Chapter 72: Scheme Against Scheme (Part 1)

  "Win the game! That guy risked serious injury, cutting off Ao Fei's fingernails and then activated a Blue Star assist soul technique that had never been used before. His feet moved swiftly, leaving no shadow behind! Ao Fei is still searching everywhere for that 'mad dog's' shadow, and countless people have fallen victim along the way!"

  The student who had previously spoken rolled his eyes and said in an even louder voice. The people around him immediately began to whisper among themselves. The student continued with a sigh, "Ah! Suddenly I have one more red star Wu Xing technique and a blue star assist technique! Just buying the materials would cost tens of thousands of gold! And I still only have two green star techniques..."

  After that, Zong Yin didn't listen anymore, took the food handed over by the staff, and walked out with a strange smile on his mouth. However, when he turned around, the smile on his face was gone. The figure surrounded by countless crimson flower petals at the entrance of the restaurant wasn't Ao Fei, but who else could it be?

  Ao Fei's eyes were bloodshot, his hair stood on end, and his gaze swept fiercely through the crowd, as if he wanted to swallow everyone whole.

  Zong Yin was about to dodge, but had already been seen by Ao Fei. Ao Fei's gaze lingered on him for a moment before moving away, and his furious expression gradually subsided, his eyes gleaming with extreme coldness as he smiled faintly, dismissing the "Flower" from going back and forth.

  The change was so great that all the students who knew the inside story almost popped their eyes out, and a new round of intense discussion ensued.

  Only Zong understood something, and with an unpleasant expression, he walked out.

  As Zong Yin had expected, Ao Fei blocked his way on a deserted road.

  "It's time for you to play your part, find that mad dog for me! I want to kill him slowly! I know you're quite close to him, so I'll give you three days. Bring him to the small woods behind the academy by then! If he doesn't die, then you will!"

  Ao Fei's face was ferocious, his eyes were filled with bloodthirsty madness, and he didn't give Zong Yin any chance to react. Ao Fei finished speaking, turned around and left.

  When Ao Fei left, the "Soul Devouring" soul technique pattern on Zonghui's body, which was selectively forgotten by the Qi Bo stone, seemed to remind Zonghui and jumped slightly.

  Zong continued walking forward with a poker face as if nothing had happened.

  Just as Zong Yin was about to enter the training room, a rustling sound suddenly came from the trees outside the training room. Zong Yin subconsciously turned around, and two Soul Slashing Blades shot out of his hands, shooting towards the trees that made the noise.

  "Bang! Bang!" Two consecutive light sounds, Yang Jun's left hand was covered with a layer of red soul technique tattoos, and he slowly walked out from the thicket. His right arm hung weakly to one side, although there was no blood flowing, but the muscles on his arm were abnormally concave, and all over his body were wounds that looked like they had been slashed by a small knife.

  "Awu's strength is indeed formidable. I thought that after learning the 'Blood Wolf Claw', at least I could heavily injure him, but unexpectedly I could only cut off one of his fingernails. If it weren't for having learned a soul-assisting escape technique as a precaution, I'm afraid I would have died on the spot."

  Yang Jun naturally walked towards Zong Yin, and entered the training room opened by Zong Yin. He sat on the ground with a thud, panting heavily.

  "I'm afraid even a Soul Master of the ninth level may not be able to defeat Ao Feng. Don't move for now, I want to help you treat your wounds. I've never treated anyone before, and I don't know if it will work."

  As soon as he thought of Ao Fei's hidden trump card, Zong Yin felt a chill run down his spine and shook his head. He walked over to Yang Jun's side and placed his hand on Yang Jun's right arm, activating the Qi Bo Shi at the same time. Hun Yu had once said that the Qi Bo Shi could not only heal oneself but also help others heal, it was just that the effect wasn't as pronounced.

  As expected, the Qi Bao Shi indeed helped to heal Yang Jun's wound. In just half an hour, his fractured hand bone had largely recovered, and with some further care, he would be fine.

  "Unexpectedly, you also have the ability to heal wounds without using soul techniques."

  Yang Jun raised his right arm in surprise and said with some astonishment, the only thing that made him a little puzzled was why Zong Yin wanted to eat while treating him.

  "Huh? Who else has this ability?"

  Zong Yin's normal replenishment of Qi caused a feeling of hunger, and he suddenly heard Yang Jun's words, asking with a strange expression.

  "One hundred miles south of Xuanjia City, there is a small valley with an old man who has a strange temper. It's said that he was once a powerful Soul Master, but somehow got crippled and now lives in seclusion. I've seen him cure a woodcutter whose leg was broken without using any soul techniques. Do you know him?"

  Yang Jun looked at Zong Yin with a puzzled expression and said without thinking, that old man was also famous in Xuanjia City, and the impression he gave him was very deep, it's hard to forget.

  Zong Yin's eyebrows were tightly furrowed, since he arrived in this world, apart from the Soul Masters, he had never seen any other profession that could heal wounds without using soul techniques. Could it be that they too could sense the aura? Or was it some other special ability within their unique functions? However, Zong Yin was more inclined towards his first guess, after all, when he obtained that red star sealed technique manual, it depicted the Soul Holes, also known as the Qi Holes in Hun Yu's words. Since there were similar things, perhaps the ancient Soul Masters could use aura too.

  Shaking his head, it's not the time to talk about these things now. If he has a chance in the future, he might go and take a look around, maybe he'll gain something from it.

  "I don't know. Don't mention this, but there's something I need to tell you. Ao Fei is an undercover agent from the Tian Xiang Sect, and he has implanted a soul seed in me, which has already transformed into a soul technique pattern. He wants me to lead you to the forest behind the Soul Academy three days later, where we will stage a play and join forces to kill him."

  Zong Yin dispelled these thoughts from his mind and looked straight at Yang Jun, opening his mouth directly.

  Ao Fei ordered Zong Yin to lead Yang Jun to go and kill, but Zong Yin naturally wouldn't do it. Moreover, he might even be able to take advantage of this opportunity to get rid of Ao Fei. With Ao Fei being a thorn in his side, Zong Yin felt a constant stinging pain.

  "I said you were secretly talking about something just now, so it's like this. What about the soul in your body?"

  Yang Jun's face revealed a hint of sudden realization, and he also knew about the Soul Devouring Soul Breed. He immediately asked with a serious expression.

  Zong Yin was taken aback by Yang Jun's response, feeling that Yang Jun had seen through his and Ao Fei's previous behavior. Despite knowing he had a problem, Yang Jun still came to find him - didn't Yang Jun fear being sold out? However, thinking back to the blood oath they had shared, Zong Yin felt somewhat reassured. In their world, sharing a blood oath meant that one was willing to lay down their life for the other; even if they wanted to betray you, they would at least give you warning first.

  Yang Jun did so, and Zong Yin also did so.

  "This ability can help me sever the connection between the soul species and the mother soul, but give me a little time, my second soul stone has not yet taken shape."

  He took a deep look at Yang Jun, and then pointed to his hand that had just healed, saying slowly.

  After finishing speaking, Zong Yin suddenly had some guilty conscience. He had already drunk the Blood Oath Wine, but he still concealed some matters. For example, even if he reached a thousand stocks of soul power, Zong Yin was unable to form a second soul stone. What he could form was only the central soul stone under the jurisdiction of the human soul stone. If he wanted to form a heavenly soul stone or an earth soul stone, it would probably be at the Soul Master stage already.

  "Are you okay?"

  Yang Jun's eyebrows rose slightly, and a surge of fighting spirit slowly welled up inside him.

  "Just arrived today."

  Yang Jun glared at him, and Zong Yin naturally understood that this battle maniac wanted to exchange blows with him.

  "How many layers of assurance do you have to kill Ao Fei?"

  Yang Jun nodded slightly as soon as he heard that Zong had just reached Soul Master today, and his eyebrows furrowed again.

  "8th and 9th floors!"

  Zong Yin's mouth hooked slightly as he said firmly.

  For the next two days, Zong Yin and Yang Jun stayed in the practice room without going out. Until the night before the second day, a queen bee flew from somewhere again, and Zong Yin, who had been somewhat anxious, calmed down and took the two queen bees out for a stroll.

  When Zong Yin returned the next morning, Yang Jun clearly felt a change in his aura, and even his originally somewhat frail body seemed to have strengthened slightly. Although his muscles still looked flat, Yang Jun could feel the explosive power contained within them.

  "Let's go, everything is ready, all we need now is you as bait."

  Zong Yin's face wore a confident smile as he rushed towards Yang Jun and said.

  "I can go with you, but you have to promise me that we'll have a fight afterwards. If not, I won't go."

  Contrary to Zong Yin's expectations, Yang Jun remained seated on the ground without moving, lazily stretching his waist and staring at Zong Yin with a seemingly smiling expression.

  "You win."

  Zong Yian was momentarily speechless, his eyes twitched slightly, and he nodded helplessly as he walked out.

  As they approached the agreed location with Ao Fei, Zong Yin's heart beat faster and faster. It was impossible for him to say he wasn't nervous, but it was even more impossible for him to give up this opportunity.