Double Ultimate, Double Happiness

"Ultimate Fire..."

The legendary term flashed through both their minds at the same time.

In an instant, Xiao Hongchen's eyes, which had held a trace of arrogance, became incomparably bright and blazing. It was the thrill of encountering a genius worthy of rivaling him.

Lin Jiayi, on the other hand, was thinking far more practically.

Ultimate attributes! Their significance to the entire Sun Moon Empire was simply too great! This was promising material for a future Titled Douluo, someone who could become a pillar supporting the Sun Moon Empire!

No matter which branch of the imperial family this Highness belonged to, he had to report it immediately and have it verified!

With that thought, Lin Jiayi no longer cared about the usual enrollment procedures.

He hurriedly beckoned over two teachers standing nearby in a daze and instructed them in a low voice, "Immediately take the other students inside and complete the remaining tests. Leave these two to me." After giving his orders, he quickly walked over to Ye Chenxing. His attitude was more than ten times more respectful than before as he gave a slight bow.

"Honored Highness, it is too noisy here. For the remaining enrollment matters, please come with me to the VIP room so we may discuss them in detail."

"Lead the way." Ye Chenxing nodded and took Qian Renxue's hand as he followed.

Seeing this, Xiao Hongchen simply waved at the teacher responsible for leading the group, signaling that he would not be going with the others. He then pulled his younger sister Meng Hongchen along and naturally followed Lin Jiayi.

After all, he was only here to go through the motions. Tests seemed rather meaningless to the headmaster's grandson.

Lin Jiayi glanced back at the siblings and sighed helplessly to himself.

There was no helping it. They were his immediate superior's precious grandson and granddaughter. If they wanted to tag along for the excitement, he, the dean of students, certainly did not dare stop them.

The group headed toward the VIP area. Meng Hongchen, walking at the rear, was unusually quiet.

Strangely enough, Meng Hongchen was no mere pretty face. Her talent and intelligence even surpassed those of her brother, Xiao Hongchen, yet she had failed to recognize the extraordinary nature of Ye Chenxing's Sun Martial Soul.

Their young lady was currently caught in an extremely intense internal struggle.

She stared at Ye Chenxing's tall, handsome back. Her fair cheeks were slightly flushed, and her little hands twisted together nervously.

What do I do? What do I do... He's actually from the direct imperial line! The imperial family has so many rules. If I really marry him someday, will Grandpa allow it?

And... imperial princes seem to marry several wives. What if he takes lots of concubines in the future? Wouldn't I be getting the short end of the stick?

Meng Hongchen agonized wildly for a long while. Finally, she gritted her teeth, and her eyes suddenly became resolute.

Forget it, forget it! For the sake of how handsome and dignified he is... so what if he has concubines? I'll put up with it!

So far, everything was progressing smoothly according to plan.

Along the way, Ye Chenxing and Qian Renxue exchanged a glance.

As Master and Heroic Spirit bound by a deep contract, Ye Chenxing did not need to speak at all. The two could communicate directly within the Mind Star Sea.

"To think you came up with extracting the Ultimate Light and fire of the Six-Winged Angel from my first soul ring, then using the soul skill from my Angel Skull to create a disguise convincing enough to imitate this nation's inherited Martial Soul," Qian Renxue's cool voice sounded in the Mind Star Sea, carrying a trace of heartfelt admiration. "Chenxing, you truly are clever."

Hearing that praise, Ye Chenxing's face, usually as thick as a city wall, very rarely reddened slightly.

The inspiration for this idea had come from the methods Qian Renxue of the original timeline had used when she infiltrated the Heaven Dou Empire ten thousand years ago to carry out her plan to seize the nation. Being praised by the alternate-world counterpart of the original owner made him feel a little embarrassed.

But Ye Chenxing's situation was different from that incident in Heaven Dou. Qian Renxue had started at Level 20, had an Ultimate grandfather as her bodyguard, and could have become a god simply by cultivating step by step. Yet she had gone through the trouble of infiltrating and controlling a nation whose entire imperial family could not produce a single decent Titled Douluo. It was idiotic to the extreme.

At the same time, the Sun Moon Empire was not remotely comparable to the Heaven Dou Empire of ten thousand years ago. The soul engineering technology on this land was undoubtedly far ahead of the entire Douluo Continent.

If it were not slightly lacking in the foundation of top-tier combatants above the Super Douluo level, the Sun Moon Empire's terrifying Soul Tool legions could have directly crushed the three kingdoms of the original Douluo Continent in a one-against-three war without any suspense.

Therefore, carrying the ambiguous yet noble identity of "direct imperial lineage" here would not only naturally ward off troublemakers like Wang Shaojie, but more importantly, it would grant him access to the highest level of resources at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy.

Just as the two were communicating, Lin Jiayi, who was walking ahead, suddenly stopped and turned around, interrupting them.

"Your Highness." Lin Jiayi's form of address was extremely cautious, his tone carrying a hint of probing. "Forgive my presumptuousness, but enrollment requires identity verification. Where have you come from? And your parents...?"

As the dean of students, conducting background checks on new students was part of his duties. More importantly, when faced with someone suspected of being lost imperial bloodline, he truly could not suppress his curiosity and desire for gossip.

Ye Chenxing remained calm, as if he had prepared for this long ago. He gave a faint sigh and replied, "Director Lin, my sister Ye Xue and I came from the Heaven Dou Empire. There is no need to call me Your Highness. Ever since we were little, our grandfather raised us."

As he spoke, he gestured toward Qian Renxue at his side. Qian Renxue cooperatively gave a slight nod, flawlessly accepting the identity of "Ye Xue."

"A few days ago, Grandfather passed away." Ye Chenxing's tone revealed a perfectly measured trace of dejection. "Before he died, he told us our true origins and instructed us to return to the Sun Moon Empire. To help us cross the border safely, he also left us this."

Ye Chenxing reached into his clothes, took out an intricately designed metal core, and handed it over.

Lin Jiayi accepted it and had barely glanced at it before his pupils contracted sharply.

This was actually a Class 7 concealment-type Soul Tool! Several high-grade Milk Bottles meant to provide reserve Soul Power had even been fitted seamlessly around its outer edge.

With this set of equipment, even tightly guarded border patrols would have trouble detecting them. Even ordinary Titled Douluo would struggle to discover their movements unless they deliberately carried out a large-scale firepower search. This explained how two Soul Grandmasters had crossed thousands of miles to reach Ming Capital without a sound.

More critically, a Class 7 Soul Tool was not something an ordinary person could produce. Instead, it further confirmed the truth of Ye Chenxing's words.

What? You were asking where this Soul Tool had come from?

That brought up a certain tsundere black dragon. Seeing that both Myriad Demon King and Xiong Jun had given Ye Chenxing good things, it would have been embarrassing if he offered nothing.

As everyone knew, one of a dragon's greatest hobbies was hoarding things.

So he had secretly stuffed a storage ring into Ye Chenxing's hands. It contained all sorts of miscellaneous items, mostly inheritances left behind by soul masters who had died under Di Tian's hands over the years after failing to recognize their own limits.

This Soul Tool was naturally one of the items inside.

Lin Jiayi's mind began racing, automatically piecing together a thrilling story: an imperial consecrated master who possessed core technology had fled with direct descendants who survived the bloody struggle for the throne within the imperial family. They had escaped pursuit all the way to the Heaven Dou Empire, hidden their identities for over a decade, and only at death's door allowed the descendants to return to their roots...

At that thought, Lin Jiayi's heart trembled. He hurriedly stopped himself and did not dare think any further.

The bloody secrets of the imperial family from back then were not something a mere academy dean of students could meddle in. The more he knew, the faster he would die.

He respectfully returned the Class 7 Soul Tool to Ye Chenxing with both hands. His manner became even more restrained, as though afraid he might become entangled in some fatal imperial secret.

"I understand. My condolences, Your Highness." Lin Jiayi cleared his throat and pointed at a heavy metal door at the end of the corridor. "Ahead is Illustrious Virtue Hall's confidential testing room. Please come in."

After passing through the heavy metal door, the sight inside the secret testing room made Ye Chenxing's eyes light up.

The decorations were steeped in futuristic technology. Precise metal instruments stood everywhere, along with intricate energy circuits and flickering soul engineering screens.

If Shrek Academy was the Wild West, then the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy was practically Cyberpunk 2077.

With such an enormous technological gap, it was no wonder the three original Douluo Kingdoms had been beaten down by the Sun Moon Empire on the battlefield.

Several fully armed testing personnel had long been waiting. Lin Jiayi nodded, and the massive testing equipment activated with a low rumble.

Qian Renxue stepped forward first and stood on the testing platform.

"Martial Soul: Bright Swan."

"Physical strength test: Level 31."

"Mental power: 450 points."

Looking at the figures flashing across the screen, Lin Jiayi nodded slightly.

The results were impressive, but they still fell within the reasonable scope of a "top genius."

After all, Qian Renxue had deliberately suppressed her strength, precisely keeping every value at the fairly ordinary level of a "normal genius."

Next, Ye Chenxing calmly stepped onto the testing platform. As a high-energy scanning beam swept over him, the first reading appeared on the large screen. Several people in the hall stared at it and swallowed in unison.

"Physical strength test: Level 45!"

Seeing that number, Xiao Hongchen's pupils suddenly constricted, his face full of disbelief.

Physical strength at Level 45?! He possessed the top-tier beast Martial Soul, the Three-Legged Golden Toad, and had grown up eating all kinds of rare heavenly treasures as snacks! Yet now, his prized powerful physique had been forcibly matched by a youth who was only Level 20? And the other party even had a tool Martial Soul?

But an even more worldview-shattering shock was yet to come.

"Mental power: 4,800 points!"

How much?

"D-Did I count an extra zero?" One of the testers viciously pinched himself.

"This isn't a dream, is it?"

"4,800 points?!" Lin Jiayi sucked in a sharp breath. Even his hands holding the clipboard began trembling uncontrollably.

If Qian Renxue's data had still belonged in the realm of "genius," then Ye Chenxing's terrifying gap of more than tenfold made him a complete and utter monster!

4,800 points of mental power was a realm that most high-level Spirit Emperors, and even Soul Saints, could only reach! Yet it had appeared on a Level 20 Soul Grandmaster?

The people around them looked at Ye Chenxing as though they had discovered some rare species.

"The final item." Lin Jiayi wiped cold sweat from his forehead and pointed to the extremely expensive comprehensive testing pillar in the center of the hall. "Testing Martial Soul attributes."

Ye Chenxing nodded. He walked to the testing pillar, placed his hand on it, and calmly activated the source of his Martial Soul, disguised as a "Sun."

Boom—!

The instant it made contact, the testing pillar erupted with two beams of light that soared into the heavens! The left half shone with blinding light so pure that it contained not the slightest impurity; the right half blazed with crimson flames that even Lin Jiayi could sense carried an intent of destruction!

The two forces surged wildly within the testing pillar, smashing through the mark for "high-grade," then through the mark for "top-grade," until they slammed against the very top of the pillar, making it emit a strained wail!

Clatter—

A recorder's clipboard slipped from his hand and struck the floor, producing a crisp sound in the silent hall.

Lin Jiayi's mouth hung open. He stood frozen, staring dumbfoundedly at the two beams of light shooting skyward from the testing pillar.

Meng Hongchen covered her mouth with both hands. Her wine-red eyes were filled with disbelief, and she unconsciously held her breath.

Xiao Hongchen seemed to have lost his soul. He stood there blankly, his lips trembling as he muttered to himself.

"Dual... dual..."

"Dual Ultimate Attributes! Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Light?!"

Lin Jiayi could no longer hold himself together. He shouted in utter loss of composure, completely overcome by the madness of shock and ecstasy.

A Mutated Sun with Dual Ultimate Attributes!!

One had to know that the Sun Martial Soul, as the symbol of the Sun Moon Empire's imperial family, was already exceptionally close to Ultimate Fire in the domain of fire attributes.

Over the Sun Moon Empire's thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands of years of inheritance, countless generations of imperial family members had exhausted themselves hoping to break through that limitation, but all had failed. And now, this miracle stood vividly before him—indeed, it was a double miracle!

The Sun Martial Soul did contain the power of light, and many imperial family members had once mutated into Sun Martial Souls focused on light.

Yet those mutated light attributes were usually inferior to the original fire attribute, and they were nowhere close to the ultimate level.

Dual Ultimate Attributes! Let alone in the Sun Moon Empire, even across the nearly ten-thousand-year history of the entire Douluo Continent, such a freakishly gifted existence was absolutely unprecedented! If this child truly was an imperial bloodline lost to the outside world, then the day the Sun Moon Empire unified the continent would be within reach!

Lin Jiayi felt as though he were dreaming. Happiness had suddenly descended before him. Double happiness, at that. He was so overwhelmed that he did not know what to do.

Standing nearby, Meng Hongchen's large wine-red eyes seemed about to overflow with pink hearts. Ye Chenxing's devastatingly handsome appearance and cool temperament had already been enough to capture her heart. Now, this heaven-defying talent, worthy of being called peerless, had made her fall completely and helplessly for him.

As for the proud and arrogant Xiao Hongchen, he kept his head lowered tightly, his fists clenched so hard inside his sleeves that they had turned white.

He had never expected that this peer, who was only Level 20 and had a lower Soul Power Level than him, would reveal talent and foundations that had already left him a hundred thousand miles behind.

There was always a higher heaven, and always someone greater. For the first time in his life, the young master of Illustrious Virtue Hall, who had always considered himself unmatched, felt an uncontrollable and intense sense of defeat rise within him.

Seeing that the expensive testing pillar was nearly about to melt under the ultimate heat, Lin Jiayi finally snapped back to his senses.

"Y-Young Master Ye! Quickly withdraw your Martial Soul!"

Terrified that anything might happen to this peerless talent, Lin Jiayi hurried forward and grabbed him. His tone carried unprecedented fervor and urgency. "Come! There's no need to go through the remaining procedures! Follow me directly to my office!"

Then, remembering something, he instructed the staff to take Ye Xue to the new student registration area to complete the remaining procedures.

Seeing this, Xiao Hongchen also grabbed Meng Hongchen and headed straight for the headmaster's office.

As Lin Jiayi pulled Ye Chenxing hurriedly out of the testing hall, neither of them noticed that one of the testers responsible for recording data in the corner lowered his head and, using the instrument console as cover, secretly took out an extremely tiny communication Soul Tool...