A Spear? A Scythe? They're Still Not Enough.

Lin Nuo and Lin Xiu had no idea that someone had already set their sights on them.

They didn't care about things like that anyway. Lin Nuo especially—once his time was up, he would return straight to his own timeline and leave the rest to Lin Xiu.

And if Lin Xiu ran into trouble, he would just call over a Thunder Whale.

So, across the whole continent, the only ones who could threaten them were the Plane Master, Tang Hao, and the Blue Silver Emperor, Ah Yin. But both were basically asleep right now. Only after Tang Wuling awakened her Martial Soul would they briefly wake up, then fall asleep again until the Abyss Plane invaded and they truly awoke.

Following Leng Yaozhu, the two finally reached the ruins of the Spirit Ascension Platform. She turned back and looked at Lin Nuo beside Lin Xiu again. "Are you sure you want him to take part?"

A One-Ring Soul Master entering this Spirit Ascension Platform would probably be crushed to death on the spot. Unless his spiritual power was strong, he might last a few minutes at most, with nothing to gain.

At her words, Lin Xiu looked at Lin Nuo, signaling for him to answer himself.

Lin Nuo stepped forward. "Big Sis, if I can't handle it, I'll leave on my own. You don't need to worry about me."

Indeed, Leng Yaozhu was like a big sister to him, and would be in the future, too. There was nothing wrong with calling her that.

Hearing Lin Jiahao call her sister "Big Sis," Leng Yulai's competitive streak kicked in. She went right over to him. "Little Jiahao, call me Big Sis, too. I'll protect you!"

"You?"

"That's right!" Leng Yulai confidently patted her small chest. "I'm strong. Protecting a little One-Ring Soul Master like you will be a piece of cake."

Lin Nuo simply asked, "Are you a three-ring Soul Elder?"

"No." Leng Yulai shook her head. She was only at level twenty-nine. "But I'll break through soon."

"Then we'll talk after you break through," Lin Nuo said, showing no consideration for her feelings.

"Fine. Don't come begging me to protect you then." Leng Yulai hadn't expected the kid in front of her to be so rude.

Seeing her younger sister put in her place, Leng Yaozhu sighed helplessly. "Yulai, that's enough. Stop fooling around."

"Okay~" Leng Yulai said, glaring fiercely at Lin Nuo before returning to her sister's side.

"Let's get ready," Leng Yaozhu told the two boys. She took her sister to prepare, then headed for the Soul Guidance Sleep Pods reserved for the two of them.

As for Lin Nuo and Lin Xiu, they naturally got the most ordinary Soul Guidance Sleep Pods.

Lin Nuo went over to Lin Xiu and asked through their telepathic link, "Are you sure my face won't show up?"

"Don't worry. I used my Authority to alter your appearance a little. Even a machine will only detect an ordinary face and won't be able to identify you," Lin Xiu replied.

Lin Nuo nodded, then entered the Spirit Ascension Platform with Lin Xiu. They were just going in to fight monsters and grind experience, then pass it on to their other soul fragments—in other words, share experience.

As the staff prepared to send them into the Spirit Ascension Platform, Qiangu Dongfeng barged in and ordered, "Send them to different starting points."

"Young Master Dongfeng, I'm afraid..." Several staff members started to object.

A single look from him silenced them. "This is an order. Understand?"

Faced with his authority, the staff ultimately chose to obey. Qiangu Dongfeng stared at the screen, where Lin Nuo wore a mask, and sneered coldly. "A One-Ring Soul Master? I'll make sure you come out humiliated!"

Up above, Qiangu Dieting watched his son and fell silent, unsure what to make of him.

In an unfamiliar forest, Lin Nuo appeared with a mask on. The moment he realized he was alone, he understood that someone had set him up.

"Talk about being petty." Lin Nuo summoned the Holy Spear of Time. His body strengthened in an instant, and his five senses reached their peak. That was just how absurd a Body Martial Soul was: once activated, it gave him the ability to challenge opponents above his level.

He was a One-Ring Soul Master now, but he could still fight a three-ring Soul Elder. Whether he could win was another question.

Elsewhere, the moment Lin Xiu found himself alone, he too realized that someone had set him and Ano up. He really wanted to take his scythe and cut that guy's butt off!

But before that, Lin Xiu looked up at the person who had appeared in front of him out of nowhere. A scythe appeared in his hand, as long as a spear, dark as night, with a red jewel set into its center. Three Soul Rings slowly rose beneath his feet, purple, purple, purple.

"Three Thousand-year Soul Rings?" The moment Qiangu Dongfeng saw the three Thousand-year Soul Rings beneath Lin Xiu's feet on the screen, his expression turned ugly. His own three Soul Rings were nowhere near as dazzling. His eyes were full of envy.

When he saw the Hundred-Year Soul Ring beneath Lin Nuo's feet, his jealousy vanished instantly, replaced by schadenfreude. He wanted to see how long this One-Ring Soul Master could last.

Holding the Holy Spear of Time, Lin Nuo slowly walked through the forest, using his five senses to observe the changes in his surroundings.

Whoosh!

A gigantic baboon sprang out of the forest, baring huge fangs as it lunged at him.

Seeing the giant baboon charging at him, the first thing Lin Nuo thought was, Isn't that God Slayer?

Huo Yuhao's lifelong nemesis—a Soul Beast that had nearly killed a god with a single blow.

He immediately tightened his grip on the spear and thrust. The baboon had thought it could kill the human boy in front of it instantly, but it quickly sensed something was wrong. Why was its body suddenly moving so slowly, while the human in front of it had become impossibly fast in the blink of an eye?

Before the baboon could think it through, Lin Nuo's spear had already pierced its skull. It dissolved into specks of starlight.

Meanwhile, Lin Xiu had already slain all the Soul Beasts hunting him. He moved as fast as a ghost, so quickly that neither the staff watching him nor Qiangu Dongfeng could keep up.

"Is that guy an agility-type Soul Master?" Qiangu Dongfeng asked the staff member beside him.

The staff member analyzed the data and replied, "Young Master Dongfeng, he's probably not an agility-type Soul Master, but a Power Attack System Soul Master."

"But his speed just now was bizarre!" Qiangu Dongfeng couldn't believe a Power Attack System Soul Master could move as fast as an agility-type one. When he saw Lin Nuo instantly kill a Hundred-Year Soul Beast baboon, his expression grew even worse. "Are you sure that guy's a One-Ring Soul Master?"

Since when had One-Ring Soul Masters become so powerful that they could kill Hundred-Year Soul Beasts in one blow?

"Young Master Dongfeng, our analysis confirms that he is a One-Ring Soul Master." The staff member couldn't understand why Qiangu Dongfeng was reacting so strongly. What exactly was his grudge against them?

Just then, Qiangu Dieting, who had also been watching, received a report from one of his subordinates. After reading the information, he looked up at the subordinate. "Are you sure?"

"Yes, Tower Master. These two really seem to have appeared out of thin air," the subordinate replied. "That's what our investigation suggests."

"It seems some hidden power sent them out to gain experience." Qiangu Dieting stared at the two on the projection and slowly gave his judgment. Lin Nuo wore a mask, so his features were impossible to make out, but judging by his build, he was at most six years old. Lin Xiu looked no older than eleven or twelve.

There was only one reason for the two of them to show up in Shrek City: they had come to apply to Shrek Academy.

"Shrek..." Qiangu Dieting sighed, then stopped watching and turned off the projection.

One wielded a scythe, the other a spear. Their Soul Power Levels were high enough, but in his view, they still wouldn't get very far.