Gu Chen released his right hand's Golden Dragon Claw and forcefully scraped it across his left arm. Golden blood, like glittering golden grains, scattered and was caught by Gu Chen.
Upon seeing Gu Chen's blood, the dragon soul beasts erupted with excitement, eagerly watching Gu Chen.
Gu Chen threw the blood into the air. After exploding in the air, the blood split into over a hundred droplets, falling into the mouths of each dragon soul beast.
After absorbing the blood of the Golden Dragon King, the auras of these dragon soul beasts began to rise, their bloodlines were elevated, and their soul power cultivation increased.
Among them, a few soul beasts couldn't control the explosive rise in their cultivation, and were about to break into the realm of thousand-year soul beasts. However, Gu Chen released a powerful dragon's might and forcibly suppressed their ranks.
The soul beasts gratefully looked at Gu Chen. Not only did the suppression of their cultivation make their soul power more consolidated, but it also allowed them to break through to become thousand-year soul beasts at any time.
Most importantly, this Dragon Valley simulated training ground only allowed soul beasts of up to a hundred years. Any thousand-year soul beast would be killed by the teachers from the Soul Hall to ensure the students' safety.
Therefore, by suppressing their strength, Gu Chen essentially saved their lives!
Did Gu Chen elevate their bloodlines just to do a good deed?
Of course not!
After Gu Chen's blood integrated into the soul beasts' bloodlines, he could contact these soul beasts at any time through the bloodline connection, and their lives and deaths would be at his command.
After doing all this, under the worship of the beasts, Gu Chen and Gu Yue Na spent an entire day cultivating in the Dragon Valley before returning to their dorm.
Upon entering the dorm, Gu Chen asked Luo Chen for a few bowls of delicious fried rice for dinner.
After handing over the fried rice, Luo Chen said, "Gu Chen, have you heard? Hu Liena and the others died yesterday!"
"Mhm." Gu Chen nodded while eating the fried rice.
"Do you think it could be an enemy force from the Spirit Hall targeting our academy? Will we be in danger?" Luo Chen said fearfully.
"Don't worry, I've got your back!" Gu Chen patted his chest confidently.
Luo Chen still worriedly said, "But I heard that Hu Liena and the others were killed with a single blow. Their opponent might be above Soul Saint level."
Gu Chen finished the last bite of rice and couldn't help but smile. He hadn't expected to be considered a Soul Saint.
Although he didn't have the rank of Soul Saint, his strength was on par with one.
"Why worry? I'm not someone who can't defeat a Soul Saint. From now on, you can call me 'Chen Ge' like Na'er does," Gu Chen said with a smile. Luo Chen was an interesting person. It wouldn't hurt to look after him a bit before fully taking control of the Spirit Hall.
"Mhm, Chen Ge." Luo Chen obediently said.
Gu Chen extended his hand. "I'm still hungry, give me two more bowls of fried rice."
After taking the fried rice, Gu Chen suddenly remembered something, and pulled out a pack of Wei Long spicy strips. He tore open the seal and pulled one out to eat with the rice.
Honestly, Wei Long spicy strips were a great match with rice. In his past life, when there was no food at home, he often ate Wei Long spicy strips with rice.
"Chen, Chen Ge, what's this?" Luo Chen sniffed the delicious aroma of the spicy strips, asking curiously.
"Wei Long spicy strips. Here, have one," Gu Chen handed him a piece.
"Thank you, Chen Ge." Luo Chen took the spicy strip, placed it in his mouth, and his eyes lit up. "So delicious…"
Seeing how the kid was enjoying it, Gu Chen couldn't help but laugh. He handed the whole pack of spicy strips to Luo Chen. "You can have the whole pack."
Knock, knock, knock!
At that moment, a knock on the door sounded.
"Is this Gu Chen? Here are your training resources and salary for the month." Upon opening the door, a teacher from the Soul Hall entered. The teacher handed over a storage ring and said, "The training resources inside are for you to process, and the soul tool needs to be returned to the Academic Affairs Office tomorrow."
"Thank you," Gu Chen said as he took the ring.
After closing the door, Gu Chen dumped all the training resources from the soul tool.
Among the resources, there were medicinal herbs to aid cultivation, treasures from soul beasts like the hundred-year-old whale resin, and finally, there were ten thousand gold soul coins.
"Wow, so many rare treasures! This is more than ten times what I usually get!" Luo Chen said enviously.
Gu Chen smiled and handed some of the training resources to Luo Chen, then placed the rest into his system's backpack.
"Let's check Luo Chen's system character panel," Gu Chen thought.
"Ding!"
"System Character Panel:
Name: Luo Chen Age: 12 Strength: 200 Mental Power: 750 Bloodline: Human Bloodline 100% Level: 29th Rank Great Soul Master Soul Rings: Yellow, Yellow Loyalty: 59% Evaluation: A potential talent in food-based martial souls, with high development potential. However, his overly kind heart makes him susceptible to being taken advantage of in life."
Gu Chen was surprised. After such small gestures, Luo Chen was so grateful that his loyalty had reached 59%.
This Luo Chen was worth cultivating.
A month passed in the blink of an eye.
During this month, Luo Chen successfully reached level 30, and under the guidance of the Soul Hall teachers, he went to the Sunset Forest to obtain his third soul ring.
Meanwhile, Gu Chen and Gu Yue Na both reached level 42.
On this day, the selection for the Saint Son and Saintess began.
The candidates for Saint Son included the only son of the Snake Spear Douluo, Yu Jiu; the two children of the Spiked Porcupine Douluo, Ci He and Ci Yu; the only son of the Magic Bear Douluo, Lü De; the only son of the Golden Crocodile Douluo, Jin Zi; and Gu Chen, who had received the Pope's nominated spot.
The candidates for Saintess included the daughter of the Ghost Leopard Douluo, Yan Xiaoli; the twin daughters of the White Armor Douluo, Miu La and Miu Yu; the daughter of an unknown elder, Ling Xiaojiu; and Gu Yue Na, who had also received the Pope's nominated spot.
The Saint Son and Saintess selections were held separately. First, the Saintess selection would take place. Only after confirming the Saintess would the Saint Son selection begin.
The Saintess selection involved both team strength and individual strength battles.
Individual strength battles were self-explanatory, a 1v1 elimination system.
For the team strength, each Saintess candidate formed a team with other candidates and competed against each other, with rankings determining their results.
Each team could consist of several candidates, including those running for the Saint Son title.
Before the Saintess team match, Gu Yue Na formed a team with Gu Chen, Luo Chen, Feng Xiao Yu, and Tianzi Class 1's Xue You You, Hua Bu Luo, and Xuan Mo Mo.
After a month of practical lessons, everyone was familiar with each other's strength.
When Luo Chen obtained his third soul ring, Lucy asked everyone to introduce their soul skills again.
"My third soul skill is Talent Fried Rice," Luo Chen said, releasing his third soul skill.
His soul skills were still bizarre, such as "Working is impossible, and I will never work," "Everyone inside is talented," and "My words are sweet."
Luo Chen's third soul skill, Talent Fried Rice, provided a 20% increase to all attributes, which stunned everyone from Heaven Class 1.