When he was back in the privacy of his room again, Li Luo immediately pulled out the Acquired Resonance Godly Forging Wheel. He had not dared to examine it too closely in front of Mentor Chi Chan and Yu Hongxi, even though he trusted them to a certain extent. The secret of his third acquired resonance was too big to entrust to outsiders.

This Acquired Resonance Godly Forging Wheel was less of a wheel than the others, since it had three pointy bits that made it triangular. Like before, it was covered in scrawls of runes and patterns.

However, while the previous one had been full of holes for hundreds of ingredients, this one only had two simple, hexagonal indents.

They were probably to hold just one primary and one secondary ingredient.

Which meant that these things were going to be far rarer and more expensive than previously.

If the last acquired resonance had been built off quantity, this one was going to be chasing ultimate quality.

Li Luo guessed that he was going to have to find Duke-level ingredients.

"But where..." he groaned. He didn't even know if the Golden Dragon Bank's headquarters would have such rare objects. Plus, their price would be astronomical.

The good news was that he only needed two. If he needed a hundred like before, he'd probably have to sell House Luolan.

Still, even securing two wasn't going to be easy.

In any case, it wasn't that urgent of a matter for now. He would have to reach the General Stage to get his third resonance. Although he was already at the final tier of the Resonant Master Stage, he was a long way away from the next stage. [1]

Rubbing his hands idly over it, he weighed it for a moment more, then placed it back in his pocket sphere. He needed to think carefully about the elemental composition as well.

He took out a piece of paper and drew three circles on it. In the first, he wrote "waterlight", and in the second he wrote "woodearth."

These were his existing dual resonances.

Both of them leaned towards the support and control types. Although he had managed to utilize the primary-secondary interactions to augment his resonance arts significantly, there were times when Li Luo felt painfully aware of the lack of raw firepower in his arsenal.

Of course, they made up for the lack in a multitude of other ways.

If he had been given a free choice, he probably would not have gone with these resonances. But both water and wood were for the sake of his body—to reduce the negative effects of obtaining an acquired resonance.

It was his only choice to try and survive because his foundation was too weak. But by the time he chose his third resonant palace, he would be a General. That was quite a solid and respectable level.

Finally, some autonomy in his choice.

Li Luo tapped the table thoughtfully. For now, he would not need to consider the support-type resonances.

He wrote one word in his third circle.

"Offense."

Fire, metal, lightning, or even a beast resonance were all acceptable options for him.

But the final choice would probably be based on what sort of materials he could get his hands on.

Perhaps there would be goodies to be won at the Holy Grail Meet.

...

The next day, Jiang Qing'e came knocking on his door.

"How did the refining go?"

The two were on their usual stroll around the lake, Jiang Qing'e's long, shapely legs keeping up easily with Li Luo. He told her all about the invitation to Yu Hongxi and Chi Chan.

They sat near the lake at one of their favorite spots, and Li Luo told her about what had transpired during the actual refining. Jiang Qing'e was silent for quite a while, processing the information quietly. Li Luo looked at her pale reflection in the water, then back to her lovely legs in the flesh. Idly, he wondered which was fairer.

He even told her about Mentor Chi Chan's Ichthyic curse. Although it was not public information, Li Luo trusted Jiang Qing'e to let the information go no further.

"I think Shen Jinxiao did something, although I have no proof." Li Luo shrugged.

"It's indeed fishy that he would be there." Jiang Qing'e agreed, very willing to give Shen Jinxiao zero benefit of the doubt.

"So there was a huge battle at the Umbra Cave back in the day, and Master and Mistress had participated as well..."

Her thoughts soon turned to a different topic. "It's a good thing for us that Mentor Chi Chan hates Shen Jinxiao so deeply. Another helper for us to send him along the dark path."

Li Luo chuckled. Luckily, there was no one around to overhear their conversation, or they would have turned pale to hear two students casually discussing how to kill a Violet Vibrance mentor...

Jiang Qing'e pulled out a case from her pocket sphere and handed it over to him. "A batch of spirit liquids and purifying lights from Sister Cai Wei, ranging from fifth to seventh-grade."

Li Luo eagerly took it. Just in time. His waterlight resonance had not been growing much recently, and was still stuck as a lower seventh-grade. On the other hand, his fifth-grade woodearth resonance was making good progress. He could probably reach sixth-grade by the Holy Grail Meet, and the boost in strength would be very much welcome.

"The school will probably be mustering the competitors tomorrow. I hear we'll be transported from the Tree of Resonant Power. We'll be away from the Xia Kingdom for a while. I've already made the arrangements over at House Luolan, and with Cai Wei there, things shouldn't be too bad. And with Ancestor Yuan Qing back, Pei Hao will probably behave himself for a while," Jiang Qing'e said.

Li Luo nodded. Jiang Qing'e was always a competent force by his side.

"Li Luo..."

He turned around to see her pensively looking into the lake.

"When the Holy Grail Meet ends, you'll have been at the Astral Sage College for a year..."

"Mm," he nodded.

"It's almost time," she said, inclining her head at him with a twinkle in her eyes.

"Are you ready?"

Li Luo understood what she was referring to. At the start of the new year... Housemeet.

At that time, all of the landmines, comets, and bombs would be exploding from above, below, and around.

House Luolan would be thrown into a fateful crisis, he had no doubt.

He met her gaze with a confident smile.

"No matter who comes for House Luolan...

“I'll end them."

1. TN: It is very urgent for the readers because we all wanna know the 3rd resonance… ☜