Stepping off the flying car, Xie Xie and the others began to examine the statues on the square carefully.
They had all heard many tales of Silver Moon Douluo, so their attention was quickly drawn to the statues of Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen.
Wang Jinxi frowned. "Who are these two?"
"I know!" Xie Xie said excitedly. "I've heard that from twenty thousand years ago to ten thousand years ago, the champions of the continental spirit master competition were always Shrek. Until ten thousand years ago, when the Sun Moon Empire twin broke Shrek Academy's glory and became champions."
Although there were rumors that Shrek Academy's first defeat was due to a legendary evil spirit master, that excuse couldn't be used for the second defeat, could it?
"The team members from those two competitions received the high praise of the entire Sun Moon Empire. Later, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy designed statues for them. The statues on the square should be of them, showing them as they looked when they were young. The representatives among they were the first generation Golden Toad Douluo Xiao Hongchen and Ice Toad Douluo Meng Hongchen."
"...This is deliberately provoking Shrek Academy, isn't it?"
Wang Jinxi clicked his tongue, then smiled. "If Shrek students came here and saw these statues, how would they feel?"
Zhang Yangzi shrugged. "Probably not very pleasant. But that has nothing to do with us..."
He stopped mid-sentence. A figure flashed through his mind. He sighed inwardly and didn't continue.
He couldn't say it had nothing to do with them. His friend was planning to join Shrek Academy. He wondered what it would be like when they met again.
Things would be very different.
The square was bustling with people. Various spirit masters and tourists shuttled among them. The sounds of footsteps and conversation woven into a lively din. The sunlight fell on the statues, plating the metal and stone surfaces with a flowing gold, drawing the gaze of many passersby.
Huo Yuhao also looked at the statues, his heart filled with emotion.
His relationship with these two was not deep. After all, when they really knew each other, they were already in their dozens and dozens of s. It was impossible to have a deep friendship. In fact, if not for their common interest in soul tools, they would not have had a relationship at all.
But in that era, aside from those from the Spirit Transmission Tower and the spirit beasts, the people he was relatively familiar with were those few from Mingde Hall.
But really speaking, his understanding of them was even earlier. He still remembered Xiao Hongchen laughing aloud at the spirit master competition, declaring himself invincible among his peers.
Whether he was truly invincible among his peers was debatable, though.
Before the academy building, a female teacher saw Huo Yuhao and the others. Her eyes lit up, and she quickly approached.
"Are you the students recommended by the Spirit Transmission Tower?" The female teacher's gaze swept over them, lingering for a moment on Huo Yuhao. "My name is Lin Qinghan. Welcome to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. Please follow me to the teaching building to register."
She had recently heard the news from the Spirit Transmission Tower headquarters. After all, the fight had taken place publicly on the Spirit Transmission Tower square. Many who had gone to the Tower on business had witnessed the battle between Huo Yuhao and Ji Wufeng.
She heard that the two had fought so fiercely that the sky darkened, the sun and moon lost their light, and even the Spirit Transmission Tower Master was alerted.
A mere Soul King, yet already a powerhouse on par with a Title Douluo? It was truly hard to imagine. Initially, she had doubted the veracity, but the person who told her this information was her good friend, Zhao Yao. Surely there was no... That actually made it seem even more questionable.
Thinking of her friend's personality, Lin Qinghan was speechless.
"And the entrance exam?" Xie Xie was still somewhat confused.
"No entrance exam."
Lin Qinghan snapped back to the present. She said casually, "The Spirit Transmission Tower and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy have cooperated for so many years. Giving you this small preferential treatment is nothing. With your talent and age, admission wouldn't be a problem anyway. We can skip the trouble troublesome procedures."
At this point, she paused and looked at Huo Yuhao and the others. "Mingde Hall is very close to the academy, but it is a restricted area. Some formalities are required. You three will need to wait a moment. Afterwards, a researcher will guide you to Mingde Hall. In the meantime, you can wait in my office. I have some collection soul tool books there. You can look at them if you can't wait."
"Alright." Huo Yuhao nodded and followed her.
Xu Xiaoyan and the others also followed, inwardly sighing.
So this was what it felt like to use the back door.
Unexpectedly not bad.
Entering the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Xie Xie's first impression was that it was full of a sense of technology. He was not disappointed.
The entire lobby was nearly thirty meters high. Countless holographic projection screens were suspended in the air, displaying various data and three-dimensional models in real time. A dozen uniquely shaped soul tool elevators shuttled up and down along transparent ducts. Occasionally, students could be seen overhead, riding hoverboards.
"See you later."
"Okay, Boss."
Huo Yuhao and the three separated from Xie Xie and the others at the teaching building and walked into Lin Qinghan's office.
The automatic door slid silently shut, isolating the outside noise.
"Don't be so nervous." Gu Yuena finally looked at Lan Fozi, who had been silent the entire way, somewhat speechless. "We're not going to eat you."
"..." Lan Fozi produced a smile uglier than crying. "I understand. Please give me some time. I will calm down soon."
Gu Yuena: "..."
Who were you trying to fool with that?
As they chatted, Huo Yuhao turned to the office's bookshelf, took down a soul tool book from a corner, and began flipping through it.
But upon opening it, Huo Yuhao's face immediately darkened. He flipped back to the table of contents and saw the book's true title and some chapter headings.
Found a Young Spirit-Ice, After Raising Him He Won't Leave Me
Chapter 1: A Rainy Night Encounter with a Future Legend
Chapter 2: The Flutter in His Heart When He Called Me Big Sister
Chapter 3: The Sweet Troubles of a Genius Youth
Final Chapter: Pinned Against the Wall by the Grown-Up Him
"..."
Veins bulged on Huo Yuhao's forehead.
He had a sudden urge to obliterate this book and its author.
The most homicidal episode yet.
"Pfffft, hahahaha!"
Skydream Iceworm was rolling on the floor laughing in the Sea of Spirit. "Yuhao, don't be angry. You're a celebrity from ten thousand years ago. This kind of thing is unavoidable, unavoidable... I can't breathe, hahaha!"
Ice Empress and the other Spirit Souls also looked indescribable.
Huo Yuhao took a deep breath and silently put the book back in its place.
Beside him, Gu Yuena saw this and asked, a bit puzzled, "Yuhao, aren't you going to read it?"
"No. I've already seen the content of this book at the association." Huo Yuhao said without changing his expression. "This author is too deviant. It won't go anywhere."
Gu Yuena blinked, her gaze lingering on the book for a moment, then she nodded slightly.
Just then, hurried footsteps sounded outside. Lin Qinghan walked into the office, cold sweat on her forehead. Seeing that the three had no books in their hands, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Good, good.
She had been busy with so many enrollment matters lately that she had almost forgotten about certain books. If they were seen by Spirit Transmission Tower juniors, aside from other implications, it would be at least somewhat awkward.
Lin Qinghan gave a professional smile. "The formalities are done. Mingde Hall's researcher will arrive shortly."
As she finished speaking, the office door opened. A researcher in a Mingde Hall standard-issue white coat stood at the door. His gaze lit up when it swept over Huo Yuhao.
"Researcher Huo Yuhao, I have long heard of your famous name. You are distracted and distracted..."
The researcher realized his gaffe, coughed lightly, and said seriously, "I am Xu Mo, a Grade Three researcher at Mingde Hall, responsible for guiding you on your visit. Please come with me."
Lin Qinghan watched the three leave with Xu Mo. She quickly walked to the bookshelf and put several books into her storage ring.
Next time, she must not She casually left them on the shelf. Some of these books were rare copies she had discovered while tidying the library. She didn't know who had created them. If someone found them, she might not be able to read them anymore.
Although Mingde Hall was an independent institution, due to historical reasons, it had a deep relationship with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, similar to the relationship between Shrek Academy's inner and outer courtyards. The two were very close.
If students successfully graduated from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, they could participate in Mingde Hall's entry examination.
Following Xu Mo through the connecting corridor, they quickly arrived at Mingde Hall's main building.
The cold light of metal flowed through the space. The entire hall was filled with a futuristic, technological aesthetic. In the very center floated a huge metal sphere, over five meters in diameter. A deep blue, spirit-powered ripple played across its surface. As it slowly rotated... It intermittently revealed the intricate core array structure inside. The soft light emitted by the sphere bathed the entire space in a peculiar technological beauty.
"This is Mingde Hall's Sky Dome Main Control System, responsible for coordinating the soul power supply within the building." As Xu Mo introduced it to Huo Yuhao and the others, he lightly tapped a floating control panel. The metal sphere immediately projected a three-dimensional architectural structure diagram.
Huo Yuhao gazed at this enormous object. He keenly noticed that the arrangement of its core array subtly carried a hint of familiarity. It was clearly a modified...
The scale of the Soul Tool array was magnified hundreds of times.
"Now then, we will teleport. Please prepare yourselves."
Lan Fozi was somewhat puzzled, then realized.
A strong spatial wave suddenly struck. The surrounding scenes distorted like rippling water. Before she could even react, the scene before her had already changed in an instant. They had been directly teleported to a completely different space.
Lan Fozi looked around and found herself standing on a circular silver platform. Countless floating soul tool screens surrounded her, flashing complex data streams. "Spatial teleportation technology?"
Xu Mo smiled slightly. "That's right. This is our Mingde Hall's spatial teleportation system, improved from spatial-type soul tools. Mingde Hall's main building is underground. There are no passageways like elevators. We must use spatial teleportation."
Xu Mo noticed the three people's calm expressions and immediately realized that the Spirit Transmission... Tower must also have mastered similar spatial technology. He wisely did not continue this topic and instead explained:
"I'm terribly sorry. The Hall Master is currently handling emergency research and temporarily cannot meet with you. However, aside from communication and study, the purpose of your visit is also to see the Fire Li Clan, isn't it? There is a corresponding research project today. Please come with me."
As a researcher, he was not very interested in pleasantries. Although he was very curious about some of Huo Yuhao's technologies, that was not the time to ask.
It was best to focus on business.
The four arrived before a metal door. The door slid open silently. A wave of heat rushed toward them, causing Lan Fozi to instinctively step back half a step.
In the center of the laboratory, a huge fire wolf was conducting experiments as instructed. Seven or eight researchers around it were nervously recording data.
Seeing the fire wolf, a flicker of surprise appeared in Huo Yuhao's eyes. Lan Fozi felt some amazement.
An entity pure composed of fire elements, yet without a trace of a spirit beast's aura? Lan Fozi was secretly surprised inside.
It wasn't a spirit beast?
On this trip to Mingde Hall, she had been temporarily appointed and had not received much information from Huo Yuhao. She hadn't expected to encounter such a strange existence immediately upon entering Mingde Hall.
Being a spirit beast herself, she was very sure that this fire wolf had not a trace of a spirit beast's aura.
Lan Fozi couldn't help looking at Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena, whose expressions remained completely calm. Her emotions gradually steadied.
She suddenly felt her earlier shock was somewhat ridiculous. The two beside her were living deities, once holding authority over the Divine Realm. Compared to that, what was an otherworldly fire elemental entity?
Gu Yuena, looking at this fire wolf, recalled the intelligence Emperor Tian had told her.
The Fire Li Clan, fire elementals, an extraterrestrial race that had suddenly appeared on the Douluo Continent many years ago. Thanks to the Spirit Transmission Tower's policies, and because they were powerful and did not actively attack humans, no spirit masters had attacked them.
But this huge clan must survive in magma. If left the magma environment for too long, the weaker members of the Fire Li Clan would gradually perish.
To that end, they had wandered various places, seeking a habitat they could live in. But they seemed to have no success. Until one day, the Fire Li Clan suddenly appeared near Mingdu and sought out the War Temple.
Now that I think about it, had Yuhao appeared in that era?
Gu Yuena looked at Huo Yuhao, thinking to herself.
Huo Yuhao, looking at the fire wolf, his eyes flickered.
The Fire Li Clan, from the Falan World, lived there in the Crimson Sea. Every member was born possessing powerful combat abilities. Although they could not stay away from magma areas, as long as they were in a place with magma, they were virtually immortal.
How had such a race arrived on the Douluo Continent?
The answer was related to the temporal chaos.
The temporal chaos had swept a planet much smaller than the Falan World, crashing into it. Although the people of that world had resisted, human effort had its limits. Ultimately, they could not overcome this disaster.
The colliding planet had shattered. The Falan World's main continent, the Faerie Continent, had also shattered into several parts. The Crimson Sea, where the Fire Li Clan lived, had also been mostly destroyed. Many spatial cracks had appeared. The branch of the Fire Li Clan on the Douluo Continent had been brought here by such a spatial crack.
The group waited quietly for the experiment to end. Only then, under Mingde Hall's arrangement, did Huo Yuhao have close contact with the fire wolf.
The fire wolf had already been informed by Mingde Hall's researchers that visitors would arrive today. When Huo Yuhao appeared before it, it merely lazily wagged its flame tail, not paying much attention.
But the next moment, a very faint strand of spiritual fluctuations quietly probed toward it.
The fire wolf pricked up its ears. Out of a willingne
To cooperate with the research, it cautiously accepted this spiritual connection.
In an instant, its flame body trembled violently.
In the spiritual view, what Huo Yuhao showed it was a memory of fire, a strange, nearly transparent flame. Beneath its incandescent appearance, seven dreamlike colors flowed inside, as if sealing a rainbow within the flame.
That was... their Fire Li Clan's lifebound true flame. Only possessed by royalty. The Seven-Colored Lotus Flame!
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