Lu Ren looked at Ice Empress's comfortable look and couldn't help but add, "Also, I haven't fallen behind in practice, have I? I'm almost level 64 now."
"Oh, it's really not as good as before. I used to be able to advance to several levels in a month, but now I can't even advance to one level in a month."
"Sure enough, you have to rely on chance to level up quickly. Just relying on meditation is too slow."
"You guy----" Ice Empress laughed angrily at his obedient tone of voice, "Can the growth rate of Soul Emperor's cultivation be compared with that of Soul Ancestor and Soul King?"
"Why don't you apply your target of leveling up to six levels a month during Soul Ancestor to Titled Douluo?"
"The total amount of Soul Power required for each level of Soul Emperor is enough for you to upgrade several levels during Soul Ancestor and Soul King.
"You climbed from level sixty-three to almost level sixty-four in one month, which is already quite an astonishing speed. It would take several months or even half a year for other Soul Emperor to break through to level one. It's too slow for you to climb one level in one month."
"Tsk, that's right what you said." Lu Ren suddenly turned his neck and made a slight crackling sound from his joints.
He yawned and fell backward, with the back of his head accurately resting on Ice Empress's soft and slightly cool belly.
Ice Empress's body temperature is naturally low. Through a thin layer of clothing, the just right coolness seeped into the back of his neck through his skin, as if he had applied an ice pillow that would not melt in the summer.
Her unique cool body fragrance came to his nose, mixed with the smell of ice and snow and some indescribable pure smell in the Soul Spirit state, which made him involuntarily squint his eyes slightly, and let out a sigh of satisfaction in comfort, "It's really good, this touch is simply amazing."
Then he reached out and touched Ice Empress's calf resting on the edge of the bed.
The hand slowly slid along the side of her leg, and the fingertips outlined slender and flexible lines.
Ice Empress's transformed skin was as smooth as the finest Ice Silkworm silk. It felt cool and soft to the touch, and it felt so good that he couldn't help but give an even more exaggerated evaluation. "I can play with these legs for a year."
"..
Ice Empress's pretty face turned red in an instant.
She looked down at this human being who was using her belly as a pillow unscrupulously and touching her legs with his hands. The whole Brain fell into chaos.
This guy definitely did it on purpose!
Since she was Soul Spirit and couldn't really hurt him, he took advantage of her even more.
She took a deep breath and spoke in a tone that was mixed with embarrassment and helplessness, "I started to think about whether it was a completely wrong decision to follow you. You are becoming more and more shameless now. You have begun to use me as a human body pillow and cooling patch. Do you want to be shameless?"
Lu Ren still closed his eyes, treating Ice Empress's belly as the best pillow in the world, and said in a casual yet satisfied tone, "Didn't I give you hope? Soul Spirit Contract You also signed, you are free to fight, your cultivation is steadily recovering, and everything I promised is being fulfilled in a down-to-earth manner."
"Besides, I'm not sleeping with you for nothing. Look at your body temperature, Ice Empress. For Soul Master, this is a natural artifact. I don't have to feel hot anymore when I hold you in the summer."
Ice Empress pursed his lips and found that he couldn't find any reason to refute.
Everything he said came true.
Soul Spirit Contract retained her free will. Far North's journey helped her break away from Fortune's Binding Vow. She never gave her any mandatory orders in daily interactions.
It was precisely because he kept his word that she became more and more helpless against him.
So Ice Empress could only bring the topic back to his sexual repression. "Your top priority now is to quickly find a woman to solve this problem."
"Those human girls who are traveling with you are pretty good, there is no need to take it out on me, a loli-shaped Soul Spirit.
"Now I completely understand why you humans talk about being warm and lustful." You are just too idle.
F
Lu Ren opened one eye and glanced at her with an extremely subtle look. "Then who do you think is suitable for me? Meng Hongchen? Ye Guyi? Or----"
He deliberately prolonged the last word and did not finish the sentence, but the meaningful tone was enough for Ice Empress to interpret countless subtexts.
Ice Empress rolled his eyes without hesitation. "It's none of my business. Aren't you very capable? Find your own solution. Anyway, I'm only responsible for helping you fight, not helping you solve this problem."
At this moment, there was a rapid knock on the door.
The muffled sound of "dong dong dong" sounded quickly and urgently. It was obvious that the person who came was in a state of extreme anxiety.
Ice Empress was startled by the sudden movement, and pushed Lu Ren's head away like a kitten with explosive fur. His cheeks turned red and turned into a stream of light that rushed back to Sea of Consciousness.
Before disappearing, she dropped an ultimatum with obvious embarrassment. "Next time you do this, I will freeze your head into an ice sculpture!"
Lu Ren rubbed the back of his head which felt quite comfortable due to the cold belly of Ice Empress, slowly sat up from the bed and walked towards the door.
The young man who was still comfortably nestled in bed just now switched to his usual state the moment he stood up.
The back is straight, the light is cool, and all laxity and fatigue are restrained and made pure.
As soon as the door opened, Ma Rulong stood outside with an anxious look on his face.
Lu Ren asked casually, "What's wrong?"
"The finals are about to start tomorrow, how lazy are you going to be?" Ma Rulong said with a hint of obvious helplessness in his tone.
"Everyone has been busy this past month, but you have been sitting in your room tinkering with something."
"You have to come out to me no matter what today. The hall master asked me to come here to inform you."
"The final tomorrow?"
Lu Ren slapped his head.
For the past month, he has been soaking in the practice of Cursed Spirit Manipulation in his room, repeatedly pinching Cursed Spirit, analyzing Cursed Spirit, and adjusting the cycle of Cursed Spirit every day. Except for occasionally understanding the situation outside through the perspective of Kurourushi's cockroaches all over the city, he is almost completely isolated from the outside world.
Now that Ma Rulong said this, I realized in hindsight that the thirty days from the start of the competition to now have just passed by in a flash.
Ma Rulong's expression became quite complicated. "Also, you have to pay attention to one thing. There are two more Soul Emperors in the team over there at Shrek."
"One is Ma Xiaotao, whom we have never seen before, and the other is Dai Yueheng, White Tiger Duke, the eldest son of Dai Hao. Soul Power's cultivation level has already reached the Soul Emperor level before the competition."
"Both of them were seriously injured in a Inspection Corps mission and were considered unable to compete."
"But now the injury has almost recovered. At least after diagnosis, there is no problem in participating in the war. One Ma Xiaotao is troublesome enough. Add Dai Yueheng and Lu Ren. You must be careful when dealing with them."
"Come on, it's them who should be careful."
Lu Ren smiled nonchalantly.
Watch out for those two Soul Emperor?
Don't make you laugh, Brother Lu. He currently has an army of more than a thousand Cursed Spirits, including fifteen Special Grade Cursed Spirits. Coupled with his own five Cursed Technique and Soul Emperor levels of cultivation, even Titled Douluos can fight head-on.
To him, the two Soul Emperor students who have not yet graduated are no different from paper.
Even if the two of them were to come together, they probably wouldn't even be able to defeat the Smallpox Deity he released.
"Okay----it's a good thing to be confident." Ma Rulong looked at Lu Ren's nonchalant look and hesitated to speak.
In fact, he has not seen the full strength of Lu Ren with his own eyes. In his understanding, Lu Ren is just a level 63 Soul Emperor with extremely evil talent. He is stronger than the ordinary Soul Emperor, but it should not be so strong that he does not take two top Shrek students of the same level into consideration at all.
But Ma Rulong still chose to believe it. After all, from the time Lu Ren entered the academy to now, everyone who underestimated him has paid the price.
"Just get ready tonight and see the real results on the field tomorrow."
"No problem." Lu Ren closed the door and started preparing for tomorrow's finals.
He first checked Kurourushi's record this month through his spiritual connection.
You won't know if you don't look at it, but you will be shocked when you look at it.
Kurourushi's army of cockroaches has quietly spread throughout Star Luo City. From the imperial city to the slums, from Star Luo Plaza to various hotels, there are Kurourushi little cockroaches secretly monitoring every corner.
Through Cursed Spirit Manipulation's spiritual connection, he can switch to Kurourushi's perspective at any time when needed, overlooking any area of the entire city.
Immediately afterwards, Kurourushi sent him an urgent message through the spiritual connection:
Star Luo City There have been a lot of Titled Douluo level experts lately, and their whereabouts are secretive. I don't know what they are planning secretly.
These people are gradually blocking all the entrances and exits of Star Luo City. They are not just blocking the city on the surface, but are deploying at key nodes for various seemingly normal reasons such as patrolling, reinforcements, and defense assistance, forming an invisible network.
Kurourushi also specifically added that the little cockroaches it sent out overheard snippets of these people's conversations and confirmed that all of them were from the Shrek Academy.
Then Kurourushi stammered and asked Lu Ren in an extremely eager tone. It found several Titled Douluo who were walking and patrolling alone. They were alone, with no one following them, and no witnesses around them.
It asked Lu Ren if it would allow it to eat these people. With its current strength, the success rate of sneak attacks on the lone low-level Titled Douluo was extremely high.
Lu Ren thought for a moment, and then told Kurourushi that Shrek cannot be touched yet.
The sudden appearance and organized blockade of this group of Titled Douluo shows that Shrek is planning something.
If Kurourushi eats a person now, the disappearance of the body and the traces of the rotting curse will immediately arouse the opponent's alert, which is equivalent to detonating this invisible network in advance.
At least we have to wait until tomorrow's game to decide the winner, then we can decide how to deal with these Shrek strong men blocking the city gate based on the situation.
There was an obvious feeling of disappointment from the other end of Kurourushi, but it finally expressed its absolute obedience to the order and continued to devote itself to the city-wide surveillance and Cursed Energy collection work.
Late at night, before the stars outside the window had completely faded, a black figure appeared silently in Lu Ren's room.
Zhang Peng did not call out his iconic "little brother" carelessly this time. Instead, he looked at Lu Ren with an extremely serious face and lowered his voice to the point where only two people could hear. "Now Star Luo City's The situation is a bit complicated. I just walked around outside and found that Shrek seems to have sent a large number of people. In cooperation with the Star Luo Empire official people, all the entrances and exits of Star Luo City have been blocked."
"This is not an arrest operation targeting a certain criminal. It is more like a siege net specially laid out for one person. Little brother, I guess they are coming for you."
Lu Ren asked a very crucial question, "Brother Peng, does he know how many people they have come?"
Zhang Peng was silent for a while, as if silently counting the number of strong men he sensed along the way, and then said, "There are at least a dozen Titled Douluo, and they are all Shrek Academy people. I recognize their Soul Power characteristics. I have dealt with those elders who serve in the inner courtyard."
Good guy.
Lu Ren couldn't help but complain in his heart.
More than a dozen Titled Douluo, just to block him, Shrek really moved out all the money this time.
It seems that Shrek is determined to resolve this matter completely in Star Luo City.
Either he joins Shrek, or he stays here forever.
Zhang Peng's always playful and smiling old face didn't mean the slightest bit of joking at this moment, "From tomorrow on, I will always be by your side to protect you, and I will never let those guys Shrek succeed."
"Even if I am alone, I will risk my life to get you out of the city safely. Yan Shaozhe If that hypocrite dares to block the way, I will settle old and new accounts with him."
"----Brother Peng, don't be so anxious to set the flag.
Lu Ren shook his head slightly, but his tone did not sound like he was joking, "I still have the help of the Body Sect, and Sect Master of the Body Sect will personally help me. This is what I agreed with the Body Sect's people before. What's more, I have two other helpers around me."
The two helpers he mentioned were naturally Ice Empress and Snow Empress.
Since Lu Ren did not absorb Soul Bone from Ice Empress, all the essence and strongest power of Ice Empress are concentrated on that piece of Soul Bone.
Soul Spirit Contract only bound her soul to Lu Ren, which did not weaken her own combat effectiveness. She can still exert terrifying strength close to Four Hundred Thousand Years's cultivation level.
Against the ordinary Super Douluo of Shrek, Ice Empress alone is enough to have the absolute upper hand. Even if Yan Shaozhe takes action personally, he may not be able to get an advantage from her.
Therefore, Ice Empress is currently the most reliable trump card in Lu Ren's hand.
Another helper is Snow Empress.
After this month of rest, Snow Empress's strength has also recovered a little.
Although there is still a gap compared to her heyday, Snow Empress, who has cultivated for 700,000 years, has recovered only a small part of her strength, which is enough to crush the vast majority of Titled Douluo.
She cooperates with Ice Empress in the dark, and the two Far North Heavenly King join forces. No matter how many Titled Douluo Shrek sends out, they may not be able to gain favor.
Not to mention Zhang Peng, the ninety-sixth level Scorpion Tiger Douluo, and Sect Master of the Body Sect Du Busi, Level 98's Super Douluo personally stepped up to the plate.
If such a luxurious lineup cannot beat Shrek, that would be ridiculous.
"You actually have Body Sect as your helper?" Zhang Peng couldn't help but look surprised when he heard this, "You kid, it seems you are Body Sect's person?"
"But why do people from the Body Sect want to join Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy? Aren't these two sworn enemies?"
"This ---- it's a long story." Lu Ren chuckled without further explanation, "In short, Brother Peng doesn't have to worry too much about the network set up by Shrek."
"They have their plans, and I also have my back-up plan. I will see the real results on Arena tomorrow. Once the game is over, what is supposed to come will come naturally."
"Hearing you say that, I feel a lot more relieved." Zhang Peng breathed a long sigh of relief.
Although he has not known Lu Ren for a long time, he knows very well that this young man never does anything he is not sure of. Since he said he has a way to deal with Shrek's encirclement, he must be fully prepared.
He said no more, patted Lu Ren on the shoulder and turned to leave. Before leaving, he specifically told him to rest early so as not to affect his performance in tomorrow's final.
As soon as Zhang Peng left, Lu Ren sat cross-legged and sat back on the bed.
He did not rest immediately as Zhang Peng suggested, but closed his eyes and entered meditation.
Tomorrow is the final. Shrek has set up a dragnet of more than a dozen Titled Douluo outside the arena. The return of Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng inside the arena has also greatly improved Shrek's positive strength.
But Lu Ren did not feel afraid. On the contrary, there was a faint expectation in his heart.
What he has been waiting for is this moment, in front of the entire continent, to bring Shrek down from the altar with dignity and dignity.
Early the next morning, it was just dawn.
Lu Ren's door was forcibly broken open from the outside.
The door collapsed under the impact of Soul Power, and debris scattered in the room, hitting the walls with dense crisp sounds.
"Lu Ren, someone broke in!"
Ice Empress reminded Sea of Consciousness in Lu Ren's post, and she was alert and ready to take action at any time.
Lu Ren on the bed opened his eyes almost at the same moment. The Soul Power around him completed the switch from silence to fighting in one hundredth of a second. The five fingers of his right hand were already close together, and Cursed Technique was ready to go at any time.
"Who?" Lu Ren stood up, his gaze piercing the door like a knife blade.
The person who came was an old man.
He is not tall, about medium height, very thin, but energetic.
He looks to be in his sixties, with short brown-black hair trimmed extremely neatly.
"Are you Lu Ren?" the old man said, his voice hoarse but full of energy.
Lu Ren raised an eyebrow and did not answer his question, "What do you want from me?"
The old man didn't care about his cold attitude and introduced himself, "I am Star Luo Empire Guardian Douluo, Cheng Gang, title Giant Strength, level ninety-one."
"So, what's the matter?" Lu Ren stared at him, silently raising his alert level to the highest level.
The fact that a Star Luo Empire Guardian Douluo forced his way into his room early in the morning on the day of the final was unusual enough in itself.
The corners of Cheng Gang's mouth raised slightly, and he said calmly in a confident tone, "Do you know a person named Ji Juechen?"
Lu Ren's eyes narrowed slightly when he heard the name.
"What happened to him?"
"Haha, you know he got into trouble? If you want to save him, just follow me."
Cheng Gang put his hands behind his back and spoke in an understatement, as if he was talking about a trivial matter.
"Why should I trust you?"
When Lu Ren faced this Titled Douluo, there was no fear in his tone.
His Spiritual Power had been spread out immediately, and he searched all over Star Emperor Hotel, and sure enough, there was no trace of Ji Juechen.
"It's okay if you don't believe it. Unless, you don't want your friend's life anymore." After Cheng Gang finished speaking, he didn't bother to explain more to Lu Ren, and turned around and walked towards the other end of Corridor.
His pace is not fast, it can even be said to be slow, because he believes that Lu Ren will definitely catch up.
Lu Ren stood where he was, and Spiritual Power quickly notified Zhang Peng in the next room through spiritual connection, as well as Jing Hongchen who also lived on the top floor.
After doing all this, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.
That's what's interesting.
Shrek Finally couldn't hold back anymore and wanted to take action?