Peerless Tang Sect's Shepherd Star Silver Dragon

Chapter 23 Departure
  Si Muqing got up and washed up, feeling decadent.

I was poked by Yuhao the day before yesterday, and it still feels a bit wrong.

Food has been prepared, clothes have been prepared, hidden weapons and soul guidance devices have been prepared, and medicines have been prepared.

Si Muqing checked his storage soul guide and looked at a leather bag with dark patterns placed deep inside.

That was the academy's freshman assessment reward, a soul bone, a pitiful and despised left arm bone of the Golden Light.

This was given to him by Wang Qiu'er and Ye Yun yesterday, in a rather casual manner.

yesterday
  Si Muqing opened the door of the dormitory and looked at Wang Qiuer and Yeyun who were approaching him fiercely.

"What's wrong with you?" Si Muqing looked at the two of them in confusion.

Wang Qiuer looked directly into Si Muqing's eyes: "I asked you to come to me yesterday, why didn't you come?"

Si Muqing's eyes were wandering and he looked embarrassed: "I have to leave the college recently and I am preparing my luggage. I want to say goodbye to Na'er by the way. I'm sorry."

Wang Qiuer's face darkened when he heard this, and she didn't want to talk to him. Yeyun said, "If there is no one in your dormitory, let us in first. There are some things that are inconvenient to say here."

Si Muqing nodded and let the door open. Wang Qiuer and Yeyun came in and sat directly on his bed.

Si Mu cleared the door and sat across from them.

"What do you want to talk about in private?" Si Muqing asked in confusion.

"We waited for you all day yesterday!" It was Yeyun who said this. She, who had always been good-tempered, was also full of anger at Si Muqing's behavior.

Yeyun took out a leather bag and handed it to Si Muqing: "This is the college's freshman assessment reward, take a look!"

Si Muqing opened the string of the leather bag, and a warm red-gold light radiated out.

But when the light touched Si Muqing and the others, it rippled violently and retracted into the pocket.

Si Muqing put his mouth down and shook his skin. The fallen arm bones were suspended in the air, their brilliance restrained, and they flew towards Yeyun.

Si Muqing picked up the note that fell from the bag and read the words on it.

"The academy has really put a lot of effort into it!" Si Muqing exclaimed. Such a soul bone would be helpful to all three of them. The pure but diluted dragon bloodline meant that their compatibility was not bad.

Of course, the compatibility of the three people is also different.

Si Muqing looked at the soul bones surrounding Yeyun.

Si Muqing smiled and said, "It seems that this soul bone has already chosen its owner."

"I don't want it!" Yeyun reached out and took the skin bag from Si Muqing's hand and put away the soul bone.

Si Muqing blinked and persuaded: "Yeyun, this is no joke. This soul bone is obviously the most suitable for you."

Yeyun shook her head and stuffed the skin bag containing the soul bone into Si Muqing's arms: "This is not important. Let's talk about another thing."

A touch of uncertainty surrounded Si Muqing's heart: "How can you say it's not important! This is a soul bone worth 9.5 million gold soul coins."

Si Muqing emphasized the price, hoping to attract their attention, mainly Yeyun.

Qiu'er is an auspicious beast and not from the Guangming Dragon Clan. It's normal not to pay attention to it, but the relationship between Yeyun's sacred dragon and the Guangming Dragon Clan is very important!
  Wang Qiuer stood up, followed closely by Yeyun.

Si Muqing was startled and stood up: "You are leaving, I will see you off."

Wang Qiuer's face was gloomy, and she rushed towards Si Muqing without saying a word.

Yeyun also tacitly attacked Si Muqing from the other side.

Si Muqing subconsciously activated the space transfer, trying to avoid the siege of Qiu'er and Yeyun, but the activation failed, failed!

Si Muqing's eyes widened, failure, how could it be possible!

Yejun and Wang Qiuer each restrained one of his arms and pressed the side of his face on their bed, facing away from them in an extremely humiliating posture.

"No, what do you want to do? Why can't you talk properly? Let me go."

"Let go, don't even think about it. You must pay the price for your actions today." Wang Qiuer spoke the first words after coming in.

"Qiu'er, what are you talking about? I didn't do anything to you."

Yejun's pretty face was cold: "Captain, you are really busy with everything. Qiu'er and I just told you, but you forgot!"

Si Muqing recalled what the three of them had just said: "So the other thing you said is that I let you go."

"No, we shouldn't solve the problem of soul bones now! Isn't this the main problem you have with me? And it's also more important."

"I was looking for you yesterday because of the distribution of soul bones, but not today. I'm looking for you today just because of what you did yesterday."

"The soul bones are just incidental." Yeyun added.

After explaining clearly, Wang Qiuer took action decisively, not giving Si Muqing a chance to delay.

"Ah! Wait, can you please move to another place to fight? It's so shameful! Hiss."

Wails of pain came from the dormitory.

"Alas!" Si Muqing shook his head hard and shook the memory of yesterday out of his mind.

Si Muqing put away the soul guide and walked towards Poseidon Lake, which is the entrance to the inner courtyard.

A quiet girl who was only twenty-five years old stood at the entrance of the inner courtyard.

She has long jade-like hair that reaches her waist, eyes with cut water, a delicate face, and skin as white as jade. She folds her hands and covers her lower abdomen with the palms of her hands facing inwards. The temperament is gentle, the quality is blue and the heart is blue. "Senior, hello!" Si Muqing greeted the beautiful senior standing by Poseidon Lake warmly.

The senior smiled softly: "Hello, senior Mu Qing. My name is Zhang Lexuan. This time I am responsible for taking you to the Dou Ling Empire to eradicate the evil soul master."

Zhang Lexuan? Such a familiar name. Si Muqing tried hard to remember, who was she?

"Senior Sister Lexuan, what are we going to do next?" Si Muqing asked Senior Sister Wen Wan.

"Go to the east gate of Shrek City. There is a carriage I rented there. I will brief you on the mission on the way." Zhang Lexuan motioned to Si Muqing to follow her.

"The carriage, doesn't it have a flying soul guide?" Si Muqing asked doubtfully.

"First, the place we are going to is a bit far, and second, we need to teach you some knowledge on the way." Zhang Lexuan answered Si Muqing patiently.

"Senior Lexuan, why do I always feel like I've heard your name somewhere?" Si Muqing was like a curious baby, asking questions all the time.

"Have you heard my name?" Zhang Lexuan glanced at Si Muqing in surprise, "You may have heard my name from Xiaotao or Beibei."

"I'm not boasting, senior sister, but senior sister in the inner courtyard still has a bit of reputation."

Upon hearing Beibei's name, Si Muqing suddenly realized that Beibei was the child bride and the senior sister of the inner courtyard.

"Senior sister, why are you taking me to complete this punishment mission? I thought it was Sister Xiaotao!" Si Muqing asked curiously.

"Xiao Tao takes you, can that be called punishment?" Zhang Lexuan said with a smile, "As for why the senior sister takes you, it's because the senior sister happens to have free time."

Is the chief of the inner court so idle? Si Muqing thought seriously.

"This is the carriage, junior fellow student, come on up!" Zhang Lexuan said to Si Muqing after talking to a middle-aged man.

Si Muqing followed Zhang Lexuan onto the carriage.

In the carriage, Zhang Lexuan pulled her hair around her ears: "Junior, how much do you know about our destination this time, the Dou Ling Empire?"

"Some basic information." Si Muqing answered honestly.

Zhang Lexuan smiled and asked softly: "How basic is it?"

"The Dou Ling Empire was split from the Tian Dou Empire. It is the smallest and weakest among the countries. That's it!"

Zhang Lexuan started from the history of the Dou Ling Empire and talked about the powerful soul masters and policies it has today.

"Junior, in Dou Ling, you have to be careful of those nobles." Zhang Lexuan warned.

"Are those nobles difficult to deal with, senior sister?" Si Muqing asked.

"The Tiandou Empire is the country that most values ​​​​the theory of blood, and the same is true for the split Tianhun and Dou Ling."

"The first requirement for admission to the former Tiandou Royal Academy was to have a noble title."

Zhang Lexuan said this with a hint of ridicule and disdain.

"The theory of blood is not taught in this outer courtyard, but from the name, you should be able to make a rough guess."

"The theory of blood, is this very popular in mainland China?" Si Muqing asked.

Zhang Lexuan nodded lightly: "Except for the Sun and Moon Empire, which mainly uses soul guides, the three Douluo empires are quite popular."

"Among them, the nobles are the most popular, followed by the sects."

Si Muqing interrupted Zhang Lexuan: "Why is blood theory so prevalent in the sect? Don't they recruit civilians?"

Zhang Lexuan looked at Si Muqing with strange eyes, but also with a little care.

"Why do you think so? Most of the so-called sects are dominated by one family, plus several auxiliary families, such as the Haotian Sect."

"There is only one sect that completely despises the theory of blood, and that is the Noumenon Sect."

"This is not only because of the second awakening of the original martial soul, but also because of the original sect's method of recruiting disciples."

"Any soul master who has the original martial soul is by default a disciple of the Noumenal Sect. This is how the Noumenal Sect recruits disciples. As long as a soul master with an original martial soul is discovered, the Noumenal Sect will bring him back to the sect, even if he has a sect of his own. The same goes for the door."

Hearing this sentence, Si Muqing twitched the corner of his mouth.

"Let's not talk about this anymore. Let's continue the topic." Zhang Lexuan brought the topic back.

"Tian Dou's aristocratic power far exceeds that of Xing Luo aristocrats locally."

"The reform of Dou Ling and Tian Hun is difficult, and these nobles are the biggest resistance."

"So we have to be careful in our words and deeds in Dou Ling?" Si Muqing asked.

Zhang Lexuan said in denial: "Be careful with your words and actions, of course not. Just don't add twists and turns to your punishment mission. If someone blocks your actions, you can do whatever you want. If you cause trouble, my senior sister will resist you."

"Then where is the specific location of this mission?" Si Muqing began to ask the question.

"It was a small border town in the Dou Ling Empire, and young people kept disappearing one after another."

"Originally, they were just disappearing one by one, which was inconspicuous. But recently, the disappearances have become more and more frequent, causing people in the town to panic, and eventually alerted the academy's intelligence organization. The academy speculated that there is an evil soul master there."

"What about the official action? Aren't the people there fleeing?" Si Muqing asked thoughtfully.

"You will know what the official actions are wherever you go. As for escaping, a group of ordinary people can escape to wherever they go." Zhang Lexuan answered him with a sigh.

There were question marks on Si Muqing's head, full of curiosity.

(End of this chapter)