"Good morning, my lord."
Hearing the soft and gentle female voice, Rayne turned his head to look for the source.
What appeared before his eyes was a very beautiful woman dressed in blue. She looked to be about eighteen years old.
She was a stunningly beautiful woman with a graceful and elegant figure. Her long blue hair reached down to her slim waist and plump buttocks. Her cool blue eyes matched the color of her hair. Her perfect white skin and rosy lips were very alluring.
Despite being dressed in reserved light blue clothes, it couldn't hide her perfect figure. Her slender long legs were very thought provoking.
This beautiful woman had a gentle smile on her stunning face, as she looked at Rayne.
Because she was standing near the window, the morning sunlight was reflected on her face, making her look more beautiful and sacred.
Even Rayne, who has seen many peerless beauties in Divine Realm, raised his eyebrows a bit in surprise and appreciation.
"Ah Yin."
Rayne called out softly.
This stunningly beautiful woman is the human form of the Blue Silver Empress, Ah Yin.
Hearing Rayne call out her name, the smile on Ah Yin's face became more brighter. She seem to be happy to be looked at by Rayne.
"It seems you've successful transformed. Though, look much young than what I saw before."
"You seem weaker than your former level as well. I was pretty sure that much divine energy was more than enough for your complete restoration."
Rayne commented as he observed Ah Yin.
Ah Yin looked much younger compared to what she was, when Rayne met her in her spiritual realm.
At that time, she looked to be about thirty years of age, with a mature charm.
Now she looked to be about eighteen years in appearance. No, even her bone age seems to be reset to eighteen years old.
Ah Yin heard Rayne's doubt and explained with a smile.
"My lord, this is my own decision. I used this opportunity to make up for my past instable foundation in my cultivation. My cultivation is now only level 71! But compared to my former level 76 self, I'm definitely much stronger!"
Her voice carried confidence in her current self.
"What about your age?"
Hearing Rayne's question, Ah Yin's smile became stiff, and an embarrassed expression appeared on her face.
With a blush on her cheeks, she awkwardly replied.
"It's because… yes! It's because all the energy was all used up. But it's fine, my lord!"
"I can just grow older together.. with.. the lord…"
At the end of her sentence, her voice became lower and lower, and she was blushing hard.
"…" Seeing her like this, Rayne didn't say anything else. It wasn't a major problem anyway.
Seeing Rayne not pondering over this matter, Ah Yin secretly let out a sigh of relief.
In fact, she did this on purpose, as she wanted to decrease the age gap between her and Rayne as much as possible. Though she did it moderately, and only regressed her age to eighteen.
Although she wanted to completely regress to six years old and grow up along side Rayne…
She had a timely intuition that, Rayne might not like it.
In fact, this intuition is very true. Regardless of his current physical age, Rayne is a desperate harem seeker. If he saw a beautiful sexy mature woman turn into a loli that he can't touch, then he might truly lose his temper.
While Ah Yin was secretly sighing, Rayne observed her again, with his focus being on her cultivation.
Observing her with his six eyes, Rayne could see that Ah Yin's soul power foundation was indeed much better than the average. It was very solid.
But noticing something, Rayne frowned a bit.
"Ah Yin, what kind of soul core did you have when you were a soul beast?"
"Soul core?" Ah Yin was puzzled.
"…"
Rayne was silent for a moment.
He was pretty sure that soul core is a core technique of every soul beasts that can cultivate to 100,000-year level.
The reason why most 100,000-year-old soul beasts are superior to human titled douluo of this era is not only because of their powerful physical body and innate abilities. But also because of the existence of soul core.
Possessing a soul core means you have 100% more soul power than normal. And there are even more benefits and strength boost, depending on the type of soul core.
The gap between those that have condensed soul cores and those that don't, is like heaven and earth.
Most, if not, every hundred thousand years old soul beast have soul core.
In fact, the reason why hundred-thousand-year-old soul beasts definitely produce soul bones is because they have soul cores. Soul bones are formed by the soul core of the soul beast after it's death.
Since Ah Yin had a soul bone from her sacrifice, then she definitely had a soul core.
Thinking that Ah Yin had misunderstood him, or maybe that she was unfamiliar with the term 'soul core'…
Rayne asked again in a different wording.
"I mean your bloodline core. How did you condense it? How much do you know about it?"
Rayne asked with full intention of training her. There is still a quest that requires him to train a lot of powerful people, and they also need to be loyal and trustworthy.
Ah Yin's eyes lit up in understanding and immediately answered.
"An elder of my clan helped me condense the Blue Silver Imperial Blood Core. Many of my people(blue silver grass) also helped. It was only through their help that I condensed the blood core and successfully advanced."
Ah Yin had a happy smile, as if reminiscing about her time in her clan land.
On the contrary, Rayne had a helpless smile, as if he had guessed something. But regardless, he still asked.
"So, you don't have any personal experience? I mean like, condensing it on your own, or the full process of absorbing the condensed soul core into your body all by yourself without any assistance."
"No. I'm sorry to ask, my lord. But, is such a thing even possible? I almost died when condensing my blood core, if not for the help from my people."
Ah Yin asked in doubt. At the same time, her face turned a little pale as she remembered the time when she condensed her soul core/bloodline core.
"Have you never thought of condensing a soul core after transformation into human?"
Hearing Rayne's question, Ah Yin shook her head with a look of disbelief, as if she couldn't believe what she had heard.
"No, my lord. Even as a soul beast, it's almost a life and death moment to condense a soul core. With the weaker physique of humans, it should be impossible to even think of condensing a soul core, right?"
Hearing Ah Yin's statement, Rayne didn't outright deny it.
"Well, you're not wrong. But Ah Yin…"
Rayne walked towards the beautiful and stunning Ah Yin and gently took her hand and looked up to her face.
Ah Yin looked at the immature yet pretty face of the little man who just took her hand, in a daze.
After holding her hand, Rayne continued.
"Without such risks, one has no qualifications to attaining Godhood."
Ah Yin was stunned by Rayne's statement, and subconsciously wanted to deny it.
"But my lord…"
Before she could complete her words, Rayne interrupted her.
"Without the foundation of soul cores, human soul masters cannot achieve level 99. They'll forever be stuck at level 98, no matter how much they accumulate."
"The only exceptions to this are twin martial souls and those that get full divine tests based on their innate talent alone. In which case, they can bypass the need for soul core."
"But the three peerless douluo…"
"Don't be mistaken, Ah Yin. Two of those three attained level 99 through shortcuts. Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi reached level 99 through divine tests. But because of this, they also don't have the qualifications to inherit the God position anymore, despite being the most talented of the era."
"Tang Chen most likely condensed two soul cores, which is also why he got the Nine Divine Tests of Asura God. A testament to his impressive talent."
'Although he ended up falling to Rakshasa God's tricks.' Rayne added this in his mind.
"…" Ah Yin was stunned speechless.
She never imagined that humans could also condense soul cores/blood cores. Much less the fact that, soul core is somewhat of an absolute necessity for breaking through to level 99.
In fact, because of her particularly low level, she doesn't know that, even soul beasts need to condense high level soul cores like Yin-Yang complementary soul cores to survive the heavenly tribulation for 500,000-year and above levels.
At this time, someone knocked on his door, which woke Ah Yin from her daze.
Rayne let go of her hand and walked towards the door, while saying.
"Don't think too much. I'll train you and let you condense the best possible soul cores. After all, I'll need you to work for me quite a bit in the future."
After saying that, Rayne reached out to the door and opened it.
What came into his view was a rabbit eared cute girl, who was looking at him with her pinkish red eyes, a bit warily.
It was Xiao Wu.
Compared to her previous lively appearance, she seemed quite low in mood.
"Good morning. I guess you got into the academy safely?"
Rayne smiled at her.
Xiao Wu rolled her eyes in annoyance.
After receiving Rayne's sound transmission last night, she had to sneak into the academy from the back gate. After all, the curfews are quite strict in this junior academy.
But she soon shook her head, then looked at Rayne and hopefully asked.
"Did that Titled Douluo really agree to not reveal my identity?"
Rayne raised his eyebrow a bit and asked, "What exactly do you mean?"
"Didn't you negotiate with that titled douluo about me?"
Xiao Wu nervously asked.
In return, Rayne just laughed coldly.
"Haha! Negotiate? I directly sent him to hell!"
Xiao Wu: "…"
There was a moment of silence, as Xiao Wu was totally speechless.
Although she wanted to joke about it and deny it… the earth shaking tremors and the aura she felt yesterday seemed to reinforce Rayne's statement.
Just then, Xiao Wu suddenly noticed Ah Yin in Rayne's room. The peculiar and pleasant aura on Ah Yin caught Xiao Wu's attention.
She looked at Rayne and hesitantly asked, "This is…?"
Before Rayne could say anything, Ah Yin started to introduce herself.
She gracefully walked to Xiao Wu and introduced herself in a soft tone.
"Hello, I'm Ah Yin, young master's personal maid. You must be Xiao Wu. I've heard a bit about you from young master."
Xiao Wu looked towards Rayne after hearing that Ah Yin was his maid.
"…"
Rayne was speechless. This was the first he heard anything about her being his maid. She also seemed to change the way she addressed him.
Although, honestly 'young master' somehow sounded much better than 'lord' for some reason.
Ah Yin subtly glanced at him with expectation, which made him even more speechless. So he could only play along.
"… Apparently so."
Suddenly, Xiao Wu seemed to remember something and looked at Rayne with scrutiny.
"Were you one who hung grandmaster and that Tang San naked in front of the academy gate?"
"!!" Ah Yin was shocked.
"Why do you think I did it?" Rayne asked in return.
"Because, no matter how much the teachers tried to free grandmaster and Tang San, there is a barrier that stops them. Obviously only you can do such a thing in this academy!" Xiao Wu rolled her eyes playfully.
"I never expected you to be such a vengeful person."
Rayne shrugged off Xiao Wu's teasing and used his soul power to freshen up.
Then he moved towards to academy entrance gate, with a look of interest.
He wanted to see the effects of his petty punishment.
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