Eighteen Arhat Fist

Star Dou Great Forest was the largest gathering place for Soul Beasts on Douluo Continent, its area absurdly vast.

As long as one was lucky enough and strong enough, one could find a suitable Soul Beast here.

Chen Yuan held a large blade and hacked left and right at the dense shrubs before him.

There was no helping it. His attribute was fire; he could not exactly set the entire place ablaze, could he?

Setting fire to the mountains was something Chen Yuan would not allow himself to do unless it was a critical moment. It was far too damaging to his virtue.

Ning Tian, following behind Chen Yuan, was filled with curiosity about the Star Dou Great Forest.

As the Young Sect Master of the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect, there were quite a few Soul Beasts within her sect. Ten-thousand-year ones were rare, but there were certainly hundred-year and thousand-year ones.

Because the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda had extremely broad requirements for Soul Beasts, this was her first time coming to the Star Dou Great Forest.

Wu Feng was somewhat better off in that regard. Though it was also her first time in the Star Dou Great Forest, she had at least visited a dedicated Soul Hunting Forest before.

"By the way, didn't your sect assign any guards to you?"

"Who knows? The sect sent us to study at Shrek but did not even arrange anyone to help us hunt Soul Beasts. If I hadn't saved up some money, Feng Mei and I would probably have had to hunt on our own this time."

Over the past few days, Ning Tian and Chen Yuan had become fairly acquainted.

Ning Tian was deeply curious about this senior who was so clearly different from the rigid impression she had held.

According to the information she had learned beforehand, the Martial Soul of the person before her was an extremely powerful fire-attribute Tool Martial Soul.

Looking at Wu Feng behind her, then at Chen Yuan clearing the way ahead, Ning Tian learned for the first time that a fire-attribute Soul Master could have such a... mild temperament.

On Douluo Continent, a Soul Master's personality was more or less influenced by their Martial Soul.

Fire-attribute Soul Masters were generally hot-tempered, ice-attribute Soul Masters were generally aloof, Light Attribute Soul Masters gave people a warm feeling, and Dark Attribute Soul Masters...

In this era, that stuff was directly classified as belonging to Evil Soul Masters. Even if there had been no problem at first, they would basically be forced into becoming problematic.

That was why Ning Tian was so curious about Chen Yuan's gentle disposition. There was a textbook fire-attribute brute right beside her.

"Senior, how about telling us some things new students should watch out for?"

"Things new students should watch out for? Let me think..." Chen Yuan did not mind revealing a little. It was not like it was anything important.

"Mm... there really is something. One of the freshman classes this year may have a teacher with something wrong in her head."

"She originally taught third-years, but because she expelled students recklessly, a large number of students reported her. The academy may have sent her to teach freshmen instead."

"So, make sure you don't go register too early. According to my insider information, there's a high chance that old hag will be teaching Freshman Class One this year."

This was a lie. How could a poor guy like Chen Yuan possibly have such an information network? Even Bei Bei might not know which class Zhou Yi would be assigned to teach yet.

Was it not simply the advantage of a transmigrator's foreknowledge?

One had to know that this Zhou Yi was the novel version, not the anime version.

The anime had at least cut Wang Yan and Zhang Lexuan's scenes and given them to Zhou Yi, but that was not the case here. Zhou Yi was utterly useless.

"Huh? Students reported a teacher? On a large scale?"

"Yep. Come to think of it, I was one of them too."

Chen Yuan casually told the two junior sisters that he had also been involved.

At the same time, Chen Yuan seemed to suddenly remember something.

"Come to think of it, that teacher has the same Martial Soul as Wu Feng. It's also a Red Dragon."

"Hmph! I'm not that kind of useless trash!"

Upon hearing Chen Yuan's words, Wu Feng was extremely disdainful of that teacher.

Even though Shrek was the number one academy in the world, its Outer Court teachers were generally only Soul Kings or Soul Emperors.

Wu Feng did not think she would be inferior to those Outer Court teachers in the future.

"Hey! You already know our Martial Souls, so shouldn't you tell us yours?"

You're probably the only one here who doesn't know what my Martial Soul is, right?

Just as Chen Yuan was about to speak, his attention was drawn to a huge figure on a tree trunk some distance away.

It was an ape-type Soul Beast, with incomparably thick arms and an extremely disproportionate upper and lower body.

If its upper body was all muscle, then its lower body was slender. Such an unbalanced Soul Beast was truly rare.

"Not bad luck. An Iron-Armed Ape, just right for you. It looks to be around sixteen to eighteen hundred years old. What do you think? Want it?"

The Iron-Armed Ape before them had an unstable aura and several wounds on its body. It had clearly just gone through a battle. Its species was decent, and its attribute was suitable. The only question was Ning Tian's choice.

After all, she was the one absorbing the Soul Ring. Chen Yuan could not make the decision for her.

"I want it!"

For Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda Soul Masters, a higher Soul Ring age merely reduced the Soul Power consumed when releasing the corresponding enhancement.

It could not evolve anyway. As long as the age difference was not too great and the attribute met the requirements, it was fine.

Martial Soul Possession!

Flames rose from Chen Yuan's right hand as though magma were flowing within. A plate-armored Gauntlet wrapped around his right hand and forearm.

Its surface was interwoven with red and gold, while the inner side of the palm was made from a special black material. Dragon patterns were engraved upon the Gauntlet.

Appearing alongside the Gauntlet was a dragon formed entirely from flames.

The dragon flew from the Gauntlet on Chen Yuan's right hand and coiled around his left arm. Its head wrapped around his left fist, transforming into a unique dragon-shaped fist guard.

As the Flame Gauntlet appeared, Chen Yuan's black hair was dyed a vivid red by the flames, and his pupils turned brilliant gold.

Four Soul Rings—yellow, purple, purple, and black—far beyond the standard age limit floated around Chen Yuan.

"Seven Treasures turn forth with glazed light!"

"Seven Treasures have a name: first, speed!"

Seeing that Chen Yuan was ready to move, Ning Tian gracefully spun in place. Dazzling seven-colored light immediately erupted from her body, and an exquisite little glazed pagoda appeared above her palm.

Two yellow Soul Rings encircled the small pagoda. The first yellow Soul Ring lit up, and a dazzling ray of light shot from the pagoda onto Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan felt his speed surge by thirty percent. This was his first time experiencing such an outrageous support enhancement.

The other Support System Soul Masters at the academy were nowhere near capable of such amplification at the same level.

The key was that this thirty percent would continue to increase! Basically, anyone in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with a bit of talent could reach seven rings and provide their teammates with over eighty percent attribute enhancement. It was truly a setting written with one's feet.

If Ning Tian's second soul skill had not leaned more toward mechanism-based crowd-control removal, Chen Yuan's combat strength would likely have increased by a great deal more.

With a heavy stomp, the ground cracked apart, and Chen Yuan shot toward the Iron-Armed Ape in the tree like a cannonball.

The Iron-Armed Ape's muscular arms took on a metallic sheen as it threw a punch at Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan met fist with fist. With a crisp crack, the Iron-Armed Ape's arm twisted at a grotesque angle.

Seizing the opportunity in midair, Chen Yuan grabbed the Iron-Armed Ape's other arm, violently twisted at the waist, and viciously hurled it down from the tree dozens of meters high. A cloud of dust exploded from the ground.

Eighteen Arhat Fist!

Afraid that the Iron-Armed Ape still had the strength to fight, Chen Yuan pressed his advantage. His hands blurred as he completed his charge-up, then he threw a punch. Flames burst from his Gauntlet, and violent fire swallowed the Iron-Armed Ape.

The flames came quickly and vanished quickly. In only a brief moment, the Iron-Armed Ape's originally brown fur had been completely scorched black.

Seeing this, Ning Tian feared that the Iron-Armed Ape would die the next instant. Before she had time to marvel at Chen Yuan's strength, she hurried forward and ended its life.

A purple Soul Ring emerged. Ning Tian controlled her Martial Soul and guided the Soul Ring onto the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda.

The Soul Ring absorption began.

Wu Feng sat on the ground, her body trembling uncontrollably as she stared at Chen Yuan in terror. It was not that she had not wanted to act just now—her Martial Soul simply could not be summoned at all!

With identical attributes, an Ultimate Attribute held an almost absolute crushing advantage over a non-Ultimate Attribute, not to mention that Chen Yuan's cultivation was nearly twenty levels higher than Wu Feng's.

Chen Yuan had forgotten about Wu Feng just now. With identical attributes, those below were extremely sensitive to suppression from those above, which was why Wu Feng had sensed the Ultimate aura Chen Yuan had concealed.