The moment he left the Balak City auction house, Lin Yuan turned into an empty alley, shed his disguise, and transformed into an ordinary young Genius Spirit Master.
That afternoon.
Lin Yuan traveled hurriedly for over a hundred miles to rush to Soto City.
First, he rented a room with a balcony, took out the potted plant he carried with him that was used to bury the Palm Heaven Bottle, and placed it on the balcony to collect the green liquid.
Then, he filled a vat with ice water and took out the three thousand-year whale gums he had purchased at a high price.
Operating the Supreme Sacred Universe Skill within his body, blue Qi surged from his right hand.
Lin Yuan grabbed one piece of the whale Glue and quickly roasted it with the Qi flame.
In a short while, the thousand-year whale Glue melted.
Lin Yuan swiftly swallowed the first piece of whale Glue, then sat cross-legged in the ice water to refine it.
After finishing the refinement, he took out the second piece…
and so the cycle repeated.
When Lin Yuan finished refining these three pieces of thousand-year whale Glue, he clearly felt that his Physique had increased by a large margin.
Excluding the bonus that his second spirit ring provided to himself.
If previously he could only endure a spirit ring of one thousand five hundred years, then now he could at least endure one of three thousand years.
By this time, he had already stayed in the hotel room for a day and two nights.
It just happened to be the enrollment day for the Soto Intermediate Soul Master Academy.
Relying on his own Rank 24 Soul Power and powerful mutated Spirit ‘Thunder Bamboo’, Lin Yuan adopted the pseudonym Lan Si and not only successfully joined the Soto Intermediate Soul Master Academy.
He also obtained many benefits such as admission exemption and a scholarship.
Coincidentally, today was also the enrollment day for Shrek Academy.
The Soto Intermediate Soul Master Academy had no classes that day.
After placing his luggage, Lin Yuan simply disguised himself as a student who admired Shrek Academy and was participating in the enrollment exam, mingling among the crowd.
As a result, he happened to see Dai Mubai with his right hand wrapped in bandages, looking as if he wanted to die of shame after being rejected by Li Yusong, who was in charge of the first round of registration, because he didn’t have money to pay the registration fee.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, Flender, who had a hook nose and wore square-framed glasses, stepped forward to bail him out, promising that as long as he passed the entrance exam, he could pay the registration fee and tuition later when the Spirit Master subsidy was distributed in the future.
Only after displaying two yellow century-old spirit rings and the White Tiger Spirit did Dai Mubai successfully pass the first round and get led into Shrek Academy by Flender to participate in the subsequent assessments.
Lin Yuan guessed that the person secretly protecting Dai Mubai must have greeted them in advance.
That was why Flender ‘happened’ to appear here.
Just like when Ning Rongrong entered Shrek in the original work and Ning Fengzhi entrusted someone to send a letter to Flender.
Soon after, Meng Baichuan and Meng Yiran also took the stage.
Meng Yiran’s birthday was in two days, squeezing into enrollment before turning thirteen.
Their Spirits were a dragon head cane and a snake head cane respectively, but their spirit ring configurations were yellow, purple, and purple.
Upon seeing the two people’s Spirits and spirit rings, Lin Yuan could not help frowning slightly.
Previously, when sensing their Soul Power fluctuations, he only felt it generally.
Now that the two released their Soul Power, he discovered that their Soul Power was very high.
Meng Baichuan’s Soul Power was around Rank 33, while Meng Yiran’s Soul Power reached at least Rank 35.
Such a cultivation speed was simply too bizarre.
Counting every possible day, Meng Baichuan had only cultivated for three years, just like him.
With Innate Full Spirit Power at Rank 10, the first spirit ring boosted Soul Power by three or four Ranks, the second spirit ring boosted Soul Power by two or three Ranks, and this third spirit ring boosted Soul Power by two or three Ranks.
Even if you subtracted this nearly twenty Ranks of inherent Soul Power increase, there were still thirteen or even fifteen Soul Power Ranks left.
Improving by four or five Soul Power Ranks on average each year was a bit too outrageous even for a transmigrator with Innate Full Spirit Power.
Meng Yiran’s Soul Power growth speed was even more bizarre.
You must know that in the original work, it was at sixteen years old—that is, three years later—that Meng Yiran broke through to Rank 30.
Her talent was not very high.
Yet she was able to achieve accomplishments far surpassing the original work three years in advance.
Even if she ate whale Glue as meals, it would be impossible to accomplish.
Could it be that she took an Immortal Plant?
Unlikely.
In recent years, Lin Yuan had been paying attention to the Spirit Master’s world; perhaps he couldn’t find out which Sect produced a Genius Spirit Master.
But for a Titled Douluo to appear—an event big enough to shake the entire Spirit Master’s world— there was no reason he wouldn’t hear about it.
If Meng Baichuan obtained an Immortal Plant, it was impossible that he would divide it solely for Meng Yiran without giving any to the Dragon Lord and Snake Granny.
Could it be that they possessed a Cultivation Technique like Lin Tian’s?
That should also be unlikely.
He hadn’t felt any dangerous aura from the two of them.
“It seems there must be another hidden story to this matter, and I still need to observe carefully.”
While Lin Yuan was lost in thought, some people whose Soul Power didn’t reach above Rank 20 or who exceeded the age limit were already rejected outside the gates.
Yet Shrek refused to refund the registration fee, causing the two sides to make a scene.
In the end, Li Yusong released six spirit rings—white, yellow, purple, purple, purple, and black—scaring off the troublemakers and explicitly stating Shrek’s enrollment conditions.
The crowd waiting in line for registration scattered in all directions.
Lin Yuan also followed the crowd and left.
…
The next evening.
After finishing class and staying in his single dormitory to Cultivate for an afternoon, Lin Yuan changed into a body-fitting green robe with a hood, put on a mask, entered the Soto City Great Spirit Arena, and registered for a Spirit Grandmaster-level one-on-one solo Spirit duel under the name of Qin Xuan.
This was his third alter ego.
The first was Zu Zong, registered as a Spirit Master to collect the Spirit Master subsidy; the second was Lan Si, enrolled in the Soto Intermediate Soul Master Academy; and the third was this Qin Xuan.
‘Qin Xuan”s opponent was a Spirit Grandmaster whose Spirit was a battle axe, around thirty-something years old, with a spirit ring configuration of one white and one yellow—considered the standard setup for grassroots commoner Spirit Masters.
Because the opponent’s Soul Power had already reached Rank 29, Lin Yuan did not display overwhelming strength to instantly kill the opponent.
After entangling with the opponent for a while, with slightly superior strength, he released a small-scale Bamboo Forest Illusion Sea, and then, taking advantage of the fog’s confusion, used Lone Bamboo Javelin to knock the opponent off the Spirit duel stage with a single staff strike.
The victory was not considered very easy; in the eyes of the spectators, he won entirely by relying on the advantage of his own spirit ring configuration.
It also kept him from making himself appear too abrupt.
Next, he began to wait.
Waiting for Flender to bring Meng Baichuan and the others to the Spirit arena to participate in Spirit duels.
This was a mandatory course for Shrek.
As a result, perhaps because Dai Mubai’s arm had not completely healed yet.
Flender only brought Meng Baichuan, Meng Yiran, and a little red-haired Fatty.
That little red-haired Fatty should unexpectedly be the brothel Phoenix Ma Hongjun.
Looking at his battered appearance and the way he looked at Meng Yiran and Meng Baichuan with fear and ingratiation, without a doubt, he must have been taught a lesson during the day.
Regarding this, Lin Yuan did not care.
His true targets were still those two people, Meng Yiran and Meng Baichuan.
When he heard the broadcast call out the two people’s names, Lin Yuan immediately walked to the spectator stands where their arena was located.
They had signed up for one-on-one Spirit duels and two-on-two Spirit duels.
The city where Lin Yuan’s parents lived also had a Great Spirit Arena.
Lin Yuan had often disguised himself to enter and engage in Spirit duels inside.
Judging from their battles with opponents.
The two people’s strength was very strong.
At least, Lin Yuan had never seen such formidable Spirit Elders.