Three months passed.
Li Minghong's strength steadily increased every day, but unfortunately, his spirit power remained at level one, with no increase.
Picking up the Zhuge Divine Crossbow from the table, Li Minghong stroked his chin.
"The precision of the parts is still insufficient. Although I managed to build it, its power is truly hard to describe."
Building it wasn't difficult, as the blueprints were in his mind. The challenge lay in improving the precision of the parts, which required Li Minghong to put in a lot of effort.
"Three months have passed. I'll go to Shrek and see Oscar again."
He asked for a leave of absence for the same reason and headed to Soto City.
He glanced at Lin Yanran's coffee shop; business was lukewarm. He sat down, had a cup of coffee, and then hastily bid farewell.
He arrived at this familiar place once more.
Li Minghong looked at the dilapidated gate in front of him, unable to resist complaining inwardly.
"Oh my! I knew I heard magpies chirping! So it was Little Hong who came!"
Flander sensed Li Minghong's aura and immediately flew out, revealing what he thought was a benevolent smile.
"..."
Li Minghong was somewhat speechless at Flander's fawning words.
"I'm here to look at the academy again."
Li Minghong walked into Shrek.
"I see you like it so much, why don't you just stay?"
A reflection appeared on Flander's glasses, and he grinned, smiling like a cunning villain.
He had to strive for every genius, after all, Flander's wish was for his academy to become the strongest academy on the entire continent!
"I'll come after I graduate from the junior Soul Master academy, don't worry."
After all, there was no better place than Shrek to get close to the protagonist group.
Accompanying Li Minghong as he walked around the academy, it wasn't long before they reached Shrek's training ground, where they met Oscar, who was exercising with Ma Hongjun.
"[Dungeon activated: Young Oscar.]"
"Hmm? What is this?"
Ma Hongjun and Oscar stopped. They had an impression of Li Minghong; when they had just returned from the red-light district, they saw Flander seemingly talking to him.
"Oh! I remember now!" Ma Hongjun suddenly realized.
"Principal Flander said before that your talent is too poor, and it's impossible for you to join our Shrek!"
Ma Hongjun, who suddenly remembered, spoke loudly without any reservations.
Upon hearing this, cold sweat immediately broke out on Flander's forehead.
He had spent so much money just to win over Li Minghong! If Ma Hongjun said that, he might scare him away!
"Ma Hongjun! Go run ten laps around the academy!"
"Huh? Why!"
Ma Hongjun's eyes widened, a little unconvinced.
"It was clearly you, Principal, who said his talent was poor! I'm just telling the truth and I'm still being punished! Hey, do you dare to have a match with me!"
He only dared to talk back to the Principal, so he had to vent his grievances on Li Minghong.
Li Minghong, who was still thinking about how to bid farewell to Flander, was stunned. "Why do you want to fight me?"
"Hmph! Just say whether you'll come or not!" The seven-year-old Ma Hongjun was very childish.
Flander's eyes lit up; there was a good show to watch.
"Hongjun, forget it." Oscar tugged on Ma Hongjun's sleeve, his eyes timidly staring at Li Minghong.
"Alright, then let's do it."
Li Minghong also wanted to see how the protagonist group in the dungeon differed from those in reality.
Flander picked up Oscar and stood him by the side of the field, acting as the referee.
Li Minghong and Ma Hongjun confronted each other.
"Ma Hongjun, Martial Soul Evil Fire Phoenix, Level 14 Soul Master!"
"Li Minghong, Martial Soul Blue Silver Grass, Level 12 Soul Master."
"What? You're level twelve? Didn't the Principal say your talent was very poor!"
Ma Hongjun's eyes widened, somewhat bewildered.
"Ma Hongjun! Shut up! Focus on the match!"
Flander felt like the veins on his forehead were about to burst.
"Match! Begin!"
With Flander's command, Ma Hongjun rushed towards Li Minghong first. He wanted to test Li Minghong's strength.
Li Minghong remained still.
"Principal, why is he standing there motionless?"
Oscar was a little worried about Li Minghong. At this moment, he was just a shy and kind little boy.
"Don't worry, just watch."
Flander wasn't worried about Li Minghong, because Ma Hongjun couldn't beat him.
Looking at Ma Hongjun rushing over, Li Minghong's eyes gradually turned cold. He seemed to have entered the dungeon again, his eyes fixed on Ma Hongjun.
"Ah!"
Ma Hongjun's legs felt a little weak, scared by his cold, wolf-like gaze. The aura emanating from the person in front of him was so terrifying!
He hastily pulled away, intending to use a Soul skill for long-range consumption.
"Principal, the aura from him just now was terrifying!"
Oscar's body trembled slightly; he had never felt such a chilling sensation!
"Hmm, you need to learn to adapt. You will encounter people with such auras in the future."
Flander also felt Li Minghong's aura, his eyes narrowing slightly.
'As expected of the son of Haotian Douluo, so young, yet with such a strong killing intent.'
From Li Minghong's first Martial Soul being Blue Silver Grass, and having such a mysterious and unfathomably strong father, Flander guessed that the man was Tang Hao, the one who married a Soul Beast more than ten years ago.
Li Minghong didn't give Ma Hongjun a chance. He directly dodged Ma Hongjun's Phoenix Fire Wire, burst with power, and rushed to Ma Hongjun's front.
"Savage Strangulation."
He summoned his Martial Soul, restrained Ma Hongjun, turned his palm into a blade, and directly struck towards Ma Hongjun's throat.
"Stop!"
Flander hastily appeared between the two, neutralizing Li Minghong's attack.
"What's going on?" Li Minghong's strike was truly aimed at killing Ma Hongjun!
He stared at his palm, not knowing what had just happened, as if his mind had been clouded.
Flander comforted Ma Hongjun, who had wet his pants after being scared, and had Oscar take him back to the dormitory. Then he stood up and came to Li Minghong's side.
"You need to learn to control your killing intent, otherwise, situations like just now will happen again."
Hearing Flander's words, Li Minghong looked up, "How do I control it!"
"A strong inner heart." After saying that, he patted Li Minghong's shoulder and turned to leave.
"A strong inner heart?"
Li Minghong fell silent.
He thought carefully and realized that apart from constantly getting stronger, he didn't have much contact with the outside world, his life confined to a few small circles.
For an ordinary person, this might not be an issue, but Li Minghong had killed people many times in the dungeon space.
Although they were only dummies, they were too realistic, and for Li Minghong, there was no difference from real people.
"I haven't seen enough, so I can't control this killing intent."
Why did so many people get lost in the Slaughter City when obtaining the Killing God Domain in the original work?
Presumably, it was due to their inner fragility.
Of course, the Tang Hao family doesn't count; they were more like they were blessed by the Asura God.
But Li Minghong himself wasn't blessed by any god. If he wanted to obtain the Killing God Domain in the future, training his inner self seemed to be an unavoidable step.
"After breaking through to Level 20, I'll go out and train for a few years."