Chapter 147 Surprise!

“Success!”

Seeing the soul guide core formation in He Caitou’s hand that was emitting a beam of soul power light, Luo Chen and Huo Yu both couldn’t help but smile.

“So, I do have some talent in soul guidance.”

Seeing that he had successfully completed the engraving of the soul guide core array, Luo Chen let out a sigh of relief and then joked.

With his half-baked knowledge of soul guidance, he was able to follow the instructions and successfully complete the engraving of the soul guidance core array. This was beyond his expectation.

Fortunately, it was successful. Otherwise, if he had failed to engrave the soul guide core array after saying such confident words before, then this would definitely be a big black spot for him!
He was the most talented person in Shrek Academy, but he turned out to be an incompetent person who spoke wildly. If this were to get out, he would probably have no chance of staying in Shrek Academy.

“Haha, Junior Brother Luo, your talent is extraordinary. Even a soul guide apprentice who has studied soul guide knowledge for several years will have a high probability of failing when engraving the soul guide core array for the first time.”

“You were able to take this most important step smoothly when you first came into contact with the soul guide, and you completed this step so perfectly. This has already proved your talent. Even Yu Hao took more than a month to successfully complete this step.”

Hearing Luo Chen’s joke at this moment, He Caitou’s face was filled with an excited smile, and he started to explain to him.

Having studied in the Soul Guidance Department for several years, he understood better than anyone else present how difficult it was to complete this most important step.

It can be said that the most important factor in becoming a qualified formal soul guide is the soul guide core array. As long as the engraving of the soul guide core array can be successfully completed, then everything else is just child’s play.

The so-called soul guide manufacturing, engraving the soul guide core array is the last and most important step. Although before that there is the creation of the soul guide outer shell and inner shell, as well as the alloys needed to make the soul guide core array, these are just the most basic things and are not difficult.

This is also the reason why He Caitou was so excited after seeing Luo Chen really completed the engraving of the soul guide core array, because before this, no one in the entire soul guide department, or even in the entire Shrek Academy, could successfully complete the engraving of the soul guide core array when they first came into contact with a soul guide device.

In the eyes of a third-level soul engineer like He Caitou who had studied for several years, this was almost impossible to do, but it was actually happening. Even things that he dared not even think about were really done by this new junior brother.

At this moment, He Caitou could understand more and more why Luo Chen was arranged by the higher-ups of Shrek Academy to study in the Soul Guidance Department instead of the Martial Soul Department. This was because with his talent, he was no longer satisfied with just studying the knowledge in one department.

“This kind of talent and understanding… is so strong that it’s unbelievable.”

Looking at Luo Chen, who was almost flawless, He Caitou couldn’t help but sigh in his heart. However, the next moment, he suddenly remembered something:
“If it was him, would he…”

Just as He Caitou and Huo Yuhao were explaining the knowledge about soul guides to Luo Chen, the familiar figure walked into the Soul Guide Department’s office again, but next to him, there was another figure.

“Teacher, you are back. Come here quickly. I have good news to tell you!”

He Caitou, who was teaching Luo Chen how to make soul guides, saw Fan Yu coming back from the gate of the experimental area. He waved his hands and spoke to him in an extremely excited tone.

Seeing this, Luo Chen and Huo Yuhao also put down the soul guide shells in their hands, and then looked at Fan Yu who had returned. However, at this moment, their eyes were not on Fan Yu, but on the familiar figure standing next to him.

Standing next to Fan Yu was a teacher with gray hair, several wrinkles on his face and an extremely sharp gaze. Luo Chen had seen this teacher by chance when he was studying in Class 9 of the Freshman Class before. It seemed that this teacher was Zhou Yi, who was crowned as the strictest teacher in the outer courtyard by a group of students in the outer courtyard.

“Mr. Zhou, why are you here? Do you have something to talk to me about?”

Seeing Fan Yu and Zhou Yi walking over together, Huo Yuhao took the initiative to step forward and asked.

Seeing this, Zhou Yi’s mouth twitched, and he was about to respond to his words, but after seeing Luo Chen beside him, the expression on his face instantly turned serious. He did not respond to Huo Yuhao’s words immediately, but asked to Fan Yu beside him in a rather stiff tone:
“Teacher Fanyu, this student seems to be a stranger in your Soul Guidance Department. Can you introduce him to me?”

Seeing Zhou Yi’s sudden attitude, not only Huo Yuhao and Fan Yu, but also Luo Chen beside her couldn’t help but twitch his lips.

Although it was indeed the first time he met Zhou Yi, he was clear that the teacher in front of him, who looked quite serious on the surface, was just wearing a mask. Her true face underneath the mask was one of the most beautiful women in the academy.

He had heard the seniors in the inner courtyard joking about this many times in Poseidon Island. After all, this was hardly a secret in the inner courtyard. Only the students in the outer courtyard were kept in the dark.

But after all, he was just a student in the academy. He still had to be polite when facing a teacher. Therefore, Luo Chen did not expose the mask of teacher Zhou Yi. After all, it would not do him any good to expose it. Instead, Fan Yu might make things difficult for him.

He would never do such a thing that would make him unhappy.

Without waiting for Fan Yu to introduce him, Luo Chen took the initiative to bow to Zhou Yi in front of him, and then said:

“Hello, teacher. I am a freshman who just transferred from the Martial Soul Department to the Soul Guidance Department today. My name is Luo Chen, and I am currently a disciple of Teacher Fan Yu.”

Hearing this, Zhou Yi’s pupils shrank suddenly, and then he looked at Fan Yu beside him. After seeing the other party nodded affirmatively, he smiled slightly, looked at Luo Chen for a moment, and then said:
“Student Luo Chen, right? I often hear your name in the office. You were supposed to be a student in the ninth class of the Wuhun Department. Later, you were transferred to the inner courtyard. I didn’t expect that you have already left the inner courtyard in such a short time.”

“And you even switched to the Soul Guidance Department. It seems that during this time, you have thoroughly consolidated the foundation of the Martial Soul Department. Nice to meet you. My name is Zhou Yi, and I’m the head teacher of the freshman class. You can call me Teacher Zhou.” After these words came out, it was Luo Chen’s turn to be stunned. He didn’t expect that his name and deeds had already spread among the teachers in the academy’s external colleges. But this is also a good thing, as it saved him a lot of time to explain.

He did not feel it was strange that Zhou Yi spoke to him so kindly. Although Zhou Yi was teased by the students of the Foreign Affairs College as an “old witch” and “the most strict teacher in the Foreign Affairs College”, it also depended on who he was facing.

If they are just ordinary students, then of course it is true. No one will be nice to mediocre students. After all, such students must be restrained and required to meet the most stringent standards possible, so that they can maximize their own upper limits.

But for a student like Luo Chen, who has completely surpassed this level, not to mention Zhou Yi, even Fan Yu has to take it seriously.

He was able to enter the inner courtyard of Shrek Academy at the age of a freshman in the outer courtyard, and even defeated a group of inner courtyard students, making a great “reputation” in the inner courtyard. This alone was enough to show Luo Chen’s own talent.

Even though the other party was nominally only a freshman in the external college, it was not something Zhou Yi could easily offend.

As a teacher in the external school, he could certainly use the authority at his disposal to expel some students with low talent or those he disliked, but it was wishful thinking for him to use this authority to expel Luo Chen.

With Luo Chen’s current authority in Shrek Academy, let alone the outer courtyard of Shrek Academy, even the inner courtyard of Shrek Academy, the place known as the holy land of soul masters, Luo Chen can come and go as he pleases. Even if he wants to enter the Poseidon Pavilion to read the library, it is no problem for him.

It can be said that Luo Chen, who is now just an “ordinary” outer school student, has authority and status in Shrek Academy that is even higher than Zhou Yi.

After all, when you are away from home, you have to earn your own status. As he has been accepted as a direct disciple by Moon En, naturally there is no way that his authority will be restricted at all. Strictly speaking, since he has been accepted as a direct disciple by Moon En, his status in the academy is almost equivalent to that of the deans of the academy, such as Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin’er, who are also Moon En’s disciples!

This is also the reason why Luo Chen can act so domineeringly in Shrek Academy. No, he can do whatever he wants… It doesn’t seem right either, but it is the important reason why he can have smooth sailing all the way.

With the background of Poseidon Pavilion, Luo Chen is almost equivalent to a “crown prince” in Shrek Academy. He doesn’t need to give face to anyone except his teacher Moon and the elders of Poseidon Pavilion.

This is also the change brought about by his own talent and strength. Even though Luo Chen is only a twelve-year-old boy and a first-year student in the outer courtyard, no one can bully him with this.

But this is only the case within Shrek Academy. If you leave Shrek Academy, it will be a completely different scene.

“Teacher Zhou.”

Seeing Zhou Yi say this, Luo Chen was very considerate and called her politely. Then he turned his gaze to Fan Yu beside him and said with a smile:

“Teacher Fanyu, just when you were out, I accidentally accomplished something incredible. I promise to give you a big surprise!”

As he spoke, Luo Chen also exchanged a glance with He Caitou and Huo Yuhao beside him, and both of them smiled and nodded.

Hearing Luo Chen’s words, Fan Yu, who was always serious, was also aroused by the people in front of him and couldn’t help asking:
“When I came in just now, I heard you guys shouting excitedly. What big surprise do you have? Take it out and let me see it. I want to see if the surprise is that big.”

Although Fan Yu was aware of the talent of the new disciple in front of him, he did not think that Luo Chen would be able to cause him any trouble during the short time he was away. After all, he was an eight-ringed Soul Douluo, and his attainments in the Soul Guidance System had reached a level close to the sixth level.

His understanding of soul guides is far better than that of Huo Yuhao, He Caitou and others. It can be said that the current scale of the soul guide system is absolutely inseparable from his contribution.

Therefore, he was quite concerned about the surprise that He Caitou and Luo Chen had mentioned. It couldn’t be that as a new disciple, he had already learned the basic knowledge of soul guides in such a short time?

That is indeed a bit too scary…

Just after Fan Yu finished speaking, Zhou Yi, who was about to say something, closed her mouth silently, and then looked at Luo Chen in front of her with some curiosity. Although on the surface she was just a foreign school teacher like Fan Yu, she actually had another identity, that is, Fan Yu’s wife!

This was something that almost all the students in the External Academy were unaware of. Even among the teachers in the External Academy, very few people knew about this. Therefore, as she often accompanied Fan Yu in and out of the Soul Guidance Department, she knew more about soul guides than ordinary people.

At this moment, seeing that Luo Chen and others were actually saying that they wanted to give Fan Yu a big surprise, Zhou Yi swallowed back the words she wanted to say just now, and then silently waited for Luo Chen and others’ answer.

Under the expectant gaze of Fan Yu and Zhou Yi, He Caitou first glanced at Luo Chen, and then handed the piece of light blue metal in his hand, which was engraved with the soul guide core array, to Fan Yu in front of him.

Seeing this, Fan Yu did not doubt it and took it, then looked at it carefully, but the expression on his face became more and more exciting as he looked at it.

After a moment, Fan Yu finally raised his head with a look of surprise on his face. He looked at He Caitou in front of him and asked:
“Did you, Caitou, engrave this soul guide core array? Your skills are almost as good as mine. Not bad, Caitou!”

However, facing Fan Yu’s surprised expression, He Caitou just smiled and shook his head, then pointed to Luo Chen beside him and said:

“Teacher, you are wrong. This soul guide core array was not engraved by me, but by the new Junior Brother Luo. During the time you were away, it took him less than a quarter of an hour to complete the engraving on his first try…”

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(End of this chapter)