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After breaking free from the encirclement of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect's elders, Yu Luomian fled into the distance.
The other elders didn't pursue him. After all, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon family had its factions. Yu Luomian and Yu Yuanzhen were close because they were brothers.
The other elders, however, belonged to different factions. Previously, with Yu Yuanzhen in charge, their factions held little power. But now that Yu Yuanzhen was dead, their ambitions began to swell.
No sooner had Yu Yuanzhen drawn his last breath than they started fighting over his soul bones. The soul bones on Yu Yuanzhen were exceptional—his head soul bone was a heritage artifact of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon family, originating from a seventy-thousand-year-old Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
This head soul bone was perfectly suited for their Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon spirit. For a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon soul master, absorbing this bone would be equivalent to absorbing a hundred-thousand-year soul bone.
Yu Yuanzhen's left arm bone was sixty thousand years old, passed down by the previous patriarch, while his right arm bone was seventy thousand years old, dropped from his eighth soul ring.
Yu Luomian considered himself lucky to have seized the head soul bone. With it, he believed his chances of breaking through to Title Douluo status were significantly higher.
After escaping the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect's territory, Yu Luomian found a secluded cave and began absorbing the soul bone.
The head soul bone not only increased soul power but also greatly enhanced spiritual strength. Yu Luomian already possessed a left leg bone—a forty-thousand-year-old drop from his seventh soul ring—and this was his second soul bone absorption.
As soon as he began absorbing the head soul bone, Yu Luomian felt his bottleneck loosening. He decided to push forward with all his might and break through to level 90!
Why did the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect only have one Title Douluo—Old Dragon Yu Yuanzhen—even though they possessed a top-tier beast spirit? Most of their members were stuck at level 89.
Breaking through to Title Douluo required multiple conditions: sufficient soul power, adequate physical strength, and strong spiritual power.
The first two conditions were easily met by Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon soul masters, but spiritual power was their weak point. In this era, soul masters lacked systematic training in spiritual power.
Thus, anyone who broke through to Title Douluo in this era was undoubtedly a genius!
Yu Luomian had been stuck at level 89 due to insufficient spiritual power. Without matching spiritual and soul power, breaking through to Title Douluo was impossible.
Now, with the absorption of the head soul bone enhancing his spiritual power, his bottleneck had loosened. This time, riding the momentum of the soul bone absorption, he could make his breakthrough. If he failed now, he would never break through in his lifetime.
Seven days later!
A powerful aura erupted, and Yu Luomian's body was surrounded by intense lightning. His presence was overwhelming.
"Hahahahaha! I've finally broken through to Title Douluo! Hahahahaha!"
Yu Luomian was ecstatic. His life was now complete. Successfully reaching level 90 meant that as soon as he obtained his ninth soul ring, he would become a true Title Douluo.
When he returned to the family, he could suppress those elders.
Among the elders, only Yu Luomian had reached level 89. The next strongest were the third and fourth elders, both at level 88.
The remaining two soul bones had been seized by them. Unless one of them absorbed these soul bones, breaking through to Title Douluo would be extremely difficult.
Yu Luomian intended to eliminate these two. They had ambushed him earlier and had nearly succeeded, but thanks to his caution, he was able to escape.
With nowhere else to go and having sent his faction members to Shrek Academy in advance, Yu Luomian decided to head there as well.
He believed that the future ruler of the soul master world would be Li Luochen. With his help, his grandson Yu Tianxin would be well taken care of. Thus, Yu Luomian sought Li Luochen's assistance—or even Dugu Bo's—to hunt a ninety-thousand-year sub-dragon species soul beast. Only then could he exact his revenge.
As for his older brother's lineage? Hmph, it was all ruined. The other elders had exterminated Yu Yuanzhen's line, leaving only that "useless" survivor—the very person who had driven Yu Yuanzhen to death.
Tianheng had also been corrupted by that "useless" individual. Of the Blue Lightning twins, only Tianxin remained. Yu Luomian resolved to pave the way for his grandson to become the next patriarch of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.
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Meanwhile, at Shrek Academy
Li Luochen and Qian Renxue's group had returned to Shrek Academy. After all, Li Luochen possessed an abundance of rare medicinal herbs, and he needed to give special training to his team.
Damn it, Hu Liena was about to reach Soul Emperor rank—and she specialized in spiritual attacks. She and Xie Yue also possessed a Spirit Fusion Technique. How were they supposed to fight her? Should he sacrifice his dignity and seduce her before the finals? No, no! That wouldn't work!
How could he, Li Luochen, sacrifice his dignity? His only hope lay with Ma Hongjun. Ma Hongjun possessed a head soul bone, so perhaps he could withstand her attacks.
However, both teams' Soul Kings were evenly matched. Yan had been crippled by him, and for that, he had almost been beaten by his mother-in-law. If they defeated the Spirit Hall team this time, wouldn't that be rubbing his mother-in-law's face in the dirt?
Wouldn't that give her an excuse to beat him up again?
Fine, he'd better prepare a gift in advance. Ah, the sixty-five-thousand-year Three-Eyed Demon Fox head soul bone with the Spiritual Coalescence Charm Soul Bone. It had been gathering dust anyway—it could serve as an apology.
There was no charm attribute in Shrek Academy's team, so this soul bone was useless to them. However, it was perfect for Hu Liena. Still, thinking about her gaze...
She kept clinging to him. After he firmly rejected her advances, she started spending time with his son, Li Chengqian. Good grief, was she trying to take another route to get to him?
Because of this, Qian Renxue hadn't spared him any icy glares. Dugu Yan, on the other hand, didn't mind—in fact, she secretly enjoyed it. She hoped Li Luochen would take in this fox. Once she realized how formidable he was... hehe.
Li Luochen had spent four months at the Spirit Hall, and there was just over two months left until the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament.
In any case, the members of Shrek Academy's team were now incredibly powerful, and even the academy's teachers had made significant progress.
After replacing his soul bones, Flender had gone into seclusion at Hurricane Gorge, a place highly suited to his attributes. Before entering seclusion, he had gained insight into soul core condensation from Dugu Bo's experience.
Flender returned the day before Li Luochen came back to Shrek Academy. His soul power had reached level 90, and as soon as he obtained his ninth soul ring, he would become a Title Douluo. Moreover, Flender knew that Li Luochen had already prepared a soul ring for him.
Thus, he wasn't in a rush to obtain his soul ring. After more than half a year of seclusion, he planned to spend some quality time with his fiery little wife.
Now, the founding dean of Shrek Academy's main branch had become a Title Douluo, and the academy's veterans were all thrilled.
During this period, Shrek Academy's veterans saw significant breakthroughs. Zhao Wuji reached level 88, Li Yusong reached level 86, and Shao Xin broke through to Soul Douluo. Under the guidance of Zhao Wuji and Dai Tianxing, he obtained a nearly seventy-thousand-year soul ring, becoming an eighty-one-level Food System Soul Douluo.
Lu Qibin broke through to level 78 and would likely reach Soul Douluo within a few years.
Among Shrek Academy's graduates, Qin Ming showed the most progress. His soul power had increased by two levels in the past year, reaching level 78. Within a year or so, he could also break through to Soul Douluo.
Qin Ming's eighth soul ring was already prepared—a source from an eighty-thousand-year Fire Spirit Sacred Beast located southwest of the Undying Volcano in the Star Dou Forest, perfect for his eighth soul ring.
At the core of the Undying Volcano lay a hundred-thousand-year Hellhound with three heads, suitable for Qin Ming's ninth soul ring.
Shrek Academy was thriving.
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