Chapter 120: Who Took Those Two External Spirit Bones? Don't Let Me Find Out!
"Rename it?"
Jiang Chen smirked. "Call it Taiji Cloud Hand."
It was just a joke, of course—but the fact that two external spirit bones could produce a combined skill was already far beyond normal limits.
Add to that the tremendous surge of power from the perfect fusion, and Huo Yun'er's soul power had now skyrocketed to level thirty-five!
At her age, she had already far surpassed the rest of Zero Class.
In addition, she also possessed a ten-thousand-year White-Eyed Dream Tiger King's right arm bone, which contained a formidable ability—
Tiger's Roar in the Forest!
When activated, a phantom Dream Tiger appears, its deafening roar sending out shockwaves akin to a radiant golden storm, disrupting enemy movements and breaking their attacks—even dissolving certain soul skills outright.
But more importantly for Huo Yun'er, the roar's sound-wave compression combined with her Holy Eye Illusion Domain gave her an immense chance of dragging opponents into hallucinations.
It was a gift Jiang Chen had arranged specifically for her.
Still, now wasn't the right time to absorb it. There was no need to rush.
Meanwhile, in Douluo City—the Federation's new capital—the War God Temple had been fully established, and the Federation's headquarters had officially relocated there.
Part of Shrek Academy's ruins had been preserved as a historical monument and tourist site, its thousand-year legacy enshrined.
After all, Shrek Academy had stood for tens of thousands of years and had once produced gods.
But the majority of the land was now being transformed into something new: a world-class institution combining all of the Federation's resources to train future soul masters—
Douluo University.
While the university would, naturally, recruit the top graduates from academies across the continent, it also offered other pathways for admission:
Blacksmithing, mecha design, mecha manufacturing, and even academic excellence in ordinary subjects could earn entry.
Douluo University aimed to be inclusive, nurturing not only martial strength but every form of excellence.
No pointless running drills, no forced expulsion pressure. From the start, each student would receive abundant resources—cultivation, forging, design, or research—all fully supported.
Its foundation was diversity. Every talent, every discipline, every potential—embraced.
If construction stayed on schedule, the grand opening was just a year away!
The infrastructure itself was nearly complete, but lingering damage from the Federation's legendary Level-12 Fixed Installation Soul Guidance Cannons still needed to be cleansed—a process delaying completion.
Regardless, the Federation was thriving more than ever.
As for the Spirit Transmission Tower—
Founded by Douluo's legendary Ice Rebirth Douluo Huo Yuhao, a hero of Shrek Academy and restorer of Tang Sect, its original goal had been harmony: bringing three major powers—the Federation, Tang Sect, and Shrek—into collaboration for the advancement of all soul masters.
That was why Huo Yuhao had chosen Shrek's Sea God Pavilion Master, Xuan Zi, to serve as the first Tower Master.
But time eroded ideals.
Control slipped away—perhaps it had never been in Huo Yuhao's hands to begin with.
Shrek and Tang Sect had remained tightly bound, their leadership intertwined, while both withdrew from the Tower's core power structure.
Eventually, the Spirit Transmission Tower and the soul beast faction split completely.
Until Jiang Chen appeared.
With his invention of the Spirit Soul Contract, the balance changed again—soul beasts regained their voice within the Tower.
Now, centuries later, their place in the modern world had completely reversed.
Where soul masters once slaughtered beasts for rings, now they revered the soul spirits of legend as Ancestral Spirits.
"One spirit passes to three generations—when the master dies, the spirit endures."
And from that rise came one family so brilliant it eclipsed all others—
The Millennium Clan, the Qian Gu Family—whose influence now towered above all.
Even the Federation's hidden royal lineage, the Huo family, couldn't compare.
Atop the Tower's eighty-one gleaming floors, the current Tower Master, Qian Gu Dongfeng, sat frowning over a report.
If it had been about ordinary lost spirit bones—even ten-thousand-year ones—he'd hardly care. With soul beasts integrated into the Tower, spirit bones were abundant, almost renewable.
But this… was different.
These were two external spirit bones—rare treasures even he, a Limit Douluo, had never dared to fuse!
"Two external spirit bones—stolen?!" he snapped, slamming his fist on the desk hard enough to make the office shake.
"Don't let me find out who did it!"
Tracking them wasn't impossible—but pointless. The report offered nothing. No trail, no clue. Just that the bones had somehow turned up in East Sea City's Spirit Transmission Tower.
As if two priceless relics had simply flown there on their own.
"Ridiculous!"
His jaw tightened. East Sea City—of all places.
Who was there?
The Huo family's million-year spirit soul inheritor, Huo Yun'er.
The hybrid child of a million-year beast, Jiang Chen.
Leng family disciples—Gu Yue and Di Xuer.
The first two didn't need such trinkets, or so he thought. Then again… no one ever had enough spirit bones.
But Huo family using such methods? Impossible.
The Qian Gu family and the Huo family had long been political allies. He had personally granted them favors from the Tower, and they, in turn, had shielded his family's power within the Federation.
They could simply ask for external bones—no need for theft.
Then what about the Leng sisters' disciples?
Gu Yue, apprentice to Vice Master Leng Yaozhu.
Di Xuer, apprentice to Leng Yulei—and rumored to be closely tied to the "Snow Empress" herself.
"How could the soul beasts be involved with the Leng family?" he murmured. "Have we offended the wrong faction?"
The Tower's soul beast division rarely interfered in political matters like leadership succession, but their influence was colossal.
Without them, the Tower might survive—but it would never stand tall.
If the soul beasts withdrew, every Spirit Master family loyal to the Ancestral Spirits would revolt overnight.
Qian Gu Dongfeng clenched his fists.
"Is the soul beast faction backing the Leng family to seize the next Tower Master's throne?"
"Why… why would they do that?!"
"This doesn't make sense—doesn't fit any logic!"
(END CHAPTER)
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