Dean's building, lobby.
In front of the tea table, Xue Qinghe and Lu Buliang sat facing each other, and the maid made tea for them.
"The training arrangement of the academy was designed by the three members of the education committee. Do you think this training arrangement is reasonable?" Xue Qinghe said. "If there is anything wrong, you can make some suggestions."
Lu Buliang nodded, "That makes sense. I'm very glad that I can join Heaven Dou Royal Academy. In less than ten days, my soul power has increased by one level. Now it is level 36."
"Oh?" Xue Qinghe said in surprise, "This should be all due to the mimesis training."
Lu Buliang smiled and said, "Thanks to the crystal ball given by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, I can practice with the moonlight at night. And in the process of injecting soul power into the crystal ball, I can also improve my control of soul power. There are so many benefits."
"As long as it's useful to you." Xue Qinghe took a sip of tea and said, "If you need any cultivation resources, just tell me. I can give you whatever you want. But you have to let me see your growth."
Lu Buliang nodded, "I will."
"By the way, if possible, can you tell me about your future plans?" Xue Qinghe smiled slightly, "Your shadow martial soul is very unique, your cultivation talent is pretty good, and you are hardworking enough. After you graduate, many forces should pay attention to you. Which force do you want to join then?"
Lu Buliang shook his head. "I don't know yet. After participating in the elite competition in three years, I should be able to graduate. By then, I will travel around the entire continent and probably won't consider joining a force. If the empire wants to recruit me, maybe I will have to wait a few years before I will be willing to join."
"Have you ever thought about developing in the Spirit Hall?" Xue Qinghe suddenly asked.
Lu Buliang was silent for a while, thinking, if the person in front of him was the real Xue Qinghe, he would say without hesitation that he had never thought about it. However, the Xue Qinghe in front of him was Qian Renxue in disguise, so there was nothing wrong in showing his intention to join the Spirit Hall in front of her.
After thinking about it again, Lu Buliang decided not to show his favoritism towards the Spirit Hall. After all, in Xue Qinghe's opinion, Lu Buliang didn't know that he was Qian Renxue.
"The Spirit Hall is a place that spirit masters yearn for. It is a holy place dedicated to serving spirit masters. It has all kinds of training resources. After graduating from the academy, it should be the most suitable place for spirit masters to develop." Xue Qinghe asked tentatively, "No matter which spirit master, they all have the intention to join the Spirit Hall. You should have the intention too, right?"
Lu Buliang shook his head. "I'm so sorry, Your Highness. I haven't thought about these things yet. I only know that the most important thing now is to practice hard, improve my strength, and strive to win glory for the academy in the elite competition three years later. As for the rest, I want to make plans after I have traveled the entire continent."
"Well, then. I won't embarrass you." Xue Qinghe took another sip of tea and said calmly, "It seems that you yearn for a free and unfettered life."
Lu Buliang nodded slightly and took a sip of tea.
"Since you haven't decided what to do next, let's talk about your past." Xue Qinghe suddenly said, "Lü Buliang, you are a commoner who joined the academy as an excellent student. The qualification of an outstanding student is awarded by the three teaching committee members, and you must get my approval before you can apply."
"Excellent students are not approved casually. We need to investigate the identity and background of the students. Neither I nor the three members of the Education Committee can find out your family information, and the information we collected does not record your martial spirit awakening. It seems that there has never been a family or spirit master on the continent who uses shadow as a martial spirit."
At this point, Xue Qinghe's gentle expression changed a little, and there was a bit of doubt in his deep eyes. He asked, "Can you tell me about your family? Where did you awaken your martial soul, and who helped you awaken your martial soul? If it was the Spirit Hall that helped you awaken your martial soul, with your martial soul talent, you should have been recruited into the Spirit Hall long ago."
Hearing this, Lu Buliang's heart tightened, but his expression remained unchanged. He looked at Xue Qinghe hesitantly, paused for a moment, and then smiled faintly, "Your Highness, I am an orphan. I don't have any family. I am just a child of commoners. My parents' martial spirits are shadows of fire attributes, without soul power. My shadow martial spirit inherited from my parents."
"A shadow with fire attributes?" Xue Qinghe was puzzled. "Can a shadow have elemental attributes?"
"Of course it can." Lu Buliang said, "If you investigate, you should be able to find a soul master with the fire shadow spirit at a high-level soul master academy called Blazing Academy. My ancestor has a slight relationship with the family of that soul master."
Xue Qinghe shook his head doubtfully, "There's no need to check this. But I don't know why your parents died? When you were young, your parents were still very young, right?"
"They were killed." Lü Buliang's face suddenly became heavy, and his words were a little more desolate. "Our village disappeared more than ten years ago."
Xue Qinghe was a little surprised, "What on earth happend?"
"Your Highness should know about Clear Sky Douluo, right?" Lü Buliang pretended to be bitter and said, "Back then, several powerful spirit masters appeared near our village, and their battle was very fierce. The destructive energy generated by the collision of terrifying spirit skills spread far and wide, and my village and surrounding buildings were destroyed by their battle. If my parents hadn't used their bodies to resist the destructive energy for me, I'm afraid I would no longer exist."
"At that time, I watched my parents being exploded into blood in front of me. The one who erupted this destructive energy was none other than Clear Sky Douluo's Clear Sky Hammer spirit. It was only later that I learned that it was the battle between the Spirit Hall powerhouses and Clear Sky Douluo that destroyed my village and caused the death of my family!"
Although these were all fabricated based on the information provided in the original novel, to Xue Qinghe, everything seemed to fit together. He felt that Lu Buliang did not lie. The battle between her father and many powerful men from the Spirit Hall and Clear Sky Douluo had indeed had a wide impact, so it was reasonable that some unknown villages would be implicated.
After all, most of the orphans adopted by the Spirit Hall were picked up from villages that had turned into ruins. And weren't those powerful people with terrifying strength the ones who turned the villages into ruins?
Thinking of this, Xue Qinghe became sad. Her father, Qian Xunji, also died at the hands of Clear Sky Douluo.
"I didn't expect you had such a past." Xue Qinghe's doubts about Lu Buliang were completely gone. He drank a sip of tea and stopped asking questions.
The hall suddenly fell into silence.
"Your Highness, this is why I practice so hard and why I am so eager to gain power." Lü Buliang's eyes were filled with resentment. He gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, saying coldly, "I want to become powerful. Clear Sky Douluo destroyed my village. I just want to have the power to destroy his sect!"
Hearing these words, Xue Qinghe was happy from the bottom of his heart. He also wanted to kill Clear Sky Douluo with his own hands and destroy the Clear Sky Sect. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. It seems that it is easier to win over Lu Buliang than to win over anyone else.
"I understand your feelings." Xue Qinghe sighed and said with empathy: "If you don't take revenge, you are not a gentleman. I don't have any grudges with Clear Sky Douluo, but I support you. So, if you need anything in the future, just tell me, I will do my best to help you. You will become a strong man sooner, and the Heaven Dou Empire will have someone to rely on sooner."
Lü Buliang smiled bitterly and bowed slightly to Xue Qinghe, "Then Your Highness, if you have nothing else to do, I would like to practice as soon as possible."
Xue Qinghe smiled and said, "Go ahead. We can talk more when we have time."
Leaving the lobby of the Dean's Building, Lu Buliang thought to himself that this was the best excuse he could come up with on the spot, and he hoped Xue Qinghe would not delve into it any further.
At least, wait until you get the chance to get the fairy grass before revealing your identity.
Lu Buliang hid in a deserted place and used his first soul skill to lock onto the light-filled room, looking for the shadow of the small stone in the corner of the room.
What puzzled him was that in the light-filled room, there was only a strong glow, no shadows at all, and the small stone he had placed in the corner was gone.
What is going on?
After pondering for a moment, Lü Buliang suddenly realized that perhaps someone had entered the room full of light and found the small stone in the corner of the room and had cleared it away?
Who was using the room full of light?
Lü Buliang's mind instantly flashed the image of Xue Qinghe, who was the acting dean. In addition to some servants, there was only Xue Qinghe in the dean's building. The room full of light might have been built by Xue Qinghe privately.
Why did Xue Qinghe build such a mysterious room?
It's because of the mimesis training!
Lu Buliang remembered that the original book said that the holy and fire attributes of the six-winged angel spirit were a kind of light attribute. And doesn't the light of an angel require powerful light energy to train?
The room full of light should have been built by Qian Renxue for the purpose of training the six-winged angel spirit.
Doesn't that mean that room is a den of thieves?
"Damn it. Luckily, Qian Renxue wasn't there every time I went in to practice. If she happened to be there too, it would have been so embarrassing."
As he was thinking, Lu Buliang had already given up the idea of entering that room to practice. Compared to quickly improving his strength, he wanted to develop steadily and try not to provoke the people from the Spirit Hall.
"Maybe I can pretend to submit to Qian Renxue, so that I can legitimately enter that room full of light to practice." Lu Buliang thought to himself, Qian Renxue likes to use others, so I can use her to obtain various training resources and grow quickly. When I have enough strength, will she still be able to restrain me?
However, there will always be a deviation between fantasy and reality. Pretending to submit to Qian Renxue is undoubtedly courting disaster. If you take a wrong step, you will be finished.
Lu Buliang sighed helplessly. His lack of strength made him confused. It is said that transmigration is a kind of enjoyment, so why is there more trouble than when he was on Earth?
"Let's go after Dugu Yan. With her, we might be able to get the chance to use the immortal grass soon. After taking the immortal grass to transform our bodies, everything will slowly get better."
"——"
On the top of the mountain, in the mimesis field of the misty forest.
In a hazy and foggy area, Dugu Yan was sitting cross-legged, concentrating and feeling the changes in the fog around her.
The fog is mixed with a large number of tiny particles that are not very toxic. Such an environment can play a very good auxiliary effect for soul masters with poison attributes. Not only can they cultivate their martial souls and soul power, but they can also make the toxicity attached to their soul skills stronger.
Possessing a poison-resistant physique granted by her poison martial spirit, Dugu Yan was not worried that the poisonous fog in the forest would harm her.
While practicing, Dugu Yan recalled what Lu Buliang had said to her when she was practicing fighting spirit in the morning.
Not being proficient in controlling soul power is indeed her shortcoming, but the soul skills used by the Green Phosphorus Snake are all large-scale control. How easy is it to control a large area of poisonous fog like controlling hands and feet?
Looking back on the actual soul fighting in the morning, Dugu Yan regarded Lu Buliang as an imaginary enemy, and in her mind, she was simulating a real-life combat training.
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