The academy, the training field.
On an open patch of ground spanning over two hundred square meters, Zhao Wuji sat drowsily in a chair.
Dai Mubai and Tang San stood to one side.
"Finally, more people. Hmm? Quite a few, too!"
Hearing footsteps, Zhao Wuji slowly opened his eyes and spoke.
He had originally intended to put the new student through the wringer alone.
Now he could take care of them all together and avoid wasting time on a second test.
"This should be everyone who can make it to the fourth round today."
Lin Mo spoke calmly as well.
"Three? That's rare enough, but nothing more."
Sweeping his gaze around, Zhao Wuji smacked his lips.
There weren't all that many of them, and his interest quickly faded.
"Forget it. Kid Lin, you test them this year. I'm going back to sleep."
Yawning, he waved a hand, lay back on his recliner, and fell asleep again.
It wasn't as though there were no other teachers here. Why did he have to do it himself?
The corner of Lin Mo's mouth twitched at the sight.
This old fellow really was lazy.
"Lin Mo is testing us? Can he handle all three of us?"
Zhu Zhuqing frowned beside them and instinctively asked.
After all, in her eyes, the boy before her should have been about as strong as Xiao Wu.
"Mo is a teacher!! A level sixty Soul King!! How could he possibly not be able to handle you?"
Xiao Wu lifted her chin and declared proudly.
She looked as though she were telling everyone just how amazing her man was!!
"A... a level sixty Soul King?! How is that possible??"
Ning Rongrong was the first to react, her eyes instantly widening as she cried out in shock.
She had never imagined that the boy before her, who was about her own age,
was actually a powerful level sixty Soul King?!
Impossible!
Absolutely impossible!!
"He's a teacher?"
Beside her, Zhu Zhuqing was also stunned.
On her almost expressionless face,
a rare trace of astonishment appeared.
This was the greatest emotional upheaval she had experienced in recent years.
Even when she had seen Dai Mubai drinking and womanizing the day before yesterday,
she hadn't been particularly moved.
"It's only been three years. How could he have improved so quickly??"
Tang San's pupils contracted slightly as he muttered in disbelief.
Back in Holy Soul Village, they had all awakened their martial souls together.
They had even entered Noding Academy together.
After just a few years apart, not only did Lin Mo's strength completely eclipse his,
but he had become his teacher, too??
Dai Mubai was the only one present who showed little reaction.
Even so, he instinctively shrank back a little.
As though afraid someone might notice him.
"All right, I just happened to come across a few opportunities. There's no need to make such a fuss."
Lin Mo smiled faintly and spoke casually.
He acted as though it were all perfectly natural.
Everyone's mouths twitched at his words, and for a moment, they had nothing to say.
Reaching level sixty as a Soul King in his early teens was nothing to make a fuss over?
In their families, someone like that would have long since been enshrined like an ancestor.
"Phew... then, Lin... Teacher Lin... Mo, how will the next test work?"
Ning Rongrong took a deep breath and asked, trying her best to calm down.
But her voice still trembled slightly, unable to conceal her shock.
At the same time, she looked at the boy before her as though she were looking at a monster.
"Don't worry, it won't be too difficult. Block or dodge one of my soul skills. As long as one of you holds out to the end, all of you pass."
Lin Mo said with a warm smile.
Then he looked specifically at Ning Rongrong and continued:
"If you're a support-type Soul Master, just support your teammates. If they pass, you pass."
With his current strength, having them defeat him was impossible.
Lasting for the time it took an incense stick to burn wasn't very realistic, either.
So he could only open the floodgates of leniency and let them pass by withstanding a single soul skill.
Of course, how many attacks that single skill would contain was another matter.
"Phew... just one soul skill? Piece of cake!"
Hearing the conditions of the test, Ning Rongrong instinctively breathed a sigh of relief.
Wasn't it just withstanding one soul skill?
What was so difficult about that?
At most, he could hit one person!!
But there were three people on their side!!
"Don't we need to discuss our tactics?"
Seeing that his two teammates were already ready to fight, Tang San couldn't help asking.
Based on his experience at Noding Academy,
Lin Mo definitely wouldn't let the three of them off so easily!!
There had to be some scheme behind this!!
"As for tactics, the three of us just need to stay as far apart as possible! That will spread his attack out as much as it can!!"
After thinking for a moment, Ning Rongrong offered her analysis seriously.
Their primary objective was survival, so naturally, they should stay as far away as possible.
Only an idiot would charge in and clash with him head-on.
Zhu Zhuqing nodded in agreement.
As an agility-attack-type Soul Master, dodging was her specialty!!
"All... all right."
Tang San hesitated for a moment before finally nodding.
After all, he couldn't think of a better plan, either.
"Hehe... are you all ready?"
After watching the three whisper among themselves for a while, Lin Mo smiled faintly and asked.
At the same time, rings of flame had already begun spreading beneath his feet.
"ROOOAR!!"
A roar pierced the clouds.
Ning Rongrong and the others instinctively covered their ears.
Yet in the next instant, all three were dumbstruck.
An enormous figure flew out of the raging flames!!
A platinum-white dragon with immensely thick, powerful limbs
appeared before them!!!
Terrifying dragon might surged straight at them!
It instantly sent chills through their bodies and made their scalps prickle!
"This... this is a dragon martial soul?!"
Having seen a dragon martial soul before, Ning Rongrong was the first to cry out in shock.
Dragon martial souls weren't common, but they were nothing unusual to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
After all, their Ancient Douluo possessed an Ancient Dragon martial soul.
But wasn't the dragon before them far too powerfully built?
Its limbs and body were more than twice as thick as the bone dragon's!!
"What... what a terrifying beast martial soul..."
Looking at the dragon before her, Zhu Zhuqing's pupils trembled as she muttered to herself.
This was definitely a beast martial soul even stronger than the Hell Spirit Cat and the Evil-Eyed White Tiger!!
His high soul power was already bad enough.
His martial soul was this powerful, too.
And he was about the same age as her.
Wasn't that far too terrifying?
Is this guy even human? Didn't he have a degenerated Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent martial soul? Why has it become a dragon?
Releasing his soul power to barely withstand the dragon might, Tang San was utterly shocked.
Are we sure it's been three years, not thirty?
Hasn't he changed far too much??
"Blazing Sun Giant Dragon, possess me!!"
Ignoring their shock, Lin Mo gave a low shout.
Platinum-white dragon scales instantly covered his entire body.
Dragon horns slowly emerged, and his crimson-gold pupils became vertical slits.
A dragon tail lashed out, and enormous dragon wings unfurled!
His height instantly surged from one meter eighty to over two and a half meters!
Two yellow, two purple, and one black-five soul rings slowly rose!!
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