Challenging the Sun Moon Royal Academy
There weren't many places visitors could see inside the Spirit Pagoda. Apart from places like the Spirit Ascension Platform, most of it consisted of research and office areas, which weren't convenient for outsiders to enter.
As for the Spirit Ascension Platform, Su Tianxuan simply showed Qian Renxue and Ye Guyi around it.
They had other places to go that afternoon, so there was no time to enter.
Besides, they already had Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirits, so the Spirit Ascension Platform wasn't much use to them.
After another stroll through the Spirit Pagoda's Soul Spirit Exhibition Center, which had both eras' Di Tians hopping mad, Su Tianxuan and the others decided to leave.
"You're leaving? Won't you stay for a meal?"
Leng Yaozhu was a little surprised.
"No, no."
Su Tianxuan looked at his Soul Guidance Communicator, sending messages to someone nonstop, the corners of his mouth rising uncontrollably:
"Heh heh, I'm going to challenge the Sun Moon Royal Academy. They'll feed us."
Hearing that, Leng Yaozhu knew what he was going to do. She smiled helplessly:
"You're always acting like a child."
Su Tianxuan took the driver's seat and said with a smile:
"Men stay boys until the day they die, let alone me. Bye-bye, I'll come see you again next time."
With that, he drove straight for the Sun Moon Royal Academy.
"Honestly..."
In the car.
Ye Guyi asked Su Tianxuan curiously:
"Your Majesty, what does it mean to challenge them?"
She had known about the Sun Moon Royal Academy before she came. Its full name was the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, the strongest academy in the Sun Moon Empire.
Even so, Shrek Academy had always had the upper hand, leaving it the continent's eternal runner-up for a thousand years.
From the information she had found online, the Sun Moon Royal Academy had evolved by now.
It had risen from being the runner-up for a thousand years to being the runner-up for ten thousand years.
Su Tianxuan smiled mysteriously:
"A challenge is a challenge. And while we're there, I'll help you two fleece them of a couple of top-tier Soul Tools."
He still remembered the Level 9 Soul Tool Ye Guyi wanted.
To him, Level 9 Soul Tools were nothing special. He had a huge pile of them in his basement.
But how could he have the nerve to give someone that pile of trash?
So he planned to get them two Level 10 Soul Tools, and test what price the system would reimburse him at if he gave them something better.
Of course, he couldn't pay the cost himself. He had to find a sucker to foot the bill.
"Your Majesty..."
Ye Guyi pursed her lips, deeply moved:
"You're too good to us."
Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirits, top-tier Soul Tools, all kinds of secret information... Su Tianxuan had given them all to them unconditionally.
Ever since her parents died, no one had treated her so well.
Looking at his back, she couldn't help feeling an inexplicable impulse well up inside her.
"Stop."
Just as they were feeling moved, Su Tianxuan interrupted their fantasies with a hint of disdain:
"Please don't activate those god-tier love brains of yours."
Qian Renxue and Ye Guyi's pretty faces fell, and the strange feelings in their hearts vanished at once.
At a loss for words, the two silently lowered their heads and stopped paying attention to him.
They could finally understand how Leng Yaozhu had felt earlier.
Beyond the Sky Screen.
In the Douluo II era.
"The Imperial Academy... I wonder how far their Soul Tool Technology has advanced?
"A challenge, a challenge... I hope they're competing in Soul Tool Technology."
Back at home, Jing Hongchen leaned against his recliner, his eyes narrowed slightly.
The Soul Spirit technology that morning had given him a headache.
Those damned symbols looked like they came from another world. He couldn't make heads or tails of them.
Hopefully, there would be something he could understand that afternoon.
He turned his head toward his grandson and granddaughter beside him and asked:
"Well, A-Xiao, Little Meng, did you learn anything new?"
Xiao Hongchen gritted his teeth and shook his head, deeply unwilling to accept it.
Whether it was the skill Su Tianxuan had displayed yesterday or today's Soul Spirit technology, he couldn't understand any of it.
It was a crushing blow to someone who considered himself a genius.
"It's all right. Grandpa didn't understand much of it either. Don't get too anxious; just take it slowly."
Jing Hongchen offered him a few words of comfort, then looked at Meng Hongchen, who was staring blankly at Su Tianxuan on the Sky Screen:
"What about you, Little Meng?"
Only then did Meng Hongchen come to her senses. She hurriedly covered her slightly flushed face and said in a fluster:
"Uh, um, I don't understand any of it either."
Xiao Hongchen curled his lip.
Well, his lovestruck sister was beyond saving.
But he couldn't blame her. Not only was Su Tianxuan powerful, he was also handsome, with the appearance of a spirited sixteen-year-old boy. Those old Titled Douluo couldn't compare to him at all.
That really was enough to make a heart flutter.
But Su Tianxuan was ten thousand years in the future. His sister couldn't exactly run off to the future and get together with him.
So he might as well let her be lovestruck. She would get over it herself after a while.
On the Sky Screen.
Su Tianxuan and the others were about to reach the Sun Moon Royal Academy.
A row of people stood straight and neatly aligned at the academy gates.
Under the blazing sun, the middle-aged men in formal attire looked like a professional team.
Standing alone at the very front was a ruddy-faced old man with silver hair and a silver beard.
His eyes were closed in meditation. Only when Su Tianxuan and the others drew near did he open them, gazing keenly in the direction they were coming from:
"They're here."
Spotting the scene from afar, Su Tianxuan sneered, pressed down on the accelerator, and sped toward them.
Immediately afterward, he pulled off a beautiful drift, kicking up a cloud of dust before the car came to a steady stop at the academy's main gate.
Su Tianxuan took the opportunity to speak quickly and quietly to Qian Renxue and Ye Guyi:
"Quick, look sharp and help me make an impression."
Before the two Angels could react, Su Tianxuan had brought them out of the car.
He straightened his collar, cupped his fists toward the silver-haired old man, and said:
"Wang Hongchen, it looks like you've made thorough preparations this time. What new invention do you have to show me?"
Wang Hongchen smiled faintly and said calmly:
"Su Tianxuan, you'll find out soon enough. What Soul Tool are you planning to compete against me with this time?"
"Heh, I could ask you the same thing."
Wang Hongchen was the Sun Moon Royal Academy's chief Soul Tool scientist, the publicly acknowledged foremost expert in Soul Tool Technology of the present age, and the designer of the new Level 12 Soul Tool.
By the standards used to rank Soul Engineers in the Douluo II era, he was one of only two publicly known people in this age with a hope of becoming a Level 12 Soul Engineer.
The other was Su Tianxuan.
Using the Time Law to make Soul Tools was a little too unfair.
If he made a mistake, he activated Reversal. If he was uncertain, he stopped time...
No matter how difficult a Soul Guidance Array was to make, in his hands it was little different from an elementary-school math problem.
Although he wasn't as gifted at invention as Wang Hongchen, his advantage in making and replicating Soul Tools alone was enough to leave other Soul Engineers staring at his back.
It could be said that Su Tianxuan and Wang Hongchen each stood at a different pinnacle of Soul Tool Technology.
After hearing Su Tianxuan's introduction, Ye Guyi couldn't help clicking her tongue softly.
They were too monstrous.
In her era, even Level 9 Soul Engineers were rare, yet the two people before her were already capable of aiming for Level 12.
His Majesty is amazing.
Qian Renxue didn't have quite as many feelings about it.
What she was thinking about was how their Spirit Hall's Soul Master legion had lost to the Tang Sect's Hidden Weapon army. What would happen if they had all been equipped with Soul Tools?
So she asked Ye Guyi in a low voice, somewhat curious:
"By the way, which is stronger, Hidden Weapons or Soul Tools?"