Double Ultimate Attributes, Double the Happiness

"Ultimate Fire..."

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

In an instant, the arrogance in Xiao Hongchen's eyes was replaced by blazing brilliance and fervor—the thrill of encountering a genius worthy of rivaling him.

Lin Jiayi, however, was thinking far more practically.

Ultimate attributes! Their significance to the entire Sun Moon Empire was simply too great! This was a promising talent who could become a Titled Douluo in the future, a pillar capable of holding up the empire!

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

With that thought, Lin Jiayi could no longer be bothered with the usual enrollment procedures.

He hurriedly beckoned over two teachers who were still standing there in a daze and instructed them in a low voice, "Take the other students inside at once and finish 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 slightly bowed.

"Your Highness, it is too noisy here. For the remaining enrollment matters, please allow me to lead you to the VIP room so we may discuss them properly."

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

Seeing this, Xiao Hongchen directly waved at the teacher 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 were rather meaningless to the grandson of the academy's headmaster.

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

There was nothing he could do. They were the treasured grandson and granddaughter of his immediate superior. If they wanted to tag along for the excitement, he, the dean of instruction, did not have the nerve to stop them.

The group headed toward the VIP area. Walking at the back, Meng Hongchen 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 see anything extraordinary about Ye Chenxing's Sun Martial Soul.

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

She stared at Ye Chenxing's tall, handsome back. Her fair cheeks were faintly flushed, while her small hands twisted together in conflict.

What do I do, what do I do... He's actually a direct member of the imperial family! The imperial family has so many rules. If I really marry him in the future, 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 over it for quite some time. Finally, she gritted her teeth, and her eyes suddenly turned resolute.

Forget it, forget it! Considering how handsome and dignified he is... concubines are fine. I'll endure it!

So far, everything was proceeding 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.

"Being able to think of extracting the Ultimate Light and Ultimate Fire from the Six-Winged Angel within my first soul ring, then using the soul skill from my Angel Skull to create a disguise and convincingly imitate this nation's inherited martial soul," Qian Renxue's cool voice rang out in the Mind Star Sea, carrying sincere praise, "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 had used in the original timeline when she infiltrated the Heaven Dou Empire ten thousand years ago to carry out her plan of usurpation. Being praised by the alternate-world counterpart of the original host made him somewhat embarrassed.

But Ye Chenxing's situation was different from that time in Heaven Dou. Qian Renxue had started at level twenty, had an ultimate grandfather serving as her bodyguard, and was someone destined to become a god if she simply cultivated step by step. Yet she had gone through all that trouble to infiltrate and control a country whose entire imperial family could not produce a single respectable Titled Douluo. It was stupidity in the extreme.

At the same time, the Sun Moon Empire could not be compared to the Heaven Dou Empire of ten thousand years ago. The soul engineering technology of this land was absolutely far ahead of the entire Douluo Continent.

If it had not been slightly lacking in top-tier powerhouses above the Super Douluo level, then with the Sun Moon Empire's terrifying army of soul tools, it could have crushed the three nations of the original Douluo Continent in a one-against-three battle without any suspense.

Therefore, carrying the ambiguous yet noble identity of "direct imperial lineage" here would not only naturally ward off trouble from spoiled young masters like Wang Shaojie, but more importantly, it would allow him to receive 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 to interrupt them.

"Your Highness." Lin Jiayi's form of address was extremely cautious, and his tone carried a hint of probing. "Please forgive my presumptuousness, but enrollment requires an identity check. May I ask where you came from? And your parents...?"

As the dean of instruction, conducting background checks on new students was part of his duty. More importantly, when faced with imperial bloodlines seemingly lost outside the empire, he truly could not suppress his curiosity and appetite for gossip.

Ye Chenxing looked calm, as though he had long prepared for this. He sighed softly and replied, "Director Lin, my sister Ye Xue and I came from the Heaven Soul Empire. You do not need to call me Your Highness. Ever since we were children, our grandfather has raised us."

As he spoke, he gestured toward Qian Renxue beside him. Qian Renxue also cooperatively nodded slightly, perfectly accepting the identity of "Ye Xue."

"Our grandfather passed away a few days ago." Ye Chenxing's tone revealed just the right trace of sorrow. "Before he died, he told us about our true origins and instructed us to return to the Sun Moon Empire. To ensure that we could cross the border safely, he also left this behind."

Ye Chenxing reached into his robes, took out a precisely crafted metal core, and handed it over.

Lin Jiayi accepted it and took only one look before his pupils abruptly contracted.

It was actually a seventh-grade concealment-type soul tool! Several high-grade milk bottles for supplying backup soul power were even fitted tightly around its outer edge.

With this equipment, let alone tightly guarded border patrols, even ordinary Titled Douluo would struggle to discover them unless they deliberately conducted a large-scale firepower search. This explained how two Great Spirit Masters had silently crossed tens of thousands of miles to reach Ming Capital.

More importantly, a seventh-grade soul tool was not something an ordinary person could produce. This instead further confirmed the credibility of Ye Chenxing's words.

What? You were asking where this soul tool came from?

That required mentioning a certain prideful black dragon. Seeing that both Myriad Demon King and Xiong Jun had given Ye Chenxing good things, it would have been too embarrassing if it had offered nothing.

As everyone knew, one of the great hobbies of dragons was hoarding things.

So it secretly gave Ye Chenxing a storage ring. Inside were all sorts of miscellaneous items, mostly the belongings left behind over the years by foolish soul masters who had died at Di Tian's hands.

This soul tool was naturally one of the items inside.

Lin Jiayi's mind began racing as he automatically constructed a thrilling drama in his head: an imperial consecrated master who possessed core technology had fled with direct imperial bloodlines that survived the struggle for succession years ago. They had been hunted all the way to the Heaven Soul Empire, hidden their identities for more than a decade, and only at death's door had he allowed his descendants to return and reclaim their heritage...

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 back then were not something a mere academy dean of instruction could meddle in. The more one knew, the faster one died.

He respectfully returned the seventh-grade soul tool to Ye Chenxing with both hands. His attitude became even more restrained, as though afraid of becoming 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 enter."

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

The décor here was steeped in futuristic technological style. Precise metal instruments, intricate energy circuits, and flickering soul tool screens filled every corner.

If Shrek Academy was Red Dead Redemption, 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 nations had been beaten down by the Sun Moon Empire on the battlefield.

Several fully armed test personnel had long been waiting. Lin Jiayi nodded, and the massive testing apparatus started up amid a deep, rumbling boom.

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

"Martial soul: Bright Swan."

"Physical strength test: Level thirty-one."

"Mental power: Four hundred and fifty points."

Looking at the data flashing across the screen, Lin Jiayi nodded faintly.

Although those results were impressive, they remained completely within the normal bounds of a "top-tier genius."

After all, Qian Renxue had deliberately suppressed her strength and precisely kept all her values at the modest level of an "ordinary genius."

Next, Ye Chenxing calmly stepped onto the testing platform. As a high-energy scanning beam swept over him, the first set of data appeared on the massive screen. Everyone in the hall watching it swallowed in unison.

"Physical strength test: Level forty-five!"

Upon seeing that number, Xiao Hongchen's pupils suddenly constricted, his face filled with disbelief.

Physical strength at level forty-five?! He possessed the top-tier beast martial soul, the Three-Legged Golden Toad, and had grown up eating all kinds of heavenly treasures as snacks! Yet now, his proud and powerful physique had been forcibly matched by a youth who was only level twenty? And the other party even had a tool martial soul?

But the shock that would shatter their understanding of the world was still to come.

"Mental power: Four thousand eight hundred points!"

How much?

"Did... did I read an extra zero?" One of the test personnel fiercely pinched himself.

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

"Four thousand eight hundred points?!" Lin Jiayi sucked in a cold breath. Even the hands holding his clipboard began trembling uncontrollably.

If Qian Renxue's earlier data still fell within the category of "genius," then Ye Chenxing's terrifying gap of more than ten times that amount made him an outright monster!

Four thousand eight hundred 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-twenty Great Spirit Master?

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

"Th-the final test." Lin Jiayi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and pointed at the extravagantly expensive comprehensive testing pillar in the center of the hall. "Test the martial soul attributes."

Ye Chenxing nodded, walked before the testing pillar, and placed his hand against it. Without changing expression, he activated the essence of the martial soul disguised as the "Sun" within his body.

Boom—!

The instant they made contact, two beams of light erupted from the testing pillar, reaching heaven and earth! The left half shone with dazzling light so pure that it contained not a trace of impurity; the right half burned with crimson flames carrying an intent of destruction that even Lin Jiayi could feel!

The two powers surged wildly within the testing pillar, directly breaking through the mark for "high-grade," then through the mark for "top-tier," before finally becoming jammed at the very top of the pillar, which let out an overwhelmed wail!

Clatter—

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

Lin Jiayi's mouth hung open. He stood as though petrified, staring dumbfoundedly at the two soaring beams atop the testing pillar.

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

Xiao Hongchen seemed to have had his soul extracted. He stood blankly in place, his lips trembling faintly as he muttered.

"Double... double..."

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

Lin Jiayi could no longer contain himself. He shouted in complete loss of composure, overwhelmed by shock and ecstatic joy.

A mutated Sun Martial Soul with Double Ultimate Attributes!!

The Sun Martial Soul, as the symbol of the Sun Moon Empire's imperial family, had always been extraordinarily close to Ultimate Fire in the domain of fire attributes.

Throughout the Sun Moon Empire's thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands, of years of inheritance, countless generations of imperial family members had exhausted their efforts trying to break through this limitation, only to fail every time. Yet now, this miracle had appeared right before his eyes—and it was a double miracle!

The Sun Martial Soul indeed contained the power of light, and many imperial family members in the past had mutated into Sun Martial Souls focused primarily on light.

However, those mutated light attributes were usually weaker than the original fire attribute, much less capable of reaching the ultimate level.

Double Ultimate Attributes! Forget the Sun Moon Empire—looking across nearly ten thousand years of history on the entire Douluo Continent, this was absolutely an unprecedented monstrosity! If this child truly was an imperial bloodline lost outside the empire, then the day the Sun Moon Empire unified the continent would be just around the corner!

Lin Jiayi felt as though he were dreaming. Happiness had suddenly descended before him. And it was double happiness, leaving him at a complete loss.

Meng Hongchen's large wine-red eyes practically brimmed with pink hearts. Ye Chenxing's strikingly handsome appearance and cool temperament had already been enough to capture her heart, but this heaven-defying, peerless talent made her fall completely and irreversibly for him.

Meanwhile, the proud Xiao Hongchen kept his head lowered, his fists clenched so tightly within his sleeves that his knuckles turned white.

He had never imagined that this peer, who was only level twenty, would possess a lower soul power level than him yet reveal talent and foundations that had left him behind by a hundred thousand miles.

There was always a higher heaven, and always someone stronger. For the first time in his life, the young master of Illustrious Virtue Hall, who had always considered himself above all others, felt an overwhelming sense of defeat rise uncontrollably within his heart.

Seeing that the expensive testing pillar was about to be melted by the ultimate heat, Lin Jiayi finally snapped out of his daze.

"Y-Young Master Ye! Quickly withdraw your martial soul!"

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

Then, as though remembering something, he instructed the staff to take Ye Xue to the new student registration office 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 test personnel recording data in the corner lowered his head and secretly took out an extremely tiny communication soul tool under the cover of the instrument console...