As Xuan Zi's words fell, everyone present was astonished.
Even Mu En widened his eyes. Although his gaze also carried a hint of shock, there was also a sense of 'as expected' within it.
He had always felt that something was off about Lin Yun. Even within the tens of thousands of years of Soul Master inheritance on the Douluo Continent, such a prodigious talent had never appeared.
But if it involved a god, then everything became reasonable.
The methods of gods were beyond the imagination of mortals like them. Below the divine level, all were ants. Even Mu En, who stood at the limit of the mortal realm and could invoke the Sea God's Light, had truly felt the power of the divine level.
Before that power, even his formidable cultivation of level ninety-nine seemed too insignificant.
"So that's it, a god?" Mu En murmured softly, his eyes flickering slightly.
"Continue."
Xuan Zi nodded, then recounted the process of the selection competition in detail. Especially Lin Yun's terrifying soul ring configuration. Even just repeating it caused everyone in the Sea God Pavilion to fall silent.
'Divine test... a god!' Zhang Lexuan, sitting at the end, had a slight change in expression.
When someone allows themselves to fall head over heels in love, their IQ will be reduced without limit. The more Zhang Lexuan looked at Lin Yun now, the more her heart fluttered. Even the image of Lin Yun in her mind seemed to be surrounded by pink bubbles.
A strategist enters the game, winning half a move against fate! I, Zhang Lexuan, must first brainwash myself to reverse-brainwash Lin Yun! In the Sea God Pavilion, only Zhang Lexuan had such a peculiar and off-kilter way of thinking. The other elders' gazes were exceptionally fervent.
This fervor wasn't about anything else, it was directly aimed at the word 'god'.
They were a force with a clear divine inheritance. The statues of Tang San and the other six were currently standing at the entrance of Shrek Academy. Moreover, the Golden Ancient Tree they were currently sitting around all testified to the authenticity of their divine inheritance.
No other force on the Douluo Continent believed in the existence of gods more than Shrek.
Now that Xuan Zi directly stated that Lin Yun had obtained a divine inheritance, how could it not drive these Shrek fanatics crazy? Apart from the deep-thinking Mu En and the love-struck Zhang Lexuan, everyone else, including Xuan Zi himself, had a fanatical look regarding the existence of gods on their faces.
However, after the initial excitement, these old fellows of Shrek, with one foot in the grave, regained some semblance of reason.
"Xuan Zi, why are you so certain that Lin Yun has received a divine test? What evidence do you have?" Old Song was the first to speak, her tone carrying a hint of doubt.
That's right, why was Xuan Zi so certain?
Although methods for increasing the age of soul rings were almost nonexistent, they weren't completely absent. Shrek, as a force with ten thousand years of inheritance, clearly recorded many examples of Soul Masters increasing the age of their soul rings.
The most representative example was the Body Sect. For some Soul Masters with Body Spirit, after their Spirit underwent a secondary awakening, the age of their soul rings could be increased.
Currently, the Body Sect had several members with soul ring configurations that exceeded the norm. In the original story, there was even a Body Sect Soul Master with a soul ring configuration of four purple and four black. The age of his soul rings was increased due to the secondary awakening of his Body Spirit.
Apart from the Body Sect, Soul Devourers could also increase the age of their soul rings.
Those inhuman and ghostly beings had诡谲 methods. They not only took pleasure in killing, leaving rivers of blood wherever they went, but they could also increase their strength by killing. Whether it was Soul Masters or ordinary people, anyone who encountered a Soul Devourer would be lightly tortured to death, and heavily have their souls imprisoned, suffering torment for all eternity.
Even soul beasts could become nourishment for Soul Devourers' growth.
Flesh, essence, soul...
Lin Yun didn't have a Body Spirit, so was there a possibility that Lin Yun was actually a Soul Devourer?
Old Song posed the soul-searching question.
If Lin Yun knew that these old fogeys in the Sea God Pavilion suspected him of being a Soul Devourer, he would probably have the urge to unleash a Star Dou Forest beast tide to wipe them out. Putting him, the Golden Dragon King, together with those disgusting things was purely messing with his mentality.
Faced with Old Song's sharp question, Xuan Zi merely smiled slightly and retorted, "Although there were not a few examples of normal spirits degenerating into evil spirits in the past, Little Song, do you think the Golden Dragon, the ancestor of power possessing ultimate power, would need to degenerate into a Soul Devourer?"
Old Song fell silent, while Xuan Zi continued to elaborate, "You are not familiar with Lin Yun, so you don't understand him. But this old man has observed him. During last year's new student assessment, his soul power level was at most around thirty-seven or thirty-eight. Half a year has passed. With the cultivation speed of an ultimate spirit, he should only be at the Soul Sect level."
"But he strangely broke through to the Soul King level, and unprecedentedly, he possesses a soul ring configuration of three black and two red. What surprised this old man even more is that his cultivation doesn't have the slightest hint of being unstable, and the quality of his soul power even surpasses Xiao Tao, who also possesses an ultimate spirit."
"This means that even if Lin Yun truly used Soul Devourer methods to increase his soul power cultivation and soul ring age, his soul power couldn't be so condensed. And the slaughter required to increase the soul power of an ultimate spirit by ten levels and increase the age of three or two ten-thousand-year soul rings would definitely be considerable. But Lin Yun doesn't have any bloodthirstiness on him, nor does he have the evil aura of a Soul Devourer with vengeful spirits缠身."
Xuan Zi's words were clear. He was both trying to clear Lin Yun of the Soul Devourer title and to solidify the fact that he possessed a divine test and was a successor of a god.
If Lin Yun was just a wild Soul Master without any background, Xuan Zi would either choose to coerce and lure him into joining Shrek, or brand him as a Soul Devourer that everyone should hunt down, and then personally take action to reap the fruits Lin Yun had once obtained.
But since Lin Yun had someone behind him, Xuan Zi could only instigate the entire Shrek to act together, and then he would profit from it.
As expected of the Supreme Elder of the Holy Spirit Cult, his heart for the destruction of Shrek was truly undying!
Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao simultaneously gave Xuan Zi a thumbs-up in their minds.
"Therefore, Lin Yun can absolutely not be a Soul Devourer. His spirit and soul power both prove this fact," Xuan Zi's tone was unquestionable. "The only remaining possibility is that he increased his soul power level and soul ring age through a divine test. It's also possible that he consumed immortal herbs or absorbed soul bones!"
In short: Lin Yun's whole body radiated the brilliance of money! And Mu En, sitting at the head of the table, felt that something was increasingly wrong as he listened. The look in his eyes as he looked at Xuan Zi changed again and again, eventually becoming somewhat sharp and piercing.
You damn dog, what the hell are you trying to do to Shrek again? Flames seemed to rise from Mu En's head, and his eyes were turning green with anger.
(End of Chapter)
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