Chapter 280: Chapter 280: I Want... to Regulate... the Soul Masters of the World
"Hiss—"
The academy immediately exploded. They had seen it clearly just now. The three with an extraordinary temperament had first faced off with the dean and the others, inside and outside the protective shield.
Just as they had thought that Instructor Ma Guobao was about to go forward and display his lightning whip, they had seen the leading youth point a finger, and the great protective formation that their academy was proud of had then appeared with cracks, as if it would collapse at any moment.
Now, on the contrary, under the personal guidance of Dean Po Hongchen, they had, like honored guests, stepped into the academy. This one scene had made all the teachers and students be shocked beyond words. The sounds of discussion rose one after another.
"Who on earth are those three? To actually be able to make the dean so respectful?"
"I don’t know, but looking at their strength, they are definitely top-tier existences. Especially that youth. With one point of his finger, our great protective formation had almost collapsed."
"They said they came to study? How is this possible? With their strength, what else do they need to learn from us?"
"Who knows? Maybe they really have some special purpose."
...
Po Hongchen secretly transmitted his voice, "Have the students go back. Conceal what happened today. Do not leak it out."
"Yes, Dean."
Amidst the discussion of the crowd, Lin Feng’s trio had already followed Po Hongchen to the VIP room. The VIP room was luxuriously decorated, with all sorts of facilities. It was clear that it had been prepared to receive important guests.
"Your Excellency, please sit," Po Hongchen dismissed his attendants and signaled for Lin Feng’s trio to sit down. Then he personally poured tea for them.
Lin Feng nodded with a smile and sat down with Ling Yuan and Bo Saixi. He gently lifted his teacup, took a shallow sip, and praised, "Good tea."
Dean Po Hongchen secretly let out a sigh of relief in his heart. The other party seemed easygoing. This had made him let down his guard a little. But he knew very well that since this expert could so easily break open the academy’s protective great formation, his strength was surely unfathomable and could not be taken lightly.
"The strength Your Excellency had displayed just now was truly awe-inspiring. May I ask what realm Your Excellency is in now? Could it be the legendary level 99?" Po Hongchen asked, probing.
Lin Feng did not immediately answer but just asked, "What is the dean’s current cultivation?"
Po Hongchen cupped his hands. "Speaking of which, I am ashamed. I am now over 600 years old, and my cultivation has been stuck at level 97 for who knows how many years. I can feel that my great limit is approaching."
Lin Feng couldn’t help but be a little moved. From level 97 to level 98, it seemed to be a difference of only one level, but it was like a natural chasm. Many people could not cross it in their entire lives.
"The dean need not be so modest. To be able to cultivate to level 97 is already a realm that many find hard to reach," Lin Feng said indifferently, a hint of comfort in his tone.
Po Hongchen, after a moment of conflict, asked, "Then I wonder, Your Excellency, on earth?"
"Just a Titled Douluo."
The corner of Po Hongchen’s mouth twitched. He had never seen any Titled Douluo who could so easily do the things just now.
"Pfft—"
Bo Saixi, who was sitting at the side, suddenly let out a laugh. This fellow had also said to her back then that he was only a Soul Douluo.
Po Hongchen was just about to speak but saw Lin Feng tap in the air. A fine spatial rift quietly appeared. He lightly waved his hand, and a piece of the Gold of Life that was emitting an ultimate life force was taken out from it, suspended in the air, sparkling with a soft green light, containing an endless vitality and vigor.
Waves of ripples emanated from the Gold of Life, filling the entire VIP room, making the air in the room become fresh and pleasant, as if one were in a sea of flowers in spring.
"This is..." Dean Po Hongchen’s eyes widened. He looked at the suspended Gold of Life, his face full of a look of disbelief. Even with his current status and knowledge, he had only seen a record of it in an ancient book.
The Gold of Life, a divine object that was said to be able to bring the dead back to life and to grow flesh on white bones. The richness of the life force contained within was enough to rejuvenate anyone who was heavily injured and on the verge of death.
Most importantly, if one could, with a superb forging memory, shape it into an inscription carving knife, then this would be an excellent tool for inscribing a core formation.
If he were to obtain it, there was no doubt that he would make a breakthrough in the research and production of soul tools, and might even be able to create a higher-level soul tool. This, for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, and even for the entire Sun Moon Empire, was of extraordinary significance.
Po Hongchen’s breathing became rapid. He stared intently at the piece of the Gold of Life, his eyes sparkling with a scorching light. "Your Excellency, this... this is the Gold of Life?"
Lin Feng smiled faintly and nodded. "That’s right. This is precisely the Gold of Life. This item will be the tuition fee for our studies this time, as well as the cost of repairing your esteemed academy’s protective great formation," with a slight movement of his fingertip, the piece of the Gold of Life slowly floated towards Dean Po Hongchen.
Dean Po Hongchen hurriedly took it and placed it in a jade box. Feeling the warm and majestic life force from the Gold of Life, his two hands were trembling slightly. "This... this is too precious. Is Your Excellency really willing to hand it over to us?"
Lin Feng nodded. "The dean need not be polite. We have come this time, indeed for the sake of studying. This Gold of Life can be considered a small token of our sincerity. I have offended you much before."
"It’s fine, it’s fine. I had long since found that protective great formation to be an eyesore. I had long been thinking of tearing it down and rebuilding it. Your Excellency has helped me."
The corner of Lin Feng’s mouth twitched. This was also a strange person.
Po Hongchen was like a love-struck fool as he caressed the jade box in his arms, as though afraid it might suddenly vanish. Only after a long while did he finally return to his senses from that intoxicated state.
Seeing this, Lin Feng stood up and stood with his hands behind his back. "Dean Po Hongchen, I haven’t told you my name yet. My name is Lin Feng. I have come here to do only three things."
"First, I want all of your soul tool theoretical knowledge systems;"
"Second, I want to spread the law here. With your academy as the starting point, to pass on the cultivation method I have mastered;"
"Third, I want... to regulate... the soul masters of the world."
The moment the final sentence had fallen, the atmosphere in the entire VIP room had in an instant frozen. Dean Po Hongchen’s face had changed with a "shua." "Your Excellency Lin Feng, you..."
Lin Feng abruptly turned around, his gaze like a torch, looking directly at Po Hongchen.
The moment he was looked at directly by Lin Feng, Dean Po Hongchen only felt an invisible pressure, like a mountain, pressing down on him, making it difficult for him to even breathe. Lin Feng’s gaze was as if it were looking directly into the depths of his soul, leaving him with nowhere to hide.
An unprecedented shock and fear welled up in Po Hongchen’s heart. He was as if he were facing not a person, but an un-look-up-able-to god!
"You... have you heard of a god?"
Po Hongchen’s pupils suddenly shrank. A god? This word, for him, was both distant and mysterious. In the long river of the history of their Sun Moon Continent, a god had only existed in legends, and was the supreme realm that soul masters yearned for.
"A god... could it be that Your Excellency is..." Po Hongchen’s voice trembled a little. He couldn’t imagine that the youth standing before him would actually be a legendary god.
"Come and see with your own eyes."
With one word out, one thought moved. Lin Feng and Po Hongchen had already disappeared from their original spot. When they had appeared again, they were already in a void, surrounded by a rolling sea of clouds and sparkling lightning, as if they had stepped into another heaven and earth.
Lin Feng and Po Hongchen stood side by side. But at this time, Lin Feng was surrounded by a kind of an indescribable, holy aura. His two pupils were like two brilliant stars, reflecting the depth and vastness of the universe.
"This..." Po Hongchen looked at the surrounding changes with shock, as well as the heart-palpitating power that was emanating from Lin Feng’s body. He felt his own soul was trembling, as if it could be erased by this power at any moment.
Lin Feng slowly raised his hand. His fingertips lightly tapped. In an instant, the lightning in the sky was as if it had received an order. One after another, they gathered and transformed into a huge thunder dragon, jumping and roaring at Lin Feng’s fingertips. The thunder dragon’s eyes revealed a reverence and a submission to Lin Feng, as if it were a toy in Lin Feng’s hand, to be manipulated at will.
"Draw," Lin Feng’s voice was calm and majestic.
His hands changed again. The five elements moved with his heart’s desire. Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth all manifested one after another.
An incomparably terrifying ice and snow storm had in a flash of Lin Feng’s hand suddenly formed. One after another of a snowflake had condensed into a sharp ice blade. Accompanied by a whistling cold wind, it had swept over like a stampede of ten thousand horses. Immediately after, a scorching hot flow of lava had welled up from the void, as if a volcano were erupting. A crimson magma, with a destructive high temperature, had collided with the ice and snow storm.
"Boom—"
The two completely opposite powers had collided, producing a fierce explosion. The void had trembled under this power.
The worldly primordial qi of this heaven and earth was immediately in an incomparable chaos. Even the sea of clouds below had churned with it. Po Hongchen only felt a suffocating pressure rush to his face. He struggled to maintain his own stability, so as not to be affected by this chaotic worldly primordial qi. The scene before his eyes had already surpassed the scope of his cognition.
Lin Feng, on the contrary, was as if he had done an insignificant little thing. He smiled faintly. With a wave of his hand, the violent worldly primordial qi had returned to calm, as if nothing had ever happened.
Po Hongchen swallowed his saliva. "Your... Your Excellency, what... what do you want to do?"
"Don’t worry. I am not really going to regulate all the troops of the world. I just want to gather the hearts of all the soul masters," as he spoke, Lin Feng flashed and arrived before Po Hongchen. His index finger tapped between his eyebrows, and all sorts of information then poured into Po Hongchen’s mind like a tide.
Lin Feng’s voice echoed in his ear, "Dean Po Hongchen, this is precisely the cultivation method I want to impart, as well as my plan for the future of the soul master world on the Sun Moon Continent. I hope that you can become my assistance and jointly promote the realization of all of this."
"Soul Veins... innate godhood..." Po Hongchen murmured, looking at Lin Feng with shock.
An unprecedented light sparkled in Po Hongchen’s eyes. The information that had poured into his mind was like a storm, impacting the boundaries of his cognition. Soul Veins, innate, godhood... these concepts were both unfamiliar and full of temptation to him. Especially the path to godhood—that was the ultimate realm that who knows how many soul masters had dreamed of!
"Your Excellency, you... you really plan to impart this knowledge to the world?" Po Hongchen’s voice trembled slightly. He found it hard to imagine that such a god-level knowledge and cultivation method would actually be so easily shared.
"You understand my meaning."
Po Hongchen’s body shook again. To regulate the soul masters of the world... yes! He wants to be the god of this continent! No, he is originally a god!
He wants the soul masters on the continent to all revere him, to revere and worship him! He wants the faith of the entire continent!
Hiss—
"Then... then why don’t you just directly..."
"The imperial family? To become the emperor?"
Lin Feng chuckled lightly. "Can the imperial family control all the soul masters of the world? In this world, the divine power and the imperial power, which one do you think is greater?"
Po Hongchen took a deep breath. He understood Lin Feng’s meaning. In this world, the power of a soul master was beyond imagination. And the one who could truly lead the soul masters and to have the soul masters willingly follow would by no means be the imperial family. The divine power, on the contrary, was above the imperial power.
"Your Excellency, you mean..." Po Hongchen asked, probing.
"What I want to establish is a holy land in the hearts of the soul masters, with me as the revered, and with the law I have passed down as the revered," Lin Feng’s voice echoed in the void. "This place will gather all the soul masters of the world. Whether it is a cultivator who pursues power or a scholar who longs for knowledge, they can all find what they want here."
"On this continent where soul tools are continuously being developed, plus my cultivation method, you should understand how powerful this place will become."
Po Hongchen’s heart was clear. No wonder he had to come to this Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. This was the forefront of soul tool research and production and had also gathered the strongest batch of soul masters.
In addition to its own transcendent status, it had a huge influence within the empire and was undoubtedly the best starting point for spreading the new cultivation method and for gathering the hearts of the soul masters.
"Your Excellency, I understand," Po Hongchen took a deep breath, his eyes sparkling with a firm light. "I will fully support you."
"Very good. I will first shape three Soul Veins for you. After three months, I will formally impart the method of the Soul Veins to you all. Before this, you have to spread the ’Innate Soul Evolution Art’ as well as the recorded paths on this continent to build momentum and to gather the hearts of the people."
"Yes," Po Hongchen cupped his hands. He had no reason to refuse, nor did he have the strength to refuse. What’s more, this matter itself was a great creation for this continent.
When the other party’s strength far surpassed his own, there was simply no need to think about what the other party’s intentions were. It was simply of no use.
Lin Feng smiled and waved his hand. "No need to be so formal. I am still young and even more so not one to eat this kind of a set of rules," Lin Feng chuckled lightly, his tone carrying a bit of an easygoing air. "No need to be so formal."
Po Hongchen let out a breath. "I understand."
"Mmm. Go back."
In the following days, Po Hongchen began to actively promote the study of the ’Innate Soul Evolution Art’ within the academy. At the same time, he also, with his own influence in the soul master world, gradually introduced this cultivation method to more soul masters.
As time went by, the influence of the ’Innate Soul Evolution Art’ in the soul master world grew greater and greater. More and more soul masters began to cultivate this cultivation method.
They were surprised to find that this cultivation method not only could improve their cultivation speed but could also allow their spiritual power to grow. This was simply an unbelievable thing. Especially since on this continent, the inscription of a soul tool’s formation particularly required the strength of one’s spiritual power.
Thus, Lin Feng’s name soon spread throughout the entire Sun Moon Continent and had become a legendary figure in the mouths of the soul masters.
Under the manipulation of public opinion, Lin Feng had become the first existence on this continent to have achieved godhood. His status had directly surpassed all the powers and the imperial power.
Of course, there were also some factions and members of the imperial family who had had some dissatisfaction. It was just that not long after their voices of dissatisfaction had been raised, Lin Feng had paid them a visit once. After he had left, those voices had never appeared again.
The people had begun to call Lin Feng the "Soul Ancestor," meaning the ancestor of soul masters, an existence who had created a new era for soul masters.