Time flies, and more than a month has passed.
After a month of sailing, Shi Lei and Chen Feng successfully returned to the Douluo Continent with Xu Yao and Xu Xi.
Now, the two brought sisters Xu Yao to the City Lord Mansion in Tianyang Ancient City.
Xu Yao and Xu Xi stood in the hall, looking at the surrounding furnishings calmly.
The furnishings in the hall are simple and solemn. There are no extravagant decorations like Sun Moon Imperial Palace, but there is a sense of proportion that makes people dare not look up casually.
Zhao Linchuan is sitting on the main seat, dressed in black uniform, with a plain belt around her waist, her posture is relaxed but she has a calm and authoritative demeanor.
After listening to Shi Lei's report, he slowly said, "Your contribution is no less than finding a country for me. What kind of reward do you want?"
"Your Majesty!" Shi Lei immediately fell to the ground after hearing this, and said in a sincere voice, "After this incident, I feel deeply exhausted. I just want to find a stable place, open a carpentry shop, and spend the rest of my life."
"I have nothing to ask for, except that your majesty can provide a plaque for my shop."
"In this way, my subordinates will be satisfied."
"If I only reward you with a few words, wouldn't it seem that I am too stingy?" Zhao Linchuan smiled lightly, "Well, I will accept the mention of the words, and at the same time, I will reward you with a piece of Torso Soul Bone that is 90,000 years old."
"In addition, I am planning to build a college at the old site of Three Rivers Estuary."
"I have granted you a place as an heir. No assessment is required, and you will be admitted without examination."
"Your Majesty, I accept the order and thank you!" Shi Lei thanked him again, tapped his forehead heavily on the ground, then slowly arched his body and withdrew with Chen Feng.
After the two exited the main hall, their footsteps gradually disappeared in the corridor. Only two sisters, Zhao Linchuan and Xu Yao, were left in the hall.
Zhao Linchuan glanced at Xu Yao, his eyes stayed on them for a moment, and he spoke in an indifferent tone without any extra foreshadowing:
"If you want me to avenge you, you can."
"Train a group of students for me. When you develop the knowledge of soul tools on this continent, I will send troops to the Sun and Moon Continent to avenge you."
Xu Yao sisters did not dare to refuse. They bowed slightly and said in a respectful tone, "Thank you for your grace..."
Half a month later.
The old Three Rivers Estuary.
This was once one of the most fertile areas in the Heaven Dou Empire, with intertwined water networks, contiguous fertile fields, and smoke from villages on both sides.
But since Three Rivers Estuary "bursts", this place has become a deserted land.
The silt and sand left after the flood receded covered the original fields and roads, and only the remains of houses remained. Even the thick old trees were uprooted and fell across the dry river bed.
It was not until Zhao Linchuan ordered the place to be renovated that the place gradually regained its vitality.
Under the command of Zhao Linchuan, thousands of Soul Master started working at the same time to repair and sort out the large and small waterways originally washed out by the bursting of the embankments.
The river channel was widened and deepened, the silted areas were cleared, and the embankments on both sides were rebuilt and firmly built with marble and mortar.
Eventually, those reorganized waterways merged into a huge lake.
The lake is clear and calm, like a huge mirror embedded in the earth, hence its name: Mirror Lake.
And in the middle of this Mirror Lake, there is a piece of land that was deliberately elevated.
It was a high platform built with earth and rocks taken out when digging the lake. It was several feet above the water and looked like a floating island. This was the place where Zhao Linchuan ordered the construction of the academy.
This college is directly named "Mirror Lake" and recruits students throughout the Douluo Continent.
Zhao Linchuan serves as the first dean, and Bibi Dong is in charge on weekdays.
As long as you can graduate from here with an "excellent" status and get the graduation certificate handwritten by Bibi Dong or Zhao Linchuan, you can proudly say in front of outsiders, "I am your Majesty's disciple!"
For a time, countless young Soul Masters were attracted by it and wanted to join Mirror Lake Academy like a maniac.
They don't do it for anything else, just because they can say that sentence proudly in front of outsiders.
And with the blessing of this identity, no matter what they do in the future, it will be much easier, and the threshold will be lower than others.
It's just that the enrollment requirements of this college are too high. Except for some special types of Martial Soul, the minimum enrollment requirement is to reach the eighth level of Innate Soul Power.
Just by relying on this one request, more than 90% of the people were directly removed.
Some of the people who finally stayed were specially recruited by the Xu Yao sisters on the grounds that they had "special talents in the Soul Tool field."
There are very few people who can truly meet the admission requirements.
Now, Shi Lei and the young woman he brought back from the Sun Moon Continent arrived outside this college.
The two of them stood at the end of the bridge, with the lake breeze blowing in their faces, carrying moist water vapor and the smell of newly built stones.
The young woman's name was Bai Jie. She couldn't help but be dumbfounded when she looked at the college that stood in the center of Mirror Lake and was even larger and more imposing than the former Sun Moon Imperial City.
"Are you stupid?" Shi Lei looked at Bai Jie's stunned look, folded his arms, and said proudly, "After I came back this time, His Majesty not only gave me a huge reward, but also gave me an exemption from the exam of the Mirror Lake Academy..."
"What's the use?" Bai Jie came to his senses and interrupted Shi Lei's words.
She turned sideways, looked at Shi Lei's proud face, and exclaimed, "You are already old, but you are still a humble man."
"What if His Majesty gives you a place to be exempted from taking the exam? You have no place to do it."
"Don't I have you here?" Shi Lei put down his arm and took a half step closer with a playful smile, "Let's work hard, won't we be able to use that quota in six or seven years?"
Bai Jie's face turned slightly red when she heard this. She lowered her head, her eyes fell on the fingertips she held in front of her, and her voice lowered unconsciously:
"Who wants to work hard with you... Besides, my husband just died not long ago. Even if I want to work hard, it will take a while..."
"If you didn't tell me, if I didn't tell you, who would have known that your husband had just died?" Shi Lei stretched out his hand to hold Bai Jie's arm, and his tone was a little more serious than before, "From now on, you can live with me. I will treat you like a young lady."
Bai Jie looked at Shi Lei's serious face, and his eyes paused for a while between his eyebrows.
She did not answer immediately, but after hesitating for a moment, she nodded seriously.
This piece of the Douluo Continent is huge, but it is like a rootless patch of grass with nowhere to take root.
From now on, living with Shi Lei can be considered the best destination for her.
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Almost no one watched it, it was finished at an accelerated pace.
I will keep the plots of Tang San and Yu Xiaogang later, and after Douluo I is over, I will go to Douluo II to play and entertain myself.