Douluo Dalu - The Story of Sheng Feilong Chapter 72

Sheng Feilong and the others had gathered in the Working Student's males dorm room, all sitting around a map of the Douluo Continent . Shrek City, their current location was highlighted with a red circle and they had created a route with the same red pen, connecting one city to another with Bright City as the end point .

Tang Wulin put the pen in his hand down and looked at the others .

"This is the best route . It's the shortest path to Bright City if we use the Soul Train and most of the cities are major ones so we won't have to fear not finding any capable Soul Masters to fight against . We can't work together, so this is the most we can do; Everyone has to find their own way . "

"I know we're not allowed to take any stuff with us, but can't we just sneak something past the inspection?", Xie Xie asked in a hushed tone . "We'd have a huge advantage . "

Sheng Feilong looked at him and spoke in a calm manner .

"We can't risk it . This isn't the first Year End Exam Shrek Academy has gone through so the staff are probably already expecting us to try anything fishy and keep their eyes wide open . Moreover, this is supposed to test our abilities, so we shouldn't try to cheat them . Oh, there's also the people watching us during the exam; How will you explain to them how you suddenly have the money to take the train right from the start?"

Xie Xie quickly closed his mouth, looking slightly embarrassed; He hadn't thought about the staff watching them . Catching up on what Sheng Feilong just said, Tang Wulin turned to the rest of the group again before continuing .

"Right, about the money; Everyone needs to think of their own way . I'll go to the Blacksmith's Association in town and do some assignments to get the around . What will you guys do?"

Xu Lizhi smirked before he spoke up the fastest: "I'll just sell some buns . "

Xie Xie, who sat next to Xu Lizhi spoke up next, saying he'd try his luck with street performances if worst came to worst . The girls had some more peculiar plans, though; Xu Xiaoyan giggled at Xie Xie before telling them her plan to put on a pitiful expression and trying to ask some older students for money .

Gu Yue's and Ye Xinglan's idea on the other hand caused Sheng Feilong and Tang Wulin to facepalm at nearly the same instant; They planned to extort money from other students by blocking the entrance to Shrek Academy and beating up anyone who refused to pay . Tang Wulin then looked at Sheng Feilong, hoping to hear another, more normal and rational plan from him, but the latter just smirked with a playful expression in his eyes .

"I'll just get by, don't worry about me . "

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Early in the morning of the following day, the first grade students assembled in front of Shrek Academy's main gates, where Shen Yi, Wu Zhankong and four other teachers were already waiting for them . They began collecting all of the Spacial Rings from the students, beckoning everyone to put their belongings like wallets, Soul Communicators and the likes inside their rings . Tang Wulin was shocked as Wu Zhankong stopped him from taking his forging hammers with him .

"You are not allowed to take anything with you other than the clothes you are wearing . "

After giving his Spatial Ring to Shen Yi, Sheng Feilong felt somewhat uncomfortable without it . Other than when he went to sleep, he would pretty much always wear his Spatial Ring . Same with his Soul Communicator; he would always wear those two items, even in combat, but now he was forced to go without them for 15 days and even travel through pretty much the whole western part of the continent .

After that, the students were separated by gender and underwent a strict body search . Most of them had nothing to hide, but a few tried smuggling out small things, which the teachers quickly found and took into their possession before reprimanding the students once again that they could only take the clothes on their bodies with them . Sheng Feilong tidied his uniform as he made his way over to Tang Wulin and the others .

"Well, the search was as thorough as expected . Still sad you had nothing with you, Xie Xie?"

Xie Xie rolled his eyes, rebutting that whatever he had planned naturally wouldn't have been found, though, no one really believed him as he was looking quite nervous even now . Luo Guixing waved his farewells as he passed their group and Tang Wulin waved back with a smile, promising to forge metals for their Battle Armours for everyone starting next semester, causing most students to cheer as they made their way into the city .

Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan were the first to leave from their group, followed by Tang Wulin who still wanted to try his luck at the Blacksmith's Association . Xu Lizhi put down a blanket at the side of the road, conjuring up one bun after the other before beginning to advertise his merchandise like a street stall owner . Wanting to see whether Ye Xinglan and Gu Yue would really try their plan, Sheng Feilong decided to sit beside Xu Lizhi and wait for them to start; He couldn't miss such a good show, after all .

A while later, a student of the Outer Court's second grade stopped by, asking Xu Lizhi why he was selling buns at the side of the road . He laughed lightly at the latter's answer before asking Sheng Feilong what he was doing . He answered with a small smile, silently remorsing the poor senior's fate .

"I'm waiting for the show to start . "

The student was confused and left the two of them alone, but he didn't come far before he was suddenly blocked by two girls . Gu Yue and Ye Xinglan stood in front of the student, not letting him pass as Gu Yue pushed out her hand .

"This mountain is mine . These trees were planted by me; These paths paved by my hands! If you want to pass, you must pay the mountain toll . "

The student was stunned and tried to walk pass them but they continued to block him and demanding their 'mountain toll', causing the student to retaliate in anger, saying that this wasn't a mountain and that there were no trees, but Gu Yue still demanded her money . Watching from afar, Sheng Feilong could barely hold in his laughter, when he saw ye Xinglan pull out her Stargod Sword and started beating the second grade's student up before pulling out some money from his pocket .

She came up to Xu Lizhi, buying one of his Recovery Pork Buns with the money she just took and fed the bun to the student before she and Gu Yue returned to their 'mountain' and repeated the process a few times over whenever they saw a lone student making his or her way to the Academy . Sheng Feilong stayed a while longer by Xu Lizhi's side before walking out as well .

Sheng Feilong hadn't come far when he saw Xu Xiaoyan in the distance . She was standing next to a few older students, probably from the second grade, as had put on her pitiful expression . He asked one of the students, a rather handsome looking male around 16 or 17 years of age with blonde hair if he could help her out . He was startled at first, but under Xu Xiaoyan's constant flattery paired with her cute looks, he quickly gave in and she happily run off with a bunch of monetary notes in her hands and searched for another group of students .

Making his way to the station, Sheng Feilong heard a few other students talking about a Shrek Academy student doing weird street performances near the trading district . They even called the boy the shame of Shrek Academy for doing something of such low class and criticised him even more, saying he wasn't even good at what he was doing . Clearly, they were talking about Xie Xie . Although Sheng Feilong didn't agree with the 'Shame of Shrek Academy' part, Xie Xie's plan really was . . . special, to say the least .

Finally arriving at the station, he searched for information about the next train heading for Heaven Dou City . Luckily for him, he would only have to wait for about 20 minutes for the next one as Heaven Dou City was the capital of the federation; They would be a train heading to it every half an hour even during night times . After confirming when his ride was to arrive, he looked for a brochure stand and took a random one of them with him . Finally, he made his way over to the sales stand where he had to buy a ticket and watched the procedure for a while, trying to remember how it was done as clearly as possible; nothing to hard . After that, he got up and walked a few dozen meters closer to the exit and sat down on a chair . Now, he only had to wait .

Soon enough he saw Tang Wulin enter the station . Running over to the wall, Sheng Feilong waited for Tang Wulin to come closer before he stealthily activated his Radiant Emperor's Phantasmagoric Eyes and his first Soul Skill, Toad Prison! Quite a bit away from him, Tang Wulin suddenly hit his own neck, cursing about mosquitoes before walking over to Sheng Feilong . With a friendly smile and well practised speech, Sheng Feilong greeted the former .

After talking back and forth for a little while, Sheng Feilong 'sold' a Soul train ticket heading for Heaven Dou City to Tang Wulin . He tore the brochure in his hands apart, giving both pieces to Tang Wulin; His 'ticket' and 'change' . After that, Tang Wulin made his way towards the train, but was quickly stopped by a woman recommending food stalls and restaurants in Shrek City to him . Sheng Feilong laughed mischievously; knowing the gluttonous Tang Wulin, he certainly wouldn't say no to someone recommending him restaurants .

Sheng Feilong then walked to the actual counter, bought his own ticket to Heaven Dou City from the money Tang Wulin generously gave him and boarded the train . He had to pass a ticket controlling device before he was let through and quickly found himself a seat; just in time as the train would head off in less than a minute . From his window seat, he saw a disgruntled Tang Wulin who couldn't understand why he was stopped by the ticket controlling machine .

Sheng Feilong now finally undid his illusions and Tang Wulin stared at the torn brochure in his hand in shock . A security member from the station had already made his way over to Tang Wulin, shooing him off as Tang Wulin tried to explain his situation . Just then, the Soul Train gave off a loud 'shoo' sound to indicate its departure . Tang Wulin looked over in distress just to see Sheng Feilong lean out of a window and wave at him with a broad smile . Tang Wulin's face changed and he frantically tried to get past the security guard as he finally understood what was happening .

"Sheng Feilong, you bastard! I'll get you back for this!"

(A/N: I know that Tang Wulin actually snuck onto the train in the original, but this is a Fan-Fiction . Deal with it! It's also way funnier this way, haha!)

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