"I heard that Your Majesty wishes to meet an old friend in our academy. I wonder which one it is? I will have someone find them immediately."
Flender led Wang Hao and the others to a luxurious hall. After exchanging pleasantries, he asked them a question.
He had already secretly inquired about the previous situation from Tang Hao, so he knew what Wang Hao had said earlier.
He didn't believe such a being would lie, so it was true that a descendant of this person truly existed within the Shrek Academy.
"His name is Jing Ling, and his Martial Soul is Skeleton!"
Without hesitation, Wang Hao frankly revealed the identity of the so-called descendant of an old friend.
" Skeleton Martial Soul? I seem to vaguely remember that."
Flender pondered. Skeleton Martial Soul were inherently strange and rare, so he had some impression of them. However, there were as many as 100,000 students in the Shrek Academy, so he couldn't recall them for the time being.
Go and fetch them!
Liu Erlong whispered an instruction to someone behind him.
She couldn't think of anyone named Jing Ling, so she had to send someone to find her.
In any case, that mysterious Grandmaster wouldn't lie, and his own boss Flender, said he had some impression of him, so this person must exist.
"Well!"
Looking at Flender and Liu Erlong, Wang Hao couldn't help but sigh.
Jing Ling is the substitute player that Yu Xiaogang selected from the Blue Tyrant Academy for the Shrek Team in the original novel.
They were elite talents carefully cultivated by Liu Erlong. In fact, in order to participate in the college competition at that time, four people who should have graduated were specially kept behind.
However, Wang Hao's arrival disrupted many of life's trajectories in this world.
The Blue Tyrant Academy founded by Liu Erlong was just so-so. Although Jing Ling and the other three could not compare to those top geniuses, they were not too far behind. With their own hard work, they cultivated to the Soul Elder level of over thirty in their early twenties.
Unfortunately, the Golden Iron Triangle did not break up; instead, they jointly established Shrek Academy, and thanks to Yu Xiaogang's reputation, they attracted many geniuses to join.
This made the original four seem insignificant, and they were even forgotten by Flender and the others.
It has to be said, this is a small tragedy!
Soon, a young man with a cold and stern demeanor was brought over, along with a man and a woman. The man was unusually heroic, while the woman was gentle and elegant.
The man and woman were stopped outside, and only the cold-looking young man was brought into the hall.
"Let them in too!"
Wang Hao glanced at the man and woman who were being held back outside, and his heart stirred slightly. He then gestured for the two of them to come in as well.
With Wang Hao speaking up, the people at the door dared not stop them and quickly let the two in.
"Hello, Dean and Vice Deans!"
Upon entering the hall, Jing Ling and the other two greeted Flender and his companions somewhat reservedly, clearly unaccustomed to such a scene.
"You must be Jing Ling! Don't be nervous. This is Grandmaster from the Spirit Hall, who has a history with your father's generation. He's here to see you."
Flender gestured for Jing Ling not to be nervous and gave a brief explanation, which excited Jing Ling.
"Senior, do you know my father?"
Jing Ling looked at Wang Hao excitedly. He himself was an orphan, abandoned when he was still an infant, and had never met his parents.
According to the old man who adopted him, there were a large number of corpses not far from where he was abandoned, which appeared to be a caravan that had been ambushed and killed by bandits.
The goods were all taken away, and the caravan members were gathered together and burned, leaving no trace.
He had already given up all hope, but unexpectedly, someone who knew his father came to visit him today.
How could he not be excited?
"They look so alike, so incredibly alike, they're practically identical."
Looking at Jing Ling's face, Wang Hao was filled with emotion!
Before transmigrating, there was one thing I wanted to complain about when I watched the Douluo anime: Net Trap, one of the Eight Exquisites Qian Sha from the Legend of Qin, somehow ended up in the Douluo Continent as Jing Ling, who possessed Skeleton Martial Soul.
The two characters used the same model. I initially thought it was because the Xuanji Niangniang were being lazy, but who would have thought that they really do look very similar to Qian Sha?
"No, this is Qian Sha's true spirit!"
Upon suddenly sensing Jing Ling's true spirit, Wang Hao's expression changed.
This guy's true spirit is actually the same as Qian Sha's, which means that this guy might really be Qian Sha's reincarnation.
Although the Douluo Continent and the Legend of Qin's Moon worlds are completely different worlds, the reincarnation of the True Spirit is only affected and controlled by the Great Reincarnation of the Heavens.
For example, the previous bodies that Wang Hao possessed were his true spirit reincarnations, and obviously Qian Sha Jing Ling was the same.
This made Wang Hao even happier, after all, it was like meeting an old friend in a foreign land.
"This is your father. He saved my life, and I promised him I would take good care of his wife and children. Unfortunately, for some reason, I lost track of you until recently when I received news of you."
Wang Hao Projection a figure using his Soul Power; it was none other than the Legend of Qin Qian Sha's image.
Xuan Jian's cultivation technique is very strange; it can forcibly bind other people's souls to his own body, and he even created an Eight Exquisites Killing Formation.
Of course, these Eight Exquisites are not the original Eight Exquisites, but rather the ones carefully selected by Xuan Jian, all of whom are the most elite assassin souls in the Legend of Qin.
Qian Sha had the weakest foundation, but his potential was considerable. Even in the later stages, he was not abandoned by Xuan Jian and even became the leader of the Eight Exquisites.
So Wang Hao had met that guy a few times, and even had him do some work for him, so they were quite familiar with each other.
"They really are cut from the same mold!"
Looking at the Projection Wang Hao had conjured, and then at Jing Ling, Flender, and the others, they immediately dispelled their last bit of doubt.
They look so alike, no one would believe they're not father and son!
"Father!"
Looking at the figure that was so similar to herself, Jing Ling's eyes welled up with tears, and she knelt down on the ground.
"Senior, is my father already...?"
Forcing herself to calm down, Jing Ling looked up at Wang Hao.
He wasn't stupid; he could tell from Wang Hao's earlier words that his father had likely met with misfortune, otherwise he wouldn't have entrusted himself and his mother to this person.
"A hitman will die at the hands of others sooner or later. Your father was already aware of this, so there's no need to feel sorry for him."
I have two purposes for coming here today. First, to ask if you are willing to return to the Spirit Hall with me. Second, to pass on your father's Sword Dao to you.
Wang Hao was seriously bluffing. Although it was just an excuse he made up to distract Tang Hao and the others, since Jing Ling was indeed the reincarnation of Qian Sha, he didn't mind nurturing him.
"Thank you, senior, but this Spirit Hall..."
Jing Ling expressed her gratitude, but hesitated slightly regarding Wang Hao's first request, instinctively glancing at Flender and the others.
"Dean Flender, you wouldn't have been talking badly about our Spirit Hall behind our backs, would you?"
Hu Liena, who had been silent until now, spoke up, glaring at Flender with her beautiful eyes, which made Flender feel extremely embarrassed.
He did indeed add his own ideas to the Shrek Academy's education, but he wasn't the only one doing so; other factions also added their own ideas to the training of their juniors.
Even the cadets of the Empire were no exception.
After all, all forces in the Douluo Continent now regard the Spirit Hall as a major enemy, and naturally they will try to exclude it from top to bottom.
Brainwashing the talents cultivated is necessary, especially for those Soul Master who rise from the ranks of commoners.
"Hmph! Do we really need to deliberately smear the actions of your Spirit Hall?"
Tang Hao, who had remained silent all along, let out a cold snort, his killing intent and hatred still burning fiercely.
"It's alright, I won't force you on that, but the gates of the Spirit Hall are always open for you."
Wang Hao waved his hand dismissively. Since he had decided to train Jing Ling, he naturally had ways to make him willingly join the Spirit Hall family.
"Dean Flender, would you mind giving me a space to teach Sword Dao?"
"Of course not. In the Shrek Academy, Your Majesty can borrow any training ground you fancy."
Flender generously told him to do as he pleased, and he was also very interested in the Sword Dao spoken of by this mysterious Grandmaster from the Spirit Hall.
Thank you!
" Grandmaster, it seems you haven't made the necessary preparations. How about we postpone our academic exchange until tomorrow?"
Wang Hao nodded to Flender, then turned his gaze to Yu Xiaogang, who had remained silent.
"The host goes along with the guest!"
Yu Xiaogang gave a stiff reply, while simultaneously trying to guess the true intentions of this mysterious Grandmaster from the Spirit Hall.
He didn't believe the other party was genuinely there for academic exchange. After all, according to the available intelligence, this person was Bibi Dong's absolute confidant, and his arrival must have been at her behest.
This makes things much more complicated!
" Nana, take your time to explore Shrek Academy, relax, and remember that a balance between work and rest is key. Don't push yourself too hard."
"And while you're at it, chat with the students at the Shrek Academy. There are quite a few geniuses here whose talent is no less than yours, and some are even stronger."
Wang Hao stood up, greeted Hu Liena, gestured to Jing Ling and the other two, and walked out of the hall. Flender and the others quickly had someone follow and lead the way.
After Wang Hao and the others left, the atmosphere in the hall became tense, and everyone's expressions were grim.
After some conversation, they still couldn't figure out the other party's true intentions, which put them in a very passive position.
" Your His Excellency Haotian, I'll be leaving the next few days in your care!"
After a long silence, Flender spoke earnestly to Tang Hao.
After all, the other side had brought three veteran Titled Douluo with them, posing a considerable threat. Only Tang Hao could contend with them, so they naturally had to ask this big shot to keep an eye on them.
"Don't call me Haotian anymore. Until I defeat that man, that title doesn't belong to me."
Leaving behind a single, indifferent sentence, Tang Hao vanished from the hall in a flash, his face cold.
That man once publicly declared that there would be no more Haotian after him, and renamed their Clear Sky Sect's inherited Martial Soul as Black Hammer.
Since then, they have never referred to themselves by the name Haotian again.
On one hand, she feared that man; on the other hand, she wanted to remember this humiliation until she defeated him and reclaimed the name of Haotian, just as that man had done back then.
What exactly happened to the Clear Sky Sect back then?
Noticing Tang Hao's unusual expression before leaving, Flender looked at Yu Xiaogang with suspicion, as did Liu Erlong.
They didn't understand what exactly happened during the battle of the Clear Sky Sect back then.
"Don't look at me, I don't know either."
Yu Xiaogang shook his head with a wry smile and explained, "Although my father was present at the time, he never told us what happened back then, and everyone present considered it a taboo subject."
He was naturally very curious about what happened back then, but when he asked many people who knew about it, they all remained silent with expressions of fear, as if they were afraid of some terrifying existence.
Therefore, even as a direct descendant of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, he was unaware of what happened back then.