Just as everyone was wondering what was going on,
the dust slowly began to settle,
revealing the frail figure of an old man dressed in white.
At the same time,
a Golden Holy Sword was embedded in the chest of the kind-looking old man.
It was the very same Xuanyuan Sword that had originally been in Jiang Yang's hands!
Meanwhile, the once-arrogant teacher, Skin-Peeler Zhou, was crouched on the spot, clutching her head with both hands and trembling.
Where was any trace of her earlier swagger?
"Don't kill me! Don't kill me!!"
"Don't kill me..."
Zhou Yi just kept shouting.
Jiang Yang's Soul Skills already had the power to shake the mind, and with the force of that sword added to them, they had completely shattered the defenses deep within Zhou Yi's heart.
"Zhou Yi!"
"Wake up—"
The old man roared in a deep voice.
Only then did Zhou Yi let out a muffled groan and snap her eyes open.
"D-Dean?!"
"Hmm?!"
"Dean? Could this be the dean of Shrek Academy?!"
"The dean of the continent's number one academy must at least be a Super Douluo, right?!"
"Hiss—terrifying!"
However,
the old man didn't seem inclined to pay Zhou Yi any attention, nor did he intend to address the crowd.
He merely raised his right hand, and a vast surge of Soul Power suddenly welled up in his palm, blasting the Golden Holy Sword from his chest and sending it to stick into the ground beside Jiang Yang's right hand.
After doing this,
the old man turned around and gazed at Jiang Yang with kind eyes, praising him. "That was an excellent sword strike. You must be the new student Jiang Yang, right?"
Jiang Yang didn't reply. Having used several major spiritual Soul Skills in succession, even he needed a moment to catch his breath.
If anyone else had tried it, they would probably have been struggling by the time their first and second Soul Skills overlapped.
They might not even have been able to unleash their third Soul Skill.
Yet Jiang Yang hadn't merely overlapped three Soul Skills; he had also controlled an entire domain.
On top of that, he had already used two Self-Created Soul Skills that consumed both spiritual power and Soul Power.
And he had fought across a three-ring gap.
The fact that all he needed was a brief pause to catch his breath was enough to make him stand head and shoulders above every Soul Master of his rank in the world.
Even the ever-proud Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion couldn't help muttering, "What a monster!"
"Dean? What brings you here!"
Mu Jin had also hurried over from Freshman Class Nine.
Seeing the scene before her, she was both surprised and delighted, though she still wore a look of concern.
"Mu Jin, you're here? Good. Take full charge of handling things here."
"Yes, Dean!"
"Jiang Yang, come with me to the Inner Court."
The old man finished speaking.
Without waiting to see whether Jiang Yang agreed, he instantly flashed into a streak of light and appeared beside him.
In the blink of an eye,
the two of them had vanished from the spot.
When everyone turned around, a tiny speck had already appeared in the distance.
Sea God Pavilion
The main conference hall
Ten people sat around an oval table, while at the far end, in an extremely shadowy seat of honor, a figure reclined in a chair.
"Shaozhe, since you called this meeting, you can preside over it."
"Yes, Teacher!"
At the aged voice from the chair, Yan Shaozhe immediately rose and gave the figure a respectful bow.
"Teacher, Elder Lin, and all the other elders, before we officially begin, I'd like to tell everyone two things."
"One concerns the new student Jiang Yang."
"The other, strictly speaking, concerns Jiang Yang as well, but it also involves the wager between Dean Qian and me."
At this,
Qian Duoduo, seated to one side, couldn't help frowning slightly, while Xian Lin'er, sitting beside him, fixed Yan Shaozhe with a cold stare.
With her temper, if she didn't know what Yan Shaozhe was about to say, she would already have slammed her hand on the table and jumped to her feet.
Soon,
Yan Shaozhe recounted everything in full, from how Qian Duoduo had tricked him into making the wager to the details of Jiang Yang's fight with Zhou Yi that morning.
Nothing was left out.
"What? You're saying that student Jiang Yang could kill a Soul Emperor with one sword? What a joke!"
Xian Lin'er questioned him instinctively.
But as Yan Shaozhe fell silent, and the other elders did too, she also quieted down.
It wasn't that everyone was indifferent to the matter.
They were all still trying to absorb the shock Jiang Yang had brought them.
By comparison, the wager between Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo was so small it could hardly be called a matter at all.
"A thousand-year First Soul Ring and a ten-thousand-year Third Soul Ring... How could his body withstand such Soul Power?"
"Elder Lin is right. That's why I suspected Jiang Yang had Twin Martial Souls from the very first time I saw him!"
Hearing Elder Lin's question,
Qian Duoduo answered at once, sounding almost as if he were showing off.
But he soon realized what he was doing and added, "Still, that isn't the only reason I chose Jiang Yang for the Soul Tool Department. His talent for making Soul Tools is peerless."
"Peerless?"
Xuan Zi focused his gaze on Qian Duoduo. His repetition of those four words echoed the very question on everyone's minds.
What kind of genius could possibly deserve to be called "peerless"?
"You may not know this, but Jiang Yang is already a Level 2 Soul Engineer."
"He went from being an ordinary Soul Master who had never even touched a Soul Tool to becoming a Level 2 Soul Engineer in just two days!"
"That speed has set a record in the history of Soul Tools on the Douluo Continent!"
"And he left the person in second place far behind, let alone the record for the Soul Tool Department at Shrek Academy."
Watching the amazement reappear on the faces of the elders in the Sea God Pavilion,
Qian Duoduo grew more and more excited as he spoke.
"To cultivate Jiang Yang, Dean Xian, Fan Yu, and I discussed it and decided to focus the Ultimate Soldier Project entirely on him, while concealing his Soul Engineer rank to a suitable degree."
"As for He Caitou, whom we had originally chosen, we'll have to find him a new partner."
"Jiang Yang is simply too strong. And right now, he's only eleven!"
"Not to mention..."
Before Qian Duoduo could finish,
Yan Shaozhe interrupted him. "Dean Qian, you may not know Jiang Yang's true strength yet. Twin Martial Souls are nothing special, perhaps..."
"But his Xuanyuan Sword Martial Soul is an ancient divine weapon, and the Ultimate Light it contains surpasses even the Radiant Sacred Dragon!"
"It's also an extremely rare Martial Soul that combines support and offense. Whether it's providing spiritual support or launching spiritual attacks, it's peerless!"
"I won't even mention what his Second Martial Soul is. A body capable of absorbing a thousand-year First Soul Ring and a ten-thousand-year Third Soul Ring must have a Second Martial Soul of extraordinary quality!"
"If we don't let the Martial Soul Department cultivate a peerless genius like this, we'll be wasting a heaven-sent treasure!"
"I'm confident I can cultivate him into a true Titled Douluo before he turns twenty-four!"
"If I fail, I'm willing to resign as dean of the Inner Court and leave the Sea God Pavilion forever!"
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