Tsk, daring to orchestrate affairs of the Imperial Family, whoever wrote this book has a lot of nerve!
After finishing all the records regarding the Void Netherstone, Li Mingzhu got up and closed the book.
He could not help sighing, That Marquis Kongwen recorded in this book is quite a figure.
What a pity he met such an end!
Li Mingzhu developed a profound understanding of the Imperial Family's ruthlessness. No matter which faction he became entangled with in the future, it would be utterly impossible for him to get involved with the Imperial Family.
The waters in these two empires ran too deep!
As things stood, the Heaven Dou Imperial Family was a bunch of good-for-nothings. The only people they could truly bring out were a few Soul Douluos. The single Title Douluo-level combat power could not even be ordered around.
No wonder Spirit Hall swapped out the crown prince with a civet cat.
In the Star Luo Empire, internal competition was fierce, outsiders could not meddle, and the Star Crown Sect still lurked behind the scenes!
Li Mingzhu raised his eyes to look out the window. At this moment, the setting sun was slowly sinking, and a large half of the crimson-gold setting sun had hidden behind the back mountain of Nuoding Academy.
Warm orange rosy clouds spread across the sky, the daytime heat slowly dissipated, and the dim twilight was dyeing the world bit by bit.
Indeed, when a person's concentration was focused on reading, time would fly by. But before his transmigration, Li Mingzhu's concentration was never focused on reading.
Ceasing his reflections on the past, Li Mingzhu walked straight out of the library.
Now that he had confirmed his Soul Hunting target, it was time for him to find a chance to hunt it.
At this moment, there were not many students wandering around the academy. Li Mingzhu walked quickly through the empty campus and knocked on the door of the dean's office.
"Please come in!"
Having received permission, Li Mingzhu pushed the door and entered.
The dean, who was leisurely drinking tea, saw that it was Li Mingzhu and greeted him warmly.
Before Li Mingzhu could speak, Dean Lin began to apologize.
"Classmate Mingzhu, was there someone named Yu Xiaogang harassing you?"
"It is I, your dean, who have failed you. That Yu Xiaogang relied on being the son of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's master to ask me for your information. I, a mere humble dean with no power or influence, simply could not refuse."
"Do you think you need some compensation?"
Looking at Dean Lin, who was in tears, Li Mingzhu was also in a daze. He had only wanted to simply ask for a leave of absence.
However, being out in the world, one had to know how to read the room.
"It's fine, Dean Lin. That Master Yu Xiaogang just came over to ask if I wanted to become his disciple."
Upon hearing Li Mingzhu's reply, Dean Lin hurriedly stood up, not even caring about the spilled tea.
He said eagerly:
"Mingzhu, you must not take him as your master. This Yu Xiaogang is an absolute, thorough fraud. If he hadn't relied on his status to freeload at Nuoding Academy, I would have driven him out long ago."
"His so-called Martial Soul Theory is full of loopholes."
Li Mingzhu looked at the flushed dean before him and quickly said righteously, "Master Yu Xiaogang left as soon as he found out I didn't have Twin Martial Souls, and besides, I have no intention of taking a master right now!"
After hearing Li Mingzhu's words, the feverish flush on Dean Lin's face slowly receded, and his originally tightly furrowed brows gradually relaxed. He let out a long breath, and the tense state of his entire body slowly relaxed.
He slowly sat back down in his chair, still muttering repeatedly, "That's good, that's good."
Only after calming down completely did he cast his gaze back toward Li Mingzhu.
"Classmate Mingzhu, is there anything else you need?"
Seeing the conversation get back on track, Li Mingzhu replied, "Dean Lin, I would like to take a week off to return to my village and move Grandpa to Nuoding City."
Hearing that it was such a trivial matter, Dean Lin readily agreed. He also added:
"Classmate Mingzhu, you suffered harassment from Yu Xiaogang because of the academy after all. The academy will provide four thousand Gold Soul Coins as compensation to you and as a subsidy for your path as a Soul Master."
These Gold Soul Coins will be sent to your residence tomorrow morning.
What could Li Mingzhu do after hearing this? He could only gladly accept the academy's gift. He had originally only wanted to ask for a simple leave of absence, but there was no reason not to take free benefits.
He had to learn to give the dean face!
Having immediately finished his business, Li Mingzhu happily left the dean's office.
Watching Li Mingzhu's figure disappear outside the door, Dean Lin's smiling face also relaxed.
He had almost thought another good seedling was going to be angered away by Yu Xiaogang.
His anger toward Yu Xiaogang was growing stronger and stronger. He had originally thought Yu Xiaogang was taking Li Mingzhu into the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, but it turned out he was taking him as a personal disciple.
With his level-29 trash soul power, taking disciples would only mislead people. If he took him as a disciple now, when Li Mingzhu rose to prominence in the future, people would only say Yu Xiaogang taught him well, and who would know about Nuoding Academy?
If he joined the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, in the future it could still be said that under the nurturing of Nuoding Academy, he gained the recognition of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
Taking a master and joining a clan were two different matters. Since Yu Xiaogang was unrighteous, he shouldn't blame him for being unfaithful.
Night fell heavily, a bright moon slowly climbed up the treetops, and a cold, gentle light spilled over the earth outside the window.
Li Mingzhu, whose mind and body had been exhausted all day, finally returned to his room. Recalling the conversation with the dean, Yu Xiaogang didn't amount to much to him; he was mainly afraid of his pestering.
He couldn't kill him yet, otherwise that idiot Bibi Dong might not know what kind of madness she would fall into.
The four thousand Gold Soul Coins he obtained would also be a huge help to him in the early stages. Once the Gold Soul Coins were delivered tomorrow, he would first go buy some whale rubber.
Whale rubber was a severely underestimated supreme treasure in this era. Although it was treated like the nobles' aphrodisiac, it wasn't something ordinary people could afford.
Hundred-year whale rubber required around a hundred Gold Soul Coins, while thousand-year whale rubber required anywhere from several hundred to over a thousand Gold Soul Coins. Goods were priced high when scarce, and ten-thousand-year whale rubber was even bid up to sky-high prices by Heaven Dou nobles.
Based on his own physical fitness, hundred-year whale rubber was basically useless to him, and thousand-year whale rubber wouldn't last long either. (If the effect of whale rubber in the original work was particularly exaggerated, why weren't Mu En's first two soul rings purple?)
He might as well buy some ten-year and hundred-year whale rubber first to improve Li Mu's physical fitness.
Li Mu was already quite old, and Li Mingzhu didn't want Grandpa Li Mu to die before he himself became a god.
After a night of meditation, morning arrived very quickly.
Dean Lin's efficiency was still quite high; before the morning mist had even dispersed, the teacher delivering the Gold Soul Coins knocked on Li Mingzhu's door.
Li Mingzhu accepted the Gold Soul Coins from the teacher, then turned and walked back into the room.
After storing all the Gold Soul Coins into his realm space, Li Mingzhu headed toward the merchant district of Nuoding City against the layers of light mist.
You had to hand it to businessmen-they sure woke up early!
Watching the peddlers hawking their wares in the merchant district, Li Mingzhu turned into a miscellaneous alley and found a small shop that looked like it sold adult novelties.
He walked in awkwardly. Although his body was currently that of a child, his mental age was not small at all.
The shopkeeper hadn't even managed to blurt out his "welcome" before he saw the tiny Li Mingzhu walking up to the counter.
Although the shopkeeper felt strange, he still asked, "Little friend, what do you need to buy?"
Li Mingzhu kept a straight face and softly spat out two words: "Whale rubber."
Upon hearing the request, the shopkeeper gave Li Mingzhu a strange look. He muttered to himself inwardly, So delicate and cute, could he be a child kept by some wealthy person?
Tsk tsk, the rich really play in perverted ways!
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