thefictionvixens Chapter 226 Signal Connection Successful
Chapter 226 Signal Connection Successful
After slowly clearing his mind, Long You fell asleep again. This time, when Long You woke up, it was already broad daylight outside.
Unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, pre-positioned outside the luxury sphere, took off, transmitting Morse code-style messages intermittently into the sphere.
"Nothing has changed within a five-kilometer radius. It seems that no matter whether the Holy Spirit Cult has suffered any losses or not, no one from my side will be coming looking for me for the time being."
It seems possible to make some contact, but let's skip going directly to the academy and try contacting my uncle first.
After emerging from the luxury sphere, Long You simply donned an invisibility suit and dialed his uncle's contact number.
“There was indeed some commotion in the capital last night, and the intensity of the commotion was quite high. Although I don’t know if the evil spirit master you mentioned has been caught, the Shrek Academy people were all present, so even if there was a problem, theoretically they should have been brought under control.”
After all, if I'm not mistaken, Shrek Academy dispatched two groups of people this time; the legendary Sea God Pavilion has practically mobilized its entire force.
"In that case, I won't turn back. A person's goal is rather small, so I'll leave first. Uncle, could you please tell the academy about it?"
"Is it safe? If those people suffer setbacks at the academy, who knows if they might try to take advantage of you!"
"The continent is so vast, the most likely way these people will find me is to ambush me around Shrek Academy, but I'm not planning to go straight back to the academy! I'm planning to go back to Heaven Dou City."
"Ah, that's right, it's time to go home and visit. And if I remember correctly, your wife should have built a soul guidance laboratory for you recently. If you still have time, you can also go to the Far North City to take a look. We still need your advice on the construction of the family castle. Grandpa is too far away, and there will always be some inconveniences in knowing remotely."
"Okay, I understand. I'll go check it out. Uncle, you should be careful too. Those evil spirit masters might target our Long family."
"Don't worry, your uncle has already planned for this. Now, apart from those who have already betrayed us, the rest of the Long family are just substitutes. There will only be real people occasionally."
"What is this? A new product developed by Grandpa's side? A soul-guided simulation robot?"
"Yeah, more or less. But it's not the kind of high-fidelity robot you're imagining that can fool you. It's just a model. It can't be shown in public. Showing it in public is basically the same as being exposed."
"Oh, that's good. I thought Grandpa had a burst of inspiration and could try to become a level nine Soul Master!"
"If you put it that way, you're not wrong. From what I understand, the old man really wanted to use the Soul Guidance Robot as his capital to advance to the ninth level Soul Master."
"Alright, I'm about to leave the communication range, I'll hang up now and contact you again when I get home."
After hanging up the communication, Long You aimed in a direction and flew quickly. The land route back to Shrek City from the Star Luo Empire was indeed limited (even flying couldn't be done randomly, as some uninhabited areas and mountain peaks might be fraught with unknown dangers), but if Long You abandoned the land route and instead took the sea route, the whole journey would be much smoother.
Although there are more sea spirit beasts in the ocean and they are more terrifying, the shallow sea area about 12 nautical miles offshore is already vast enough for Longyou to roam freely.
Night fell on the seabed reef. Long You, already inside the deluxe sphere, surprisingly relaxed, disabling all the signal shielding on it and even making its outer layer transparent. The Douluo Continent's ocean was a completely unpolluted, pristine sea; in both his lives combined, he had never seen underwater scenery. Now, with such excellent conditions, Long You didn't mind enjoying the most luxurious oceanfront experience.
However, scenery is relaxing to look at for a while, but boring if you look at it for too long. Long You is not the kind of artist who can extract endless inspiration from the surrounding scenery, so in order not to waste this rare underwater scenery, Long You directly set up his soul guidance experiment table in the luxury sphere.
Having already come all the way to the sea, continuing to travel by flying felt a bit out of place, so Long You decided to build himself a soul-guided ship. A soul-guided ship that could dive, speed across the sea, see the underwater scenery, and possess enough firepower to dominate shallow waters.
Well, this kind of ship can't possibly be made in one night. The reason Long You is willing to take action now is simply because he has a half-finished product in his hands.
It has to be said that the Starlight Auction House is a great place. As long as you have enough money, you can buy a lot of fun things there. Although that piece of Star Core Tulip emptied Long You's savings, half a month has passed, and the milk tea shops scattered across the continent have gradually transferred their profits to Long You. So, Long You still has enough funds.
It took a full six hours for Long You to install all the weapon modules, completing the outfitting process for the soul-guided ship. This time, Long You had no interest in appreciating the sea view; all he wanted to do was rest. Besides, with the lights off at night, you couldn't actually see anything in the sea.
As dawn broke, sunlight once again pierced the sea surface, illuminating the seabed. However, this couldn't be the reason to wake Long You, since he had fully activated the Deluxe Sphere's defense mode while sleeping last night for safety. The reason he was awake now was entirely due to the alarm clock he had recklessly set earlier.
Traveling at sea is much slower than in the air, so to avoid worrying her parents, Long You set a minimum travel time for herself each day. Blinking her sore eyes and rubbing her aching back, Long You genuinely considered giving up on setting off today. It's just a day's journey! She could just fly for the rest of the day, wouldn't that be enough?
However, just as this thought popped into Long You's mind, an inexplicable sense of crisis suddenly arose. Although he didn't understand where the danger might be, it didn't stop Long You from immediately setting sail according to the previously planned route. So what if he was tired and didn't want to sail? He still had Xiao Muyang! It was just a simple matter of sailing a boat; Xiao Muyang, who could independently create soul tools, was perfectly capable of handling it.
Having traversed the ocean and rested, Long You didn't mind provoking some seemingly weak sea spirit beasts that didn't roam in groups. Long You still possessed a spirit ring storage device, and if he encountered a suitable ten-thousand-year-old spirit beast, he wouldn't mind turning it into a spirit ring and storing it.
The others in the reserve team are not far from breaking through to the Soul King level, and it is believed that they will not refuse such suitable Soul Rings delivered to their door, even if these Soul Rings require a certain delivery fee.
To be honest, although Long You desperately wanted to earn the delivery fee, he knew his own limitations. Unless he was planning to recklessly venture into the deep sea, encountering a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast on a normal shipping route was practically a joke. After all, for ordinary merchant ships sailing at sea, the waters within 12 nautical miles of the coastline were their lifeline. If they were to encounter a ten-thousand-year-old sea soul beast in shallow waters within 12 nautical miles, it would be a catastrophe.
After enjoying a full day of luxury yacht life, Long You began to get bored with the surrounding scenery. He also started to dislike the size and comfort of his yacht. Since that was the case, he decided to get to work. Anyway, with Xiao Yan around, even if Long You was completely immersed in the world of soul tool creation, his cultivation progress wouldn't fall behind.
Because when Long You started modifying his yacht, the first thing he did was upgrade the power system. So after the power system upgrade was completed, Long You only took two days to reach the port of the Heavenly Soul Empire closest to Heavenly Dou City.
Upon arriving here, Long You's phone, which had been offline for a long time, finally received a signal again. In that instant, the phone vibrated so violently that Long You almost wanted to throw it away. But, in that moment, the frequency of the phone's shaking gave Long You the feeling that it had come to life.
Fortunately, Long You, who had been doing a good job of balancing work and rest during this period, was quite rational. After tossing his phone into the backpack behind him and letting it continue to vibrate, Long You changed his face using the soul tool, then leisurely put away his soul-guided yacht and strode towards the port city not far away.
Holding a grilled octopus and tornado potato skewers in her right hand, and a box full of takoyaki in her left, she exudes the flavor of the sea in this port city. Even something as seemingly unrelated as tornado potato skewers is coated with a sauce made from ground small sea shrimp.
To be honest, this kind of tornado potato skewers has a unique flavor when eaten in Longyou, and it can even be said that it is quite in line with the tastes of Longyou.
After filling his stomach, Long You found a fairly large and reputable hotel and booked a room for himself. He figured that this much time should be enough for his phone to stop its epileptic-like behavior.
Skipping over the sarcastic thank-you messages from Bei Bei and others at the top, the first message Long You carefully read was from Huo Yuhao. If there was anyone in Star Luo City who was absolutely impossible to be influenced by those evil soul masters, Huo Yuhao was Long You's only choice.
No matter how you look at it, none of the methods those evil spirit masters could possibly escape the watchful eyes of the Undead Scourge, Ilex. Since there's no possibility of being ambushed, what follows is a contest of raw strength. The three beings in Huo Yuhao's mind combined are definitely no less powerful than the Illusion Pearl in Long You's mind; no matter how powerful those evil spirit masters are, they can't possibly break through this level of defense.
Senior Brother Xiaoyou:
Tianmeng said that my email would definitely be the first one you open. Although I don't quite understand whether your actions have anything to do with what Tianmeng said about you being a coward, since you are most likely to see my email first, I'd better describe the situation in more detail.
Since I don't know exactly when you left, I'll start from when Elder Yi woke me up.
According to what Elder Yi said when he woke me up, Elder Xuan's domain was already experiencing very abnormal fluctuations. Based on Princess Xu Jiujiu's later account, it seems that Elder Xuan was indeed influenced by those evil soul masters to some extent at that time.
Theoretically speaking, however, the impact on Elder Xuan should not be too great. After all, the support from the Star Luo Empire arrived very timely, directly forcing out all three evil soul masters who were hiding in the shadows. Moreover, judging from Elder Xuan's subsequent behavior, he still maintained his rationality.
However, Elder Yi also reminded me that such judgments cannot be based solely on appearances. Elder Xuan's apparent normalcy might only be superficial, while his inner self may have been subtly but severely eroded.
Will the consequences of this erosion be severe? I asked Professor Yi, but he said that unless he could examine it directly, it would be difficult for him to make an accurate judgment.
Okay, let's get back to the main point. This group of evil soul masters was extremely powerful, consisting of one Title Douluo and two Soul Douluos. With Elder Xuan affected and unable to intervene, the Star Luo Empire's forces couldn't completely stop these evil soul masters. In the end, only two Soul Douluos remained on the Star Luo Empire's side; the Title Douluo escaped severely injured.
In the latter half of the night, Dean Qian Duoduo and Elder Zhuang arrived first. After arriving, they apparently checked on Senior Dai Yueheng's condition before speaking with the Xingluo Royal Family. I don't know the specifics of their conversation.
As dawn broke, the rest of the academy's support team arrived. It must be said that the academy was taking this matter very seriously. According to the senior sister, aside from Dean Yan Shaozhe, Dean Xian Lin'er, and Elder Mu, the Sea God Pavilion had been completely emptied.
The timeline is now. You can tell from the length of this message I've sent that we still haven't set off back to the academy. Senior Dai Yueheng's situation is improving, but Elder Xuan's situation is likely very serious. At least I've noticed that Teacher Fanyu is already crafting extremely high-level Soul Master shackles.
However, according to Elder Yi, regardless of Elder Xuan's situation or whether Teacher Fan Yu's Soul Master Shackles are completed, our time in Star Luo City shouldn't be too long. No matter how you look at it, Shrek Academy is the safest place; so many Sea God Pavilion elders can't be tied up here indefinitely.
Huo Yuhao
After reading Huo Yuhao's information, Long You couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief. Although the little guy was narrating the whole story, Long You still sensed that everyone didn't seem to be blaming him too much for his behavior.