Chapter 204

After chatting a while about the gains of this period, Mu En said to Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong:

"Right, I've already notified Fan Yu and the others; your Extreme Individual Soldier plan can now be put on the schedule—go to the Outer Courtyard and find him."

Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong exchanged a glance and nodded together.

"Yes."

They never expected the Extreme Individual Soldier plan to start so quickly.

As they left Haishen Dao, Huo Yutong asked Tang Wulin, "Wulin, what exactly will the Extreme Individual Soldier plan teach us?"

Tang Wulin shrugged.

"I don't know, but since we're here, we'll make the best of it—no matter what they teach us, we just need to study hard."

Upon arriving at the Soul Tool Department trial area, they were surprised to find that beside Fan Yu stood not only He Caitou, but also two other figures.

One of them they recognized—none other than the captain of the previous generation's Shi Lai Ke Seven Monsters, Dai Yaoheng.

The woman standing beside him, however, was unknown to them; she appeared somewhat older than Dai Yaoheng, her aura immensely strong—just standing there sent a wave of scorching heat washing over them.

Seeing them arrive, Dai Yaoheng was the first to greet them.

"Hey there, Tang Wulin, Huo Yutong—were you also summoned here by Teacher Fan Yu?"

Fan Yu answered for the two of them:

"No, strictly speaking, they're here to carry out an important mission for the Academy."

"Huh?" Upon hearing that, Dai Yaoheng startled, "Do we have to join as well?"

He had originally been preparing to pack up and return to the Star Net Empire, planning to depart in a few days at most—never expecting Fan Yu to summon him just before his departure.

Fan Yu shook his head.

"No, you just need to have a bout with those two."

"A bout? With them?" The woman standing beside Dai Yaoheng wore a strange expression, "Teacher, are you out of your mind?"

In her view, Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong could be no older than fifteen—still not graduated from the Outer Courtyard—while she and Dai Yaoheng were standouts of the Inner Courtyard; even in the Inner Courtyard, few could beat them one‑on‑one, so making them fight two Outer Courtyard kids would be utterly unfair.

Fan Yu's mouth twitched.

"Just fight, and don't speak to the teacher like that, Wu Ming."

Dai Yaoheng also solemnly told Wu Ming, "Senior Wu Ming, I suggest you not underestimate this pair of junior schoolmates—their strength is far greater than you imagine."

He knew Tang Wulin's and Huo Yutong's strength very well; if one were to ask who contributed most to Shilake Academy's victory in the recent Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, it certainly wouldn't be him, Dai Yaoheng, but the pair of junior schoolmates standing before him.

These two had already been quite strong a few months ago, and over the past few months Dai Yaoheng could clearly sense their aura growing stronger—evidently they had made another huge leap in progress, though he couldn't tell what realm they had now reached.

"Huh? You feel the same way?" Seeing Dai Yaoheng's serious expression, Wu Ming playfully raised an eyebrow, "Well then, I'd like to see what's special about these two brats."

Tang Wulin asked Fan Yu:

"Teacher, why do we have to fight the upperclassmen?"

Facing Tang Wulin, Fan Yu's expression softened considerably. "Because your plan requires us to understand your limits, we need to find two people who can draw out your limits—Yaoheng and Wu Ming are just right. You must give it your all later, holding nothing back. Understood?"

"Understood."

Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong nodded in unison, their eyes blazing with fighting spirit.

They could also understand Wu Ming's dismissive attitude being normal, yet being looked down upon stirred their pride.

Moreover, they themselves wanted to know where their own limits lay.

The group then followed Fan Yu to the Dou Hun Qu; after exchanging a few words with the relevant personnel there, Fan Yu led them into the inner part of the Dou Hun Qu.

Tang Wulin glanced around and, to his surprise, saw Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo in the spectator stands.

Evidently, after quelling the disturbance in Shilake City, these two rushed over immediately; as the direct executors of the Extreme Individual Soldier plan, they could not remain ignorant of Tang Wulin's and Huo Yutong's current concrete strength.

They saw the two deans; Dai Yaoheng and Wu Ming naturally saw them as well, and Wu Ming's expression grew ever more astonished.

"Do these two brats really need two deans to watch their fight? Just who are they?"

Dai Yaoheng gave a wry smile and said to Wu Ming, "Let me put it this way, senior sister: if the two of them join forces, I am certain to lose—there's not even a sliver of a chance for me to win."

"Oh?"

Wu Ming's pupils contracted sharply.

Wu Ming also knew Dai Yaoheng's strength well; in terms of cultivation talent, he was hardly inferior to her, and the only reason she outranked him was her greater age.

As captain of Shilake Academy's official team, Dai Yaoheng's talent, even among the genius‑filled Shilake Academy, is top‑tier; even he feels ashamed to compare himself to these two junior schoolmates, a testament to their strength.

She revealed a somewhat mad grin.

"Interesting…… it looks like they won't disappoint me."

Seeing her expression, Dai Yaoheng threw a "good luck" glance at the two opponents.

The woman named Wu Ming bears the epithet Golden Crow Holy Maiden in Shilake Academy's Inner Courtyard; her strength is extraordinarily fierce, her temperament just as fierce, and together with Ma Xiaotao she is famed as one of the Inner Courtyard's two living volcanoes—no one dares provoke her lightly.

Dai Yaoheng also had some guesses as to why he and Wu Ming were summoned.

As far as he knew, Wu Ming had just broken through to the Soul Saint realm not long ago; her martial soul is still the top‑tier fire‑type Golden Crow, its attribute not far inferior to Huo Yutong's Extreme Ice, so it isn't easily suppressed by that Extreme Ice, and she might even use her superior cultivation to turn the tables and suppress Huo Yutong instead.

He himself, like Tang Wulin, is primarily a close‑combat assault‑type soul master, and his cultivation likewise suppresses Tang Wulin.

From the similarity of their martial souls, he and Wu Ming are clearly the best matches in the Inner Courtyard for Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong.

In fact, he had guessed correctly—Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er both wanted to see how much combat power Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong could unleash when suppressed in their own strongest domains.

Seeing that the two sides had already separated by tens of meters, Xian Lin'er didn't pause further and shouted loudly, "Begin! Give them a hard hit! No holding back—there will be punishment for losing!"

By the way, to say that the Extreme Individual Soldier plan is completely meaningless—I don't think it's that bad; but this thing is abstract in the sense that to implement it, the implementer must be a genius among geniuses.

Could it be that a genius of this caliber could influence the entire course of battle even without this plan? The plan truly suits those whose talent is high but not the highest—ideally capped at seven to eight rings; for those who could cultivate to become Limit Douluo, studying these things isn't entirely useless, but it remains quite abstract.

(End of chapter)