They Didn't Know I Was Winning Gu Yuena Over Anyway, So Why Should I Feel Guilty?

Outside the sky screen, Yu Xiaogang clutched his copy of Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul in a death grip.

"My theories are wrong? Are you kidding me?"

"I trained a god! What right do you have to say that, Luo Chen?"

Within the sky screen, Gu Yue's pretty face flushed as Luo Chen held her hand tightly, but she did not pull away. She simply let him hold it.

[Gu Yue's affection +1]

[Gu Yue's affection +1]

Watching Gu Yue's affection shoot up, Luo Chen could barely suppress his grin!

But the sight displeased the other female leads.

For some reason, Luo Chen kept feeling a chill down his back, as though his former sweethearts were bad-mouthing him behind his back.

[They didn't know I was winning Gu Yuena over anyway, so why should I feel guilty?]

To put his mind at ease, Luo Chen opened the system panel again. Seeing that everyone's affection was still rising, he sighed in relief.

Little did he know that the moment Luo Chen closed the panel, everyone's affection began to fall.

Qian Renxue: You heartless bastard!

Hu Liena: Why don't you come win me over?

Ning Rongrong: You jerk!

Wang Dong'er: Luo Chen, will you come looking for me again?

Wang Qiu'er: (Silence)

Xu Jiujiu: As long as you don't make me the secondary wife.

Vina: I'm fine with being the secondary wife.

The Silver Dragon King of the Peerless Tang Sect era: ? Win me over?

[Yu Xiaogang only ever led his students astray. A level 29 Soul Grandmaster guiding other people's cultivation? Don't make me laugh. What did he know about cultivation? Did he even know what a soul core was?]

[Did he know the difference between soul core isotopic resonance and yin-yang complementary dual soul cores?]

[Once soul power reaches the Titled Douluo level and begins turning solid, storing it solely in the meridians creates an enormous bottleneck. The volume of soul power is too great, while the meridians have limited capacity, making further advancement difficult.]

[Without a soul core, a Titled Douluo's cultivation speed drops drastically. That's also why there were so few Limit Douluos twenty thousand years ago.]

[When he took Tang San to hunt a Mandala Snake back then, Tang San even considered killing him. If Tang San had killed Yu Xiaogang at that point, he might have cultivated and become a god even faster.]

"Little San wanted to kill me? That's impossible!"

"And what is a soul core?"

Utterly baffled by what he heard, Yu Xiaogang hurriedly asked Flender beside him.

"I don't know either," Flender replied. He was not a Titled Douluo, so how could he possibly know?

Meanwhile, on Sea God Island, Tang San suddenly saw the light.

"I was wondering why my cultivation was so slow! So you were the one ruining my future, Yu Xiaogang! Yu Xiaogang, you've already given me cause to kill you!"

Of course, even in the Spirit Hall era, not everyone was completely ignorant of the concept of soul cores.

Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong had entered a subtle state.

"A soul core? A soul core?" they murmured over and over.

It was as though something had sparked their inspiration!

"Big Brother, have you figured out what a soul core is?" Golden Crocodile Douluo asked.

Qian Daoliu did not answer. He slowly closed his eyes, gathering the liquid soul power in his meridians toward his dantian. Guided by his spiritual power, it spun at high speed, forming a tremendous vortex of soul power as the embryonic shape of a soul core gradually emerged.

Vast amounts of soul power were continuously compressed inward. The vortex spun faster and faster, and even the surrounding space began to warp. Fine black spatial rifts appeared one after another, only to be swallowed and absorbed by the rotating mass of soul power.

The solid soul power kept spinning faster, until all the space around it became completely distorted.

Then the solid soul power, which had been spinning at tremendous speed, actually stopped, shifting from extreme motion to utter stillness.

In the next instant, space abruptly collapsed. Everything seemed to cave inward with his body at the center, only to coalesce again in a flash.

The light receded, and a solid crystal that slowly revolved on its own axis took shape. Guided by his spiritual power, it sank into his dantian.

His soul core was complete!

"Big Brother, you did it?" Golden Crocodile Douluo was overjoyed at the sight. Merely hearing Luo Chen describe the concept of a soul core had been enough for Qian Daoliu to complete the process himself.

Qian Daoliu recorded his insights into condensing a soul core and handed them to Golden Crocodile Douluo.

"Give this to the worshippers in the Worship Hall. Have them all condense soul cores."

With soul cores, perhaps their Spirit Hall could grow even stronger!

Bibi Dong had also condensed a soul core.

As Limit Douluos, condensing soul cores was child's play for them.

Just as Bibi Dong was basking in the joy of her soul core, a figure appeared inside the great hall.

"Xiao Xue," Bibi Dong called softly.

Qian Renxue did not respond.

"Nana, leave us for now." Bibi Dong waved a hand.

As Hu Liena passed Qian Renxue, there was a clear hint of defiance in her manner. Whether in figure or looks, she lost to Qian Renxue in neither.

Why did Luo Chen prefer Qian Renxue?

She could do everything Qian Renxue could, and even things Qian Renxue couldn't!

Qian Renxue wasn't even as big as she was!

Didn't Luo Chen like them big?

Qian Renxue ignored Hu Liena, her eyes fixed squarely on Bibi Dong.

After a long while, she slowly said, "Let's join forces."

Bibi Dong looked at her impassively. "Why?"

"For Spirit Hall's future."

"I don't care about Spirit Hall," Bibi Dong said coldly.

For a moment, even Qian Renxue could not tell whether Bibi Dong meant it.

"I agreed to join forces with Qian Daoliu not because of Spirit Hall, but because of you."

At that moment, Bibi Dong suddenly spoke.

Heaven Dou City was still basking in the joy of repelling Spirit Hall, unaware that an even more terrifying attack was about to descend upon it!

The Titled Douluos of Spirit Hall and the Worship Hall would all mobilize, with one goal alone: killing Tang San!

Within the sky screen, after Luo Chen blocked Cai Yue'er's attack, several figures flew toward the square from the banks of Sea God Lake. Among them, a silver-haired girl stood out brilliantly.

Bo Saixi found the sight very strange.

"When did my Sea God Lake become connected to Shrek Academy?"

"Could Shrek Academy have annexed my Sea God Island?"

In the square, the Shrek Outer Court students seemed to have found hope.

"Look, it's the Inner Court disciples!"

They only ever saw Inner Court disciples at the Sea God's Fate matchmaking event. At any other time, they were like divine dragons whose heads could be glimpsed but whose tails remained unseen.

"With the Inner Court disciples stepping in, this Luo Chen shouldn't be able to act so arrogant for much longer, right?" a Shrek Outer Court student said.

"Of course! Shrek Inner Court disciples are invincible! I heard the Sea God Pavilion Master personally took a girl as his direct disciple a few years ago! I think she's called the Dragon Spear Goddess. With the Dragon Spear Goddess fighting, she'll definitely beat Luo Chen until he's scattered like fallen flowers on flowing water!" an Outer Court student said amid the chatter.

"Say, what does this Dragon Spear Goddess look like?"

"What a stupid question! Would they call her a goddess if she weren't beautiful?"

"Look, the Dragon Spear Goddess is here!"

"She's gorgeous! The Dragon Spear Goddess smiled at me! Brothers, my life is complete!"

As he watched the students swoon one after another,

Luo Chen could not help feeling a little helpless. Na'er is still as popular as ever.

Gu Yue was displeased when she heard that and immediately flung Luo Chen's hand away.

Luo Chen: "??"

Outside the sky screen, those few Shrek embarrassments felt they had found their feet again.

"I knew my Shrek couldn't possibly be this weak! So there's an Inner Court! Just wait for your death, Luo Chen! A mere Titled Douluo dares to invade my Shrek Academy!" Yu Xiaogang said viciously.

Yan Shaozhe was thinking much the same.

"The Inner Court students have finally come out. Let me see how many Titled Douluos there are. After all, even someone like Luo Chen is a Titled Douluo."

Yet in the very next moment, their expressions shifted from joy to bewilderment.