Chapter 9: Shi Shi Laike City, A Changed World, Gu Yue and Xiang Xiang Naer

Spirit Tower, Deputy Tower Master's exclusive Character Doukai Room.

Similar to the forging room where forging masters temper metal, the Character Doukai room is a comprehensive laboratory for three secondary professions: Mecha Design, Mecha Manufacturing, and Mecha Repair.

This Character Doukai room is located on the seventh floor of the Spirit Tower, spacious and vast, with a huge silver-white experimental table exceeding forty square meters, placed with all kinds of metal materials.

A stunning woman leaned against one side of the table, her jade hand gently supporting her chin, her plump, snow-white long legs crossed, her graceful body outlined in a seductive curve by her movements, but she didn't realize it, focusing on the handsome boy engraving the soul guidance array on the side.

Zhao Xuanzhen sat in front of the metal table, holding a piece of light purple metal in his left hand, a circle of irregular patterns rippling out, his right hand holding a long and slender engraving knife, carving the metal with full concentration.

Advancing three secondary professions together is undoubtedly a difficult thing. He had studied Character Doukai basic theory for a whole day from sunrise to sunset, and except for lunch, he hadn't rested at all. Now he was testing his learning results, practice is the sole criterion for testing truth.

Purple Iron, medium ductility, lower-middle soul power conductivity, belongs to cheap rare metals, generally used to manufacture low-level soul guidance devices.

Zhao Xuanzhen carved the Purple Iron stroke by stroke, his movements slow, but his hands were surprisingly stable. The strong control of his body by the True Self martial soul was evident, ensuring accuracy with every knife stroke.

One knife after another, the complex patterns of the core array slowly unfolded.

The surprise on Leng Yaozhu's face gradually gathered, and she subconsciously moved closer to her disciple, her hands clenching into fists at some point.

Time passed second by second, deep blue light jumped in Zhao Xuanzhen's pupils, his torso motionless like a sculpture, injecting soul power into his fingers, controlling the engraving knife to perform finishing work, the rhythm never changing by half a point.

"Clang—"

As the last knife was carved, Zhao Xuanzhen blew away the fine metal shavings in the patterns, a trace of fatigue flashed in the bottom of his eyes, and then quickly restrained it. He looked up at Leng Yaozhu, his smile relieved.

"Teacher."

With the slow injection of soul power, the Purple Iron erupted with amazing purple light, turning into a one-foot light pillar rising straight up, without any swaying, and the patterns presented a transparent purple.

"Level 1 soul guidance core array explosion, production successful."

Leng Yaozhu took a look and drew a conclusion: "Xuanzhen, you are already a quasi-level-one Mecha Manufacturer."

Since one can only barely touch high-end technology Character Doukai at level three in the second profession, the early stage of Mecha Design, Mecha Manufacturing, and Mecha Repair are all judged by the standard of soul guidance devices.

Leng Yaozhu's teaching course was Mecha Design and Mecha Manufacturing. Mecha Design couldn't be realized in one lesson, but Mecha Manufacturing did. Zhao Xuanzhen learned to engrave a level-one core array in just one day, which was enough to see his high talent.

Zhao Xuanzhen practiced Taoist arts, his psychology was far calmer than his peers, and he had two innate advantages: the True Self martial soul encompassed the brain and eyes, and his mental power broke through the Spirit Penetration Realm.

In most cases, core arrays fail to be engraved due to subtle errors, but Zhao Xuanzhen almost never had accidents. He only needed to remember the core array patterns, use mental power to stereoscopically present the metal in his brain, and then replicate it one-to-one on the metal.

Innate carving holy body!

Zhao Xuanzhen swam freely in the ocean of knowledge. In contrast, the Auspicious Capybara was miserable.

After flipping through the book for three minutes, the capybara's eyes became 'clear' (empty).

No wonder the ten-thousand-year soul beasts of Star Dou don't imitate humans in learning Character Doukai. This thing is simply not something beasts can learn!

Even the super-excellent IQ of an auspicious beast is difficult to understand, and that group of 'muscle sticks' is as difficult as ascending to heaven!

After reading for a day, the Auspicious Capybara's eyes were lifeless, as if it had been severely bullied by knowledge, losing all strength and means.

Living capybara, slightly dead.

"It seems that interest is indeed a good teacher." Leng Yaozhu curled her lips slowly. "Achieving a quasi-level-one Mecha Manufacturer in one day also has something to do with your early contact with soul guidance device theory. You have long remembered those basic soul guidance core arrays."

Zhao Xuanzhen laughed lightly. He came from the 'Kingdom of Rollers' (competitive society), and previewing in advance is a belief carved into his bones!

Wait, something seems wrong...

Zhao Xuanzhen's heart jumped suddenly, his face showing horror. He had always gone to the Spirit Tower library alone, how did Leng Yaozhu know exactly what he took back!

Leng Yaozhu seemed to have mind-reading skills, looking at Zhao Xuanzhen with a smile that was not a smile, implying:

"Suddenly curious last night, I checked your borrowing records."

How is this different from checking browser history!

Zhao Xuanzhen instantly felt the chill of his 'loincloth' being pulled down in the street. It was all the fault of the Spirit Tower for collecting those books that were worthy of criticism!

"That's it for today, class dismissed."

Leng Yaozhu was very good at the art of verbal lingering, smiling: "Let's go to Shi Shi Laike City for a stroll tonight. After all, this should be the last night you can enjoy. I have arranged fulfilling courses for the next few years."

"Monday, Wednesday, Friday morning study Mecha Design and Mecha Manufacturing, afternoon go to the Spirit Ascension Platform to exercise actual combat. Battle soul masters always prioritize tempering combat skills."

"Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday I found a Spirit Tower Title Limit Douluo for you, in the Illusion Mirror Space on the 78th floor, he will teach you Mecha Repair."

"Sunday..."

"Holiday?" Zhao Xuanzhen answered preemptively.

"Dream on, etiquette class."

Seeing Zhao Xuanzhen's dull expression, Leng Yaozhu smiled knowingly: "Half a day off every week."

The sweat of the strong and the tears of the weak, one must choose one.

From then on, the food chain was completely formed: Leng Yaozhu extorted Zhao Xuanzhen, and Zhao Xuanzhen extorted the Auspicious Capybara!

Limit Douluo Continent, Shi Shi Laike City.

Shi Shi Laike City has a long history, standing tall for twenty thousand years, and has an extremely important political and economic status in the Sun Moon Federation.

The Sun Moon Federation is now divided into four parts. In addition to the Federation War God Hall in Mingdu, the Spirit Tower, Tang Men, and Shi Shi Laike Academy headquarters are all established in Shi Shi Laike City.

Three major super powers jointly guard a city, a situation that has never existed in ancient times. The reason for this is one person—the founder of the Spirit Tower, the reviver of Tang Men, and the legend of Shi Shi Laike Academy, Spirit Ice Limit Douluo Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao's original intention was for the three major forces to live in peace and work together to contribute to the soul master world, but ten thousand years of vicissitudes have made many things deviate from Huo Yuhao's control.

Shi Shi Laike Academy and Tang Men are still close, each occupying half of the inner city, and the top management of both sides have close relations, while the Spirit Tower has separated, located on the edge of Shi Shi Laike City, facing the high wall blocking the Star Dou Great Forest from afar.

Moonlight passed through thin clouds, casting a clear color. A breeze blew, and the warm lights of the long street in Shi Shi Laike City swayed, dyeing the faces of passersby with a red glow.

Two figures walked out of the crowd, instantly gaining countless gazes. The woman was tall, with a graceful figure, her crimson hair swaying in the wind, her red lips smiling, beautiful beyond compare. The boy's face was handsome, his pupils as black as lacquer, as if reflecting the clouds and sky.

One big and one small, their appearance was off the charts, and the rate of looking back exceeded ninety percent. Passersby had their own guesses, some thinking they were siblings, some suspecting they were mother and son...

Have a child...

Hehe, I like it even more!

This street is named Phoenix Street, belonging to the Phoenix Group.

Shi Laike the 'Xuan Shi Tang Men' company under Tang Men, the families of the Spirit Tower were not satisfied with the huge wealth brought by selling soul spirits, so they supported family consortiums one after another. The ancestor of the Leng family created the Phoenix Group, operated by professionals, and the Leng family lay down and collected money.

Shi Shi Laike City is a big cake. Originally, the Spirit Tower families had many industries in it. With the deteriorating relationship between the two major forces, those industries withdrew to other cities, and Phoenix Street became the only seedling.

Every once in a while, Leng Yaozhu would take Zhao Xuanzhen to Phoenix Street and various places in Shi Shi Laike City for a walk, sometimes buying things she liked, but more often just walking the horse (strolling). Her eyes occasionally revealed memories.

Zhao Xuanzhen had walked the most streets in his two lives accompanying Leng Yaozhu. After all, he was a 'Teacher-treasure boy' (the teacher's precious boy), responsible for accompanying her throughout, and at specific moments, offering a pure smile to give affirmation to things she was interested in.

"Grilled sausage, three Federation coins each, two for five!"

"Chicken cartilage, fifteen Federation coins a catty, buy one catty and get half a catty free!"

Merchants gathered on both sides of Phoenix Street, and the shouting was endless, dazzling, mostly food, mostly doing business for Shi Shi Laike students.

The master and disciple walked and stopped. A small figure suddenly attracted Zhao Xuanzhen's attention. The light shone on the girl's silver hair, shining like a silver moon, making it hard to ignore her. And this was truly an overly beautiful girl, silver hair and silver eyes, carved in pink and jade.

The silver-haired girl wandered aimlessly until a fragrance rushed into her nasal cavity. Her big silver eyes suddenly lit up, and she ran to the chicken cartilage stall in three or two steps, looking up at the 'fifteen a catty, buy one get half free' price tag, and said crisply:

"Hello boss, I'm not buying, can you give me half a catty?"

"Whose bear child is this, take her away quickly!"

Zhao Xuanzhen swore he didn't laugh, his teeth were just too hot, and he wanted to come out to blow some wind.

Rejected flatly by the boss, the silver-haired girl pouted and rubbed her empty stomach with her small hands.

"Gurgle—"

This can't be sprayed (blamed), this is a real stomach thunder!

Clearly we are both half-bodies, why did she inherit world-shaking wisdom, and I inherited super-excellent appetite!

The silver-haired girl's mentality was indignant, locking onto the boy with teeth as white as light not far away, and said with a face full of grief and indignation:

"Is it funny? I only saw a poor little girl."

"Boss, chicken cartilage."

Zhao Xuanzhen handed over thirty Federation coins.

"Thank you, wish you happiness every day and everything goes well!"

The girl had no backbone, and after getting three catties of chicken cartilage, she immediately beamed with joy and started 'dazzling' (eating) it.

Thirty Federation coins were like 'sprinkling water' to Zhao Xuanzhen, who had a seven-figure allowance. Leng Yaozhu didn't care either, and the two walked toward the distance together.

The girl was eating the chicken cartilage with great relish. When she turned her gaze, she caught a glimpse of an ancient tree by the road. The center of the tree trunk cracked open an eerie eye, and the chill was bone-chilling!

Ignoring filling her stomach, the silver-haired girl recognized who it was and ran away.

Strange phenomena grew on the trees on both sides of the street, and eerie eyes appeared one after another. A second before the mastermind behind the scenes made a move, the silver-haired girl had already approached Zhao Xuanzhen and Leng Yaozhu. A trace of unwillingness flashed in her eyes, and the trees returned to their original state.

"Little girl, why are you here again? Where are your parents?" Looking at the silver-haired girl, Leng Yaozhu asked.

That guy seemed to have given up the chase and left. The silver-haired girl escaped a disaster, let out a long sigh of relief, and said: "I'm an orphan. Sister, may I ask where the nearest orphanage is? I want to ask if they can take me in."

"The orphanage is three streets away." Leng Yaozhu said warmly. "Have you awakened your martial soul?

After awakening, you don't have to go to the orphanage. Continental sects are very willing to cultivate soul masters from a young age. Of course, the premise is that you have innate soul power."

"Yes! Yes!"

The silver-haired girl nodded like a chicken pecking at rice. With a flash of light, she held a silver spear in her hand, more than a zhang and two in length, with dense, delicate, and symmetrical dragon scales on the slender spear body.

"Hmm?"

Zhao Xuanzhen leaned back tactically. This dragon spear style is so familiar!

"What is your name?"

"Xiang Xiang Naer!"

The silver-haired girl was grateful to her 'chicken cartilage benefactor' and reported her name straightforwardly.

Sure enough!

That 'ruthless chicken cartilage dazzling machine' was Xiang Xiang Naer!

Zhao Xuanzhen didn't recognize her at first because this Xiang Xiang Naer was different from the Xiang Xiang Naer in his memory.

The Xiang Xiang Naer that Tang Wulin picked up in Aolai City was Gu Yuena who had an accident during transformation, silver hair and purple eyes. Later, Gu Yuena split into two: Xiang Xiang Naer with silver hair and silver eyes, and Gu Yue with black hair and black eyes.

So this is the half-body of the Silver Dragon King, Xiang Xiang Naer!

What a 'heaven-sent auspiciousness'!

Fate is like a heavy rain that cannot be predicted. Those who don't bring an umbrella can't hide, and those who want to get wet can't meet it.

Compared to Zhao Xuanzhen's complex psychological changes, Leng Yaozhu's was much simpler. The aura of the White Silver Baiyin Baiyin Longqiang was exceptionally majestic, it must be a top-tier martial soul, and the soul power released by Xiang Xiang Naer was also Innate Full Soul Power!

"Teacher, Xiang Xiang Naer's talent is not bad, let's take her back to the Spirit Tower."

Zhao Xuanzhen suggested. If you meet her, don't miss her. Putting Xiang Xiang Naer anywhere is not as reliable as keeping her by his side.

The Spirit Tower itself cultivates genius soul masters, and Leng Yaozhu had the same intention, asking Xiang Xiang Naer: "Xiang Xiang Naer, are you willing to come with us and become a member of the Spirit Tower?"

The little face struggled for a moment, and Xiang Xiang Naer said cautiously:

"Is there food?"

"Room and board included, three thousand Federation coins a month." Zhao Xuanzhen took over.

"Add, add, add! The Spirit Tower is number one in the world!"

One big and two small stepped through the night back to the Spirit Tower. Not long after they left, a young man and woman walked from afar.

The young man was handsome, his temperament elegant and introverted, looking like twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, his aura like an ordinary person.

The woman smiled, holding the young man's arm, wearing a water-green long dress, her beautiful face pure and elegant, her whole body filled with life aura, like a nature goddess making people feel close.

"Ming brother, why did you suddenly want to walk around Shi Shi Laike City?"

"Space fluctuated for a moment just now, and soon returned to calm. It seems nothing happened, perhaps I am overthinking."

Star Dou Great Forest.

Surrounded by giant trees, in front of the nearly dried-up Lake of Life, the evil young man knelt on one knee, his face gloomy:

"Boss, I didn't succeed."

"The space crack transmitted her to Shi Shi Laike City. That place is guarded by too many Title Limit Douluo. She has already come into contact with a powerhouse who is at least a Super Limit Douluo. I dare not conflict directly with the other party."

"Then we only found half of the Lord!"

The black dragon's golden eyes shone, spreading its dragon claws, and a girl was quietly floating in its palm.

The Lord had an accident during transformation, splitting into two figures and being rolled away by a space crack. The black dragon chose to track the half with stronger power, and the young man relied on the plant-type soul beast's division and assimilation talent to sneak into Shi Shi Laike City to pursue the other half.

"Don't worry about her, that thirty percent of power will eventually return to me."

The girl said faintly: "In the space crack, I captured its aura, in the east of the Limit Douluo Continent..."

"Wait until the soul division injury is stabilized, then I will take action personally..."

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 10 =====