Chapter 66: Battle Against Gui Mei

Ma Hongjun spread his spiritual power out to first detect whether anyone had tampered with the place or left behind any hidden traps; it would be bad if secrets were eavesdropped on in the future.

He did not believe that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was truly helping him with sincere intentions.

When out in society, one must always keep a bit of guard up to live a long life.

Under his powerful spiritual perception, he permeated every corner of the academy, even inside the walls and pillars, and the ground as well.

He could completely shroud the entire academy within it.

He would not easily let go of any detail or corner.

As time passed, dense beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

He withdrew his spiritual power, slowly opened his eyes, and murmured, "Still honest enough. It seems I overthought it; those guys aren't stupid, otherwise our relationship would have deteriorated."

His gaze turned toward the location of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Afterward, he looked at the Heaven Dou Empire royal family not far away.

The academy was very large now, but the number of people in Phoenix Academy was very small, belonging to the category of vast land and sparse population with limited manpower, so he needed to choose suitable people to recruit.

"The Four Single-Attribute Clans are quite good. Bai He has already been won over, so I can give them a shout and let them come over here," Ma Hongjun thought.

Let it be like this for now; as for future matters, we shall talk about them when the time comes.

In the original story, the Five Elements Academies would enter a low period, and he could also plot a bit.

The team members of these academies were each quite good and could be considered part of the genius sequence, but it was a pity they were not protagonists, just unimportant supporting characters, so they did not grow up in the original story. This time, having met him, their talent scout, these people would become protagonists.

"Kamikaze Academy, Feng Xiaotian, this is a rare talent, but it's a pity his energy was used in the wrong place. To invent that Self-created Soul Skill, he wasted a lot of cultivation time; otherwise, relying on his talent and perseverance, becoming a Soul King before the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament arrived would not have been much of a problem."

Ma Hongjun analyzed the source of Feng Xiaotian's problem in an instant.

Two years later, he would first show off the strength of his Phoenix Team, secretly defeat these people, and leave a shadow in their hearts first; then he could execute his recruitment plan, which would be even easier than now.

After all, these people were all self-proclaimed geniuses; they always needed some even more genius people to strike them down.

Three months passed, and Ma Hongjun's cultivation also rose to Level 61.

The leveling speed had indeed slowed down a lot, especially for a pure-blooded Phoenix like him; the higher the cultivation, the slower the leveling, and the more soul power required, perhaps no less difficult than a Title Douluo raising a level. It was already this terrifying now, let alone how slow it would be after reaching Title Douluo.

If there were no great opportunities, and he just practiced step-by-step, wanting to reach Level 99 and inherit a God Position would be a long time.

However, he still had the means of alchemy, and these days he was also looking for high-level medicinal herbs, planning to refine higher-level Pills to help himself improve his cultivation.

He had already harvested the Immortal Herb there twice.

The academy was not very stable yet, so he did not want to put the Immortal Herb here for the time being and continued to keep it in the Phoenix Space.

With a thought, his spiritual power probed into the Phoenix Space; inside, besides a huge Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, there were two large dragon corpses, though compared to before, these dragon corpses were missing many bones.

These bones had all been refined by Ma Hongjun into weapons, equipped for the rest of the Phoenix Team, and also on Dugu Bo, allowing their strength to achieve a qualitative leap!

Suddenly, his Phoenix perception told him that a crisis was approaching.

His gaze looked outside the academy, toward the valley on the opposite side of the plain.

That dangerous aura came from that place.

It was as if he had been targeted by someone here.

"It seems I must set up a Phoenix Array for Phoenix Academy, otherwise it will be hard for me to be at ease."

Ma Hongjun's eyes narrowed slightly, and a cold light flickered. In the Phoenix Nirvana Sutra, there were also chapters on Arrays, but he just hadn't had the chance to use them.

One of the arrays could be used for both offense and defense, and could even gather the power of everyone within the entire array onto one person, exerting the greatest power!

As long as there were enough people, one could pile up the combat power of a Peerless Demigod!

If everyone could peek at his academy anytime and anywhere, how could that be allowed? Judging from the aura, the opponent was at least a Title Douluo! The black shadow also knew he had been discovered and quickly charged toward Ma Hongjun, intending to kill him instantly.

"Sure enough, lurking here, this guy was bound to come back!"

"I've looked for you for so long, I've finally found you. This time, no matter what, I cannot let you get away, otherwise, who knows when I'll get another chance!"

Gui Mei thought coldly.

Ever since he accepted the mission last time, he had been searching for clues about Ma Hongjun.

As a result, he hadn't found any.

The opponent was simply here one moment and gone the next, making it very hard to lock onto him, which infuriated him to no end.

So he got smart and simply lurked here to wait for an opportunity; he didn't believe Ma Hongjun would never return!

The academy was built, so you should be back, right? As it turned out, he bet correctly today! So he acted decisively, intending to kill with one blow! "No Spirit Ring or martial soul seen, only soul skills, and still lurking in the darkness; it seems the person who came to kill me is the Spirit Hall's Ghost Douluo, Gui Mei."

With Phoenix Possession, Ma Hongjun flew into the sky, six fire-red Spirit Rings appearing on his body; the Phoenix Academy had just been established, and he didn't want it to be destroyed.

In the blink of an eye, he had arrived at the plain and summoned the Phoenix Meteor Spear to shoot down!

Gui Mei was startled; this spear brought him a premonition of danger.

"What an astonishing Spirit Ring configuration; this child must not be left alive, otherwise he will surely be the greatest hidden danger to our Spirit Hall!"

They had already offended a Tang Hao before, and recently many external Spirit Hall branches had been attacked by unknown Spirit Masters; judging from the wounds, it was the work of a hammer. With such powerful strength, they suspected whether Tang Hao had done it in secret.

One Tang Hao was already making them very uncomfortable, and now another one had come, so they naturally would not allow it.

Under the ground, arms stretched out, wanting to grab this spear.

However, in the next second, under the terrifying high-temperature flames, these evil things were suppressed, their power diminished, and the long spear fell, instantly shattering them into dregs.

Seeing this scene, Gui Mei was very unwilling; he pulled out a black bone and flew out directly, slashing toward Ma Hongjun! "Sixth Soul Skill: Phoenix Armor!"

Ma Hongjun was not careless, nor did he intend to use large-scale lethal soul skills, only because this place belonged to Phoenix Academy.

A Phoenix phantom appeared, turning into a set of Armor that merged into his entire body.

The Phoenix Armor was fully equipped!

He threw a punch, the terrifying flames tearing through the sky and burning the air into nothingness.

It hit the black bone fiercely, shattering it, and the hard and terrifying fist struck toward Gui Mei's face!

Beneath the suffocation was a crisis.

Gui Mei decisively unleashed his sixth soul skill to resist, erupting with the strength of a Level 95 peak Title Douluo to cope.

Boom—!!!!!

The explosion rang out, and smoke soared into the sky! Both of their figures were submerged! (End of chapter)