Gu Yue Arrives

All Believers of Abundance could receive the blessing of its divine kingdom.

They could be spared disease and enjoy endless peace and joy.

The blessings of Abundance embraced both great love and personal love.

They cared nothing for good or evil, worldly convention, or truth and falsehood.

As long as you prayed to Abundance, the great Yaoshi would bestow an inheritance upon you, grant you strength, prolong your life, heal your wounds, and restore your vitality.

No matter whom you worshipped, even if you were a Believer of The Hunt, Abundance would heal you if you were willing to pray to it.

And it was worth remembering that Xianzhou, home to the largest community of Believers of The Hunt, had originally inherited its faith from Abundance.

There was nothing wrong with Abundance itself.

It was simply that those who had gained Eternal Life had lived too long. Over the passing ages, they had suffered unavoidable erosion, and that had led to their betrayal.

Those betrayals had little to do with Yaoshi.

As Li Qingyue sensed the complete and powerful hidden realm, his figure slowly emerged.

He gazed at his third Soul Ring but did not demonstrate how to use its Soul Skill.

With a slight lift of his hand, the three green Soul Rings around him slowly withdrew.

At the same time, three deep-blue Soul Rings quietly appeared around his other hand.

The third Soul Skill of Li Qingyue's Earth Palace Fatekeeper was called Rainbowlight Instant Hunt.

It was an extraordinarily versatile Soul Skill.

Its primary effect was to teleport him a certain distance forward, left, or right.

It also dealt an attack both at the start and at the end of the teleportation.

What was more, his next attack—the arrow he fired immediately afterward—would carry even stronger shattering and annihilating effects.

More importantly, there was no limit to this teleportation.

As long as he had Soul Power, he could teleport like this without restriction.

It was an almost perfect, uncanny divine skill.

Like a blink, it could be activated endlessly without producing the slightest spatial disturbance, making it extremely difficult to detect.

Li Qingyue was quite satisfied with the strength of this Soul Skill.

Unfortunately, his Primordial Phoenix Martial Soul had not gained a third Soul Skill.

After all, that little Fire Sparrow—or rather, the little fellow that had barely evolved into a Fire Phoenix—had only a hundred years of cultivation.

It still had a long way to go before reaching a thousand years.

For now, then, he had no third Soul Ring for it.

Even so, things were already looking quite good.

After advancing to the Third Ring, his Abundance inheritance had gained a complete and formidable domain, while his Earth Palace Fatekeeper Martial Soul had acquired an ability that practically defied the heavens.

To Li Qingyue, that was already an immense gain.

This time, he truly had reaped a rich harvest.

As Li Qingyue slowly opened his eyes, his expression gradually returned to calm.

Although that small space held a great deal of Power of Faith, he could also store all his belongings inside it.

That was far better than a Storage Ring.

Storage Rings were exceedingly rare and precious in this world.

Moreover, most Storage Rings could be opened through special means.

Such rings were fairly secure for ordinary Soul Masters, but against Titled Douluo and those even stronger, the risk of one being opened was considerable.

Li Qingyue's divine kingdom of Abundance was entirely different.

Though it measured only twenty square meters, everything inside it was completely sealed away.

Even if a powerful foe managed to break into that space by force, the divine kingdom of Abundance would immediately teleport all its contents elsewhere, leaving the intruder with nothing.

And as Li Qingyue grew stronger, the divine kingdom's defenses would only grow stronger as well.

Under those circumstances, storing his belongings in his own divine kingdom of Abundance was naturally safer.

With that in mind, Li Qingyue wasted no time gathering all the resources he had on hand.

He added the resources Leng Yaozhu had delivered last month and brought everything together.

Then, with a thought, he stored it all in the divine kingdom of Abundance.

Only after putting everything away did Li Qingyue let out a soft breath.

Xie Xie returned around dusk.

This time, without Li Qingyue there, everyone had been beaten black and blue.

They were clearly in no shape to continue training tomorrow.

Normally, Wu Changkong would not have lost control like that.

But over the past few days, he really had been enjoying himself.

Every day, he beat the children until they were badly injured, and each time they recovered, he could see a marked improvement.

With Li Qingyue suddenly absent, Wu Changkong genuinely found it hard to adjust.

He even felt a little uncomfortable.

After getting used to that training method that was practically a cheat, anyone would struggle to return to normal.

Watching the bruised and swollen Xie Xie come in and flash him a foolish grin, Li Qingyue felt rather helpless.

Still, Xie Xie explained the situation.

Wu Changkong hoped Li Qingyue could come back and heal the children again.

Li Qingyue was a little exasperated, but he went to help heal them anyway.

Once he had finished, the night's practical combat training officially came to an end.

Morning sunlight spilled down, and the day of the class promotion competition drew ever closer.

Zhou Changxi, Tang Wulin, and Xie Xie all seemed a little nervous.

After all, they had pinned great hopes on this competition.

Thanks to Li Qingyue, in particular, their practical combat training had started much earlier, and each of them had greatly improved their fighting skills.

If they still could not beat the older students, they would feel they had let down both Wu Changkong and Li Qingyue.

So everyone took it especially seriously.

Today's session, however, was ordinary running practice.

Because of Shrek Academy's traditions, they had to run every day.

Li Qingyue did not have to take part.

Claiming that he was a support-type Soul Master, he sat off to the side and rested.

Wu Changkong knew how strong Li Qingyue was. Though he did not understand why Li Qingyue hated running, he did not force him to join in.

After Na'er, Xie Xie, Mu Xi, and Tang Wulin had run a dozen or so laps side by side, Na'er slowed to a stop.

She was the first to look toward the school gate, and something strange entered her gaze.

Na'er's sudden halt and the direction of her gaze caught the others' attention.

Even Li Qingyue, sitting off to the side, followed her line of sight toward the gate.

Then he lowered his head slightly and checked the time on his watch.

It had been almost a month since school started, a little later than usual.

Still, the fact that she had come at all was a good thing.

After all, it was better to keep a dangerous person close than to have her far away.

With that thought, Li Qingyue calmly watched the school gate.

Under the eyes of quite a few students, an ordinary-looking girl with long black hair walked slowly inside.

Her eyes were calm, but they also held a trace of coldness.

She glanced around, but this time her gaze did not settle on Tang Wulin.

Instead, it locked onto Li Qingyue in an instant.

She studied Li Qingyue, and he studied her.

The moment their eyes met, the power of the Protector established a connection between them.

Sensing that strange link to him, the ordinary-looking girl's eyes turned icy almost at once.

Then her brows drew together in a deep frown.