"The Far North?" Xiao Hongchen looked at Wang Lin confusedly. "Aren't you a Brain martial soul? What are you going to the Far North for? Is your brain frozen?"
"Your brain is the one that's frozen." Wang Lin retorted. "There's a mental attribute soul beast called the Ice Silkworm in the Far North that is very suitable for me."
What Wang Lin wanted was the Mimicry soul skill brought by the Ice Silkworm. This soul skill was of great use.
"There's no need to travel that far, is there? Can you still catch up with the reserve team's training?"
Xiao Hongchen said in a deep voice.
"When did I say I was going to join the reserve team?" Wang Lin looked puzzled. Having been with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen for almost a year.
He knew why the siblings, despite already being Level 3 Soul Engineers, started from the first grade. It was to go through the academy process to participate in the next All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Competition.
Otherwise, these two would not have come to study at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy at all. They had previously studied in the Illustrious Virtue Hall, and all their knowledge was taught by the Soul Engineers of the Illustrious Virtue Hall.
"Why wouldn't you participate? With my leadership this time, our Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy will definitely defeat Shrek Academy and take first place."
Xiao Hongchen asked back.
"I'm not participating. I'm not going." Wang Lin shook his head. He didn't want to participate in that useless competition. He would rather spend that time learning a couple more necromancy spells from Elder Yi.
"Are you really not going?" Xiao Hongchen looked at Wang Lin. To be honest, he really hoped Wang Lin would participate with him.
"Really not going." Wang Lin shook his head and said solemnly.
"Alright then." Xiao Hongchen did not insist. He put away the thesis and stretched widely.
"Finally, vacation!"
"Yes." Wang Lin nodded and stood up, walking out of the dormitory building, looking at the empty corridor.
He turned back to look at Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen. "Let's go, one last meal at the canteen, and then I'm going home."
"Going to the canteen again? You really love the canteen."
Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen stood up, then closed the room door.
Walking out the door, the group of three left the dormitory, chatting and laughing as they walked on campus.
Upon reaching the canteen, Wang Lin ordered a meal with bones as usual. After the three ate their fill, they said goodbye at the academy canteen entrance.
Wang Lin naturally left the academy to go home and find his cheap master, while Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen went back to the Illustrious Virtue Hall to find their grandfather, Jing Hongchen.
As he approached the academy gate, Wang Lin saw a tall black-robed figure standing at the gate from afar. The black-robed man saw him and extended a broad hand, waving at Wang Lin.
Wang Lin immediately sped up, handed the dormitory key to the security office at the gate, passed through the academy gate, and stood beside the black-robed man.
Compared to eleven months ago, Wang Lin had grown quite a bit taller, by a full half head.
"Master, leaving now?"
Seeing Long Xiaoyao's attire, Wang Lin asked.
"Leaving now." Long Xiaoyao, hidden under the black robe, nodded and handed a small storage soul tool to Wang Lin.
"Take it."
"What is this?" Wang Lin took the storage soul tool and walked side by side with Long Xiaoyao toward the outskirts of Mingdu. His mental power scanned the storage soul tool.
This storage soul tool wasn't large, only three cubic meters. Inside, it contained three sets of specialized winter clothing, clearly prepared for the trip to the Far North.
Putting away the storage soul tool, Wang Lin began to tell Long Xiaoyao about his daily life at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy. Long Xiaoyao listened quietly, just like an ordinary grandfather and grandson.
In the middle of the conversation, Long Xiaoyao suddenly interrupted Wang Lin.
"Little Linzi, after the soul hunt, how about I send you to Shrek Academy?"
"Ah?" Wang Lin was stunned for a moment and asked confusedly: "Why do you want to send me to Shrek Academy?"
He didn't know why this old dragon head always wanted to send him to Shrek Academy.
"It's safer there, and it will be more helpful for your guidance. I can help you find a teacher of the same rank as me."
Long Xiaoyao said in a deep voice.
"Dragon God Douluo, one of the Black and White Holy Dragons?" Wang Lin asked doubtfully.
"Yes. How about Mu En as your teacher?" Long Xiaoyao patted his disciple's shoulder and said earnestly.
Over the eleven months of interaction, Long Xiaoyao was increasingly satisfied with Wang Lin as a disciple. Precisely because he was more satisfied, he wanted to send Wang Lin to Shrek Academy.
He didn't want Wang Lin to have contact with the Holy Spirit Cult, and he had been avoiding Wang Lin's contact with the Holy Spirit Cult for the past year.
"No."
Wang Lin shook his head. Although he understood Long Xiaoyao's concerns, he really didn't want to go to Shrek Academy, nor did he want to acknowledge Mu En as his master.
Shrek Academy was too deformed. Take the just-completed Soul Motor. In the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy, it would inevitably be valued, signifying a reform in the soul guide industry.
But in Shrek Academy, it would only be regarded as trash. No power meant useless. Shrek Academy still believed that the Sun Moon Empire could only contend with the three great empires by relying on high-power soul tool weapons.
They never considered that the Sun Moon Empire's soul tools were developed in all aspects, not just in soul tool weapons, but in the comprehensive development of various soul tool technologies.
If nothing else, this could be seen from the soul tool body tester in the physical examination room.
Not to mention the remote monitoring soul tools he saw in the academy, while Shrek Academy only thought of weaponizing and militarizing soul tools.
This could be seen from Shrek Academy's classification of soul tools: melee soul tools, long-range soul tools, and fixed soul tools.
They truly embedded "weapon" in their minds. The classification of soul tools at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy was never uniform, but was categorized into different major groups.
The previously mentioned instantaneous and delayed soul tools, as well as light-heat and non-light-heat types, were all categorized based on different major classifications.
Wang Lin had many more scientific technologies in his mind that could be transformed into soul tools. These technologies could shine brilliantly in the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy, but in Shrek Academy, they would only be thrown in a corner to rot.
"Why are you so averse to Shrek Academy?"
Long Xiaoyao noticed that Wang Lin seemed to disdain Shrek Academy.
"Because Shrek Academy is a purely noble academy. Its existence is detrimental to the continent and detrimental to commoners."
Wang Lin said in a deep voice.
"Don't forget, kid, you yourself are a noble, Viscount Sun."
Long Xiaoyao was silent for a moment upon hearing this and reached out to pat Wang Lin's shoulder.
He saw an ideal in Wang Lin, a noble ideal for the entire continent and for the commoners.
He himself once had such an ideal, but a hundred years had already taught him one thing: there was a natural barrier between commoners and nobles.
The name of this barrier was martial soul, and innate soul power.
If this barrier could not be crossed, no matter how great the ideal, it would be easily shattered by reality.
"Then I choose to betray my class." Wang Lin said directly.