Following the young man, they arrived at the Soul Tool Testing Ground.
Soul Engineers in actual combat, besides studying and cultivating, had another task: testing various new types of soul tools. After all, when it came to controlling soul tools, they were all master-level.
"Your Highness, that is Senior Sister Nana," the young man said, pointing to a girl.
Yuwen Tuo looked in the direction he pointed and indeed saw a girl of average good looks, testing the power of a close-combat soul tool.
Although her appearance was ordinary, her figure was excellent. She was over 1.8 meters tall, only slightly shorter than Yuwen Tuo. Her wheat-colored skin also appeared very healthy, and her overall body proportions were extremely well-coordinated. Her gaze was very sharp.
Her long black hair was tied into a neat ponytail behind her, and her red school uniform made her look even more heroic and spirited.
She was surrounded by five soul rings two yellow, two purple, and one black making her a Soul King expert.
"Thank you!" Yuwen Tuo thanked the young man and stepped forward. The next moment, he appeared on the soul tool testing ground.
And he was precisely where Nana had just cleaved down with her blade. In her hand was a fiery red sword.
If Yuwen Tuo hadn't guessed wrong, it should be the one she used in the original work, the pinnacle of Level 5 close-combat soul tools the Scarlet Flame Blade, said to contain scarlet flames capable of reaching 500 degrees Celsius.
"Danger!"
The teacher in charge of the area was startled to see a young man suddenly appear on the testing ground.
Nana no longer had time to hold back her strength and could only shout, "Get out of the way, I can't stop this strike!"
She had already tried her best to retract her soul power, which even risked injuring herself.
Yuwen Tuo smiled slightly, thinking, "As expected, she has good character. A girl like this shouldn't fall into the hands of the Holy Spirit Church."
He stretched out a finger and effortlessly clamped onto the Level 5 soul tool. The flames on the soul tool, encountering Yuwen Tuo's Fire Elephant power, which had evolved several times, were absorbed without any resistance.
Five black rings. Yuwen Tuo also had five rings, but he was several times more terrifying than Nana.
"What?" Nana was shocked. Her powerful strike was actually clamped so easily by her opponent. Even a Soul Saint couldn't do that, could they? And this soul ring configuration reminded her of one person, the influential figure who had recently stirred up storms in Mingdou.
Yuwen Tuo flicked Nana's blade away with a finger and said, "Miss Nana, it's a pleasure to meet you. I am Yuwen Tuo. I've come to you this time because I have something to ask."
"Greetings, Prince Yan!" Nana immediately knelt on one knee. "May I ask what Your Highness seeks from me?"
"Please follow me!" Yuwen Tuo turned and walked ahead. Nana, seeing this, immediately followed.
As a student, she could not disobey a prince's command.
"Your Highness, you..." At this moment, the teacher from the side also walked over, looking at Yuwen Tuo in a panic. Thankfully, nothing happened just now, otherwise, let alone his career, his life would probably be over.
"Teacher, I need to borrow Miss Nana for a period of time. May I?" Yuwen Tuo asked.
"Of course, Your Highness, please proceed. Nana, you must listen to His Highness well and not disobey, understand?" the teacher said sternly to Nana.
Everyone in Mingdou knew about this Prince's domineering nature now.
He had openly defied the Crown Prince and publicly thrown the head of a Titled Douluo—it was simply unprecedented.
Let alone asking Nana for a favor, even if he took a liking to Nana and wanted her washed and ready, no one would dare say anything.
"Yes, Teacher!" Nana seemed accustomed to passively accepting things, or rather, having been oppressed by the Holy Spirit Church, she had long lost hope for life. Everything could be summed up in two words: "whatever."
All she wanted now was to save the souls of her parents, who were still in the hands of the Holy Spirit Church.
"Nana, what I'm about to tell you is quite confidential. Take me to your room, let's talk there," Yuwen Tuo said.
"Yes." Nana nodded and led Yuwen Tuo directly to her room.
"This is my room, Your Highness. What are your instructions?"
As she spoke, she was still a little nervous. If Yuwen Tuo truly took a liking to her, she knew she couldn't resist, but she always felt that this Prince shouldn't be that kind of shameless scoundrel.
"Nana, I know you. You inherited your mother's Ghost Martial Soul from a young age. When you were six years old, your mother encountered the Holy Spirit Church while hunting soul beasts and was forcibly corrupted after being noticed by them.
She was forced to join the Holy Spirit Church and, when you were not home, personally killed your father. After your father's death, your mother finally regained her sanity and, having personally killed her husband, completely despaired and chose to commit suicide to join him," Yuwen Tuo slowly recounted Nana's past.
Nana's pupils constricted. "Your Highness, you... how do you know all this?"
Yuwen Tuo didn't answer but continued, "From then on, you became an orphan. One day, a group of people from the Holy Spirit Church came to your home, took away your parents' souls,
and threatened you to join the Holy Spirit Church, promising that as long as you could become a high-ranking member of the Holy Spirit Church, your parents' souls would be released, right?"
"Right!" Nana nodded woodenly. What Yuwen Tuo said was as if he had witnessed it himself, without a single omission.
"Nana, I have been ordered to eradicate all evil soul masters. My purpose in coming to you today is to obtain information from you, and I also hope that you will turn over a new leaf and join me in eliminating all evil soul masters. Although your martial soul is a ghost, you have not yet used it to indiscriminately kill the innocent. You still have hope," Yuwen Tuo advised.
"I will help you rescue your parents' souls. I only hope you can provide all the information you know about the evil soul masters. I will kill every single one of them!"
"Your Highness, do you... really mean to help me?" Nana finally couldn't hold back her tears. She actually didn't want to join the Holy Spirit Church at all; they were a bunch of lunatics.
"Of course!" Yuwen Tuo said firmly.
"But do you know that, in fact, Mingde Hall, and even the royal family, are..." Nana still hesitated, because she had personally seen high-ranking members of the Holy Spirit Church enter Mingde Hall and meet with Jing Hongchen.
Yuwen Tuo nodded, "I know. Therefore, if Mingde Hall cannot turn back, they will also be targets for me to strike in the future. In my heart, anyone who cannot separate themselves from evil soul masters must die!"
"Nana, you actually understand very well that those beasts from the Holy Spirit Church will never release your parents, because that is their best weapon to threaten you. You are just holding onto that unrealistic glimmer of hope. Instead of that, why not trust me this once? You don't need to act; you only need to give me information. I will handle everything!"
"Your Highness..." Nana immediately knelt on the ground and heavily kowtowed. "If Your Highness can rescue Nana's parents, Nana will be Your Highness's slave and servant forever, serving you for life!"
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