After spending a full day with Xu Tianzhen in Shrek City, the two of them returned to the Capital City in the evening. They used the Undead Demiplane to travel back quickly. The Princess had a very good time. Her purple eyes seemed to shine even brighter than usual, making her look very beautiful.
Surprisingly, Xu Tianzhen did not ask Kong Mingan to take her out again right away. She acted very relaxed and a bit wild, but she still knew how to behave properly. It was honestly hard for anyone to dislike someone with a personality like hers.
After saying goodbye to the Princess, Kong Mingan went back to his normal routine. He made a schedule for all the things he needed to do. He spent most of his time every day in the laboratory with Electrolux.
They spent hours researching and talking about the true nature of spirit rings. They looked for new ways to use them and worked on making Kong Mingan's own spirit rings even better. Researching spirit rings was going to be his main focus for a long time.
Besides his lab work, he also visited the military camp. He wanted to see how the newest soldiers were doing with the improved Body Tempering Method. After that, he would go to the Hall of Worship.
There, he collected data from the Rank 9 Soul Engineers who were practicing the Ring Tempering Method. Both of these projects were long-term tasks. He needed to be patient and collect a lot of information to make his methods better. His daily life was very busy and full of work.
A few months passed by quickly. One day, Kong Mingan was on his way to the military camp on the edge of the Capital City. He was riding in a Soul Engineer car that was moving fast along the road. Kong Mingan sat quietly in the back seat while Ye Yulin, the Starry Sky Douluo, acted as his driver.
Ye Yulin felt much more powerful than he did a few months ago. He had successfully reached Rank 95, which made him a very strong fighter. It showed how important Kong Mingan was to the Sun Moon Empire that a Rank 95 powerhouse was acting as his personal bodyguard and driver.
Kong Mingan looked out the window at the trees and hills passing by. He used this short break to think about everything that had happened recently. Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen were getting stronger very fast.
Both of them were not even ten years old yet, but they already had three spirit rings. Each ring was more than six thousand years old. They were truly talented, just like the stories said they would be.
He also thought about the Princess. She had easily become friends with the Hongchen siblings. She especially got along well with Meng Hongchen. The two girls were always together, whispering and looking at him in a way that made him feel confused. He found it much harder to understand how girls' minds worked than it was to understand spirit ring data.
In the royal court, things were also changing. Xu Tianran had been named the Crown Prince a few months ago. However, less than two months after getting the title, someone tried to kill him in a very planned attack. In this version of the story, Ju Zi was not there to help him.
Because of this, Xu Tianran's injuries were much worse than they were supposed to be. Both of his legs were completely crushed. The left side of his body was almost destroyed by powerful spirit power. Doctors saved his life, but he lost his left arm. He had lost four of his five limbs.
Even though he was badly hurt, Xu Tianran did not give up. He showed everyone how strong he was by continuing to work on government business despite his broken body.
The Emperor was very happy with him and praised him a lot. The Emperor even sent people to find special treasures to try and heal him. It looked like his position as the future ruler was very safe for now.
Kong Mingan was thinking about all of this when the car suddenly made a loud noise. The tires screeched as Ye Yulin hit the brakes hard. The car slid sideways and came to a stop in the middle of the road.
Kong Mingan looked up and saw a very large man standing right in the path of the car. The man looked like a tower made of iron. Suddenly, a terrifying pressure came from the man. It felt like it was hard to breathe. The man's killing intent was very strong and it was locked right on Kong Mingan.
Ye Yulin looked very serious. He jumped out of the car and stood in front of Kong Mingan without wasting a second. Nine spirit rings appeared around him. Then, seven of his rings suddenly shattered! This made his power grow even stronger. He yelled at Kong Mingan to run because the attacker was a Super Douluo.
Kong Mingan's eyes went wide. He didn't wait around. He immediately opened a portal to the Undead Demiplane right behind him. But just as he was about to step inside and escape, the air beside him was torn apart. Another person appeared out of nowhere. This person moved like a ghost and reached out a hand like a claw to grab Kong Mingan's back. There was a second attacker!
A Rank 98 Super Douluo was busy fighting Ye Yulin, while a Limit Douluo was attacking Kong Mingan. Kong Mingan was not even a Spirit Grandmaster yet, and his spirit power was below Rank 20. This was not a fair fight at all. It was a very shameful move for such strong people to attack a weak kid.
But Kong Mingan did not have time to be angry. Right before the attacker's hand hit him, the Eye of Life on his forehead opened up. It released a huge burst of emerald and gold light.
A powerful life energy came out and formed a strong shield around his body. At the same time, the silver bracelet on his wrist started to glow. It created many layers of silver shields that looked like the moon.
The attacker's hand hit the shields with a massive explosion. The sound was like a giant bell ringing. The car was smashed into pieces and the ground under them cracked like a spiderweb. The emerald life shield shook, and many of the silver moon shields broke instantly. But inside the shields, Kong Mingan was not hurt at all. The full-power attack from a Limit Douluo had been stopped completely.
The second attacker was actually Da Ming. He frowned because he could not believe what just happened. He felt like this was impossible. He knew that because of the rules of the world, he could not use god-level power, but he had used the full strength of a Limit Douluo.
He was sure that almost no one on the planet could block that hit. He had attacked by surprise, yet a kid with almost no spirit power had blocked him using two items. He wondered to himself what kind of person Tang San had asked him to kill.