After showing off a bit to Qian Renxue, Meng Chen jogged back to his small courtyard.
"Phew! I'm so tired!"
Meng Chen gave a light jump, sinking into the soft bed.
Playing the well-behaved, sensible child in front of Qian Renxue all day was truly a tiring chore.
However, he finally had some alone time of his own, and it was time to properly figure out his second soul skill.
Back in the Star Dou Great Forest, Zhan Shan and that group of royal knights had been watching him.
With Qian Renxue, an undercover agent, right by his side, he had not dared to let loose and mess around without reservation.
The fifty-meter displacement he had displayed was merely the result of his deliberate suppression.
"Martial Soul Possession!"
Meng Chen jumped off the bed and summoned his martial soul.
Two soul rings slowly rose from beneath his feet, a combination of blood red and deep purple. If anyone were to see this, they would probably be immediately mistaken for a monster.
Meng Chen channeled his first soul ring.
The intangible and formless Spiritual Detection domain spread outward.
With his small body as the center, his spiritual power pierced through the brick, wood, doors, and windows of the bedroom, swept past the rockery and clear pond in the courtyard, and extended all the way to the trees and grass a hundred meters outside the perimeter of the courtyard.
Within Meng Chen's sea of consciousness, every movement within a hundred-meter radius was infinitely magnified.
The arc of falling leaves, the earthy smell of loaches wriggling underground.
Even the breathing rhythm of the patrolling guards transformed into a clear three-dimensional picture.
Immediately following that, Meng Chen mobilized his second soul ring.
According to ordinary martial souls on the Douluo Continent, the displacement soul skills obtained by soul masters absorbing soul rings mostly had strict straight-line distance limits, and they were extremely easily blocked by terrain.
Yet the moment that strand of silvery-gray space power poured into his mind and violently collided with the Spiritual Detection domain, Meng Chen's sea of consciousness trembled fiercely.
The two forces, which originally had nothing to do with each other, produced no repulsion and fit together perfectly.
Meng Chen opened his eyes, a thought stirring in his mind, and his figure on the bed vanished instantly.
The next moment, Meng Chen was already standing steadily on top of an old locust tree in the corner of the courtyard.
"This is a full eighty-plus meters away from my room!"
"In between, it's not only separated by the bedroom stone wall, but also by two rockeries."
"In other words, as long as it is within the coverage of my Spiritual Detection domain and my spiritual power locks onto the coordinates, I can freely cross space and descend directly without any obstruction."
Even though Meng Chen had anticipated it in his heart, he still couldn't help but be shocked.
What alarmed him even more was that because his spiritual power carried out a void anchoring in advance, the soul power consumed during the teleportation process was negligible, almost amounting to less than one-twentieth of his total soul power.
This meant that as long as he opened his domain within this hundred-meter radius, he was a ghost that controlled the void.
With the Golden Dragon King's ultimate physical strength, paired with this elusive teleportation, the enhancement to his combat power would be geometric.
Meng Chen stood on the treetop, unable to help grinning.
This three-thousand-year-old Void Beast was truly an enormous gift.
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Meng Chen tested it repeatedly in the courtyard, teleporting from the rockery to the roof beam.
He moved from the stone well to the porch until the soul power in his body was exhausted, only then returning to his room covered in sweat.
Two days passed in the blink of an eye.
As a specially recruited noble student of the Heaven Dou Royal Junior Soul Master Academy, it naturally wouldn't do for Meng Chen to skip class all the time.
Early in the morning, a thin mist shrouded Heaven Dou City.
In front of the academy's majestic gates, carved carriages of various noble families were parked.
Meng Chen slowly walked on the bluestone steps toward the direction of the teaching building.
Along the way, quite a few students of the same age quietly sized him up with the corners of their eyes.
After all, who in the upper echelons of the entire academy didn't know about it now.
This genius with Innate Full Soul Power was not only deeply favored by His Highness the Crown Prince, but a few days ago had even been personally bestowed a hereditary peerage by the Heaven Dou Emperor.
He had simply become a hot new favorite in the empire.
Meng Chen paid no heed to those surrounding gazes, walking straight to his classroom.
As soon as he entered the classroom, he noticed that figure by the window.
Silver-white long hair emitted a faint fluorescent glow in the sunlight, and her profile was as delicate as white jade.
However, right at that moment, a wave of fragrance suddenly swept over from behind.
"Meng Chen! You still know how to come to school!"
The next moment, Ning Rongrong was seen wearing a gorgeous customized short skirt, stepping in calf-skin long boots, with her hands planted on her slender waist, aggressively blocking Meng Chen right in front.
The little girl's exquisite little face was full of anger, and a pair of watery, bright eyes glared fiercely at him.
"Where did you go? I ran to the Crown Prince's Residence to look for you three whole times these past few days! Three times!"
"Those guards actually dared to stop this young lady, saying you went out of the city for actual combat training! When you go out of the city for training, why didn't you bring me?"
"Do you still have me in your eyes?"
As she spoke, Ning Rongrong grabbed Meng Chen's sleeve.
Several young noblemen nearby shrank their necks like it was nothing new.
Looking across the entire Heaven Dou Royal Academy, the only one who dared point at his nose and lecture Meng Chen like this was this lawless little princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Seeing that he couldn't get away, Meng Chen could only smile bitterly as he followed the other party into the classroom.
"Rongrong, let go first. What kind of decorum is this in broad daylight?"
"I went to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt my second soul ring, and I left in such a rush that the fleet arranged by Brother Xue set off overnight."
"Hmph, Brother Xue, Brother Xue, all you know is Brother Xue!"
Ning Rongrong pouted her small lips; although the force on her hands loosened slightly, she still wouldn't let up with her mouth.
"Don't use His Highness the Crown Prince as a shield! What of hunting a soul ring?"
"Can't our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect send a soul saint to protect you? If this young lady went along, I could even boost your soul power by the way!"
Saying this, Ning Rongrong seemed to have thought of something, and immediately asked curiously.
"Right, did you get your second soul ring, and what is the age?"
Meng Chen scratched his head and said vaguely, "My luck was pretty good, I ran into an agility-attack soul beast with a decent age, probably a little over a thousand years."
"Over a thousand years again?"
Ning Rongrong's pair of large eyes widened into rounds, staring at Meng Chen in utter disbelief.
Although she was shaken beyond measure in her heart, the young lady's proud temperament made her refuse to easily bow her head and admit defeat, and right then she lifted her snow-white chin and gave a soft hmph.
"Consider that you have some ability. But this young lady isn't bad either; two days ago my father specially sent someone to deliver sect secret medicine, and my soul power is about to break through level fifteen as well. You better not get proud too early!"
While speaking, Ning Rongrong's gaze suddenly looked toward that figure by the window with some vigilance.
Gu Yuena sat quietly by the window of the classroom.
A girl's intuition was always frighteningly sharp.
This Gu Yue was as cold as frost all day long, yet that face happened to be enchanting to the extreme, and who knew how many young masters of elite families in the academy secretly fought over her out of jealousy.
And what made Ning Rongrong feel most vigilant was that Meng Chen, who usually couldn't be bothered to talk to anyone, always looked exceptionally strange every time he faced this Gu Yuena.
There definitely was something fishy between them!
The little hand with which Ning Rongrong pulled Meng Chen's sleeve tightened involuntarily.
She deliberately shifted her steps, using her own body to block Meng Chen's line of sight toward the window.
"Hey! What are you looking at! Hurry and sit back in your seat! This young lady specially brought jade spirit fruit pastry from home today, it's your lucky day, hurry over and eat!"
Pulled by Ning Rongrong to sit on the chair, Meng Chen inwardly cried out in distress.
He truly didn't know how to deal with Gu Yuena.
Not to mention that beside him sat a Miss Ning who wished she could dig out all his background.
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