Setting Off! Heading to Spirit Pagoda Headquarters! [Please Read On]

"What are you doing?"

Gu Yue had noticed that Li Jinsheng's hands had not stopped moving over his Communication Soul Tool since earlier. He seemed to be chatting with someone.

"Saying goodbye to Xie Xie and President Mu Chen," the boy replied calmly.

Gu Yue nodded without saying anything more.

The three of them walked onto the plaza outside the East Sea Spirit Pagoda, and Li Jinsheng sent out two messages at that moment.

He looked up at the empty plaza and could not help frowning. Where was the vehicle?!

"Let's go!" Leng Yaozhu clapped her hands, and a streak of black light descended from the sky.

It was a Black-class Mecha, its entire body forged from Spirit Alloy. Its shell glinted with a cold metallic sheen beneath the sunlight. Its overall shape resembled a lifelike phoenix, and its wingspan was definitely over thirty meters.

"A Black-class Mecha!" Gu Yue could not help exclaiming.

This was one of the great creations of Soul Guide technology in this era, one of the crystallizations of human wisdom. Though mechas were inferior to battle armor and had even stagnated somewhat in this age, a Red-class Mecha could still rival an ordinary Titled Douluo.

"This is my Black-class Mecha, Skyfire Phoenix!" Leng Yaozhu said with a faint smile. "We'll travel by mecha. This is much faster than a Soul Guide Train!"

"Teacher, why is this mecha..." Gu Yue looked at the mecha before her with curiosity. Given Leng Yaozhu's status, she should not have lacked a Red-class Mecha.

"You're wondering why it isn't Red-class, right?" Leng Yaozhu's voice was gentle as she patiently explained, "I personally designed and built this mecha when I was young. But as my strength increased, it gradually became nothing more than a means of transportation. Remember, even the highest-grade Red-class Mecha is only equivalent to Three-Word Battle Armor."

"In this era, only Four-Word Battle Armor is the mark of a true powerhouse!"

Gu Yue nodded, then secretly glanced at Li Jinsheng from the corner of her eye. The boy wore a thoughtful expression, as if he were considering something very important.

"What are you thinking about?" she could not help asking this humanoid creature.

"I'm thinking about what kind of mecha I should have in the future to show off how handsome I am!"

Gu Yue was speechless. How exactly did this guy switch so freely between human and nonhuman?

"It's time to go!" Leng Yaozhu urged the two of them, giving Li Jinsheng a meaningful glance. He was definitely childish at heart. She would have to put more effort into teaching him in the future.

Her gaze shifted to Gu Yue again. This child had been raised by a great clan and possessed a steady temperament, so she would not need to spend too much effort on her.

The three boarded the Black-class Mecha. Leng Yaozhu sat alone in the cockpit at the front to pilot it, while Gu Yue and Li Jinsheng obediently sat in the rear cabin. The interior of the Black-class Mecha was incredibly spacious. It was no longer a mecha meant for combat, but more like a mobile home, with every facility one could need.

Gu Yue looked at Li Jinsheng. His hands had started moving again, so she asked, "What is it this time?"

"Xie Xie is complaining to me. He said I was enjoying my vacation just fine, then suddenly left! Xie Xie and I agreed that we'd meet again in Shrek City someday," Li Jinsheng answered naturally, without hiding anything.

"Aren't you sad to leave your friends?" Gu Yue had no attachment to Eastsea City, but she could not help feeling curious that a seven-year-old child like Li Jinsheng could take it so lightly.

Li Jinsheng fell silent for a while. He did not know how to answer that question. "From the moment we meet, parting is already destined!"

"So I've always believed that this farewell is for the sake of our next reunion. Just like you and me, one day we'll have to part as well."

His voice paused before he continued.

"Partings are always inevitable. In the end, we have to say goodbye to the things we cannot hold on to."

"Maybe it's because I encountered the worst possible outcome from the very beginning, so I don't care about it at all!"

His voice was calm, but his eyes were filled with a loneliness she had never seen before. Simply sitting there, he gave Gu Yue a desolate feeling of changing seas and mulberry fields, of a dream spanning a thousand years.

Gu Yue did not ask any more questions. She had not expected that this seemingly cheerful thing called Li Jinsheng had such a pessimistic side.

The journey from Eastsea City to the Spirit Pagoda would take several hours. She naturally turned on her tablet and began browsing information about the human world.

Meanwhile, Li Jinsheng began meditating and cultivating. He really was an old grind king, though luckily, all his friends around him were against excessive competition.

Just then, Leng Yaozhu activated the mecha's autopilot and entered the rear cabin. Seeing one of them diligently cultivating and the other diligently researching information, she felt that these two children could handle her instruction.

"Clap clap~~"

Leng Yaozhu clapped her hands, her voice gentle. "Wake up for now, you two. I have a few questions for you!"

Li Jinsheng and Gu Yue both stopped what they were doing and turned their gazes toward the red-haired woman before them.

"Ahem." Leng Yaozhu cleared her throat. "Gu Yue, I know that your Martial Soul is Elementalist, but Li Jinsheng, what is your Martial Soul?!"

"Your Excellency Sky Phoenix, my Martial Soul is the purest Life Element. I possess innate healing abilities. My First Soul Skill is Five Senses Deprivation, but I can only deprive one of the five senses at a time. It has an absolute one-second effect!"

Leng Yaozhu had originally been very surprised upon hearing Life Element, but when she heard his Soul Skill, she sensed that something was off. She had thought he was the same type as Ya Li, but he had unexpectedly taken a completely different path?

"What is your Soul Spirit?!" she asked curiously. Any Soul Spirit capable of granting such a Soul Skill had to be extraordinary.

At her words, Li Jinsheng summoned his Soul Spirit, the Jade Swan!

The instant they saw the Jade Swan, not only Leng Yaozhu, but even the well-informed Gu Yue fell silent. Two top-tier life attributes—and this Jade Swan was clearly a healing-type Soul Spirit—yet it had provided a Soul Skill completely unrelated to healing?

At that moment, Gu Yue thought of Bi Ji. Could this fellow be hiding some ability she did not know about?

Feeling two powerful gazes fixed on her, the Jade Swan's emerald feathers trembled uncontrollably. These two had such powerful auras. This world was terrifying!

The big goose sensed the threat of natural enemies and decisively shielded Li Jinsheng in front of herself. She was only a weak, pitiful, helpless little Soul Spirit—why were two big shots staring at her?!

"It really is a Jade Swan! And this Jade Swan is quite timid too!" Leng Yaozhu's willow brows furrowed slightly as she found the existence of that Soul Skill even more incomprehensible.

Still, the world of Soul Masters was full of strange things. Even farting could be a Soul Skill, so how strange could a mere Five Senses Deprivation be?

She turned to Gu Yue. "Gu Yue, Li Jinsheng should be a support-type Soul Master, right? Once we return to the Spirit Pagoda, I'll use the Virtual Battlefield to test your abilities. I'll formulate training plans for the two of you according to the directions you excel in!"

"Alright, Teacher!" Gu Yue nodded in agreement. She did not deny that Li Jinsheng was a support-type Soul Master. At present, he could barely count as one, but something was wrong with his brain—he always wanted to be a damage dealer.

"Your Excellency Sky Phoenix, how should I address you from now on..." Li Jinsheng suddenly realized that although Leng Yaozhu had brought him to the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, there had been no formal apprenticeship between them.

"Just call me Aunt Leng from now on." Leng Yaozhu had no intention of taking Li Jinsheng as her disciple. Seeing his black hair, black eyes, and Life attribute, she inexplicably felt uncomfortable inside. He always reminded her of those two people.

"Alright!" Li Jinsheng nodded in agreement.

Leng Yaozhu smiled faintly and began explaining the upcoming training plan. Gu Yue felt, for an instant, what Li Jinsheng's life had always been like. Even with so little time, he still didn't forget to give lessons.

The pressure was enormous!

As for Li Jinsheng, the Failed Tsinghua-Peking Exam Taker, his assessment was that it was still not as bad as senior year. He could handle it!

His brain was just a little rusty.

Time slowly passed, like fine sand slipping through one's fingers and scattering on the wind.

The Phoenix Mecha streaked across the sky, leaving behind two white trails in the azure heavens.

Shrek City.

A woman with Dark Green Hair, dressed in an elegant long gown, was walking through Snack Street while holding the hand of the Silver-haired Silver-eyed Little Girl.