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"I'm finally up. Senior Martial Brother, I hate you to death—"
On the star luo ship, Naer, freed from the clutches of the wicked Gu Yue and the heartless Senior Martial Brother, took a fragrant hot bath, changed into new clothes, and looked at Feng Zaixing with a resentful expression.
Yuanen Yehui was clearly taller, yet she followed behind Naer. Her uniquely charming purple eyes looked at her teacher with a watery gaze, pitifully asking, "Teacher, there shouldn't be a third stage of special training, right?"
Feng Zaixing smiled faintly. "There is: actual combat."
Yuanen Yehui and Naer breathed a sigh of relief. Fighting? That was way too simple.
The peerless Prodigy of the Body Sect feared no challenge!
The diplomatic mission boarded the soul guidance train heading for Star Luo City. The suffering Junior Martial Uncle and Disciple looked out the window at the scenery, which was different from the continent, feeling that anywhere was more beautiful than the vast ocean.
Yuanen Yehui had a strong sense of duty as a Disciple. With her fair hands, she brewed tea and served a cup of the clear tea that Feng Zaixing loved to drink. She asked, "Teacher, this Disciple heard that the Star Luo Empire is planning to hold the All-Continent Spirit Master Academy Tournament soon. Is it divided into individual, "
two-person, team, and mecha competitions?"
Feng Zaixing nodded, took a sip of tea, and said leisurely, "Students from our academy have the chance to participate. The dean really wants me to take action, but I'm not very interested. You guys go and have some fun."
As a master on the continental storm ranking list and a major general of the Federation, Feng Zaixing felt he was no longer part of the younger generation. Battles between One-Word and Two-Word Battle Armor Masters were little more than children playing in his eyes.
Yuanen Yehui said, "I heard that the number one academy of the Star Luo Empire, which is the Monster Academy built in imitation of Shrek, recently received official authorization. The Eight Heavenly Kings are being promoted very heavily."
Naer looked at the posters on the soul network and shook her head gently and leisurely. "The reward for the individual competition champion is a high-quality ten-thousand-year Spirit Bone. It seems the Star Luo Empire isn't very wealthy either. We'll just treat it as a bit of fun."
The Federal Investigation Bureau, under the leadership of Feng Kaka, had wiped out over seventy percent of the old forces on the Douluo Continent. Various Hidden Families, feeling the weight of their past sins, had surrendered all their stores. Their emotional threshold for such things had long since risen.
Naer came from the Star Dou Sightseeing Park; a mere ten-thousand-year Spirit Bone was nothing to her.
Feng Zaixing said with a smile, "Alright then, it's decided. Naer and Yehui, you two go and deal with those Heavenly Kings."
"I have a lot on my plate; I need to focus my energy on bandit suppression."
"Bandit suppression?" The two girls were full of questions, and the nearby teenagers also showed confused expressions.
Yu Xin was the quickest to think and asked, "Do you want to wipe out the Green Skeleton organization? But the Green Skeleton organization is rumored to be skilled at hiding. Even the Star Luo imperial family doesn't know where their branches or headquarters are."
"Yes," Feng Zaixing nodded and laughed. "But I believe someone will soon come to our door and attack us."
He pointed to the carriage ahead where the Spirit Transfer Pagoda people were sitting and said, "Tang Wulin is in the Spirit Transfer Pagoda team. The frequency of him encountering terrorist attacks while taking soul guidance trains is extremely high. Back in the Federation, I used him for baiting operations many times, and the results were significant."
The Train Killer Tang Wulin. As long as Tang Wulin was there, Evil Soul Masters would come.
Everyone: "???"
Wasn't that a bit too casual to say?
The Starlight Duo, Ye Xinglan and Xu Xiaoyan, raised their hands and said together, "We want to participate in the individual and two-person competitions. Is that okay?"
Feng Zaixing looked back and waved his hand, saying casually, "You don't need to tell me about such small matters. Just go and fight."
Le Zhengyu rubbed his palms together and said, "I'll participate in the individual competition. I want to see if the Star Luo Empire's Dragon King, Long Yue, is as divine as they boast—"
Feng Zaixing glanced at him but said nothing.
Just as he finished speaking, the Spirit Transfer Pagoda carriage ahead suddenly jolted violently. It actually deviated from the tracks and flew up mid-way.
"Ah, this—" Le Zhengyu, who had been vividly describing his goals, suddenly froze. Had the Spirit Transfer Pagoda really come under terrorist attack?
Feng Zaixing's gaze narrowed. The Spirit Transfer Pagoda was being attacked. Li Mengjie and Qiangu Zhangting had already taken action. There was a red god-level mecha in the attacking team engaged in a fierce battle with Li Mengjie. Qiangu Zhangting had engaged a black mecha, his Coiling Dragon Rod dancing intensely with great momentum.
However, Feng Zaixing felt something was slightly off. He knew that the Green Skeleton's purpose for launching this terrorist attack was to eliminate the Federal diplomatic mission, intending to spark a violent conflict or even war between the two continents. Attacking the Spirit Transfer Pagoda made no sense.
The Ghost Emperor and Qiangu Dongfeng were still collaborators determined to take down Shrek together. Would they turn on each other right after Shrek left?
The two of them shouldn't be that stupid.
"Are they intentionally putting on a show to deflect suspicion, or do they want to lure us into acting? It doesn't matter, though. I'll just wipe them all out."
With thoughts flashing like lightning, Feng Zaixing leapt up and led the group into battle.
The mecha styles of the Star Luo Empire were different from those of the Sun Moon Federation. The Sun Moon Federation used humanoid mechas, while the Star Luo Empire used beast-types. The leading red mecha was shaped like a goshawk and was incredibly fast.
Feng Zaixing set his sights on this red mecha. The moment he rushed out, his body transformed into light elements. Clad in Three-Word Battle Armor, he flashed to the mecha's side and threw a punch with his right hand, a dark green brilliance reflecting in the sky.
Sea Overturning Divine Fist, Third Form: Emptiness Destruction!
Boom!
The red mecha was sent flying with a crash. Feng Zaixing pressed his advantage, his blazing fire transforming into a heavy sword as he swung it down.
A blood-red sword light surged into the sky, a hundred-meter flash tearing through space, directly slashing the goshawk mecha and sending it crashing into the mud.
The hatch shattered, and the interior was a bloody mess. The pilot was an eight-ring Spirit Douluo, his aura faint, looking nearly dead.
Swish.
Feng Zaixing rushed down, pulled the pilot out, and immediately showed a somewhat disappointed expression. "Not an Evil Soul Master. What a pity."
The pilot's face still bore the confusion of being taken down in two moves by a peerless powerhouse. When he clearly saw Feng Zaixing's face, his pupils constricted violently.
He bit down hard, and the poison capsule hidden in his mouth instantly shattered, spreading through his body. He decisively committed suicide!
Feng Zaixing's brow arched. Fire elements poured incessantly into the pilot. The domineering and peerless Ultimate Fire forcefully wiped out most of the toxins, leaving only the poison that had already reached the heart unburned.
But this was no problem for Feng Zaixing.
Ultimate Sacred Light erupted. The light of holiness forcefully purified everything that resisted, which naturally included the poison.
While healing him, he kept an eye on the battlefield, releasing his Holy Body Heaven Domain. His heavy sword swung from time to time; every time the blood-red sword light appeared, a black mecha would fall or a cluster of purple mechas would be destroyed.
Members of the One Heart Society were like tigers descending a mountain, quickly taking down the Green Skeleton organization. Wang Wen, who was skilled with mechas, even forcefully shattered a hatch and hijacked a black mecha.
After operating it for a moment, he showed a look of great disdain.
"The things from the Star Luo Empire really aren't that great. They're far inferior to our own equipment."
Yuanen Yehui and Naer didn't care about that. Carrying their spear and sword, they focused on seizing them, soon collecting a pile of black mechas to take back for research.
A quarter of an hour later.
The pilot woke up in a daze, his head clear and his eyes bright. He muttered, "Is it true what those lords said about going to heaven after death? This feels great."
"You're not dead, so of course it feels great," Feng Zaixing said with a warm smile.
The pilot's eyes rolled back. "You, you, you—how are you—"
Feng Zaixing laughed. "It seems you know my reputation, which makes things easier. Since the battle at the soul guidance station years ago, I haven't seen such a large-scale attack by an Evil Soul Master organization, even if you mecha pilots yourselves aren't Evil Soul Masters."
"Coming to a foreign land and wiping out an Evil Soul Master organization is a decent gain. So, are you going to confess yourself, or should I help you confess?"
The pilot shrunk back, trembling. "Lord, spare my life! There's a Restriction set by the top of the organization in my brain. If I talk, it will explode!"
Feng Zaixing frowned, raised his hand to knock him out, and sighed. "Then I'll just have to take it slow."
It was a regrettable but not surprising situation. If the Green Skeleton organization didn't have such methods, the Star Luo Empire would have long since captured prisoners to follow the clues and wipe them out.
By now, the battle had ended.
The Shrek Academy team had boarded another special Star Luo Empire train after disembarking. Long Tianwu and the high-level members of the mission were invited for a long-distance visit. Only the experts from the Spirit Transfer Pagoda and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy were on this train.
Luan Hongchen hadn't made a move, but the matured prodigies of the One Heart Society already had the strength to stand on their own.
Yuanen Yehui had transformed into a Violent Giant Ape, seizing four black mechas and a pile of purple ones, her battle results fierce. Naer, like Feng Zaixing, captured prisoners, but unsurprisingly saw the pilots die from poison.
Yu Xin used her mental force to sense where these people came from, only to find that the aura in the shadows had been cut off. A top-tier powerhouse had erased the group's traces.
"Thank you for your assistance." Li Mengjie appeared and thanked the experts of the Sun Moon Federation, her gaze exceptionally complex.
The red mecha she had been struggling with was destroyed by Feng Zaixing with a casual wave of his hand, and he even captured a prisoner. She had been completely surpassed by the younger generation.
The seven-ring Feng Zaixing was the top expert in the world below the Limit Douluo. Perhaps only a level ninety-eight Three-Word Battle Armor Master could fight him.
Furthermore, the people under him were all peerless prodigies. They grew stronger by hunting foreign enemies, and there were several whose Aptitude rivaled or even surpassed Qiangu Zhangting's.
The Federation's future would completely suppress the Spirit Transfer Pagoda—a reality Li Mengjie was very reluctant to accept surfaced in her mind.
"It was a small matter, not worth mentioning." Feng Zaixing raised his hand, thinking about how to extract information.
Qiangu Zhangting switched to an enthusiastic smile in a second and stepped forward. "Friends, would you be interested in visiting our Spirit Transfer Pagoda branch? It would allow me to fulfill my duties as a host."
"If there's time, I'll certainly go. But right now, I'm more interested in finding out where these bandits came from."
Feng Zaixing smiled and said to Qiangu Zhangting, "It's an occupational hazard. Please don't take offense, Young Master."
As Feng Zaixing's golden eyes swept over him, Qiangu Zhangting felt as if his inner thoughts were being completely seen through. He hurriedly laughed, "Of course, of course. I also really want to know where these bold scoundrels came from, to dare to stir up trouble on our watch!"
The Star Luo Empire's mecha guard unit introduced the nature of the Green Skeleton organization to the two major powers and quickly brought in a new train, calling for experts to provide protection.
Though from the look of it, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's team didn't need protection at all.
Star Luo Imperial Palace.
Dai Tianling, who was currently having a spat with his daughter, received news of the Green Skeleton attacking the soul guidance train and being wiped out by the Sun Moon Federation's experts, along with a formal letter from Feng Zaixing.
"Across the vast Douluo, through thousands of years; prodigies emerge in succession, and heroes are countless—the momentum of our Federation is nearly complete, ready for battle. Recently, we have executed justice as commanded, pointing our banners southward. The evil souls flee, and Shrek has departed—"
Dai Tianling looked at Feng Zaixing's letter, took a deep breath, and continued reading.
"Hearing that Star Luo has the bandit Green Skeleton, we wish to join Star Luo in the grand endeavor to eliminate them. Some day, I shall lead the Federation's three naval fleets across the four seas, gathering a million troops and a thousand generals, to hunt together with Your Majesty at Dou Ling.
"Sun Moon Federation Major General, Director of the Federal Investigation Bureau, Feng Zaixing, bows in respect."
"Good, good, good! What a Major General and Director of the Federal Investigation Bureau, Feng Zaixing! No wonder Yun'er said she took a liking to you at first sight! My daughter has good taste!"
Dai Tianling put down the letter, looked at Holy Dragon Douluo, who was tactically drinking water nearby, and asked, "Teacher, what do you think? This kid is sending me a challenge letter."