Now included in the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul

[Little Fox (can't give herself away): Everyone, disaster!]

The women: ?

[Little Fox: Little Princess and I had the same idea!]

The women: ...

[Little Princess (Little Demoness): You could just say you're stupid.]

Ning Rongrong lay sprawled on her magnificent bed, her silky pink hair scattered behind her head, rolling her eyes almost to the heavens.

If you wanted to spill the secret, then spill it. If you were stupid enough not to read the confidentiality terms, just say you're stupid. Why drag me into it?

Did you have to make me feel included in this too?

"Aaah! Dad, Sword Grandpa, Bone Grandpa, you're so annoying! I told you nothing happened! Rongrong was just joking with you earlier. Go outside! Rongrong's tired and wants to sleep!"

The good news was that, growing angrier the more she thought about it, Ning Rongrong took the opportunity to display her willful nature. After confirming that she really had suffered no harm, Ning Fengzhi and the Sword and Bone Douluos left the room, still half doubtful.

The system's punishment mechanism delivered powerful simulated electric shocks to the mind while ensuring safety. It caused no actual harm, so no matter how others examined her, they would find nothing wrong.

Of course, if someone repeatedly and maliciously attempted to reveal the Chat Group's existence to outsiders, the system would show no mercy whatsoever.

[Angel (can't give herself away): So you got shocked?]

[Little Fox: Not yet, but soon.]

[Angel: Explain.]

[Little Fox: I wanted to tell my teacher that the continent might face a crisis, but I'd just reached her door when I saw Little Princess saying in the group that she'd been shocked.]

[Angel: So you wanted to challenge the Chat Group's confidentiality terms?]

[Little Fox: No, I was about to leave... Can you imagine looking up and finding your teacher standing right in front of you, smiling at you?]

Yes. Not only can I completely imagine that feeling, I even know that turning around to find half your teacher's head peeking through the classroom's back door is the truly terrifying thing...

Hu Liena had successfully stirred up group owner Lu Chen's high-school fear of his homeroom teacher as he lurked in the Chat Group.

With Lu Chen deliberately concealing it through his privileges as group owner, the members had no idea that the Chat Group even had such a position. They thought the two administrators selected each week according to how many Fortune Points they earned held the highest positions in the group.

This was not an attempt to play the mastermind behind the curtain. Lu Chen had never intended to conceal his existence, and he could not keep it hidden anyway.

Just look at the people System Sis had invited:

Xiao Wu, Ah Yin-one had yet to make her debut in the human world, while the other was half dead. Taking advantage of how few people knew them, they had simply used their real names.

Netherworld, Spirit Cat-to be fair, their identities really would have been difficult to determine if they had not joined together. But read their names together and add in the baffling conversation in the group earlier, and they were undoubtedly Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyun, that pair of Schrödinger's loving sisters.

Angel-Qian Renxue, who couldn't give herself away~

Little Fox-Hu Liena, who couldn't manage to give herself away and went running to her teacher at the drop of a hat.

Little Princess-the willful princess, Ning Rongrong.

Yanzi-Dugu Yan, the older unmarried woman. Dugu Bo had massacred a city, and with a single label of "a sinner's descendant," she had been kicked aside by the Yu family, which had ridden Yu Xiaogang's prestige to its peak. Had Dugu Bo not already been lying among the flowers, leaving no one to back her up, perhaps there might have been a Dugu Yan version of "thirty years east of the river, thirty years west" to look forward to...

Cultivate the Mind and Nourish the Nature-Liu Erlong, a textbook case of being exposed by her group title, even more obvious than Ah Yin's Blue Silver Emperor.

The Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill was simply too definitive, and this Martial Soul Fusion Skill was yet another piece of ironclad proof that a certain someone was pure trash.

You're telling me that someone could be the leader and absolute core of the Golden Sacred Dragon Martial Soul Fusion Skill, yet have a Trash Martial Soul that couldn't break through level thirty?

Don't make your bro Luo laugh ^_^.

Back to that day-free Martial Soul Awakening, letting Grandmaster borrow Spirit Hall's books and even directly helping him do it, giving away both your disciple and your daughter, a Wisdom Skull that improved spiritual power... Who could give away more than you, Bibi Dong?

The ten members' backgrounds spanned Spirit Hall, the Heaven Dou Empire, the Star Luo Empire, and even Soul Beasts, and their standing was not low. Most importantly, they were all living, breathing people who could think and had emotions.

With talent that destined Lu Chen to make his mark on the Douluo Continent, they would discover his identity sooner or later.

Rather than have the members close in on him step by step, Lu Chen felt it would be better to take the initiative himself at a suitable time and place.

While Lu Chen pondered, the messages in the group did not stop.

As the saying went, live long enough and you would see everything. You could even see Qian Renxue giving Hu Liena advice.

[Angel: Just say you have questions about cultivation and want your teacher's guidance.]

[Little Fox: Good idea!]

She acted as soon as she said it.

Guided by Bibi Dong, Hu Liena sat at the edge of the bed and earnestly poured out all her recent questions about cultivation.

With her guilty conscience, she clearly failed to notice the slightly strange look in Bibi Dong's eyes as she watched her.

It could not be helped. Two system screens, one gold and one blue, were practically pressed against her face!

Out of concern for her disciple and an instinctive caution, Bibi Dong had closed her panel before going to see Hu Liena, so the latter naturally saw nothing.

Hu Liena, who had been chatting furiously in the group all along, naturally had no such concern. Or rather, it had never even occurred to her that she and her teacher might both have been invited into the Chat Group and become fellow members.

"Nana, the Demon Fox Martial Soul places spiritual power first, so naturally, its offensive power in the early stages falls short of power-attack Martial Souls of the same level. I understand your impatience." Bibi Dong did not expose Hu Liena outright, choosing instead to resolve her cultivation questions first.

She was indeed not a qualified mother, but she was absolutely a qualified teacher.

"Whether you're selecting Soul Rings or choosing the direction of your cultivation, only what suits you is best. Blindly pursuing offensive power isn't advisable for you."

"Nana, you know Archbishop Lu, don't you?"

Little Fox blinked her narrow, foxlike eyes and said excitedly, "Teacher, do you mean the Platinum Bishop who's about to become a Titled Douluo?"

"His formal investiture won't take place for another few days. Mind your wording." Bibi Dong gave Hu Liena a light rap and snorted softly. "If those old fossils heard you, they'd nag you for days again."

"Archbishop Lu's talent wasn't actually particularly outstanding to begin with. His Martial Soul wasn't his current Four-Winged Eagle Dragon either, but a Four-Winged Cloud Eagle, a beneficial mutation of the Cloud Eagle Martial Soul. He had no hope of becoming a Soul Douluo."

Hu Liena froze at that. "Huh? But Archbishop Lu is about to..."

"Yes, Archbishop Lu is about to become a Titled Douluo, and all of this is thanks to his elder brother, a Soul Master of breathtaking genius!" A faint smile appeared on Bibi Dong's face, as though something had come to mind. Her charm in that instant nearly left Hu Liena staring in a daze.

It could only be said that when a person or an object reached a certain degree of beauty, its destructive power was absolutely indiscriminate.

Collecting herself, Hu Liena said longingly, "Archbishop Lu's elder brother must be an extremely powerful Soul Master too. Could he be one of the secluded Excellencies?"

"No. His name is Lu Yun, and he's merely a Soul Grandmaster who can never break past level twenty-nine in his lifetime. Yet even I marvel at his brilliance!"

For a moment, Hu Liena felt as though her brain could no longer keep up. She was completely bewildered.

A Soul Grandmaster who could never break past level twenty-nine could make Teacher, the Supreme Pontiff of Spirit Hall and a Titled Douluo, marvel at him?

Was this still the Douluo Continent?

Or had I finally gone mad under this string of shocks?

"Choosing Soul Rings and Soul Bones suited to your Martial Soul, whether to compensate for weaknesses or emphasize strengths, offers a certain possibility of causing your Martial Soul to evolve."

"Like his younger brother's, Lu Yun's Martial Soul mutated during awakening. It changed from a Cloud Eagle, skilled in flight, into a Featherless Eagle. This was unquestionably a harmful mutation."

Hu Liena perked up at this, even adopting a respectful form of address. "Then did Senior Lu Yun successfully evolve his Martial Soul?"

"No. He still can't break past level twenty-nine. However, by absorbing Soul Rings extremely well suited to his Martial Soul, he not only made it grow feathers and gain the ability to fly, but also achieved combat strength far beyond Soul Masters of the same level. Besides, Elder Lu Tian succeeded, didn't he?"

At this point, Bibi Dong looked solemnly at Hu Liena and cautioned her:

"The Lu Brothers' personal experiences have already been formulated into a theory by an equally brilliant Soul Master and included in the 'Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul.' And this genius, too, can never break past level twenty-nine."

"Nana, remember this: in this world, there have never been trash Martial Souls, only trash Soul Masters!"