Holy Spirit Cult United

The Holy Spirit Cult United—once the laughter began, four months passed in the blink of an eye.

Xue Ling finally got her own Four-Word Battle Armor and God-level Mecha.

They primarily featured a dual-tone palette of sky blue and silver-white. Coldheart Iron Essence that had been nurtured for over fifty thousand years served as the main material, supplemented by other Heaven Forged Metals, and thus they were forged into existence.

Unlike the heavy, profound battle armor and mecha of Di Tian, Xue Ling's battle armor and mecha were far lighter and more luxurious.

When equipped, silver patterns like fine threads wandered across the sky-blue armor, weaving themselves into bright silver lines that first took shape at the center of Xue Ling's forehead.

A crystal glimmering with sky-blue light appeared. Beautiful silver patterns traced its shape, and a brilliant silver headband was embedded within it. Five raised snowflake ornaments stood at the front of the white headband, magnificently splendid, like the crown of a sovereign of snow.

Silver light flowed, and just as when Di Tian had first donned his Four-Word Battle Armor and God-level Mecha, the armor covered her from top to bottom.

Only, it lacked those broad, ostentatious dragon wings and gained an Ice Soul Sword proportioned harmoniously with the battle armor and mecha.

The hilt and guard were entirely silver-white, with a snowflake-shaped protrusion at the end of the hilt. Yet the blade itself was sky blue, dazzling like an icy soul, and measured more than four feet in length.

"Looks so cool!"

"So pretty!"

Di Tian: "..."

Xue Ling: "..."

With the experience from last time, Di Tian adopted a policy of seeking common ground while reserving differences.

"Ahem!"

"Good. Very good. Really quite good."

With just one sentence, he silenced Xue Ling before swiftly changing the subject.

"Although there are still two months left before the deadline we agreed upon with the Demon Empress, if the Holy Spirit Cult's plan to bombard Shrek Academy can proceed normally, it won't matter if we're short by those two months. If it can't proceed normally, even another two months won't be enough to accomplish it."

"You should return to the Far North Land and notify the Demon Empress."

"Of course, she can decide for herself when exactly she comes here."

"One year from now, have the Titan Snow Demon King come here as well."

As Di Tian spoke, Xue Ling's face suddenly filled with fear, and she shrank behind his side.

However, she was still wearing her battle armor and mecha, making her overall figure larger than Di Tian's current form. Like a Mecha Battle Maiden, she hid behind Di Tian, who was a size smaller than her, creating an intense contrast.

"Xue Ling, the Demon Empress isn't even here. You don't need to be frightened out of your wits just because I mentioned her, do you?"

"Besides, you're wearing Four-Word Battle Armor and a God-level Mecha now. It's not like you have no ability to resist."

Hearing Di Tian's words, then looking at her gorgeous battle armor and mecha while feeling her dramatically increased strength, her fear gradually faded and her confidence steadily grew.

That was right. With the Four-Word Battle Armor and God-level Mecha, her strength had directly surpassed that of the Far North Land's current foremost ruler, the Titan Snow Demon King, Tai Tan, as well as its current second-in-command, the Ice Jade Scorpion, Bing Ji. She had become the strongest among the Far North Land's Soul Beasts.

That's right! She was now the pillar of the Far North Land, Xue Ling! She absolutely could not be cowardly! She and Di Tian had pinky-sworn to hold up a sky of freedom for the future of Soul Beasts together, and neither of them was allowed to change for a million years!

At that thought, Xue Ling straightened her back and poked her body out from behind Di Tian... halfway.

"The Demon Empress hasn't returned yet, but I keep feeling like she'll be here soon."

"Sometimes, my intuition is pretty accurate."

Hearing this, Di Tian could only pat her shoulder and comfort her. "It's fine. The Demon Empress isn't our enemy."

"Besides, if the Demon Empress really comes, you won't need to make a special trip to the Holy Spirit Cult Headquarters to notify her. You can return directly to the Far North Land and save yourself a journey. There's nothing bad about that."

"But... you're only going back to the Far North Land for a while, not leaving forever. Do you need to bring so much stuff?" Di Tian asked in confusion, looking at the bags and bundles filling Xue Ling's room.

Having calmed herself, Xue Ling completely stepped away from Di Tian's back. She swept her Soul Guidance Storage Ring with a hand, stirred her Soul Power, and stored all the packages inside. It took five rings to hold them all.

"Although returning to the core region of the Far North Land is quite suitable for my cultivation, I don't plan to give up mecha maintenance. The packages contain things I use to study mecha maintenance."

"Of course, that's not all."

"Besides that, there are many books and collections I copied down. I can't tell which books in the Forging Masters Association Headquarters library are useful and which are useless, so I simply copied them all down, just in case."

"Even if I never use them, the contents were copied onto cloth, so they can be preserved indefinitely in the Far North Land's low temperatures."

Di Tian gave no response. Or rather, his mind was focused on observing outside, his Divine Sense extended outward, leaving him no energy to respond to Xue Ling.

But he soon had both the time and energy.

"Xue Ling, your sixth sense is even more useful than my Divine Sense. The Demon Empress really has arrived."

Di Tian's usual spiritual perception covered all of Heaven Dou City. The moment the Demon Empress arrived, the familiar aura was detected by the feelers of his spiritual perception.

No sooner said than done, within the few breaths Xue Ling spent staring blankly, the black-clad Demon Empress arrived. The edges of her black robe snapped loudly in the wind.

Looking at the slightly stunned pair before her, the Demon Empress drew her clothes closer around herself and said strangely,

"Did my returning early interrupt your good time? Do I need to excuse myself first?"

Xue Ling ignored her odd remarks. Her feet instinctively shifted toward Di Tian, though she merely moved closer rather than shrinking entirely behind him as before.

"Uh, no... You came at exactly the right time."

"Really." Di Tian explained again with certainty, then recounted what had just happened and briefly went over what would happen next.

After all, now that the Demon Empress had arrived, someone could keep an eye on Zhen Hua and Mu Ye, allowing Di Tian to free himself to handle other matters.

It was also time to deal with the Sea Princess, the foremost fence-sitter among the Sea Soul Beast Neutral Faction. Such matters were best handled sooner rather than later.

"Have matters on the Holy Spirit Cult's side been settled?"

"Mhm." Having seen and eaten, the Demon Empress quickly cast aside the trivial matter from before and began discussing business.

"After contacting the Spirit Pagoda and the factions among the Federal Councilors opposed to Shrek Academy, the plan to bombard Shrek Academy has progressed exceptionally smoothly—so smoothly that it has even exceeded my expectations."

"Tsk. This is the first time I've seen the Evil Soul Masters of the Holy Spirit Cult so united."

"But that was still within my expectations. The Holy Spirit Cult and Evil Soul Masters are despised by everyone, yet Shrek Academy has been the most proactive in dealing with them. They even make slaughtering Evil Soul Masters a graduation assignment for their students. The resentment between them runs extremely deep."

"Ghost Emperor once lost to Shrek Academy's current Sea God Pavilion Master—the continent's foremost expert, Yun Ming—and nearly died."

"The Nether Emperor also had an irreconcilable grudge against Shrek. He was killed in the skies above Shrek Academy by Shrek Academy's former Sea God Pavilion Master, Heaven's Chosen Douluo, together with the Sea God Pavilion's vice master, Light-Dark Douluo Long Yeyue, and the Spirit Pagoda's previous master, Battle Heaven Douluo Qian Gu Dieting."