Sea God Pavilion Meeting

Holy shit, doxxed!

What else could I possibly add?

You dug up their entire household records in a single night. What else could I possibly add?

Qi Xuan shook his head. He had honestly only wanted to go out for a meal. How could he have known he would run into something like this?

Shi Xing nodded. "You two get some proper rest. The city lord's office will coordinate with the academy's academic affairs office about your commendations. I'll take my leave, then."

Watching Shi Xing walk away, Yan Shaozhe introduced him to them. "Shi Xing is also a senior of yours. He studied at Shrek Academy about thirty years ago. He now serves as the deputy commander of Shrek City's defenses. His martial soul is the Space-Time Silver Disk, and his nickname at school was the Time Magician. After all these years, even I find him a little hard to read."

Yan Shaozhe was nowhere near as calm inside as his expression suggested. Qi Xuan had stumbled upon these two Evil Soul Masters purely by chance, so what had their original objective been?

They had managed to infiltrate Shrek City, but who inside the city had helped them?

The mastermind behind trouble within Shrek City could not possibly be a mere Soul Douluo. If a Titled Douluo was involved, where was he hiding now?

Once Evil Soul Masters became involved, everything grew tangled in a hundred different ways.

He patted Qi Xuan's shoulder, and a golden current of warmth flowed into his body. "After such a major incident, things outside won't be peaceful for a while. Stay here and rest for a few days."

With that, Yan Shaozhe's body transformed into a golden silhouette of light and slowly dissipated.

The one who had come here had actually been nothing more than an avatar of his.

Night fell, and Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong went next door to whisper together.

Huo Yuhao lay down beside Qi Xuan.

"Brother Xuan, I've started auditing classes in the Soul Tool Department." Huo Yuhao finally shared the news he had long wanted to tell Qi Xuan.

Qi Xuan was not surprised at all. "How does it feel?"

Huo Yuhao thought for a moment. "Maybe it's because I have Spiritual Detection, but I find it pretty easy to visualize the internal structures of soul tools. Getting started hasn't been difficult either. Teacher Fan Yu said that if I can finish making a Class 1 soul tool in my second year, he'll let me study under him."

Qi Xuan chuckled. "Then he's the lucky one."

With Huo Yuhao's talent, if he had been born in the Sun Moon Empire, the old men in the Illustrious Virtue Hall would probably have beaten one another's brains out fighting over him.

Huo Yuhao lowered his voice. "What cultivation level do you think Senior Shi Xing has reached? My spiritual power can't sense him at all."

Qi Xuan answered lazily, "You remember Cao Jinxuan, right? Soul Masters of this space-time type cause slight distortions in the space and time around them. It's perfectly normal that your spiritual power can't sense him."

"As for his strength... I don't know where he stands right now, but he'll definitely become a Titled Douluo within three years!"

Huo Yuhao was startled. "Senior Shi Xing is only in his forties, right? He really is a heaven-born genius!"

"I already told you his martial soul is a space-time type. Heaven knows what special properties it has. All right, all right, hurry up and get some sleep."

Sea God Lake, Sea God Island, the Sea God Pavilion.

Beneath the Golden Tree's swaying shadows, the atmosphere inside the Sea God Pavilion was more solemn than ever before.

Nine figures sat around the long oval table, along with Mu En, who reclined on his side.

Half reclining in his wicker chair, Mu En said gently, "Shaozhe, you chair the meeting."

"Yes. Teacher, esteemed Elders, last night, an incident involving Evil Soul Masters attacking people occurred in Shrek City." Yan Shaozhe rose respectfully. "Two of the academy's first-year students, Qi Xuan and Xiao Xiao, became deeply embroiled in the incident. Qi Xuan used himself as a lure and summoned a heavenly tribulation, eliminating two Evil Soul Masters. Both students are now resting in the hospital. No other academy personnel were killed or injured."

Yan Shaozhe made no mention whatsoever of the financial losses-any problem that money could solve was no problem at all.

"Excellent. Heroes truly do emerge from the young," one Elder praised.

Xuan Zi took a swig of liquor. "And from what I observed, that kid's martial soul should have evolved into Ultimate Lightning. Otherwise, he couldn't possibly have inflicted so much damage and survived the heavenly tribulation."

"An ultimate attribute?" Several Elders' eyes lit up.

Throughout Shrek's history, there had only been three Soul Masters with ultimate martial souls. Every one of them had become one of the continent's foremost powerhouses.

"Indeed. Moreover, Qi Xuan's temperament, talent, character, and willpower are all exceptional. That is why I recommend him as a Sea God Pavilion Reserve Member."

Silence fell.

One Elder hesitated. "Shaozhe, isn't this... a little too early?"

The Sea God Pavilion was Shrek Academy's highest governing body, as well as the true hand at Shrek City's helm.

To become a Sea God Pavilion Reserve Member, a candidate had to be recommended by a Sea God Pavilion member and receive approval from more than two-thirds of its members.

The last person to become a Sea God Pavilion Reserve Member had been Ma Xiaotao, who had broken through to Soul Emperor at just sixteen.

But that was also because, beyond her extraordinary talent, she had been raised by Yan Shaozhe since childhood and had passed her political background checks without question.

There had never been a precedent for a new student being directly nominated as a Sea God Pavilion Reserve Member.

Besides, his origins were unknown. Even Shrek Academy had failed to uncover Qi Xuan's background, as though he had simply appeared in this world out of thin air one day.

The road of cultivation was long. History had seen many geniuses trapped at a particular realm, unable to break through for years, until they ultimately faded into the ranks of ordinary people.

Yan Shaozhe naturally understood the Elders' doubts-not everyone dealt with Qi Xuan regularly, after all.

But Yan Shaozhe had not the slightest doubt that the proposal would pass.

Because the proposal had actually come from Mu En, who was merely using him to voice it.

"I agree."

To Yan Shaozhe's surprise, the first person to speak in support of him was actually Xuan Zi.

Xuan Zi wiped his greasy fingers on his clothes. "I was there that night too, and I experienced the power of the heavenly tribulation firsthand. Are we really going to push a youngster who can summon a heavenly tribulation with just two rings straight into another faction's hands?"

"Besides, he's still young, so we can observe him for a few more years. Even if something unexpected happens in the end, it won't cause any serious consequences. At most, we'll have wasted some resources and attention."

Everyone turned to Xuan Zi in surprise. Even Mu En shifted slightly onto his side.

More surprising than his words was the fact that he could say such things at all-normally, he concerned himself only with drinking in silence and eating fried chicken.

After a brief discussion, the Sea God Pavilion meeting approved Yan Shaozhe's proposal to nominate Qi Xuan as a Sea God Pavilion Reserve Member. Once he successfully graduated from the Outer Court and his soul power reached rank sixty, he would be formally admitted as a Sea God Pavilion Full Member.

Seeing that the proposal had passed unanimously, Yan Shaozhe exchanged a glance with Mu En and nodded.

"Next is the second item on the agenda. During last night's incident involving the Evil Soul Masters, we discovered traces of the Holy Spirit Cult."