System's Abstract Judgment, Liu Erlong? Xiao Yu!

It was still past midnight at the back mountain. Yu Tianjiao had come here to see if he could trigger the plot of becoming Venerable Yao's disciple.

Although he knew that Venerable Yao's niche had been replaced by the system, Yu Tianjiao really wanted the skill of alchemy.

After completing the "Don't Bully the Young and Poor" quest, he would be able to claim the Buddha Fury Fire Lotus exclusive soul ring, which came with growth attributes.

Even though his soul power was only at level three, his body remained at the level of a Soul Ancestor.

This meant that his first soul ring could start at five thousand years.

Because he had never entered the system's main storyline before, he had never received any soul ring rewards.

Therefore, before the system began siphoning his soul power, he had never added soul rings to his Buddha Fury Fire Lotus Martial Soul. Instead, he had hunted four sub-dragon species of magical beasts to add soul rings to his Ancient Void Dragon Martial Soul, after making minor adjustments according to the standards of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

However, as his soul power was drained away, those soul rings naturally left his body and dissipated into the heavens and earth.

It was a pity that his soul power was only at level three now; the rewarded soul ring would be useless even if he took it out. Otherwise, he would have really liked to see what kind of skill a system-rewarded soul ring could unlock.

[You, who have suffered the humiliation of a broken engagement, are feeling dejected on the back mountain. At this moment, Venerable Yao, who has been observing you from within the ring for many years, finally decides to appear and explain the reason for the regression of your cultivation over the past three years. With the misunderstanding cleared, you take Venerable Yao as your master and begin to learn alchemy, rebuilding your cultivation.]

["Fallen Genius" main quest completed.

Rewards obtained:

1. Cultivation efficiency increased by 400%, lasting until the end of the next main quest phase.

2. Professional Skill: First-Grade Alchemy, claimable after obtaining the first soul ring.

3. Soul Douluo Experience Card *1. After use, you can briefly obtain Soul Douluo-level soul power; it can be used multiple times until the soul power is exhausted. (PS: Behold my Heaven-Rank Dou Skill, Ghost Possession!)

[Automatically triggering the next main quest phase, Three-Year Agreement.]

Looking at the prompt on the system panel in front of him, Yu Tianjiao couldn't help but clench his fists.

Finally, he didn't have to continue being a waste!

He had even obtained alchemy!

He just didn't know how to upgrade this alchemy skill later on.

However, what surprised him most was the Soul Douluo-level soul power experience card.

This must correspond to Venerable Yao's Ghost Possession.

Now he had the confidence to travel the continent.

But before that, he had to restore his strength.

Thinking of this, Yu Tianjiao didn't bother returning to his room and simply started cultivating on the back mountain.

Sure enough, the feeling from before—where no matter how he cultivated, the system would forcibly siphon away his soul power—had vanished completely. Replacing it was a cultivation speed even more terrifying than in his prime.

That 400% cultivation efficiency bonus allowed his body, like parched land meeting sweet rain, to greedily absorb the energy of heaven and earth.

He could clearly perceive his soul power level steadily advancing from level three toward level four, at an astonishing speed.

In three or four months at most, he would be able to cultivate back to level ten and obtain his first soul ring.

Then he would be able to leave the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and go out to gain experience.

Having stayed in the clan for the past three years, he was nearly suffocated.

Thinking of this, Yu Tianjiao opened the system panel again to check the next main quest.

["Three-Year Agreement" quest summary:

You have made a three-year agreement with Nalan Yanran, preparing to wash away your shame.

Quest condition: Please defeat Nalan Yanran at the Misty Cloud Sect.]

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Yu Tianjiao fell silent.

This couldn't possibly be asking him to run to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and beat up Ning Rongrong, could it?

Ning Rongrong was not Nalan Yanran; she was currently just a two-ring support-type soul master. Even if the current Yu Tianjiao only had level three soul power, he could rely on the amplification of his Ancient Void Dragon Martial Soul and his Soul Ancestor-level physical fitness to spin Ning Rongrong like a top.

Unless Ning Rongrong broke through to level forty or higher, it would be impossible for her to escape from Yu Tianjiao's hands.

There was no help for it; pure support-type martial souls like those of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had absolutely no resistance when facing a monster like Yu Tianjiao, who possessed dual assault-type martial souls while retaining Soul Ancestor-level physical fitness.

But if he really went to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to beat up Ning Rongrong, not only would he be demeaning himself, but his personal safety wouldn't be guaranteed either!

After all, they had two Title Douluo-level powerhouses guarding the sect, while the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan only had his foster father, Yu Yuanzhen, as a Title Douluo. He wouldn't have any advantage in a fight.

However...

Since they were talking about a three-year agreement, if he remembered correctly, the Soul Master Tournament should be in two years.

Could it be that the venue for the finals of this Soul Master Tournament would be the Misty Cloud Sect?

If he wanted to defeat the Shrek Seven Devils, should he consider going to the Martial Soul Hall Academy?

After just a moment of consideration, Yu Tianjiao immediately shook his head.

No way!

He was a member of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan; running to jump around under the eyes of that madwoman Bibi Dong was purely asking for death.

Rather than that, might as well head back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, or swing by Blue Tyrant Academy.

Back when he was eight, he had taken his twelve-year-old eldest nephew Yu Tianheng and run off to study at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

It was only after his strength later regressed that he directly dropped out.

As for Blue Tyrant Academy...

Thinking of this, Yu Tianjiao's face showed a strange expression.

That was the academy opened by his cousin Liu Erlong.

His relationship with Liu Erlong was quite good. Not long after Yu Yuanzhen picked him up back then, he happened to run into Liu Erlong returning. For reasons everyone knew, she had been single for many years and always yearned for a family and children.

Upon seeing the then exquisitely carved Yu Tianjiao, she immediately couldn't walk away.

From then on, she would return to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan every few days. In a sense, Yu Tianjiao could be said to have been raised by this cousin of his.

This cousin truly didn't treat him as an outsider. Sometimes when she went to bathe, she had to bring him along, and everything that should and shouldn't be seen was all shown to him.

But...

In the system's judgment, Liu Erlong was Xiao Yu!

Then the system insisted he had peeked at her bathing and even said he touched her thighs.

In the end, it turned out that Yu Tianjiao was the one touched all over by Liu Erlong, who was giving him a bath...

However, back when he chose Heaven Dou Royal Academy instead of Blue Tyrant Academy, it really made Liu Erlong act as if he had touched her thighs, chasing him all over the back mountain, and in the end he still couldn't escape that beating.

Later, when Yu Tianjiao's cultivation regressed, Liu Erlong had also worried a lot over his matters, even crying several times for this, and even hugging him saying that at worst she would protect him for a lifetime.

The result nearly suffocated Yu Tianjiao in that soft embrace.

Recalling the bits and pieces of their interactions over these years, Yu Tianjiao's mouth couldn't help but curve into a smile.

To tell the truth, he quite liked this fiery-tempered sister.

How about having someone notify her and tell her that he had now recovered?

Forget it, better to go personally later.