Chapter 38: The Power of the Spirit Stone, Destroyed!

  "Pffft!" A mouthful of blood spurted out, and Zong Yin only felt a chill in his chest. He didn't even bother to look at his own wound, using all his strength to slap another palm on his opponent's ear.

  His whole body shook, his eyes turned black, and he fell heavily onto the martial arts platform, motionless.

  "Did I win? Cough...cough..."

  Zong Yǐn's massive rocky arm propped up the ground, refusing to let himself fall. His left hand clutched his chest tightly, continuously coughing up blood. His body swayed back and forth as he struggled to ask the referee...

  Even the seasoned mentor was stunned by Zong Yin's craziness, and instinctively nodded. Only then did Zong Yin slowly turn around, stretch out his left hand and make a victory gesture towards the crowd that had already been frightened silly, not caring whether they understood or not. His eyes fluttered, and he fell backwards onto the martial arts platform.

  A formless gas slowly emerged from the large hole in Zong Yin's chest, blocking Zong Yin's pulse and hanging on to his last breath.

  An old man who looked like he couldn't even walk, appeared beside Zong Yin like a gust of wind. He stared at the wound on Zong Yao's chest, and his eyes twitched involuntarily. His wrinkled and age-spotted hands pressed against the bloody hole in Zong Yin's chest, and several black patterns that seemed to be alive and twisting emerged around the wound. As the black patterns twisted, the terrifying wound on Zong Yin's chest grew new flesh at a visible rate, and in the blink of an eye, the bloody hole disappeared.

  "Master Li, how are you?"

  Fan Lao Ren stood respectfully behind the old man and asked like a junior.

  "It was just a hair's breadth, even I couldn't save him. This child is born with a chaotic fate, destined to have noble assistance, if he hadn't died young, he would have grown up to be someone who could stir up the calm waters of the mainland. Alas, it's hard to say whether it's good fortune or bad. Fan Xiaozu, I'm an old man now, don't bother me again in my old age. This time, I've lost at least three years of my life."

  The old man called Li Shi by Old Fan walked with a cane, muttering to himself in words that only Old Fan could hear, as he made his way towards the teaching building. Although he seemed to be walking very slowly, in an instant, he vanished from everyone's line of sight.

  Fan Lao Ren gazed at the unconscious Zong Yin with a complex expression, after a moment of silence, he let out a faint sigh and transformed into a wisp of black smoke that vanished into thin air.

  When Fan Lao and Li Shi suddenly appeared and disappeared, the crowd finally came to their senses and collectively helped Zong Yin down from the martial arts stage.

  When Zong Yin woke up, the monthly trial of the new batch had already ended. During Zong Yin's coma, he was already one of the 79 strong, in the seventh round of elimination, one of the 79 people would be exempt from competition and directly advance to the next round of elimination, it is unknown what method Hun Yu used, but Zong Yin became that exempted quota.

  Anyway, no matter what, Kong Yu made it, Zong Yin successfully advanced to the top 40, but since he didn't wake up in the end, the school counted it as a forfeit, losing his qualification for the eighth round. In the end, Zong Yin scored a total of seven points from the first round of the Moon Trial.

  That night, Zong hid his face in guilt and regret, lying on his own bed.

  Although Zong Yin ultimately emerged victorious, the opponent he fought against was killed by him in the end. Even though it wasn't intentional, Zong Yin's heart still felt extremely uncomfortable. The opponent had never activated his soul technique from start to finish, precisely because he didn't want to kill anyone. Who would have thought that in the end, it was precisely because of his mercy that he lost his own life?

  "The Stone Cannon" is a Blue Star Soul Technique, its power is terrifying, it can compress all of the user's soul power into one strike. The higher the level of the user's soul power, the stronger the power will be. Obviously, his opponent knew that if he used this technique, Zong Yin would definitely die, so they kept fighting hard, but unexpectedly, the result was like this. If he had used "Stone Cannon" as soon as he came on stage, Zong Yin probably wouldn't have had any chance at all.

  He killed someone he didn't want to kill, and it was also the first time in his life that Zong Yin had taken a life. His heart was filled with guilt, but this feeling gradually disappeared when he thought of that mysterious black shadow.

  What made Zong Yin even more regretful was that in the bombardment of Shi Pao, the Force Stone in his Heart Wheel was destroyed!

  "Don't worry, although your Lihunshi was destroyed, the person who saved you is a Hun Emperor of the Six Souls Return to One Realm. The healing technique of Hei Xing not only preserved your heart wheel but also allowed it to be reborn, and without exhausting soul power, the new heart wheel has expanded several times larger than before. After a period of self-repair and growth, you can still condense a new Lihunshi, and the new one will have a much better effect than before. At that time, your body will undergo a second strengthening, unfortunately, the previous Lihunshi was unable to fully strengthen your body."

  The majestic and unbroken explanation of the benefits brought by Zong Yin's rebirth after this disaster, finally regretting that the already destroyed Lishi stone was unable to fully exert its remaining heat.

  "Do I need to wait until Soul Apprentice level 7 to condense a soul stone?"

  Zong Yin didn't care about the long-winded nonsense of Hun Yu, he only knew that as long as his Li Qi Shi could recover, it was enough. What he truly cared about was when he could condense another Li Qi Shi, he had been blinded by the benefits brought by the Li Qi Shi.

  "Not bad, and this time you think about condensing the Force Crystal, it's not possible without nearly two years of work, a new Heart Wheel is impossible to fully recover."

  How could Jun Yu not know what Zong Yin was thinking in his heart, and a basin of cold water was poured down.

  "It's just two years..."

  He let out a deep sigh, closed his eyes and fell silent, amidst countless distracting thoughts, Zong Yin sank into a deep sleep.

  The next morning he was awakened by the vibration of his Nasca's seal, and it seemed that time had once again returned to its usual cycle of constant cultivation.

  "You bunch of trash! Aren't you going to rebel? Come on! Why aren't you coming?"

  Zong arrived at the classroom, only to see that the early-arriving students were lying all over the floor, their faces so swollen that it was impossible to tell who was who, all of them having been beaten into pig heads by Hei Sen.

  As soon as Zong Yin entered the classroom, all the people lying on the ground immediately cast their resentful eyes at him, after all, he was the one who had spoken harsh words back then.

  "Ah, damn it! I walked into the wrong door, you guys continue. Ah! Don't hit me in the face! Come on! What are you waiting for? Let's go together! Fight him!"

  Zong Yinxian saw that black gaze and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, immediately turning around to head back. Unfortunately, he had just turned around when Hei Sen's dark face appeared behind him, staring at him with an eerie smile.

  Kuroba didn't bother to exchange words with Sōin and directly punched him in the eye socket, Kuroba's fist was controlled well enough that it would only leave a bruise without causing internal injuries or bleeding.

  Zong Yin was not one to suffer losses, and the anger from being destroyed and mistakenly killed suddenly erupted. Without saying a word, he activated his Reversion technique and charged forward. Just as Zong Yin had given up, the people who were originally lying on the ground pretending to be dead looked at each other, got up from the ground, and launched their own soul techniques, joining forces with him.

  Half an hour later, Zong Yin and the others finally realized how big the gap was between the Soul Disciples and the Soul Masters. Everyone's soul power was exhausted, panting and lying on the ground. Hei Sen was no better off, his clothes had turned into beggar attire, and his face had a dark blue mark, but at least he was still standing.

  "Rabbits! Fight me! You're still too green! From now on, everyone's training will be doubled! Lockdown! Release the killer bees!"

  Heisen stood tall with his head held high, striding across the crowd with an air of confidence. As his voice fell, that eerie, hair-raising tone instantly reverberated throughout the classroom.

  "By the way, I forgot to tell you that after this period of reproduction of the killer bees, the newly born batch of killer bees have not been treated and their venom is more toxic than before. Their mandibles are also capable of pinching down flesh, so if you don't want to die, train hard on how to achieve precise attacks!"

  Heisen's words were cut off by the countless wails that filled the closed classroom.

  The people who were exhausted from the soul force did not have any protective measures, and that batch of newly born killer bees was indeed more ferocious than those processed killer bees as Hei Sen said. As soon as they caught someone, they would stab their venomous stingers into the flesh and blood, and even open their sharp mandibles to bite in places with more meat.

  "Hmph! Before the annual exam, everyone must reach the Soul Master level! And be able to accurately cut off the killer bee's head, otherwise what awaits you is the Killer Bee Queen's personal inspection!"

  Hei Sen's words made everyone shudder involuntarily. The venom of ordinary killer bees would only make people feel soul pain, but the venom of the Killer Bee Queen was said to be able to dissolve a person's soul!

  Those who have not yet reached the level of Soul Master are hugging their heads and sticking to the wall to cultivate their soul power, while those who have reached the level of Soul Master are using their soul power or weapons to practice cutting off the heads of killer bees. However, the speed of the killer bees is too fast, and their body shape is too small, so even if they can be cut down, it's not necessarily the head that gets cut off.

  After being stirred up by Hei Sen, Zong Yin's originally not very comfortable heart felt much more at ease. He immediately gathered his spirits, sat upright on the ground, and let the killer bees tear into his body as he cultivated his soul power. Without the support of the Force Stone, Zong Yin urgently wanted to condense an Air Stone to embody the mysterious "air" in Hun Yu's mouth.

  But what made Zong Yin dissatisfied was that after a whole day, with the help of the killer bee's venom, he had only added twelve strands of soul power. This was a huge difference from the thirty or so strands he had gained every day before. And according to the rule that the higher the level of soul power, the harder it is to cultivate new soul power, the more difficult it would be to generate new soul power as time went on. Calculating the time, one month's time was only enough for Zong Yin to form three hundred strands of soul power, and maybe not even that much.

  Dragging his exhausted body and soul, Zong Yin returned to the dormitory and fell asleep as soon as he lay down. After waiting until the next day when his body and soul had recovered a bit, he continued with the terrifying Soul Power growth training. Twenty days passed just like that.