Chapter 9 Senior Sister Hu Liena heads to the Star Dou Forest
Qin Mu believed that as long as he finished speaking, Bibi Dong would be certain it was true, and then his entry into the Spirit Hall would be foolproof.
After leaving the council hall, Spirit Kite Douluo led Qin Mu out of the Papal Palace and arrived at the Spirit Hall Academy below Wuhun City.
"Wait here for me, I'll go and bring Hu Liena out."
After saying something to Qin Mu, Ling Yuan immediately set off and flew towards the Spirit Hall Academy.
Bored, Qin Mu stood still, observing the Spirit Hall Academy.
While in Microstar City, he also saw Microstar Academy.
However, compared to each other, Microstar Academy is like a kindergarten, while Spirit Hall Academy is a true university.
As an academy established with the backing of Wuhun City, its background is naturally the Spirit Hall.
With the support of the Spirit Hall, the Spirit Hall Academy can be considered the number one academy on the entire continent in terms of both teaching quality and training environment.
This is why the Spirit Hall Academy was able to train Hu Liena and others to become Soul Kings when they were around twenty years old.
At the same time, the Spirit Hall Academy provides the best cultivation resources for its students, and most of the Soul Masters who graduate from the Spirit Hall Academy can join the Spirit Hall and become managers in the Spirit Halls of various cities.
For ordinary people, being able to join the Spirit Hall is something to be very proud of.
This has led to a situation where every year many talented but unstated commoners hope to join the Spirit Hall Academy.
People like Hu Liena are among them.
Before long, Ling Yuan appeared before Qin Mu with a cute little girl.
"Nana, let me introduce you. This is Qin Mu, and he'll be your junior brother from now on. He's a fully-powered innate soul force!"
"Qin Mu, this is Hu Liena, your senior sister. She is currently nine years old and her soul power is level 20. Although her innate soul power is not as high as yours, it is still level nine."
Hu Liena stared at Qin Mu with her beautiful eyes, marveling at his good looks. When she heard that Qin Mu actually possessed innate full soul power, she was even more shocked and speechless.
"You actually possess innate full soul power! My god! No wonder the teacher accepted you as her disciple!"
"I'm Hu Liena, and I'll be your senior from now on! Please take care of me!"
Looking at the curious, lively, and adorable Hu Liena, Qin Mu nodded slightly to her.
After a brief introduction, the three set off together for their destination: the Star Dou Forest, where they would hunt spirit beasts.
The Star Dou Forest spans the border between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire. The soul beasts within are exceptionally ferocious and diverse, and there may even be some unrecorded soul beasts.
As future elites of the Spirit Hall and disciples of Pope Bibi Dong, the two naturally wouldn't just randomly find the Soul Hunting Forest of an empire to obtain their spirit rings.
Since Wuhun City is also located at the intersection of the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire, it is not far from the Star Dou Forest.
As for safety, with Spirit Kite Douluo's strength, she can practically roam freely in the Star Dou Forest. Protecting the two juniors to obtain their first two spirit rings on the outskirts of the Star Dou Forest is a piece of cake.
Along the way, Hu Liena kept asking her handsome junior brother all sorts of questions, clearly showing great interest in Qin Mu.
Hu Liena was quite surprised when she learned that his Spirit was actually the Clear Sky Hammer.
As Bibi Dong's disciple, Hu Liena naturally knew about the current relationship between the Spirit Hall and the Clear Sky Sect. Under such circumstances, Bibi Dong actually accepted Qin Mu as her disciple!
However, since even Pope Bibi Dong had no problem with it, Hu Liena naturally wouldn't have any objections either.
An hour later, led by Ling Yuan, the three arrived at the outer edge of the Star Dou Forest.
"Alright, my mission is complete now that I've brought you here. The rest is up to you."
"If you encounter any difficulties, call me, but if you call me... Nana, you know what I mean."
After Hu Liena nodded, Ling Yuan playfully pinched Qin Mu's cheek before leaving.
"Sister Nana, what did Aunt Ling Yuan mean by that?"
Upon hearing this, Hu Liena immediately covered Qin Mu's mouth, then looked around and breathed a sigh of relief when she found that Ling Yuan had not come out.
"Little brother Qin Mu, remember to call Ling Yuan 'sister' next time!"
Hu Liena whispered something in Qin Mu's ear, but what she said made Qin Mu's lips twitch slightly.
Call her "sister"?!
Although Ling Yuan was very beautiful and appeared to be only in her thirties or forties, Qin Mu knew that generally, people who cultivated to the Title Douluo level were usually in their seventies or eighties.
At her age, it wouldn't be an exaggeration for Qin Mu to call her grandma, let alone aunt.
With such a big age gap, how can I call her "older sister"?
Seeing that Qin Mu had some doubts, Hu Liena had no choice but to add, "Sister Ling Yuan doesn't like being called anything else, so don't try to fool her with 'Senior Ling Yuan'."
"Otherwise, at the very least, Sister Ling Yuan will give you a beating, and if things get worse, she'll even sabotage your assessment!"
After repeatedly reminding Qin Mu not to call Ling Yuan by any other name, Hu Liena explained to Qin Mu what Ling Yuan meant earlier.
"Although you have just become a disciple of the teacher, you will definitely become a student of the Spirit Hall Academy in the future, and you will also become a member of the Spirit Hall. These are the most basic things."
"For people like you and me, the teacher's requirements are naturally more stringent than for others."
"For example, when a regular student obtains a spirit ring, all they need to do is report it to a teacher in the academy, and a high-level Soul Master will lead them to hunt for the spirit ring."
"But if we want to obtain a spirit ring, we must hunt it ourselves, and the spirit ring's strength must meet the requirements."
"Otherwise, as soon as we try to absorb it, Sister Ling Yuan will interrupt us and it will be considered a failure."
"During this process, although Sister Ling Yuan will protect us in secret, every time she makes a move, it means we have failed once, and we will be punished accordingly when we return."
"And this is just the tip of the iceberg of our many trials and tribulations."
At this point, Hu Liena sighed helplessly.
"When I obtained my first spirit ring, I was accompanied by Grandpa Ghost. I failed twice that time."
Hearing this, Qin Mu finally understood how much effort Hu Liena, as a member of the Spirit Hall's Golden Generation, had to put in.
Although Qin Mu did not ask what the punishment would be for failure, he could foresee that the punishment that could make even someone as resilient as Hu Liena sigh would definitely not be simple.
"Sister Nana, what you just said, that Ling Yuan... Sister can trip you up, means what?"
Hu Liena shrugged and spread her hands helplessly.
"She will capture some soul beasts that we can't beat and place them around us, and then take action to deal with them when we are exhausted from fighting the soul beasts."
"Doing this will not only torment us, but also subject us to another punishment."
Thinking of this, Hu Liena felt a chill run down her spine, but then she seemed to remember something else, and a look of helplessness appeared on her face.
"Although Sister Ling Yuan sometimes plays pranks like this, she is usually quite caring towards us and generally won't let us get hurt."
"In particular, everyone says she has a fiery temper, and I've seen her argue with other elders of the Spirit Hall, but she's never lost her temper with us."
A kind-hearted Title Douluo with a childlike spirit.
Qin Mu silently evaluated Ling Yuan in his heart.
Suddenly, Qin Mu sensed danger approaching. This was an instinctive reaction he had developed after cultivating his spiritual power to a certain level.
Without the slightest hesitation, Qin Mu immediately released his Spirit, the Clear Sky Hammer.
Upon seeing Qin Mu suddenly release his Spirit, Hu Liena was stunned for a moment, and then she also released her own Spirit.
Hu Liena's long hair turned fiery red, and a fluffy fox tail grew from her back. A yellow spirit ring flashed around her.
Just as Hu Liena was about to ask Qin Mu what had happened, a tiger three meters long with yellow and white stripes appeared in front of the two of them.
"This is... a thousand-year-old golden tiger?!"
"Sister Ling Yuan! Do you really have to play like this?!"
[end of the chapter]