Douluo Dalu - The Story of Sheng Feilong

Sheng Feilong was a bit cautious of Yue Zhengyu. From what Tang Wulin just said, the latter seems to be a member of the Outer Court's second grade, their opponent in the competition in a few days. Moreover, the guy seems to be rich, so why would he come to the Working Students dormitory? Moreover, how did Tang Wulin and the others even know him? Could he be a senior from their previous academy? Or maybe a relative of someone of them? But why was his surname Yue then?

While Sheng Feilong's thoughts run wild, Tang Wuling continued to speak with Yue Zhengyu. Unlike Sheng Feilong, he knew who Yue Zhengyu was and why he came here. Moreover, Tang Wulin didn't really bother about the latter's question, as there wasn't much information about Sheng Feilong known inside the academy to begin with.

"Yes, he's one of the three new members. His name's Sheng Feilong, a classmate. I won't give you any more information, though."

Yue Zhengyu nodded with a smile. It wasn't his intention to dig for information anyway!

"I see. Since you guys took him in, I guess he's pretty good. I'm looking forward to the match." At this point, he again looked at Sheng Feilong, who had a complicated expression on his face and was shaking his head from time to time. "...Is he okay, though..?"

Xie Xie, who sat next to Sheng Feilong, nudged him on the shoulder, but didn't get any reply. He tried again and again until he even shouted Sheng Feilong's name in the latter's ear. Finally, Sheng Feilong snapped out of his daze and looked at Xie Xie with a surprised look.

"Huh? Sorry, I was lost in thought. What did you say?"

Xie Xie rolled his eyes and pointed towards Yue Zhengyu with his chin.

"I didn't say anything. Yue Zhengyu had asked about you, though."

Sheng Feilong seemed embarrassed and lightly waved at Yue Zhengyu, not standing up to greet him as he was sitting quite comfortably.

"Ah, right. Nice to meet you, Senior Brother Yue."

Yue Zhengyu smiled brightly at how Sheng Feilong addressed him. He looked at Xie Xie and Tang Wulin before sneering slightly.

"At least one of you knows how to respect their seniors! It's nice to meet you, Junior Brother!"

While they were talking, someone knocked on the door again and Xu Xiaoyan jumped off her bed, answering the door. She quickly came back with a girl around the same age as Yue Zhengyu in tow. The girl frowned when she saw the latter and the two of them bickered back and forth for a short while, while Sheng Feilong couldn't help but feel that the girl was familiar.

She had long, fiery red hair, a fair face and a slim build – someone Sheng Feilong definitely hadn't seen before and he couldn't really point his finger at where he met her before. She turned to Tang Wulin, ignoring Yue Zhengyu who stood at the side, and asked him to help her build her Battle Armour. Tang Wulin merely smiled wryly.

"You'll have to tell me your Second Professions first."

Yue Zhengyu chipped in before the girl could answer, sticking out his chest with pride as he answered. "I'm a third rank Mecha Maker, on the verge of breaking through to the fourth rank."

After that, he glanced at the girl, seemingly wanting to compete with her, but she ignored him and instead answered Tang Wulin's question with a blank expression.

"I'm a fourth rank Mecha Mechanic."

Tang Wulin nodded with a pensive expression.

"We'll lend you our help, Zhengyu. You can build your Armour yourself and we'll provide you with the Spirit Alloys and other stuff for a fee." He then looked at the girl with a somewhat more thoughtful expression.

"As for you, Yuanen, we'll need to cover the resources and provide you with a Maker. Do you have a completed design ?"

The girl, who Tang Wulin called Yuanen, shook her head and answered him in the same blank tone as before.

"I've always been cultivating with a focus on harmonizing my two Spirit Souls. It's harder to make a design for a Battle Armour for someone with twin Spirit Souls and I didn't like any of the designs made for me yet."

Sheng Feilong was surprised when he heard that she had twin Spirit Souls. So far, the only people he knew who had them were Xie Xie and Wu Sidou.

'Shrek Academy really is full of extraordinary people. Twin Spirit Souls are so rare, yet I've already met three people who have them since coming here.'

He didn't say anything out loud, though, and just listened to their conversation, while Gu Yue's eyes lit up at the mention of Yuanen's twin spirit Souls.

"Designing Battle Armour for twin Spirit Souls sounds like a good challenge. I'll need a lot of time to do it though. And I don't think you'll be satisfied with any of the designs until I'm at a higher rank." She then looked at Tang Wulin with a questioning look. "Should we let Xinglan help them built it or..."

Tang Wulin understood her question and looked at Sheng Feilong. Following his look, Gu Yue and the others followed his gaze and also looked at Sheng Feilong, including Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen. For the first time since she came here, Sheng Feilong and her gaze crossed for the first time, and he instantly remembered her, blurting out in a surprised manner.

"I finally remember you! You're the Senior Sister from the Entrance Exam!"

The girl frowned when he mentioned the Entrance Exam. She also remembered Sheng Feilong – and the things he said during the exam. Unbeknownst to him, after he called her 'Senior Sister' and left for the next trial, she had a really hard time keeping the fact that she's a woman secret from the rest of her class. Other than the teachers and a few people, most others didn't know that she had twin Spirit Souls and only knew of her Titan Giant Ape Spirit Soul. As a woman, she didn't like the transformation the ape Spirit Soul put her through when she used it, so she disguised herself as a man most of the time. Like that, she didn't have to bother with the weird looks.

Sheng Feilong seeing through her disguise and 'insulting' 'him' as a woman, really brought her a lot of trouble. Moreover, the way he defeated her was just too dispiceable! Despite knowing she's a woman, he faked his own lose to have her let her guard down and walk to the edge of the arena before kicking her butt with full force and expose her gender in front of her classmates; She's never been insulted like that! She didn't say anything, though, and looked back at Tang Wulin.

"I'll start saving up contribution points, then. I don't want him to make my Armour, get someone else to do it."

After that, she turned around on her heels, leaving the room with an angry expression. Sheng Feilong froze when he was ignored like that. He actually planned to apologize for what happened back then again as she surely had her reasons for disguising her gender, but he didn't think she'd be that angry! He scratched his head while everyone looked at him with blank expressions.

"Did I... say something wrong..?"

No one said anything for a long time before Gu Yue was finally the first one to let out a sigh. As it was the first reaction, Sheng Feilong instantly focused on her, looking her dead in the eye, only to see a cold and annoyed expression. She looked back at him for a moment longer before opening her mouth.

"For someone so talented, you're really an idiot."

Sheng Feilong's expression froze while everyone else in the room, even including Yue Zhengyu, nodded their heads in silence. Shortly after that, Yue Zhengyu left the dorm room and after that, Tang Wulin and the others decided to tell Sheng Feilong about Yuanen and Yue Zhengyu.

Yuanen's full name was Yuanen Yehui and she is the class president of the Outer Court's second grade, their most powerful combatant, and a Soul Master with twin Spirit Souls. Moreover, both of her Spirit Souls were extraordinary; The first is the Titan Giant Ape, the single most powerful ape type Soul Beast, while the other is the Fallen Angel, a Spirit Soul of the darkness element that stands near the top of the Soul Master world!

Yue Zhengy wasn't much worse. He came from the prestigious Holy Angel Clan and his Spirit Soul was his Clan's Holy Angel Spirit! Not only was his Clan's hereditary Spirit Soul incredibly powerful, the Clan itself also existed for more than 20.000 years, even longer than Shrek Academy, and multiple Soul Master's from their Clan had become Gods in ancient times. The Holy Angel Spirit Soul stands among the top of the Soul Master's world and it's control over the holy element is unmatched.

While the other members of the second grade's team were still unknown, those two alone were more than troublesome enough. Sheng Feilong was continuously pondering about the match against their class for the rest of the day and even in school the next day. He still didn't bother to pay any attention to Luo Guoxing, Wu Sidou or the rest of their team despite their clear hostility. He also didn't notice that he had put Jian Wang in a considerably tough position, though.

After classes ended, Sheng Feilong met up with Tang Wulin and the rest of their team to come up with a more concrete plan to take on the second grade and they spent the better part of the next two days pondering about it. Originally, Gu Yue and Tang Wulin had already come up with a decent plan, but Sheng Feilong made a selfish request, that completely threw their previous ideas out of the window. Naturally, no one was happy about that, but Sheng Feilong insisted on it, not even backing down when Ye Xinglan challenged him to prove that his request even had the slightest chance of success.

After proving that his plan indeed had substance, Sheng Feilong managed to silence any opposition and Tang Wulin finally complied to his request and they made a plan from there. It was kinda tough to, but they eventually managed to come up with a more or less foolproof plan to deal with Yuanen Yehui and Yue Zhengyu while still having the capacity to deal with their unknown companions. Finally, the day of the competition had come!