"Huu…"
Su Wen slowly let out a long breath.
He glanced at the tanned beauty tightly clinging to his arm. His mind drifted back to what had happened right before his time travel… They had just finished a wild night. Only after their bout of passion did he look for Big Eye to travel through time.
"Big Eye, anything changed?" Su Wen asked silently in his spiritual sea.
"It's been corrected…" Big Eye probed for a moment, then shook its head.
"I told you, until you recover your peak cultivation, stop thinking about changing time."
"But the anchor point ten thousand years ago won't change. Next time you go back, you'll still return in your previous condition."
"Ah, I was hoping that one day I'd wake up and find Qian Renxue in front of me already as a first-level god, the Angel God, holding Tang San down for me in the God Realm. Even though Destruction is still there now, it doesn't feel that reliable. After all, he's not one of ours." Su Wen sighed.
"You're not thinking of inheriting the God of Destruction's position?" Big Eye asked in surprise.
"The Destruction God's seat is powerful, but not necessarily the most suitable for me. Now that I have you, I can completely consider creating a god position of my own—and even transcending beyond the God Realm…" Su Wen muttered.
Big Eye's abilities were simply too broken. There were far too many possibilities.
He withdrew from his spiritual sea.
Just as he tried to pull his arm from Na Na's surging chest, the girl beside him slowly woke, her gaze at Su Wen filled with both anticipation and a hint of avoidance.
The avoidance was because she'd provoked Su Wen some time ago; after going crazy all night, Su Wen had used his strength to prove how naïve her provocation had been. The anticipation, of course, came from the same cause. Last night had been too crazy—so crazy that she wanted more…
Even if she had class today.
"Beep beep~"
Suddenly, the communicator by the pillow rang.
"Hello, Na Na? No need to come to training today. Classes are suspended for a thorough investigation. We're looking for spies. Just stay in your dorm."
"Okay, Instructor!" Na Na's beautiful eyes lit up for a moment.
Then she leaned toward Su Wen again.
Her long, shapely legs straddled his body as she bent forward slightly, exuding wild allure…
"They're investigating spies, so we should…" Su Wen's words were cut off as Na Na sealed his lips with her soft, fragrant mouth.
"What's there to be afraid of? Is Master a spy?" she murmured between kisses.
"Well, not exactly…"
Su Wen smiled. He lay back and let Na Na take the lead. Was he a spy? If anything, he was an infiltrator. But no matter how hard Jing Hongchen thought, he would never guess the truth.
Under the bedcovers, the rhythm rose and fell—the spring air was thick.
…
"Check. Check everything!"
Mingde Hall.
Jing Hongchen flung his teacup to the floor in fury, veins bulging on his forehead as his bloodshot eyes swept over everyone present.
"Even if you have to turn the entire academy upside down, you WILL find out who did this!!!"
"Yes…"
Lin Jiayi didn't even dare breathe loudly. He kept his head low and answered obediently.
Jing Hongchen, still seething, kicked over the table. Inkstones and secret letters scattered across the floor.
The other side had managed to find out such vital internal information about Mingde Hall. That meant there was definitely a mole inside—and one whose position was far from low.
After all, anyone who could access a lab at that level would have to hold high rank and power. At the bare minimum, they'd be a rank seven soul engineer.
Jing Hongchen was well aware how difficult such an investigation would be…
Those with access to that lab were few in number—but among them were royals and nobles: the commander of the Imperial Soul Engineer Legion, two commanders of the Beast Soul Engineer Legions, several high-ranking military officials, and even the current Emperor himself.
What next? Haul every last one of them in for questioning?
Impossible.
To put it bluntly, as the Hallmaster of Mingde Hall, he could only squeeze the softest targets: personnel directly under the armory, the Mingde Hall staffers who were his direct subordinates. That would make the results of any investigation highly unreliable.
Because right from the first round of screening, there was a huge chance he'd be choosing his culprit from a pool of wrong answers. How could that possibly lead to the truth?
But there was no choice. He was the Hallmaster of Mingde Hall. Something had happened under his watch. He had to shoulder it all. His title was almost certainly gone already—the only question was whether he could keep his position as Hallmaster.
"Damn it!"
Jing Hongchen gnashed his teeth, stood, gave Lin Jiayi a few final instructions, then strode toward the palace without looking back.
At a time like this, he could only turn to his teacher…
Only that man was his stabilizing force.
…
"Ugh… What is this? We're just a bunch of rank five soul engineers—basically apprentices. How could we have anything to do with the Body Sect's attack this time?" Ju Zi rubbed her eyes as she stood up and stretched, looking like she'd lost the will to live.
"Yeah, exactly." Ke Ke hurried to agree.
"We've always been law-abiding students."
"No helping it. Even Teacher Xuan has been taken in for questioning. You girls just have to go through the motions." The teacher sent by Mingde Hall said helplessly.
"Name, soul power, and everything you've been doing for the last half month. Recall it all in detail…"
"We were mainly tackling Teacher Xuan's latest project. He put us in charge of improving the stability and durability of the all-terrain autonomous probe. His standards are brutal…" Ju Zi complained.
"How's the performance of this all-terrain autonomous probe? Can it support a soul cannon?" the male teacher asked with interest.
"For rank five and under? At most, it can carry twenty or thirty units and still move at high speed. And it's just a probe. Converting it into a mobile artillery platform would be difficult—we'd have to start from scratch. The recoil alone would be enough to tip it over…"
Ju Zi thought aloud.
Seeing the two getting into their discussion, the female teacher on the other side pinched the bridge of her nose and nudged the male teacher's shoulder. Only then did he come back to his senses, coughing awkwardly.
"Cough, cough…"
"Alright, next."
"Ke Ke…"
"Braised ribs with purplewood, want me to recite the whole cafeteria menu for you? The sweet-and-sour blazing carp on the 7th is great, and the yellow-braised big white pork on the 9th is pretty good too, and there's also…"
"Stop, stop, stop!" The female teacher took a deep breath and turned her gaze to Su Wen. "Student Su Wen, right? May I ask what you…"
"I was working with Teacher Xuan on how metal forging could improve soul tools." Su Wen shrugged.
"Oh?"
The male teacher's eyes lit up, interest piqued.
"Any specific numbers?"
"All with Teacher Xuan." Su Wen smiled.
Then he looked at the female teacher. "Teacher Xuan can vouch for me. My lab partners can also attest."
"Alright, when Teacher Xuan comes back, I'll ask him…" The female teacher hesitated a little, but didn't press him. She tugged at the male teacher, who was still eager to discuss the topic further, and left.
In truth, the most important one among them was Su Wen.
But according to the testimonies of those who worked in the neighboring labs, as well as the equipment usage records from Xuan Ziwen's lab, his story checked out completely.
Since there was no evidence, and this was just a procedural investigation, there was no point wasting any more words…