Chapter 124: Entering the Star Dou Great Forest
Let us pull time back a little.
The eight members of Heaven Dou Royal Academy were chatting in their room, and the atmosphere was fairly relaxed.
"I never imagined there would be a rule in this world about being a mediocre person if you don't dare to cause trouble."
Oslo leaned back in his chair, obvious disdain on his face. "No wonder the students they teach are more annoying than the last."
Yu Feng nodded and chimed in, "Exactly. If it were me, I would have made a move too. Boss still held back. If it were me, I would have smashed that fatty's rotten mouth to pieces."
Ye Lingling sat quietly beside Lin Mo, her purple eyes still carrying a trace of anger.
Dugu Yan gave a light snort and said, "We've seen it for ourselves today. If we run into them again in the future, there's no need to be polite."
Qin Ming listened to his students' discussion, his expression somewhat complicated.
On one hand, Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun's words and actions had indeed gone too far. On the other hand, they were still his juniors, and Shrek Academy held a significant place in his heart.
Before long, he stood up.
"I'm going out for a while. You all should rest early. We have to enter the forest early tomorrow morning."
After saying that, he pushed open the door and left the room.
The group did not pay much attention to it. Their conversation quickly returned to the earlier conflict.
Yu Tianheng, who sat off to the side, was unusually silent.
The agreement he had previously made with Lin Mo, to spar after obtaining their spirit rings, kept circling through his mind.
His original idea had been very simple.
He knew he most likely could not defeat Lin Mo's absurdly powerful Charmeleon, but he still wanted to prove himself.
He wanted to prove the pride of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul, and to prove that he had not chosen to give up just because Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling had surpassed him.
But everything he had witnessed just now was like a basin of cold water poured over him from head to toe.
Lin Mo had not even summoned Charmeleon. He had only relied on his own strength to beat those two people until they had no power to fight back.
Yu Tianheng even began to doubt himself, wondering if his previous thoughts had been too naive.
He had already been mentally prepared for the fact that he probably could not defeat Charmeleon.
But now it seemed, could it be that he could not even defeat Lin Mo, the "Martial Soul host" himself?
Lin Mo leaned by the window, listening to his companions' conversation, but most of his thoughts remained elsewhere.
Qin Ming had most likely gone to the Shrek Academy side.
Lin Mo was very clear about this, but he had no intention of stopping him at all.
If he wanted to go, then let him go.
In Qin Ming's heart, the weight of Shrek Academy was likely far greater than that of Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
This could be seen from his respectful attitude toward Zhao Wuji, as well as his eagerness to apologize on their behalf.
In Lin Mo's memory, the Qin Ming from another timeline had been highly valued by the three Committee Members of Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
He could be considered someone they had carefully cultivated.
But what happened afterward?
When Shrek Academy arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and clashed with Dugu Bo, Qin Ming chose to stand on Shrek Academy's side without hesitation.
He followed Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and the others away and helped them set up on their own.
His departure turned the three Committee Members' high regard for him into a complete joke.
This behavior was quite in line with his Blazing Fire Azure Wolf Martial Soul.
A textbook act of an ingrate.
Lin Mo did not want to know how Qin Ming would choose, nor did he care what Qin Ming would say to the people from Shrek.
Even if Qin Ming revealed their purpose for this trip, the team's composition, or even his "Spirit Ancestor" cultivation to the Shrek side, Lin Mo would not be surprised at all.
Compared to Qin Ming, what Lin Mo was more interested in now was the rest of Shrek Academy.
His mental force, under the dual enhancement of consuming the Immortal Herb Gaze Through Autumn Water Dew and awakening the Spirit Eyes part of his Body Martial Soul, had long since far surpassed Spirit Masters of the same rank.
According to his own estimate, most Spirit Saint-level powerhouses were probably inferior to him in terms of mental force.
Precisely because of this, when he deliberately restrained his spirit power fluctuations, Qin Ming, Yu Tianheng, and the others had no way to perceive his true spirit power rank unless he wanted them to.
This was also why Qin Ming mistakenly believed that he was only a rank 40 quasi-Spirit Ancestor.
And during the brief conflict earlier, Lin Mo had quietly sensed the current cultivation of the Shrek group.
The result left him somewhat emotional.
Tang San and Xiao Wu, these two possessors of Innate Full Spirit Power, seemed to have wasted time and squandered their own talents.
Their current cultivation was still stuck at the Rank 29 Spirit Grandmaster realm, and they had yet to break through the rank 30 bottleneck.
Among the other five members of the Shrek Seven Devils, only Dai Mubai, who was a few years older than Tang San, had reached Rank 37. He was a true Spirit Elder.
Oscar's spirit power was stuck at the rank 30 bottleneck, and one of the main goals of Shrek Academy's trip to the Star Dou Great Forest was to hunt a third spirit ring for him, helping him become a food system Spirit Elder.
However, compared to the rest of the Shrek Seven Devils, what Lin Mo cared about more was Xiao Wu, the Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast who had chosen to re-cultivate.
Even though his Spirit Eyes had been tempered by the Gaze Through Autumn Water Dew, and even though his mental force was definitely above Xiao Wu's, after the previous close-range contact and perception, he still could not see through Xiao Wu's true form as a Spirit Beast.
This feeling of being unable to see through something was not the first time he had encountered it.
When he had first followed Dugu Bo and seen Qian Renxue disguised as Xue Qinghe, he had also taken the opportunity to observe her carefully during the banquet. Likewise, he had been unable to detect any flaw.
Lin Mo could understand not being able to see through Qian Renxue.
After all, Qian Renxue's spirit power cultivation was far higher than his, and she possessed a nearly hundred-thousand-year-quality Spirit Bone from the Angel God set. The Spirit Ability it carried was an extremely rare camouflage Spirit Ability.
With all these factors combined, it was normal that he could not see through her.
But Xiao Wu's situation was different.
Although she was a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast re-cultivating as a human, after re-cultivating into human form, her mental force should not have been much different from that of an ordinary two-ring Spirit Grandmaster.
This could be seen from the fact that she had once tried to use her second Spirit Ability, Charm, to influence Zhao Wuji, only to suffer a mental backlash and injure herself.
She had not completely inherited the mental force of her original body.
But why, in that other timeline, had Tang San been able to see through Xiao Wu's true form with only the Purple Demon Eye?
Lin Mo looked at the dark night outside the window and muttered to himself.
Was it because the Purple Demon Eye cultivation technique itself possessed a special quality in terms of insight?
Or was it because his current development and application of his Spirit Eyes were still at an elementary stage, and his eye technique cultivation had not yet reached the required level?
The next day.
After the group collectively rejected Qin Ming's suggestion of traveling with the Shrek Academy group, they left the Spirit Hunt town one step ahead of them and entered the Star Dou Great Forest.
After what had happened the previous night, everyone in the Emperor Fighting Team wanted nothing to do with the people from Shrek Academy, let alone travel together with them.
They looked as though they wanted to avoid them at all costs.
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