Could Lin Fan's Talent Produce Soul Spirits Ahead of Time?

Night, Shrek Academy dormitory.

Ling Luochen and Leng Yaozhu had both changed into their pajamas and lay in their respective beds. Moonlight filtered through the thin curtains outside the window.

The room was exceptionally quiet.

Leng Yaozhu turned over and looked toward Ling Luochen, then asked softly.

"Luochen... are you asleep?"

Ling Luochen's voice quickly came from the other side, and she did not sound sleepy at all.

"Not yet. What is it?"

Leng Yaozhu hesitated before speaking.

"Um... do you want to chat?"

Hearing that, a faint smile curved Ling Luochen's lips. She turned onto her side as well and looked toward Leng Yaozhu.

"Sure. What do you want to talk about?"

Leng Yaozhu did not hesitate for long before directly asking the question she had always been curious about.

"Do you know about Lin Fan's relationship with Elder Zhou?"

Ling Luochen did not look surprised by the question. After briefly organizing her thoughts, she spoke.

"Elder Zhou is one of the Sea God Pavilion's elders and holds a very high position at Shrek Academy, but his personality is rather strange. He does not like dealing with people much."

"He was the one who found Lin Fan and brought him to Shrek Academy to study."

Leng Yaozhu's eyes widened slightly at that.

"Found him?"

Ling Luochen nodded and continued.

"Mm. He even personally awakened Lin Fan's Martial Soul."

"So Lin Fan has always been grateful to Elder Zhou. That is why he stayed here despite hating Shrek Academy."

"Of course, with Lin Fan's personality, he will not remain here for long. I heard him say that he is already gathering resources. When the time comes, he will exchange them with Mu En for the things Elder Zhou left behind, compensate the academy, and leave Shrek once he has obtained Elder Zhou's belongings."

Hearing that, Leng Yaozhu could not help but nod. Her judgment of people was still accurate; Lin Fan was someone worthy of trust.

"So that's how it is..."

Leng Yaozhu murmured, then smiled.

"I've finished asking. Your turn."

Ling Luochen fell silent for a moment, as though carefully choosing her words, before cautiously asking.

"Yaozhu... did you come to Shrek Academy because you had a conflict with your family, or for some other reason?"

When they first met, Lin Fan had only roughly explained Leng Yaozhu's situation: she could not return home for certain reasons, so she had settled down at Shrek Academy.

"If you do not want to answer, you do not have to."

Leng Yaozhu froze slightly upon hearing that, then slowly replied.

"I want to go home too."

"It's just that... with my current abilities, I can't go home."

"My home is very, very far away. So far that I can't return."

As she said this, a clear layer of sorrow appeared in Leng Yaozhu's red eyes, and her delicate face carried a hint of desolation.

Ling Luochen's heart skipped a beat.

In her view, the reason Leng Yaozhu said this was probably because something had happened to her family, leaving her with no home to return to.

Without family, how could she possibly return home?

Ling Luochen hurriedly apologized, while Leng Yaozhu shook her head to show that she did not mind.

At this very moment, in the Leng Family's hall ten thousand years later, the Head of the Leng Family and Leng Yulai sat before the Light Screen, watching the scene unfold.

Seeing the sorrowful look in her sister's eyes on the Light Screen, Leng Yulai could not help murmuring.

"Big Sister..."

The Head of the Leng Family's expression was equally complicated. Looking at his daughter on the Light Screen, his heart ached.

Although Leng Yaozhu usually appeared mature and composed, carrying herself with the grace of a proper young lady, she was still only a child in his eyes.

Now that she was trapped in a world ten thousand years in the past and unable to return home, it hurt him just to imagine the torment she must have endured.

"Can Big Sister... still come back?"

Leng Yulai turned to look at her father, her eyes filled with unease.

The Head of the Leng Family was silent for a moment before slowly speaking.

"I don't know."

He still chose not to give his daughter false hope.

"For the past month, we have been observing this suddenly appearing Light Screen and those things that appeared out of nowhere, but we have made no progress at all."

Other than when Leng Yaozhu was bathing, changing clothes, or sleeping, the Light Screen was basically always on.

Seeing Leng Yaozhu appear to have adapted well to life within the Light Screen, the Head of the Leng Family had thought she was doing okay. He had never imagined the anguish hidden in her heart.

It was not just the Leng Family studying the Light Screen. The Sun Moon Federation, Spirit Pagoda, and Shrek Academy were all researching it as well, yet their progress was the same: none at all.

As a result, some people began to speculate that this might be the work of gods. The problem was that the Divine Realm had disappeared ten thousand years ago, and no one knew what had truly happened.

Within the Light Screen, Leng Yaozhu quickly chose to change the subject. She did not want to linger on such a heavy topic, especially when she had decided from the very beginning to live well here.

"Luochen, you should be close to breaking through to Six Rings, right?"

Ling Luochen slowly replied.

"Not that close. It will probably still take another four or five months."

Hearing this answer, a thought surfaced in Leng Yaozhu's mind.

In her own era, Soul Masters basically no longer obtained Soul Rings by hunting Soul Beasts. Instead, they relied on Soul Spirits from the Spirit Pagoda.

The Soul Rings granted by Artificial Soul Spirits were slightly weaker than those granted by Natural Soul Beast Spirits, but the advantage was that Soul Spirits could absorb more energy alongside their Soul Masters within the Spirit Pagoda and grow stronger, increasing the age of their Soul Rings. Once enhanced, the Soul Rings naturally became more powerful.

Moreover, there was no need to use Artificial Soul Spirits in this era. They could use genuine Soul Beasts to obtain Soul Rings.

Of course, there was also the path of Natural Soul Beast Spirits.

It was just that...

Thinking of this, Leng Yaozhu sighed helplessly. The Leng Family merely served as administrators within the Spirit Pagoda rather than technical personnel, so she actually knew very little about the technology behind creating Soul Spirits.

What was more, she had not even come into contact with the Spirit Pagoda's core technology yet. She had only obtained her own Soul Spirit from the Spirit Pagoda.

Leng Yaozhu's thoughts drifted farther away. Then, all of a sudden, an idea surfaced in her mind.

If it were Lin Fan...

With Lin Fan's terrifying learning ability and talent, could he perhaps create Soul Spirits?

She had a Soul Spirit herself. If she let him study it, perhaps...

Thinking this, Leng Yaozhu could not help feeling a little expectant.