Chapter 1: As Long As He Doesn't Demolish Shrek Academy
Douluo Continent, Tianhun Empire, Qingshui City.
“Xiao Ming, Shrek Academy is the best Advanced Spirit Master academy on Douluo Continent. You must study hard when you get there! Do you have enough money? Are your Storage Soul Tools on you? Did you bring your clothes? Is there enough food and water?”
At the entrance of the City Lord's mansion, a beautiful woman in her forties was holding Jiang Ming's hand, giving instructions with a face full of concern.
Jiang Ming smiled and checked the items in his spirit tool according to the beautiful woman's instructions, even though he had already checked everything last night.
To the side, Qingshui City City Lord Nie Heng had a face full of helplessness.
“You've been asking since morning, you've said it thirty times already! If we delay any longer, it will be noon.”
Hearing her husband's words, the beautiful woman glared at him angrily and said coyly:
“Xiao Ming is going to Shrek Academy! It's a thousand miles away from our Qingshui City, aren't I allowed to talk to Xiao Ming more?”
“You!”
Nie Heng had no way to deal with his wife, so he could only stand aside and instruct the driver to drive steadily.
After the beautiful woman instructed Jiang Ming on a few more things and secretly stuffed a bag of gold coins into his hand, she finally sent Jiang Ming onto the carriage with teary eyes.
Their Qingshui City belongs to the border cities of the Tianhun Empire. They don't have Advanced spirit tools like the core cities of the continent, so carriages are the best mode of transportation.
“Ah, I wonder if this child can get used to life at Shrek Academy. I heard... Shrek Academy's assessment system is very strict!”
Before the carriage Jiang Ming was riding had gone far, the beautiful woman began to worry about Jiang Ming's future.
Hearing this, Nie Heng's mouth twitched slightly, and he looked at the departing carriage with some helplessness.
“Don't worry. If Xiao Ming's talent can't even stay at Shrek Academy, then no one on the entire Douluo Continent is truly qualified.
I just hope he doesn't demolish Shrek Academy. That place isn't Qingshui City; even selling the City Lord's mansion wouldn't be enough to compensate.”
In the carriage,
Jiang Ming's heart was filled with reluctance and anticipation, his face showing sadness and excitement, as he imagined what Shrek Academy would look like ten thousand years later.
Yes, Jiang Ming was a transmigrator.
Twelve years ago, with an earth-shattering cry, he arrived in the World of Douluo Continent.
At first, he was a bit confused, after all, before transmigrating, he had just finished his college entrance exam!
He was already prepared to be a failed applicant for Qingbei University, but that night, while playing 4399 on AFK mode at home and reading a novel, a fully loaded dump truck directly crashed into his house and instantly crushed him to death!
Everything was so sudden that he was in a daze for the first few months after transmigrating.
And after transmigrating, his background also had a bit of a story.
Jiang Ming's parents were from the Tianhun Empire, or to be precise, they were soldiers of the Tianhun Empire!
Eleven years ago, Jiang Ming's parents sacrificed themselves in a war between the Tianhun Empire and the Sun Moon Empire. And Nie Heng, who was Jiang Ming's father's comrade at the time, raised Jiang Ming.
Later, Nie Heng was sent to Qingshui City as the City Lord due to his military achievements.
Because Nie Heng's wife was injured in her early years, they had no children.
They had always treated Jiang Ming as their own son.
And this time, Shrek Academy, the continent's number one Advanced Spirit Master academy, was recruiting students. Nie Heng, as the City Lord of Qingshui City, had a recommendation spot. Jiang Ming's age was just right, so he directly recommended Jiang Ming.
“Master, please drive a bit more steadily. I need to work on something in the carriage.”
On the way to Shrek Academy, Jiang Ming poked his head out of the carriage and instructed the driver, while a silver coin quietly slipped into the driver's hand.
With the silver coin in hand, the driver's eyes immediately lit up!
“Don't worry, Jiang Shao Ye, this carriage of mine has been modified. It's specially equipped with spirit tool shock absorption, and with my driving skills, even if you were doing 'hehehe' inside, it wouldn't be affected at all!”
The driver patted his chest and guaranteed.
However, as soon as the words left his mouth, he felt it was inappropriate.
“Jiang Shao Ye, I'm sorry, I said the wrong thing. Just pretend you didn't hear it!”
The driver smiled awkwardly.
The person in front of him came from the City Lord's mansion and was only twelve years old. He wasn't like the roughnecks he usually drove. He couldn't just say dirty jokes.
“It's fine, just drive steadily.”
Inside the carriage, Jiang Ming paid no attention to the driver's words. He brushed his hand over the Storage Soul Tool ring on his finger and the Storage Soul Tool on his waist, taking out books and small metal blocks with a metallic luster.
Although he was twelve years old now, his mind was that of an adult. Furthermore, the driver's dirty joke was nothing compared to those on the internet in his previous life; it couldn't cause even a ripple in his heart.
“The energy circulation here seems like it can be optimized…”
Jiang Ming picked up a metal block, his brows slightly furrowed. His eyes scanned the patterns engraved on the metal block, and he pondered the optimization plan in his mind.
After looking for a few seconds, Jiang Ming picked up one of the books from a stack beside him and started flipping through it.
This looking turned into half an hour passing by.
Jiang Ming closed the book, and a look of sudden realization appeared on his face.
“So that's how it is! Oh, why didn't I think of that!”
Jiang Ming tapped his little head somewhat self-reproachfully, put down the book directly, and brushed his finger over a certain gem on the spirit tool at his waist. A slender, pale gold knife appeared in his hand.
Immediately after, Jiang Ming tightly gripped the slender knife and began carving on the metal block.
Jiang Ming's hand was very steady. The strong power in his arm allowed him to easily engrave the patterns he wanted on the metal block using the small knife.
The driver wasn't lying. Whether it was because the spirit tool shock absorber he installed was effective or his driving skills were truly impressive, there was very little vibration during the carriage's journey, at least it didn't affect Jiang Ming.
Time passed bit by bit. Unconsciously, Jiang Ming was completely immersed in the state of carving spirit tool arrays.
Except for occasionally encountering difficulties and stopping to think or read, Jiang Ming was almost constantly carving patterns on these metal blocks.
For more than ten years since transmigrating to this World, Jiang Ming had three biggest hobbies, and researching spirit tools was one of them.
Perhaps because he had just finished his college entrance exam in his previous life, some of his passion for learning still remained. And for a technical skill like spirit tools, Jiang Ming fell in love with it as soon as he started!
Moreover, he really had talent in spirit tools! At least in Qingshui City, no one's talent in spirit tools was stronger than his! Even his Fourth-Level Soul Instructor master said he couldn't teach him anything more.
In the research of spirit tools, Jiang Ming particularly liked studying things like firearms and cannonballs.
You know, the Douluo World is not like the previous life.
Between Spirit Masters, or between Soul Masters, combat is the main theme!
And fighting with spirit tool guns or Soul Guidance Cannonballs, for a hot-blooded boy, this is simply... so cool!
Finally, Jiang Ming completed the carving of another core component of a spirit tool!
Looking at the metal block in his hand, Jiang Ming showed a smile on his face and slowly injected spirit power into it.
The next moment, the smile on Jiang Ming's face instantly froze, and then he quickly opened the carriage window and threw the metal block in his hand out without hesitation!
A few seconds later,
Boom!