As he spoke, he was holding Toji in his hand and putting it into his Storage Soul Tool.
No one saw his movements clearly, so they didn't react.
Toji stood up from the corpse of the Blood Moon Wolf King.
"If you could acquire skills in this area, you would see a significant improvement."
"While that makes sense, Zhang Lexuan is only level 50, not level 60!"
Chen Feng stepped forward, his brows furrowed as he looked at Toji.
"This wolf king has at least 20,000 years of cultivation, and its formidable combat power, combined with its domain effect, makes it even stronger than a 50,000-year-old Soul Beast."
" Zhang Lexuan absorbing this Soul Ring is practically courting death."
"This is far beyond the optimal perfect Soul Ring Configuration. Zhang Lexuan is the next captain of the Shrek Seven Devils; we absolutely cannot take this risk!"
"Indeed, absorbing Fifth Soul Ring for ten thousand years is usually enough," Toji said calmly. "But I have a way to help Lexuan successfully absorb this Soul Ring that's over twenty thousand years old, especially since it originated from a mutated Soul Beast. For Lexuan, this is a huge boost, an opportunity that can't be missed."
"You idiot, can't you even understand human language?" Chen Feng roared, stepping forward and glaring at Toji. "I've never heard of anyone helping someone absorb Soul Ring beyond their own limits. Are you trying to send Zhang Lexuan to her death?!"
Toji turned to look at Zhang Lexuan beside him:
Have you practiced the cultivation techniques I gave you?
"After training, all my physical strengths have greatly improved, and I think I've broken through my limits twice," Zhang Lexuan replied.
Toji's gaze returned to Chen Feng: "Tell him what age your Fourth Soul Ring is."
"Captain, my Fourth Soul Ring is nine thousand years old, very close to Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring. It was only thanks to Toji's help that I was able to absorb it successfully," Zhang Lexuan said. "He does indeed have a way to help me absorb Soul Ring that exceed my body's limits."
"This is extremely risky, or rather, it's like playing with your Life!" Chen Feng frowned.
"Suitable Soul Beast are rare to begin with. If I miss out, I don't know if I'll ever get a domain-type Soul Skill like this wolf king."
Zhang Lexuan continued to persuade him.
"Let me give it a try."
"... Or perhaps we should wait for Xuan Zi to arrive and make a decision?" Chen Feng sized up Toji. "This friend is far too mysterious; his style of doing things is completely beyond our comprehension..."
Toji lazy to waste words with him and said to Zhang Lexuan:
"Meditate to recover your strength. Once you're ready, you can go absorb the Soul Ring."
Seeing that Toji was ignoring him again, Chen Feng couldn't help but say, "You..."
"You're being so indecisive, it's getting a bit annoying." Toji's expression turned cold as she directly interrupted Chen Feng's spellcasting. "I don't really like wasting time talking to people. I only let it go earlier because you were worried about Lexuan's safety."
"You let this so-called Xuan Zi decide everything? Why didn't he come to your rescue when you were in mortal danger?"
"So you call it using life-or-death crises to temper you? But I've heard that the mortality rate among the Shrek Academy's inner disciples is ridiculously high, rarely exceeding a hundred per year."
"Every student who can become an inner court disciple is almost a genius among geniuses from various countries. Even if it's just for self-training, they shouldn't put their own Life at risk."
Toji said coldly:
"The loss of every genius is a fatal blow to the future of the nation."
"If I hadn't shown up, how many of your people would have died this time?"
" Xuan Zi Xuan Zi, is it him who should help you, or am I?"
"If it weren't for Zhang Lexuan, I wouldn't bother with you guys at all."
Seeing Chen Feng speechless and remaining silent, Toji added, "Don't you like interacting with me? Answer me!"
Chen Feng hesitated for a long time, his face flushed, before finally saying:
"Before entering the inner courtyard, we all need to sign a life-or-death contract, so we are doing this voluntarily!"
Before Chen Feng could finish speaking, Toji suddenly sneered and slammed his Playful Cloud Three-Section Staff heavily into the ground, causing the ground within a ten-meter radius to cave in and shaking the entire scene.
The shock caused most people at the scene to instinctively take a few steps back.
" Shrek teaches you how to be a martyr, not how to be a strong person."
"Using students' lives to secure Shrek Academy's glory forces you to prematurely unleash and overdraw your potential in life-or-death situations..."
"I also met a Soul Saint from your academy," Toji said, placing his hand on Playful Cloud, a slight smile playing on his lips. "But after a life-or-death crisis, he prematurely exhausted all his potential, ruining his path to becoming Titled Douluo, and will remain at the Soul Saint stage for the rest of his life..."
"Is this the result you wanted?"
"Is it Zhao Tie?" Chen Feng felt the words were somewhat familiar and blurted them out subconsciously.
The others exchanged bewildered glances.
They had heard about the Zhao Tie incident three years ago.
Just then, a swaying figure arrived at the scene.
Judging from his unsteady gait, his legs seemed like two flickering candles in the wind, as if they might go out and collapse at any moment.
The old man's face was mostly covered by his disheveled hair, and his tattered clothes were covered with wine stains and dirt, which fluttered in the wind, adding to his desolate appearance.
But his signature gesture of holding a wine gourd in his left hand and a chicken leg in his right immediately revealed his identity.
It was Xuan Zi.
Beside Xuan Zi was a young man in his twenties or thirties, tall and slender with delicate features, exuding an air of scholarly refinement. Judging from the fluctuations in his Soul Power, his cultivation level was not very high.
"It's Xuan Zi!"
Chen Feng and the others' eyes lit up, and they all stepped forward to greet them.
When Xuan Zi arrived, most of them instinctively took deep breaths of air.
Just now, when facing Toji, his aura was so strong that many people present dared not breathe too hard, for fear of displeasing him.
Xuan Zi staggered over to Chen Feng and the others. He looked up, his eyes blurry with drunkenness, and glanced at the scene. A glint of shrewdness flashed in his hazy gaze.
"Not bad." Xuan Zi's wine gourd trembled slightly, spilling a few drops of wine. "You guys did it?"
"I'm sorry to disappoint you, Xuan Zi. We don't have the ability to take down these three ten- Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast." Chen Feng lowered his head, looking ashamed.
"It was this friend who saved us."
Toji glanced at Chen Feng with some surprise.
This person seems to be a decent person, and quite honest, not taking credit for himself.
Then I won't hold it against him.
"Um?"
Only then did Xuan Zi notice Toji's presence.
The real reason is that his presence is ridiculously low.
Xuan Zi looked at it for Toji, then frowned slightly and took a bite of the chicken leg.
"Strange, very strange. There is not a trace of Soul Power fluctuation in your body. Even I cannot tell whether you possess Soul Power. However, your Qi and Blood are extremely vigorous, even stronger than the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast I have ever seen."
"But you still manage to contain such a vast amount of Qi and Blood within your body. If you were to unleash it at full power, what kind of force would it possess?"
"Furthermore, even though you're standing right in front of me, my senses can't detect your presence at all. Even if you're within my sight, once you disappear, I can no longer pinpoint your location."
As he spoke, Xuan Zi chuckled a few times.
"Interesting. After all these years, there are still such young people who can capture my interest."
"Young man, you seem quite young, only around twenty years old, yet you possess such strength. Would you be interested in joining our Shrek Academy?"