Chapter 363: 369. Chapter 369 Exchange

369. Chapter 369 Exchange

Ai Rui Si. Ke La Ke clearly knew that she had no romantic feelings toward Lin Ke.

Moreover, she was even more clearly aware that Lin Ke likewise had no romantic feelings toward her.

So, the sourness that welled up was instantly suppressed by Ai Rui Si. Ke La Ke, and she paid close attention.

After all, during the process of their acquaintance, her emotional changes were greatly influenced by 'Ai Rui Si'.

At a certain late stage of the ninth trial, relying on the tacit understanding born of the void, with the help of the two great dharma seals and the Daoist sect layout represented by the Void Quiet Heavenly Master, they barely managed to sever the past life and the life before that, achieving a pure character.

Ai Rui Si. Ke La Ke certainly did not want any lingering hidden dangers.

Her thoughts turned in an instant.

She loosened her arms, left Lin Ke's embrace, and Ai Rui Si. Ke La Ke said solemnly: 'This is the last time I will hug you, Lin Ke; from now on, we are just friends.'

Lin Ke responded to Ai Rui Si's gaze with a smile, saying: 'We have always been friends.'

Upon hearing that, Ai Rui Si instinctively felt displeasure, which she immediately suppressed.

Lin Ke promptly changed the subject, asking: 'Ai Rui Si, the academy temporarily transferred me from the front lines to the rear, giving me a task with no details. I have no idea what it is, yet I came here.'

Upon saying that, Lin Ke paused, weighed his words: 'The Supreme Council is no ordinary place; if there's anything to watch out for, you'd better give me a proper introduction.'

Is that true or not?

It is true, but there are also exaggerated aspects.

After the wizard world was reforged, the five sages each held sway over Central Land, the East Coast, the West Coast, the South Border, and the North Border.

The Elemental faction sage is in the West Coast, the Body‑Refining faction sage is in the East Coast, the Artifice‑Wisdom faction sage is in the South Border, and the Beast‑Control faction sage is in the North Border.

The one who dominates Central Land is the True Spirit faction sage.

The Supreme Council is also located in Central Land, not only because Central Land is the central homeland of the wizard world, but also because the True Spirit faction sage is the strongest.

This is a fact recognized by the entire wizard world and acknowledged by the other four sages.

Where the Supreme Council resides is the major stronghold of the True Spirit wizard faction, the headquarters of the True Spirit Wizard Union, and a gathering place of various forces.

There are many rules, and many conflicts.

How could Rui Wo Si Si Academy possibly send Lin Ke to such a place without any explanation?

Thus, it's a waste for a major power.

Lin Ke said that merely to get some firsthand information from Ai Rui Si.

"There's nothing particular to watch out for; strength is supreme."

Ai Rui Si curled her lip, her tone rather mocking: 'If anyone dares to provoke you, as long as you're confident you can win, just go ahead and fight.'

"Provocation?"

Lin Ke seized the point.

Ai Rui Si said disdainfully: 'The young people here have all gone down the wrong path, comparing family background instead of strength; it's truly hard to put into words.'

Lin Ke couldn't help but fall silent.

He caught a familiar scent and had some guesses about the situation he was about to face.

"So, what is my mission?"

The two walked side by side for a stretch, and Lin Ke directly voiced the doubt in his heart.

"Your task is simply to help me fend off trouble."

Ai Rui Si thought for a moment and spoke frankly: 'It was I who asked the academy to temporarily transfer you here; I've run into some minor troubles here that need to be settled.'

"What trouble?"

Having accepted the task, Lin Ke will not complain.

Nor will he develop any resentment toward Ai Rui Si.

He is not that petty, and there's no need for it.

I am undergoing a thorough retraining. This is the best way to digest what I gained in the trial and the rewards after passing it. Although my realm has promptly recovered to third‑grade wizard, I am about to enter the metamorphosis period and cannot take action.

Ai Rui Si explained the situation: 'In fact, a small, temporary channel to the parallel universe has already been opened. This channel can support five people making a round trip to the parallel universe once. The Supreme Council has decided to dispatch an envoy team to first establish diplomatic relations with one civilization in the parallel universe. Naturally, I am the team leader, and the team members have not yet been finalized.'

Having said that, Ai Rui Si stopped and looked seriously at Lin Ke: 'I need an assistant to help control the envoy team, so as not to become a puppet team leader.'

"And then?"

Lin Ke met Ai Rui Si's gaze openly.

Even though he sensed the subtext in Ai Rui Si's words, he did not proactively take on the task.

This attitude made Ai Rui Si sigh inwardly.

After all, we really have just remained friends.

Having composed herself, Ai Rui Si then said: 'I need time to get through the metamorphosis period and advance to sage; then everything will be easy to discuss. So I need to find a pretext to postpone the selection of team members.'

This time Lin Ke took the initiative to pick up the thread, saying: 'My purpose in coming is to help you buy time, right?'

"Yes."

Ai Rui Si nodded solemnly.

"How to do it?"

Lin Ke thought it over, found no objection, and agreed.

"Screen those who wish to become envoy team members with standards as high as possible and a process as long as possible."

Ai Rui Si stated her demand.

"How much time do you need?"

"Fourteen days."

"Are you sure it's fourteen days?"

"Definitely fourteen days!"

The two chatted to this point, reached a consensus, and happened to walk to the spaceport's parking lot.

They got into Ai Rui Si. Ke La Ke's vehicle and drove toward the Ruowosuosi Academy's office stationed at the Supreme Council.

During this time, the Supreme Council, while detaining Ai Rui Si. Ke La Ke, had no intention of returning her to Ruowosuosi Academy, but did not go too far.

Ai Rui Si. Ke La Ke still resided in the Ruowosuosi Academy's office inside the Supreme Council, and her connection with the academy had never been cut off.

Meanwhile, discussions began to arise in various parts of the Supreme Council.

"The lucky one brought reinforcements."

"Reinforcements? I think they're lovers!"

"Don't spout nonsense; how can you use such a vulgar word to describe a sage?"

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In many occasions, young-generation wizards who wanted to join the five-person envoy to parallel universes, upon hearing that Linke Grand had become a sage, found the atmosphere unconsciously turn cold.

A great change unseen in millennia has indeed accelerated the wizards' cultivation progress overall.

However, a fourth-level sage under twenty years old, in the entire history of the wizard world, is not only unheard of but also extremely rare.

Less than the number of two palms.

Every ultra-super-super-super-super genius who achieves this level, as long as they don't fall midway, will achieve even greater accomplishments.

For example, a ninth-level grand sage, or a saint.

In other words, Linke Grand has the bearing of a saint!

Why do the young wizards gathered at the Supreme Council say that Ai Rui Si. Ke La Ke is the lucky one?

Because she is about to advance to fourth-level sage, and it is clearly foreseeable that she will become a ninth-level grand sage, even a saint!

And this is not due to her talent, aptitude, and effort.

It is purely because she became the special outsider in the prophecy that she obtained these.

This made those high-and-mighty young-generation genius wizards jealous, but with Linke Grand's achievements laid before them, no one dared to utter sour remarks.

Immediately, a question rose in the hearts of those young-generation genius wizards.

What was Ai Rui Si. Ke La Ke's intention in deliberately bringing Linke Grand as reinforcements?

Is it really just as she said, to have Linke Grand help her buy time?

Know that the spaceport is a public place, and wizards wanting to eavesdrop on conversations there have many means.

Would Ai Rui Si. Ke La Ke not know this?

Perhaps those who told them about the envoy team members and authority recently, giving Ai Rui Si. Ke La Ke some pressure, are listening.

This is both a show of goodwill and a threat.

If things go smoothly afterward and she isn't delayed in grasping the envoy team's authority, it would merely be a delay of fourteen days.

If, instead, they continue with scheming and intrigue as before, taking advantage of her imminent transformation period to seize the envoy team's power and benefits, then don't blame her for being impolite.

By then, once Linke Grand joins the envoy team, Ruowosuosi Academy and even the West Coast could completely dominate this mission.

After hearing the opinions of the major forces in the wizard world, the Supreme Council set the selection procedure for this envoy team's members, to be decided by the young-generation wizards themselves.

Although Linke Grand is already a fourth-level sage, he is likewise a young-generation wizard!

Overawing peers of third-level and second-level wizards is easy for him.

Thus, in a rather strange atmosphere, the selection of the five-person envoy team began.

Many applied, yet they would delay if possible, unwilling to first undergo Linke Grand's test.

Failing is no big deal, after all, there is still a retrial.

Losing face would be hard to recover.

The newly promoted fourth-level sage Linke Grand, under the Supreme Council's witness, conducted his preliminary test with the strength of a third-level wizard.

The application threshold for the five-person envoy team is being a third-level wizard under twenty-five years old.

Each day, Linke Grand only instructs five aspiring young-generation individuals who wish to become envoy team members.

This was approved by the Supreme Council.

Many initially thought Linke Grand was limiting the number of preliminary test participants to buy time.

The facts prove otherwise.

They simply don't like being watched.

Five days passed.

Of the twenty-five young-generation genius wizards who received Linke Grand's instruction, not a single one could withstand a single move.

Not a single one!

According to the data released by the Supreme Council, when Linke Grand launched an attack, his mental power, magic power, attack strength, thinking speed, and reaction speed were all strictly controlled at the average level of a third-level wizard.

Even so, the result remained that no one could block the attack combination of seemingly ordinary armor-clad charge and an uppercut thrown from the side.

By this point, it can be said that the entire wizard world has come to know Linke Grand as such a figure.

The young-generation genius wizards also began to sincerely shout, 'Grand Sage!'

Ruowosuosi Academy once again entered the sight of all wizard organizations.

If, according to the wizard world's archenemy, the Gods' World's saying, Ruowosuosi Academy most likely received the Mandate of Heaven.

Otherwise, how could there simultaneously appear a special outsider prophesied to become a saint and a fourth-level sage who achieved promotion before twenty?

In the blink of an eye, the agreed-upon fifteen days of peace passed.

"Congratulations, Lin Ke."

Ruowosuosi Academy's office stationed at the Supreme Council.

Having smoothly passed through the transformation period, Ai Rui Si. Ke La Ke, who is about to hold the sage promotion ceremony, sincerely said to Lin Ke:

"Congratulations for what?"

Lin Ke retorted.

Congratulations, your name resounds throughout the entire wizard world!

Ai Rui Si said matter-of-factly.

I'd rather not have this fame.

Lin Ke shook his head.

The bird that sticks its head out gets shot.

Even though he had already decided not to hide his shortcomings anymore, it doesn't mean Lin Ke wants to act flamboyantly.

Helping Ai Rui Si delay time indeed made Lin Ke's reputation resound.

But besides bringing Lin Ke more envy and hostility from younger and even older generation genius wizards, what else can this resounding fame bring?

Can it bring magic stones, or can it bring an interstellar fleet?

The only thing that can console him is one thing: the academy will give rewards.

Every wizard, regardless of rank, must undertake a mission assigned by the academy each year.

That is the rule.

So even though Lin Ke is on the front lines, he may also be temporarily recalled.

After completing the mission, of course there should be a reward.

Through Dean Fri Si Te, Lin Ke already knows that tomorrow, after returning to the West Coast, he will receive a brand-new Star-Annihilation Fortress.

This model of Star-Annihilation Fortress is equipped with top-tier configuration for the Sixth-Level Sage Legion.

With such a Star-Annihilation Fortress as the core of the Grand Sage Legion's interstellar fleet, combat power can be said to have greatly increased.

Ah.

Ai Rui Si looked suddenly enlightened, "I forgot you prefer to stay low-key, not flamboyant."

Lin Ke did not respond to that, merely waiting in silence for the promotion ceremony to begin.

Being in a foreign land, few people would come to witness Ai Rui Si. Ke La Ke's promotion to sage.

Among the Ke La Ke family members, only her elder sister Rui Ni. Ke La Ke received an invitation, and A Sang De. Ke Nei Te, as her brother-in-law, accompanied her.

At the Rui Wo Suo Si Academy, only Mo Li received an invitation.

Because of Ai Rui Si's special status, the witness of the promotion ceremony is Shan Tuo La. Di Ou Man De.

Since Lin Ke's promotion to fourth-level sage, and since the "Do Anything Freely" trend continues to show high potential development, Shan Tuo La's status in the fourth generation of the Di Ou Man De family has become increasingly prominent.

Soon, the time for the promotion ceremony arrived.

Under the witness of Shan Tuo La, Ai Rui Si. Ke La Ke successfully promoted to fourth-level sage.

Besides Lin Ke, Mo Li, Rui Ni. Ke La Ke, and A Sang De. Ke Nei Te, there were also the true outstanding among the four young generation genius wizards.

These four have already been internally designated as members of the five-person envoy team.

Worldly affairs have never been fair.

The next day.

The three—Lin Ke, Mo Li, and Shan Tuo La, who had been deliberately retained—saw off the five-person envoy team led by Ai Rui Si. Ke La Ke as they entered the temporary passage, heading to the parallel universe on their mission.

This process is no different from the usual transmission frequently used.

There were no omens, nor any mishaps.

The five-person envoy team smoothly passed through the passage and arrived at the other end of the parallel universe.

The Supreme Council, or more accurately, the five saints are definitely in contact with the other side of the parallel universe.

Through the distorted, blurred, impenetrable space, Lin Ke could see someone on the other side of the passage welcoming the five-person envoy team.

Even, Lin Ke faintly heard a slogan.

"Boundless blessings and life."