The footage of his escape had been edited into this highlight reel.
Lin Yi himself couldn't help but scowl.
He stopped paying attention to what the Heavenly Screen was showing and began inspecting all of Mingdu on his own.
He walked through Mingdu like this, probing every direction with his spiritual power. Yet in the most heavily guarded capital of the Sun Moon Empire, not a single alarm sounded.
There were differences even among Limit Douluo.
Lin Yi was undoubtedly among the very strongest of them.
By the ranking system of Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King, Lin Yi was a Quasi-God.
With his means of merging with heaven and earth, as long as he chose to hide, even a sweep of divine consciousness couldn't detect him.
Ever since Tang San had personally descended to the mortal realm to kill him, forcing him to flee with everything he had, Lin Yi had become much more cautious.
He concealed himself at every moment.
He merged himself with heaven and earth, so even if Tang San tried to find him, he could only return empty-handed time and again.
After all, no matter how Tang San wielded the Divine Realm's core or searched the continent with his divine consciousness, he wasn't looking with his own eyes.
If spiritual power couldn't detect any fluctuations, then naturally it couldn't discover a person within its range.
The same was true of divine consciousness.
Unless one looked with one's own eyes.
Of course, although Lin Yi had successfully resurrected and escaped that fatal ordeal, and had remained in hiding ever since, he had inevitably left a trace and given Tang San cause for suspicion.
After all, he had searched everywhere for a Godhood Inheritance, hoping to become a god. Tang San couldn't have noticed nothing at all.
Back to the matter at hand.
Lin Yi swept over every inch of Mingdu, searching for its talented Soul Masters.
"Xiao Hongchen and his sister Meng Hongchen are the faces of the Sun Moon Empire."
It was just that neither of them was old enough to awaken a Martial Soul yet.
Suddenly, Lin Yi's gaze shifted slightly.
Within the range of his spiritual power, a child lay fast asleep, clutching a sword.
"Ji Juechen?"
Lin Yi's figure flickered, and he appeared at the child's front door. He looked up at the sign: Ji Residence.
"There are three Level 6 Soul Engineers in the family. Ji Juechen's family background isn't bad at all."
Although a Level 6 Soul Engineer was nothing special in Mingdu, the fact that a single clan had produced three meant its inheritance was already quite substantial.
That basically showed that the clan's Martial Soul was suited to becoming a Soul Engineer.
With only a brief look, Lin Yi learned a great deal about the Ji Clan.
The Martial Soul inherited by the Ji Clan was not an iron sword, but a very small flying sword.
"Well, I'll be, a flying sword Martial Soul?"
The corner of Lin Yi's mouth twitched.
Its blade was slender, making it very suitable for engraving Core Arrays in place of an engraving knife.
Crucially, this flying sword Martial Soul also possessed some Mental Attribute of its own.
Coupled with the environment for Soul Engineers in the Sun Moon Empire, the Ji Clan had developed in the direction of Soul Engineering.
"Ji Juechen's counts as a Martial Soul Mutation."
His Martial Soul had changed from a flying sword into an ordinary iron sword.
That ought to count as a detrimental mutation.
Yet, with his Mutated Martial Soul as his foundation, Ji Juechen had carved out an unprecedented path.
Lin Yi knew that in the future, Ji Juechen would pick up a piece of Extraterrestrial Meteoric Iron and use it as his own sword, eventually fusing his most ordinary iron Sword Martial Soul with it.
He was a rare example of someone defying the heavens and changing his fate.
Later, after his Extraterrestrial Meteoric Iron sword was destroyed, he fused with the Level 8 Soul Tool, the Sword of Judgment.
In short, Ji Juechen had achieved a fair amount in the way of the sword.
Looking at Ji Juechen, who had only recently awakened his Martial Soul, Lin Yi narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Sword cultivation is too abstract, and it wouldn't be easy for me to teach him."
What they needed was a kind of artistic conception, the sort where they'd suddenly blurt out, "I've attained enlightenment!"
Carefully nurturing him might have the opposite effect.
Lin Yi stepped forward to teach Ji Juechen something, but kept an eye on him.
Within the range of his spiritual power, Lin Yi found the piece of Extraterrestrial Meteoric Iron.
It was a long piece of Extraterrestrial Meteoric Iron. Rather than an iron sword, it looked more like an iron club.
It resembled the fire poker in a woodshed.
He had no idea how Ji Juechen had seen it as a sword.
After a moment's thought, Lin Yi placed the meteoric iron beside Ji Juechen's bed.
Not long after Lin Yi left, Ji Juechen dreamed that Extraterrestrial Meteoric Iron had descended from the heavens and transformed into a divine sword that landed at his feet.
"Hehe..."
Drool trickled unwittingly from the corner of his mouth.
He rolled over and continued sleeping soundly.
Suddenly, he felt something was wrong. Why did it feel so cold?
He blearily opened his eyes and found a divine sword right beside him.
That divine sword was the Extraterrestrial Meteoric Iron sword that had fallen from the heavens in his dream!
Ji Juechen's eyes widened. He tossed aside the standard-issue ordinary longsword in his hand, his whole mind captivated by the fire-poker-shaped Extraterrestrial Meteoric Iron sword.
He stroked the Extraterrestrial Meteoric Iron sword with fascination, then hugged it to his chest, afraid it was all a dream.
Before long, he fell asleep again.
The Sun Moon Imperial City.
Two middle-aged men were arguing fiercely.
One was the reigning emperor of the Sun Moon Empire, and the other was a prince.
Lin Yi arrived outside the great hall without a sound and listened to the argument between the emperor and the prince.
His gaze was inscrutable as he stared at the two men inside.
"The emperor is He Caitou's father, and the prince is Xu Tianran's father."
At the heart of their argument was whether to send troops against the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
The reigning emperor advocated rest and recuperation, as well as easing relations with the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
While easing relations, they would also launch a few small-scale wars to keep the Star Luo Empire in check.
Xu Tianran's father, on the other hand, was much more aggressive, advocating that they sweep straight through the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
"With the strength of our Sun Moon Empire and the many Soul Cannon shells we've stockpiled, we have what it takes to sweep through the Douluo Three Kingdoms. If we keep waiting, are we supposed to wait for some unforeseen trouble to arise for no reason?"
"Our Sun Moon Empire has no means of resisting a Limit Douluo. Once this war breaks out, Shrek Academy won't stand idly by."
"..."
As Lin Yi listened to the two men arguing inside, his gaze grew a little strange.
"They held different views, and that's why the throne was usurped."
"Xu Tianran and his father were indeed decisive and ruthless."
Suddenly, Lin Yi seemed to realize something.
"In the original story, even though Xu Tianran was paralyzed on one side, had many shortcomings, and even consorted with Evil Soul Masters, the throne still remained firmly in his hands. I'm afraid it wasn't merely because Xu Tianran's power had grown."
Lin Yi looked at Xu Tianran's father, who was arguing fiercely in the hall.
He knew that after this man usurped the throne, not only did he fail to launch a war to unify the entire continent, but he also held back for a long time.
Given Xu Tianran's ambition and ruthless nature, there was a strong possibility that, after taking the throne, he would launch a war outright and overrun the entire continent as quickly as possible.
Lin Yi stared at the two men in the hall, his gaze flickering.
He didn't really understand much about matters of governing a country.
He was also hesitating over whether he should interfere with the succession to the throne.
After thinking it over for a long time, he gave up on the idea.
"Delaying the outbreak of war gives the Douluo Three Kingdoms time to develop. If I hasten the war and it triggers a chain reaction, my game of chess might run into trouble instead."