A few minutes later, Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao left the Inscription Room, each carrying a freshly made Level 2 Milk Bottle and a Level 2 Defensive Soul Tool. Their expressions were complicated.
Comparing yourself to others could drive you to despair. Chu Feng was already powerful and unbelievably talented, and now it turned out he had an incredible knack for being a Soul Engineer, too.
At first, they had wanted to catch up to Chu Feng. But now, if things kept going like this, they feared they wouldn't even see his taillights, let alone qualify to team up with him.
The two didn't linger. Both had a fire burning inside them, and they decided that from today on, they would train hard and try not to let Chu Feng leave them too far behind.
As for Chu Feng, he stayed behind to inscribe the cores of higher-level Soul Tools.
He had only come up with the idea of making Milk Bottles on the spur of the moment after seeing Ning Tian. It would make cooperating with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect easier down the line.
As for why he had chosen the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect in particular, it was because they were more trustworthy than the merchant guilds. Merchant guilds chased profit and would stop at nothing to get it. The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect pursued profit, too, but was much less likely to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs—at least compared to the merchant guilds.
His original plan had been to inscribe Level 5 Soul Tool cores, have custom casings made, assemble them, and then sell them.
At his current level, inscribing a Level 5 Soul Tool core took only half an hour. The total cost of the array core and a precious alloy casing wouldn't exceed 10,000 Gold Soul Coins, while a complete Level 5 Soul Tool sold for at least 100,000. A slightly better one could fetch 200,000. The profit was absurd.
As for Level 6 Soul Tools, the materials weren't expensive, but they were extremely scarce. You couldn't buy them unless you were a Soul Engineer. Wang Dong wasn't a Soul Engineer, so the fact that she could get materials for making a Level 5 Soul Tool core was already quite impressive.
Over the next few days, it all depended on the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's response. Chu Feng would wait only three days. If they hadn't replied by then, he would have no choice but to seek a partnership with some merchant guilds.
As for that so-called Soul Engineer Association in this world...
That thing was a complete joke, even more of a rip-off than the merchant guilds. Chu Feng wouldn't touch that association with a ten-foot pole.
By evening, Chu Feng had finished making the Soul Tools.
After dinner, he went around the Freshman Teaching Building and headed east along the south side of Shrek Square, arriving at the shore of Sea God Lake on the academy grounds.
Inscribing Level 5 Core Arrays wasn't too taxing on his spiritual power, but doing a lot of them still left him a little tired, so he came here to clear his head.
Sea God Lake covered an enormous area, larger than half of the main campus. A faint mist hung over the distant water, giving the lake a dreamy look.
Across the shore lay Shrek Academy's most mysterious Inner Court, the sacred training ground so many Outer Court students yearned to enter.
Shrek's students all worked incredibly hard. After dinner, they either went to the Soul Fighting Arena or trained. Few wasted their time here.
Chu Feng came by almost every day. It wasn't because he had nothing better to do. He was waiting for someone.
"Why hasn't Ma Xiaotao come yet? My little whip is thirsty for action~" Chu Feng sat on a chair by the lake, looking rather glum.
He had been keeping watch for days, but still hadn't seen Ma Xiaotao. He wondered whether it was because of the butterfly effect or something. It was strange.
Shrek Academy was full of beauties, but Ma Xiaotao had made a particularly deep impression on him. She was a fiery, top-tier mature beauty. If he could win her over, life would be a lot more colorful.
Chu Feng closed his eyes and rested for an hour. Nothing happened.
Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly sensed something and hurriedly looked across Sea God Lake.
Though the mist obscured his view, his Fiery Golden Eyes gave him astonishing eyesight. At a glance, he spotted a red fireball across the lake. Looking more closely, he realized it seemed to have wings.
As the figure drew nearer, Chu Feng finally got a clear look. It was a woman in red with a striking figure. Unfortunately, she wore a mask, so he couldn't see her face. Her fiery red hair streamed loose, her eyes were bloodshot, and she seemed to have lost her mind. Her expression was twisted, and an overwhelming, savage aura radiated from her, making her seem like a frenzied Soul Beast.
She moved incredibly fast. Her toes skimmed the water like a dragonfly, and with every step, the extreme heat instantly vaporized the water beneath her, raising great clouds of steam that she left far behind.
From a distance, she looked like a red speedboat. In just a few breaths, she reached the middle of Sea God Lake, heading straight toward Chu Feng.
"I've finally found you~"
Chu Feng grinned. He trusted his "luck" talent. If he wanted something, even an unlikely event like this would almost certainly turn out in his favor.
After waiting for days, he had finally found her.
Ma Xiaotao's Phoenix Evil Fire needed to be neutralized not only by a water- or ice-type Martial Soul, but by someone of the opposite sex as well.
When her strength was still low, she could suppress it with natural treasures. Yan Shaozhe was the dean, after all, and had plenty of good things.
But once she grew stronger, she needed to vent the fire, so Ma Xiaotao had turned to Xu Sanshi.
With Ma Xiaotao's pride, there was no way she would do anything like that with Xu Sanshi... So she could only fight him to lessen the backlash from her Phoenix Evil Fire.
Xu Sanshi's Martial Soul was water-based and specialized in defense.
Every time, Ma Xiaotao beat Xu Sanshi until he was "spraying water" uncontrollably. Only then could she barely suppress the Evil Fire.
But as Ma Xiaotao's cultivation continued to rise, Xu Sanshi's "water" just wasn't enough anymore. On top of that, Ma Xiaotao's haughty temperament meant she looked down on trash like him. She had no choice but to grit her teeth and suppress the fire, but she still couldn't hold it back. In the end, it erupted, causing this latest rampage.
Chu Feng watched Ma Xiaotao charge toward him like a madwoman. He remained leaned back in the wooden chair by the lake, calmly gathering an Ice Whip over thirty meters long in his hand.
As the Ice Whip appeared, the air around Chu Feng grew suddenly frigid. Within a hundred meters of the whip, the lake water froze solid in an instant, and a terrifying chill radiated from it.
This was the Mystic Ice Domain Chu Feng had cultivated, still only beginning to take shape. Despite its wide range, it wasn't very powerful... At most, it could suppress an enemy's strength within the domain by about 10%. Against fire-type targets, however, the suppression received an additional boost, reaching 20%. Combined with his own combat power, already comparable to a Soul Emperor's, it was more than enough to suppress Ma Xiaotao.
While Chu Feng was thinking, Ma Xiaotao had already reached a point a hundred meters in front of him and entered his Mystic Ice Domain.
Even so, Chu Feng could still feel the searing wave of heat rushing toward him. It showed just how powerful her Phoenix Evil Fire was. An ordinary Soul Emperor would be no match for her.
By now, the Evil Fire had already eaten away at Ma Xiaotao's sanity. She was practically half an Evil Soul Master, and the urge to kill nearly overwhelmed her.
"Die—"
Ma Xiaotao had spotted Chu Feng from far away. Driven by the urge to kill, she swept toward him at high speed, wrapped in a colossal wave of fire more than a hundred meters tall.
"That should do it~"
Seeing this, Chu Feng raised his hand slightly.
In an instant, the Ice Whip in his hand slowly came to life like a dormant ice dragon awakening. It swept up an endless chill and lashed toward the terrifying wave of fire in the distance.
From afar, two terrifying figures, one blue and one red, crashed into each other.
"Rumble—"
A deafening explosion rang out, as if a bomb had been thrown into Sea God Lake. A hundred-meter wave surged up at once, and the powerful shockwave razed everything within a hundred meters of the shore.
Fortunately, few students were nearby, and most had already fled when Chu Feng unleashed his Mystic Ice Domain. No one was hurt.
But every student who witnessed the scene was left dumbfounded. This was the Outer Court! Where had this powerhouse come from, daring to fight in public? It was simply...
So cool...
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