Body Sect's Plan

"Do you remember the purpose of this trip?" Du Busi asked in return.

Su Fan was about to say Soul Hunting, but swallowed the words before they left his mouth.

It seemed to be—

"Intercept the Sun Moon Royal Team?"

"More precisely, obtain the Hundred-Thousand-Year Embryo in their possession," Du Busi corrected.

Su Fan's expression turned strange.

"Sect Master, they've already returned to Ming Capital by now, haven't they? Are we really going to Ming Capital to steal it?"

Although he knew the original story, he was still curious how the Body Sect had managed it, so he followed Du Busi's lead and asked further.

"Heh heh, what's so difficult about that?" Du Busi said casually. "When it comes to strength, trust the sect. What we lack now is a way to locate it and the necessary preparations."

"Actually, before coming here, I had already prepared for the possibility that we might fail to intercept them. Our true objective is to obtain the Hundred-Thousand-Year Embryo from inside Mingde Hall."

Su Fan's gaze became even stranger.

"So?"

"So, the sect will plant our spies within Mingde Hall and use them to obtain information about the Hundred-Thousand-Year Embryo."

Du Busi gave Su Fan a detailed description of the plan from the original story that Su Fan knew.

From him, Su Fan learned that the Heaven Dou Empire had actually turned a Soul Engineer family in Ming Capital.

Of course, it was only a minor family. At its peak, it had possessed no more than a single Class 6 Soul Engineer.

This family was surnamed Su, which happened to be the same Su as Su Fan's.

The Su Family had declined somewhat by now, and the highest-ranked Soul Engineer in the family was only Class 4.

The Heavenly Soul Royal Family had provided the Su Family with funding.

The Su Family was also crucial to the Heavenly Soul Royal Family's smuggling of rare metals out of the Sun Moon Empire.

Because it was only a small family, the volume of smuggling was not large.

This was also the current state of the Douluo Three Empires.

They would turn one or two small families, support their development, and then use them to obtain rare metals.

The other side did not lose out, either.

In fact, both sides profited enormously.

According to the records, if the Heavenly Soul Royal Family wanted to purchase a piece of Sunken Silver on the market, it would cost at least a thousand Gold Soul Coins. Yet the Su Family might be able to obtain it for less than two hundred.

The Heavenly Soul Royal Family could pay five hundred Gold Soul Coins for a piece of Sunken Silver, while the Su Family could earn profits exceeding twice the value of the Sunken Silver.

Of course, this was not what had tempted the Su Family into corruption. Rather, because it had already fallen, it had been willing to cooperate with the Heavenly Soul Royal Family in this manner.

Although the Su Family had declined, it had produced a genius in recent years: Su Yue.

Su Yue was only seventeen this year, yet she was already one of the top students at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

She was now a Class 4 Soul Engineer.

However, she followed the theoretical school. She rarely made Soul Tools, was not particularly enthusiastic about advancing her rank, and immersed herself every day in researching the construction of Core Arrays.

Such people were also exceedingly rare talents in the Sun Moon Empire.

Su Fan knew that she was similar to Xuan Ziwen, someone capable of creating, researching, and pioneering the field of Soul Tools.

"She already has a mentor. She can graduate this year and enter Mingde Hall for further study. She also has a research result that has not yet been made public. Once she enters Mingde Hall, she can rapidly rise through the ranks with that achievement."

Du Busi did not doubt that Su Fan would leak the information, so he directly told him the Su Family's intelligence.

To be honest, since Su Fan needed to study the Core Arrays of Soul Tools, Du Busi planned to arrange for him to learn at the Su Family's home. Naturally, he had to tell Su Fan the Su Family's background.

Put bluntly, in Du Busi's eyes, Su Fan was more important than the Su Family.

Only by knowing all of the Su Family's secrets could Su Fan be safer.

Su Fan revealed a speechless expression.

"Sect Master, I just became famous across the continent during the tournament."

"It's fine. I have the Body Secret Technique."

Du Busi faced Su Fan. After he spoke, the skin on his face began to writhe, and his appearance changed in an instant!

Su Fan's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Hmph hmph, when it comes to understanding the body, if my Body Sect calls itself second, no one would dare call themselves first."

Su Fan nodded.

"Sect Master, I want to learn that."

He had not even mentioned the possibility of infiltrating the Sun Moon Empire to study Soul Tools as one of the conditions for joining the Body Sect, precisely because he was too famous.

"Easy enough. We'll travel and teach at the same time from here on."

Ming Capital.

Bright Moon Hotel.

Room 666.

"Patriarch Su, this is Su Yu. He will be studying Soul Tools with the Su Family. I hope Patriarch Su can look after him."

Patriarch Su's expression was unpleasant.

He stared at Du Busi. If he had not sensed the terrifying fluctuations of Soul Power within the other man, he would have started cursing already.

"My Su Family merely cooperates with you. Don't push your luck!"

"Soul Tool techniques absolutely must not be passed on to outsiders!"

"We agreed on this matter long ago. Is the Heavenly Soul Royal Family planning to violate the agreement today?"

Faced with Patriarch Su's questioning, Du Busi's gaze did not waver.

"Agreements can change. This so-called prohibition against passing it on is merely because the benefits are insufficient," Su Fan said.

Patriarch Su looked at Su Fan.

He knew that Su Yu was definitely a false name.

But at this moment, he could only address him as Su Yu.

"Su Yu, please do not insult my Su Family!"

Su Fan curled his lip.

Du Busi remained silent at the side.

On the road, they had refined the plan once more.

Now, the key to persuading Patriarch Su was Su Fan.

"Of course, the benefits I mean are not Gold Soul Coins. I also know that the Su Family is not such a vulgar family," Su Fan said. "What the Su Family seeks should be nothing more than exploring higher realms of Soul Tools and pioneering entirely new Soul Tool techniques, right?"

Patriarch Su snorted. This time, he was not quite as hostile.

Still, he said, "Boy, my Su Family seeks to produce higher-ranked Soul Engineers. As for exploring higher realms and developing brand-new techniques, those are not things my Su Family can dare to dream of."

Su Fan shook his head.

"Don't speak so absolutely. There happens to be an opportunity right now."

"Heh, an opportunity?" Patriarch Su said disdainfully. "You know nothing about the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Tool techniques. What you Douluo Three Empires consider higher realms and new techniques may be obsolete technology that was eliminated long ago in the Sun Moon Empire."

"Patriarch Su is still too impatient," Su Fan said. "May I ask whether Patriarch Su has ever heard of the Aperture Path?"

"The Aperture Path?"

Patriarch Su's expression changed slightly.

The information Su Yue had brought back from the Sun Moon Royal Academy was that the champion of this Soul Master Tournament had no longer been Shrek, nor had it belonged to the Sun Moon Royal Team. Instead, it had been taken by the Dou Ling Team. The key figure behind their victory, Su Fan, had won through the Aperture Path.

He had pierced through the Shrek Seven single-handedly!

A Soul Ancestor whose explosive strength rivaled that of a Soul Saint!

How could Patriarch Su possibly not have received such information?

"The Aperture Path perfectly utilizes the abilities of Core Arrays. Core Arrays can be inscribed within Apertures. Has the Sun Moon Empire mastered such a technique?"

Patriarch Su reluctantly shook his head.

It truly had not.

"Could it be that you possess this technique?"

"We can provide you with a means to understand the Aperture Path," Su Fan said.

He did not directly display his Apertures to the other party.

Anything delivered straight to one's door was worthless.

If he wanted to use the Aperture Path as a breakthrough and make the Su Family relent, then he could not simply hand the Aperture Path over to them.

He had to make the Su Family beg his side for a way to understand the Aperture Path.