Soul Land 3: Legend Of The Jade Emperor

After Huang Yu and Gu Yue split up the loot they had gotten from that gang of gangsters, they bade each other goodbye and went their separate ways. Students weren't allowed to work together after leaving the school area.

Huang Yu left Shrek Academy relatively quickly via a soul train. Releasing his senses to the surroundings, he didn't sense the existence of any teachers from Shrek Academy following him. They were probably only going to start the supervision after he actually arrived in another city.

As the soul train left Shrek City, Huang Yu was sitting alone on a seat. An hour passed before a dark-skinned man went and sat next to him.

"My king, this lowly one has obeyed your wishes..." the dark-skinned man suddenly spoke.

"Good job, Romario" Huang Yu's reply was curt and he didn't seem to be interested. At this moment, he was in a public area, so he couldn't show that he was well acquainted with the person beside him.

In fact, he had already set up a barrier that stopped the sound from escaping to the surroundings. Even a Quasi God standing nearby wouldn't be able to hear their words. Not only that, Huang Yu had created a subtle illusion that made it seem as if their lips weren't moving. One could never be too safe after all.

The only reason Romario would come near him now anyways was because he had sensed that there weren't any other spirit masters looking in on them at this moment. Romario was a fanatic for Nox, but he wasn't dumb.

"My king, you do not have to exert yourself. This humble one has managed to manifest a mind manipulation technique. I can just wipe the minds of everyone here of this conversation happening."

Huang Yu raised an eyebrow. "Won't it be found out if there is a checkup from other spirit masters?"

"My mind control is more like a type of hypnosis, my king. It can't be found out by other spirit masters because I am not wiping their memories from their mind. Rather, I'm influencing their minds to forget it on their own. It is similar to how a normal person will not remember what they ate a week ago."

"That's a nifty ability to have." Huang Yu commented.

A smile appeared on Romario's lips. "I thank you for your compliment, my king."

Suddenly, a look of alertness appeared on Romario's face. That look of alertness soon shifted into one of horrible anger.

Romario turned back to Huang Yu who gave him a nod in reply. Having received his king's permission, Romario stood up before swiftly wiping the minds of the other people in the same car as them.

As soon as he did so, he disappeared from the spot he had been in.

Still sitting in his seat, Huang Yu let out a soft laugh. 'That Spirit Emperor from the Holy Spirit Cult coming right now is so unlucky. Out of all the trains he could have chosen to attack, he chose this one…' Huang Yu thought amusedly.

Looking out the window, Huang Yu cleared his head from those thoughts about the soon-to-be-dead Spirit Emperor as his thoughts unknowingly drifted to a very familiar black-haired girl.

'Gu Yue… should be a spirit beast, or is directly related to them in some way. From her asking me about spirit beasts and that black dragon in human form protecting her in the shadows all the time, those are all discriminate proof of it.'

'I can sense some malicious intent from the spirit beast pretending to be a human, but I don't sense any from her. With the powerful dragon bloodline I sense from her as well, she should have quite the deep background.'

Huang Yu sighed before scratching the back of his head. Thinking about all these things were so troublesome. He could tell that Gu Yue actually wanted to tell him the things she was hiding, but there was some sense of duty stopping her from doing so. Huang Yu had seen Gu Yue go through many mental dilemmas when he asked her about some more sėnsɨtɨvė things.

He understood of course. Everyone had something that they didn't want to reveal to others. The status of him as the King of Nox and his third eye were all things that he wouldn't reveal to anyone willy-nilly.

However, he himself was tired as well having to keep such a great mental wall. He, like Gu Yue, personally wanted to be able to confide with others about the things he was facing as well. He was incredibly powerful now, but he was still a human after all.

Humans were social creatures. They needed to interact with others to function properly.

His followers weren't ones that he could depend on with something like this. They admired him so deeply that they didn't have any differing opinions from him. While they made great followers to his organisation, they didn't make good friends for him.

The only person in this world he could call a true friend was Gu Yue. Sure they had their ups and downs sometimes, but she was still the person he cherished the most in this world.

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A man shrouded in a pitch-black cloak and holding a scepter in his right hand was currently making his way onto the train Huang Yu was on right now.

His goals at this moment were to cause a catastrophe for this train. From that, a large number of people who were riding on this train would be killed. The souls of these innocent people who died would then be used as a supplement for him to grow his cultivation.

This was the way of cultivation for evil Spirit Masters in the Holy Spirit Cult! With this, they were stronger and faster than a normal Spirit Master at the same stage. They would also cultivate faster as well.

Unfortunately, this evil Spirit Master didn't know that he had just kicked a steel plate by choosing this specific train.

While his guard was down, he was suddenly grabbed by the face and dragged into a nearby forest before he could even react.

His body was dragged without a care. Rocks, branches, trees, he hit many of them during his 'free trip', having a majority of the bones in his body broken before he was thrown in a random clearing in that forest.

Spitting out a mouthful of blood, a stifling fear filled his ċhėst as he realised the situation he was in. The Federation must have found out about their plans and hid a powerful Spirit Master in wait for them.

But how? There were so many possibilities for the places that the Holy Spirit Cult could have attacked! There could be no way that the Federation could have predicted this beforehand!

Six spirit rings glowed brightly behind him as green mist poured out of them.

He looked up wanting to see the person he would have to defend himself against. Unfortunately, before he could even catch a glimpse of who had dragged him here, he suddenly found him flying sky high.

'Eh?' the Emissary of Pestilence thought in confusion. He hadn't felt any pain although he was clearly hit with such force. Why was that?

Also, why was he feeling so light?

The evil Spirit Master didn't understand what had happened to him before he died.

"Hmph, a vermin from the Holy Spirit Cult with this little ability dares to approach the train our king was in?" a beautiful female with long-blonde hair said in disdain.

"Ah Xiao Chen, why did you kill that sacrilegious heretic before I could get my hands on him? Our king had expressly given me the go-ahead to do it."

The woman, who was known as Xiao Chen, turned her head to look at Romario. "Sorry, but I was too outraged at this piece of filth for daring to do his actions. I really couldn't control my anger."

Romario let out a sigh. "It's fine. It's just a shame that you killed him too quickly. Scum like this should be nailed to a wall and let slowly bleed to death."

"That's why you need to train your mentality. You're too brash. If Bishop Guang Biao was here, he would definitely flay this heretic alive."

The two fanatical bishops of Nox kept speaking like this in the open plain for quite a while. If Huang Yu could hear what these two were talking about right now, he would want to slap them.

Nox was an upright and just organisation okay! How the fuċk did your minds wire themselves to think like this?