Jing Hongchen: Can I Have Them All?

"Looks like Hall Master Jing isn't that stupid after all."

Jing Hongchen:

If you didn't have a faction behind you that I'm wary of, I'd rip that arrogant mouth of yours apart!

"However, Hall Master, you guessed one thing wrong. The faction behind me does intend to make a deal with you, but that doesn't represent me personally. I'm just the messenger." Jin Tianming smiled. "Coming here to study Soul Tools was my own idea, not theirs."

Jing Hongchen said nothing. He merely sat there, stroking his chin as his gaze remained fixed on Jin Tianming. It was as if he wanted to see through the boy completely. This was the first time he had encountered a youth like this. It truly was...

"What kind of deal?" Jing Hongchen asked curiously. If a deal could be made, he was still willing to make one.

"I need a Rank 9 Soul Engineer to be my teacher."

"Is that your request, or the request of the faction behind you?" Jing Hongchen asked, somewhat baffled by the answer.

Jin Tianming shrugged. "Those guys said I could do whatever I wanted."

Jing Hongchen: ???

"Are you sure?"

Jing Hongchen simply could not believe a teenager's words. If that was all he wanted, why had he said so much earlier?

Seeing the disbelief on Jing Hongchen's face, Jin Tianming thought for a moment before saying, "They need some high-grade Soul Tools, especially Spatial Soul Tools. They also need two Rank 9 Soul Bombs."

Hearing this, Jing Hongchen rose to his feet furiously. His eyes locked onto Jin Tianming as he asked, word by word, "Do you know what you're saying?"

The earlier request was manageable, but what the hell were two Rank 9 Soul Bombs?

Did he really think Rank 9 Soul Tools were so easy to trade?

He felt that he had been completely taken for a ride by this boy.

Seeing how agitated Jing Hongchen was, Jin Tianming calmly took a sip of black tea and replied, "Of course I know. But doesn't Hall Master Jing want to hear the conditions those people behind me have offered?"

"Let's hear them."

Jing Hongchen forcibly suppressed his anger and sat back down. He vaguely felt that the boy before him was completely at odds with him.

"A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, or assistance in advancing you to a Rank 95 Super Douluo. Or perhaps you want your grandson or granddaughter's Martial Soul to undergo a leap in evolution. They said you could choose whichever you wanted!"

Jin Tianming stated the terms he had prepared in his mind. There was no rush, anyway. He could let the main body worry about it later.

Tian Mucheng: Thanks a lot!

Hearing those terms, Hall Master Jing was so shocked that he could not close his mouth. He almost could not believe his own ears.

He forcefully suppressed his excitement and asked calmly, "How am I supposed to believe you? And what do you mean by a leap in Martial Soul Evolution?"

Jin Tianming did not immediately answer Hall Master Jing's question. Instead, he pushed his teacup forward and said, "I'm out of black tea."

"..." Jing Hongchen took a deep breath and poured Jin Tianming another cup of black tea.

"Thank you."

Jin Tianming accepted the tea, blew on it, and took a sip before saying, "A leap in Martial Soul Evolution means evolving into a dragon. No matter what Martial Soul it is, as long as they receive permission from those people, they have a way to let the Martial Soul receive a dragon's blessing and evolve into a Martial Soul related to dragons."

"And your Martial Soul?"

In the cafeteria, Jing Hongchen had clearly seen the golden scales on Jin Tianming's body. That Dragon Might was absolutely that of a True Dragon Martial Soul!

Where on the Douluo Continent were True Dragon Martial Souls most common? Dragon City of the Heaven Dou Empire, especially the Heavenly Dragon Gate.

But the boy before him was definitely not from there. He had encountered the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul before, but compared to this boy's Martial Soul, it was utterly insignificant. It was not even qualified to be compared.

"Of course, it's a True Dragon bloodline," Jin Tianming replied. His pride would not allow anyone to belittle his Martial Soul.

Jing Hongchen nodded to show that he understood, though he did not truly believe Jin Tianming. "Then how am I supposed to believe you or the faction behind you?"

Jin Tianming took out a Soul Bone from nowhere and placed it on Jing Hongchen's table. "You'll only have a chance to obtain it once I become a Rank 9 Soul Engineer. But to earn your trust, those people are offering this Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone as a deposit."

"A Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone." Jing Hongchen picked it up and examined it. "What Soul Beast did it come from?"

"The right arm Soul Bone of a Ten-Thousand-Year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, one of the Ten Great Fierce Beasts. It suits your grandson, Xiao Hongchen, very well."

Jin Tianming answered as his eyes filled with memories while looking at the Soul Bone. When they had hunted the seventh Soul Ring for the third Dragon Slave, Moxie and Xiao Xue had nearly both died in the Star Dou Great Forest.

A Ten-Thousand-Year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear was comparable to a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. If Moxie and Xiao Xue had not been utterly loyal Dragon Slaves, they would have fled midway through. They would never have embraced death itself to hunt a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear.

Jing Hongchen sucked in a cold breath. The distrust he had clung to until now vanished completely.

This was a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, and one from the race of Xiong Jun, one of the Ten Great Fierce Beasts.

He himself only possessed one or two Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones. The rest were either Thousand Year Soul Bones or nothing at all. Otherwise, he would not have remained stuck at Rank 94.

Yet the faction behind Jin Tianming had casually produced a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, and even one from the race of a Ten Great Fierce Beast. It truly shocked him.

Moreover, this Soul Bone suited his grandson perfectly. Xiao's Martial Soul was the Three-legged Golden Toad, and the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear also possessed the Gold Element. It was simply far too suitable.

As for the leap in Martial Soul Evolution that Student Jin had mentioned earlier, if Xiao and Meng's Martial Souls evolved, then the future of the Hongchen Family...

He did not even dare imagine it.

"Student Jin, can I choose them all?" Jing Hongchen asked tentatively. Children made choices; adults wanted everything!

"What do you think?"

Jin Tianming stared at Jing Hongchen with a half-smile. He wanted everything? He was dreaming.

"It seems this old man was indeed too greedy." Facing Jin Tianming's half-smiling expression, Jing Hongchen put away the Soul Bone and coughed a few times to ease the somewhat tense atmosphere. "May I ask what position Young Friend Jin holds within the faction behind you?"

With such talent, he was at least some kind of holy son, perhaps a figure like the heir of the Sea God Pavilion.

"Me?" Jin Tianming began thinking. He really had never considered that question. After a moment, he replied, "I am Her future guardian."

"Guardian???"

God Realm

Sea God Temple

A man stood silently there, looking down upon everything on Douluo Star. He had long aqua-blue hair that draped all the way to his feet, and he often wore luxurious blue robes, making him look extremely "pure and clean."

The man was Tang San, who had become the Sea God ten thousand years ago, known as the Pure and Clean Tang Buddha!

"Strange. Why has the fate of the Sun Moon Empire changed slightly?" Tang San noticed a minor shift in the Sun Moon Empire's fate. Though puzzled, he did not think much of it. That tiny change in fate was nothing significant. His gaze fell upon the Star Luo Empire once more.

He looked at the dense power of fate above the Star Luo Empire and fell silent for several seconds before murmuring, "Why has the Douluo Continent given birth to two children of fate this time? One is Huo Yuhao, and the other is his younger sister, Huo Yutong. How strange."

"But that's fine. When the time comes, I'll have Xiao Qi make both children of fate her own people. One can be a good sister, and the other can be a good husband. I really am such a good father!"

At the thought of his ten-thousand-year grand plan, he could not help praising his own wisdom.

As expected of Tang San! How could the little Douluo Plane possibly outplay him?...

"Is this fate?" Back in the dormitory, Jin Tianming sat on his bed and looked at the fate swirling around his palm, finding it quite novel.

Just as he was about to hand the fate over to the main body, he sensed that something was wrong with the main body's life force. He hurriedly connected to Moyan's Sea of Consciousness and asked, "What happened to you all?"

Moyan quickly connected with Jin Tianming, but her response was somewhat hesitant.

"Well..."

"Spit it out! Don't act like a girl!"

Moyan: I'm fucking a girl!

She could not be bothered to argue about it. She told Jin Tianming the entire sequence of events.