"Eight Extremes Collapse!"
Watching Yan Shaozhe reach toward him, Lin Xuanchen's eyes instantly turned cold. His fingers clenched into a fist, and he drove a punch straight into the approaching palm.
Thud!
A dull impact erupted as Lin Xuanchen successfully knocked Yan Shaozhe's reaching hand aside.
"Dean Yan, mind your boundaries," Lin Xuanchen said evenly, shaking out his slightly numb right hand.
"Such powerful hidden force!"
After that brief collision with Lin Xuanchen's fist, Yan Shaozhe discovered in shock that the punch had carried a powerful hidden force.
Now, that force clung like maggots to bone, constantly coursing through Yan Shaozhe's arm and bringing a faint, stabbing pain.
"Student Lin Xuanchen, I was presumptuous just now. But hearing is deceptive, while seeing is believing. I had to confirm whether what you said was true, wouldn't you agree?"
Yan Shaozhe circulated his soul power to forcibly dispel the hidden force in his arm, then looked at Lin Xuanchen and Wang Dong'er with a faint smile as he spoke.
"Dong'er, release your martial soul. Blind those dog eyes of his," Lin Xuanchen said, turning to Wang Dong'er with a gentle smile.
"Mm-hmm." Wang Dong'er nodded obediently. With a thought, six soul rings rose from beneath her feet: yellow, purple, black, red, black, black.
At the same time, an intensely rich aura of light surged from Wang Dong'er's delicate body, filling those around her with warmth.
"An ultimate attribute! It really is an ultimate attribute!!! Even you have a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring!" Yan Shaozhe leaped straight off the ground in excitement.
Yan Shaozhe could now be absolutely certain that Wang Dong'er's attribute had indeed transformed into ultimate light! His senses could not be mistaken!
From Wang Dong'er, Yan Shaozhe felt a suppression unlike anything he had ever experienced. Even his teacher, Dragon God Douluo Mu En, who possessed the Radiant Sacred Dragon, had never made him feel this way.
What Yan Shaozhe sensed from Wang Dong'er was the suppression of his attribute, not his soul power. As the possessor of the Bright Phoenix, he already had a special sensitivity to the light attribute.
Moreover, Yan Shaozhe had seen that Wang Dong'er also possessed a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring. At that moment, even "horrified" could no longer describe what he felt.
A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
Ultimate light.
Both were things Yan Shaozhe had once dreamed of obtaining. In his youth, he had secretly sworn that he would acquire either an ultimate attribute or a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring-one of the two.
But dreams were dreams, after all. From his youth until now, Yan Shaozhe had obtained neither a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring nor an ultimate attribute.
"Lin Xuanchen, I agree to your earlier condition regarding the room. Furthermore, as long as you and Student Wang Dong'er join our Inner Academy now and devote yourselves wholeheartedly to Shrek's development..."
"I guarantee that all of Shrek Academy's resources will be prioritized for you and Student Wang Dong'er. In my capacity as dean of Shrek Academy's Martial Soul Department, I can also promise you both this."
"Shrek Academy will spare no effort to equip each of you with a complete set of soul bones. Even Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones will be no problem."
"Besides that, Shrek Academy will hunt soul rings for you unconditionally. Whether ten thousand years or a hundred thousand years, none of them will be a problem."
Yan Shaozhe's eyes burned with fervor as he served up one grand pie in the sky after another, pouring promises onto Lin Xuanchen and Wang Dong'er.
Listening to Yan Shaozhe's promises, neither Lin Xuanchen nor Wang Dong'er showed the slightest excitement.
For Wang Dong'er, it was because Lin Xuanchen had told her beforehand what sort of person Yan Shaozhe was. She knew this rotten old man was dangling pies in the sky.
As for Lin Xuanchen, he already knew exactly what sort of fellow Yan Shaozhe was. Those conditions coming from his mouth might have sounded incredibly tempting to outsiders, but Lin Xuanchen only found them rather laughable.
In the original story, Yan Shaozhe had dangled the same pies in the sky before Huo Yuhao, including the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and soul bones he had just mentioned.
Leaving aside the fact that Huo Yuhao had obtained all his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and soul bones himself, even when it came to soul rings alone, Shrek Academy had only hunted ten-thousand-year ones for him. Anything older had little to do with Shrek Academy.
Precisely because he knew Yan Shaozhe's character from the original story, Lin Xuanchen found his words so laughable.
"Sure." Lin Xuanchen nodded, a trace of disdain flashing through his blue-green eyes. He held out his hand to Yan Shaozhe and demanded, "The Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones. Hand them over. One each for Dong'er and me."
"Huh?" Seeing Lin Xuanchen nod, Yan Shaozhe had thought the matter was settled. Instead, Lin Xuanchen was now directly demanding soul bones from him. This sudden turn left him completely dumbfounded.
"What?" Seeing Yan Shaozhe make no move, Lin Xuanchen sneered and mocked him. "So the illustrious dean of Shrek's Martial Soul Department, Bright Phoenix Douluo Yan Shaozhe, is also a man of empty promises."
"Brat! What did you say!?" Yan Shaozhe, who had still been dazed, exploded upon hearing those words. "What do you mean, empty promises! My word carries the weight of nine cauldrons! I do what I say!"
"Oh, then give me the soul bones." Lin Xuanchen kept his hand extended toward Yan Shaozhe as he spoke.
"Uh... well..." Yan Shaozhe was instantly at a loss for words. The pie in the sky he had painted was too enormous, and now he truly had no graceful way to step down.
"Well... um... the thing is..." Yan Shaozhe said awkwardly, "We certainly can't give you the soul bones right now. You'll have to make sufficient contributions to the academy before we can give them to you."
"Dong'er, this dumbass is trying to con us again." Lin Xuanchen pointed at Yan Shaozhe with utter contempt. "Let's go to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy right now."
"You're right, A-Chen. Let's go." Wang Dong'er nodded her little head in agreement. "I'm interested in their soul tools anyway."
"I'll give them to you! I'll give them to you right now! Is that good enough for you!" Seeing that Lin Xuanchen and Wang Dong'er did not seem to be joking, Yan Shaozhe roared, his eyes bloodshot and his breath heaving like an ox's.
"You two, follow me." Yan Shaozhe's expression was dark. He knew that unless he produced two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones today, they really would leave for Shrek Academy's sworn rival, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
Such an outcome was unacceptable to Shrek Academy. Moreover, Wang Dong'er had formidable backing as the Young Sect Master of the Clear Sky Sect, so he could not resort to any underhanded tricks.
"I'll take you to Sea God Island right now."
With a sweep of Yan Shaozhe's hand, surging soul power poured from his body. It enveloped Lin Xuanchen and Wang Dong'er, then carried them swiftly toward Shrek Academy's Sea God Island.
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