Chapter 39: Border Exchange

At the border between the two countries.

Xue Qinghe truly fulfilled the previous promise, personally bringing people here to pick up Nan Feihuang.

Behind him followed a short, stout man dressed in a Douluo Robe.

From this, one could see this person's extraordinary nature; after all, on the Douluo Continent, those qualified to wear a Douluo Robe must at least be powerhouses of Spirit Douluo rank or higher.

"Little Brother Feihuang, you've finally arrived. You really made your Big Brother Xue wait," Xue Qinghe said, very happy to see the arriving Nan Feihuang.

"Big Brother Xue, I have missed you too. These years we only communicated through letters; I have long wanted to have another heart-to-heart talk with you." Nan Feihuang's greatest strength now was not his power, but his acting; the surprise he displayed made it impossible for anyone to tell it was faked.

"Haha, good. Then for these three years, Big Brother will certainly take good care of you," Xue Qinghe laughed.

"Three years? Wasn't it two years?" Nan Feihuang was stunned; what he had previously discussed with Xue Qinghe was a two-year exchange.

Xue Qinghe patted Nan Feihuang on the shoulder, "What can you learn in two years? Rest assured, Big Brother will definitely make the Heaven Dou Royal Academy teach you everything they have."

Nan Feihuang felt helpless; he had been played by Xue Qinghe. What use was the Heaven Dou Royal Academy teaching him everything?

This world was not like other fantasy worlds where all kinds of cultivation techniques and martial skills were extremely abundant; in fact, for Nan Feihuang, it made little difference where he cultivated.

Therefore, he had originally only planned to come to the Heaven Dou Empire for one year: half a year to build a good relationship with the Imperial Fighting Team and others, especially Dugu Yan, find a way to meet and befriend Dugu Bo, and then spend another half year detoxifying Dugu Bo to gain his assistance and the Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Once everything was completed, he could return.

But now that the matter was settled, Nan Feihuang could only cup his hands in thanks, "Many thanks, Big Brother Xue."

"Mr. Bai Baoshan, it has been a long time. I will have to trouble you to take care of my son from now on. Also, there is my son's good friend Gou Huo. Lan Xue is deeply grateful," Lan Xue said, looking at the short, stout man.

It turned out this person was one of the Three Education Committees of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Bai Baoshan, whose martial soul was the Heavenly Star Furnace, currently an eighty-fourth-level defense-type Spirit Douluo.

Among Spirit Douluos, he was one of the few whose defensive power could be mentioned in the same breath as the Elephant Armored Sect Master Huyan Zhen and the Imperial Clan patriarch Niu Gao.

Even for a Title Douluo, wanting to break through his defense was absolutely not an easy task.

"Your Excellency, you are too polite," Bai Baoshan said hurriedly. Although he was older than Lan Xue, he was only a Spirit Douluo after all, and his status was far inferior to a Title Douluo. Lan Xue being so polite actually made him feel a bit embarrassed.

"By the way, these two are the pride of our Heaven Dou Royal Academy, the brothers Shi Mo and Shi Mo, who possess the top-level defense-type beast spirit Basalt Tortoise. They are water-attributed, yet they can also, like Your Excellency, condense water into ice to strengthen attack and defense. I ask that Your Excellency please do not hesitate to give them some guidance."

Bai Baoshan had brought two people from the Imperial Fighting Team. Since it was an exchange student program, if the Gu Lei Kingdom sent two people to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Heaven Dou naturally had to send people to the Gu Lei Royal Academy to be fair.

The ones Bai Baoshan chose were these Shi brothers.

"Good, Mr. Bai, please rest assured. Our country will not neglect the two of them, and I am also willing to personally provide them with some guidance," Lan Xue said.

"Many thanks, Your Excellency!" The Shi brothers were overjoyed and hurriedly expressed their gratitude to Lan Xue respectfully. Although being exchange students would make them leave their friends in the Imperial Fighting Team for a long time, the opportunity to receive guidance from a Title Douluo was incomparably precious, so they also cherished this exchange student opportunity very much.

With the agreement settled, Lan Xue pulled her son over to give him some instructions and tied a belt with golden patterns around Nan Feihuang's waist.

"Mother, what is this?" Nan Feihuang asked.

"This is one of our country's treasures, a storage spirit tool that can store living things, the Golden Light Magnificent Brilliance," Lan Xue described. "The storage space is about fifty cubic meters. Mother has placed the daily necessities you need for life, as well as some medicinal herbs needed for cultivation, inside. There is also a card containing one million Gold Soul Coins; this includes the private savings your father saved over many years. If there is anything you need to spend money on, just spend it. When you are away from home, there is no need to wrong yourself."

It is said that when a child travels a thousand miles, the mother worries. Although Lan Xue knew clearly that Nan Feihuang would not suffer any grievances in the Heaven Dou Empire, nor would he lack money, her earnest exhortations did not stop.

Nan Feihuang responded softly to everything.

After a long time, Lan Xue finally let go of her son with reluctance, and the two groups of people, taking the four exchange students, departed in opposite directions.

The Heaven Dou Royal Academy had prepared two carriages; Bai Baoshan and Xun Yu were in one, while Nan Feihuang was naturally in the same one as Xue Qinghe.

"Little Brother Feihuang, is that Gou Huo your friend? He looks quite capable as well?" Xue Qinghe asked. She had already accepted that Nan Feihuang was destined to be her person; since that was the case, she also had to have some understanding of the people around him.

"Yes, he is my confidant. His martial soul is a Military Talisman, and he can summon soldiers..." Nan Feihuang explained Xun Yu's abilities to Xue Qinghe.

Of course, he held back, not explicitly stating the effects of the Military Talisman martial soul after it was developed to its limit, only saying it could summon some soldiers equivalent to low-level Spirit Masters.

Xue Qinghe nodded after listening and didn't think much of it, because although this Military Talisman martial soul looked decent, it was nothing more than that. Even if it reached the level of a Limit Douluo, it could only summon two hundred soldiers, which simply could not be compared to her Six-Winged Angel.

And such an ordinary person was actually considered a genius in the Gu Lei Kingdom and was even chosen by the Gu Lei Kingdom to be an exchange student coming to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Nan Feihuang.

Indeed, for a mere Gu Lei Kingdom to give birth to a genius like Nan Feihuang was already very fortunate; to dream of a second one was absolutely wishful thinking.

Moreover, in her view, even Nan Feihuang had benefited from Lan Xue, inheriting her bloodline to have such excellent aptitude.

The Gu Lei Kingdom's royal martial soul, the Gu Lei Book, although also claimed to be close to a top-level martial soul, in reality, very few of the successive kings had been able to achieve the rank of Spirit Douluo.

Nan Feihuang's father, Nan Tianchen, reaching the Spirit Saint realm in his fifties, could already be considered quite good.

Xue Qinghe thought for a moment; the only things in the entire Gu Lei Kingdom worth winning over to her side were three: Nan Feihuang, Lan Xue, and the country's agriculture.

The carriage traveled for the better part of a day and finally arrived at the capital of the Heaven Dou Empire, Tiandou City.

This city was known as one of the three great cities on the Douluo Continent, on par with the Star Luo Empire's Xingluo City and the Spirit Hall's Wuhun City.

Whether in terms of land area or level of development, it far exceeded the Gu Lei Royal City of Nan Feihuang's home.

The two carriages separated before entering the city. Xun Yu went directly with Bai Baoshan to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy; this academy was not inside the city, but on Heaven Dou Mountain outside the city.

Nan Feihuang first followed Xue Qinghe into the city.

After all, he was the Crown Prince of the Gu Lei Kingdom and also Xue Ke's fiancé; in terms of both emotion and reason, upon arriving at the capital, he should first pay a visit to his future father-in-law, the Great Emperor Xue Ye.

(End of chapter)