It Was Time to Show the Star Luo Empire the Power of the Douluo Continent's Finest Divine Mecha

"Knock, knock, knock!"

"Uncle Mu, I'm coming in."

With that, Luo Chen finished knocking and entered Mu Ye's temporary residence with Gu Yue.

"You really don't stand on ceremony." Mu Ye seemed to have known Luo Chen would come and had prepared a meal in advance.

"It's been ages since I last had your cooking, Uncle Mu. I've been craving it lately." Luo Chen answered Mu Ye while motioning for Gu Yue to sit down.

In the kitchen, Mu Ye wore a snowy-white chef's uniform as he walked out carrying a huge white jade platter.

"Now that's a proper haul!" Luo Chen's eyes lit up at the sight of the enormous white jade platter.

Sure enough, six succulent red jade shrimp sat on the platter, giving off a rich aroma.

Mu Ye took off his chef's uniform, casually pulled over a chair, and sat down. "Try it. Tell me what you think."

Luo Chen and Gu Yue each picked up a piece of shrimp meat and put it into their mouths.

The meat was tender and sweet, melting in their mouths like fresh fruit. Vast amounts of pure blood energy flowed down their throats straight into their dantians.

"Luo Chen, will your little girlfriend be all right?" Mu Ye asked uncertainly.

He had complete confidence in Luo Chen's physique. The boy was a perfect prospect for the Body Sect! Unfortunately, Luo Chen refused to join.

"She'll be fine," Luo Chen answered confidently.

Gu Yue now possessed not only the Silver Dragon King's power, but the Golden Dragon King bloodline as well!

"Do you really intend to openly oppose the Federation?" Mu Ye suddenly asked during the meal.

Although he knew Luo Chen certainly hadn't come to the Star Luo Empire with good intentions, establishing the Star Luo Empire Federation meant openly setting himself against the Sun Moon Federation!

"I'm not openly opposing the Federation." Luo Chen gave a mysterious smile. "Under imperial rule, the Star Luo Empire is naturally a solid slab of iron. But if it becomes the Star Luo Empire Federation, that won't necessarily be the case."

"Besides, I never said I wanted to become the Star Luo Empire Federation's Speaker. What can those people do to me?"

"You, honestly. Nobody has more wicked schemes than you."

Mu Ye shook his head helplessly as he spoke.

"What are you planning to do about the first match, the mecha battle? As far as I know, you don't know how to pilot a mecha, do you?"

"That's why I came to see you, Uncle Mu. To show my sincerity, I can put my name on the Body Sect's rolls," Luo Chen said casually.

Mu Ye: "???"

Do you really take me for a fool? Of all the times you could have come, you chose the moment you're running for Federal Speaker?

You're determined to lash my Body Sect to your warship, aren't you?

Luo Chen's move was truly devious. By lashing the Body Sect to his warship,

he could not only complete the first mecha battle of the five gods' duel, but also gain the Body Sect's support.

It was truly killing two birds with one stone.

"Look, Uncle Mu, you already have A Ruheng as your disciple, and now you have Tang Wulin too. Adding me won't hurt."

Watching Luo Chen call him "Uncle Mu" at every turn, Mu Ye couldn't see him as someone who had come to seek a master.

"Ah." Mu Ye sighed. Ever since he had taken Tang Wulin as his disciple, he really had tossed the Body Sect's principles to the back of his mind.

Luo Chen didn't hurry him. He simply sat quietly beside him, watching.

[Speaking of A Ruheng, that guy really is a monster. In the future, his leakless golden body lets him withstand four-word battle armor head-on.]

[If Du Busi had comprehended the leakless golden body ten thousand years ago, wouldn't he have been invincible in that era?]

[They only had ninth-grade soul cannon shells back then, right? Ninth-grade soul cannon shells couldn't breach the defenses of a leakless golden body.]

[To cultivate a leakless golden body, you have to cultivate both internally and externally, actively drawing in heaven and earth essence and converting it into blood energy. Only by making the circulation of blood energy a fully closed loop can you achieve the golden body arhat state.]

[If you only cultivate the flesh, your blood energy will circulate in just one direction inside your body, and your power will keep dissipating.]

[If all disciples with body martial souls could comprehend this, body martial souls might become even more powerful than evil soul masters.]

Outside the Sky Screen, in the Spirit Hall era, Flender happened to be out when he heard this, and he was thoroughly dismissive.

"Body martial souls? Nothing but trash martial souls! I will never let anyone with a body martial soul join my Shrek Academy."

He wasn't Yu Xiaogang, spouting claims that there were no trash martial souls, only trash soul masters.

In his eyes, a trash martial soul was a trash martial soul. Low soul power and difficult cultivation meant its owner was destined never to become powerful!

When he returned to Heaven Dou City and saw Shrek Academy reduced to ruins, he was utterly dumbfounded.

"Who?! Who destroyed my Shrek Academy?!"

Meanwhile, in the Peerless Tang Sect era, Du Busi had a very different reaction to those words.

"Cultivate internally and externally... internally and externally?"

"Absorb heaven and earth essence as blood energy? Absorb... heaven and earth essence?"

He had already cultivated his body martial soul to its utmost limit. No matter how he tempered his flesh, he simply couldn't take that final step.

At first, Du Busi had thought his talent wasn't high enough, or his body wasn't strong enough.

But after hearing Luo Chen's explanation, it seemed that wasn't the case at all!

"Turn heaven and earth essence into my own blood energy! I understand! I understand! So this is the true golden body arhat state!!!"

"Hahahaha! Xuan Zi, in the end, I'll reach the Limit before you!"

Du Busi seemed to have gained a flash of enlightenment! He was already an unparalleled genius of the Body Sect. All he had lacked was that tiny spark of opportunity!

Within the Sky Screen, Luo Chen had no idea that merely explaining soul cores had brought Bibi Dong enlightenment.

Explaining forging had brought Lou Gao enlightenment.

Explaining body martial souls had brought Du Busi enlightenment.

"All right, I agree," Mu Ye said.

The Body Sect had lain quiet for a long time. Perhaps it could seize this opportunity Luo Chen offered to make its name resound once more!

"Then, Uncle Mu, about the mecha battle in the five gods' duel..." Luo Chen's eyes shone.

"I can lend you Little Red, but I heard red-grade mecha aren't allowed in the mecha battle of the five gods' duel," Mu Ye said, puzzled.

"Don't worry about that. I'll negotiate with them!" Luo Chen patted his chest in assurance.

"It's time to show the people of the Star Luo Empire the power of the Douluo Continent's finest divine mecha!"

Mu Ye's red mecha was different from ordinary divine mecha. It embodied all of Mu Ye's painstaking efforts.

He had poured a full thirty years of effort into this divine mecha and fused it with his lifebound soul spirit. It was practically an extension of Mu Ye himself.

To nurture this mecha, he had even let his own cultivation fall behind. After all, he too was a one-in-ten-thousand genius of the Body Sect...

Meanwhile, inside the Star Luo Empire's imperial palace.

"What? Luo Chen said he wants to use a divine mecha?" Dai Tianling asked in puzzlement.

The rules of the five gods' duel had been sent to Luo Chen long ago. What was he trying to pull, changing the rules at the last minute?

Did he really think the Star Luo Empire was his own home?

Did he think he could change the rules whenever he pleased?

"Well, Your Majesty, this subordinate suspects Luo Chen may not know how to pilot a mecha, so he wants to rely on a divine mecha to fight."

After all, at the divine mecha level, it was no longer solely a matter of piloting skill. Technology and forging standards also played a part.

"Hmph! Now he knows to ask for a rule change? He was so arrogant at the Stadium." Just as Dai Tianling was about to refuse,

the minister delivering the message quietly whispered a few words into Dai Tianling's ear.

Dai Tianling's expression instantly changed. "A red mecha it is, then! Does he really think my vast Star Luo Empire has no divine mecha?"

Dai Tianling had already reviewed the roster of the Douluo Diplomatic Mission. Not one of them was a red mecha pilot, so Luo Chen could only have obtained one through some special means.

"I refuse to believe a red mecha Luo Chen scraped together at the last minute could be stronger than the mecha of my Star Luo Empire!"