"Ring-ring..."
In the filthy, messy room, Mu Baobao was awakened by an owl-shaped soul tool alarm clock beside his bed.
As for why he had such a damnable name, it was because he had a younger brother named Mu Beibei. The two brothers had fought over their names since childhood.
Each claimed it was the other's fault, but Mu Baobao knew that this guy had never even had an older brother in the original story and still ended up with this damnable name. It was all thanks to a certain double-standard God King's twisted sense of humor... Long Shanshan, Long Leilei, Long Dangdang, Long Kongkong... truly unbelievable.
With dark circles under his eyes, he angrily smashed the costly alarm clock. Normally, it would have been exactly the right time to get up, but last night, while he had been sleeping soundly—
A valiant heroine had climbed straight through his window and forced herself on him. She was now sleeping soundly on top of him, and damn it, her drool had soaked his chest. It was utterly speechless.
The room... was half dark and half light, half cold and half hot. It had clearly been through a baptism of fire and ice.
She looked around seventeen or eighteen, with vivid fiery-red hair and a rather well-proportioned, soft figure... which lessened some of his displeasure. After all, she could be considered the dream lover of countless academy students.
"Mm!" The girl frowned slightly.
She had clearly been awakened by the noise. Mu Baobao did not indulge her and simply tossed her aside before taking a change of clothes from the wardrobe and heading to wash up.
The girl was immediately enraged, but she skillfully took out her own change of clothes from her storage soul tool and headed into another room.
"Hmph!"
More than ten minutes later, the two met in the corridor. Neither could stand the sight of the other, and they shoved each other as they went downstairs.
"Xiaotao, did you sneak into my brother's room again last night?" At the breakfast table sat a refined-looking boy of fourteen or fifteen, with purplish-blue hair and a tall, straight build.
A lazy, gentle smile rested on his handsome face as he leaned back with both hands behind his head.
"The noise you two made last night was really..."
The boy wore an interested expression as he looked at the yawning man and woman, who were clearly still half asleep, intending to say a few more words. Then he met the girl's murderous gaze and hurriedly shut his mouth.
This clearly was not the first time the girl had done something like this, but her ancestor from ten thousand years ago had been even more extraordinary. After awakening his martial soul, he had become obsessed with brothels.
Shrek Academy was the number one academy on Douluo Continent—one could even say it was the number one soul master power.
It was not under the authority of the four great empires—Heavenly Soul, Douling, Star Luo, and Sun Moon—and was completely independent, with an even greater number of Title Douluo.
When Sun Moon Continent collided with Douluo Continent, the Sun Moon Empire relied on soul tool technology far ahead of Douluo Continent's. The Heaven Dou Empire was beaten into Heavenly Soul and Douling, while even the militarily mighty Star Luo Empire was left in peril.
Only when the Shrek Academy headmaster of that generation called out from on high and gathered more than sixty Title Douluo was the Sun Moon Empire stopped and the name Douluo Continent preserved.
The reason this academy was so damn impressive... was because it had once produced seven gods... all thanks to a certain double-standard God King who was also a transmigrator.
Tang Buddha Ancestor had attained two god positions and taken the Seven Devils of that generation to ascend with him. Just thinking about it made Mu Baobao's balls ache.
Ten thousand years... even tens of thousands of years later, anyone unrelated to Tang Buddha Ancestor could never become a god, no matter how talented they were. The God Realm had become his private backyard. Back then, there were only three people with Twin Martial Souls; now there were heaps of them... and even two people with three martial souls. There were no telling how many stronger than him.
As the saying went, no matter how awesome you were, if you were born after me, you had to lie down and take it.
Shrek City—
It occupied the former site of Spirit City and bordered the Star Dou Forest, allowing people to hunt soul beasts and obtain Soul Rings at any time. It was situated in the middle of the major empires.
But what it did was worlds apart. Spirit Hall had stopped countless wars between the former two great empires, and its final war had merely sought unification, so that Douluo Continent would never again suffer war. Shrek City, meanwhile, acted like a local tyrant and let the major empires fight as they pleased.
As for their educational philosophies, Spirit Hall taught without discrimination... anyone who joined Spirit Hall would receive training in every aspect. Shrek Academy, on the other hand, only accepted geniuses.
Twelve years old, Rank 20, and two hundred-year Soul Rings—Mu Baobao wanted to complain. A bunch of teachers who were sixty or seventy years old were only Rank 60 or 70, and some even had ten-year Soul Rings. They had not even met those damn requirements themselves... and there was even someone who became a master at Rank 20 just by organizing other people's notes... after Spirit Hall was gone.
The major empires began fighting again. Ordinary people had no chance whatsoever of becoming soul masters. Give talented people to anyone for training and would they not become geniuses? Yet it called itself the continent's number one academy.
Ma Xiaotao was a descendant of Ma Hongjun, the Phoenix God among the First Generation Shrek Seven Devils. She had inherited her ancestor's powerful martial soul, along with that troublesome Evil Fire.
Suppressing Evil Fire required an ice attribute, or doing it with someone else... the latter method.
That was to eat the superior immortal herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, which the Tang Sect harvested every ten thousand years, purifying the Evil Fire and allowing it to transform into Ultimate Fire.
Ma Hongjun had an extremely vile personality. In the early days, he relied on visiting brothels; later on, he ate immortal herbs.
Fortunately, Ma Xiaotao was a girl. She merely sought people to suppress her Evil Fire, so Huo Yuhao, with his Ultimate Ice, got to take advantage of her often.
Otherwise, no matter how beautiful she was, Mu Baobao would not want anything to do with a soul tool bus, only to end up wearing a bright green hat... Yan Shaozhe, an elder of Sea God Pavilion, dean of Shrek's Spirit Department, and a Rank 95 Super Douluo with the title Ming Feng.
He had said that without a fortuitous opportunity, the only option was to find an Ultimate Ice soul master as a partner. Tang Buddha Ancestor definitely would not allow that to happen, so later, Huo Yuhao unknowingly had a child with her.
If even she could be targeted, then it was no surprise this volcano had found Mu Baobao. His and Mu Beibei's identities were equally extraordinary: they were descendants of Yu Xiaogang, one of the Golden Iron Triangle who had been both teacher and headmaster to the First Generation Shrek Seven Devils... They could use a three-martial-soul fusion skill.
Radiant Sacred Dragon. Both Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong had been born into the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and were even cousins... yet they still produced a descendant like Limit Douluo Dragon God Mu En. Mu Beibei's Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon could also temporarily evolve into a Radiant Sacred Dragon.
"Ah, I still couldn't hold it in!"
Mu Baobao shook his head. Were they not afraid their descendants would mutate directly into idiots? Oh... this was a fantasy world. Even if they mutated, they would become peerless geniuses.
His own martial soul was likewise a mutated Ice Dragon, and it was not even a dragon from this world.
It was a highly modern soul tool mechanical Ice Dragon: bipedal, grayish-blue, with an icy-blue spike on its snout, yellow crest horns on its head, an enormous turbine for a tail, and an energy interface on its back.
Kyurem from the Pokemon World.
The elders of Sea God Pavilion and the Inner Court's Title Douluo had all been dumbfounded. Since when could a mechanical martial soul mutate into existence?
After studying it for several years without figuring anything out, they could only give up. But its Ultimate Ice was unquestionably real.
The deities of both worlds were divided into first, second, and third ranks, as well as God Kings. Its attribute was naturally Ultimate Ice, though perhaps it was not as powerful as an Ultimate Light Radiant Sacred Dragon...
But it also had White Flame and dark forms, representing reality and ideals respectively. Reality was Evil, ideals were Goodness. If Tang Buddha Ancestor had not already ascended, Goodness and Evil, the two God Kings, would probably have chosen Ji Dong and Lie Yan to make two more dual God Kings. Those two were clearly both fire users, just like Tang Buddha Ancestor.
Grass and hammer, Sea God and Asura God... not a single one matched, yet they could still become God Kings. There was no justice in it.
Then... Ma Xiaotao had broken into his room again. Hearing Mu Baobao mutter, Mu Beibei immediately put on an expression of utter disbelief.
"What couldn't you hold in?"
"Brother, could it be that you and Xiaotao..."
Ma Xiaotao had been silently eating breakfast, but she nearly choked upon hearing that... She glared murderously at Mu Beibei, while Mu Baobao angrily threw an apple at his troublesome little brother, who caught it with one raised hand.
"Eat your breakfast!"
"Xiaoya will be entering fourth grade this year. You're going with her to the Star Dou Forest to obtain her third Soul Ring, right?" Mu Baobao suddenly remembered this and asked Mu Beibei. Although Tang Buddha Ancestor had brought—stolen—powerful hidden weapons from another world,
They ultimately could not compare to soul tools. Thus, the Tang Sect had begun declining from that time onward. Even the things Huo Yuhao researched later were hidden weapons combined with soul tools; they were no longer pure hidden weapons... Shrek had not offered assistance to the Tang Sect in time, and Mu En felt deeply guilty toward Tang Ya.
He had asked Beibei, who was around her age, to approach Tang Ya and help revive the Tang Sect. It had originally been a matter of responsibility... but this guy had genuinely fallen in love with Tang Ya.
He did not lack money, yet he accompanied her in taking summer jobs. To advance to the next grade together, he had even repeated a year... If he had not been the great-grandson of Dragon God Douluo, Beibei would have been punished badly.
Tang San founded the Tang Sect, and Huo Yuhao revived it... but in the end, both relied on god-level strength.
Even more absurdly, people believed Blue Silver Grass was powerful, so every successive Tang Sect leader had Blue Silver Grass as their main martial soul... Tang Buddha Ancestor clearly had the Blue Silver Emperor. Tang Ya being able to become the Tang Sect leader seemed to involve a bit of luck.
As for why it was called stealing... the Tang family had made it a tradition. Tang Buddha Ancestor stole the Tang Sect's hidden weapons and cultivation methods, Huo Yuhao stole the Sun Moon Empire's soul tool technology, Tang Wulin stole War God Hall's soul tool shells... and Lan Xuanyu outright stole and blew up someone else's resource planet.
Huo Yuhao would enroll next semester, and Mu Baobao's eyes turned red with envy. He started with a million-year spiritual wisdom Soul Ring, had the third martial soul Necromancy Saint Mage Electrolux, and Rong Nianbing had said that the God of Emotions, like Goodness and Evil, had the potential to advance.
His second martial soul was the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, and his Soul Spirits included the Heavenly Snow Woman Empress, Ice Bear King Xiaobai, Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, and Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign... all spiritual and ice attributes, making them quite compatible with the Three Dragons of Dao.
He could obtain something absolutely stunning and peerless, but unfortunately, all of it... was a scheme Tang Buddha Ancestor had arranged to choose a son-in-law. Mu Baobao simply could not steal it.
He deeply sympathized with Huo Yuhao, that child with such a tragic life, and could not bear to steal his opportunities.
If this were Douluo Continent I, he definitely would not be polite with Tang Buddha Ancestor. With the example of dual god positions... Goodness and Evil also wanted to abdicate, so he would have to become a dual God King.
How could he let Tang Buddha Ancestor turn the God Realm into such a mess? Transmigration truly was a technical skill.
Huo Yuhao... had three martial souls and began with a million-year wisdom Soul Ring. Tang Wulin was granted the God King-level origin of the Golden Dragon King at birth, while that useless salted fish directly possessed the universe's sole Dragon God bloodline.
Which of them was not more impressive than Tang Buddha Ancestor? But since they were born later than him, they had no choice but to lie down and take it.
Then... he would watch them play with Douluo Continent.
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