Chapter 30
Four Transmigrators (Part One), reset
It could be said that their investigation was more meticulous than a household registration check.
Flender and the others had grievances they could not voice, and they had utterly lost face.
In the end, the investigation naturally reached Suotuo City Intermediate Soul Master Academy.
However, after learning that the strongest students at the academy were only Soul Grandmasters, they quickly ruled out the possibility that a student had committed the crime.
Next, they turned their attention to the academy's teachers.
The dean, who had the highest cultivation at Suotuo City Intermediate Soul Master Academy, was merely a Soul Emperor.
Snake Granny knew her grandson's and granddaughter's strength well. Her grandson even possessed a Self-Body Martial Soul Fusion Skill, which, combined with his External Soul Bone, meant that even a Soul Sage might not be able to take him down. Thus, after making some inquiries, she ruled out the dean as a suspect as well.
Only half a month later, when someone seemed to have mediated, did the turmoil finally pass.
However, Shrek Academy became notorious as a result.
Not only were they saddled with the blame for Meng Yiran's and Meng Baichuan's deaths.
The past incidents in which dozens of students had been killed or injured because of Shrek Academy's irresponsible teachers were also exposed, one after another.
As a result, when Shrek opened for enrollment not long afterward, not a single person came to sign up.
However, Shrek Academy also began paying attention to its students' safety because of this.
Almost every time Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and the other Shrek students went Soul Fighting, Zhao Wuji or Flender would send someone along with them.
It looks like I won't be able to make a move lightly for a while.
So be it. Getting the Imperial Scale Armor this time was quite a haul. Next year, when Tang San and Xiao Wu come to Shrek, there's bound to be a battle royale among transmigrators.
Until then, I'll lie low and focus on improving my strength.
The only thing I need to watch out for is the Imperial Scale Armor. Unless I have absolutely no choice, I'd better not use it. Otherwise, if I can't kill everyone involved to silence them, the Dragon Duke and Snake Granny could easily trace it back to me.
By now, more than a month had passed since Meng Yiran's and Meng Baichuan's deaths.
During this time, Lin Yuan had used the golden lightning produced by combining the fourth level of the Supreme Sacred Heaven and Earth Technique with the fourth level of the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Formula to melt the ten-thousand-year whale rubber and refine it.
He had also fused with the Imperial Scale Armor, greatly strengthening his physique.
By his estimate, with the Imperial Scale Armor's fifty-percent boost to his spiritual power, along with the improvements the two major cultivation techniques themselves had given him, a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring should pose no problem.
Eleven more months passed in the blink of an eye. The opening of Shrek Academy-the day when the Shrek Seven Monsters assembled in the original story-drew ever closer.
Besides Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing, the four remaining members of the Shrek Seven Monsters.
Several transmigrators began taking action.
Some of them wanted to join Shrek Academy and follow Tang San to godhood.
Others had set their sights on the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone and Tang San's mother.
They planned to take advantage of the few days when Tang Hao would secretly follow Tang San and Xiao Wu to Shrek Academy to search near Holy Soul Village for the precious Soul Bone and Ah Yin's Seed of Life hidden in a cave beneath a waterfall.
Star Dou Great Forest.
A forbidden zone somewhere within it, blanketed by lightning year-round.
A naked, black-haired youth walked out of the forbidden zone.
"I've finally taken human form. I never expected that after breaking through ten thousand years, not only could I transform directly, but I could also retain my cultivation and conceal my Soul Beast aura like the Emperor Auspicious Beast. I even awakened the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords Martial Soul."
Looking at the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords Martial Soul in his hand, identical to the one in the animated series, and the four Soul Rings around him-yellow, purple, purple, and black-the youth's face was filled with smug satisfaction.
The young man was named Han Li. The Li in his name meant "chestnut," rather than the "stand" in the other Han Li's name. In his previous life, people had often jokingly called him Old Devil Han because of this name.
As luck would have it.
On the day the latest episode of Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, episode 189, was released.
Because Yu Yu Ren Mo had changed Tian Ku's great battle with Han Li, Tian Ku, whom Han Li had originally killed in an instant, had nearly killed Han Li instead.
In a towering rage, Han Li had smashed the Han Li figurine on his computer desk and punched his monitor to pieces.
As a result, he had transmigrated to Douluo Continent and become a Heavenly Thunder Bamboo Soul Beast.
After ten thousand years of arduous cultivation, he had grown into Golden Lightning Bamboo capable of unleashing Evil-Exorcising Divine Thunder.
He had originally thought that Soul Beasts could not cultivate to godhood.
He would cultivate to a hundred thousand years, take human form, then find a child of destiny like Tang San or Huo Yuhao to sacrifice himself to, ascend to the Divine Realm, and gain eternal life.
Yet he had never expected that after his cultivation broke through ten thousand years, he would be unable to improve it any further, no matter what he did.
Fortunately, Heaven never sealed off every road.
He discovered that he could take human form.
Furthermore, after transforming, he could retain his cultivation and conceal his Soul Beast aura.
Unless someone killed him outright, he would be no different from a human Soul Master.
Thus, he had eagerly completed his transformation.
"What a pity. Only rank forty-two Soul Power. If I hadn't looked down on a Soul Ring Configuration of two yellow and two purple rings, I should have been at least rank fifty."
"Never mind all that. First, I'll find someone and get some clothes, then get some money and have a proper feast. After that, I'll find someone to ask exactly what time period this is."
"If it's Douluo I, that'll be fantastic. There'll be no need to sacrifice myself to some so-called child of destiny. With my Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords Martial Soul and its Evil-Exorcising Divine Thunder, I can become a god myself."
"Before then, I'll tag along with Tang San to get an immortal herb and nourish my body."
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.
It stood in a damp valley, with blue palaces rising in a ring around the valley's central region.
Inside the largest palace, dragon-patterned stone carvings filled the view, the blue lightning engraved upon them vividly lifelike.
"Tianlong, what have you come to see me about this time? If you want me to ask that Old Poison for immortal herbs, I'm afraid it won't be so easy. That Old Poison is no longer what he once was. Even those two immortal herbs I gave you before were only obtained by putting pressure on him together with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect."
Clad in black, gilded battle armor, Yu Yuanzhen sat on a massive chair at the head of the great hall.
The chair was neither wood nor metal.
Instead, it was made of something resembling stone, extremely hard, with an imposing, stately design.
At the center of the great hall, an old man and a youth stood side by side.
The rather handsome, black-clad youth on the left, whose smile carried a hint of wicked charm, bowed respectfully. "Grandfather, I haven't come to ask you for immortal herbs. I wanted to tell you that I'm going to school."
The youth was named Yu Tianlong.
He was a bona fide transmigrator.
At six years old, as soon as he awakened his Martial Soul, it had been the Dark Sacred Dragon, with innate full Soul Power and an innate domain.
Although it was not a super Martial Soul with an ultimate attribute, it was still among the very finest of top-tier Martial Souls.
He had originally thought his ending would involve beating up Tang San, tormenting Yu Xiaogang, marrying a fair-skinned, wealthy beauty, and ultimately becoming a god.
Yet he discovered that he did not seem to be the only transmigrator.
One had actually appeared in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as well.
His name was Long Aotian.
He had actually awakened twin Martial Souls, the Seven Kill Sword and the Bone Dragon. Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo had both made exceptions to take him as their disciple, and he had become engaged to Ning Rongrong.
He could truly be called one of life's winners.
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