"Grandmaster Matthew Nuo," Su Yuntao said respectfully, looking at the old man.
"Good child, what is your name?"
Matthew Nuo walked up to Lu Feng, patted his head, his eyes full of gratification.
Matthew Nuo had worked in the Spirit Hall for most of his life and had seen countless people and things. But he had never met someone as purely kind as Lu Feng.
"Hello, Grandmaster Matthew Nuo. My name is Lu Feng."
"Lu Feng, you are a good lad! The Nuoding City Spirit Hall is proud to have a Soul Master like you!" Matthew Nuo praised without reservation.
At this moment, Su Yuntao stepped forward and said, "Grandmaster, Lu Feng hasn't registered as a Soul Master yet. How about we test his soul power level first?"
Matthew Nuo nodded upon hearing this and took Lu Feng's hand. "Come, child, I will personally test you."
As he spoke, Matthew Nuo led Lu Feng into a spacious room.
In the center of the room was a simple formation arranged with twenty black stones. In the center of the formation was a crystal-clear blue crystal ball, twice the size of the one Lu Feng had seen during his martial soul awakening.
"This is the martial soul laboratory for advanced appraisals. This crystal ball can withstand a maximum of thirty levels of soul power," Matthew Nuo explained patiently.
"Child, place your right hand on it."
Lu Feng walked to the center of the formation, raised his right hand, and focused his mind. The Mysterious Heaven Skill, in coordination with the [Brass Knuckles] martial soul, caused a warm current to slowly flow from his palm.
Matthew Nuo looked at the rings on Lu Feng's hand and asked, "Lu Feng, is this your martial soul?"
Lu Feng shook his head. "My martial soul is the Body Martial Soul, [Body]. However, after I absorbed my first soul ring, these rings appeared on their own. I suspect my martial soul may have undergone some kind of mutation."
"A martial soul mutation?" Matthew Nuo pondered.
There were too many cases of martial soul mutation on the Douluo Continent, and they were completely unpredictable. The most famous one was the 'Grandmaster' within Nuoding Academy.
At this moment, a layer of azure light lit up the crystal ball.
Matthew Nuo stared intently at the changes in the crystal ball. According to what Lu Feng had said, the opportunity he had obtained this time was not small.
Level eleven.
Level twelve!
At this point, Matthew Nuo's attention shifted to the yellow soul ring on Lu Feng's body. "A hundred-year soul ring? Another little genius whose first soul ring is a hundred-year one!"
For some reason, Matthew Nuo suddenly thought of Tang San, that little monster with a Blue Silver Grass martial soul whose soul power had jumped two levels after absorbing his first soul ring.
The light in the crystal ball grew brighter and brighter.
Level thirteen!
Seeing this, Matthew Nuo was completely certain that another monstrous genius had appeared in Nuoding City.
The light in the crystal ball did not stop and continued to rise.
"This is... level fourteen?!"
Matthew Nuo rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't mistaken.
At this moment, the blue light in the crystal ball had almost risen to the halfway mark, which meant that Lu Feng's soul power was very close to level fifteen.
"Level fourteen! A jump of three levels!"
Matthew Nuo recalled Lu Feng's large bag of spirit ores, and his excited heart quickly calmed down.
However, the way he looked at Lu Feng had completely changed.
In a soul master's cultivation process, besides their own aptitude and cultivation resources, the most important thing was opportunity, or in other words, luck!
Many high-level soul masters were stuck at a certain bottleneck for their entire lives simply because they lacked a bit of luck.
Matthew Nuo's eyes shone brightly. He could almost see a new star of the Spirit Hall, slowly rising!
At this moment, the crystal ball in the center of the formation changed again.
"This is...!"
"Level fifteen!"
"Six-six... sixteen?!!"
Matthew Nuo's voice trembled slightly.
However, the excitement on his face was gone. Instead, he frowned, his expression grim.
The Douluo Continent was, in fact, not always peaceful.
There was a class of soul masters on the continent who cultivated by devouring soul power, soul rings, spiritual power, flesh and blood, souls, and so on. Their soul power cultivation speed was extremely fast.
This class of soul masters was known as the 'Fallen Ones'.
The original intention behind the establishment of the Spirit Hall was to completely annihilate the Fallen Ones on the continent.
With Lu Feng's abnormally fast soul power cultivation speed, Matthew Nuo had to suspect that he had gone astray and become a Fallen One.
This child's heart must be good. Perhaps he has just obtained some kind of evil inheritance. Power itself is neither good nor evil; it all depends on the person who wields it.
Thinking of this, Matthew Nuo said seriously, "Lu Feng, can you tell me exactly what treasure you obtained?"
Seeing this, Lu Feng roughly guessed Matthew Nuo's thoughts.
In fact, if he hadn't upgraded the quality of [Luo Wupao], his soul power increase would have been even greater.
Cleansing the meridians and marrow, these four words were not just for show.
"I encountered a pool of spirit liquid, right next to the White Spirit Jade," Lu Feng answered unhurriedly.
On his way back, Lu Feng had already thought of all possible situations. If the Spirit Hall wanted to investigate, he would just take them to the underwater cave.
In any case, the Thousand-Year Frozen Spirit Liquid in that karst cave had already been absorbed, and what was left was just an ordinary pool of water.
What's more, Lu Feng didn't have the habit of 'smashing the pot after eating'.
"Is that so?" Matthew Nuo pondered.
Although he didn't know what kind of spirit liquid Lu Feng was talking about, looking at Lu Feng's pure eyes, it didn't seem like he was lying.
"Lu Feng, this matter still needs to be investigated further. I will notify you again after some time."
"Mm, no problem," Lu Feng nodded. This result was also within his expectations.
"Grandmaster Matthew Nuo, if there's nothing else, I'll be heading back to the academy now."
"Alright."
When Lu Feng left the Spirit Hall, a messenger also departed from the Spirit Hall.
Matthew Nuo had naturally told Lu Feng about this matter, and Lu Feng had also expressed his willingness to accept the organization's inspection.
In the first Douluo book, although Fallen Ones existed, there weren't so many evil methods of absorbing people's essence or seizing their martial souls.
Apart from soul bones, all of a soul master's opportunities were their own.
Others couldn't snatch them or take them away; they could only watch with envy.
In the original work, when Chrysanthemum Douluo found out that Dai Mubai had absorbed the Exquisite Cockscomb, his first reaction was to take him as a disciple, not to skin him and refine him into a pill. This was a good example.
Nuoding Academy.
The young gatekeeper was boringly picking his nose.
"Huh, Lu Feng! Long time no see!" The young man said excitedly, looking at Lu Feng.
Lu Feng smiled and nodded at the young man. This one was an honest person; he had readily helped with the one thousand kilograms of carrots.
Dormitory Seven.
Before he even reached the dormitory, Lu Feng could smell a smoky scent from a distance.
"Is there a fire?" Lu Feng quickly quickened his pace.
Just as he was about to push the door open, he suddenly heard Little Liu's crying from inside.
"Brother Feng, this is the sequel to 'The Domineering Female Pontiff.' I'm burning it for you. Be frugal when you read it down there, and please don't come looking for me in my dreams anymore."