"With the Evil-Revealing Mirror in place, the Holy Spirit Cult's Evil Spirit Masters simply can't hide. They aren't as rampant as before now."
Hearing this, Su Ming nodded.
The Evil-Revealing Mirror judged based on faith; any Evil Spirit Master would be exposed. Under this kind of detection, the relationship between the Spirit Master world and the Evil Spirit Masters had changed.
Before, they could only wait for Evil Spirit Masters to commit evil deeds, then someone would go to hunt them down, inevitably suffering losses, and possibly even losing the trail.
Now, they could take the Evil-Revealing Mirror and actively search for Evil Spirit Masters everywhere; the efficiency had increased by more than just a little.
He wasn't in a hurry to go to the Sun Moon Imperial Capital, instead first making a trip to Shrek Academy City.
Shrek Academy City.
Blacksmith Association.
"Su Ming is here?"
Hearing of Su Ming's arrival, Zhang Wei was the first to greet him.
"President, Sect Master."
He brought Su Ming and Du Busi to the top floor of the association.
"Zhang Wei, I heard you're close to your Martial Soul's second awakening?"
Hearing this, Zhang Wei gave a bitter smile.
He sounded somewhat helpless as he said, "I've indeed reached the critical point, but my willpower has consequently hit a bottleneck; I can't find the direction for a breakthrough."
Willpower was the key to his Martial Soul's second awakening, but currently, he still didn't have a good method to transform his own willpower.
"Since there's no method, then fight. Experience more life-and-death battles; you'll always break through eventually."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Wei's eyes lit up slightly.
Since joining the Body Sect, after experiencing several battles, he had become very enthusiastic about combat. Now, hearing about engaging in life-and-death struggles, he actually felt a hint of excitement.
Seeing this, Su Ming nodded imperceptibly.
When he first met Zhang Wei, the other party didn't have this kind of personality; he was somewhat cowardly. His current performance could only be said to correspond to his Martial Soul's characteristics.
"I'm preparing to take action against the Holy Spirit Cult. You can join the operation."
"No problem!"
"As for the association president here..."
Zhang Wei said, "Xiao Li is good."
"Xiao Li?"
"Mm, a talented Spirit Master delayed by Shrek Academy. His performance in forging is also good now; he's already advanced to Level Three Blacksmith." Zhang Wei added, "By the way, he only joined the Blacksmith Association and started接触 the field of forging after I took office."
Back then, when Zhang Wei was still considering how to launch a public opinion offensive against Shrek Academy, it was Xiao Li who took the initiative to drive the momentum, making Zhang Wei remember him.
He wasn't from the Body Sect.
But, upon hearing that he had a grudge against Shrek Academy, Su Ming didn't hesitate and gave Zhang Wei this trust.
"Then let him serve as the president."
Since he was already in Shrek Academy City, Su Ming wasn't in a hurry to leave.
Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and the others were still here for the exchange program. Su Ming called them over to ask about their thoughts.
"What have you learned at Shrek Academy?"
Although they were older than Su Ming and were his seniors academically, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen actually felt it was normal for Su Ming to ask them in this tone.
Su Ming has already possessed a certain aura of authority.
He carried a natural sense of dignity.
"Teaching-wise, it's useless." Xiao Hongchen said. "Apart from the high-frequency battles and competitive atmosphere, Shrek Academy is worthless."
He gave his own evaluation.
At Shrek Academy, his progress was significant, but none of it was given by the academy; it was given by the academy's students.
Before coming, he had set his goal for this exchange program: not progress in spirit tools, but learning the application of Martial Souls. Fortunately, there were many top-tier Martial Souls here, and plenty of powerful Spirit Masters, allowing him to engage in pure Martial Soul combat at a very high frequency.
Meng Hongchen nodded beside him and echoed, "Indeed, Shrek Academy's teaching really doesn't feel special. Even the techniques for developing Martial Souls are found by the students themselves under high pressure."
Mentally strained, under ultra-high competitive pressure, they find ways to become stronger.
Shrek Academy was purely about raising gu.
"Ma Rulong probably has the highest battle frequency; he's been specially 'cared for' by that Yan Shaozhe." Xiao Hongchen said.
Su Ming looked at Ma Rulong.
The current Ma Rulong had a much more steady aura compared to before.
Being stared at by Su Ming, Ma Rulong's expression turned slightly unpleasant.
"Shrek Academy set a trap and won my Sword of Judgment through a bet."
Su Ming narrowed his eyes.
The Sword of Judgment was taken by Shrek Academy?
"When did this happen?"
"Half a year ago."
After the exchange activities started, Shrek Academy didn't immediately show any targeting of Ma Rulong. Instead, as time passed, signs gradually appeared, and then they orchestrated a bet, winning Ma Rulong's Sword of Judgment.
"The Sword of Judgment isn't that easy to take. Come on, I'll take you to get it back."
Without hesitation, Su Ming directly took Ma Rulong and the others to challenge Shrek Academy's Inner Court.
Inner Court.
Su Ming and the others were in mid-air, their powerful Spirit Power impacting the surroundings, causing the water of the Sea God Lake to depress into a spherical shape, diverting flow outward.
The Shrek Inner Court students all glared angrily at Su Ming.
How arrogant this Su Ming was!
From the Sea God Pavilion, Yan Shaozhe, Xuan Zi, and others rushed out, first looking at Du Busi behind Su Ming.
Xuan Zi's pupils contracted.
"Limit Douluo!"
Du Busi had actually broken through.
His exclamation made Yan Shaozhe and the others' hearts sink.
Since Mu En's death, Shrek Academy had been facing a gap in talent and had already subtly fallen behind in the continent's political landscape, unable to even fully influence the three Douluo nations.
This could be seen from the development of the Blacksmith Association; the Gengxin City branch within the Star Luo Empire was on par with the Shrek Academy City branch.
Apart from that, the Star Luo City branch was indeed inferior to the Shrek Academy City branch; Shrek Academy City was, after all, a super metropolis that gathered too many Spirit Masters.
But judging solely by population proportion, the ratio of excellent blacksmiths produced by Star Luo City was no lower than that of Shrek Academy City!
This couldn't be achieved simply through training efforts; clearly, the Star Luo Empire had already begun to retain talent, and their output to Shrek Academy had started to decrease.
We give you so many talents every year, but our own development falls behind, you also fail to develop properly, and you always put on a sour face.
We're not serving you anymore.
The Star Luo Empire doing this was undoubtedly a heavy blow to Shrek Academy; the quality of students in the past two years had also shrunk significantly.
Regarding this, Shrek Academy had no effective means of sanction, because wars weren't frequent now.
The development of the Blacksmith Association had even made the wars between the Sun Moon Empire and the Star Luo Empire much more peaceful!
While Shrek itself was on a downward trend, their rival, the Body Sect, was advancing triumphantly. Not only had they developed a massive direct organization like the Blacksmith Association, but they had also produced a Limit Douluo in Du Busi!
"Hand over the Sword of Judgment."
With Du Busi backing him, Su Ming was fully confident.
His gaze directly met Xuan Zi's.
"The Sword of Judgment was won by our Shrek student in a fair bet." Yan Shaozhe said.
"Fair bet? Then I want to bet with you today." Su Ming said. "I'll wager a piece of Soul Refined metal. Any student from your Inner Court, whoever can defeat me, this piece of Soul Refined metal is yours."
As he spoke, he waved his hand, and a piece of Soul Refined Jade Silver appeared beside him.
"Soul Refined metal can repair itself if damaged, further fuse with a Spirit Master's Martial Soul, and possess special effects. When compatible with the Spirit Master's Martial Soul and guided by a spirit tool formation, it can generate a domain."
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