Douluo Jueshi: I Don't Want to Be an Evil Soul Master

Seeing Shangguan Qing was about to say something, Lin Xiao added, "Don't try to fool me with those rhetoric. We all know the specific situation. Since this is a deal, just tell me what you want to know."

"How could I be so eager for quick success?" Shangguan Qing complained, "Then let's start with why you came to the academy."

"Aren't you here too? Do I need to ask specifically why I'm here?"

"That's hard to say." Shangguan Qing suddenly smiled. "You also know what kind of business the Ordinary Alliance is doing. Of course, I came here to invest as soon as possible."

"I think you're also aware that the Ordinary Alliance can only achieve its current status because Sister Wei'er manipulates so many nobles. And at the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Guidance Academy, there are many future nobles. I came here naturally to establish good relationships in advance."

"Why, are you the same as me?"

Lin Xiao had no doubts about Shangguan Qing's story. He had sensed it during their first few encounters. Although he looked like any other person his age, Shangguan Qing's every move was meticulously calculated. Not only would the inexperienced students at the academy, but even the nobles would probably have taken a second look.

"I'm different from you. I originally entered the academy just to learn soul guides, using the identity of a soul guide to cover up my original identity."

"So you are not the only one who entered the Sun Moon Royal Soul Guidance Academy?" Shangguan Qing quickly guessed something else from Lin Xiao's words.

"That's right, but each disciple is arranged to come in individually, and no one knows the identity of others."

"I see." Shangguan Qing nodded. "You just said it was just the beginning. So what about now? Do you have other purposes?"

"Now..." Lin Xiao looked at Shangguan Qing and lowered his voice slightly, "Don't you think there are still many secrets in this academy?"

Shangguan Qing's expression changed slightly, "What do you know?"

Lin Xiao just shook his head, "The Xuanshui Pill is not worth the price."

"What else do you want? I'll help you find it."

"Let's talk about it next time. I'll come to you when I need you later."

"You—" Shangguan Qing watched Lin Xiao turn and leave, a word stuck in her mouth, but she didn't say it in the end. Although she didn't have the same skills as Shangguan Wei'er, she had already learned a lot from these seemingly simple words.

"What's wrong? Did you make the girl angry?"

Lin Xiao had not taken a few steps when he bumped into Lin Jiayi who was walking towards him. Beside him was a tall middle-aged man with a gloomy expression.

"Teacher, you saw it all."

"I saw it clearly." Lin Jiayi looked in the direction of Shangguan Qing. "If I remember correctly, that girl seemed to have come to you more than once. Did you refuse her kindness again?"

"Teacher, you misunderstood." Lin Xiao said helplessly. This familiar tone, I didn't expect that in this world, there are also elders who like to make such jokes.

"It's okay. Our academy doesn't prohibit these things. Besides, if you can enter our academy, your talent should be pretty good."

Lin Xiao did not respond, but just followed Lin Jiayi.

Seeing this, Lin Jiayi lost his desire to joke and turned to look at the middle-aged man next to him.

"So, you've made up your mind?"

"Yes, Director Lin." The man nodded. "Over the years, I've always felt that I could break through to the ninth level of Soul Master, but there was always something missing. So I decided not to return to the academy to teach for the time being. I will go into seclusion for a while to see if I can break through to the ninth level of Soul Master."

"Alright." Lin Jiayi sighed softly, "The academy has approved your application, but if you want to leave, do you need to collect some more documents? If you can make a breakthrough, it will be a good thing for the academy. I can give you a special approval."

"No need, Director. I already have an idea and I've already bought the necessary materials. There's no need to bother the academy."

"Well, I hope everything goes well for you."

"Thank you, director."

"Teacher, who was that just now?" Seeing the middle-aged man walking away, Lin Xiao's eyes moved slightly.

"Him." Lin Jiayi glanced back. "He's also a teacher at the academy, but the soul guides he researches aren't for combat use. That's why he hasn't been able to break through to the ninth-level soul guide for so long. I hope he can succeed this time."

Chapter 87 By Chance

Just after hearing that the locust wood core in Mingdu had been bought by someone, Lin Xiao saw that a teacher from the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Guidance Academy was going into seclusion. He had to think more about it.

However, he did not feel the aura of an evil soul master from the teacher just now, and he didn't know whether he guessed wrong or the teacher had other purposes in looking for Huai Muxin.

The soul guide test area is divided into two parts: the arena and the test area. The arena is mostly where the actual control system soul masters compete with each other. Occasionally, there are other soul masters who want to try out the performance of their soul guides in actual combat.

The actual testing area is a series of large, separated rooms with walls on all sides.

The power of the soul guide device that is still under experimentation is difficult to control and may accidentally injure people nearby. Using a wall to separate it can also prevent others from peeking. After all, no soul guide wants to have his ideas that are still under experimentation stolen by others.

Lin Xiao walked into the experimental area, closed the door, and glanced at the pile of materials on the table.

Since obtaining his sixth spirit ring, he had been here most of the time during the day. Although becoming a third-level spirit engineer only required the independent creation of a third-level spirit tool, if he wanted to continue his breakthrough, he needed to master more than just one spirit tool.

Lin Xiao picked up the metal on the table with ease, thought for a moment, then put it down again and took out the storage soul guide that Shangguan Qing had given him.

Needless to say, one of the porcelain bottles contained the famous Xuanshui Pill. As soon as the cork was opened, a faint medicinal aroma filled the air. Although it contained the essence and blood of a water-attributed spirit beast, the pill had no trace of blood, only a pleasant grassy fragrance.

The bottle contained a dark blue pill, the size of a cherry, with many white lines of varying shades on it. After a long time, a light mist filled the mouth of the bottle.

It is indeed a good thing. Even though Lin Xiao is not good at making pills, just by looking at its appearance, he can tell that it is extraordinary.

As for the other things on the other side, there were probably only a dozen dark blue metal ingots and some irregular ores. No one knew where Shangguan Qing got them from.

Lin Xiao took out the metal ingots, weighed them in his hand, and shook his head with some regret.

He wanted the locust wood core not to make a soul guide, but to give the soul he controlled a place to live. Sometimes he needed the soul to appear outside to help him do something, but there were many soul masters in the Holy Spirit Church who could deal with souls, so he could only find ways to cover it up.

These metals can indeed be used to make soul guides to match the function of locust wood core, but they cannot allow souls to reside in them.

Forget it, it’s metal anyway, so I’ll use it to feed my left arm bone.

Lin Xiao placed the metal ingot on the table and pressed it with his left hand. A faint metallic luster appeared on his left arm, but the next moment, he immediately stopped what he was doing.

After scanning the materials in front of him, Lin Xiao took out a few more materials.

Anyway, it is going to be fed to the soul bone, so before that, he might as well use it to try his own experiment of making "alloy". Even if it fails, the materials will not be wasted, and it can also help him eliminate a wrong plan.

Smelting, forging, casting... These seemingly blacksmith jobs are actually part of the production of soul guides. Except for some rare natural pure materials, most metals require this process before being made into soul guides. Only through continuous hammering can the characteristics of the metal itself be fully brought into play.

In Lin Xiao's previous life, this kind of work also had certain requirements for the environment, and impurities would be mixed in if one was not careful. But here, with the existence of soul power, these can be completely avoided. Also, because of the existence of mental power, the changes in metal can be grasped at any time.

Although Lin Xiao's attempt at the "alloy" process was slightly different from that of other soul masters, given his control over soul power and mental power, the process was somewhat boring. He kept repeating the process with his hands, and his thoughts had long since drifted away.

In fact, whether it is the three major empires or the Sun-Moon Empire with advanced soul guide technology, soul guides have never been able to develop as rapidly as the industries in Lin Xiao's memory. One of the important reasons is that some of the processes for making soul guides are too primitive.

Simple things like this required the soul guide to do it personally, and a complete soul guide would have so many parts and so much metal. Even in the process of research and experimentation, just forging the metal would consume a lot of time.

Perhaps, as he remembered, he could make a soul guide specially used for forging metal. Even if it couldn't have a trace of "spirituality" like the ones forged by soul masters themselves, it would be completely sufficient among the huge number of low- and medium-level soul guides.

Just as Lin Xiao was imagining the soul guide that could be used to make a soul guide, his mental power that was focusing on the metal in his hand suddenly disappeared.

Lin Xiao subconsciously stopped what he was doing and came back to his senses in an instant.

The two metals he melted together in front of him had completely merged, and they still looked like they had some of the original blue color of the materials, but this blue color was evenly distributed throughout the metal ingot like stars.

Lin Xiao was still a little dazed, but he quickly realized that something he had tried many times without success seemed to be accomplished inadvertently.

After a careful examination, he realized that his spiritual power had not vanished into thin air, but had been integrated into the metal. In other words, this new "alloy" formed by the fusion of the two metals had the ability to transmit the spiritual power of a soul master.

He thought of a lot in an instant.

Soul guides naturally rely on mental power to control soul guides, especially long-range soul guides, which can even change the direction and angle of attack through mental influence. Therefore, there are many magic arrays in soul guides specifically designed to transmit the soul guide's mental power.

But now, if this metal can be integrated into the soul guide, a lot of magic arrays used to transmit mental power can be saved.

This is just the simplest application. If this thing appears in the hands of other ninth-level soul masters, it can play a much more than just role.

It was just a simple idea at first, but after experiencing so many failures, Lin Xiao himself no longer had any hope. He almost regarded it as a processing before feeding metal to his left arm bone, just like cooking.

However, when his idea was finally realized and a material that had never appeared before was born from his hands, he didn't know what to do with it for a moment.

Keep it for yourself? Exchange it for cultivation resources? Or give it to someone else to deal with...

Lin Xiao put away the metal ingot in his hand that looked like a starry sky and returned to the table. He still needed to think carefully.

Chapter 88 Robbers

Time passed quickly, and noon passed in the blink of an eye. Lin Xiao put away the engraved core magic circle, and then walked out of the soul guide test area with a normal expression, just like usual.

Although he seemed to have created something extraordinary by chance, Lin Xiao had no intention of showing it to others.

Even among ninth-level soul guides, alloy-like materials with completely new properties rarely appear. Lin Xiao knows what kind of turmoil his discovery will cause once others know about it, and he can also guess what kind of benefits he will get as the first soul guide to discover this alloy.

But at the same time, he also knew that with his current level of cultivation, he was still far from being able to grasp such immense wealth.

Growing up in the Holy Spirit Church, he never minded speculating about others with the greatest malice, not to mention that he was an evil soul master hated by everyone. Even if he was a good person, there were always people who would take risks in the face of enviable wealth.

It's okay for him to study it secretly by himself, but telling outsiders is probably impossible until he has the strength to match it.

It was noon, and the number of soul masters fighting near the arena had decreased a lot. Only a few scattered students were standing around some remote arenas, and they didn't look like they were going to rest yet.

"boom--"

"boom--"

The sounds of several soul guide cannons came from the ring, and Lin Xiao suddenly stopped.

There is naturally no shortage of sounds from soul guide cannons here, but Lin Xiao, who is now a third-level soul guide, still heard something unusual from these sounds.

The person who launched these attacks did not use the soul guide devices commonly used by the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Guide Academy, and the method of engraving the magic array was also unusual.

Moreover, he is able to launch several consecutive attacks at almost the same time, and his ability to control soul guides is also impressive.

Lin Xiao often comes to the soul guide experimental area, and has never heard of such an excellent soul guide appearing anywhere.

After looking around with some curiosity, Lin Xiao's gaze suddenly paused.

On the ring not far in front of him, two children about eleven or twelve years old were fighting each other. The boy was dressed in gold and looked quite free and easy. It seemed that his opponent did not bring him too much pressure.

On the other side, there was a little girl in snow-white. Her style of attack was somewhat like that of a practical control department soul engineer, but the connection between her soul guides was even more skillful than those of the senior practical control department students.

And Lin Xiao was no stranger to her.

A thought flashed through his mind, and Lin Xiao looked at the boy again. Seeing that he was covered with soul guide cannons but did not look tired at all, he roughly guessed who he was.

Soul masters have outstanding memories, so even though they had only met once, Lin Xiao still recognized the girl on the ring as Jing Hongchen's granddaughter Meng Hongchen, and it was not difficult to guess who was opposite her.

No wonder Lin Xiao felt something was wrong from the voice just now. The one who launched the attack was Jing Hongchen's grandson Xiao Hongchen. Possessing a martial soul like the three-legged golden toad, he was born with the ability to control metal. Therefore, the attack just now was not a real soul guide cannon, but a soul guide device temporarily constructed by his martial soul on the basis of the soul guide array.

It turned out that they had also entered the Sun Moon Royal Soul Guidance Academy.

"You've been watching for a long time. Do you want to come up and have a few moves?"

Just as Lin Xiao was thinking, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, the brother and sister, had stopped fighting on the ring. Xiao Hongchen looked at Lin Xiao below the ring and raised his chin.

Meng Hongchen also looked at Lin Xiao, stared at him for a moment, as if he suddenly remembered something, took two steps back and hid behind Xiao Hongchen.