Days went by, with nothing out of the ordinary, if you rule of two incidents that took place around Tang Wulin.
One, his progression in spirit forging. He was kidnapped Feng Wuyu again, telling he would lose his progress in spirit forging if he slacks off.
This hurt Tang Wulin's pride a lot. After all, he had the knowledge and experience of a divine blacksmith. If he had the soul power and strength to withstand the divine lightning, he could easily heavenly forge a metal. But currently, he wasn't strong enough to even progress in soul forging.
But that doesn't mean he couldn't do spirit forging. So, him being pestered in practicing spirit forging was hurting his pride. Although he had respect for his profession as a blacksmith, didn't mean he would accept being a trainee in spirit forging. After all, he now had the soul power and strength to to do so.
At the black smith union, Tang Wulin, completed thousand refining in one strike and then completed spirit forging in the next ten strikes, causing Feng Wuyu's eyes to widen in shock, and mostly terror!
Even thousand refining was a great feat for a 13 year old. And Tang Wulin was able able to spirit refine in his Shrek entrance exam. That alone showed how monstrous his talent were. But now, he was able to do spirit forging in just ten strikes was even terrifying that a monstrous talent! No this can only be called
'Heaven defying '
"Brat, what kind of a mostrosity are you?!", Feng Wuyu roared, bringing Tang Wulin back to his senses.
"Oh that, I had a great insight during forging, helping in my progress ", Tang Wulin replied innocently.
Feng Wuyu could only sigh at his disciple's talent. He ended up giving Tang Wulin level 5 blacksmith badge.
The second thing that happened was even more hilarious. He received 25k contribution points from elder Cai much to her displeasure, telling him the college was giving it for him being the youngest level 5 blacksmith. But Tang Wulin knew better. He accurately guessed that the Pavillion master pressured elder Cai so as to ease their relation. After all, Tang Wulin was not someone he could afford to offend.
But before elder Cai left, Tang Wulin couldn't help but speak up to her,
"I guess the world is fair only for those in power, right elder Cai?"
Elder Cai wanted to refute but she couldn't. She was told by Yun Ming that Tang Wulin had a great relationship with Tang Sect and offending him too much could strain the relationship between Shrek and Tang Sect. And also told her that, Tang Wulin was his disciple's older brother.
Elder Cai knew well about the relationship between Tang Sect and Shrek and also about Yun Ming treating his disciple as his own daughter. So all she could do was hold back her fury at Tang Wulin.
"Boss, now you can easily clear the debt with Yuanen and also have a profit of 5k contributions points!", Xie Xie exclaimed.
"I can't imagine elder Cai would just go away, after listening to your taunt ", Xu Xiaoyan chimed in.
"Well, she knows well how the college would treat the youngest level 5 blacksmith. From the college's point of view, I am the next divine blacksmith. So she can't afford to offend me ", Tang Wulin said confidently.
"I still can't get over the fact that you are a level 5. Did your forging progress that much?", Xie Xie enquired, to which, Tang Wulin nodded.
"Forget the college's point of view, we are absolutely sure you will be the next divine blacksmith ", said Xu Xiaoyan.
"You guys go on, I need to visit the Tang Sect HQ for now ", said Tang Wulin.
"I'm also going to the Spirit Pagoda. I'll walk with you ", Gu Yue spoke up. Tang Wulin smiled and nodded.
The two walked away, side by side, leaving Xu Xiaoyan and Xie Xie to stare at them.
"Those two are too similar ", Xie Xie blurted out.
"You are right. Those two look like they couldn't care less about the world around them ", Xu Xiaoyan nodded.
"Well, atleast boss isn't as cold as Gu Yue ", Xie Xie sighed.
"They are similar yet opposite at the same time ", said Xu Xiaoyan.
But this time, Tang Wulin and Gu Yue were quite a distance away. Both of them didn't speak, just enjoyed the comfortable silence between them.
" I couldn't find much about your Martial Soul from the Spirit Pagoda", Gu Yue finally spoke up. "All I could find was it was the martial soul of Sea God Tang San and that it is the ruler of all plant type soul beast ". She had a bit disappointment in her voice.
"Thanks. I guessed there wouldn't be much information anyway. This martial soul was lost over twenty thousand years. So don't get yourself down over it ", Tang Wulin assured, while patting her head.
Gu Yue nodded slightly. "I'll ask my clan for help. We may have some records ", Gu Yue said. Tang Wulin didn't say anything and just nodded
By this time, they both reached the Shrek main gate. Gu Yue had her car waiting for her.
After sending her off, Tang Wulin walked towards Tang Sect. 'I'm sorry I had to manipulate you, Gu Yue ', he thought.
He took out soul communicator and dialed a number. After a few seconds, call connected.
"Sir Tang ", the other side, a voice sounded. It sounded really respectful
"Please don't address me as such, Vice hall master ", Tang Wulin said. "Also, I'm on my way ".
"I'll meet you infront of the HQ ", the vice hall master of the Tang Sect, Zang Xin replied.
He met Zang Xin at the entrance. Seeing him Walking beside the vice Sect master caused everyone's eyes to widen. Tang Wulin naturally ignored the stares. He took off the forced childish attitude he played at Shrek in front of everyone, and revealed his mature side. His temperament was so otherworldly that everyone, Zang Xin included, were left staring.
Zang Xin subconsciously became more respectful. Although he was informed my Yun Ming and his Sect master about Tang Wulin's identity, until now, he wasn't able to believe it. But now, feeling Tang Wulin's aura, he naturally had to believe him. After all, it felt like he was in the presence of a divine being!
He took him to the underground research facility and told him about the weapons research done my Tang Sect. He informed Tang Wulin that, even though spirit Pagoda had control on soul masters, Tang Sect had control more financial strength due to the extensive use of soul guide weapons by soul masters and the ordinary people alike.
"This is also why the higher ups federation are both vary and vary of Tang Sect and also not offending us ", Zang Xin said.
"How are our dealings with the spirit Pagoda ", Tang Wulin asked. He didn't mind all the other information, since it he already knew all that from his previous life.
"Although we don't have much good relationship with spirit Pagoda, we are maintaining a neutral relationship on the surface ", Zang Xin replied. He was a but taken aback at Tang Wulin's indifferent attitude towards Tang Sect's soul guide research.
"Take the initiative to make ease the relationship with them. Don't offend them until we are absolutely sure we could win. Also, how's the defense soul guide development going on ", Tang Wulin asked.
"It's progressing smoothly. But are you sure we need really such a strong defense ?", Zang Xin asked, doubt clearly evident in his voice. Tang Wulin's proposition in developing the strongest possible defense caused 40% of Tang sect's income to divert to the research. This was severely affecting the financial stability.
"I know what you are worried about, but the reason I asked for this is so that we don't have to worry about the worst case scenario ", Tang Wulin said.
"You speak as if you are sure something would happen ", Zang Xin raised an eyebrow.
"I don't like doing something I am not absolutely sure about. And all I said was for you to prepare for the worst possible danger you could think of. If you are sponsoring such extensive research, I am assuming that the federation has something that we need to be really vary about, huh?", Tang Wulin glanced at Zang Xin who was startled at Tang Wulin's deduction.
Tang Wulin never mentioned them to do such an extensive research. It was them who took it upon themselves to do so. It was because, Zang Xin was aware of the most terrifying weapon created by the federation.
"Well, I am not interested. They are probably federal secrets and I'm not ready to learn about those. You just carry on ", Tang Wulin dejected his own deduction. "As for finances, I got an idea ".
"What's that?", Zang Xin asked curiously.
"Two things. One, make a deal with the federation and spirit Pagoda. You could make a deal on soul guide weapons and help federation with their research. As for spirit Pagoda, I will leave it to you.
"Bottom line is, we make our stand clear in the federation and investigate spirit pagoda. Just don't let the neither spirit Pagoda nor the the Ferderation find out about we are helping the a third party ".
"But why would either of them trust us with this?", Zang Xin asked. He was intrigued by this plan.
"Simple, we are trying to reduce the suppression we are facing by both the spirit Pagoda and the federation. From their point of view, we are not strong, other than our reputation and legacy of over 20,000 years. So we could show that we are struggling a bit and we are trying to ease our situation ", Tang Wulin explained.
"Both the federation and spirit Pagoda see this as an opportunity to control the Tang Sect and we could take advantage of this", Tang Wulin spoke.
"And the second plan?", Zang Xin was more and more intrigued by the Tang Wulin. All his plans could be great benefit for Tang Sect.
"Second one is control. No matter what kind of help we give to both federation or the spirit Pagoda, we need absolute control over it. If we wish, none of those soul guide or other researches we developed, should work. This will be our hidden agenda in helping them", Tang Wulin said.
These words caused Zang Xin's eyes to widen. He couldn't believe what he heard. "Are you proposing we take control over the Federation and spirit Pagoda?", he asked. If so, it would be against Tang Sect principles of remaining neutral.
Tang Wulin shook his head. "Nope. We are not trying to control them. This is just to show that Tang Sect still has the power to take on the federation, if time comes when either the federation or spirit Pagoda deviates from it's path. This will increase our foothold in the federation. But do not reveal it until we are completely prepared ", Tang Wulin said