Over the next while, Yang Lin had each of them attack him with their Soul Skills, Hidden Weapons, or whatever else they had.
After all, words could never deliver the same shock as seeing it in practice.
Twenty minutes later.
"Hidden Weapons, poison gas, every physical Soul Skill-you can block them all. Yang Lin, doesn't that make you invincible?"
Tang Ya panted heavily, clearly exhausted.
The Dragon Whisker Needle, the Godly Zhuge Crossbow-these Tang Sect Hidden Weapons she took such pride in were utterly helpless against Yang Lin.
That left Tang Ya feeling rather deflated.
It was exactly as Bei Bei had said during their attempts: absolute defense!
[Host gained Tang Ya's emotional value +333]
"Not quite, actually. Mental attacks can still affect me, like Yuhao's Spirit Shock."
Yang Lin explained.
Though that effect was as insignificant as tossing a pebble into the ocean.
Only Spirit Shock wielded by the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm at his peak might have any meaningful effect on him.
Huo Yuhao scratched his head, a little embarrassed.
"Also, when I'm bathing or eating, I'll definitely deactivate Limitless. As long as someone seizes the right moment, they can still hurt me."
"And some stronger Soul Masters could seal me up and throw me into the sea, or make it so I can't breathe. I'd still die, so it isn't an absolute defense."
Yang Lin laid his weaknesses bare, casually mentioning them as though he were chatting about everyday matters.
"Well... Brother Yang, why would you reveal your own weaknesses...?"
After speaking helplessly, Bei Bei turned to Huo Yuhao and Tang Ya and said sternly:
"Nothing you heard today can get out. Understood?"
It would be trouble if some villain learned about Brother Yang's weaknesses.
Huo Yuhao and Tang Ya both nodded earnestly. They knew how to keep their mouths shut.
Bei Bei was genuinely a little mortified. Why was this white-haired boy so guileless, telling them everything?
He glanced again at Yang Lin's utterly unconcerned expression.
Suddenly, something clicked.
No, Yang Lin wasn't being guileless. He simply didn't care. It was absolute confidence in his own strength.
So this... is what it means to be the strongest? You don't even care if other people know your weaknesses. You really are confident...
Clearly, the words Yang Lin was always saying had truly sunk deep into Bei Bei's mind at that moment.
[Host gained Bei Bei's emotional value +666]
Yang Lin glanced at Bei Bei. Though he had no idea what Bei Bei was thinking,
he knew he had pulled off another impressive flex.
"It doesn't matter. Those are just Limitless's weaknesses, not mine."
Yang Lin waved a hand casually and spoke without a care.
When his enemies exhausted every means to break through Limitless, what awaited them would be him in his strongest form.
Both Bei Bei and Tang Ya were stunned by his tremendous confidence.
Bei Bei recalled that dark-purple orb of light that could almost annihilate everything around it, and gave a wry smile.
True enough. With Brother Yang's incredible strength, there was no need for them to worry.
Tang Ya's gaze grew even more eager. That bearing! That strength! That confidence! Weren't those precisely the qualities of their ancestor Tang San ten thousand years ago?
Yang Lin was practically destined to join their Tang Sect!
"Come on, Tang Ya, Bei Bei. Take us two freshmen to register."
As he spoke, he draped one arm around Wu Liuqi and the other around Huo Yuhao, then headed toward Shrek.
"Hey, hey, hey! I can walk on my own."
Wu Liuqi tried to struggle free, but Yang Lin kept him firmly locked in place.
"Stop squirming. Look, little Yuhao hasn't complained. Besides, I've wanted to try this for ages."
With that, Yang Lin lifted both feet off the ground and let his left and right guardians drag him along.
Behind them, Bei Bei and Tang Ya watched the white-haired boy bouncing between the other two, staring at each other wide-eyed.
Well... the formidable image they had just built up of him shattered with absurd ease.
"Hey, handsome, didn't you say there'd be fewer Evil Soul Masters the closer we got to Shrek City?"
Wu Liuqi looked at the rather bedraggled Tang Sect Trio and quipped.
Bei Bei looked a little ashamed, too. He had only just boasted along the way
that the road from the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest to Shrek City was extremely safe.
Who would have thought Evil Soul Masters would appear the very next moment?
And five waves of Evil Soul Masters had appeared along the road, practically slapping his face swollen.
Though these Evil Soul Masters' soul power wasn't high, and they could handle them without relying on Brother Yang or Brother Wu, they had still taken quite a beating.
Bei Bei still had two dark bruises on his face.
"Ah, haha, maybe Shrek hasn't sent anyone out on a sweep lately..."
Bei Bei laughed awkwardly and brushed the matter aside.
"Bei Bei, I feel like my Blue Silver Entanglement has gotten stronger. Those Evil Soul Masters couldn't break free just now!"
Tang Ya spoke excitedly, though she was also looking rather bedraggled.
But that bit of dishevelment was nothing compared to the excitement the battles along the way had brought her.
Tang Ya figured that absorbing the Mandala Snake for her third Soul Ring must have made her Blue Silver Grass tougher.
Sure enough, following Ancestor Tang San's cultivation path was the right choice!
Yang Lin smiled silently beside them. Naturally, those waves of Evil Soul Masters had been his doing.
He had to earn emotional value, so Bei Bei and the others would just have to suffer a little.
Yang Lin raised his eyes and looked at Shrek City not far away. It truly was spectacular.
Though its walls didn't have Star Luo City's outrageous dimensions of a hundred meters in both length and width, they were still magnificent.
Its permanent and transient populations combined totaled at least five million.
And all five million people fell under Shrek's jurisdiction. The Heaven Dou Empire had no right to interfere.
Nor did Shrek acknowledge itself as a subject or pay taxes.
It was essentially a nation within a city.
That might not matter much during wartime, but once peace came, Shrek would absolutely become any regime's number-one enemy.
After all, nobody wanted an ancestor perched above their head, lording it over them.
No wonder it would get bombed ten thousand years later.
Once Bei Bei and the others had tidied themselves up, the group headed toward Shrek City.
Since registration for Shrek's new students was underway, the closer they got to Shrek City, the thicker the crowds became.
As everyone knew, handsome men drew attention wherever they went, especially someone like Yang Lin, who was so handsome he left everyone else in the dust.
Just standing there made him the center of attention.
Almost everyone's eyes were fixed on Yang Lin. (I usually don't dare go out myself, because I'm afraid of running into this sort of situation, too.)
Some gazes were lovestruck, some jealous, and some envious.
All those different looks made the others walking beside him distinctly uncomfortable.
Bei Bei was just about to urge everyone to hurry into the city when the white-haired show-off beside him took off his sunglasses and swept a hand through his hair.
That gesture instantly sent quite a few young girls nearby into shrieks.
Bei Bei's expression darkened. Throwing all other considerations aside, he grabbed Yang Lin and headed into the city.
If they didn't leave now, he suspected they wouldn't be able to leave at all in another moment.
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