Especially Meng Baichuan; whether it was his own combat skills or his mastery of Spirit Abilities, he had achieved an impeccable level.
But this strength was still within an acceptable range.
In a one-on-one fight, at best he could only battle a Spirit Ancestor.
If he encountered a Spirit King, defeat would be certain without a doubt.
But what Lin Yuan truly cared about was the battle when the two joined forces.
The degree of tacit understanding far exceeded imagination.
Lin Yuan considered himself able to quickly resolve opponents in a one-on-one situation, but if it were fighting two against one, the difficulty would multiply several times over.
And this was under the condition that the two had not yet unleashed their Spirit Fusion Skill, Dragon and Snake Joint Strike.
“When these two fight, their Mental Energy is linked together, and they can achieve mental communion.
It seems I still need to observe more; after advancing to a Spirit Elder, it won’t be too late to look for an opportunity.”
Lin Yuan suppressed it in his heart.
For the following time, besides staying at the Soto Intermediate Soul Master Academy, soaking in the library, and reading those books that Notting Academy did not have,
Lin Yuan was cultivating.
Any academy is lenient toward good students.
Because of Lin Yuan’s outstanding talent, even skipping classes would not be pursued.
He only needed to participate in the actual combat drill once a week.
Almost every time, Lin Yuan could obtain the good result of ‘Third Place’.
In this way, he neither had to delay cultivation because of the academy’s courses nor draw too much attention.
After all, he registered at the age of twelve.
Twelve years old, level twenty-four—such a Genius, although rare, had not reached the point where one couldn’t find another even with a lantern looking across the entire Spirit Master’s world.
Outside of cultivation, Lin Yuan would also run to the Spirit fighting arena from time to time to observe the siblings Meng Yiran and Meng Baichuan.
After nearly two years of observation, Lin Yuan finally figured out the abilities of this pair of siblings.
Just like Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong and the three-part 100% Spirit Fusion Skill, they could enhance their cultivation speed by sharing each other’s cultivation achievements.
As for whether Meng Baichuan had a second Spirit, it was temporarily unknown.
However, Lin Yuan could roughly guess his purpose, seeing that he didn’t seem to torment Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai much.
Presumably, he was going to walk the path of becoming the Eighth and Ninth Monsters with Meng Yiran, following Tang San to become a god.
At this time, Lin Yuan was already eleven years old.
After breaking through to a Spirit Grandmaster, although it wasn’t like the Spirit Master stage where Soul Power increased by one level every two months or so, increasing by one level every two and a half months or so—such a cultivation speed was still quite considerable.
After one year and eleven months of bitter cultivation, Lin Yuan was already level thirty-five.
The third spirit ring was hunted from a Golden Sword Bamboo of over seven thousand years.
It happened to be Flender’s annual day of going outside to run business across ten miles and eight villages (intercepting Genius Spirit Masters).
During this period of time, the vast majority of children of appropriate age had already awakened their Spirits.
Spirit Masters studying at Elementary Soul Master Academies had also returned to their villages.
With a little inquiry, one could find out.
Back then, that Fatty Ma Hongjun was picked back from Phoenix Village by Flender in this way.
Flender simply gave a one-month holiday to Shrek students like Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, Meng Yiran, and Meng Baichuan.
Ma Hongjun naturally ran off to visit brothels.
Because Dai Mubai was robbed by Lin Yuan, he still owed Shrek Academy ten gold coins for the registration fee and one hundred gold coins for tuition.
Coupled with the fact that he had not yet broken through to a Spirit Elder, resulting in Spirit Hall’s monthly ten gold coin subsidy being mostly taken away by Flender to pay off debts as soon as it was issued.
He was even poorer than Ma Hongjun.
Yet he couldn’t lower his status to pursue those ‘rouge and vulgar powder’.
Meng Yiran did suit his taste, but unfortunately he fancied her, while she didn’t fancy him.
In order to make merry while it lasted, with no other choice, he could only follow Ma Hongjun to look for phoenixes in the grass nests.
As for Meng Baichuan, self-proclaimed to be pure and self-disciplined, he naturally went home to see his grandparents with Meng Yiran just like last year.
But whether this fellow was too confident, or because of stupidity, or for some other reason, for two consecutive years he actually didn’t let people from the Longshe Family come to pick them up, choosing instead to set off alone with Meng Yiran.
This happened to give Lin Yuan an opportunity.
He first carefully observed along the route that the two must take to return to their sect.
Confirmed that there were no ambushes or backups.
And tailed them all the way for over a hundred miles, confirming it again and again.
Only then did he finally decide to make a move.
This was the second time he had done such a thing.
The previous time, because the Dragon Duke and Snake Granny were picking them up outside Soto City, Lin Yuan chose not to make a move.
This time, he had made foolproof preparations.
…
The sun was high in the sky.
Just past noon at this time, the siblings Meng Yiran and Meng Baichuan were hurrying on the road from Soto City to the Longshe Family.
Passing by a bamboo forest, Meng Baichuan suddenly stopped his momentum, grabbed the back collar of Meng Yiran who was in a forward-rushing state, and pulled her back amidst a surprised cry of ‘Ya’ from the latter.
The next moment, a pebble flew past the position where Meng Yiran had originally been.
With a muffled thud of bang, it landed slantwise on the ground, smashing out a shallow pit.
Reacting, Meng Yiran saw the shallow pit on the ground and was immediately both shocked and angry, “Who is it, daring to sneak attack this Young Miss, quickly get out here for me.”
On the contrary, Meng Baichuan’s expression was unusually calm.
He said in a cold voice, “Come out, that friend who snatched our whale glue back then.”
As the words fell, the surroundings were gradually covered by mist, becoming invisible beyond five meters.
Afterward, a blurred figure wearing a black robe, a black veil over the face, and a veiled bamboo hat emerged from the mist, resembling a ghost.
“You seem to know I would come?”
Lin Yuan rarely spoke, and he had planned the escape route in advance, making preparations to withdraw at any time.
Meng Baichuan, as if possessed by Detective Di Renjie, said in a deep voice,
“At first I didn’t suspect anything, only mistaking you for Dai Mubai, thinking you bought the whale glue to use as an aphrodisiac.”
“But after truly contacting Dai Mubai, I discovered that he was actually poor to the point of visiting brothels with Ma Hongjun.”
“Upon asking, I found out that he was robbed, and his money along with his spirit tool were all snatched away.
That gold card attached with the Star Luo Imperial Family logo was naturally included among them.”
“Only then did I know that person wasn’t him, but my ‘fellow countryman’.” He heavily emphasized the two words ‘fellow countryman’.
“Originally she didn’t have to die.” Hearing these words, Lin Yuan smiled.
According to Lin Yuan’s original plan, after using a pebble to hit Meng Yiran’s sleeping acupoint, he wouldn’t bother with her anymore.
He only needed to stuff the Star Luo Imperial Family token searched out from Dai Mubai’s spirit tool into the hands of the dead Meng Baichuan, disguising it as an assassination by the Star Luo Imperial Family.
After all, assassinating geniuses of hostile forces was already a common occurrence on the Douluo Continent.
The Longshe Family was located in the Balak Kingdom and naturally close to the Heaven Dou Empire.
For Meng Baichuan—a Genius who was now only eleven years old, already possessed a cultivation of level thirty-nine, and had a spirit ring configuration of Yellow, Purple, Purple—to be assassinated by the Star Luo Empire was also within reason.
But Meng Baichuan actually pulled her back, making her dodge the pebble.
The battle between the two next would definitely be seen by him.
In order not to let his own identity be exposed, he could only ruthlessly destroy the flower.
Meng Baichuan said with a helpless look, “Can we not fight?”
“With your and my talent and strength, following Tang San, becoming a god is a nailed-down certainty.
Why fight to the death?
The Divine Realm is not short of you, me, and Yiran—these three God Position legacies.”
“As for those things like double standards or the Tang Clan’s back garden, what do they have to do with us?
If we really can’t stand it, after destroying Spirit Hall, we can just build an organization ourselves that is sufficient to replace Spirit Hall.”
“If you want beauties, Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and even Bibi Dong can be chosen by you at will.
I only need Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.”