By the time he returned to the Shuntian Escort Agency, it was already late.
In fact, Su Chen had already left the imperial palace. He spent the day strolling around Stellar Sky City, buying a lot of books and some daily necessities. He also took the opportunity to experience the magnificence of Stellar Sky City.
"Prince Su, did you see the Imperial Tutor?"
As soon as he entered the agency, Lu Qingling appeared in front of Su Chen, as if she had been waiting for Su Chen for a long time.
Su Chen smiled and nodded. "I saw him. Tomorrow, I will enter the Supreme Wu Academy."
Su Chen did not say anything about being a study companion. He felt that it would damage his image.
Lu Qingling was pleasantly surprised. "Although I already guessed it, I still have to congratulate Prince Su. I will immediately call people to prepare a banquet for Prince Su to celebrate."
"No need …"
Before Su Chen could finish speaking, Lu Qingling had already disappeared.
When he reached the lakeside, Su Chen saw Little Fatty and a group of escorts staring at a large iron box in a daze.
Su Chen remembered that these were the goods they were transporting to the Ghost Roar Sect. When they left, they also took them with them.
"What's wrong?"
"Boss, you're back."
Little Fatty frowned and said, "I'm having a headache about how to deal with these Spirit Ghosts."
He opened the box, which was filled with red beads. Each bead seemed to have the soul of a demonic beast sealed inside.
Spirit Ghosts were special souls created by digging out the sea of consciousness between the eyebrows of Heaven Realm demons before they died. They were used by ghost cultivators to refine ghost servants.
"There are at least two thousand Spirit Ghosts here. No one wants them except ghost cultivators. Dealing with them without authorization can easily cause a disaster. It's really a headache."
Su Chen said, "Since you don't want them, let me deal with them."
"That's great. Boss, you've solved a big problem for me."
Su Chen immediately put the two thousand red beads into his storage ring. He brought them back to his temporary residence and began to refine them.
There was a method to refine spirit ghosts in the Thousand Ghost Imperial Pilgrimage. Perhaps these two thousand spirit ghosts could be refined into a Foundation Establishment realm ghost servant.
However, Su Chen currently had a bunch of ghost servants in his hands. Refining these spirit ghosts into ghost servants didn't make much sense. Even if they became Foundation Establishment realm ghost servants, raising them would be troublesome. After all, ghost servants were too eye-catching.
Therefore, Su Chen planned to find another way to fuse these souls into weapons.
Turning the ghost spirit into a sword spirit.
His Fish Intestine Sword was already a high-grade spirit artifact. If he wanted to make a high-grade spirit artifact break through to become a treasured artifact, he would need to nurture a sword spirit so that the flying sword would have a consciousness and come to life.
Under normal circumstances, it was too troublesome to nurture a sword spirit. It required a lot of time and effort.
However, there was a special method recorded in the Thousand Ghost Pilgrimage that could use spirit ghosts to refine sword spirits.
Although the Sword Spirit formed in this way was not as effective as a real Sword Spirit, it was still enough to upgrade a high-grade spirit artifact to a low-grade artifact.
There was a huge difference in power between a treasured artifact and a spirit artifact. If he succeeded, Su Chen would be able to obtain a second treasured artifact.
After dinner, Su Chen closed his door and began refining. One by one, the spirit ghosts were refined into the Fish Intestine Sword by Su Chen.
Su Chen did not sleep the entire night. Only at dawn the next day did he refine over two thousand spirit ghosts into the Fish Intestine Sword. At this moment, the Fish Intestine Sword's sword intent had increased greatly and was on the threshold of breaking through to the treasured artifact stage.
"It seems … It's still lacking a little soul."
With a thought, Su Chen took out the black pearl that Gui Shentong had dropped after he died.
This pearl also contained a portion of the evil spirit's remnant soul.
Without hesitation, Su Chen smashed the pearl with his palm and grabbed the evil spirit's remnant soul, forcefully refining it into the Fish Intestine Sword.
In an instant, the Fish Intestine Sword's aura underwent a drastic change. Its entire body was covered with a layer of strange ink-black patterns, emitting a very sharp sword intent. The sword intent seemed to hide a deep and dark aura.
'Ding … congratulations to host for successfully refining a treasured artifact for the first time. The reward is 3000 skill points.'
Success!
Su Chen put away the Fish Intestine Sword. After preparing for a while, he bid farewell to Lu Qingling and the little fatty and set off for the palace.
As a study companion, he was responsible for bringing Yue Ya 'er to the academy.
After waiting for a while at the entrance of the palace, Yue Ya 'er slowly walked out. She opened her arms and said, "Mister, carry me. I want to go back to sleep."
"Aren't you afraid that I'll kidnap you when you wake up?" Su Chen said.
Yue Ya 'er yawned and said, "I'm not afraid. If you dare kidnap me, Uncle Zhou will save me. He's an expert at the third level of the Spirit Condensation Realm. He can kill you with one hand."
"Then why don't you let him carry you?"
"He's not as handsome as you."
This girl has a serious face fetish!
Su Chen helplessly shook his head. He bent down and let Yue Ya 'er lie on his back. Then he carried her and walked towards the academy.
After walking for a while, they finally arrived at the entrance of the academy. Su Chen's shoulder was also soaked.
It's one thing for this girl to lie on his body and sleep, but she's also drooling. She's simply doing whatever she wants.
"Achoo …"
Yue Ya 'er rubbed her nose and looked up, "This is the outer courtyard. If you want to enter the Taiwu Academy, don't go this way. You can see the mountain shrouded in clouds. The valley behind it is the Taiwu Academy. Mister can directly fly there. Our Taiwu Academy's students can fly without restrictions."
"You should've said so earlier …"
Su Chen had a helpless expression. He immediately flew towards the valley behind the academy and quickly entered the valley.
As soon as he landed, a giant tortoise ran over at a speed of 80 km/h and appeared in front of Su Chen.
Su Chen was startled by the giant tortoise's nimble movements. What kind of tortoise is this? It can actually run faster than a cheetah!
The giant tortoise was eight feet long and half as tall as a person. Its black shell shone like metal and could reflect one's reflection. It raised its head and spoke in human language, "Hello, Second Senior Sister. This must be the new Junior Brother. Let me introduce myself. This humble tortoise is Jin Xuanwu. My cultivation is in the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment.
"Ahem … You're also a student of the academy?
I thought you were the academy's guardian beast. "
Su Chen blushed with shame. This giant tortoise was actually his Senior Brother. The Taiwu Academy was indeed terrifying.
Jin Xuanwu grinned and said, "Junior Brother, you guessed right. I am indeed the academy's guardian beast."
"Alright …"
As if Yue Ya 'er hadn't slept enough, she yawned again and jumped onto the giant tortoise's shell to sit cross-legged. She asked, "Junior Brother Xuanwu, how many people came from the academy today?"
"Other than me, only Sixth Senior Brother is at the academy. However, Sixth Senior Brother was Pudding last night and drank a lot of wine in the morning. He's still unconscious and probably won't wake up for two or three days," Jin Xuanwu said and ate two mouthfuls of the grass on the ground.
Yue Ya 'er curled her lips and said, "They're all a bunch of unreliable people. It's Junior Brother's first day of class and they didn't even come to welcome him. They're not giving me face."
"Forget it, let's not care about them. Mister, let me show you around the Taiwu Academy. In addition to the talents everywhere in the Taiwu Academy, the scenery is also quite good. There are also many places to stay. I'll take you to a random room later. Don't be polite with me."
Su Chen's mouth twitched slightly.
For some reason, he suddenly felt like he had boarded a pirate ship.
Was this academy reliable?