Heading to Heaven Dou City

"A young master of the Xu Family, named Xu Yucheng. The boy was unlucky; something went wrong during his martial soul awakening, and his own martial soul nearly backlashed and killed him."

"Originally, the Xu Family didn't intend for him to specialize in the path of a soul master, but rather to cultivate him into an elite mecha pilot. This mecha was meant to be his coming-of-age gift."

"But I don't know who put the idea into the young master's head, insisting he must walk the path of a soul master, even going so far as to absorb a second soul spirit prematurely, leaving himself with three ten-year soul rings, yet he still wouldn't stop."

"That young master also views this mecha as a disgrace, telling us to dispose of it however we see fit—preferably by scrapping it."

Yun Ze couldn't help but flick the mecha's metal casing, then let out a soft scoff and said, "How ironic. Someone in my position would love to get their hands on a mecha to pilot, yet he's in such a rotten situation and still has the nerve to complain that the mecha is holding him back?"

"Sir, please watch your words."

The expression on the saleswoman's face grew a bit more solemn, and she reached out to gently press on Yun Ze's shoulder.

Yun Ze said dismissively, "If the Xu Family isn't happy with what I said, they can come find me at the War God Temple."

The solemnity on the saleswoman's face shifted into something else.

"So you are from the War God Temple. But you should also consider the position of us common folk."

Yun Ze didn't continue with any particularly harsh remarks; after all, he still needed to buy things from them, and smashing someone's stall was never a good idea.

Seeing that Yun Ze had stopped, the saleswoman let out a sigh of relief. Yun Ze waved his hand and said, "Alright, alright, enough with the useless talk. Just tell me, how much for this mecha?"

During the earlier test, Yun Ze had already confirmed that beneath the visible purple luster, the mecha shimmered with a dark hue. It was undeniably a black-grade mecha; it was only because of the materials used that a hint of purple appeared, masking the black on the surface.

This actually worked out in Yun Ze's favor, because if an average person didn't get up close to inspect it, they wouldn't be able to tell if it was purple-grade or black-grade.

When people tried to scheme against him but lacked the true measure of his strength, they would likely target him based on the assumption that it was a purple-grade mecha.

And then, they would be crushed by his black-grade mecha as if they were nothing more than a speed bump.

The salesperson looked at Yun Ze, relieved that he had stopped commenting on the Xu Family, and held up seven fingers.

Yun Ze understood. To him, this amount of money was just a number. In any case, before he left, Yun Ming had given him a card from Shrek Academy.

With this card in hand, the cost was essentially irrelevant to Yun Ze. He casually handed the card to the salesperson beside him and said, "I'll take it. Swipe the card."

The salesperson had been prepared to haggle and bicker with Yun Ze, but his directness with the card left all her words stuck in her throat.

"O-okay, sir, please wait a moment. I'll process the paperwork immediately."

The salesperson beamed, her mind already wandering to how she would squander her commission.

With money in his pocket, things moved quickly. Yun Ze simply expressed his desire to get the mecha and leave as soon as possible, so all the procedures were streamlined.

In less than three hours, Yun Ze had completed all the paperwork and obtained legal ownership of the mecha.

The crystal key to activate the mecha was respectfully handed to Yun Ze by the salesperson.

Stepping into the mecha, Yun Ze finally felt the love and care the Xu Family had poured into it for Xu Yucheng.

The entire mecha possessed an incredibly powerful shock-absorption system; even with the wildest piloting, one wouldn't feel a single vibration.

It also contained many core protective arrays and emergency teleportation arrays.

The materials and design were top-tier. With the performance of this mecha, if nurtured with soul power in the future and upgraded with more rare metals, it even had the potential to reach the red-grade.

A red-grade mecha—that would be a god-grade mecha.

It fully proved the saying that a starving camel is still bigger than a horse, even though the Xu Family had been off the throne for over five thousand years.

The mecha given to one of their descendants could still be this luxurious.

Purple Star Cloud Crystal Gold—this material had a storied history. It was only introduced to the Sun Moon Federation after the people of the Star Luo Empire fled to the Star Luo Continent and established diplomatic relations with the Sun Moon Federation.

Even then, the Sun Moon Federation had to pay a high price in soul master teaching resources and technical knowledge of soul guidance devices to exchange for even a small amount of this metal from the Star Luo Federation.

To build a ten-thousand-year mecha like this would essentially consume half of the Sun Moon Federation's annual import of this metal.

To think such a treasure was treated as a disgrace by that spoiled brat—it really just goes to show how much free time these angsty teenagers have.

If it were Yun Ze, he would wish for Yun Ming to "humiliate" him like this every day.

Yun Ze had also wanted his Battle Armor to be made of this material, but after learning of its origins, he felt that using it might cause Shrek to face a catastrophe prematurely, so he hadn't mentioned it to Yun Ming.

However, this served as a reminder to Yun Ze that after the business in Heaven Dou City was concluded, he could go to the Star Luo Continent to take a look.

Perhaps he could buy some high-quality Purple Star Cloud Crystal Gold there as well.

After boarding the Soul Guidance Mecha, Yun Ze headed toward Heaven Dou City.

Because he had a transit permit, Yun Ze traveled in a high-profile manner, using the mecha's flight mode to speed through the sky.

Of course, he didn't exceed the speed limit, keeping right at the edge of the threshold as he zipped across the horizon.

Unlike the bustling Ming Capital, Heaven Dou City was a traditional city with an antique charm. The no-fly altitude restrictions there were much higher than in ordinary cities, supposedly to protect the ancient architecture.

In reality, it was just to prevent flying Soul Guidance Mechas from ruining the mood of tourists looking at the ancient buildings, which would lead to a sharp decline in the city's tourism revenue.

Upon entering Heaven Dou City, Yun Ze checked into a hotel and spread out the intelligence provided by Guan Yue in his room to examine it.

The main issue is that a group of grave robbers of unknown origin has appeared at the Heaven Dou Cemetery, causing the graves there to be dug up all day long.

The most critical point is that these people do not even spare the corpses, which is highly suspicious, as the nobles of this world do not have the hobby of collecting corpses.

Generally speaking, those who would buy or steal corpses can only be Evil Soul Masters conducting some kind of evil experiments.

For instance, the intelligence gathered on Evil Soul Masters clearly points to a faction attempting to replicate a branch of the Corpse Explosion Technique once used by the strongest Spirit King of that era, the Death God.

They have a particular obsession with corpses, and some Evil Soul Masters themselves possess the ability to control them.

This is the reason why the War God Temple, despite not having uncovered any concrete results, still listed this as a case worthy of attention...