Xuan Zi: I Haven't Gotten Aboard Yet!!!

"Sun Moon is a sacred place, who dares to..."

Lu Cheng, expressionless, led his Treasure-Hunting Squad into the courtyard. His Double Pupils were quite eerie, and his mental control ability, in just one exchange, subdued some of the Soul Engineer guarding the area, leaving them standing there dumbfounded.

Lu Cheng glanced at them and saw that there were seven people in total, all wearing the uniforms of the Red and White Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineer Legion. The one in the lead was obviously the team leader, and he looked to be Level 7 Soul Engineer.

He waved casually.

"All soldiers, commit suicide and return to heaven!"

"Pfft~"

The next instant, witnessed by many members of the same age team, except for Li Zhong, the leader, the other six people instantly picked up the military-issue soul-guided short daggers and slashed them across their necks.

Blood splattered everywhere.

"What terrifying mind control..." After staring at the six corpses with blood splattered in the courtyard for Xu Jiujiu, he couldn't help but shrink back, his face full of shock. Just how many secrets did this guy hide?

Tang Wutong behind him also became much more obedient. It was clear that no matter how arrogant and angry she was, she would not make any small moves here.

These past two years have indeed been a learning experience. After being thoroughly beaten down by Lu Cheng, he now feels both fear and resentment towards that guy.

Lu Cheng waved his hand, and Li Zhong, the leader, immediately changed his demeanor, becoming like a walking corpse. He opened the door to the small courtyard house, moved aside one of the cabinets to reveal a hidden compartment, and entered the password.

With a snap.

Then a tunnel leading underground was revealed.

After Li Zhong navigated through a series of complex codes and traps, the group squeezed onto a lift platform and slowly descended to the second floor.

The guards were also dealt with by Lu Cheng in a single move.

According to Jing Hongchen, the second floor is used to store rare metals, a total of thirty-two kinds, with a total quantity of tens of thousands of tons. Both those that can be bought on the market and those that cannot are available here.

However, Lu Cheng and his group were soon blocked by a heavy door. Even Li Zhong and the guards here did not know the password to the warehouse.

"Hmm..." Lu Cheng frowned slightly.

"Use that Blade of Life." Electrolux's voice echoed in his mind, "It also has another name, the Mother of Metal. It can extract the ' Life ' of metals, but it cannot absorb it itself. If no external force absorbs it, that Life will dissipate into the air."

"... I almost forgot about that." Lu Cheng smiled.

With a gentle touch of his finger to his forehead, a pair of emerald green eyes slowly opened, and at the same time, the Blade of Life slowly emerged from his forehead.

Ever since he touched forehead with the auspicious Auspicious Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest, his eyes have evolved into the Eye of Destiny.

Holding the Blade of Life, he plunged it into the heavy metal door, instantly turning its pale golden sheen a dark red. "All of you, step back."

Lu Cheng narrowed his eyes slightly, flames swirling around his left hand as a bow slowly materialized, which he raised to face the metal door.

The arrow was shot out and tore through everything with a deafening roar.

"Walk!"

Upon seeing the entire warehouse piled high with rare metals, Lu Cheng's eyes lit up for a moment. Good heavens, this stuff is even more than what he looted from the Illustrious Virtue Hall back then. He winked at Tang Ya, Wang Dong'er, and other members of the Tang Sect Team, especially some Polyhedral Demon Crystal and Golden Cloud, metals that are considered extravagant even for making Level 9 Soul Tool.

The latter nodded, his face beaming with excitement, and began to take on all the responsibilities.

The Tang Sect also lacks rare metals. Although they cannot create the Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus yet, it is only a matter of time. When top-grade rare metals meet the Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus, its power will surely be comparable to that of Titled Douluo.

The three youths from the Clear Sky Sect exchanged glances, and two of them split up, while seven from the Shrek Academy sorted through the metal. At this point, the alliance between Shrek and the Clear Sky Sect was already on the verge of collapse; it had only been forcibly united by Tang San's name.

In reality, they had already been thoroughly humiliated by Lu Cheng's glare, but now they were banding together purely to escape Mingdu.

Xu Jiujiu's beautiful eyes lit up, and she swallowed hard like a greedy person. She then instructed three members of the Star Luo Team following closely behind her to carry the items into the storage soul guide diamond ring.

Everyone silently followed the rules set by Lu Cheng, and did not touch many expensive metals.

They could only take some of the Tang Sect hadn't had time to take, and that was already quite a generous amount. The entire warehouse was so vast that it seemed to stretch endlessly.

"Next floor."

Looking at the team members whose eyes were already shining and who couldn't move, wishing they could all be assigned to carry things here, Lu Cheng smiled. In fact, the next floor was more than ten times the size of this floor because it was filled with Soul Tool, making it a veritable steel forest.

Clearly, even though countries had prepared themselves mentally, they had not anticipated that this arsenal would be so vast.

I'm truly terrified of being poor.

Sure enough, upon reaching the third floor, Xu Jiujiu's eyes widened in astonishment. Soul Tool Soul Tool, densely packed together, resembled a steel forest...

With a somewhat complicated look, he glanced at Lu Cheng, who was leading the group and seemed to be smiling as if everything was going according to plan. He reminded himself to allocate the troops reasonably when he came, because what the Star Luo Empire lacked most was not rare metals, but Soul Tool.

Look at Shrek next door, they're completely dumbfounded.

The second level had seven people left, but Clear Sky Sect and he were not of one mind, so only four reserve team members remained. In contrast, Star Luo Empire only had three people left on the previous level, leaving a total of eleven people.

They picked up the sesame seeds but lost the watermelon!

Before the Shrek disciples could feel frustrated, Lu Cheng waved his hand, Long Aotian instantly understood. He led the twelve people into the pile of Soul Tool and began collecting them frantically.

Ahead was a large square, piled high with countless level four and five long-range Soul Cannon, roughly estimated to be over a thousand. Lu Cheng slowly walked to a cannon barrel, gently stroking the dark metal, which still smelled of rust; it looked like brand new.

The Sun Moon Empire was built, but it probably didn't even have a chance to be deployed on the battlefield before they wiped it all out.

This thing has a range of about 500 meters. One unit is indeed ordinary, but when combined with Soul Guidance Ray Gun at a distance, it becomes an all-terrain self-propelled Soul Cannon.

Even boxes of sealed, Fixed Soul Cannon Shell and Milk Bottle completely change their nature.

The entire third level of Soul Tool is enough to arm four elite Soul Engineer Legion, so elite that they are comparable to the Beast Soul Engineer Legion. The only pity is that they can't take them all with them.

At least one-third of them are destined to be destroyed here.

And of course, there's... the very bottom layer.

Lu Cheng's lips curled into a smile.

His ultimate goal for this trip.

The fourth level is extremely hidden; even Jing Hongchen doesn't know it. However, he does know that finding its entrance... will be quite difficult.

"Brother Sky Dream!"

However, the one thing Lu Cheng didn't lack was cheat codes.

Alright!

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm chuckled, transforming into a golden worm that condensed on its shoulder. Its boundless Spiritual Power, as vast as the ocean, swept out and seeped into the ground.

Just a few minutes later, the location they had found Sharing with Lu Cheng.

"Found it!"

Lu Cheng nodded, bent down, and unleashed the Blade of Life once more. After completely draining the Life from the metal floor, he shattered the floor and leaped downwards.

The fourth floor was even smaller than the first, but it contained sixteen Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell. This was the true culprit behind the Mingdu explosion. Back then, Huo Gua had prepared Fixed Soul Cannon Shell enough to blow up the entire armory, but he forgot about them...

"Buzz..."

The Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell looked somewhat "bulky and fat," but the complex Soul Power fluctuations emanating from them made Lu Cheng's heart tremble. If these things were detonated, he would die on the spot.

"Take it and run. I can't handle the alarms here." Lu Cheng pondered for a moment, estimating that the people above had looted enough, before waving his hand and stuffing the Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell, which emitted a scarlet light, into a high-level storage diamond ring.

"Buzz..."

The next instant, the surrounding walls flashed red, and the alarm blared throughout the sky.

"Walk!"

Lu Cheng leaped up from the bottom, and Long Aotian and the others followed him without hesitation.

Mingdu.

Tonight is destined to be extraordinary.

The once quiet night sky was filled with the sound of alarms. Many disciples of the Mingdu Grand Hotel were still asleep when they were awakened. They went downstairs in their pajamas to check, but they never expected that they were already on full alert.

"Go back!"

An elderly man with white hair coldly surveyed the many participating disciples.

"What does your Sun Moon Empire mean? Do you want to imprison us?" A disciple of a sect stepped forward arrogantly, pointing at the white-haired old man and angrily rebuking him.

"Heh, you guessed right." Xu Jiangliu chuckled, staring coldly at the disciple.

His aura as a Titled Douluo was clearly visible, pressing down on everyone. The members of the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Engineer Corps who surrounded him took out their Soul Guidance Ray, and beams of infrared light fell on the faces of the bewildered participating disciples and teachers.

"From this moment forward, completely ban them and get back to your original location!!"

Only now did all the participating disciples realize that none of the established powers of the continent, such as the Body Sect, the Star Luo Empire, and Shrek Academy, were present.

"Captain, what should we do?"

Among the Heavenly Dragons, one disciple, his face pale, looked at the core figure with a gurgling throat.

Yu Tianlong's eyes twitched suddenly, and he gritted his teeth.

"Earth Dragon Sect, it's not there either..."

Mingdu, imperial palace.

A series of booming sounds could be heard continuously.

Du Busi manifested his Martial Soul Avatar, and the enormous dark green giant was clashing with Long Xiaoyao. Meanwhile, Xuan Zi was being brutally beaten by Kong Deming. The two sides were clearly at a disadvantage due to the imbalance of power.

After all, there was still a Limit Douluo watching the show from the other side.

"Does the Imperial Advisor think we should keep them here?" Xu Tianran asked with a smile.

He really enjoyed this feeling of having the big picture under control.

To control the fate of everyone and dominate the continent.

Let the Sun Moon be great again.

But... something still feels off.

"Perhaps, if you can accept that old bastard self-destructing over your Mingdu." Ye Xishui curled her lips, her tone full of mockery.

We have a cooperative relationship, not a life-or-death alliance.

If they were confident they could keep the Body Sect members here, they wouldn't have gone to such lengths to set up traps outside Mingdu. If they wanted to keep Du Busi, they would have to fight to the death.

But how much money? Their Holy Spirit Cult comes to earn "souls," not to send people to their deaths.

"Heh, Grand Preceptor, you're joking." A barely perceptible hint of annoyance flashed in Xu Tianran's eyes, clearly indicating that he was growing increasingly impatient with this Grand Preceptor.

Last time in the competition, when Xuan Zi was thrown over, she could have blocked it immediately, but she watched like a spectator until she was forced to reveal her trump card before making her move.

The cooperation between the Sun Moon Empire and the Holy Spirit Cult was inherently risky.

Now... the crack is getting bigger and bigger.

"Boom!!!"

But in the next instant, Xu Tianran's pupils suddenly contracted as he turned to look at the location of the Sun Moon Empire Royal Academy, where alarms blared across the sky and thick smoke rose into the air.

"No, it's the location of the armory! Something happened there!" Xu Tianran's face turned ashen.

"A bunch of useless trash."

The armory was guarded by a prince of the royal family, Xu Guozhong, who was one of the instigators of the palace coup that he launched with his father, and is now someone Xu Guozhong is trying to win over.

But now...

Xu Tianran was filled with rage; he himself was unharmed, but his own backyard was on fire.

"Back up, back up!"

Xu Tianran said angrily.

But the next moment, the attacks from the Body Sect and others intensified, holding back the large force stationed in the palace.

"Damn it, die!"

Xu Tianran couldn't hold back any longer and pressed the button. Instantly, the entire palace transformed into a massive armory, even including a level nine Soul Cannon.

Xishui Alliance.

Competition area.

Lu Cheng, clad in a long black robe and concealing his face with a mask, twirled his fingers rapidly, gripping a dark cyan Carving Knife. Like a dragon in motion, metal shavings flew everywhere as a core array gradually took shape.

Pick up the metal mold on the table and assemble it.

A standard level eight Soul Cannon appeared in the eyes of the judges, especially Ye Yulin, whose eyes lit up as he rubbed the Stationary Soul Cannon back and forth.

In his eyes, this level-eight Stationary Soul Cannon was at most well-made, something only an extremely experienced Level 8 Soul Engineer could make, but... the problem was...

This was made by a young man in his mid-twenties.

If he hadn't seen the carving and crafting process with his own eyes, he probably would never have believed it.

Even if he relied on taking drugs to reach his current cultivation level, it's still terrifying, okay? After all, the Sun Moon Empire has experimented and found that the human body has a limit to its tolerance for drugs.

Next comes the showdown.

Lu Cheng remained calm as he glanced at the spectator stands. A woman in black robes sat there, and upon seeing Lu Cheng's gaze, the corners of her lips curved slightly, revealing a hint of girlish charm.

That's right. He came to participate not only to take the championship prize, but also, of course, to remain in the Holy Spirit Cult under another identity.

They're all old acquaintances anyway.

I've seen this a few times in Simulation Device. Although the endings aren't exactly pleasant, at least... we were all colleagues once, weren't we?

"I surrender!"

Faced with this Level 8 Soul Tool, the opponents were surprisingly unanimous. After seeing the first guy blasted into dust, instantly evaporated, and leaving no trace, they all chose to admit defeat.

"The Grand Finals... are over."

Ye Yulin smiled as she announced the results. Although it was somewhat dramatic, the boy's strength was real; he was at least Level 8 Soul Engineer, and his techniques seemed to have been honed over many years.

Even he considered taking on a disciple, but planned to test him first and then speak up after verifying the latter's identity.

There's no rush.

"This is the reward."

Xishui Alliance.

Feng Ling and Nangong Wan escorted Lu Cheng out together. The latter pointed to the two boxes on the ground and explained with a smile, "These are the competition rewards: Level 9 Soul Tool, the Sun Moon Divine Needle; and a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell, a reward exclusively for you by our Xishui Alliance."

Thank you.

Lu Cheng smiled as he put the item into his storage ring, secretly glancing at Ye Guyi, who was following closely behind the two.

"However..." Feng Ling's voice rang out, "Would you be willing to join the Holy Spirit Cult? The treatment my cult can offer you will definitely not be worse than that of Ye Yulin."

"Can."

Lu Cheng smiled and nodded without hesitation.

This left Feng Ling and Nangong Wan somewhat puzzled.

"Withdraw!"

Mingdu, imperial palace.

As Xu Tianran revealed his trump card, Lu Cheng also summoned the Gate to the Undead Plane without hesitation.

The participating teams were already waiting inside. Upon hearing this, the experts from the Star Luo Empire hesitated for a moment. Although this thing resembled the methods of Evil Soul Master, as long as they could escape, they didn't care what it was.

"What is this thing?!"

Xian Lin'er was completely bewildered, and Xuan Zi was even more unwilling.

He glared angrily at Lu Cheng: "Kid, are you kidding us? Where are you going to take us after we go inside?"

"If you're not going in, then you can stay here." Du Busi said with a grin, his figure surging into it.

"..."

Just as the Shrek team leaders hesitated for a moment, Lu Cheng glanced at them indifferently, and without hesitation, stepped straight into the door.

"Hey hey hey..." Xuan Zi said angrily, about to follow, but the door slowly disappeared into the air.

The scene suddenly fell silent.

At the same time, things started to get strange.

The students of the Shrek Academy were dumbfounded.

Only Xuan Zi's mournful roar echoed through the sky.