't want to be under Zheng Yu's command. Zheng Yu glares harshly but Wulin pulls him aside. Zheng Yu agrees for Wulin to be leader because of Wulin's 2 words: Jade Silver. La Zhi states he is there for support and hang out with the group.
Noticing the red letters on La Zhi's uniform signifying the inner school, Zheng Yu and Yuan don't dare to underestimate him. Wulin plans their alpha strike formation. Wulin, Yuan En and Zheng Yu are the power attack frontline in that order from left to right. Xie Xie on agility attack. Wulin is the main controller while Gu Yue is the secondary controller. Gu Yue and Xiaoyan are the long-range fire support. La Zhi is on buff/medic. Zheng Yu gets his limo for them and calls shotgun. In the backseat, La Zhi, Wulin and Gu Yue are on one side while the rest are on the other. Xie Xie is sandwiched between Xiaoyan and Yuan En. His mind begins to wander when Yuan En threatens to kill him with a whisper. Xie Xie loudly denies, getting everyone's attention. Yuan En blushes and pinches his knee, twisting the skin 180 degrees. Xie Xie doesn't dare to complain.
On the other side, Wulin is also in a uncomfortable position. The fat La Zhi squishes him and Gu Yue to one side, making her partly sits on Wulin's lap. Both of them blush red and don't dare to look at each other. Thankfully, the limo quickly arrives at their destination.
The HQ tower is a sight to behold. It is one the reasons why Shrek city has such a high position on the continent. The Pagoda HQ is the only territory not under Shrek Academy's control though they do have a good relationship. Even the Federation itself is wary of their cooperation, which is why the 3 powers maintain a cordial relation. The Pagoda doesn't involve itself in politics and doesn't maintain a standing spirit masters force. Its leadership only consists of 36 people while the staffing spirit masters number around 3000 people, which by themselves are not much a threat to the Federation. This structure established by the founder, Spirit Ice Douluo, allows the Pagoda to develop quickly within ten thousand years with the Federation's support.
The HQ tower is a sight to behold. It is one the reasons why Shrek city has such a high position on the continent. The Pagoda HQ is the only territory not under Shrek Academy's control though they do have a good relationship. Even the Federation itself is wary of their cooperation, which is why the 3 powers maintain a cordial relation. The Pagoda doesn't involve itself in politics and doesn't maintain a standing spirit masters force. Its leadership only consists of 36 people while the staffing spirit masters number around 3000 people, which by themselves are not much a threat to the Federation. This structure established by the founder, Spirit Ice Douluo, allows the Pagoda to develop quickly within ten thousand years with the Federation's support.
Gu Yue guides the group to the Familiar Tower, explaining that the tower is actually a simulated space within the Spirit Ascension Chamber. Zheng Yu is impressed that Gu Yue's medal helps them pass the security checks so fast. Wulin notices a drawing of the Spirit Ice Douluo and the Dragon Butterfly Douluo. Gu Yue leads them to a red elevator opened by her medal. Zheng Yu observes that this elevator is for high-ranking members only and asks about Gu Yue's true positions within the organization. Gu Yue shakes her head and refuses to explain. On arrival, she calls someone on the phone and then leads the group to a silver door. After a knock, they all enters. Greeting them from behind a desk is a ~30yo slender woman with long messy red hair. She welcomes the group and introduces herself as Leng Yao Zhu, Gu Yue's master. She then takes over the role of guiding to the Familiar Tower. Zheng Yu seems to be familiar with her name but can't seem to recall. Wulin tries to asks Gu Yue but she only smiles at him. Wulin realizes Yao Zhu is a great character within the Pagoda as the staffs are all very respectful to her.
Yao Zhu stops at a golden elevator, which takes them to a huge round square. In the middle is a tall tower where hundreds of staff are working. On top is a 15m tall golden gate. Yao Zhu points the group to the gate and says she has prepared everything. Everyone thanks her as Yao Zhu advises them to be careful for their first entry. Yao Zhu has especially taken notice of Wulin and lightly smiles at him. She sighs and expresses her regret that Wulin has joined Tang Sect instead of the Pagoda. She then orders the staff to open the Familiar Tower. Zheng Yu finally recalls Yao Zhu's identity but Wulin has already stepped inside the gate. After the group has all entered, Yao Zhu reminiscises about her past unrequited love because of Wulin and Gu Yue.
Yao Zhu stops at a golden elevator, which takes them to a huge round square. In the middle is a tall tower where hundreds of staff are working. On top is a 15m tall golden gate. Yao Zhu points the group to the gate and says she has prepared everything. Everyone thanks her as Yao Zhu advises them to be careful for their first entry. Yao Zhu has especially taken notice of Wulin and lightly smiles at him. She sighs and expresses her regret that Wulin has joined Tang Sect instead of the Pagoda. She then orders the staff to open the Familiar Tower. Zheng Yu finally recalls Yao Zhu's identity but Wulin has already stepped inside the gate. After the group has all entered, Yao Zhu reminiscises about her past unrequited love because of Wulin and Gu Yue.
The 7 people have arrived inside a huge otherwordly palace. After the gate disappears behind them, a marvelous scene greets them. In front of their eyes is a hologram tower rising above the clouds.
The hologram disappears. The group realizes they are in the center of an octagonal arena-like room of 300m diameter. There are 8 metal gates distributed on 4 sides of the room. Each gate is 10m in height and 5m in width. Wulin orders the frontline to go into triangle formation while the rest stand in the middle. La Zhi releases his spirit, 3P. He chants the incitation "I have a pork dumpling" for his 1st skill that has an recovery effect, hands the buns out then sits down for meditation. Wulin grabs 3 and gulps down 2. The gates begin to open, each revealing around a dozen of hostiles. Xie Xie identifies them as wolf-type beasts specializing in pack attack. Wulin releases his BSG, covering more than 100m^2. Gu Yue reminds everyone to save their power as the battles are non-stop.
The enemies' figure are finally revealed. They are called Wind Wolves, numbering more than a hundred strong. They slowly begin to close the circle around the 7. Wulin tells the group to leave them to him and Gu Yue. The others withdraw their spirits while Wulin shoots out a BSG and drags a wolf to him. Right on cue, the wolves unleash their only skill, Wind Blade, though the sheer number makes it a storm. Gu Yue summons earth walls in every direction except for Wulin's, blocking the wolves's attacks. On his part, Wulin thrusts his right hands into the ground and flips the floor up like a makeshift shield. He then activates the BSG array, immobilizing the wolves. Gu Yue shoots an ice beam into the sky which splits into a storm of the icicles. Each icicle precisely pierce through the wolves' eyes, wiping them all out instantly. Zheng Yu and Yuan En look upon Gu Yue with fear as she perfectly times her attack with Wulin. Wulin realizes Gu Yue's Soul Force has grown again, improving her control to inhuman level.
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An electronic voice announces that they have cleared the first round and can choose to absorb the familar within 10 seconds. A light gate appears near the Wind Wolf's silhouette. The team decides to pass into the gate going to the 2nd floor. They arrive on a similar floor, but this time there are 8 hundreds-year Fire Demon Lions, the strongest only 500yo. Xie Xie volunteers. He quickly slays the 1st one with a stab to the back of the head aided by his proficient Ghost Steps. 4 of the remainders charge at Xie Xie while 3 go for the others. Xie Xie takes out another one of the 4 while wounding the other 3 with his speed. Right before the 3 other lions reach Wulin's group, a dark shadow appears in their path and kills them all. It's Xie Xie's Shadow Dragon Clone. The clone regroups with Xie Xie as they also take out the remaining 3. Wulin observes that Xie Xie has cancelled the recall of the clone so they can regroup faster, showing his mastery of the technique. Xie Xie returns to the team and smiles at Yuan En but she glares at him and says he is in the way.
An electronic voice announces that they have cleared the first round and can choose to absorb the familar within 10 seconds. A light gate appears near the Wind Wolf's silhouette. The team decides to pass into the gate going to the 2nd floor. They arrive on a similar floor, but this time there are 8 hundreds-year Fire Demon Lions, the strongest only 500yo. Xie Xie volunteers. He quickly slays the 1st one with a stab to the back of the head aided by his proficient Ghost Steps. 4 of the remainders charge at Xie Xie while 3 go for the others. Xie Xie takes out another one of the 4 while wounding the other 3 with his speed. Right before the 3 other lions reach Wulin's group, a dark shadow appears in their path and kills them all. It's Xie Xie's Shadow Dragon Clone. The clone regroups with Xie Xie as they also take out the remaining 3. Wulin observes that Xie Xie has cancelled the recall of the clone so they can regroup faster, showing his mastery of the technique. Xie Xie returns to the team and smiles at Yuan En but she glares at him and says he is in the way.
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The members alternate clearing the next 6 rounds but the beasts don't seem to have much difference in strength. The 8th round has six 2-thousand-year beasts but they are blown away by Yuan En.
The members alternate clearing the next 6 rounds but the beasts don't seem to have much difference in strength. The 8th round has six 2-thousand-year beasts but they are blown away by Yuan En.
In the 9th round, Wulin orders everyone to fight as a group. There are only 4 gates. The opponents are four 3-thousand-year Ice Bear Kings. Gu Yue warns that they have reached a milestone so this round will be the toughest. She asks Xiaoyan if she wants this familiar. Xiaoyan has a weird look in her eyes as she call the bears cute while everyone stares at her, wondering who picks familiar based on cuteness. The 4 bears have a cold look in their eyes while the surrounding temperature drops. They don't immediately attack but gather together first. Wulin realizes these guys are smart. The 3 frontliners begin their attack. However, the bears manage to group-conjure a terrible blizzard. From the center of the team's formation, a flame erupts to resist the cold.
Gu Yue quickly runs out of spirit power resisting the blizzard. Wulin tells her to stop overexerting herself. He activates Purple Demon Eyes and leads the team into the blizzard to kill the bears. Yuan En activates her 3rd skill, Diamond Titan to block the ice. Xiaoyan conjures some moon circles to take away the snow, reducing the pressure. On Wulin's approach, the ice bears run away in different directions. Wulin strengthens his eyes even more, ordering Xiaoyan to lead Zheng Yu and Yuan En in pursuit while Gu Yue stays behind to protect Xie Xie and La Zhi. Wulin manages to catch the slowest with Purple Demon Eyes' Mental Assault, cancelling its blizard and slowing it down. Wulin also tries to tie it up with BSG but the bear frees itself with a claw strike. It curls into a ball, freezes the ground then rolls away. Wulin jumps in front of the bear and activates Dragon Claw, now aided with Long Jing Tian internal style. The bear uncurls and attacks, the two claws clash. Wulin gets blown backward but the bear has its right front leg destroyed. Wulin goes into Golden Dragon Body and attacks again while the bear turns into a giant ice ball with a skill. On collision, Wulin takes several steps backward but the Ice Bear King explodes into fine mist as the blizzard weakens. However, Wulin is spent as Golden Dragon Body + Long Jing Tian cost too much.
The other 3 bears panic and get taken care of by Zheng Yu and Yuan En. However, Wulin stops Yuan En from killing the last one and ties it up to buy the group time to rest. Wulin turns to Xiaoyan and asks her to make a decision regarding the bear.
Xiaoyan readily agrees and gets to work on the bear. Wulin rushes La Zhi for 10 dumplings to which he sarcastically replies that he sells dumpling, not transports. Wulin laughs and chows down, recovering his qi. La Zhi's 1st skill's main effect is recovering physical stamina, not spirit power. For Wulin, stamina equals to qi. Adding the fact that La Zhi doesn't cost a lot, they make a good combo. The team aside from Xiaoyan continue to rest.
On Xiaoyan's side, she is petting the bear and apologizes to it though the bear still has a cold demeanor. She asks the bear how it wants to die, reminding it of how Wulin gibbed one of its compatriots. She then conjures an icicle on top of her scepter, turning it into a spear aiming at the bear's eye. The bear is finally afraid and desperately begs for mercy. The Ice Bear King surrenders and willingly becomes Xiaoyan's familiar. Xiaoyan smirks as she only aims to tease the bear. However, she feels there is something different between a willingly surrendered familiar and a Pagoda's familiar. After telling the rest to continue moving, an ice mist begins to cover her body.
Gu Yue tells Wulin they still need to help Yuan En and to leave Xiaoyan behind so she can meditate. La Zhi is spent from making dumplings, dozens of which solely go to Wulin. The remaining 6 enter the 10th round. On Xiaoyan's part, the ice mist begins to consolidate into an ice bear's form. A golden star emerges on her forehead.
The next arena only has a single metal gate, but it is 30m tall and 20m wide. Yuan En's eyes shine. She can handle a 6k yo familiar as her 4th ring. Yuan En aims for strength-oriented familiar for the Titan Ape spirit. Wulin orders everyone to be careful as their opponent is only one. A black-scaled 10m tall 2-headed(or atennas) reptile with a giant tail appears from the gate. Xie Xie identifies it as a Demon Lizard Dragon (I guess like a Komodo?). It is an dark-element ancient beast often compared to the Demon Man-faced Spider in term of cruelty, often going on unnecessary rampage and thus ostracized by other beasts. The dragon lets out a sharp roar that irritates the brain, taking down Xie Xie and La Zhi who have the lowest Soul Force level. Wulin yells out to leave it to him.
Yuan En and Zheng Yu protest, but Gu Yue tells them to leave it be and recover their soul force. The Demon Dragon Lizard screeches again and leaps at Wulin, with it's 6 wings flaring out as it flies. Just as it's about to bite him, Wulin releases his golden dragon body, and the aura of the Golden Dragon King stuns the dragon lizard and causes it to fall out of the air. Wulin then immediately pierces it's brain with his golden dragon terror, while Yuan En and Zheng Yu look on stunned. Wulin feels the strength of the dragon being absorbed by his golden dragon power, and notices that his inverse blood flow technique should be able to reach 85% now. He suspects that these are true spirit beasts, instead of just beast souls. Declining to absorb the spirit ring, they continue to the next floor, where they adapt a triangular defensive formation again. The air dries up, and Wulin senses something is off, quickly erecting a blue silver grass barrier above the group as a lightning blast rains down. They are able to see the spirit beast now, it is far smaller than the others, with a bright yellow body looking similar to a squirrel but with large blue-purple eyes and a lightning bolt shaped tail. Xie Xie exclaims that it is a Raiju, an extremely rare spirit beast.
The Raiju conjures another bolt. Yuan En releases her Fallen Angel spirit and flies toward the squirrel with the demon sword, her 2nd skill, in hand. Wulin, who has recovered from paralysis, helps by dragging the Raiju toward her. At the same time, Zheng Yu shoots out Holy Light, which attracts Yuan En's sword as they collide in friendly fire. Seeing the chaos among its opponent, the Raiju escapes from Wulin's BSG. Xie Xie gives chase while Gu Yue supports him with wind blades. When Xie Xie finally catches up, the Raiju's eyes flash purple. A 1m diamelter thunderball seems to have dissolved Xie Xie. On careful inspection, Wulin finds that Xie Xie barely survived thanks to his clone's sacrifice. This intelligent Raiju estimated at 5000yo is no easy foe. Wulin uses his BSG to regroup the team as the beast is way out of their range. Wulin begins to prepare Long Jing Tian, scaring the Raiju. Meanwhile, Zheng Yu and Yuan En are arguing and blaming each other. Zheng Yu reveals that there are no tens-thousand-year Raiju because they are hunted by other spirit beast to prevent it from becoming strong. Xie Xie chimes in that they need cooperate as at least a Spirit King can 1v1. Wulin orders the team to wait for an opportunity. The Raiju charges up from a 100m distance into a volt tackle. Suddenly, Wulin's eyes flash brightly as a golden light emerges from his body and enters the BSG. The BSG grows into thigh-size, covered with scales. At the tip are distinctive snake heads, ferociously charging at the lightning bolt.
Both Yuan En and Zheng Yu realizes Wulin is using a Familiar Fusion skill, which normally only occurs in a 2nd or 3rd familiar with high compatibility. This is Wulin's 3rd skill, Blue Silver Golden Light Array. A thunderbolt strikes the BSG again to little effect as the electricity is dispersed into the ground. Gu Yue realizes the snake possesses Elemental Guidance. While Jin Guang's version is only passive, as long the damage doesn't exceed its limit, it is impervious to elemental attacks. Annoyed, the Raiju calls down a storm of bolts but they keep getting dispersed. Wulin realizes that his consumption is lower than the Raiju's. Additionally, the 3rd skill also partly uses Wulin's qi. Jin Guang is just mercilessly taunting the Raiju now. Xie Xie suggests that it be renamed to Chatterbox. Gu Yue knocks him on the head and suggests Jin Yu (Golden Word) to Wulin's exasperation. The snake seems to be satisfied with Gu Yue's idea. Wulin complies.
What they didn't realize is how worshipped the Jin Yu name will become on the continent. At the moment though, the Raiju stops it assault and prepares a suicide attack. Wulin tells Yuan En to use her Titan Ape form. She activates Diamond Titan. A 1m thunder ball drops down from the sky toward Jin Yu. Jin Yu just shakes it tail as the golden light array coils around the ball as layers of electricity are removed. Gu Yue's eyes go wide again as this is the upgraded form of Elemental Guidance, Elemental Strip. It is an anti-elemental technique as well as one of the most coveted for element users. The array is just not designed for defence but also offense. Wulin is almost spent as his BSG begins to falter. Right as this moment, Yuan En uses her 2nd skill, Air Cannon. The shell collides with the thunder ball, sending the Raiju flying. Wulin finally cancels the array as little Jin Yu is also exhausted. Zheng Yu follows up with Judgement, knocking the Raiju to the ground while Xie Xie goes in for the kill. However, he is knocked back by a light that takes the Raiju away. The electronic voice announces they have passed the 10th round. La Zhi quickly supplies new dumplings and is scared by Wulin's intense gaze. To Wulin's confusion, there is no 10s limit this time until another 10 minutes pass. Gu Yue explains that her master told her to discover for themselves the tower's secret. Before they pass into the gate, La Zhi hands each member a bean dumpling made from his 3rd skill. To Wulin's question, La Zhi tells him he would explain in the next round.
The bean dumplings' ability is Bloodthirsty. It increases physical abilities by 30%-50%, depending on the spirit type, and spirit power by 20%. The time limit is 3 minutes. Afterward, there is a recovery period, about 10 minutes for Wulin and up to an hour for the others. Additionally, Wulin himself can eat 2 bean dumplings to double the Bloodthirsty effect but reduce limit to 1 minute and increase the recovery time to a day. The others would die if they eat 2.
Their next opponent is a 10m tall, 5m wide 5-thousand-year Diamond Baboon. It is on the same level as Yuan En's Titan Ape aside from intelligence. Its only skill is Berserk, which boosts all physical attributes by 50%. Yuan En is satisfied with the Baboon. She is the first to enter combat, aided by the wind.
On seeing Yuan En's Titan Ape form, the Baboon rages, recalling the blood feud between the 2 nemesis species. Ever since ancient times, the Titan Apes had dominated the Diamond Baboons because of the difference in intelligence. However, a long time ago, one Diamond Baboon mutated and developed cunning. It rallied its , which far outnumbered the Titan Apes. The war lasted for hundreds of years before the Titan Ape's Pyrrhic victory after the intelligent Baboon.
Under the Bloodthirsty effect and the Titan Ape's instinct, Yuan En charges headfirst at the Baboon. Wulin switches to Dragon mode and follows her while Xie Xie sighs at Yuan En's eagerness and goes to the flank. Zheng Yu is behind them in the air, readying his 2nd skill with sword in hand. Gu Yue starts preparing her attacks. The 2 monkeys finally meet in a strength contest. Yuan En is blown away but the Baboon also moves back a few steps. Wulin has also arrived. Under the bean dumpling's effect, Long Jing Tian has risen to 90%. Underestimating him, the Baboon tries to slap him out of the air like a fly. As a result, it has a new 50cm diameter hole on its right hand, which is only 1m5 big, thanks to the Dragon Claw's destruction attribute. Zheng Yu follows with Holy Light, burning the dark-element beast. The Baboon finally activates Berserk, still fixated on Yuan En. She warns the group Berserk should last around 10 minutes while running away. Wulin tells Zheng Yu to hold back the bean dumpling. Gu Yue has finally done preparing a large amount of tri-element icicles while Yuan En is buying time. Wulin orders Yuan En to fly up with her fallen angel spirit and Zheng Yu to follow him toward Gu Yue's group.
Xie Xie and Gu Yue prepare to move while La Zhi begins creating more dumplings. Under Gu Yue's buff, Zheng Yu barely manages to carry the 4 into the sky. While Yuan En is trying to regroup, the Baboon gives chase by bouncing off a wall to get behind her. Gu Yue begins her assault, stopping it. Under the weight of 4 additional people, Zheng Yu just barely hovers in the air, so Wulin throws a BSG to Yuan En and has her help carry them up. The Baboon tries to reach La Zhi who is at the bottom but 60m proves too much. Yuan En then throws the no-fly group up toward the ceiling where Wulin creates a foothold for them to rest using the Dragon Claw and BSG. La Zhi uses his 2nd skill and creates some mini-dumplings that have the effect of lowering one's body weight.
Xie Xie and Gu Yue prepare to move while La Zhi begins creating more dumplings. Under Gu Yue's buff, Zheng Yu barely manages to carry the 4 into the sky. While Yuan En is trying to regroup, the Baboon gives chase by bouncing off a wall to get behind her. Gu Yue begins her assault, stopping it. Under the weight of 4 additional people, Zheng Yu just barely hovers in the air, so Wulin throws a BSG to Yuan En and has her help carry them up. The Baboon tries to reach La Zhi who is at the bottom but 60m proves too much. Yuan En then throws the no-fly group up toward the ceiling where Wulin creates a foothold for them to rest using the Dragon Claw and BSG. La Zhi uses his 2nd skill and creates some mini-dumplings that have the effect of lowering one's body weight.
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La Zhi gives recovery buns to Yuan En, and the group wait out the berserk state of the baboon while it furiously leaps but is unable to reach them. Wulin and Yuan En's bloodthirsty state ends and they are pale, but the recovery buns help. Seeing the baboon weaken, Zheng Yu releases himself from the BSG bindings and unleashes his ability, alternating active spirit rings and stunning Yuan En with it's power - the holy angel spirit is on a completely different level from her fallen angel spirit. With the baboon knocked down, Yuan En unleashes her titan ape bpody and leaps to attack its head, however the babboon's body shrinks and it narrowly avoids the hit, before launching a counterattack at Yuan En's chest. It fooled them and its berserk state had not ended. Suddenly, Yuan En's body disappears in a silver light, and the baboon's fist instead collides with a tornado of light and sends a figure covered in a water shield flying. At this, Zheng Yu attacks the baboon again, its berserk state truly over. Yuan En unleashes her air cannon, before attacking its head. Wulin looks to the figure that was sent flying, it was Xie Xie who had Gu Yue rescue Yuan En, and he countered with his light dragon storm. His mangled body has a clearly broken spine - the water shield could not do anything. As Wulin goes to pick up his body, the light shimmers and it disappears. Xie Xie had managed to protect himself with his light dragon avatar but falls to his knees and spits out a mouthful of blood as he still suffered some damage.
La Zhi gives recovery buns to Yuan En, and the group wait out the berserk state of the baboon while it furiously leaps but is unable to reach them. Wulin and Yuan En's bloodthirsty state ends and they are pale, but the recovery buns help. Seeing the baboon weaken, Zheng Yu releases himself from the BSG bindings and unleashes his ability, alternating active spirit rings and stunning Yuan En with it's power - the holy angel spirit is on a completely different level from her fallen angel spirit. With the baboon knocked down, Yuan En unleashes her titan ape bpody and leaps to attack its head, however the babboon's body shrinks and it narrowly avoids the hit, before launching a counterattack at Yuan En's chest. It fooled them and its berserk state had not ended. Suddenly, Yuan En's body disappears in a silver light, and the baboon's fist instead collides with a tornado of light and sends a figure covered in a water shield flying. At this, Zheng Yu attacks the baboon again, its berserk state truly over. Yuan En unleashes her air cannon, before attacking its head. Wulin looks to the figure that was sent flying, it was Xie Xie who had Gu Yue rescue Yuan En, and he countered with his light dragon storm. His mangled body has a clearly broken spine - the water shield could not do anything. As Wulin goes to pick up his body, the light shimmers and it disappears. Xie Xie had managed to protect himself with his light dragon avatar but falls to his knees and spits out a mouthful of blood as he still suffered some damage.
Meanwhile, Yuan En has killed the Baboon by twisting its neck backward. She is somewhat moved by Xie Xie's action and goes to him. Xie Xie tells her no prolem but she only curtly replies that he owes her nothing anymore. Wulin helps Xie Xie recover while La Zhi delivers the dumplings. In the decisive moment of the battle, Wulin had used Purple Demon Eyes's Mental Assault to create an opening for Xie Xie to escape. Under the pressure, Xie Xie managed to unconsciously fuse his 2nd and 3rd skill. With the battle over, Yuan En sits down to absorb her familiar. After 10 minutes, the gate closes. After 2 hours, they are transported out of the Familiar Tower.
Yao Zhu and Xiaoyan welcome them at the exit. Yao Zhu didn't expect they could complete 12 rounds and invites them to join the Pagoda. On their decline, she asks for payment: a discounted price of 10 million Federal coin for Xiaoyan's and 30 million Federal coin for Yuan En's, within a month deadline. After Yao Zhu leaves, Gu Yue confirms Zheng Yu's suspicion that she is the Heavenly Phoenix Douluo, a 4-word armor master.
Even among the Shrek Douluos that Wulin knows, there are no 4-word armor master or Limit Douluo. Moreover, according to Yuan En, Yao Zhu is also the vice-president of the Pagoda and vice-chairman of the Pagoda committee. Wulin looks at Gu Yue, whom smiles at him stubbornly. As they leave, Yuan En calls out to Wulin and tells him to pay her back the 20k points ASAP.
Back in Wulin's workshop, Zheng Yu has come to make payment. He doesn't have enough contribution points so Zheng Yu suggest Wulin can pay Yuan En back in 2 millions Federal coins at 100:1 exchange rate. Zheng Yu makes a deposit payment of exactly 2 millions Federal coins and some rare metal. Currently, Wulin has a 30% success rate of forging a spiritual alloy. Of the successes, they all exceed 60% harmony rate, 2 of which over 90% have been sold to Zheng Yu. Zheng Yu plans to use these >90% Jade Silver pieces for his 1-word armor suit, which can then be further level-up using alloy re-forge. While Wulin thinks this is a wasteful method, he admits that it is straightforward. For 2-word armor, either spiritual metal or spirit-forged metal is fine as long as the compatibility with the user is good.
Wulin spends the rest of the afternoon forging which depletes his stamina. At dinner, Gu Yue is concerned but Wulin tells her he has an idea and to gather the class committee at their workshop. After Zi Duo and Gui Xing arrived, Wulin explains he wants to use Zheng Yu's method of using alloy. Gui Xing refuses because it costs too much resource. Zi Duo also refuses as they would have to commit to the 90% alloy for the rest of the armor and she is unsure of Wulin's consistency. Wulin accepts their reasons but Gu Yue stubbornly backs him up. She reasons that they would still need spiritual metal for 2-word armor. While forging a spiritual 1-word armor is difficult, upgrading it to 2-word is still easier than forging anew. Zi Duo disagrees, telling Gu Yue she can gamble on her own and asking Wulin if the group is done. Gui Xing doesn't say anything but it's clear he is on Zi Duo's side. Wulin tries to be diplomatic and convinces Gu Yue otherwise but she sticks to her gun. Gu Yue angers Zi Duo by confirming her suspicion, saying they haven't liked each other since the beginning. Zi Duo leaves but is blocked by Gui Xing. He says that they should still keep relations as classmates and negotiate with Wulin that each would do their own part. However, if Gu Yue and Wulin wants to follow their own plan then Gui Xing and Zi Duo can't help them. Wulin readily agrees. When Gui Xing and Zi Duo leave, Gu Yue gets angry because it's clear that Gui Xing wants to get freebie. Wulin pacifies her, saying it's a chance for her to hone her design skill. Moreover, Gui Xing is right that they are classmate, not to mention the class committee.
Gu Yue is still in disagreement. Wulin smiles and says they will prove the doubters wrong. He suggests Gu Yue to pick Essence Gold as her 2nd metal. Together with Magic Silver, they form Spirit Gold, which is one of the best at boosting elemental effect. For himself, Wulin chooses Essence Iron. Together with Heavy Silver, they form Essence Silver, which has high durability and a martial spirit-strengthening effect. Moreover, the Essence Silver can gain many versatile effects after incorporating more metals. Gu Yue tells Wulin she will acquire the Essence Gold and Essence Iron. Wulin is surprised because he didn't know Gu Yue is that rich. He tries to convince her otherwise but Gu Yue assures him as she is the Pagoda's vice-master's main disciple. Wulin closes the matter and says that they will then help Xiaoyan and Xie Xie after they reach the manufacturing stage. Gu Yue leaves first, saying she needs more research for an improved design. Wulin wonders who to get for manufacturing as both Zi Duo and Gui Xing are clearly not good enough anyway.
Under the night sky, Gu Yue exits Shrek Academy like usual. A luxurious black limousine stops before her as a huge man exits and opens the door for Gu Yue. The inside is decorated with rare metal, jewelry, high-grade leather... Gu Yue tells the driver to prepare 10 tons of Essence Iron and Essence Gold each, to which he replies back calling her young lady. Gu Yue then orders him to go to the Pagoda. On arrival, Gu Yue goes straight to Yao Zhu's office. It seems Gu Yue's mother has just called Yao Zhu, worrying about Gu Yue. Gu Yue smiles, saying that no one dares touch her with Yao Zhu there. Yao Zhu changes the topic, saying she has discovered a secret of Yue Yue (Gu Yue's pet name). On Gu Yue's question, Yao Zhu simply replies the look in her eyes. Yao Zhu asks about Gu Yue's relationship with Wulin. She has done a background check on Wulin and is surprised by his potential even with the lowest-grade familiar. Yao Zhu assures Gu Yue she wouldn't interfere as their relationship is approved because Wulin has proved himself after making it to Shrek Academy. She still warns that it is too early for 14yo Gu Yue. Gu Yue blushes, insisting they are just friends. Yao Zhu brushes the matter aside, saying that she is intrigued by Wulin after his battle with the Lizard Dragon. There are signs of the True Dragon bloodline inside him yet he is seemingly not a dual-spirit holder. Even Gu Yue admits she doesn't really know but she is sure the dragon power is not from a 2nd spirit nor uses spirit power. Yao Zhu agrees that they should continue keeping eyes on him. She goes on to evaluate the 7-man group highly though sighs that all of them has joined Tang Sect. Gu Yue asks her to start as the 2 enter a metal door.
Yao Zhu asks if Gu Yue needs help with her power armor and guarantee she would finish a full set within half a year. Gu Yue declines as the door closes behind them.
Back at the dorm, Wulin finally comes back past midnight. The day has been exhausting but at the same time, Wulin has accomplished a lot. In the next span of time, Wulin and Gu Yue become incredibily busy. After receiving the metal from Gu Yue, Wulin wonders about their origin but doesn't pry. On the forging side, Wulin has been improving though Wu Yu still scolds him all the same. Only the Winged Dragon Douluo knows how much progress Wulin has made.
One day a month after the opening ceremony, Chen Yi announces that the 1st-grade are going to have an exhibition contest with the 2nd-grade, including all the 2nd professions as well as real combat. The students are going to be registering in group of at least three. Moreover, the committee will compete against the 2nd-grade in a 2nd professions match. Additionally, in any match, the 2nd-graders will have a handicap of 1 members, meaning if the 1st-grade send out 3 then the 2nd-grade can only send out 2. There will be an in-class tournament to select the best to go against the 2nd-grade. Chen Yi calls on Wulin to report back to her on the class's group registration. The students are excited as this is a opportunity to gain contribution points.
Gu Yue asks Wulin how they are going to group. Zi Duo and Gui Xing are afar, talking to Nian Xia. Recently, the 5 on the young genius chart along with some other students have been ostracizing Wulin and Gu Yue after their disagreement with Gui Xing and Zi Duo. Wulin would have liked to form a team with the 5 geniuses to fight against Yuan En and Zheng Yu but he resolves himself, telling Gu Yue they already have a team with Xiaoyan and Xie Xie. Gu Yue likes this confident look in Wulin's eyes. Just then, Chen Yi- who have left the class- returns with two people in tow. Wulin has a smirk on his face. Chen Yi announces that La Zhi and Xinglan are joining the 1st-grade. While there are applauses, there are also people dissatisfied with the surprise transfer students.
Xinglan has grown a lot in the last 3 years. The 13 yo is now 1m6 tall with a pair of long legs; her beauty only matched by Xiaoyan's, attracting the male students' attention. However, her eyes are still cold as before, giving out an untouchable vibe. Chen Yi tells the 2 that there are seats at the back of the class and to pick their own teams for the exhibition contest. After Chen Yi leaves, all eyes are on Xinglan. Wulin himself is still deeply impressed by the beating he got. Gui Xing try to pick her up but gets ignored. Wulin comes up to La Zhi and invites him in a way that makes people misundertand. La Zhi hushes Wulin while Gu Yue breaks into a laugh. La Zhi lowers his voice, asking Wulin to let Xinglan also join as the girl is a natural loner and La Zhi can't bear to see it. Wulin readily agrees.
Meanwhile, after Gui Xing was rejected, few groups dare to recruit Xinglan. In the class, while Wulin is the president, Gui Xing is more well-respected and a spot in his team is coveted among the students. Even with Wulin's show of strength, the 5 geniuses are still placed above him. This is because Wulin spends too much time training and not enough socializing.
Wulin comes up to Xinglan to say hi. He is quickly scolded by her for taking La Zhi on a Tower Assault. Gu Yue asks what she is going to do about it. Xinglan stays silent. Wulin finally asks Xinglan to join, reasons that the minimum is 3 people so the 2 transfers need a group. After her denial, Wulin asks her reason for training and baits her in by saying that there are strong people in the 2nd grade. Just then, a weird voice asks Wulin if he is confident. It's the Phosphorous Jade Serpent, Zheng Yin Ran. She announces that the 5 geniuses has linked up and they are going to take the representative spots. Xinglan obliviously asks what the young genius chart is. Yin Ran is shocked and arrogantly explains. Xinglan just shakes her head and say the 5 are serviceable if they are on the chart. Wulin suddenly find her cute. Yin Ran coldly smiles and challenges Xinglan and Wulin, taunting Wulin about his position. Wulin stops Gu Yue at his side. After Yin Ran leaves, the other students keep away from Wulin. It seems the 5 geniuses have united to ostracize him. Gui Xing comes up to Wulin and announces that he has asked the teachers to let him form his own group with Zi Duo. Wulin nonchalantly agrees. There is a glint in Gui Xing's eyes when he warns Wulin that the next days are going to be long. Wulin smiles and again agrees.
Xie Xie gets angry for Wulin. Wulin turns to Xinglan and tells her about the ostracization. He decides to give up on recruiting new members but Xinglan stops him, saying she prefers being a pariah. The 2 shake on it as the other students wonder if there is something wrong with the transfer students. Wulin then turns to the rest of the class and announces he is going to resign if he loses the tournament. He then turns to the 5 geniuses and emphasizes that if he wins then people should stop wasting words, while releasing a bit of his Golden Dragon aura. Wulin makes his way to the front of the class to do the registration; the others instinctively clear a path for him. Gui Xing is the 1st, signing up a 5-man group. The air is full of gunpowder. Others also come up to register, each with different positive and negative attitudes toward Wulin. After going through the whole class, Wulin dimisses the class and leaves with his new team. Many students get mad for the 5 Great s- the 5 geniuses's nickname. Nian Xia asks Gui Xing if Wulin has any backing but Yin Ran dismisses it as just boasting. She wants Wulin dethroned. Gui Xing, however, evaluates Wulin highly and wonders about Xinglan's strength. Zi Duo nonchalantly claims she can beat them all on her own, clearly forgetting something.
Wulin first goes to the teachers' offices to hand in his report. He doesn't mention anything else to the 2 teachers. They go to Wulin's workshop. Wulin first apologizes to the team for causing problem but Gu Yue dismisses it as an eventuality from the 5 Greats. Wulin smiles and explains to everyone about his and Gu Yue's training plan and invites them to join. He also states his intent to request the teachers for them to be in a new group. Xinglan is interested upon hearing about the power armor. After Gu Yue and Wulin finish explaining about the alloys, Xie Xie and Xiaoyan scratch their heads while La Zhi and Xinglan are impressed. The latter 2 agree to help. Xie Xie admits to Wulin that he won't be much help with his 2nd profession's level. Wulin tells him to be patient as they have a full 6 years for their 1st power armor. He then turns to La Zhi and Xinglan and asks about their 2nd career.
La Zhi is a level 4 repairman while Xinglan is a level 4 manufacturer, precisely what Wulin needs. Wulin tells Xie Xie to learn from Xinglan and Xiaoyan to learn from Gu Yue. La Zhi confirms Wulin and Gu Yue's career levels. Xinglan is still in disbelief that Wulin can fusion forge as blacksmith tends to be oldest on average. Wulin demonstrates by taking 2 pieces of metal to the anvil. Before starting, he explains that he only has 30% success rate for 3 types of alloys: Magic Silver, Spirit Gold, and Essence Silver. He asks what the 2 new members want. Xinglan quickly picks Magic Silver while La Zhi picks Essence Silver. The forging begins. While forging, Wulin thinks about his current goals and sets it to beating the 5 Greats, fortifying his seat.
Chen Yi is sitting very comfortably on a sofa while asking Wukong what he thinks about Wulin's situation. Wukong says it is his student's matter but he feels Wulin is not challenged enough, surprising Chen Yi who doesn't think highly of Wulin. Wukong says that Xinglan should not enter the next tournament. Chen Yi asks him if it is too harsh. Wukong explains that he can't see Gu Yue and Wulin's limit. Xiaoyan and Xie Xie already put in a lot of effort. What they need now is confidence. Having Xinglan would lower the difficulty too much. Moreover, adding La Zhi, 5 vs 5 is suitable.
Wulin's forging is completed. Although Xinglan is still holding on the dining dash grudge, she is astonished that a level 5 blacksmith can succeed fusion forging. Wulin takes out a harmony measurement tool borrowed from the Forging Guild as a favor from Wu Yu. Seeing the number, Gu Yue is bewildered while Wulin sighs. La Zhi wonders if it is so bad and comes up. He sees 95% and unconsciously breathes out cold air. Xinglan, upset, asks why Wulin sighed. Wulin explains he can't use it in his armor anyways. Xinglan quickly grabs the metal into her personal storage ring. Gu Yue asks if she has any shame. Xinglan, acting deaf, says she would pay Wulin later.
95% rate is called pre-God alloy base, allowing 7 additional types of metal for 9 total. 2-type is called spiritual basic alloy. 3-type is called essence-grade. 4-type is extreme-grade. 5-type is holy-grade, on the same level as soul-forged metal. 8-type is the current maximum as no one has seen 9-type alloy(as in one that is successfully fused from 9 metal). Of the 7 God Artisans, if anyone of them succeeds in creating 9-type alloy, pre-God alloy may appears. Pre-God alloy is important to a Limit Douluo's legendary next step: God title.
This is why pre-God alloy is extremely expensive. Even a God Artisan cannot guarantee making it. Wulin has unknowingly broken a record: the lowest rank to forge a pre-God alloy base, which was previously 6. To prove that she is not taking advantage, Xinglan reveals that she is actually a rank 5 manufacturer. She looks calm on the outside but inside she is actually excited to meet another rank 5 of the same age, not to mention a blacksmith. In order to return to the inner school, Xinglan must accomplish a great feat, such as making a power armor, and Wulin is her ticket. On the side, Xie Xie and Xiaoyan look at each other as they are now officially the least talented. Wulin tells everyone to get started on the design with Gu Yue while he makes sure that everybody's material gets to at least 90%.
During the forging, Wulin calms down after his confrontation with the 5 Greats. He remembers his father's words to trust only in one's strength as it is how you gain respect. Under this temperament, Wulin's forging improves. He finishes 8 pieces; one of them reaches 93% while the rest are between 70% and 80%. He keeps the weaker pieces for future use.
On hearing from Chen Yi that Xinglan is banned from the tournament, Wulin is shocked. He asks Chen Yi for an explanation. Chen Yi dismisses him, saying his new mechanical group request is granted but reiterates that Xinglan is not allowed to fight this time. In class, this is the first time Wulin does not pay attention as he mulls over his chances of winning without Xinglan. Incidentally, the students are still ostracizing his group. After class, Gui Xing comes up to him and taunts that Wulin can still be the forging commissioner. On cue, Nian Xia appears and tells Wulin not to force himself as commissioner is already very suitable. Yin Ran also bitterly chimes in that Wulin doesn't know his own limit.
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Zi Duo doesn't say anything while Yu Cheng stares at Wulin intensely. Gu Yue tries to chase him away but Yu Cheng does a thumbsdown. Wulin has to hold Gu Yue back and replies that they will meet on the arena. After the 5 Greats leave, half of the class follows them. Xie Xie has his head low, fist clenched. Xiaoyan has difficult look on her face. Wulin calmly brings everyone away. La Zhi asks what happened but Xinglan replies that the academy respects Wulin's strength to La Zhi's confusion. She then follows Wulin.
Xie Xie returns to the dorm and goes to Yuan En's room. He begs her to spar with him and make him stronger. After some hesitation, Yuan En agrees.
In Wulin's workshop, Xinglan asks if Wulin has given up. To answer, Wulin tells her his life hardships and concludes that he has struggled through them all. Xinglan promises that she would help as Gu Yue has finished the 1st design for the power armor. She asks for a piece of Essence Silver. Wulin's eyes shine but he wonders if she is going to finish in time, as the class tournament is in 3 days while the exhibition is in a week. Xinglan replies she would try and this is her payment for the pre-God alloy. Wulin happily gets started on the Essence Silver. However, Wu Yu has called him to his office.
Inside elder Feng's office, he has heard about the 1st grade's discontent and says that Wulin is not a good President. Wulin agrees as he doesn't want to explain. The elder asks if Wulin is sure about the fight. Wulin confirms. The elder asks again, citing the strength of the 5 Greats but Wulin still replies he is confident. Wu Yu approves and gives him a gift: his old masterpiece, a 99% Essence Silver. Wulin quickly refuses. Wu Yu asks why the little greed doesn't take it. Wulin sighs, realizing that's how he looks to Wu Yu. Wulin explains that he can't accept because he still has his blacksmith's pride. Wu Yu is surprised but he is convinced of Wulin's resolve. Wu Yu judges that Wulin's heart is not in chaos and takes back his gift.
For the perfect power armor, one must immerse fully into one of the creating processes. Wulin at least wants to do all of the forging by himself.
Wulin tells Feng Yu of his plans, teasing Feng Yu at the same time before Feng Yu kicks him out and Wulin takes some materials. As he is leaving, Wulin asks when he is going to be taught 3-metal forging, with Feng Yu responding after he has forged a god alloy, 10 different types of 2-metal alloys, and becomes skilled in spiritual forging. Wulin sighs, saying he's not even close, murmuring as he leaves that he has only completed 1 out of 3, stunning Feng Yu. He makes a bet for 20,000 contributiopn points if it was a god alloy rather than gaining experience and different alloys under Mu Chen. They return to the forging room where Xinglan shows the metal, with Feng Yu handing it back and walking out. Wulin makes a victory sign, and explains to his teammates. Back in the office, Feng Yu is smiling. 3 days later is the trials, which are to be fought in reality rather than simulation.
It's the day of the class tournament. Every student has something on their mind on this important day. Wulin leads the class to the Proving Ground. At the back of the line, Xinglan is not in good shape and has to be helped by La Zhi. La Zhi asks if she wants to excuse herself but Xinglan replies they can't shame the inner school.
Inside the arena stood a long-haired woman of about 30yo in a long green dress. From Wukong and Chen Yi's respectful manner calling her "your Highness", she is the Holy Spirit Douluo. After receiving greeting from the students, the Holy Spirit Douluo has a speech to encourage them and watches over them on the sideline. Wukong announces the rule. 17 groups fight until the strongest remains. 4 days later, that group will fight in the exhibition match with grade 2. For the 2nd profession battles, the committee members will handle them.
For the 1st round, Wulin gets the no opponent ticket. The 1st round lasts for an hour. Gui Xing's group easily passes because their opponents give up. The Holy Spirit Douluo serves as the referree and medic for the tournament. The 2nd round has Gui Xing draw no opponent. The other students notice the drawing is rigged so Wulin wouldn't meet with Gui Xing early. Wulin's group easily wins their battle. The 2nd round lasts around 30 minutes. In the 3rd round, 5 groups remain but 3 of them give up. Those students don't want to offend the 5 Greats whom have stated that they will take out Wulin personally. The Holy Spirit Douluo is amused by the change in the air. Wukong announces the final is between Wulin's squad and Gui Xing's squad. Both sides ready for battle though Nian Xia is seemingly intimidated by Wulin.
It's not just Yang Nian, Xia who is affected, all of their team are intimidated by Wulin's aura. They see the most important enemy as Gu Yue, followed by Wulin, but are confident that they still can't withstand their group of 5 talented youths. Initially, they hadn't made a fuss about Wulin as they wanted to stay on the good side of a alented forger, but they decided his thoughts were too aggressive and Yang Nian Xia would be sufficient for their needs. As the match starts, Xiaoyan hides behind Wulin to disguise her spirit rings with one ability lit up, while Yang Nian charges at the front, Zi Duo from the side at Gu Yue, Yu Cheng at the other side and Zheng Yin Ran also coming around.
None of the spectators have any confidence in Wulin's team, as Wulin releases his 3rd ring spreading golden grass around him. Zi Duo and Yu Cheng slow a little, but not significantly. Wulin meets Nian Xia, while Gu Yue flings out golden icicles. Zi Duo rushes at Gu Yue with nether rush, and Yu Cheng's sickle turns purple before Xie Xie meets him. A light shines down on Yu Cheng from Gu Yue, imitating Zheng Yu's light troial to weaken him. Zi Duo is about to hit Gu Yue, and Wulin unleashes his golden scales to punch Nian Xia, while Nian Xia unleashes a heavy attack - his job is only to occupy Wulin for now, but using his strongest hit so there are no surpriuses. Before Nian Xia's fist collides with Wulin, Wulin disappears. Zi Duo is about to hit Gu Yue, knowing that if Gu Yue teleports away she can finish off their team, but Wulin appears in front of her with his punch already swinging. Zi Duo is interrupted and knocked back.
Wulin's third ability finally launches, and Gui Xing does not withdraw Zi Duo, fearing it would leave Yu cheng surrounded. Xie Xie evades Yu Cheng's sickle with ghost step. In their planning, Wulin and Gu Yue would hold off Zi Duo, and Xie Xie declared he would hold off Yu Cheng alone. Xie Xie unleashes light dragon storm, meeting the sickle, with Wukong looking to the referee anticipating the rescue of Xie Xie. As the refereee doesn't move, Yu Cheng cuts out but it is the shadow dragon avatar. Xie Xie's light dragon storm is forcefully defeated, causing a small rebound and XiE Xie spits out blood. Colliding again, Yu Cheng's sickle cuts into Xie Xie's shoulder, while Xie Xie's dagger pierces into Yu Chengs shoulders, golden light dragon power flooding his body.
Yu Cheng goes into seizure while Xie Xie is teleported out. Even so, Xie Xie has a smile on his face as he helps the team. Flashback to his training session with Yuan En when he got mercilessly taught. Acknowledging Xie Xie's resolve, Yuan En went all out.
A moon crescent floats toward Yu Cheng from Xiaoyan but Gui Xing teleports him away. Zi Duo gets knocked back by Wulin's attack. At the same time, golden BSG emerge and trap her. She attempts to use Hell Slash. The BSG release her but then defuse the skill with ease. Zi Duo switches to White Tiger Vajra form and attacks Gu Yue and Wulin. Gu Yue shoots a fire-wind-ice icicle, deflecting and stunning Zi Duo. The golden BSG attack again. Wulin also charges with Golden Dragon body, his right hand in claw form. He pulls Zi Duo in with Controlling Crane, Catching Dragon. At the same time, Wulin mental assaults Nian Xia, stopping his rescue attempt. Zi Duo riskily destroys the icicle and blocks Wulin's punch simultaneously. Overpowered, Zi Duo moves backward but the BSG sneakily wraps her up. Even White Tiger's full power cannot break out. Wulin wants to end Zi Duo with a claw strike. Gui Xing is unable to help with his teleport on cooldown so Zi Duo finally resorts to Hell Tiger self-fusion. Even the Holy Spirit Douluo nods approvingly, judging Zi Duo as having lv50 strength. Xie Xie is in front of her, covered in healing light. Holy Spirit Douluo also notices Gu Yue retreats toward Xiaoyan. The 2 girls grasp their hand together as they are covered by an intense white light
Wulin has planned he would handle Zi Duo. Moreover, even Nian Xia is baited. Wulin takes out 2 red bean buns. Gu Yue and Xiaoyan also eat one each. The bloodthirsty red bean buns grant Wulin even more power; the scales tearing his uniform. Both Zi Duo and Nian Xia stop at the sight. Nian Xia instinctively realizes he cannot do anything against Wulin.
Nian Xia's eyes shrinking suddenly, seeing a light extending from Wulin's golden talon and covering his whole arm. As it settles, the crowd yell out, this is power armour! Zi Duo's hell white tiger hesitates seeing this, wondering how it was possible. Ye Xinglan had completed it successfully, carving the core circles with her Star Excalibur instead of an engraving knife, with Wulin's 91% alloy star silver.
Flashback: As Ye Xinglan's soul force drops, she is handed a bun from La Zhi. After 20 buns, she can no longer eat any more, as her digestion cannot catch up. She calls La Zhi to give her a red bean bun, and she continues with the spike in her soul force. Even this drops off, and she calls for another one, against La Zhi's warnings. Seeing this, Gu Yue, Xiaoyan and Xie Xie have accepted her as their comrade. As her soul force drops again, she yells for Wulin, who cuts his right hand and sprays blood across the metalwork, causing a golden light to shine on it and his arm. Golden lines appear over Wulin's right arm once again, it appears to be a success. Normally, only a high rank spiritmaster can wear a set of power armour, but Wulin was only a 3rd ring. Of course, this is because of the power of his golden dragon blood and it's integration with his right arm and golden dragon talon.
Flashback: As Ye Xinglan's soul force drops, she is handed a bun from La Zhi. After 20 buns, she can no longer eat any more, as her digestion cannot catch up. She calls La Zhi to give her a red bean bun, and she continues with the spike in her soul force. Even this drops off, and she calls for another one, against La Zhi's warnings. Seeing this, Gu Yue, Xiaoyan and Xie Xie have accepted her as their comrade. As her soul force drops again, she yells for Wulin, who cuts his right hand and sprays blood across the metalwork, causing a golden light to shine on it and his arm. Golden lines appear over Wulin's right arm once again, it appears to be a success. Normally, only a high rank spiritmaster can wear a set of power armour, but Wulin was only a 3rd ring. Of course, this is because of the power of his golden dragon blood and it's integration with his right arm and golden dragon talon.
The spectators originally thought this match was one sided to the 5 young talented team members, but their belief is shaken now. Zi Duo in hell white tiger form attacks Wulin, with Wulin rising to meet it. After the first collision, Wulin is sent flying into the protective barrier, but Zi Duo's hell white tiger is becoming illusory from the damage taken. Wulin flies back, with his blood surging from his Long Jing Tian inverse bloodflow technique, Wulin looks like a golden ball of flame or sun, flying back like a meteor. The hell white tiger unleashes it's attack again, but a dragon's cry resounds through the arena, with an ilusory golden dragon being seen by everyone. With his power armour and the two red bean buns, Wulin has achieved 100% flow of the Long Jing Tian, and used his "Golden Dragon shakes the Heavens". Suddenly the hell white tiger doesn't seem so large, and at the moment of impact an enormous explosion rips through the arena. Nian Xia and Zeng Yin Ran are slammed into the protective barrier, while Gui Xing has retreated to the edge of the arena and avoided the majority of the blast. Both Zi Duo and Wulin are on their knees in the centre of the arena, but Wulin is still filled with fighting spirit. Next to the Holy Spirit Doulu is Xu Yu Cheng who was rescued, if he was still in the arena he may have died. Behind Wulin, an ice wall and earth wall collapse as an enormous snowstorm erupts. Gu Yue, Xiaoyan and La Zhi had been protected from the explosion. Two white lights eject Wulin and Zi Duo from the arena and bring them in front of the Holy Spirit Douluo, taking the fight down to 3v3. Nian Xia gets up from the ground, his face not looking good as he suffered the highest impact of the remaining fighters from that explosion. Zheng Yin Ran looks even worse as they have no real defense or toughness. Only Gui Xing is in a good state.
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Gui Xing is still confident of victory, as it is 3 of their strong team vs 3 weaker ranged spiritmasters. He realises that Wulin has already displayed that he truly deserves the class leader position, and the only way to reverse this is to beat them and the 2nd years. The audience is still shocked, the two 4 ring members of the 5 geniuses were already defeated. Chen Yi understands why Wukong disallowed Xinglan from participating. Nian Xia rushes towards Gu Yue and Xiaoyan, with Zheng Yin Ran and Gui Xing chasing after, and Gui Xing locking down Gu Yue with his space powers. As Xiaoyan steps out, they notice her 3rd ring, which is shining brightly. A blizzard erupts around them, together with Gu Yue's ice storm. Gui Xing puts a space barrier in front of Nian Xia, and the three advance. Gu Yue's ice storm is already filled with wind and ice power, and she launches blades filled with wind and electricity, which merge with the storm increasing it's power. Nian Xia is still pushing through, with Zeng Yin Ran releasing her spirit familiar to help, when 12 wind blades erupt from the storm towards her. Gui Xing pulls her back with his space power, but the blades change direction and pursue, destroying the familiar and knocking her to the ground. Suddenly, golden chains erupt from the ground and bind Gui Xing and Zheng Yin Ran, sealing their spirit power while more wind blades rain down on them.
A white light suddenly appears over them, blocking the blades and ejecting Gui Xing and Zheng Yin ran from the arena. Nian Xia is still pushing forward, and arrives in front of Gu Yue and Xiaoyan. Xiaoyan yells for Gu Yu to run, and leaps at Nian Xia. He reaches out and grabs her while stomping the ground to stun Gu Yue, but his knee is kicked by someone and the force deviated. Xiaoyan disappears, and Nian Xia sees La Zhi blocking him. Nian Xia thinks he is just a food division spiritmaster, and attacks, but La Zhi's hands are glowing like white jade and a gentle soul force rippling around him. Nian Xia's attack is diverted again, before he is hit with a huge fireball. La Zhi shifts Nian Xia's centre of gravity again and pushes him, but Nian Xia doesn't fall and is instead hit by another fireball while regaining his balance. Xiaoyan is readying her ice spear, the audience sees that the result is set. Xiaoyan's third ring not only gives her the snowstorm ability, it allows her to unlock her star wheel and use it limited times during the day. She knows that with her star wheel's lock down and Gu Yue's ability, where Gu Yue hadn't gone all out at all, is a sure victory now. Wukong steps up and stops the fight, declaring Wulin's team as the victors. Xiaoyan jumps up and down and hugs Gu Yue, and Wulin helps Xie Xie up onto the arena while they all cheer and hug. Zi Duo is at a loss on the sidelines, Xu Yu Cheng is pale, Gui Xing is no longer smiling but instead livid and Zheng Yin Ran is unreconciled again, as she never got the opportunity to play her strengths. Gu Yue suddenly jumps off the stage towards Ye Xinglan, and gives her a big hug.
Gu Yue thanks Xinglan profusely. Xinglan smiles and hugs her back. The two go on stage celebrating with the rest. The Holy Spirit Douluo praises Wukong and Chen Yi's teaching. Chen Yi smiles, seeing how the normally ice-cold Wukong is secretly excited by his students. Wukong officially announces that Wulin's group is the victor and they can pick 1-2 students to complete the 7-man team for the battle against the 2nd grade. The 5 great losers' face lit up upon hearing this. Zi Duo and Gui Xing especially seem to regret leaving Wulin. However, the 6 victors unanimously refuse. This angers the 5 except for Nian Xia, who seems to be in thought, and possibly Zi Duo, who just leaves. The rest of the class realizes they are wrong about Wulin's group: that Wulin is on par with Zi Duo, that Xiaoyan is not just a flower vase and that Xie Xie can go toe to toe with Yu Cheng.
As the 6 leaves the Proving Ground, Wulin asks why La Zhi hides that he is part of Tang Sect. The techniques he used are Mysterious Jade Hands, Controlling Crane Catching Dragon and Perplexing Ghost Steps. La Zhi replies no one asked and also reveals Xinglan is also a Tang Sect member. Wulin thanks Xinglan. She replies that she already got the pre-God alloy and reminds him not to hold her back in the exhibition match vs grade 2. They both laugh. Wulin admits that the upcoming fight will be difficult. Xie Xie agrees but Xiaoyan sarcastically reminds him not to reveal their secret to someone that he keeps cleaning for.
On the contrary to Wulin's group, the 5 (former) Greats are in a bad mood. Yin Ran still doesn't accept defeat. On the opposite, Nian Xia calmly analyzes that they didn't anticipate on Xie Xie's recklessness and Wulin's potential. Everyone agrees except for Gui Xing. Zi Duo seems to be in admiration of Wulin's power armor, evaluating it as stronger than the common 1-word thanks to the spiritual metal.
Zi Duo is not only annoyed that she lost to Wulin but she also regrets not staying for the power armor. Gui Xing finally opens his mouth, stating they lose because of lack of teamwork. He will take responsibility by apologizing to Wulin, keeping their relation as classmates. Yu Cheng admits he loses to Gui Xing in term of shamelessness. Gui Xing sighs and says they have taken too much pride in being on the chart. He proposes they learn from failure and finally form a real team. Gui Xing's hand are slowly joined by the others. They resolve to catch up to Wulin's team.
Back at the co-op dorm, Zheng Yu has come to visit his underclassmen. Wulin has already recovered from the 2 bean dumplings while Xie Xie is still in bed. Xinglan and La Zhi are still in the process of moving to the co-op dorm. Zheng Yu has heard about Wulin possessing a 1-word armor part while he himself still struggles with a prototype. Wulin reveals it boost his strength by 30% but refuses to say anything more because they are still opponents. Zheng Yu is annoyed because he won't finish it anyway within 3 days. Just then, there is another knock. Xiaoyan guesses it is Yuan En.
Yuan En enters and is surprised to see Zheng Yu, whom is mildly offended. She cuts to the chase and asks Wulin to help build her a power armor. She is a lv 4 repairer while Zheng Yu is nearly a lv 4 manufacturer. Wulin tells Zheng Yu to gather contribution points while Yuan En needs to get a design and material. Yuan En admits she has trouble because of her dual spirits. Gu Yue lights up at a challenge though she needs to wait until lv5. Before Yuan En leaves, she turns around and says thanks. Xie Xie gets up from bed thinking it was for him. Yuan En's face freezes as she leaves. Everyone looks at Xie Xie and laughs. After Zheng Yu also leaves, Wulin starts working at his workshop.
The next morning, after some warmup, Wulin meets up with La Zhi for breakfast. This has become a regular routine as the 2 reap more benefits eating together. The news of a group of no-names beating 5 rankers have spread thoughout the Academy, especially within the first 3 grades. Wulin has gathered a lot of attention, especially from the female students who frequently ask for his number. La Zhi is jealous of Wulin's look. Wulin remembers his parents's disappearance thanks to La Zhi's comment. However, polite greetings from other students snaps him out of thought. As he enters the 1st grade classroom, Gui Xing also greets him. The previously noisy class silences at the sight.
This signifies that Gui Xing has surrendered and there is no one left challenging Wulin's position. Both of them smile and return to their seat. Looking on, Yin Ran sneers at Gui Xing's shamelessness. Nian Xia tells her to learn flexibility from Gui Xing. Yin Ran is surprised that Nian Xia accepts Wulin. She herself believes that her unmatched poison can take down Wulin. Nian Xia shrugs. In reality, there is a slight change in Yin Ran's opinion of Wulin, something she doesn't accept.
3 days later, elder Cai Yue Er announces to the 1st and 2nd grade teachers that she and some other elders will preside over the contests. Moreover, the academy will prepare contribution points as the prizes. The teachers are all surprised as the elders rarely participate in outer school's event. It seems the upper echelon really values this generation of students. However, in Chen Yi and Wukong's opinion, the attention is not neccessarily good. This much pressure as well as the gap in strength can be a huge strike to the 1st grade if they lose too badly. Incidentally, Shrek students' records are hidden from the outside so even the Pagoda's Continental Chart won't be updated for them.
3 days later, elder Cai Yue Er announces to the 1st and 2nd grade teachers that she and some other elders will preside over the contests. Moreover, the academy will prepare contribution points as the prizes. The teachers are all surprised as the elders rarely participate in outer school's event. It seems the upper echelon really values this generation of students. However, in Chen Yi and Wukong's opinion, the attention is not neccessarily good. This much pressure as well as the gap in strength can be a huge strike to the 1st grade if they lose too badly. Incidentally, Shrek students' records are hidden from the outside so even the Pagoda's Continental Chart won't be updated for them.
At the Proving Ground, the students are in excitement. Wulin observes that Yuan En has her class in her hand. The 1st grade is still not as united. After some time, the teachers have arrived. To Wulin's surprise, the 1st to walk out is the Holy Spirit Douluo Ya Li followed by elder Cai. This means that elder Ya Li has a higher position, even though her specialty is healing.
After them are two more Sea God Court elders. One of them is elder Li from the entrance exam. Finally, there are the homeroom teachers. Xie Xie tells Wulin the pressure is high. Wulin tells him to try their best. Xie Xie agrees and looks toward Yuan En. Today, he can only see the fearsome Yuan En from their hell training sessions, which makes him shudders.
On the VIP seats, two more old men arrive, bickering all the way. They are the Dual Dragons Luanshi and Wu Yu, arguing about Wulin. Their argument almost turns into the opening contest but they stop upon seeing Ya Li. Luanshi is surprised she is here while Wu Yu seems to get even redder when greeting her. Meanwhile, all Yue Er gets is a nod from the two. Yue Er asks them to settle down if they are here to watch. Luanshi doesn't miss an opportunity to take a shot at Wu Yu for being an unrelated blacksmith. Wu Yu threatens to have his disciple, Zhen Hua (Mu Xi's friend from c321), leaves Luanshi's power armor open in the butt so he would fight half-naked. The argument nearly devolves into a fight again before stopping suddenly at Ya Li's word. Yue Er tells the 2 to go the 2nd row. Luanshi calls dib on sitting behind Ya Li to Wu Yu's chagrin. They almost fight for the 3rd time but Ya Li interferes again. The 2 old men finally settle down. Elder Cai signals Chen Yi to begin.
Chen Yi announces that the judges will be the Holy Spirit Douluo and the Silver Moon Douluo. The competition will start with the professions contest. The 1st one is forging. Wulin steps up to the stage. Wu Yu boasts to Luanshi but Luanshi replies that it is Wulin's innate ability, dismissing Wu Yu's role as the teacher as Wulin came to Shrek a lv5 and is still a lv5. Wu Yu grabs Luanshi's lapel. Luanshi tells Wu Yu he is being disrespectful to elders because technically, Luanshi is Wulin's grand-master. Wu Yu almost turns into a powderkeg when Ya Li yells at them to leave. The 2 men quickly separate and signal they won't open their mouth again. Yue Er smiles at Ya Li, recalling that Ya Li has beaten the Dual Dragons and not even the court master can keep them in line. Ya Li replies the pair are just man-child clowns.
On the stage, Wulin's opponent is a 16yo boy with jacked arms whose eyes is locked on the work table before him. They both offer their greeting. His name is He Xiao Peng.
Chen Yi announces the topic: refining Titanium Crystal. It is a difficult material, requiring precise force control as it is tough yet brittle. Rumor says that the crystal was used in one of Tang Sect's strongest hidden weapons. Chen Yi also announces that the winner will receive 1k point and both final products. Moreover, if 1st grade wins, they get an additional 30%. At the signal, both contestants start with the first step: heating.
Chen Yi announces the topic: refining Titanium Crystal. It is a difficult material, requiring precise force control as it is tough yet brittle. Rumor says that the crystal was used in one of Tang Sect's strongest hidden weapons. Chen Yi also announces that the winner will receive 1k point and both final products. Moreover, if 1st grade wins, they get an additional 30%. At the signal, both contestants start with the first step: heating.
The elders are all interested in the competition as Shrek's blacksmithing is too underdeveloped. Wulin is the 1st one to finish heating. The blacksmiths in audience are surprised as this is too fast, especially for a brittle material.
Wulin begins forging. His rhythmn is quick and continuous but the force seems to be too weak. As he spins the block of crystal, it hardly changes in size. The blacksmith students wonder if he would finish in time. At Luanshi's question, Wu Yu explains that Wulin is reorganizing the structure of the crystal with precise force. Essentially, he is forging the material from inside out, starting from its life force. Luanshi doesn't care to retort Wu Yu's boasting as he is also satisfied with Wulin.
Xiao Peng finally begins forging. Unlike Wulin, he uses slow yet powerful strikes to reshape the material. The blacksmith students don't understand why they choose such different methods. Yin Ran asks Nian Xia what he would do. Nian Xia admits he would use Xiao Peng's method. He evaluates Xiao Peng as a lv4 from his experienced force control. As for Wulin's method, Nian Xia doesn't understand. Yin Ran asks if Wulin can win. Nian Xia assures her of Wulin's scheming ability and reveals that he is a lv5, shocking Yin Ran.
Xiao Peng lands the finishing blow first. His product is a 1st grade thousand-forged, spirit ascended. The light rises by 1 chi(0.3 m) It earns admiration from the audience.
The crystal has shrunk by 20%. However, it is only a slightly good 1st grade. Xiao Peng stops forging as this is his limit, even slightly better than usual. Chen Yi and Wukong are worried. Wukong wonders if Wulin doesn't know how to forge Titanium Crystal. Chen Yi begins the 10s countdown. At the count of 3, Wulin finally finishes. The light rises by 5 chi into a dragon head form, accompanied by dragon roars. The crystal immediately shrinks by 1/3, shocking the audience. Complete, spirit ascended Titanium Crystal. Suddenly, Wu Yu lands from above and hits Wulin on the head, telling him to continue. The crystal's spirit is now formed, guanranteeing a successful spirit-forging. Xiao Peng pays respect to elder Feng. In return, the elder gives some light words of praise and advice. Wulin begins forging again.
The crystal has shrunk by 20%. However, it is only a slightly good 1st grade. Xiao Peng stops forging as this is his limit, even slightly better than usual. Chen Yi and Wukong are worried. Wukong wonders if Wulin doesn't know how to forge Titanium Crystal. Chen Yi begins the 10s countdown. At the count of 3, Wulin finally finishes. The light rises by 5 chi into a dragon head form, accompanied by dragon roars. The crystal immediately shrinks by 1/3, shocking the audience. Complete, spirit ascended Titanium Crystal. Suddenly, Wu Yu lands from above and hits Wulin on the head, telling him to continue. The crystal's spirit is now formed, guanranteeing a successful spirit-forging. Xiao Peng pays respect to elder Feng. In return, the elder gives some light words of praise and advice. Wulin begins forging again.
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Over the past few days, Wulin had been practicing his inverse blood flow technique, and is freely able to use it. When completed, the strength of his blood had increased by 30%, and when using his dragon shakes the heavens technique it more than doubles. This strength massively increased his forging success rate over these days as well. A spiritually forged titanium crystal is coveted by all up to 4 word power armor masters, as it can attach to any alloy easily. The price would easily fetch over 80 million, but has not been sold before. After 15 minutes, Wulin's soul force is exhausted, and he releases his golden ring and golden dragon body, together with inverse blood flow technique. Luanshi is stunned, seeing that Wulin has already mastered the skill without any help. Xiao Peng looks on with a strange look, unexpectedly Wulin was a 5th rank smith. At 17 years old, Xiao Peng was already a miracle in the forging industry, until Mu Xi joined at the same rank. Since she joined late, she was not the class representative. Thinking it was impossible for the 1st grade to win, the class had suggested Mu Xi compete, but she refused, saying the first year representative was very powerful. Even then, Xiao Peng doubted Wulin. Mu Xi is in the crowd knowing she would never beat him in forging and smiling brightly as she watches Wulin, but none of her classmates notice as they are focused on the contest - otherwise they could question whether she supports 2nd class or Wulin more. With a loud bang, the titanium cracks and the crowd thinks it failed, but the breath of light emerges and Holy Spirit Douluo Ya Li smiles. The titanium pieces rise up and fly toward Wulin as he laughs, the spiritual forging completed.
The completed sphere falls into Wulin's hand. The piece of metal feels like his own son, making Wulin wonder if he can spirit-forge for other people in the future. With a big smile on his face, Wu Yu asks how they are gonna deal with the product but Wulin refuses to give away a blood-bonded. Wu Yu lovingly smacks him on the head again. Wulin promises to see him after the competition and returns to his class. La Zhi is waiting with recovery dumplings. Chen Yi announces the winner, as Xiao Peng gloomily returns.
The 2nd match is designing. Gu Yue's opponent is a plain-looking girl named Bai Han Ying of around 16-17. On the stage, she smiles at Yuan En, whom nods back. Xie Xie wonders if people will think they are a couple without knowing both are women. Chen Yi announces the topic: right armguard. It will be judged by elder Cai. Both girls finish at the same time. The schematics are passed to elder Cai and elder Ya. Elder Cai judges that Gu Yue has the more completed design. However, Han Ying's is more complex, nearing lv5. She also sees that both want to design an armor for dual-spirits- Yuan En in Han Ying's case. Elder Cai tells them to cooperate in the future and calls it a draw.
The 3rd match, manufacturing, is a crushing defeat for 1st grade. 2nd grade's level 4 easily beats Gui Xing whom is only a lv3. The 4th match, repairing, is very close. Yuan En barely manages a win against Zi Duo. Overall, 2nd grade has the advantage but they are not happy about it. They already lose by not wiping out their underclassmen.
Chen Yi tells them that the fight will begin shortly, and Wulin opens his eyes announcing they will fight with 6. Zi Duo looks on with regret, knowing that if she and Gui Xing had stayed they would be fighting as well, but no longer have any opportunity. The 2nd year fighting team consists of Yuan En, Han Ying, Xiao Peng, Zheng Yu, Ye Xing Mo and Duan Hun Xiao. Ya Li asks Cai Er which team will win, with Cai Er telling her they will only stand a chance if Wulin can resist Yuan En. With the match ready to begin, Wulin's eyes turn gold and his bodies atmosphere condenses with golden lines appearing down his neck. Yuan En also began to build momentum, both of their atmospheres colliding and causing energy fluctuations throughout the arena. Chen Yi announces the start of the match, and Wulin shoots off like a cannon, golden ring soaring, golden body and talon activated and power armor equipped. The second grade students are startled, but Yuan En releases her titan great ape spirit and uses diamond body to meet him. Gu Yue and Xiaoyan hold hands once again and a storm whips up, La Zhi produces buns, Xie Xie disappears with the storm, and Xinglan stands in front of the group. Xiao Peng's spirit is brought out, it is a large purple edged hammer with two yellow and a purple ring - his hammer is edged which prevents him using it as his forging hammer. Opposite Zheng Yu, Xiao Peng rushes to the first graders. Ye Xing Mo, who has a star on his forehead, has an long sword spirit, and with a flash has closed the distance, while Duan Hun Xiao pulls out a flute-2Y2P, giving the first graders a sense of vertigo. Crowd control skill, Martial Spirits Regulation Sound
Han Ying steps behind Xing Mo and reveals her spirit Cherry Blossom, a support type. Due to Hun Xiao, the blizzard has weakened. Wulin also gets affected as he loses the test of strength but Yuan En also gets pushed back. She follows up with Air Cannon. Wulin calmly receives it with Controlling Crane Catching Dragon and also interrupts Hun Xiao with Mental Assault. Meanwhile, Xing Mo penetrates the blizzard with his sword while Xiao Peng and Zheng Yu follow behind. Xinglan matches his attack and a tragic sound emerges from their clash. Xing Mo, whose spirit is suppressed, is attacked by 10 star threads. He hurriedly merges with his sword and escapes to the sky. However, the threads instead divert to the 2 sides. Xiao Peng barely manages to block them while Zheng Yu cuts them all down and slashes at Xinglan. Xinglan counters and pushes Zheng Yu back 2 steps while she also moves backward 1. The peanut gallery is astonished at a successful 1vs3. Xinglan points the Star Excalibur at the sky and aims for Xing Mo. However, Zheng Yu nullifies the threat with Holy Light. Xiao Peng closes in on Xinglan and uses his 1st skill, Blasting Hit. Xiao Peng's hammer is no ordinary weapon. It is an Eight Edge Plum Flower Silver Light Hammer(legendary weapon, also in Zither Emperor), possessing space element. Xinglan fearlessly knits a web from star threads, defending herself against both Xiao Peng and Zheng Yu.
The blizzard finally gets to full strength. In the middle, Wulin and Yuan En clash again to no avail. Yuan En is discouraged as even in Vajra form, she cannot outmatch Wulin's strength. As for Wulin, he feels his qi rushing even more under Long Jing Tian's effect. The right gauntlet seems to get shinier.
Yuan En uses both her 1st and 3rd skill and finally reclaims the advantage. Knocked back, Wulin takes a deep breath and gathers his power. On the VIP seat, Luanshi realizes Wulin has completed Long Jing Tian, a feat that took him until Spirit King. In return, Yuan En activates her 4th skill, Bloodthirsty Berserk. Fusing with the Diamond Baboon with Fallen Angel as a catalyst, the Titan Great Ape spirit mutates into Great Demon Titan. The drawback is that she must activate all 4 skills, which creates a 3 minute limit due to consumption. Elder Ya is impressed, thinking to herself that the youths have improved so much. Yuan En throws a right at Wulin. Wulin's Jin Long Jing Tian (Golden version) also lets loose as their fists meet. A huge collision erupts almost breaking the barrier, sending Wulin flying. However, Yuan En's right arm goes limp due to Wulin's claw's destroy special effect. Yuan En can still continue for one minute. She shoots an Air Cannon at Gu Yue.
Right when Wulin got knocked away, 2 shadows bearing daggers appear behind Han Ying and Hun Xiao. Xie Xie's sneak attacks are unsuccessful as Han Ying dissolves into petals and Hun Xiao blocks the dagger. However, he manages to occupy them. Gu Yue teleports Xiaoyan with her to dodge the Air Cannon. La Zhi throws a bloodthirsty bean dumpling at Wulin. Yuan En destroys the dumpling mid-flight and goes to finish Wulin off. Wulin also charges. Yuan En holds back to avoid gravely injuring Wulin. However, Wulin grabs her disabled right arms with his claw and then kicks her left knee. This is part of Tang Sect's Chin Na (joint locking) techniques. Yuan En is surprised but quickly recomposes, stomping her left foot down. The shockwave nullifies Wulin's attack and she slams him into the ground.
Meanwhile, Star Saint Sword user Xing Mo is having trouble with Star Excalibur (God Sword) user Xinglan. He bleeds profusely, losing 50-60% of strength. Xing Mo switches target to Gu Yue and Xiaoyan. Xinglan is still successfully keeping Xiao Peng and Zheng Yu busy. La Zhi is throwing dumplings to everyone while guarding Gu Yue.
Ye Xing Mo is upset due to being suppressed. He and Xinglan are part of the same clan. The Ye clan's leader has been a Star Excalibur user for 7 generations. Of all people, the opponent has to be the main heir. Thus, Xing Mo aims for the 2 other girls because Hun Xiao, the vice pres, can take care of his side. Suddenly, Star Wheel Lock appears under Xing Mo's feet. He is then frozen solid by a palm to the skull.
Gu Yue tells Xiaoyan to go help Xinglan while she moves to Wulin. Meanwhile, Wulin gets sent flying for the 3rd time but he still gets up, unnerving Yuan En. Gu Yue arrives with icicles and wind blades. Yuan En wonders why Gu Yue wants to go melee.
Yuan En shrugs off the icicles and wind blades, and attacks Gu Yue. Wulin's blue silver grass wraps around Gu Yue and pulls her to safety. Dodging Yuan En's attacks, Wulin eats a red bean bun, but Yuan En pummels them with a shockwave knocking them back before following up with another attack. Gu Yue teleports and hits Yuan En's hand, with the colours of space, light, water, fire and earth erupting and converging on the fist in a vortex while her and Wulin are knocked back. Ya Li and the other Title Douluo spectating all have their interest peaked, recognizing this technique as Elemental Chaos. Wulin catches himself and Gu Yue before landing with Jin Yu. Wulin goes to help out Xinglan as the bloodthirsty red bean bun's effects are appearing, while Gu Yue goes to finish Yuan En. Yuan En has resolved the vortex, but took substantial damage, and the Demon Titan effect is ending. Gu Yue appears, and continually teleports around Yuan En attacking with tri-elemental palm strikes without getting caught. The second grade class is completely stunned at this, Wulin was not the only monster. Gui Xing is also stunned, Gu Yue had barely used any of her ability in the prior fight. As Wulin gets to Xinglan, a white light shines down and ejects Xiao Peng, Ye Xing Mo and Ye Xinglan from the arena. She managed to hold out against the three, defeating two and consuming a lot of Zheng Yu's soul force. With the fight now at 4v5, Wulin faces Zheng Yu while Zheng Yu releases a large quantity of divine light, filling the arena.
Zheng Yu's Judgement KOs both Xiaoyan and La Zhi as well as severely weakens Wulin and neutralizes his bloodthirsty state. However, Wulin also takes Zheng Yu out. Gu Yue are still dominating Yuan En while Xie Xie is barely hanging on against Hun Xiao and Han Ying. Hun Xiao deals Xie Xie the final blow with his 3rd skill, Killing Sound. With no obstruction, Han Ying buffs Yuan En, whom makes a full recovery. This is Han Ying's skill Lovers' Bridge which shares spirit power among the targets. Yuan En stomps on the ground sending out a shockwave, forcing Gu Yue to retreat.
The 2 sides regroup and it is now 2 vs 3. The 1st graders are completely spent. Yuan En asks them to surrender but Wulin replies by stepping in front of Gu Yue and gathering the draconic power once more. Gu Yue is flustered a bit seeing Wulin's sturdy back. The 2nd graders ready themselves for a fight to the finish as Wulin regrows his claw and summons his golden ring again.
Seeing this, Cai Er nods approvingly, along with Feng Yu and Luanshi. The first grade class are all pinning their hopes on Wulin, even in loss they will go down fighting. Zi Duo's fists are clenched with regret, she could have been there with them. Ya Li smiles slightly, but then turns to surprise. Gu Yue hugs Wulin from behind, confusing everyone and shocking the 2nd grade class. Wulin body erupts with a loud dragon cry, and his blood surges. His golden light is joined by 7 color streams from Gu Yue's body - red, blue, yellow, green, gold, silver and black, winding around and into his body. His golden scales bloom with all colours and his power sweeps the battle field. He doesn't know what happens, but that he is filled with an unprecedented power, with the scales enveloping his whole body like a suit of armor standing at 3m tall. Luanshi and Feng Yu are pale, even with the difference in level they are suppressed. Wulin unleashes his talon, with Yuan En retaliating and Hun Xiao unleashing his 4th ring, but the sound wave attack dissipates close to Wulin's body. Yuan En's fist collides with Wulin's, and she suddenly feels empty, with no power. The arena is filled with a 7 colour burst, and nobody can see, but all 3 2nd year students have appeared near Ya Li. Not only that, any other people close to the arena were also evacuated to Ya Li. Wulin's power dies down and separates out Gu Yue, but still standing hugging each other with their eyes closed. Everyone's eyes are dull, and Ya Li announces that Wulin and Gu Yue have passed out, but as she had to evacuate the 2nd years, Wulin's team wins. The first years cry tears of joy.
Cai Yue Er mentions it was a spirit fusion. Luanshi notes that Wulin's punch created a vacuum - where all 7 elements and element stripping combine create a void. Wu Yu names it Dragon King Vacuum Fist. Luanshi finds it odd that two completely unrelated spirits can fuse and also wonders why Wulin's inverse blood flow activates during the fusion. He finds it odd that the spirits are completely different, as the inverse blood technique - a dragon specific technique - had sublimed further. Gu Yue's embrace is too tight, so Wulin and Gu Yue are carried off, still embracing, to their dorm. Luanshi asks Ya Li if they are going to be okay.
Ya Li tells them they will be fine, their fusion just consumed too much or overloaded them, and they will be unable to use it for another month or so. Ya Li mentions that she doesn't think their fusion was complete, and it appears they may have a fusion capacity close to the "God Fusion" level of 100% which Wutong and Yuhao had. Wulin was in his inner world, and sees the golden dragon with 18 seals around it, 3 of them blue and 15 red. He recalls his subconscious action with the punch, and the rainbow scales, and calls for Old Tang to try and get an explanation. Old Tang is nowhere to be found, but the dragon lifted it's head and a silent roar reverberates around Wulin's head. Wulin sees a world with beasts congregated around the dragon, before they bolt and yell "I control my own life!" as a spiritual attack hits Wulin and he blacks out. He wakes up in the dorm, with Gu Yue still holding him. She wakes up, and questions why he's in her bed, but he notices it's actually his bed. They are both dizzy, and Gu Yue almost falls as she gets up but Wulin catches her. Blushing, she heads to her own bed. Wulin wakes up later to Xiaoyan's voice, explaining to Gu Yue that they have been asleep for 3 days, and need to rest for another week. Xiaoyan teases her about making a move on Wulin, then reminds her the girls have moved to the other dorm room and they leave.
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La Zhi greets the just awakened Wulin and makes him some dumplings. Wulin doesn't remember the finish. La Zhi tells him that overall, 1st grade win and gets rewarded with lots of points. La Zhi applauds Wulin for hiding his trump card but Wulin admits that was his 1st fusion. On hearing this, Yuan En, who just arrived with Xie Xie, twitches. Yuan En explains that she didn't know what happened either. She tells Wulin to recover quickly for their rematch as well as forging. After she left, Wulin finds it weird that Yuan En seems to has a mix of fear and respect for him. Xie Xie tries to cover for her but the other 2 boys tease him.
Elder Ya has estimated it would take at least a week before Wulin begins to regen but it only takes him 3 days. However, his spirit power and qi tanks are near empty. 10 days pass and Wulin recovers to 80%. The rest needs another 10. Wukong, Luanshi and Wu Yu only told him that the fusion was God-level but its experiment should wait until gaining another ring. Routines return to normal for everyone though they all get so busy that the group rarely gather in one place. Gu Yue keeps her distance from Wulin while Xinglan focuses on training toward 4 rings so she can try manufacturing power armor.
It's finally the end of the semester. Chen Yi announces their final exam and reminds them that 5 people will be expelled. Wulin asks if there is a way to avoid it. Chen Yi confirms, surprising everyone.
Chen Yi explains that everyone needs to pass the requirement. However, for the next term, the requirement will raise by 5%. They can also share points among themselves, which counts toward inner school admission. Wulin gives up as there is only so much he can do. Chen Yi then reveals their final exam. The students must travel to Mingdu and back within 15 days, passing at least 10 cities. In each city, they must find and beat an opponent 5 levels higher. They cannot rely on any external force. Moreover, the students cannot bring along any possessions: money, spirit devices... Teachers will stealthily monitor and judge but won't interfere. If they cannot make it within 15 days, they fail and their points will be cut in half. Finally, teaming is not allowed. Wulin thinks to himself that it already takes 6 days to travel to Mingdu and back via high-speed train.
In the principal's room, elder Cai asks Chen Yi if the exam preparation has been completed. It seems the elder evaluates this crop of students highly so she set up a difficult exam. Elder Cai opens the window toward the Pagoda and has a flashback. The Heavenly Phoenix Douluo, Yao Zhu, told her to stop interfering with Gu Yue. To Yue Er's protest, Yao Zhu said that she has already won their battle. Thus, after Gu Yue graduates from the outer school, Yao Zhu would take her away. After the flashback, elder Cai sighs and disappears into the air.
Back at the dorm, Wulin is going over the plan. He points to the shortest path, which has 9 cities before Mingdu. Xie Xie asks if they can sneak items with them but Wulin quickly denies it as too risky. Wulin then goes to their next problem, money. La Zhi wants to sell dumpling. Xiaoyan will play the lost puppy card again. Xie Xie can perform circus tricks while Wulin plans to complete forging mission. Xinglan and Gu Yue seem to have the same idea.
The next day, the students gather at the Spirit Ice Square for the pre-check. The teachers are gathering the students' possessions. Wukong even takes away Wulin's hammers.
Some students try to cheat but fail. One teacher with an eye spirit has a skill called See-through Sight. Gui Xing says farewell to Wulin and hurries along. Wulin encourages everyone, promising that next semester he would forge for them as long as material is provided. The class disperses. Xiaoyan heads off to find a sponsor. Xie Xie finds a corner of the academy to set up a circus. La Zhi begins to set up his stall. Wulin reluctantly asks if Xinglan and Gu Yue are really acting out their plan. He wishes them luck and leaves to the Forging Guild. After he leaves, Gu Yue asks Xinglan to go first.
The quiet early morning is interrupted by La Zhi's advertisement. An older student recognizes him from the inter-grade battle. He doesn't buy but gives some encouraging word. However, at the gate, the older student is blocked by Gu Yue, whom asks him to pay the toll. Xinglan releases her spirit and extorts him 100k federal coins. She says it is a "loan" and they will "pay" back double. A crowd has gathered, including several high grade students. The 2nd grader knows Xinglan is out of his league from the inter-grade battle.
La Zhi stops the older student and advertises his dumpling's effect that can let him run past the 2 female bandits; bloodthirsty costs 30k, featherweight costs 10k. The student is wary that La Zhi is in on the scheme but reluctantly takes his chance. He almost makes it but a golden light seals his movement. The student parts with another 100k. He runs away in shame, but not before Xinglan gets his name, Xia Le(/Yue) Kong. Xinglan turns to La Zhi and tells him he is also responsible for 1/3 of the debt. Incidentally, because La Zhi is a support-type, he is allowed has a partner in Xinglan though they have to beat 20 opponents in return. After they left, the spectating crowd applause the younger students' creativity.
Wulin arrives at the Forging Guild but is stopped by Mu Xi as the door. She tells him the academy has ordered that all associations are closed to in-exam students, including Tang Sect. Mu Xi hushes him along. Wulin has another idea. He rushes to the train station. He joins the queue at the platform toward Heaven Dou city. When it is finally his turn, Wulin fakes finding his ticket then yells out there is a snake. A large golden reptile crawls toward the crowd, sending them into a panic. Amidst the distraction, Wulin stows away on the train. He heads toward the food car, where seats are not tied to tickets.
After, Wulin's train left, La Zhi, Xinglan and Gu Yue also arrive at the station. They split up and wish each other luck. On the train, Wulin realizes he has committed a grave mistake: he is on the food car and hungry. However, the ticket checker has arrived. Wulin is caught and he easily admits his crime. The checker takes him to the head conductor, a 27-28yo woman. Wulin explains about Shrek exam but the conductor still has some doubt. Wulin finally convinces her by releasing his 3 purple rings. Taken aback, the conductor agrees to exempt his ticket. Wulin also asks to borrow some money for food and where he can find a gathering of spirit master.
She tells Wulin that the station's patrol captains are all mech masters though their strength are different. However, the Heaven Dou captain would fit the requirement. She also gives Wulin a monthly pass and 20k in cash . Wulin calls her sister, playing to her maternal instincts, and restrains himself while eating breakfast. An alert comes up, the train has criminals holding car 5 hostage with spirit guides with the intent to hijack the train. Knowing that 500 people died last time this happened in the western region, the conductor tells Wulin to stay safe, even though he wants to help, as she responds to it. She arms a pistol, before heading to negotiate.
There are 6 hijackers seen, 4 armed with assault rifles as well as a mini howitzer. They have also planted cluster bombs throughout the 1st 5 cars. The train guards, equipped with only pistols and 1 rifle, are too outgunned so the conductor orders the staff to contact HQ and releases car 6 to 16 after she enters the hijacked car 5, effectively suicide. The conductor kisses her baby's picture and says words of farewell.
Inside car 5, the conductor starts negotiation but only to buy time as these are career criminals. The hijacking leader doesn't play game, revealing he has rigged the bombs to explode in 30 minutes. He demands they contact the federal government for the release of their people arrested 20 days prior. The conductor is tense as she didn't know about that event.
HQ has replied it would take more than 30 min to get the demand through and at least 20 min for reinforcement. The conductor orders the staff to get into car 6. The conductor then asks the terrorists to lengthen the bomb timer. They reluctantly agree. The conductor introduces herself. Her name is Mo Lan, daughter of Heaven Dou city's Consul and Federal Councilor Mo Wu. She is an ordinary human, no spirit power, and volunteers to be the hostage in exchange for the release of the elderlies, women and children. The police captain wants to stop her but she shakes him off. After the hijacking leader has verified her identity, he agrees to release 10 people first and the rest after she crosses into car 5. Mo Lan tosses her rifle to the guards and fearlessly enters to the terrorist's respect. The 5 cars have more than 500 civilians and about a hundred are released. Mo Lan smiles with a rifle pointed at her back.
However, Wulin barges in car 5 and insists on also being a hostage. The rifles are immediately aimed at him but stop on seeing a child. The leader teases Mo Lan if it is her father's bastard but she lies that Wulin is her cousin. The police captain also volunteers himself but then pushes car 6 away. Seeing that the train has separated, a hijacker curses and aims at the captain.
Mo Lan calms them, but they warn her that they will kill 10 people every 5 minutes, and they drag Wulin to a different car. Wulin sees a large number of hostages in the 4th car, and the criminals kick him to the ground. He sees a large amount of blood on the ground of the 3rd car, where the criminals killed people who resisted. Wulin assesses that all of the remaining hostages are in the 4th car, and there are only 9 criminals - 3 in the 4th car and 6 in the 5th car with Mo Lan (TL later chapters only show 8 criminals total, but this chapter said 9). Only the criminal leader is a spiritmaster, but the remaining all have spirit guide weapons. The leader is a Spirit Elder and holds the remote trigger. Wulin's eyes flash golden and blue silver grass quietly drills into the corner. While his heart is a little unsettled, his forging experience allows him to quickly calm down. He laments not learning Ghost Steps, which would have made thing easier. Wulin suppresses his spirit rings below his feet, but the quick flash of purple light draws the criminal's attention, with Wulin quickly impaling them with his blue silver grass, killing them before they can utter a sound. The passengers panic, but Wulin continues, using his golden talon to rip a hole in the roof and throw two cluster bombs out. Another criminal walks in, but Wulin quickly chokes him unconscious with blue silver grass then disposes of the third bomb. Wulin boards the 5th carriage and cuts it off from the 4th with his golden talon, allowing the hostages to escape while he goes to resolve the last criminals. A criminal with a spirit guide gun fires at Wulin, but he blocks it with his power armor and tosses him off the train with his blue silver grass, leaving only the commander and one other standing in the 4th carriage. As Wulin enters, the commander holds his gun to Mo Lan's temple and arms the trigger while the other one aims his spirit guide gun. Wulin jumps to the ceiling.
Bullets rain on Wulin but only hit the blue silver grass barrier. The boss orders the last grunt to get the spirit guide artillery. However, Jin Yu gets to it first and throws it at the grunt, taking him out. Mo Lan tries to free herself but the boss clobbers her, drawing blood, and puts a gun to her head. He panics and releases only 3 yellow rings. The hostages all gather away from the fight. Mo Lan tells Wulin to not mind her. Finally calm, the boss decides to suicide bomb. However, Wulin attacks with his purple demon eyes letting Mo Lan wrestles away the trigger. Wulin then crushes the hijacker's neck with a claw strike. Suddenly, a hidden 8th terrorist among the hostage fires his pistol at a bomb. Mo Lan rushes to divert the shot but the captain covers for her while Jin Yu protects the hostages. The shot only goes through Mo Lan's shoulder but it kills the police captain, Li Feng, by piercing his heart. Mo Lan faints in Wulin's arms. Her wound is cauterized, a special feature of spirit guided firearms.
1 hour after arriving at Heaven Dou city, Wulin is being escorted by the mech corp; his 1st time riding a mech. 12 yellow-level mechs have been dispatched though they only arrived after the crisis is averted. Each stands at 12 chi(3.6m) tall, with space enough for 2 people. While the bombs didn't go off, the casualty is still more than 100 civilians dead in the 3rd compartment. For the criminals, 6 are dead and 2 wounded.
The news has spread through Heaven Dou city. Wulin is celebrated as a hero. However, he sneaks away from the hotel to avoid the award ceremony because of the exam's deadline. Wulin's only possession is 20k coin as Mo Lan didn't manage to make him the monthly pass. He stops at a small restaurant to refill then heads straight toward the Heaven Dou Forging Guild.
Consul Mo Wu is furious after being informed that Wulin has disappeared. He is already upset from almost losing his treasured daughter. Due to previous incidents, he has asked Mo Lan to resign but she just laughed his concern away. At this moment, Wukong arrives and introduces himself. He volunteered to be Wulin's overseer for the exam but missed the train as Wulin was too fast. His train was stopped due to the separated cars from the hijacking. Because of the gag order on the media, Wukong just manages to find Mo Wu. Wukong heads to leave after Mo Wu told him about Wulin's disappearance. Suddenly, Wukong stops and grabs Mo Wu as the councilor is teleported away. Wukong has detected an intruder. A shadow reveals itself with a low-pitched voice, applauding Shrek caliber.
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It is an old man in dark cloak carrying a staff. He comes to see the child savior but lucks on the Councilor. He threatens to kill Wukong then kidnap Mo Wu. The old man releases his rings, 2Y 2P 2B, covered in a layer of green fog. Wukong identifies him as an evil spirit master. The old man introduces himself as the Pestilence Emissary (horseman?) and unleashes green fog covering the room. Wukon also releases his spirit, 2Y 2P 3B, and thrusts as Pestilence's chest. Surprised by Wukong's strength, Pestilence still manages to block with his staff. He intensifies the poisonous fog, forcing Wukong back as he still has to protect Mo Wu. After getting Mo Wu to safety, Wukong attacks with Mist Ice Whisper, cleaving the ground in half. When the fog clears, Pestilence has already escaped via a tunnel. Just then, the mech corps arrive with weapons aimed at Wukong. Quickly regaining his composure as expected of a politician, Mo Wu orders them to stand down.
At the Forging Guild, Wulin is refused access to missions as he doesn't have his blacksmith medal. He tries to get the clerk to access the database but he doesn't believe that Wulin is a rank 5 though he is impressed by Wulin's passion for forging. Exasperated, Wulin asks him for an evaluation exam though there is a long queue that day. A bell interrupts their conversation, announcing that the guildmaster will give a lecture in half an hour. The crowd is excited. On Wulin's question, the clerk explains that the guildmaster is actually the grandmaster of the whole Forging Guild, the only God Artisan on the continent. He rarely gives lecture, which is a great opportunity for learning. The clerk tells Wulin to follow him closely.
The staff member with Wulin go to the presentation hall, where they are on the outer ring. Though Wulin is tall, most forging guild members are quite large and he finds it difficult to see. Squirming through the crowd and using controlling crane catching dragon, he winds his way to the front row. The staff calls to him telling him to be careful, but he had already disappeared. Cheers rang out as the president Zhenhua entered, he looked middle aged with black hair and eyes, with white sideburns, but his eyes betrayed his age and experience. As a Holy Smith he had worked with Title Douluo to create a set of four word power armor, but it wasn't truly complete, so he retreated to become a God Smith, completing it 8 years prior. Wulin is excited to learn from him. He taught them of a method to reduce the difficulty of integration during the alloy forging process. Some of the tips seemed somewhat familiar, but he hadn't been taught them by Mu Chen yet as he wasn't a 6th grade blacksmith yet. As he finished, Wulin exclaimed that he understood and applauded, but the audience was quiet. Most of them did not quite understand, since rank 6 smiths are rare. With the noise, attention was focused on Wulin and the crowd became mad, but Zhenhua saw Wulin's excitement and enthusiasm. He smiled and asked if Wulin understood, with Wulin nodding. He was completely immersed and paid no attention to the crowd.
Wulin asks to try the new fusion forge technique, surprising everyone. Amused, Zhenhua agrees. Wulin asks for Heavy Silver, Meteorite Iron and also Heaven Moon fine powder, the multipurpose catalyst from Zhenhua's lecture. Zhenhua orders the staff to gather the material despite protests. He has realized that Wulin really is an experienced blacksmith from his hands. Wulin then requests for Zhenhua's hammers, shocking everyone again as hammers are a blacksmith's life. Zhenhua reluctantly complies. They are a pair of spirit-forged hammers made from Cloud Gold- a fusion of Cloud Copper and White Gold Crystal. They have been Zhenhhua's favorite hammers for 15 years. He promises to gift it to Wulin if he succeeds. For Zhenhua who became rank 6 at 18 yo, he doesn't take Wulin lightly though he wonders why Wulin doesn't have his own hammers.
Wulin easily lifts the 200kg hammers. He first tests the hammers by listening to a test strike, impressing Zhenhua as it is a high-level technique. Moreover, Wulin even correctly identifies the hammers' special effect, Tremor. He completes a perfect 1st strike on the Heavy Silver without any recoil, even when aided by the force-boosting effect of Tremor. Zhenhua smiles approvingly as Wulin passes his 1st test. After 3 full seconds, Wulin finally starts his 2nd strike.
Wulin forges the heavy silver 100 times, before working on the star(meteorite) iron. The audience is shocked, but Wulin is completely focused on his forging. Simultaneously, the thousand forging is completed on both metals, with the resulting light reaching 6 feet in height. The hammer Wulin is using is infused with some of Zhenhua's essence, so it naturally has a boosting effect to the forging. Wulin releases his purple spirit rings, fusing the metals while injecting his soul force. Some of the audience notice that is should not be Wulin's first time forging alloys. Wulin adds the powder like Zhenhua had described, noticing that the metals increase in toughness which reduces the probability of failure. One of the things that the fusion struggles with is the destruction of the metals, which limits the degree of integration. With the increased strength, Wulin can increase the forging intensity as he no longer needs to worry about this as much. Wulin's three purple rings converge, and his golden ring appears with Wulin's blood boiling. Since he is forging this for himself, it is most suitable to add in his own blood strength, while he could do it with his soul force alone.
Wulin really finishes fusion forging. Zhenhua's eyebrows shrivel together and asks Wulin's identity. Wulin realizes he screwed up but still names himself as Mu Chen's disciple. His age and rank shock the entire crowd. Zhenhua allows Wulin to take away both the product and his hammers though Wulin refuses the latter, asking if he can redeem them for money. Zhenhua twitches, wondering if this is a prank by Mu Chen. Zhenhua asks Wulin to follow him. In the meantime, the news of a genius spreads throughout the forging world.
Inside the elevator, Zhenhua asks if Mu Chen sent Wulin here. Wulin denies, explaining the Shrek Exam. Zhenhua now understands why Mu Chen moved. He also finds out that elder Feng is Wulin's other master. Zhenhua agrees to help, arranging transportation and opponents for Wulin. He also asks Wulin to call him master-uncle. Seeing that Wulin is hungry, Zhenhua leads him to his personal dining room. The menu is thousand-year Earth Dragon Tendon and Moonlight Rice.
The Chef is an over 50yo man with a skinny appearance. Wulin scarfs down the delicious food so fast that the Chef's face turns from smiling to an O. The old man tells Wulin that even the wrapped portion is gone but Wulin is only 60%-70% full. The Chef gives him a thumb-up and tells him to wait then goes to the back.
While Wulin is happily eating, Zhenhua is on the phone with Mu Chen. He is angered that Mu Chen is hiding such a talent from him. Even under normal condition, Wulin can become a God Artisan. The only problem would be raising his cultivation to Title Douluo though Zhenhua has more than enough resources as he is one of the 10 richest on the continent. Mu Chen knows what Zhenhua is getting to and premptively denies his older school brother. Zhenhua's voice softens. He cites their school sibling relationship. He even mentions Mu Chen's wife, Yuan Bao Er, who is their master's daughter though she never picked up forging. Zhenhua says he sacrificed his love for Mu Chen. He plays his trump card, reasoning that Mu Chen has a happy family while Zhenhua, who still only has Bao Er in his heart, only wants a son to take care of him in old age. Mu Chen almost gives in.
Suddenly, a gentle voice from Mu Chen's side asks if Zhenhua is crying. Zhenhua shudders when he realizes it is Bao Er. Bao Er asks if it is okay if she leaves Mu Chen for him. Zhenhua hurriedly denies but Bao Er changes to an angry tone and tells him to scram, hanging up the phone. Zhenhua's face shifts to another color. Mu Chen is also surprised. Bao Er cuddles into his chest and states that it was a warning shot for Zhenhua. Bao Er explained that back when there was still a love triange, Zhenhua had sneakily proposed first. Bao Er realized he is too ambitious and would put forging before her. She rejected him for Mu Chen but kept silent to save Zhenhua's face. She says Mu Chen was just too oblivious to Zhenhua's sly fox nature though that was why she chooses him.
Zhenhua returns to the dining table. He tells Wulin about the call and that Wulin's opponent is waiting at the Guild. Zhenhua then asks about Wulin's future plan. Hearing Wulin's dream to become an armor master, Zhenhua offers to introduce him to several armor masters at Shrek that can mentor him. Wulin readily agrees and exchanges number. This is part of Zhenhua's plan to build a good relationship. He believes that while Mu Chen may be able to teach Soul Forge, only he can teach the next step Heaven Forge.
The Chef finally finishes the meal. Zhenhua is surprised that the Chef serves up 6 Ruby Shrimp as even he can't eat it normally. The Chef replies that Zhenhua doesn't have good taste and Wulin's appetite is to his liking. Wulin is in awe that the Chef is on equal term with Zhenhua as he can't sense a trace of spirit power from the old man. Zhenhua seems to refer to Wulin as the Chef's "people. The Chef turns to Wulin and explains that the shrimp are also known as Blood Shrimp, possessing qi similar to humans. He estimates that Wulin can handle 3 at most. Just after the 1st bite, Wulin's qi goes out of control. The draconic pattern appears on his skin as it turns golden. Jin Long Jing Tian also automatically activates. As the golden ring emerges, both old men are astonished with the Chef paying especially close attention. Wulin feels the 4th seal being attacked but it still manages to hold.
Normally, it takes a year to digest the shrimp. Zhenhua reveals that Wulin is a Shrek student, which causes the Chef to change his mood. He laments feeding Wulin though accepts that Wulin's body proves the kid is his "people". After Wulin recovers, he feels a boost equal to 2 months of training. As Wulin expresses his gratitude, the Chef tells him their meeting is fate and offers to take Wulin under his wing, as long as he resigns from Shrek. Although attracted by the food, Wulin still refuses though he leaves the door open for after graduation. The Chef doesn't reply and turns back to the kitchen. To Wulin's question, Zhenhua replies that his admittance to the inner school is guaranteed so the Chef has no chance anyway. Wulin proceeds to eat the remaining 2. He feels that the 4th seal is ready but it is not yet time. Zhenhua then leads Wulin to the sparring. On the way, Wulin asks about the Chef's identity.
Zhenhua replies the Chef is a hermit though his group has bad relation to Shrek. Wulin is surprised to see a dimensional door. Zhenhua explains they use an extra dimension as the Guild's vault. The key is a Saint Artisan medal. Seeing Wulin eyeing the medal, Zhenhua tells Wulin to make a choice: whether to use elixirs to raise his cultivation. The upside is that Title Douluo would only take 15 years. The downside is Wulin can never become a Supreme Douluo or a God. Wulin asks for more time, to Zhenhua's approval.
Inside the vault, Wulin's opponent is waiting. Zhenhua introduces him as one of the Guild's Gatekeeper's clansmen, Xie Yin Ling. He is lv 43, 2Y 2P, exactly to Wulin's request. They exchange greeting. Right on Zhenhua's signal, Wulin quickly charges forward. Yin Ling releases his spirit, flying-type Eagle, and soars to the air. Wulin pursues with a jump but seemingly doesn't reach. Yin Ling was on guard but seeing Wulin's careless move, he gains confidence. However, in a flash, Yin Ling is unable to smile.
A golden light propels Wulin forward right in front of Yin Ling. He panics and uses his 2nd skill, Eagle Wings Slash, while preparing the 3rd and 4th skills. However, Wulin easily deflects the blades then wraps Yin Ling up with blue silver grass. Wulin readies a right-hand strike but Yin Ling hurriedly slashes again, still to no avail. The dragon claw stops in front of Yin Ling's chest, cutting of his spirit power flow. He falls to the ground, defeated. Yin Ling is in shock as he barely did anything. Zhenhua is indifferent as Wulin also doesn't show anything though he sees Wulin in a new light. Zhenhua praises Wulin's strength and recommends the kid to reconsider his offer if he finds himself unable to break into Spirit King after 20yo.
As farewell gifts, Zhenhua hands Wulin a card containing 1 million federal coins and a storage ring bigger than Wulin's old one, containg 18 types of rare metal as well as some jars of Zhenhua's custom-made catalyst. Wulin leaves from the backdoor to avoid attention. At the lounge, he is surprised to see Wukong. Wukong explains that due to the recent terror attack by evil spirit masters, the academy has increased security measures for the exam students. Because of the the limited number of teachers, the students will now participate as a group and be directly supervised. Wukong points to the rest of the gang waiting for Wulin. La Zhi is the first to approach as he smelled a delicious smell on Wulin. He badgers Wulin for the source though Wulin replies it is impossible now. Wukong turns to the kids and tells them to arrange their own matters as he is only following. It seems only Wulin has completed his 1st fight. Gu Yue suggests they visit the Pagoda; a measure they all agree upon due to Gu Yue's connection. On the way, Wulin shows Wukong the footage of his fight as proof.
Wulin finally gives in to La Zhi, telling him it is Ruby Shrimp. La Zhi is surprised as it is no normal ingredient. The Ruby Shrimp live in the Blood Ocean Trench, where even 4-word armor masters have trouble reaching due to its strong magnetic field and powerful Sea Beasts. La Zhi really wants to eat it so Wulin offers to barf it out for him. Angered, Xinglan turns around and berates them for their gross conversation.
The atmosphere at the Pagoda is calm. Wukong seems too silent, which Wulin guesses is because they are near Long Bing Er's grave. Gu Yue has finished verifying her status with the clerk. After some time, a middle-aged man arrives and tells her that the Heavenly Phoenix Douluo has ordered the Pagoda not to aid her. Gu Yue nods and tells the gang to leave. Wulin offers to get the Guild's help. Gu Yue refuses as it would take too long though she has another method. Xinglan's eyes light up as Wulin shudders.
Sun Run Yu is happy to have gotten a new familiar from the Pagoda. He is 35yo and finally Spirit King. His promotion to Lieutenant Colonel is not far away now. Suddenly:
"This mountain I opened (Gu Yue)
This tree I planted (Xinglan)
If you want to pass (Xie Xie)
Hand over the toll" (Xiaoyan)
Run Yu sees 4 children blocking his path. In the distance, a fat kid is sitting with a grin on his face while another one covers his face in shame. The military man tells the childen to go home with a voice of authority.
On hearing Gu Yue's slogan, Wulin buries himself in his hand while Wukong escapes behind a tree. La Zhi crouches down and turns around, trying to contain his laughter. Gu Yue's plan is simple: ambush anyone exiting from the Pagoda. As for slogan, it is just her habit. Xie Hou and Xiaoyan are awfully excited. Gu Yue and Xinglan attack in unison. Run Yu is astonished and releases his spirit, covering himself with a layer of steam that spreads to the surrounding. Xinglan's sword beam is deflected by the steam.
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Sun Run Yu is taken aback by the children each with 3 rings, and his 2nd ring flashes, condensing the mist into water drops then into a wave, and shooting it at Gu Yue. The water turns into a barrier, but the water was sucked away when Gu Yue's golden light enters it. Sun Run Yu's spirit is rain, which is water based but not pure water, and a golden circle appears at his feet, draining the water away. Xiaoyan's star chains bind him, Xie Xie's dagger at his neck and Xinglan's sword at his chest, he is swiftly defeated. Wulin apologizes, seeing the elemental attacks he couldn't resist stripping it with his blue silver grass. They apologize and let Sun Run Yu leave, with Gu Yue telling them that the Pagoda security should arrive soon, at 4th ring level with mech armor. A purple and 2 yellow mechs arrive, surprising them. Purple armor is a personal belonging, and the user is likely to be at least 5 rings. The mech drivers are a little stunned, seeing that the commotion came from these teenagers, and asked who caused the alarm. Xinglan quickly points to Wulin, and the security team tell him to come with them.
On hearing that he has to pay a fine, Wulin runs away, loudly declaring money is life. The purple mech pursues, abandoning the 2 yellow mechs to the rest of the gang. Xinglan's 3rd skill turns her into a golden star, dismembering one of the mechs' arm. Just then, an alarm sounds at the Pagoda. The other mech gets assaulted with Gu Yue's multi-elemental barrage though it manages to withstand with a light shield while aiming the cannons. However, one icicle flies in an arc and freezes the cannons. Xie Xie sneaks behind and dismantle the mech's circuit, disabling it.
Meanwhile, caught by the purple mech's arm, Wulin reverses it into a throw aided by Golden Dragon Body. The mech regains it balance via a jetpack and then shoots a lightning bolt. Wulin swings away on the BSG while the mech arms itself with 2 greatswords charged with electricity. Wulin activates Jin Long Jing Tian and clashes with the mech. Both of them get knocked back but Wulin springs back again with BSG. The mech set its forcefield at full power but the dragon claw easily pierces through it with its breaking special effect.
The mech flies with a visible claw mark on its chest. On the other side, the yellow mechs have both been disabled; one beheaded by Xinglan's 3rd skill: Sword Starfall. Wulin yells for everyone to stop, stopping the purple mech's counter with a warning claw swipe on the ground. The purple mech's enforcer asks Wulin's identity in fear. Wulin bluffs that they are the Head Enforcers from the Pagoda's HQ. They are here to check on the security after the terror attack. Wulin tells the enforcers to write a report. Gu Yue shows her freshly minted high-ranked ID to back Wulin's lie, which convinces the enforcers. The children then quickly run away when the reinforcement from the Pagoda come.
They get in a small restaurant. Xie Xie admires Wulin's bluffing ability and asks Gu Yue if there are really Head Enforcers. Gu Yue denies as each area has an independent enforcer department though there is a HQ Inspection Department that oversees the entire organization. She advises to use that next time. Wulin refuses that there would be no next time as they are done if caught. Gu Yue nonchalantly says that this is the simplest method and that the enforcers will give her teacher face. Moreover, the inspection is not entirely wrong and the Pagoda would not mind such little loss. Just then Wukong appears with a half-crying, half-laughing look on his face. He approves the result but the method is too daring. Wukong finds that Wulin is courageous but that quality can also be dangerous. The teacher resolves to be more strict.
After recovering, the gang disguise themselves and head to the train station. However, the train has been shutdown indefinitely due to the terrorists. Wulin asks if anyone knows how to drive and Xie Xie volunteers himself.
Heaven Dou Spirit Pagoda. In a meeting room, more than 10 people are watching the children's battle. Hearing Wulin's bluff, all of them have complicated looks on their faces. A middle-aged man asks the Pagoda master if the bluff is true. The master angrily replies that it does not matter but the kid is right that security is too lax. He orders the alert level raised to orange and for the 3 defeated enforcers to write a report as well as increase their training. The meeting ends. The Pagoda master asks the man who met with Gu Yue at the gate if Heavenly Phoenix Douluo has any opinions. The man replies that she won't interfere and if they should begin looking for the children. The master wants to let the incident sink. He asks the man to carry out the security carefully as failing would not be shame for them only. After everyone leaves, the master looks out of the window in contemplation: Peace has lasted too long and a stimulation is needed to raise awareness. Only 5 years left.
The gang didn't manage to find any taxi so they bought a small car. It costs 800k coins, coming from most of Wulin's fund. Xie Xie is the driver - the only licensed one- while La Zhi is at shotgun. In the back, Wulin and the 3 girls cram together with Gu Yue claiming the seat next to him. As for Wukong, Wulin asks him to find his own way. Wuling suggests that they get another car at the next city from his forging. Gu Yue asks if he dislikes her cramming into him. Wulin replies she has gotten fatter, earning him the silence treatment. Xie Xie laughs, saying it is puberty but he gets immediately yelled at by the girls. Xie Xie asks La Zhi for back up but he fakes sleeping.
On the road, Wulin smells Gu Yue's sweet scent and reflects that they have known each other for a long time. He reminiscises on his companions, from meeting Gu Yue and Xie Xie, saying goodbye to Wang Xi and Zhang Yang, to gaining Xiaoyan, La Zhi and Xinglan. Shaking away the sad thought, he asks Gu Yue if she wants to talk. Gu Yue glances at him, their body stick closely together. Originally, it was her who decided the seating order to solely possess Wulin. Everyone accepts it as Gu Yue has not been hiding her intention and she is good to Wulin. Although, they all wonder why sometimes, she acts cold to him, as if to keep a distance. Gu Yue replies if Wulin wants to talk about power armor, saying that she is near lv40. After getting another familiar, she can begins a design. Wulin wants to talk about something else now that they are out of the academy. He asks about everyone's aspirations and suggests Xinglan should go first.
A little bit surprised, Xinglan replies that her goal is to stay as Shrek and become one of its guardians. Wulin is surprised she doesn't want to travel. Xinglan doesn't deny the possibility as long as it is not becoming the Ye clan's heiress. She likes sword training, not politics. As long as she stays at Shrek, the Ye clan can't do anything. Xie Xie comments that Xinglan doesn't want to stay still- an evaluation she agrees with. Xiaoyan's dream is similar to Xinglan's that she doesn't want to inherit the Xu clan. However, Xiaoyan wants to be a housewife, raise a family and live a carefree princess life.
Xie Xie criticizes Xiaoyan's small dream, saying he wants to be one of the Shrek 7 Devils. The selection is only held every 50 years and the next one is in 4 years. All students under 25 are eligible. Everyone lights up on hearing this title. Xie Xie boasts of his big dream but Xiaoyan retorts asking if he is even capable. Wulin asks how does he know so much and Xie Xie instinctively replies it is Yuan En. Everyone does a meaningful "Ohh". Xie Xie loses focus and grazes into the side barrier. Gu Yue's face lands on Wulin's nose, making him almost cry. Wulin angrily scolds Xie Xie as Gu Yue rubs his nose. Xie Xie admits to Xiaoyan's suspicion that he wants to catch up to Yuan En. As for La Zhi, his dream is just staying at Shrek comfortably. Wulin reminds him of Oscar, La Zhi's idol. Encouraged, he thanks Wulin by giving him a dumpling.
Wulin turns the question to Gu Yue. The answer, "Marry you", silences the car. Gu Yue asks Xie Xie if he hates living. Xie Xie begs, saying he is still driving. Flustered, Wulin tells him to shut up. Finally back to serious, Gu Yue replies that she wants to keep it a secret as she doesn't like lying to friends. Everyone is surprised but accepts her answer. As for Wulin, he wants to enlist. To everybody's curiosity, Wulin also says it is a secret. In truth, he wants to find his parents but doesn't want his friends to worry. Xiaoyan wishes everyone luck with their goal. Wulin looks out of the window and resolves himself to reunite his family, including Na Er. Gu Yue's eyes glaze over, deep in thought.
After 3.5 hours, they arrive as Heaven Spirit city (or Heaven Ling, old capital of Dou Ling). To Xie Xie's question, Wulin tells him to find a resting place as the sun has set. Incidentally, the car can be refueled by directly channelling spirit power.
The next morning, Wulin makes a new travelling plan. They aim to finish 3 cities today then rest at the 4th one. At this rate, it should take 5 days, enough for the return trip. Everyone aside from Wulin agree on the same plan as before, to which he reluctantly sighs that they are becoming criminals. When they do a huddle, the 5 all simultaneously yells out Wulin is the worst one.
9AM, the children arrives at the Pagoda in white clothes, disguised as Inspectors. They set their sight on a 26-27yo woman in sportswear and encircle her. The woman lowers her guard on seeing a bunch of kids and shoos them away. Wulin challenges her to a spar but she still dimisses them. Nontheless, the children all release their spirits and attack. The woman is shocked on seeing 18 purple rings but she quickly releases her spirit, 2Y 3P, a fire type. Wulin attacks using the golden BSG with elemental stripping. However, right before it connects, the woman disappear into the Red Fire Gourd on top of her head. The Gourd then aims at Wulin and lets loose a stream of flame. The flame collides with an ice wall, creating an explosion, forcing the children to retreat. Wulin follows up with BSG Golden Light Array.
The gourd escapes from the array's AoE. The woman appears again from the gourd but she is immediately sealed by Xiaoyan. Wulin, Xinglan and Xie Xie close the encirclement. Feeling her life threatened, the woman equips herself with her 1-word power armor, which seems inspired by the Phoenix, and repels the attacks.
Yan Feng was in a happy mood after registering herself at the Pagoda as a 1-word armor master. Moreover, she is the youngest one ever in Heaven Ling at 27yo so the Pagoda has pledged to help her reach 2-word level. Right then, Wukong announces that if the group defeats Yan Feng, they can clear this round. Wulin sighs as the opponent is on Spirit Saint level.
Yan Feng fires another stream of flame. Wulin switches to dragon mode and equips his power armor armguard. Yan Feng is astonished as a power armor appearing from inside the body means it should be on 2-word level. La Zhi distributes the featherweight and bloodthirsty dumplings. Under those effects, Wulin charges forward, armed with the dragon claw. Yan Feng isolates the others from Wulin with a wall of flame. She meets his attack with her own flaming fist. Right before contact, Jin Long Jing Tian activates as a dragon head phantom manifests on the claw and seems to devour Yan Feng's arm. Yan Feng panics as her flame is being absorbed. She gathers the remainder into a mini Fire Phoenix aimed at Wulin's chest.
Yan Feng also throws another fireball at Wulin. He feels his special effects, crushing and elemental stripping, nullified by the power armor. Wulin attempts to dodge the attacks but they are locked on to him. Forturnately, an icicle destroys the mini-phoenix while Xinglan barely blocks the fireball. Xie Xie appears behind Yang Feng and stabs her shoulders to no effect and gets repelled by a heat wave. A light orb of 4 colors blue, red, yellow, and green arrives before Yang Feng. Feeling threatend, she immediately releases a burst of fireballs and detonates the orb early. After the explosion, the still-standing Yang Feng aims her gourd at Wulin. Cornered, Wulin begs her that it is all a misunderstanding.
Just then, the enforcers arrive with 3 yellow mechs to restore order. Yang Feng barely manages to divert her attack upward. She is surprised to see the children play the victim card. Xiaoyan even cries and hugs the bewildered Xinglan. Wulin straightens his back. He pulls the smirking Gu Yue behind him and accuses Yang Feng of attacking them to test her new armor. The accused is in disbelief. The enforcers recognize Yang Feng from the earlier registration. They seem to lean toward Wulin's side. Yang Feng tries to reason but Wulin bends the truth and even gives her a lecture about power and responsibility while Xiaoyan cries even louder. Xinglan turns away as Xie Xie sighs deeply, lamenting that Wulin's scoundrel level has gotten even higher.
The enforcers decide to take everyone back to the Pagoda to review the surveillance camera. However, Yang Feng refuses to disarm herself. Wulin adds even more fire to the powder keg. Yang Feng finally breaks and charges at Wulin while cursing him out. The 3 mechs aim at Yang Feng and fire.
The enforcers are experienced in dealing with armor masters. The shells collide above Yang Feng, releasing an energy storm that suppresses her armor. With perfect teamwork, the 3 mechs fly into the air and coordinate a barrage pinning Yang Feng down. The children use this opportunity to escape. Their car speeds away into the alleys.
At a safe distance, Xiaoyan, with completely dry eyes, bemoans their bad luck. Wulin wants to change their approach because at this rate, the Pagoda will declare them persona non grata. Gu Yue assures him otherwise while Xie Xie praises Wulin's acting skill. Wulin angrily says that it was his last resort to avoid capture and time wasted. Moreover, they need to apologize to Yang Feng.
After the tape review at the Pagoda office, Yang Feng slams on the table and yells at the enforcer. Earlier, she was finally detained after 3 more purple mechs arrived. The enforcer leader seems to be respectful toward Yang Feng's status, calling her young lady. He apologizes for his subordinates but refuses to follow Yang Feng's order to hunt the children down. He explains that it would be interfering with the federal government and Yang Feng is unhurt so they would not be able to charge the minors anything significant. Yang Feng reluctantly lets it go due to the enforcers' pleading and is escorted out of the Pagoda.
Outside, Yang Feng tries to look for the kids but her eyes fall on Wukong. She is immediately lovestruck. Wukong introduces himself to the fidgetting girl and explains that he is here to apologize for his students. Yang Feng almost immediately forgives him but she does a double take on mentioning the children. However, hearing Wukong claim full responsibility, she is unable to get angry. Wukong turns back but Yang Feng stops him, saying an apology is not enough. Wukong asks what is her request.
Yang Feng, with a deep blush due to zero relationship experience, asks Wukong to take her out for a meal; the details are up to him. Wukong concedes and takes the lead. On the way, Yang Feng enjoys watching his back as well as the praises from other women. Wukong stops at a small restaurant in an alley with a resminiscent look in his eyes. The owner seems to know Wukong well, greeting him with a shoulder hug. Surprisingly, the usually neat freak Wukong allows him and nods back. It seems they haven't met in a long time. The owner is surprised to see him with Yang Feng but he is glad for Wukong. Wukong orders the usual and the owner goes to the back.
Yang Feng asks Wukong some questions but he only gives very brief answers. He tells her that he used to visit this shop regularly and that he is from Shrek. Yang Feng is surprised to hear he is 33yo. Her comment about Wukong's reticence is similarly disregarded but when the question comes to Wukong's students, he seems to have a more normal expression. Yang Feng criticizes Wulin's immorality. Wukong's face twitches and replies it is Wulin's innate talent. Yang Feng goes on to lecture him about steering Wulin on the right path but Wukong is sure that Wulin won't go astray. She changes the topic to which academy Wukong is from. However, the owner interrupts with the food: fried eggs, brined fish, peanut chicken and tofu soup. Yang Feng happily digs in and praises the surprisingly good food. Wukong slowly eats in reminiscence. Yang Feng reminds him of her previous question. She is shocked to hear he is a Shrek teacher. Inside, she exclaims Wukong is perfect.
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On Yang Feng's question, Wukong tells her he is a 2-word armor master, titled "Heavenly Ice" (Yang Feng's is "Phoenix"): "Heaven" for his spirit and "Ice" for his wife. Yang Feng's mood is struck a heavy blow on hearing Wukong is taken. The 2 continue the meal in silence. Wukong remembers about the dinner conversation he had with Long Bing. After the meal, Yang Feng thanks Wukong and requests his number, with the excuse that she can notify him after cancelling the warrant out for Wulin's gang. Wukong agrees but he doesn't reply when Yang Feng asks if she can meet him again at Shrek. After Wukong leaves, Yang Feng decides to request the Pagoda for a transfer to Shrek city.
On Wulin's side, after giving up on Heaven Ling, they have smoothly passed several cities. It is now the 4th day. They plan to complete 4 more cities then arrives at Mingdu at the 7th day. Xinglan suggests they challenge the Sun-Moon Royal Spirit Mentor Academy because of its long rivalry with Shrek. Wulin and Gu Yue approve. However, Xie Xie reminds them of dealing with the current problem. 15 yellow mechs and 5 purple mechs from the Pagoda have set up a roadblock to ambush the gang's car. Wulin orders to abandon ship. Under the cover of Gu Yue and Xiaoyan' blizzard, the group splits up and enters the woods beside the highway. The mechs pursue and fire their cannons.
Wulin is confident that the mechs at least won't kill them. He switches into Golden Dragon Body and concentrates Jin Long Jin Tian into his claw; his best technique. Wulin unleases 5 claw phantoms that rapidly grow to dozens of meters in size. The attacks knock down all 5 purple mechs with maximum shield. The yellow mechs stop pursuing and switch to radar searching. Gu Yue grabs Wulin by the hand as they both sink into the ground. Gu Yue has made an underground hideout via Earth element manipulation. Moreover, she also creates air by dismantling water. Everyone looks at her in reverence.
After an hour, the gang returns above ground. The mechs have withdrawn. Gu Yue suggests they change their plan as the Pagoda have definitely upped their security. Wulin decides that their target will be the academies on the way. It is 200km to the next city. As their car has been destroyed, they run on a footpath, aided with Wind element and featherweight dumplings.
200km is not too much for the others but it is torture for La Zhi. He curses the Pagoda and vows to not sell them any dumplings to Xinglan's diappointment. On arrival, they stop at a diner. Wulin calls Zhenhua and asks to be set up with the local Guild. Zhenhua instead decides to let Wulin get money directly. After withdrawing another million coins from the Guild, the group buys another car to Xie Xie's suggestion. Their target this time is Heaven Ding Star Academy. This is one of the oldest academies, specializing in flying-type Spirit Mentors.
The next day, a car stops in front of Heaven Ding academy. 6 people exit, dressed in Shrek's signature green color. Xie Xie unfolds a banner stating that Shrek students are here to challenge the strongest U20 team. The scene attracts a large crowd. An older student asks Wulin if he has any proof of identity. In reply, Wulin releases a golden ring, shocking everyone.
At this moment, the academy's main gate open as 4 middle-aged men exit. One of them asks if the gang are inner or outer school students. Wulin introduces himself as the president of his class. The man seems impressed and asks the group to follow him. He then disperses the crowd with a single shout. Inside, the man introduces himself as the academy's disciplinary dean, Li Zhi Long. Wulin honestly explains to him about their final exam and even flatter his academy's strength. The rest of the gang are weirded out by his change of character. Even weirder, Zhi Long laughs, praising Wulin's audaciousness. He recalls his upperclassman passing the exam by attacking an army base, saying that Wulin's group at least didn't attack out of the blue. It seems Zhi Long is a former Shrek student 15 classes ago, though only an outer school. Wulin asks if they should leave if it is too much trouble but Zhi Long insists otherwise. He complains his regrets at not making it to the inner school. Wulin happily keeps him company, all according to plan.
Zhi Long brings them to a resting room and asks if they want to use mech suits. Wulin refuses. After Zhi Long leaves, Xie Xie asks why the honesty. Gu Yue explains that Wulin picked up that Zhi Long and Shrek have a connection. Wulin doesn't reply and points at his head to Xinglan's condescending humph. Wulin tells everyone to prepare themselves as Zhi Long will no doubt pick the best to challenge them. After some time, Zhi Long returns and asks if they needs more time. Wulin declines and says they needs to hurry. Zhi Long asks if a president is afraid of failing but Wulin explains he wants more points to help the whole class pass. Zhi Long changes his expression to appproval. He brings the group to the academy's observatory that also serves as the training ground. Wulin is wowed by the architecture.
Zhi Long explains that the observatory uses a complicated spirit guide formation that allows up-close view of the stars as well as generates star power that is useful for cultivating. Wulin thinks that even Shrek doesn't possess such a complicated formation. Zhi Long leaves and returns with the Heaven Ding team. All 6 are around 18-20yo, the strongest is lv46, the weakest above lv40. The teams alternately introduce themselves. The captain is a controller, a boy named Xiao Tian Tian. The 2nd member is a lanky boy, Ye Zi Shu, an agility attacker. The 3rd member is a muscular boy, Gu Tian Ming, surprisingly also an agility type. The 4th is a graceful boy, Zhang Xi Ning, a controller. When it is Xiaoyan's turn, she seems unfocused. The 5th member is a girl named Li Yao Yao, a power attacker. The final member is also a girl, Han Wu Chang, another controller. Wulin's group is surprised that half of them are controllers yet also flying-type. Wulin's team forms the usual triangle formation. Tina Tian's team just stands in a row. Zhi Long tells both team to get ready as the observatory's formation activates. The walls are decorated with stars, emitting powerful energy. Wulin sees a light covering the Heaven Ding's team, no doubt it is their home field effect. However, Wulin is also surprised that Xiaoyan is also affected, the light around her even stronger.
Xiaoyan assures her team with a shaky yet excited voice. Zhi Long also wonders about Xiaoyan's situation. He still gives the signal to begin. Wulin, Xie Xie and Xinglan immediately charge. The Heaven Ding team takes to the sky. Tian Tian releases his spirit. Bat wings unfold from his back along with 4 purple rings. Zi Shu's spirit is a bamboo staff; his wings are made from clusters of bamboo leaves using his 2nd skill. Tian Ming's spirit is Demon Sky War Eagle. Xi Ning's spirit is the Nightingale. What astonishes Wulin the most is Yao Yao. Her skin dyes black as she catches flame, turning into a meteorite. Wu Chang's spirit is the most normal, a pair of butterfly wings. After closing distance, wrapped at the waist by BSG, La Zhi, Xie Xie and Xinglan are thrown into the air. La Zhi's target is Xi Ning protected by Tian Ming, Xie Xie's is Wu Chang while Xinglan goes for Tian Tian. Xi Ning's 1st skill slows down the approaching meatball. Tian Ming's 1st skill, Air-breaking Feather, unleashes a wave of feather arrows. However, using Tang Sect's "Fairy Scatters Flowers" and "Controlling Crane, Catching Dragon", La Zhi returns the arrows.
The arrows' target is Xi Ning while La Zhi himself goes for Tian Ming. Tian Ming protects the 2 with his 2nd skill, Eagle Wing Strike. While Tian Ming is occupied, La Zhi fires a cold light from his palm at Xi Ning. Xi Ning already got wounded from the few arrows that got through when a storm of iron needles imbued with spirit power appears before him. Fortunately, Zhi Long grabs him from the air but Xi Ning is KO'd. La Zhi regroups with Wulin and hands him a recovery dumpling.
At the same time, Xie Xie has reached Wu Chang. She uses her 2nd skill, her wings flutter slightly. Xie Xie feels the world goes dark as his attacks miss. Other people see that Xie Xie attacked the air while Wu Chang stepped on his shoulder. Wulin realizes that Wu Chang is a mental-controller type. Xie Xie falls from the sky and Yao Yao flies up to intercept him. Her spirit is Meteorite. Gu Yue's fireballs are all crushed by Yao Yao, forcing Wulin to pull Xie Xie back by the waist. Yao Yao switches target to Wulin as the Heaven Ding team realizes he is the center of Shrek formation. Wulin tosses Xie Xie back at Wu Chang.
On the other side, Xinglan is keeping Tian Tian busy. In Tian Tian's hands are 2 red orbs, capable of stopping Xinglan's sword. Suddenly, she powers up from the star power on the field, destroying both orbs. Her sword reaches Tian Tian's chest. Surprised, Tian Tian uses his 3rd skill and deflects the sword. 2 horns grow from his head as his body is covered in red lightning. Xinglan also uses her 3rd skill, turning into a star flying to the sky. Zhi Long realizes Xinglan's spirit is also star-related and has a bad premonition.
Back to Wulin, as Yao Yao reaches him, he attacks with the dragon claw, bringing the meteorite to a sudden stop. The shockwave spreads accross the battlefield.
Yao Yao's spirit is Amazing Meteorite. Although she is not really a flying-type, she can propel herself and all her skills are passive-type to strengthen this attack. Her strike contains 3000kg of force but Wulin doesn't bother to divert it. Zhi Long has reached their location, ready to interfere. His eyes twitch as Yao Yao's meteorite body shatters as the person herself collapses on the floor. A BSG strand wraps her up. Wulin flicks his hand as if Yao Yao's strongest attack is just a nuisance. Yao Yao is eliminated.
In the sky, Xinglan uses her strongest attacks, forcing Tian Tian to uses his 4th skill. His body turns black as only his red eyes are visbile. A vortex surrounds Tian Tian's body as they both disappear. Wulin thought it was a space-element attack but there is no space-element disturbance. Tian Tian alone appears again without Xinglan. He flies straight at Gu Yue. From his hand, a red light flies at Wulin, turning into a black hole. From above, Zi Shu's 4th skill unleashes a storm of bamboo leaf arrows. His spirit is called Seven Star Bamboo.
Tian Ming also charges at Xie Xie, tanking for Wu Chang. Wu Chang's 4th skill, Butterfly Wings, activates as she flaps her wings at Wulin. Wulin feels his head irritated greatly, guessing that Wu Chang has also reached Spirit Sea level like Gu Yue. Tian Tian's attack has also arrived, forcing Wulin to change to Golden Dragon Body. In the air, Xie Xie increases his speed, leaving a sea of afterimages and slipping through Tian Ming's arrows. In melee range, Xie Xie's Light Dagger overwhelms Tian Ming's defense. Light Dragon Storm knocks Tian Ming down from the air. Wu Chang wants to help but a dagger rests on her neck from behind. Wu Chang is forced to surrender by Xie Xie. 2 more people on Heaven Ding team are eliminated.
Wulin curls his body and withstand the attacks. Gu Yue protects herself from the leafstorm with a wall of wind then teleports away from Tian Tian's attack to Xiaoyan's side. Right as Gu Yue is about to protect Xiaoyan, the light around Xiaoyan intensifies, attracting Gu Yue's attention. Xiaoyan activates Shining Starlight.
The starlight covers the entire arena, as if Xiaoyan is a descending goddess. On her forehead appears a starwheel mark, like the one on her staff. The leaf storm disappears. In a flash, Tian Tian, Zi Shu, Wu Chang and Tian Ming are all sealed on the floor as Wulin and Xie Xie contain them. The Heaven Ding team has been turned into golden statues. Everyone knows that Xiaoyan's spirit has mutated, fortunately in a very good way. Xinglan finally appears again and bathes herself in the star power, though not as much as Xiaoyan. The battle has been decided.
Wulin goes to Zhi Long's side and asks about Xiaoyan's situation. He admits that he has never seen a spirit master with such high compatibility rate with star power. Zhi Long tells Wulin that Xiaoyan can stay until she finishes absorbing. He then turns to the Heaven Ding team and tells them to observe and learn. After an hour, Xiaoyan finally lands. Her body is covered in 365 points of light. She begins to meditate with Mysterious Heaven skill now that her spirit has evolved. The observatory slowly returns to normal. When she opens her eyes, seeing everyone's stares, Xiaoyan laughs .
To Wulin's question, Xiaoyan describes her state as magical but she doesn't want to say more. Understanding her intention, Wulin says goodbye to Zhi Long. The upperclassman asks for Xiaoyan's number to do more research. The gang sets out in the car. Wulin intends on continuing this method of challenge. Gu Yue asks if it will go well next time but Wulin assures her. Zhi Long has given him a list of alumni at other academies. He then changes the topic to Xiaoyan. She replies that her spirit is originally incomplete but continuing cultivation would eventually make up for it. However, the star power has expedited the process and even cleansed her spirit of impurity. The downside is that her spirit has lost the Ice element. However, all her skills have been upgraded to using star power. Her type has changed to power attack + controller. For Xinglan, she has reached lv40. Everyone is surprised while La Zhi congratulates her. Wulin tells Xie Xie to stop at a phone store. They buy one and contact the alumni.
A couple days passed as their fights go smoothly. The group has arrived at Mingdu with one last fight left. Unfortunately, Sun-Moon academy doesn't have any Shrek alumni. It seems they have a ban on Shrek alumni but the feeling is also mutual. Xie Xie wants to change but the others are already filled with battle spirit. Suddenly, they are scared by a voice. It is Wukong from outside the window who tell them they can get extra points. He is somehow keeping up with a car driving on a highway. Wukong announces he would officially lead them. If they win, the whole team gets perfect score for the exam along with 300 extra points. If they lose, it is an instant fail and Wukong would resign from Shrek. With such cruel punishments, Wulin slightly regrets picking Sun-Moon academy.
=== Chapters 451-460 ===
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Mingdu is the science capital of the Federation, filled with new technologies such as flying cars. Xie Xie spots a group of mechs carrying out identity checks on the highway. Wukong has already disappeared. Without their ID cards, the group is forced to abandon the car. Gu Yue throws a fireball to the sky as a distraction so they can sneak past during the alarm. The group gets on bus. Wulin spots Wukong relaxing on a backseat. The teacher praises their sneaking skill and reminds Wulin's pain of losing 2 cars.
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Nkg's version of c460:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">In the 2 girls's place, a 2m tall warrior goddess appears, armed with a blue longsword. This is Sun-Moon's trump card: fusion skill, Ice Snow Goddess. In concert, Xiaoyan uses Shining Starlight along with Xinglan's Sword Starfall. The attack has no effect as the fusion's compatibility rate must be over 80%. The Goddess moves, Spectral Sword Art aimed at the 3 largest threats: Wulin, Xiaoyan and Xinglan. Xie Xie's clone blocks the blow for Xiaoyan but the person himself is inflicted great backlash. Wulin meets the attack with Jin Long Jing Tian but he is sent flying. Xinglan is not as lucky and takes the full blow, spitting out blood. La Zhi quickly stabilizes her and wants to retaliate in his fury. However, Gu Yue stops him and says to leave it to them.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"> She teleports to Wulin and hugs his freezing body. Their fusion activates as the 2 are covered in 7-color light. With no hesitation, the Goddess strikes at the new threat though her sword begins to crack due to the light. Wulin's body undergoes a draconic transformation, which also affects his armguard. The emitted qi makes the spectating Long Chen instinctively bow. Wulin sees strange visions of many spirit beasts worshipping him. As the Goddess's sword lands, Wulin breaks it with his left claw then follows up with a right. The referee tells him to hold back and interferes. Even a Titled Douluo can barely stop the 7-elemental explosions. Saved from certain death, Dai Min and Liu Xiang crash on the ground. The battle is over.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Wulin feels his 4th seal loosened by a strange power inside him. Xiaoyan and Xie Xie rush to help him and Gu Yue up. Wulin's question of whether they have won echoes throughout the arena. No one can deny that it is a complete victory for Shrek. The referee asks for the fusion's name. Wulin hasn't given it any thought. Gu Yue difficulty coughs out the name: Godly Dragon Transformation.</p>
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The referee admits his academy's defeat. Wulin faces the audience and does a ssh pose with his finger. Shrek has to evacuate from the rain of spits. Wulin asks Gu Yue about the name. She tells him that it is part one, Godly Dragon's Awakening, of Godly Dragon's Nine Transformations. Outside Sun-Moon academy's gate, Wulin bites a recovery dumpling while Gu Yue still has her eyes close. Suddenly, a car lands from the sky along with Wukong who tells them to get in. The car then takes off into the sky.
Sun-Moon upper echelon's meeting, the presiding elder asks for everyone's opinion. A middle-aged man replies that they lost completely and notes Long Chen's situation during the fight. The elder, the current headmaster, confirms that it is spirit oppression. He speculates that Wulin's spirit must be at least on the same level of the Beast God. He is disappointed that Sun-Moon 7 Stars's first showing ends up being a job to Shrek. He believes that this must be Shrek's scheme and orders a complete investigation on the 6.
On the car, Wulin has fainted. He is awakened inside in his mental sea by old Tang. Old Tang sighs that Wulin has caused more trouble.
Old Tang says Wulin has 3 months to collect the 4 ingredients before the 4th seal fails. Hearing Wulin's report, old Tang is surprised that someone can use a fusion skill with him. He is curious about Gu Yue's identity as elementalist should not be compatible with GDK, especially with 100% rate. Nevertheless, Old Tang advises Wulin not to use his fusion anymore or it could crack more seals. Wulin looks forward to his 2nd golden ring, which should be unlocked after releasing the 4th seal.
Wulin awakes back in the real world and is greeted by La Zhi in their dorm. Thanks to the flying car, they are already back within Shrek after just 5 hours. In the next hour, Wulin completely demolishes La Zhi's supply of recovery dumpling then goes into meditation. After finding his possessions on his desk, Wulin calls Wukong. The teacher quickly arrives and announces that Wulin gets perfect score along with the bonus.
As planned, the bonus is split among the class. Wulin asks for additional reward. Wukong tells him elder Cai has especially prepared one for him for daring to use the academy's name: confiscation of quest rewards for 1 year. Wulin quickly refuses any reward but Wukong asks if he doesn't want a guaranteed entry for the Shrek 7 Devils competition. Wulin says to himself that Wukong's poker face is not suited for joking. Wukong also states that there is also additional reward for the class so no one ends up expelled. He announces they have a short 5-day break until the conclusion of class. Luanshi has asked to have Wulin over for the break.
Wulin spends the break training. The day before the concluding session, Wulin, La Zhi and Xie Xie visit the Shrek HQ of Tang Sect. Incidentally, the other HQ is located in Heaven Dou city. Shrek used to have a close partnership with Tang Sect until the former switched its focus to power armor. The three scan their fingers for entry. They report missions as well as a cultivation check; Wulin has reachd lv34. He also registers his armguard. While he is checking the relics section, a friendly middle-aged man seems to recognize him. He introduces himself as Guo Xiao Xu, the branch's admin. Wuln is surprised he cannot sense Xiao Xu's cultivation; he must be stronger than Wukong. Moreover, his body looks like a hologram. Xiao Xu looks kindly but there seem to be 2 vortexes in his eyes that want to swallow everything.
Tang Sect has 9 ranks of membership. Wulin himself is rank 6. Rank 9 is reserved for managers, again split into Intern, Outer Hall and Inner Hall. Wukong is only an Inner Hall manager. Aside from the 2 Halls, there is also the main governing body Douluo Palace. Outer Hall is split into Speed, Defense and Power Hall. Inner Hall is split into Enforcement, Dou Spirit and Elder Hall. Guo's admin role makes him an Elder.
Admin Guo applauds Wulin's victory over Sun-Moon and says Tang Sect has decided to reward the 5 disciples on the team: 1 free Tang Sect technique and 10k spend-only Tang Sect points. He says to bring Xiaoyan and Xinglan with them later. Incidentally, Wulin has learned Purple Demon Eyes, Mysterious Heaven Art and Controlling Crane Catching Dragon. Xie Xie has learned Mysterious Heaven Art and Perplexing Ghost Steps. La Zhi has Mysterious Jade Hands, Controlling Crane Catching Dragon and Mysterious Heaven Art along with some hidden weapon skills. Xiaoyan has learned Purple Demon Eyes and Mysterious Heaven Art. Finally, Xinglan has learned Mysterious Jade Hands, Mysterious Heaven Art and Perplexing Ghost Steps.
Wulin reserves 2 relics for 1k then leaves. After seeing them off, admin Guo enters a meeting room. There are already 6 people waiting, including a man who Wulin is familiar with, master Zhao. He is displeased because admin Guo calls him brother Guang, nicknamed for his bald head. Admin Guo gives his evaluations of the children. Wulin and La Zhi are highly considered while Xie Xie needs more polish. He recommends sending them to Dou Spirit Hall. The presiding young man asks for everyone's opinion. A muscular man suggests his Defense Hall should take them to master Zhao's protest, who argues for his Power Hall. The young chairman pacifies the argument. He decides to leave the children to admin Guo and the Dou Spirit Hall, who he calls little Guo. Moreover, when Wukong can use 3-word armor, he can enter Elder Hall. The man then says that he will leave to the academy. The 5 subordinates call him Palace Master. The Palace Master teleports away.
Back at the dorm, the 3 boys show each other how to use Purple Demon Eyes and Perplexing Ghost Steps. In the distance, Zheng Yu is jealous of their luck. Yuan En asks if he didn't just break to lv40. Zheng Yu confirms and challenges her for after he gets his 2nd familiar. Yuan En's laugh annoys him. Gu Yue finally leaves her room, looking a little weak. Wulin immediately goes to greet her. He then asks her to talk with him in private. Behind them, Xie Xie evilly whistles while Yuan En narrows her eyebrows.
The 2 go to to Gu Yue's room. Wulin asks her to be honest. Gu Yue is surprised and looks away, denying any knowledge. After realizing that he is asking about Divine Dragon Transformations and not other things, she blushes red and kicks him in the leg. Wulin fakes pain while laughing. Gu Yue clearly states that she improvised the name to Wulin's disbelief. Before leaving, Wulin confirms the fact again but Gu Yue doesn't budge. He powerfully states that lying is for puppy (Nkg: no idea). Gu Yue laughs at him for being childish but Wulin states that he can see she is lying. Gu Yue asks what he is gonna do. Wulin grabs her shoulders and corners her to a wall (Nkg: search for kabe-don). She laughs with a deep blush and asks what Wulin is doing. He replies interrogation. Gu Yue weakly resists but her eyes have a different expression. As Wulin closes the distance, she closes her eyes and touches her lip, turning into a weak lamb.
However, the pressure on her shoulders disappears as Wulin grudgingly admits defeat. Gu Yue stops him from leaving, despite his insistence. He grabs a chair with the newly acquired Ghost Step. Gu Yue is adamant but Wulin says he will keep her secret. Gu Yue finally admits her spirit is a dragon. Elementalist is just how her spirit manifests itself. Wulin is surprised.
Gu Yue tells him about the 7-color Dragon, the emissary of elements. She gathers dark element in her hand, proving that she has control over all 7 elements. Gu Yue explains that her mom tells her to hide her use of dark element for fear of persecution and because of its conflict with light element. Wulin asks about the connection between their spirits. Gu Yue explains that the 7-color Dragon lords over the elements while the Golden Dragon lords over the body. In legend, the Dragon God was split into the Golden Dragon and the 7-color Dragon. For Gu Yue, her dragon won't manifest fully until lv70. However, she can feel traces of the Golden Dragon bloodline in Wulin, thus for him she develops...
Gu Yue stops herself in a blush. She concludes that their Divine Dragon Transformation unites elements and qi into one powerful entity. However, due to insufficient cultivation, the fusion leaves them heavily weakened. Gu Yue asks him to leave after she finishes her story. Wulin accidentally lets slip that their fusion is harmful to him. Gu Yue pursues the topic but old Tang suddenly warns Wulin to not say anything. Wulin lies that it only damages his veins and leaves. Gu Yue has some suspicion.
Outside, Wulin consults old Tang. Old Tang explains that there are holes in Gu Yue's story. Dragon God was split into the Silver Dragon King and Golden Dragon King, not the Golden Dragon and 7-color Dragon. Because the Golden Dragon can be considered a descendant of the GDK, old Tang speculates that the 7-color Dragon is the same for the SDK, yet why it is not just Silver Dragon. Old Tang is suspicious of Gu Yue's inconsistencies. He tells Wulin that the 18 seals' existence must be kept secret. Wulin complies.
The last day of class, grade 1 celebrates their perfect passing rate. The 1st grade year is declared the strongest in Shrek's history because of their accomplishments. Back at the dorm, Wulin asks for everyone's plan for the break. He himself is troubled because the canteen is also on vacation. Gu Yue says she has to go home and then stay at the Pagoda for the month. Xie Xie also has to return home.
Xiaoyan says she will also go back home on the same route as Xie Xie. Zheng Yu will return to his clan to acquire a 2nd familiar. Xinglan will go to a secret place to train her swordmanship before going along with Gu Yue to pick her 2nd familiar. Wulin offers to help her attempt the Tower Assault challenge but she declines as her familiar's requirement is special. La Zhi will also go home but he sets a date to meet up with Xinglan at the Pagoda in half a month. Yuan En is an orphan so she will stay at the academy. As Wulin is also in a similar situation, he offers to keep her company. Gu Yue has a complicated expression on her face. All smile, the 8 co-op students huddle up and make a promise to get started on power armors.
Gu Yue asks Wulin to see her off at the gate. They silently take a stroll. At the gate, Gu Yue says a short farewell. Wulin's bright smile leaves her flustered. She unconsciously touches her lip but quickly runs to a newly-arrived luxurious limo. Wulin catches a taxi to the train station and buys a ticket to Heaven Dou city. Zhenhua has offered a special price for 2 of Wulin's needed relics. On the train, he recalls the hijacking incident and wonders about sister Mo Lan, the head conductor. Just then, he spots a familiar voice. Wulin shouts Mo Lan's name as the head of the normally strong-hearted conductor hugs him with teary eyes and thanks him profusely. Mo Lan takes him to her office.
At the office, Mo Lan cries again. Thanks to Wulin, she survived to see her child. While her father, Mo Wu the Councilor, had tried to stop her from going back to work, Mo Lan refused due to her pride. After her return, Mo Lan is celebrated as a heroine but strangely, Wulin's existence is kept secret by a rumored government's higher-up.
The cover-up was Shrek's method to protect Wulin from the evil spirit master's retaliation. Wulin stops Mo Lan from crying and asks about the evil spirit master Wukong let escape. Mo Lan replies the Federation has sent out the strongest hunters but first, she gives Wulin a gift. It is a VIP-level universal pass for the Federation's train system. The higher-up has approved it for Wulin, allowing him free private level seat for life. Mo Lan asks for his number so he can call her for any problems.
Mo Lan leads him to one of the VIP rooms. She tells him to rest until she comes back. Instead of meditation, Wulin takes a rare well-deserved nap. After some time, a loud explosion wakes him up. A voice asks for Mo Lan in car 9 or they blow up the whole train. From car 13, Wulin rushes to the scene when he hears Mo Lan screaming. Inside car 9, there are mutilated corpses of the heavily-armed guards everywhere. In the middle, a little man dressed in grey clothing is interrogating Mo Lan about Wulin's location.
From his pointer finger, a 30cm bony thorn extends through Mo Lan's shoulder, keeping her hovering. Mo Lan endures. The grey man talks about showing her the horror of the Phosphorous Fire Soul Refinement. With a weird laugh, he conjures a green flame and puts it to Mo Lan's head with his other hand, which looks like a talon. Wulin reveals himself to stop the grey man. However, his Purple Demon Eyes's mental attack is rebounded by the man's green eyes. Wulin collapses. The man laughs for finding his target so easily. He aims to not let them die so easily as he puts the flame to Mo Lan's temple.
Mo Lan screams as her head turns green, her body shakes and the wound from the bone thorn expands with blood pouring everywhere. Wulin charges at him, releasing his golden dragon fear claw and dragon shaking at full strength. The grey man uses Mo Lan as a human shield, but Wulin pushes past the seats with ghost step to avoid Mo Lan. The grey man sees the golden eyes, and releases his defences, blocking with 5 bone talons, but the impact sends him flying wedging him into the wall. Wulin's blue silver grass catches Mo Lan and he cuts off the train car with Mo Lan on the safe side, himself and the grey man on the other. The grey man has deep wounds on his chest from the impact, even showing bone. Wulin releases his power armor, but his blue silver grass is burned by the phosphorous flame, and Wulin is stabbed in the chest with the bone talons. Wulin thinks he is going to die, but the grey man begins to torture him, the talons are inserted without hitting any vital spots. He touches Wulin on the forehead with the phosphorous flame blazing, and Wulin feels an extraordinary cold, as if his soul is frozen and shattered into countless pieces. All he can do is scream.
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The grey suited man is relishing the screams. The more resentment his victims hold and the stronger their soul force, the greater the power he gains from Phosphorous Fire Soul Refinement. All of a sudden, Wulin's forehead shines golden, and the wildfire inside Wulin is extinguished. The grey man screams , and retreats, while Wulin's eyes turn gold and blue and a golden trident symbol shines from his forehead. The grey man curses and vows to kill Wulin as he just lost 10% of his cultivation. However, he is slowed by Wulin's gaze mid-charge. Wulin's eyes are not those of children but of endless wisdom. Wulin calmly moves his hand and seals his wounds. The forehead mark that devoured the fire appears again, taking on a tridentshape.
Wulin, now a completely different person, summons a 4m long double headed golden spear in his right hand. The golden light spread as his body becomes intangible, like it is phasing out of this dimension. The grey suited man feels the dread of death and tries to escape from the light. Before he can react, he is impaled to the ground by the spear, and his vitality and spirit power are quickly consumed. His glow slowly enters "Wulin"'s body. "Wulin" exclaims he has reaped what he sowed with an uncharacteristic melodious voice. He feels around his face and smirks slightly. The man's body is thrown out of the car as he is trapped inside his own world, tortured and dissolved by his own Phosphrous Fire. A Spirit Emperor evil spirit master has perished. "Wulin" sighs and recalls the spear into his right hand. He lies down as the golden light disperses.
Several breaths later, the sky turns red as an eye appears in mid-air. Spotting Wulin, a person in beautiful red armor, with flame pattern and a pair of batwing, appears above him. In the distance, a corp of purple mechs also arrive, led by a black 8m commander unit. The commander stops at a distance and introduces himself as Heaven Dou 1st Mech Company's leader, Captain Liu An. Calling the red-armor person Majesty, he politely asks for their identity.
The person releases his armor, revealing himself as Zhenhua, a 4-word armor master. He picks Wulin up with a worried look. Just 10 minutes ago, Wulin dialed him for reinforcement. Finding Wulin's pulse, Zhenhua happily sends in his spirit power. He tells the captain to resume investigation while he returns to the Guild. Only a burnt shrub is found. The evil spirit master is not found, as his body has burnt to ash.
Wulin feels like he is on a small boat in the middle of a storm. As the boat stabilizes and pleasure replaces pain, Wulin gradually awakes to a white ceiling. It doesn't seem like a prison but what makes Wulin happier is that his Spiritual force(aka mental strength) has grown to Mental Sea level, which is enough until lv70. Wulin starts recovering with Mysterious Heaven art, estimating it would take 3 days. While doing so, he recalls the grey man's overwhelming strength and wonders about Mo Lan's situation. Wulin decides to figure out his current whereabout, first by getting off the bed and changing into new clothes. Just then, Zhenhua enters. The old man is surprised Wulin can move. While Wulin was unconscious, Zhenhua had sent for many doctors, who were all astonished by the kid's recovery speed even from such grievous wounds.
An experienced healing-type spirit master suggested letting Wulin heal by himself but still, to take only 2 days. Wulin first thanks Zhenhua, assuring the old man of his condition. He then asks about Mo Lan. Zhenhua replies she has taken great brain damage, affecting her soul, and is still in a coma. Zhenhua agrees to Wulin's request to take him for a visit. But first, they visit the Consul office to make a report.
Captain Liu An is waiting for them on arrival. He asks Zhenhua to wait for the Consul, Mo Wu, but he declines. Liu An obliges and takes Wuling's report. The captain gains great respect for Wulin knowing he was the Shrek student that stopped the last hijacking. Just then, Mo Wu arrives with a worried expression. He apologizes for the trouble under his governing and thanks Wulin for his deeds. On receiving Liu An's finished report, Mo Wu stops on "Phosphorous Fire Soul Refinement". Wulin confirms the fact and asks about Mo Lan. Holding himself back from crying, Mo Wu reveals himself as her father, telling Wulin to call him uncle and thanks him again. Wulin wonders if Mo Lan's situation has gotten worse.
Mo Lan is unable to wake up from her coma due to extreme brain damage. To Wulin's request, Zhenhua promises to call for a Title Douluo healer. Mo Wu's hope is returned. He happily leads the 2 guests to Mo Lan's hospital. (Nkg: seems like all registered Title Douluos are now considered nobles in the Federation).
Mo Lan is inside an ICU, kept alive by an extensive life support system. Everyone has complicated expression seeing her deplorable state. Wulin cries clenching his fists and curses his weakness. A small boy asks why Wulin is crying. Wulin realizes it is Mo Lan's son, Bao Bao, who still doesn't know about his mother's state. Wulin gives the kid a hug. A 27-28yo man, Mo Lan's husband, asks Wulin to not let Bao Bao see into the ICU. Wulin apologizes to the man but he blames himself while shedding tear. Bao Bao also cries with his father, who hugs and calms him down. Seeing this scene, Wulin resolves himself to be stronger, not because of his childhood dream to be a powerful spirit master but to gain the ability to protect justice and destroy evil.
Zhenhua pats Wulin's shoulder. Wulin asks him why there is so much evil. Zhenhua sighs and says that if there is good, there must be evil; one can only fight instead of complaining. To Wulin's regret, Zhenhua tells him he already did his best. Zhenhua advises him to put his life first as the seed of good must survive. Zhenhua truly admires Mu Chen's teaching and promises himself to do all he can for Wulin.
After an hour, a young woman arrives. Wulin is surprised to see elder Ya Li, the vice-master of Sea God Court. The elder praises Wulin and pats his head, giving him some healing energy. Ya Li's eyebrows narror seeing Mo Lan's state. She swiftly enters the ICU, covered in a white light for decontamination. Ya Li touches Mo Lan's shaved head and begins the healing process. Her rings float up, scaring everyone: 6 B 3 R. Wulin wishes he would be that strong one day while Mo Wu is estatic on realizing it is the Holy Spirit Douluo.
Not many people know about the Holy Spirit Douluo's legend as she is too humble but there are many records about her in the Federation. Her spirit is a peculiar healing-type called Supplication (Nkg: wishing for a deity) Angel. Ya Li is good-natured despite a poor upbringing. Although she had become a spirit master, Ya Li still stayed in the slum to help the poor, unknowingly becoming powerful through her generous acts. Supplication Angel's cultivation is fueled by Faith Power. Each person she heals grants her some power, a fact she only discovered when she surprisingly became a Spirit King.
50 years ago, a great plague swept through the continent. Ya Li was then a Spirit Saint. In 15 days, she traveled through all 14 regions to cure people. At the end of it, she had aged 50 years and was on her last breath back at Shrek. However, when her patients began to recover, massive amount of Faith Power flowed in. Ya Li slept for a year and directly became a Title Douluo, setting the record for fastest time.
Ya Li declined the Federation's invitation and requested them to keep her existence a secret. However, the patients still remembered their angel and soon she became the continent's number 1 idol. Nowadays, she mostly stays at Shrek until the world needs her power again.
There is another famous story about the Holy Spirit Douluo. In her youth, she was pursued by many Title Douluos. One of them issued a challenge for her hand, asking for every Douluos below 40yo. He went on to defeat 16 of them; 3 were 3-word masters and the rest 2-word. 10 years later, he became the strongest Douluo and took the bride home. They are considered a couple made in heaven. The man has sworn to devote his life to protect Ya Li and stepped back in the shadow.
Although elder Ya Li doesn't look a day over 28yo, she is actually around her 80s while her husband is in his 100s. The elder covers Mo Lan in a yellow light. She summons a mini-angel with 3 pairs of wings, which then enters Mo Lan's body. The light swirls around Mo Lan's body, hovering her in the air. After some time, green fume is expelled from Mo Lan's body and then devoured by the light. The angel exits from Mo Lan's body as her hair grows back with just a touch by Ya Li. Mo Lan regains her normal appearance, looking like she is only asleep.
Her job done, Ya Li exits the room. Before any celebration, Ya Li states that Mo Lan has only escaped the critical zone. There is a chance she may not wake up and even if she does, there would still be memory loss due to brain damage. She hands Mo Wu a card so he can schedule a follow-up appointment. Zhenhua respectfully thanks her for the hard work, even though they are supposed to be on the same level. Ya Li tells him she will leave first and asks Wulin if he wants to come along. Mo Wu is astonished as Wulin is only an outer school student; Ya Li must really like the kid.
Wulin refuses as he still has to study under Zhenhua. Elder Ya Li smiles and leaves. The doctor announces that Mo Lan has stablized enough to move to a normal room. Mo Wu thanks Wulin again and tells him to visit.
Wulin spends the next 10 days working at the Guild and enjoying good food. Zhenhua offers to trade the 2 relics for Wulin's products- an excuse for training Wulin. The old man even teaches Wulin his personal techniques. Zhenhua evaluates that disregarding cultivating, Wulin would be a rank 6 blacksmith with 50% fusion forging success rate. On the last day, Zhenhua promises to make Wulin's rank 6 badge. He also advises the kid to focus on cultivation and if he can, find a natural training space suitable for Blue Silver Grass. Zhenhua then hands Wulin his final ingredients.
Due to his position, Zhenhua is unable to take Wulin back to Shrek himself. Instead, captain Liu An acts as Wulin's bodyguard. While Wulin is fascinated by the black level mech, the captain is also curious about the young hero.
Despite Shrek's request to keep Wulin a secret, Mo Wu still manages to request 2 honored citizen medals for Wulin and Mo Lan. The medal entitles the holder to an 8% discount on goods and services in Heaven Dou city. Wulin asks Liu An about the operation of the mech. The mech copies the motion of the user. The more advanced the mech, the more it depends on manual control. Black level mechs are extremly rare due to the government's quota. Moreover, the government only provides the spirit guide circuit; the users must provide the rest of the material. Liu An complains that while his career looks prestigious, he is still strapping for cash to upgrade his mech parts to spirit forging level. Wulin senses a business opportunity. He tells Liu An that Shrek academy can achieve the same quality cheaper than the Heaven Dou Forging Guild. Liu An's eyes light up.
They quickly arrive at Shrek's city outskirt. Due to law governing mech masters, Liu An drops him off before the city limit. Wulin calls for a cab toward the Tang Sect HQ. He has formulated a money making scheme: buying material at Heaven Dou with discount, fulfilling Liu An's order and gaining new customers from him. The future ingredients for unsealing can also be bought at Heaven Dou.
Combined with selling any products <80% to Tang Sect and the academy, Wulin's income would be sustainable. After getting the 2 reserved relics at the HQ, Wulin is back at the dorm by noon. He finds some food first due to the canteen's closure and plans to find Luanshi after breaking the 4th seal.
Wulin knocks on Yuan En's door. Yuan En tells him to enter, currently busy cleaning. Wulin blushes to find her in short spats and asks if he can come back later. Yuan En doesn't turn back and comments that Wulin doesn't like women due to seeing him with Zheng Yu. While discomforted, she tries to not pry. Wulin complains about that comment. Yuan En asks about his trip to Heaven Dou. Wulin tells her about his run-in with the evil spirit master. Yuan En clenches her fist clearly in a bad mood. To Wulin's question, she replies it is just some past incidents. Wulin tells her he doesn't know what happened after he fainted. Yuan En agrees with Wulin that it is weird that the attacker escaped, leaving his target alive. She confirms Wulin is in good health with a slight smile.
Wulin asks Yuan En a favor. He wants her to guard him while in seclusion, estimating it would take from 3-7 days. He offers her one forging product. Yuan En agrees and says he can't take back his offer. She wants a >90% piece. Wulin negotiates it down to 80% cause it would take too long otherwise.
Back in his room with the curtain closed, Wulin pulls out a wooden box, 2 jade boxes and a metal box. He hopes it is a long-range skill this time. The wooden box contains a thousand-year Heaven Passing Chrysanthemum's Strange Bud. Its effect is boosting strentgth. The 1st jade box contains a thousand-year Pine Fir Lingzhi Mushroom, also known as Red Lingzhi Mushroom. Its effect is strengthening internal organs. The 2nd jade box contains around 30-40 pieces of thousand-year Life-Life Fruits. The fruits seem to emit breathes of life itself. The last metal box contains what looks like a piece of black metal around the size of a hand. On a closer look, there are 11 loops of dark purple lines engraved on the surface.
Thousand-year Purple Cloud Wood is even tougher than metal and has a strong metal toxicity. Its effect is making the body stronger and more limber. Wulin soaks and gradually mixes in the chrysanthemum, red mushroom and the wood in a bucket of water, noting that this mix strengthens the effect of the wood and removes its toxin, making this a very valuable recipe if anyone ever found out and would raise the price of the ingredients. He then tosses the life fruits in his mouth and chugs the bucket of medicine down. The feeling from the medicine is wonderful but the taste is sour and salty. Churning his stomach, Wulin would have vomitted if it wasn't for spending that much money. He sits down to meditate and his body turns red.
Outside, Yuan En stands guard at the door. Smelling a rich aroma of herbs with a refreshing feeling, she sits down in meditation. Inside, Wulin suddenly feels an explosion inside his body. His body and blood all start glowing golden. This is the 1st time he is conscious for an unsealing, so he wasn't aware of the process. With his mind clear, he senses the 4th seal has broken, releasing power throughout his veins, quickly getting absorbed by his body.
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Wulin feels this is his easiest unsealing. His breath gets more intense as the scales begin to cover the rest of his upper body. Wulin's first golden ring emerges. A 2nd ring begins to form, first white then also turns to golden. Wulin's skeleton cracks as he grows taller. Under his qi's influence, Wulin's spirit power is refined. Wulin doesn't know that his spirit power has been under constant compression by his qi. This method of cultivation is only available to Spirit King and above and is also the reason for Wulin's "slow" training. Otherwise, in term of spirit power quantity only, Wulin would not have been able to match Yuan En. He enters deep meditation.
<p style="text-align:justify;">Yuan En wakes up outside to the 2nd day's morning. She is happy that thanks to the medicine, her body has been purged of impurities. Yuan En is lucky for such a boon. Because Wulin had eaten a lot of good stuff with Zhenhua, he didn't absorb much medicine. Yuan En probably inhaled 1/3 of the bucket of old Tang's best medicine. However, being covered in dirt, she really needs to take a shower but still has to stand guard for Wulin. Yuan En decides to take a public shower because they are supposedly the only 2 there and Wulin is confirmed to still be in deep meditation. </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"> After enjoying the cold shower, Yuan En get dressed. "Tch", goes a small sound yet very noticeable in the calm morning. Surprised, she turns to the source. A small streak of blood flows from the bush. Yuan En yells and turns into Titan Ape form. A voice weakly begs for mercy, saying he has just arrived. Many Air Cannons unleash toward the target but Xie Xie shows his mettle as an agility-type. The culprit identified, Yuan En curses why it is him and yells that she is going to kill him. Originally, Xie Xie already arrived home for a happy reunion. However, he was frustrated with his slow training speed compared to at the academy so he decided to go back. To make it a surprise for Wulin and Yuan En, he sneaked back quickly just this morning.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Xie Xie just barely caught a glimpse of Yuan En when he got a nosebleed and subsequequently noticed. Feeling unjust because Yuan En took a shower in his yard, Xie Xie wants to reason but Yuan En is still in rage. Perplexing Ghost Steps pushed to the max, Xie Xie nimbly avoids the full-power Air Cannons. He technically can escape from the dorm but this would bring the attention of the enforcers and more embarrassment to Yuan En. Yuan En uses her 4th skill, Great Demon Titan. She shoots 2 Air Cannons into each other, the shockwave knocking Xie Xie down. Xie Xie uses his 3rd skill, Light Dragon Clone and splits in 2 different directions. The 2 Xie Xie individualy dodge Yuan En's attacks, running all over the place.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"> Yuan En yells at him to hold still but Xie Xie, now disgruntled, answers stopping would be stupid. Yuan En switches to Fallen Angel. She uses her new self-created skill, Dark Sky Curtain, an AoE debuff. Under its effect, the guinea pigs are slowed down. His clone is destroyed by Yuan En in Titan Ape form. She then arrives before Xie Xie and throws a fist, but this time holding back. Xie Xie accepts his fate. He is blown backward but with no wound miraculously. Wulin has awakened and blocked the fist. Xie Xie asks for help and Wulin sighs why he teases Yuan En again.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Yuan En is surprised Wulin easily stoped her punch. He asks what Xie Xie did. Yuan En blames him and runs away with her clothes. With Wulin turned to him, Xie Xie explains what happenned. Wulin can't clearly say who is right or wrong and it is also partly his fault. After some time, Yuan En returns, still wanting to tear Xie Xie apart. Wulin tries to excuse for Xie Xie, telling him to apologize. Xie Xie complies but Yuan En angrily flexes 2 fingers saying 2 times can't be coincident. Xie Xie can't say anything.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"> Wulin offers to forge her a free >85% piece but she refuses as her chastity can't only be worth that much. Wulin grudgingly says it is not clearly anyone's fault and asks her to name her price. Yuan En frustratedly retorts that someone who likes guys can't understand her feeling. Wulin changes expression and stops Yuan En's rant. Yuan En freezes and thinks she has offended him for his preference but Wulin asks her to rewind the "likes men" part. After her explanation, it is Wulin's turn to be angry at Xie Xie. Xie Xie admits he forgot to explain the previous misunderstanding to Yuan En. Wulin joins Yuan En's side. Xie Xie gives up on escaping as it would be futile with those 2 anyway.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">With a big smile, Wulin puts Xie Xie in the chickenwing and tells Yuan En to punish him. Yuan En cocks her fist but she then runs away in tears instead. Wulin decides to forget his grudge. Xie Xie sighs that he would rather be hit. Wulin gets serious and asks if Xie Xie really likes Yuan En. Xie Xie nods but admits it would be impossible after this. Wulin says that he doesn't understand love stuff but people miss 100% of the shots they don't take. He tells Xie Xie to think carefully and leaves to find food. </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Like after every unsealing, Wulin is starving. His spirit power has concentrated even more. He estimates that with this slow speed, he might not be able to reach 4 ring level at 15yo. Seeing Wulin leave, Xie Xie is a little bit stumped. Yuan En's figure has been engraved in his innermost thoughts. He gathers Yuan En's dirty clothes she left behind then washes them. He then cleans the yard and hangs the clothes to dry then puts her bucket back in Yuan En's usual spot. Xie Xie realizes he knows Yuan En very well. </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The 2 are alone. Gathering his bravery, Xie Xie knocks on Yuan En's door and says her laundry is ready. No reply. Xie Xie asks her out for breakfast. Yuan En only gives 1 word: scram. Xie Xie tests his face's thickness. He begins to confess. He has been helping her with chores because that is the most he can do to make up for the previous incident. Yuan is at first furious but she becomes stunned. Xie Xie continues that the chores soon became his habit and honestly, he doesn't regret being hit as Yuan En is really beautiful. The days that he can't see her are painful and the real reason he returned so quickly was because of Yuan En. Xie Xie apologizes again but he still says that it was just a little peek.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Yuan yells at him to get out. However, Xie Xie instead proposes to her because he feel responsible. The room falls silent. Xie Xie says that they can make an engagement because they are still young and that his family would take good care of her. Yuan En finally comes out with a big smile but with red eyes, saying she would help him move. In Titan Form, Yuan En grabs Xie Xie by the lapel and turns him into a shooting star. She then retrieves her clothes and slams the door shut.</p>
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