Chapter 148: The Exchange Program Officially Ends

"Are the things you mentioned truly real? If these things are real, then as long as you can produce them for me to study, I will go anywhere you want me to!"

Returning to his seat, Xuan Ziwen remained unable to calm down for a long time; the things Su Yu had shown him were like a poison with a fatal allure, and even though he knew he might die from drinking it, he still couldn't help but drink.

Like a mandara flower blooming in the sunlight, beautiful and deadly.

At this moment, Su Yu took out his simplified version of the Peacock Plume; to craft this simplified version, Su De Rong, Zhao Huafeng, Liu Ji, and Su Yu—who came to help from time to time—had spent over half a year.

This Peacock Plume, only the size of a chicken egg, although not yet reaching the power of the original version that could fire three hundred and sixty-five poison needles in one go, had incorporated the techniques of the Mother-Child Soul-Chasing Life-Taking Gall.

In the mental consciousness space demonstrated by Su Yu, one could see this egg-sized Peacock Plume being tossed aside by Su Yu, then using soul power as a medium to trigger the Soul Guidance Array, which activated the poison needles; one hundred and thirty needles capable of destroying the defense of a Six-Ring Soul Emperor were fired in succession—unless it was a Level 7 defensive Soul Guidance Device, it would be instantly destroyed!

In an instant, the needles were fired, and the outer shell disintegrated, transforming into sharp feathers that shot outward; to create this shell that disintegrated into feathers, Su Yu had to incorporate several Soul Guidance Core Arrays as a foundation, otherwise, the shell would likely have disintegrated before the needles had finished firing.

At the same time, the second layer of the attack method was activated: an iron ball only the size of a fingernail popped out and exploded instantly upon contact with the target; sealed within this pellet was poison, and Su Yu had spent no small amount of effort to concoct these toxins.

Unless the antidote was prepared, it was impossible to resolve the mixed poisons of the Tang Sect, and unless the opponent's strength had reached above a Soul Douluo, they could only wait for death!

Because what was contained within was not just one type of poison, but many, including the Ice Toad Poison originating from Meng Hongchen.

If it weren't for the fact that the production was too cumbersome, coupled with frequent modifications during the process, and the fact that Su wasn't as awesome as Tang San, who could learn all the inner sect techniques in a few years, it would have been different.

The Peacock Plume currently in his hand was actually fundamentally different from the original Peacock Plume; although the prototype was it, once combined with Soul Guidance, the difficulty of production would be greatly reduced, because Soul Guidance Arrays could be much more effective than precise clockwork mechanisms.

In order to research this kind of thing instead of directly continuing the extremely cumbersome production of Tang Sect Hidden Weapons, Su Yu had dedicated himself to solving and re-developing new Soul Guidance Devices during these two years of the exchange program.

"To let you believe this is real, I will now dismantle this Soul Guidance Device right in front of you."

Under Su Yu's slow dismantling, this Peacock Plume revealed its most original form.

"Could it be that in just these few years, there has really been such an explosive growth?" Xuan Ziwen gazed at the Soul Guidance Device before him that he found incredible, a look of intoxication appearing in his eyes.

Yes, he was wavering, and his mind was struggling intensely...

"Teacher Xuan, have you considered it?" Su Yu put away everything and spoke slowly.

Finally, Xuan Ziwen seemed to give up the struggle and let out a powerless sigh, "Let me think for a few days..."

Su Yu smiled slightly, then handed a letter to Xuan Ziwen and said, "If you have made up your mind, you can go to the address on this letter, and someone will take you to the destination. As a student, I am now giving this Soul Guidance Device to you in my own name."

After reassembling the Peacock Plume, Su Yu left the place.

Su Yu, disguised as Luo Yu, left; he departed from Xuan Ziwen's office, and although Xuan Ziwen had not stated his attitude, he was clearly tempted; with his personality, it was impossible for him not to be moved by these designs carrying the new era of Soul Guidance.

Regardless of the process, the result had been achieved, because Xuan Ziwen probably didn't realize that the changes in his mental state had already been detected clearly by Su Yu.

But it really was absurd; Huo Yu Hao, at level fifty, had previously claimed to specialize in Melee Soul Guidance Devices, yet later, while hoodwinking Xuan Ziwen, he had come up with a Level 9 Soul Guidance Device in just a few months.

If one truly had such strength, producing a Level 9 every few months, what would there be to fear from the Sun Moon Empire later on? A Level 9 every few days—which country could withstand that?

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Before leaving, Su paid a special visit to Jing Hongchen; this time, Su Yu was also very clever and made a deal with Jing Hongchen, investing a large amount of Gold Soul Coins to exchange for a massive amount of resources from Mingde Hall at a price twenty percent higher than the market rate.

Before leaving, even Jing Hongchen was lamenting Su Yu's wealth; little did he know that this batch of rare metal resources would become the greatest pain in Jing Hongchen's heart many years later...

Before departure, the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Guidance Academy held a grand farewell party, and the happiest group of people among them were those guys who had defeated the Shrek students during the Soul Guidance Exchange Tournament.

The liveliness of this event was such that even Jing Hongchen and Xu Tianran attended in person.

At the farewell party, Jing Hongchen delivered an enthusiastic speech; although he had encountered many troublesome things in the past two years, overall it was still good, after all, that incident was the work of the Body Sect and had nothing to do with Shrek.

Judging from his expression, everything was full of joy, especially when he looked at Su, smiling extra happily; before leaving, he even asked if Su had any interest in settling in the Sun Moon Empire after graduating from Shrek.

To this, Su did not answer directly, only saying, "Hall Master, both my father and mother were your students back then, what do you think?"

Hearing this, the corners of Jing Hongchen's mouth almost reached his ears; of course, what he was thinking was unknown, but in any case, Su Yu's meaning was actually very simple: it was possible, but he might not necessarily work for the Sun Moon Empire.

There were many people seeing Su off; after all, at Su Yu's hands, basically all the students who came to challenge him had been beaten until their faces were bruised and swollen, except for Luo Yu, who rarely appeared and had never fought him.

Of course, there were rumors that Su Yu had been miserably defeated by Luo Yu, which was why he had never challenged Luo Yu.

In any case, there were rumors even more absurd than this, but only Su Yu knew that defeating the Luo Yu you all spoke of was just a matter of one hand, wasn't it?

No, to be precise, one look would be enough.

"His Highness the Crown Prince arrives." Amidst the announcement, Xu Tianran, dressed in yellow robes, was pushed out by the crowd; seeing Xu Tianran appear, Jing Hongchen also hurriedly stepped forward to push him to the front of the crowd.

However, in the Crown Prince's guard, Su Yu saw Ju Zi and Luo Yu...

The student exchange was still in Maple Leaf City; Jing Hongchen dared not harbor any small schemes, after all, his precious grandson and granddaughter were in the hands of Shrek.

When He Cai Tou and Su Yu appeared in the field of vision of Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er, both of their eyes were somewhat dazed; although there was surprise, upon seeing Su Yu haggling with Jing Hongchen, both the team leader Yan Shaozhe and the others fell into a state of petrification.

"Dean Yan, hello. It's been a few years, it seems you've made progress again." After the discussion, Jing Hongchen stepped forward to shake hands with Yan Shaozhe.

These two old foxes looked friendlier than anyone else, but in private, they found each other more unpleasant than anyone else; if someone didn't know, they would think these two were relatives with a very good relationship.

Yan Shaozhe also replied with a smile, "Mirror Hall Master, I have returned your grandson and granddaughter to you intact; they have made great progress in these two years, and I hope we can continue to conduct exchange studies like this in the future."

Jing Hongchen also nodded, "If there is time, I would like to discuss with your academy to see if we can continue the exchange studies in the future just like today."

After a round of mutual commercial flattery, they greeted their respective students to return to their own sides, but who benefited the most from this exchange, that remained unknown.

In the original work, Huo Yu Hao had ruthlessly fleeced Jing Hongchen before leaving, and in the end, Jing Hongchen sent the Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng to hunt them down; even before this, Wang Dong had come to the Sun Moon Empire once, taking Huo Yu Hao to meet his parents, which led to Electrolux's sacrifice just to add an extra cheat for Huo Yu Hao.

However, the current Su Yu had a smooth journey, and even before leaving, he had a very friendly business exchange with Jing Hongchen, knocking out a batch of materials from him for some things he had designed himself.

At the time, Su Yu pretended to be at a great disadvantage, lowering the price by more than half himself; little did he know that a defective design drawing could be exchanged with Jing Hongchen for ten Silver Dragon Scales and twenty kilograms of Extraterrestrial Meteorite Iron, which was already quite good.

But who knew Jing Hongchen would be so generous; Su Yu made a random offer, asking for a price no less than what Huo Yu Hao had asked for back then, and only after cutting it to ten percent did Jing Hongchen agree.

Jing Hongchen, who thought he had taken a huge advantage, little knew that he was the one who truly suffered a loss, because that improved mechanism had too many flaws; to prevent Jing Hongchen from being enraged, Su Yu even repeatedly warned him that this design was still a prototype and had major problems, and that he should choose carefully, but at the time, Jing Hongchen didn't care about these at all...

Although it was only ten percent, these things were completely enough for Xuan Ziwen to use alone.

However, if Xuan Ziwen arrived at the Wanjing Sect and discovered he had been hoodwinked, would he be so angry that he would want to smash the Wanjing Sect?

Of course, this matter could only be handled by himself...

The journey was calm and peaceful, and no accidents occurred; in fact, many times, the reason Huo Yu Hao encountered danger was largely due to his own self-destructive behavior.

Although there was no crisis, Yi Lao still told him that there was someone with extremely powerful strength monitoring them in the dark.

If Su Yu's guess was correct, it was most likely Long Xiaoyao; this old guy, despite what he said, still obediently followed Mu Lao's last wishes and arranged everything clearly for Huo step by step.

Thinking of this, Su Yu recalled the story of Ye Xishui; in fact, all three of them had lost to reality; Ye Xishui herself was a member of the Holy Spirit Cult, and her appearance meant that everything was destined to be meticulously designed, but in this process, unexpected things would always happen.

The emergence of such a result was not actually surprising, but what Su Yu cared about was why Long Xiaoyao, after having his own family back then, would continue to follow by Ye Xishui's side; what about his family, his descendants?

Just like that, it's lost? And you're not going to do anything about it?

One must walk the path step by step, and the Douluo Continent is only so large; if the two of them truly had the ability to search the entire continent, why would they be so lost, ultimately leading to that melodramatic ending?

Led by Yan Shaozhe, above Shrek City, Su Yu saw Xuan Lao; now, Xuan Lao was already here, having waited for a long time.

"Everyone go back and rest. Su Yu, He Cai Tou, you two will stay temporarily in the Sea God Pavilion. After the event ends in a few days, we will arrange accommodation for you. Su Yu, your original living quarters have been assigned to someone else. Wang Dong has also been assigned a new dormitory, a single room!"

Hearing the first half of the sentence, Xuan Lao saw Su Yu's expression growing increasingly ugly, so he specifically added that Wang Dong had also changed dormitories, and to a single room at that, which was the only thing that prevented an incident from occurring.

"The event? The Sea God Fate Blind Date Assembly?" Su Yu asked subconsciously.

"It is your Inner Court assessment," Yan Shaozhe spoke up at this moment.

"Oh, I see." After giving a few instructions, everyone left one by one, and Su Yu also slowly descended; after all, the regulations of Shrek City were extremely strict, so after Xuan Lao left, he could no longer continue flying.

The moment he stepped into Shrek City, a figure walked past him; smelling that familiar scent, Su Yu turned around and looked at that figure.

It was a young woman, tall and slender, dressed in a long white dress with her wavy hair let down, wearing a veil over her cheeks; a breeze blew by, and at that very moment, her veil suddenly came loose and drifted right toward Su Yu.

As the veil was lifted by the wind, the gazes of the two met at this moment.

Emperor Auspicious Beast, long time no see.

Su Yu caught the veil and handed it back to the young girl before him who looked exactly like Wang Dong, slowly saying, "Long time no see. I didn't expect that after I left the Star Dou Great Forest, I would be able to see you again. Should I call you the Emperor Auspicious Beast, or should I call you the Three-Eyed Golden Lion?"

"Give it back to me." The young girl ignored Su Yu's words and simply reached out her hand.

"Here you go."

Su Yu knew that she did not want to reveal too much right now, but there would be plenty of trouble in the future.

Damn it, nine times out of ten, this is some trick cooked up by that Tang fellow!