Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, more than half a year had passed at the Imperial Fight Academy.
This year, Lu Feng was eight years old.
On the small hill behind the academy.
Lu Feng and Dugu Yan were lying on the lawn, enjoying the quiet afternoon.
For more than half a year, after taking two 'Nine Revolutions Transformation Dragon Pills', Dugu Yan's soul power had already reached level thirty-four.
To increase her soul power by three levels in just over half a year, and in the Soul Elder realm at that—if the outside world were to find out, it would probably cause a major earthquake.
Only now did Dugu Yan realize how precious the pills Lu Feng had refined for her were.
And precisely because of this, along with their daily exchanges on medical and poison arts, their relationship had become increasingly intimate, gradually surpassing the scope of good friends.
Feelings grew over time, and it all came together naturally.
"Tang Si, when do you think my grandfather will come out of seclusion?" Dugu Yan asked, bored, twirling Lu Feng's hair with her fingers.
Lu Feng pillowed his head with his hands, squinted his eyes, and said casually, "It should be in the next few days. The last time I went back to the medicine garden, I even heard Senior Dugu's sinister laugh."
"Hmph!" Dugu Yan 'fiercely' punched Lu Feng's arm.
"Your grandfather is the one with the sinister laugh!"
Lu Feng smiled. In his eyes, Dugu Yan's action was less like anger and more like coquetry. Lu Feng continued to close his eyes, enjoying the warmth of the sun.
A few days ago, Lu Feng had gone to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well again.
It was a bit different from what he had expected; very few attribute point fragments had dropped next to the medicine garden, just a few scattered ones.
However, as Lu Feng passed by Dugu Bo's training room, he had vaguely heard something like:
'Hahaha!'
'This old man has succeeded!'
And so on.
"Tang Si, what do you think the Crown Prince is thinking? It's been almost half a year, and he's still keeping you on the second team, talking about some character assessment," Dugu Yan pouted and said with dissatisfaction.
"Who knows."
Lu Feng crossed his legs and said with a faint smile, "When I first met His Highness the Crown Prince, I was very enthusiastic. 'Restoring the glory of Heaven Dou is our bounden duty!' Listen, how powerful does that sound!"
"But when His Highness the Crown Prince left the academy, his expression didn't seem very good," Dugu Yan said, puzzled.
"Who knows? Maybe he was reluctant to add more money."
After Lu Feng spoke, he shifted into a more comfortable position. Dugu Yan also moved her body, her head resting on Lu Feng's shoulder without leaving a trace.
Lu Feng opened his eyes and looked up at Dugu Yan. Then, Lu Feng opened his left hand and gently pulled her into his embrace.
A gentle breeze blew, and the leaves swayed gracefully in the wind, rustling.
For half a year, Lu Feng's 'great cause of picking up fragments' had taken another small step forward.
Although most of the students at the Heaven Dou Academy were spoiled brats with weak combat power, the quality of their martial souls was very high.
In the academy, Lu Feng had not yet seen a yellow-quality martial soul.
Thinking about it, it made sense. Entering the Royal Academy required a noble status. If the family's inherited martial soul was too poor, their family would not be able to obtain a noble title.
After half a year of combining and dismantling, Lu Feng currently had four martial souls left:
Black quality [Clear Sky Hammer]
Black quality [Brass Knuckles]
Purple quality [Xuanwu Turtle]
Purple quality [Grass Python]
And the most powerful one was the red-quality [Luo Wupao].
After Luo Wupao had undergone the ice and fire body tempering, not only had it completely evolved into a Golden Saint Dragon, but it also used its own soul power.
It existed independently, had its own consciousness, and did not even have to obey the host's commands.
In Lu Feng's opinion, Luo Wupao had completely transcended the category of a martial soul.
However, Lu Feng had never thought of ordering Luo Wupao around but regarded it as a partner. After all, who could refuse a soft, cute, silly dog?
The [Clear Sky Hammer] martial soul was provided by his brother-in-arms.
Back then, if it weren't for the Disorderly Splitting Wind Hammer Method, Lu Feng really wouldn't have been confident of escaping from that dog-headed Soul Ancestor.
Over the past half a year, Lu Feng had seen many teachers spar. The combat power of most of the Soul King teachers could not compare to that dog-headed soul master from before.
Speaking of Tang San and Xiao Wu, Lu Feng actually missed them a little.
Xiao Wu should have grown into a young lady by now. He wondered if she was still as cute as before, and if she would cry like before after being hit by a punch.
The [Brass Knuckles] were what Lu Feng had upgraded after his ice and fire body tempering.
As his signature martial soul for concealing his identity, Lu Feng's proficiency with the Brass Knuckles was the highest; it was as if it were an extension of his own arm.
The [Xuanwu Turtle] came from the Shi brothers. Their original martial soul was of purple quality.
Purple quality represented the 'potential of a Soul Saint'. In the first Douluo book, a Titled Douluo was not so easily achieved.
As for this new [Grass Python] martial soul, it was a rare wood-attribute snake-type martial soul, upgraded from a noble student's [Grass Snake] martial soul.
The other few low-level martial souls had been dismantled, including Lu Feng's once favorite [Black Iron Staff]. He had another staff that got hard and long.
Besides the few synthesized martial souls, Lu Feng also had two [White Tiger] martial soul fragments.
At this point, Lu Feng's 'Four Divine Beasts' plan was halfway complete.
The reason why Lu Feng was so enthusiastic about this plan was entirely due to his upgraded cultivation technique:
Red quality [Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record]!
The Heaven Dou Royal Library had a collection of many cultivation technique manuals and rare martial arts. It took Lu Feng more than half a year to barely fleece all the fragments here.
Sometimes, he even slept in the library.
The effect was significant.
The upgraded "Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record" had expanded to include many more cultivation methods and theories.
One of the passages was:
The Yi has Taiji, which generates the two primary forces. The two primary forces generate the Four Symbols.
The Azure Dragon of the East, the essence of the Horn and Neck mansions, soars through the eight poles and roams the four netherworlds.
The White Tiger of the West, corresponding to the Turtle Beak constellation above, awes the birds and beasts and its roar shakes the mountains and forests.
The Vermilion Bird of the South, born of the Cinnabar Cave, with five wondrous colors and six divine forms.
The Black Tortoise of the North, born of the great yin, roams the nine lands and commands all spirits.
This cultivation technique described a mysterious and complex symbolic system, expounding on some ancient myths, Daoist culture, as well as the basic substances and laws of change in the natural world.
Lu Feng had read the entire passage but had not understood the supreme state of the internal art.
However, the 'Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise' mentioned in it were something Lu Feng had a way to assemble.
And at the end of the internal art, it mentioned 'gathering the power of the Four Symbols into one's body'. After thinking about it, Lu Feng realized, wasn't this just martial soul possession?
But how could one possess four martial souls at once?
The Five Elements Armor combining into the Emperor Armor?
Skills:
Purple quality [Disorderly Splitting Wind Hammer Method]
Black quality [Teleportation]
Black quality [Invincible Golden Body]
In addition to these, Lu Feng had also fleeced Yu Tianheng's purple-quality [Dragon Transformation] skill.
It was worth mentioning that when a soul master without the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul used [Dragon Transformation], they would obtain an effect similar to a soul power armor.
To describe it specifically, it was somewhat like the Susanoo from the manga of a certain small country.
For his future plans, Lu Feng intended to first go to the Star Dou Forest to find that Holy White Tiger for his third soul ring.
In the past half a year, Lu Feng had spent very little time cultivating. But under the effect of two 'Nine Revolutions Transformation Dragon Pills', he had also successfully reached level thirty. And it was precisely because he had two pills that he dared to 'study' so wantonly.
That white tiger, even if it was exceptionally talented, in just over a year, its age would probably not exceed two thousand years.
After the attribute enhancement and the ice and fire body tempering, Lu Feng's physical fitness had been greatly strengthened. With his strength as a level thirty quasi-Soul Elder, he was not weak compared to an ordinary Soul Ancestor.
The age of that white tiger was a bit low for Lu Feng.
However, that was a black-quality Holy Attribute!
So far, for special attributes, Lu Feng only had the [Light Attribute].
After obtaining his third soul ring, Lu Feng planned to return to Suotuo City for a period of time to get the [White Tiger] and [Evil Fire Phoenix], to complete the last two parts of his Four Symbols martial souls.
In the Heaven Dou Academy, the cultivation technique fragments had been mostly fleeced by Lu Feng, and there was nothing worth his lingering for.
"Wait, there's still you!" Lu Feng looked at the girl sleeping in his arms, a faint smile at the corner of his mouth.