Ice Empress: "I don't want to talk to you anymore. Ever since you arrived in the human world, you have really let yourself go more and more. Have you forgotten who was there to support you when you were afraid of cockroaches?"
"----It didn't seem to have anything to do with you at that time." Lu Ren looked strange, "I won't fight with a cockroach."
Ice Empress retorted, "But at least I am on your side. Look, do you feel a sense of security with me here?"
Lu Ren:"I don't think so."
The two were bickering fiercely in Sea of Consciousness, and the sound of rapid footsteps sounded again in Corridor.
Xiao Hongchen left and returned, patted his forehead with a depressed look, then walked quickly to Lu Ren and said in an extremely serious tone, "Originally I came to see you and had something to talk about, but because I forgot about my sister, I really convinced myself that I could forget such an important thing."
Lu Ren quit Sea of Consciousness, gave up the quarrel with Ice Empress, and then rolled his eyes at him angrily. "What's the matter?"
"It's about the first game after the kickoff ceremony yesterday, Shrek Academy versus Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy."
When talking about this topic, Xiao Hongchen's face became extremely solemn, and even his voice lowered.
"During the game, Shrek Academy had a reserve player named Huo Yuhao, who directly displayed six Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring on Arena, six hundred thousand years!"
"Then he directly defeated Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy's entire team, and he didn't even have time for a cup of tea from beginning to end."
Xiao Hongchen took a deep breath after saying this, as if to calm down his emotions.
He paused and continued, "After our discussion for a day, we agreed that the six Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings of Huo Yuhao are fake, but - we already have a monster like you in our team, so it's not completely impossible for the Shrek Academy to produce a genius more perverted than you, right?"
"Ma Rulong They discussed for a long time, and the more they discussed, the more guilty they became. That's why they sent me over to see if your retreat is over. I want to invite you to come over and discuss how to deal with Huo Yuhao."
Lu Ren waved his hand, and his tone was as calm as saying that the weather is nice today, "Fake, how can six Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring be possible? It's just a little trick."
"Fake? Is it really true?" Xiao Hongchen's eyes lit up instantly, and most of the uneasiness pressing on his chest dissipated visibly, "Let me just say, except for a pervert like you, how can anyone else be more genius than me?"
"Even a genius like me hasn't even reached Soul Emperor yet, and he's just a kid trying to get six Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring."
Xiao Hongchen breathed a long sigh of relief and regained his usual confidence in his tone, "Then it seems that Shrek has nothing to be afraid of. This kind of trick can only deceive people who have never seen the world. It is just a show in front of us. What is the use of a fake Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring? It is just to scare those weak teams."
"It's indeed fake." Lu Ren said firmly, "Even if you are a genius with great talent and treasure, it is impossible to gather six Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring at this age."
"Every one of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast is a being that can compete with Titled Douluo head-on. There are not many of them in the entire continent, not to mention that Huo Yuhao is just a reserve member."
Xiao Hongchen's eyes lit up, and he quickly asked, "Then what the hell are those Soul Rings? Many people saw them yesterday, and the pressure was terrifying."
"Martial Soul of Huo Yuhao is Spirit Eyes, majoring in Spiritual Power, and his second Soul Skill is Simulation, which can disguise or change the color and breath of Soul Ring."
Lu Ren calmly laid out the information he had one by one.
"The six Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring you see are essentially just a layer of Spiritual Power mimicry. The visual effects are full, but the actual power is approximately zero."
"His real cultivation level is only Soul Grandmaster, let alone Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, he has not even absorbed Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring."
"How do you know so detailedly?" Xiao Hongchen's eyes widened with disbelief written all over his face, "Aren't you Yizhen practicing in seclusion in your room? Could it be that you sneaked out to watch the game? You even know the specific effects of his second Soul Skill. This information is too accurate."
"Don't underestimate my intelligence network."
Lu Ren smiled slightly and didn't explain much.
Xiao Hongchen waved his hand slightly speechlessly, not bothering to ask about the source of the information. Anyway, Lu Ren has countless secrets, not many more than this one. "Then what should we do next? Should we find an opportunity to expose them in public? Let the whole continent know that Shrek is playing this kind of trick of pretending to be a ghost."
"It's not necessary." Lu Ren shook his head, "This kind of little trick can only deceive teams who have never seen the world.
When it comes to the competition, strength is the last word. No matter how realistic you pretend to be Soul Ring, you can't change your actual combat effectiveness."
"When we face Shrek head-on, their true colors will naturally be revealed. Then the momentum they have worked so hard to create will turn into a slap in the face."
"Then should we call everyone together to discuss countermeasures?" Xiao Hongchen asked again, "Ma Rulong and the others are all in the room now, all with sad faces, and they were all frightened by Huo Yuhao's six Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring."
"Although you say it's false, it's useless for me to believe it alone. You have to go and give them reassurance in person."
Lu Ren nodded. As soon as they walked to the door of Ma Rulong's room, they saw a silver figure standing there holding a food box.
Meng Hongchen had obviously been waiting for a while. When he saw Lu Ren and Xiao Hongchen walking over, he quickly handed the food box forward, but did not dare to look up at him.
"Brother, Lu Ren, you are here." Her voice was as soft as the breeze in spring, with Just now's lingering blush still on her cheeks, "I, I brought you food, and Lu Ren, you must be hungry after practicing for so long, right?"
The lid of the food box was opened at a corner, and there were several exquisite flower cakes neatly stacked inside, along with a bowl of steaming broth.
The flower cake is cut into bite-sized pieces, and the surface is dotted with Star Luo City's specialty candied petals.
The broth is thick white and fragrant, and it obviously took a long time to simmer it.
Lu Ren felt warm in her heart. When she took the food box, her fingertips inadvertently touched the back of Meng Hongchen's hand. The girl's fingers trembled slightly but did not retract.
"Thank you for your hard work."
"No, you're welcome, it's not hard at all."
Meng Hongchen's face turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye. He turned around and wanted to run away, but before he could take a step forward, Xiao Hongchen grabbed him by the back collar.
"Why are you running? It happens every time."
Xiao Hongchen's tone was filled with the helplessness of hating iron for not being able to become steel.
"Lu Ren I know that you have been protecting him for a whole day and night, and everyone has accepted your kindness. Why don't you come in quickly and listen to the next arrangements? You are also a member of the reserve team, so you must have a seat at the tactical meeting."
Meng Hongchen was dragged into the room by her brother. She lowered her head and chose the most inconspicuous corner to sit down. She placed her hands neatly on her knees, but her eyes seemed to have a will of their own, secretly following Lu Ren's movements with her peripheral vision.
I saw him opening the food box, picking up a piece of flower cake and putting it into his mouth. After chewing it twice, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, as if he was quite satisfied with the taste.
Then he picked up the broth and took a sip, his Adam's apple rolled slightly, and the lines of his whole body softened a bit in the white mist of the hot soup.
Meng Hongchen's heartbeat began to accelerate uncontrollably again, and the scene of Lu Ren holding his waist was involuntarily replayed in his mind.
And the words he said before were played over and over again in her mind like a curse, and every time they were played, she felt her cheeks getting a little hotter.
Meng Hongchen bit her lower lip unconsciously, tightened the skirt on her knees with her fingers, and her heart was so bumpy that it almost jumped out of her chest.
"What on earth does this guy mean----"
She thought secretly in her heart.
The girl Huaichun is talking about Meng Hongchen at this moment.
But Ma Rulong and others in the room were already sitting around a long table.
Seeing Lu Ren push the door in, everyone stood up to say hello, and the expressions on their faces instantly switched from Just now's sadness to relief.
"Lu Ren, you are finally released!"
Ma Rulong breathed a long sigh of relief, and his usually calm face showed a rare hint of obvious joy.
"You don't know, yesterday when Huo Yuhao showed those six Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring on Arena, our entire viewing area was stunned. There are six Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and even our Sun Moon Empire's historical materials do not record that anyone can achieve this configuration."
"False." Lu Ren went straight to the point and restated the set of inferences about Simulation Soul Skill that he had just analyzed with Xiao Hongchen.
After everyone listened, the worries on their faces immediately dissipated a lot.
One of the official team members, Mi Jia, patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief, "Let me just say, there is no such exaggeration Soul Ring Configuration! You are still awesome Lu Ren, you can see through their tricks at a glance."
"I didn't sleep well all night yesterday. In my dreams, I was chased and beaten by those six Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring's Huo Yuhao."
"Did you pretend to be Soul Skill? Lu Ren, how did you know? Do you dare to draw such a conclusion without actual evidence?" Ma Rulong Although he believed most of it in his heart, as the official captain of the team, he must remain more cautious than others.
After all, when it comes to Arena, any misjudgment may lead to a total loss.
"I'll show it to you and you'll understand.
Lu Ren said and raised his right hand.
Under the control of his Spiritual Power, six Soul Ring slowly rose from under his feet and slowly rotated in the light of the room.
But what stunned everyone was that the six Lu Ren and Soul Ring were all ten-year-level white.
Ma Rulong opened his mouth, and before he could say "What's so good about this", he saw the color of those white Soul Ring begin to change.
First, the white gradually turned into a layer of light yellow, turning into Hundred-Year Soul Ring.
Then the yellow gradually deepened and turned into purple of Thousand-Year.
Before the purple had time to stabilize, it continued to sink deeper and turned into black for thousands of years.
Then the six black Soul Ring all turned into red at the same instant.
Six Crimson blood-like Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring slowly rotated under the feet of Lu Ren, and a terrifying and almost substantial sense of oppression swept out in all directions like a furious wave. Every molecule in the air trembled violently under this pressure.
Ma Rulong felt as if someone had pinched his throat, making it difficult to breathe. Several other team members with lower cultivation levels even held their breaths.
Yes----that's right!
It's really this sense of oppression!
The dead memories came back and were attacking the brains of everyone present.
Yesterday, Huo Yuhao used the pressure of these six Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring to scare them directly.
And now, what Lu Ren shows is exactly the same situation as Huo Yuhao!
The next second, Lu Ren casually snapped his fingers, and six red Soul Ring disappeared out of thin air, as if they had never existed.
The pressure in the room also completely dissipated with the snap of fingers.
"How about it, is it realistic?"
Lu Ren clapped his hands, with his usual half-smile on his face.
"Huo Yuhao also used a similar method. Of course, his Simulation Soul Skill is much rougher than the one I just used. He can only change the color, but he can't Simulation all the pressure like me."
"But it's more than enough to scare people. Shrek is very weak now, otherwise he wouldn't think of playing such a deceptive trick. Think about it, if they were really confident, they would let a reserve member come on stage to perform tricks?"
"That's it-" Ma Rulong let out a long breath, and the stone that had been weighing on his heart all day and night finally fell to the ground.
He raised his head and looked at Lu Ren, feeling not only admiration but also a sense of peace of mind. "With you here Lu Ren, we have confidence. Shrek is playing such a little trick, which shows that they are really scared."
"You can continue to compete as usual, I won't participate first."
Lu Ren smiled and said in a very casual tone, "With your overall strength, you can definitely survive until the finals. No other college will be your opponent. I will wait until the finals to play against Shrek."
"At my current level, participating in this kind of competition is just like bullying a child. It's meaningless."
He shrugged, and a meaningful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Just playing Shrek can cheer me up a bit. By the way, Ji Juechen, haven't you always wanted to compete? When the game is over, I will accompany you to fight, but you have to wait until I get down to business."
Ji Juechen leaned against the window holding Silver-White Long Sword, and nodded silently after hearing the words.
His eyes have been following Lu Ren. Ever since the six red Soul Ring disappeared just now, the knuckles holding his sword have turned slightly white.
He really wants to have a fight with the current Lu Ren, especially now that he has mastered the entire field.
"What if we are assigned Shrek Academy before the finals?"
Ma Rulong hesitated for a moment and asked about the worst-case scenario.
The competition table is randomly drawn, and no one can guarantee that the two strongest teams will not meet in advance in the semi-finals.
"Then I'll play, it's that simple." Lu Ren yawned, waved casually to everyone, turned around and walked towards the door of the room.
After returning to his room, Lu Ren sat cross-legged on the bed, but did not enter the cultivation state immediately.
He closed his eyes and activated Cursed Spirit Manipulation, and a dark vortex slowly emerged from the shadows in the corner of the room.
The last time he pinched Special Grade Cursed Spirit Kurourushi, although it was so disgusting that he almost threw the bed away, there is no doubt about his fighting ability. He can deal with Titled Douluo head-on, and he can use Festering Life Sword to break through Soul Power's protective body of Level 98 Super Douluo.
So this time he continues to use Cursed Spirit Manipulation, what kind of Cursed Spirit will appear?
He started his first attempt with some anticipation.
Then he was slapped hard by reality.
Within ten minutes, he pinched out a lot of bug-type Cursed Spirit.
Grade 3 Cursed Spirit, Grade 2 Cursed Spirit, Grade 1 Cursed Spirit and so on - almost all Cursed Spirit of the insect type were densely packed into half the room. The sound of the carapace of various arthropods rubbing together with the sound of squirming mucus was so disgusting that Lu Ren almost vomited out all the broth he just drank.
With a dark face, he took all the insects back into the Cursed Spirit space and tried his best to calm his rumbling stomach.
After he calmed down, he began to reflect: Why was the first Cursed Spirit Special Grade, and then it became purely random?
Could it be that Cursed Spirit Manipulation has a hidden mechanism, whereby the deepest fear accumulated in the subconscious mind will be materialized first when used for the first time, and subsequent creations will depend entirely on luck?
Or is it that his emotional state, Spiritual Power fluctuations, and even current psychological expectations will affect the level and form of Cursed Spirit?
With these questions, Lu Ren began to systematically and repeatedly experiment with various variables of Cursed Spirit Manipulation.
Five hours later, the dark vortex in the corner of the room stopped spinning again.
A figure completely different from Kurourushi slowly emerged from the vortex.
Lu Ren breathed a long sigh of relief, at least it was not a bug anymore.
But after he saw the appearance of Cursed Spirit in front of him clearly, he couldn't help but read its name: "Special Grade Specific Disease Cursed Spirit, Smallpox Deity?"
Lu Ren looked at the newly appeared Cursed Spirit.
The appearance of Smallpox Deity is much gentler than that of Kurourushi. At least it does not have a cockroach head, nor those compound eyes that make people feel scalp numb, nor does it have a disgusting and scary appearance.
But Lu Ren's expression quickly switched from thankfulness to disgust. "I pinched a piece of garbage and took it out. This thing is not as good as Kurourushi."
Just from the name, you can tell that this is a disease type Cursed Spirit.
Disease Cursed Spirit's frontal combat effectiveness is not high, and among Special Grade Cursed Spirit it can only be regarded as second-rate, incomparable to Kurourushi.
But it has a precious point, it will be Domain Expansion.
With just one Domain Expansion, Smallpox Deity has at least the combat power of Soul Saint.
"At least Domain Expansion can be so-so. In the future, let Kurourushi charge head-on and make sneak attacks. It will hide in the dark and provide support to Kurourushi. It can barely be seen when it is coordinated."
Lu Ren does not have high expectations for Smallpox Deity.
This thing is almost useless except Domain Expansion, which cannot be compared with Kurourushi.
But as the saying goes, swarm tactics are better than nothing.
Lu Ren wishes he could master countless Special Grade Cursed Spirit. Then he can just push Douluo Continent.
In the next month, Lu Ren locked himself in his room and almost never left the house.
He repeatedly pushed Cursed Spirit Manipulation like an assembly line machine. At first it took several hours to complete one pinch of Cursed Spirit, but later it became more and more efficient.
The competition lasted for about thirty days, and Lu Ren also produced more than a thousand Cursed Spirit in total during these thirty days, consuming a huge amount of Cursed Energy.
From Grade 3 to Special Grade, from insects to diseases, there are various Cursed Spirit types, and as a result, a considerable amount of Cursed Spirit army reserves have been accumulated.
Among them, there are a total of fifteen Special Grade Cursed Spirits, most of which have their own Innate Cursed Technique fields. Only a few Special Grade Cursed Spirits that cannot Domain Expansion have outstanding specialization abilities in other aspects.
In this process, Lu Ren also mastered a brand new skill, which is custom pinching Cursed Spirit.
At first he could only randomly generate Cursed Spirit, but with the accumulation of experience, he found that he could preset the target attributes and restraint direction before pinching Cursed Spirit.
For example, he can create a Cursed Spirit that is specialized for Soul Power, specifically to counter the defense logic of the Soul Master system.
Or create Cursed Spirit, which is specialized in resistance to Radiance Attribute. Although it is not completely immune to the restraint of light and lightning, it can at least guarantee that when being attacked by restraint attributes on the battlefield, it will not be dragged down by Bei Bei like Kurourushi. The entire insect swarm.
With the skill of customizing Cursed Spirit, Lu Ren is really more and more happy with Cursed Spirit Manipulation and Cursed Technique.
Especially when his cultivation level increases, these Cursed Spirit created by him will also increase in strength----
Coupled with Necromancy, he will be able to fight thousands of troops by himself!
"By the way, you stayed in your room for a month just to pinch these disgusting things?"
Ice Empress was lying on his side on Lu Ren's bed, supporting his head with one hand. The green Twin Tails was hanging on the pillow, and his two calves were swaying gently over each other.
Her tone was full of confusion and disgust, but her Orange-Gold eyes never left Lu Ren's back.
Lu Ren didn't care. "So what? Anyway, I think my Cursed Spirit Manipulation is getting more and more proficient."
"Now I can make whatever type of Cursed Spirit I want, strengthen whatever attributes I want to strengthen, and stack mechanisms if I want to stack them. The growth limit of this Cursed Technique is much higher than I originally expected."