"I understand, Master."
Wang Lin naturally understood Long Xiaoyao's meaning, but he didn't say much. He wasn't that extreme; it wasn't that he absolutely had to destroy Shrek Academy.
It was just that Shrek Academy had to be moved down from its current position. Shrek Academy was not worthy of the position it currently held.
"As long as you understand. Alright, absorb the soul bone. I'll guard you."
Long Xiaoyao nodded, also not saying much more. Some things were still too far away, and talking about them now was meaningless.
"Okay, Master."
Sitting cross-legged in Long Xiaoyao's room, Wang Lin controlled his soul power to drill into the Dread Demon Dragon skull in his hand and began to absorb this soul bone directly.
The reason he didn't use the Bone Refining Fire to refine the Dread Demon Dragon skull before absorbing it was mainly because the Dread Demon Dragon had an almost fixed soul skill—Fear. It could make the opponent face their true inner fear, causing their mind to be in a trance, thereby losing their combat capability.
Moreover, the effect of the soul skill relied on the user's spiritual power intensity, making it a very strong control-type soul skill.
The cultivation age of the skull was high enough, so Wang Lin prepared to fuse it into his own skull.
Faint purple fluorescence surrounded Wang Lin's head, gradually forming a triangular purple dragon head. A pair of yellow vertical pupils looked like two balls of burning flames.
Nowadays, Wang Lin was familiar with fusing soul bones. It only took him one night to successfully fuse this eighty-thousand-year Dread Demon Dragon skull.
The resulting soul skill was exactly as Wang Lin had estimated. Perhaps due to the spiritual attribute, his spiritual power intensity increased by three ranks, while his soul power only increased by one rank.
But Wang Lin was already very satisfied. His cultivation speed could already be called terrifying.
"Master, I'm going back to the academy."
After greeting Long Xiaoyao, Wang Lin left the small courtyard again and headed for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
Two years had passed, and Wang Lin had long been accustomed to going back and forth between the small courtyard and the academy.
...
Click!
The identification card swiped across the sensor Soul Tool at the entrance of the Third Laboratory. The metal doors of the laboratory slid open to both sides, and Wang Lin stepped inside.
His gaze casually swept across the laboratory. At this moment, only a tall and sturdy young man sat in the laboratory. He was fully 1.9 meters tall and had dark skin.
He was a student who had newly joined the Third Laboratory half a year ago, named Wang Shaojie. He was a member of the Sun Moon Empire's imperial family. It went without saying who had arranged for him to be here.
Wang Shaojie's relationship with Wang Lin wasn't good, nor was it bad; just ordinary classmates.
So seeing Wang Lin enter the laboratory, Wang Shaojie nodded to Wang Lin, considering it a greeting.
Wang Lin also nodded to Wang Shaojie, then sat back in his seat and took a nap. He came a bit early today, so there weren't many people in the laboratory.
However, soon Xiao Hongchen, Ju Zi, and Ke Ke all arrived at the laboratory.
"A Lin, where did you go last night?"
Xiao Hongchen sat next to Wang Lin. Wang Lin said casually: "I went back last night to absorb the soul bone on me, so I wasn't in the dorm."
While the two were talking, Ke Ke, holding two tangerines she got from Ju Zi, leaned over and stuffed the tangerines into Xiao Hongchen's and Wang Lin's hands.
"Teacher Xuan is late again, but it seems he went to welcome a new student."
"Is that so?" Xiao Hongchen obviously didn't care about this issue. He took the tangerine and replied perfunctorily.
Wang Lin didn't care at all, raising the tangerine to thank Ju Zi not far away.
"You two guys still have such a perfunctory attitude. Don't you care if the new student is male or female?"
Ke Ke complained while scratching her head. Saying this, she reached out to grab the tangerines from Wang Lin's and Xiao Hongchen's hands.
"You two hateful guys, give me back my tangerines."
An invisible telekinetic barrier appeared in front of Wang Lin, directly blocking the clawing Ke Ke. Golden sharp claws extended from Xiao Hongchen's fingertips, instantly peeling the tangerine.
Before Ke Ke could make a move, he stuffed the tangerine into his mouth.
Wang Lin, who was peeling the tangerine slowly, asked: "Quick, tell us, what's going on?"
"I heard that the new student has a deep relationship with the men in black who occasionally appear in the academy. Her..."
Just as Ke Ke, who had become spirited at the sound of this, was halfway through her sentence, the metal doors of the laboratory slid open directly to both sides.
Click!
Xuan Ziwen walked in with a woman with wheat-colored skin. The woman wasn't considered beautiful, but she had a slender figure and was over 1.8 meters tall.
"No need for introductions now; the person is here." Xiao Hongchen pointed at the newcomer and said with a smile.
Ke Ke, interrupted halfway, nodded somewhat listlessly.
Clap clap clap!
Xuan Ziwen clapped his hands in front of the experimental table and said aloud: "This is Na Na, a new student in our Third Laboratory. Come, Na Na, introduce yourself."
"Hello everyone, I am Na Na. Currently a Rank 5 Soul Engineer. Please give me your guidance."
After Na Na finished her introduction, everyone in the laboratory introduced themselves aloud. Wang Lin sized up Na Na carefully.
To be honest, the name Na Na sounded very familiar to Wang Lin. She seemed to be a character in the original work. Of course, she must be an insignificant existence; otherwise, Wang Lin would definitely have recognized her at a glance.
However, regardless of whether she was a character from the original work, this Na Na was likely a member of the Holy Spirit Cult. Earlier, Ke Ke mentioned that this Na Na had connections with the men in black who occasionally appeared in the academy.
The so-called men in black were exactly the Holy Spirit Cult members collaborating with the Sun Moon Empire. This intelligence must have been revealed to Ke Ke by Ju Zi.
But even if she was a member of the Holy Spirit Cult, Wang Lin didn't pay too much attention. At most, she was arranged here to monitor him, just like Wang Shaojie.
One more or one less didn't matter to Wang Lin at all; he didn't care.
Based solely on the things he had come up with this year, being monitored was very normal. It was just uncertain whose person this Na Na was.
As a member of the imperial family, Wang Shaojie could only have one person behind him, and that was Xu Tianran.
Although to the outside world, it seemed that several other princes of the Sun Moon imperial family still had the ability to compete with Xu Tianran for the throne, that was not the case.
Backed by the Holy Spirit Cult and having recognized Ye Xishui as his godmother, Xu Tianran had long sat firmly in this position. The old Emperor of the Sun Moon Empire was half-dead.
Therefore, the actual power holder of the Sun Moon Empire was only Xu Tianran. Xu Tianran had not only the support of the Holy Spirit Cult but also the Enshrined Hall.
After everyone got to know each other, Xuan Ziwen walked to the front of the experimental table, took out a brand-new blueprint from his storage soul tool, and spread it on the experimental table.
"This All-Terrain Self-Propelled Fort Soul Tool is one of the laboratory's upcoming research projects. Everyone, take a serious look and see if there are any areas that need improvement."
Saying this, Xuan Ziwen scanned the room, his gaze finally resting on Wang Lin, clearly placing high hopes on him.