Chapter 54: Shattered Heart Strike (Updated! Please collect and recommend!)

  Zong Yin followed Lan Xin all the way to the fourth floor, his fists covered in bloodstains, feeling exhilarated and refreshed, it had been a long time since he'd vented so satisfyingly, indeed people needed to find someone to beat up properly every now and then to relieve stress.

  "Look at you, you're covered in blood! Your hands are all cracked! Why did you beat him up like that? Did he provoke you or something?"

  Lan Xin frowned and looked at Zong Yin, who was covered in blood, and had some resentment in her heart for no reason to beat Shen Peng like that.

  Although Shen Peng often flutters around her like a fly, after all, he hasn't done anything to hurt her. To sum it up, Lan Xin doesn't have a particularly good impression of Shen Peng, but she also doesn't have a bad one. She can't help but feel a little sympathetic towards him, and more so, she has some subconscious worries about Zong Yihan having something going on.

  "You know nothing! That guy spent 3,000 gold coins to buy my head! Six soul masters came to kill me! If it wasn't for Yang Jun's timely rescue, the one standing in front of you would be a headless corpse! Do you think I'm eager to get the martial soul technique? Because the ones trying to kill me are your... Spare the nonsense! Give me the soul technique! The sealed technique manual is yours! After completing the transaction, I still have many things to do! No time to waste on meaningless things with you bunch of young ladies!"

  Lan Xin was worried that Zong Yin would get into trouble because of his actions, but her words were misinterpreted by Zong Yin as taking Shen Peng's side.

  At that moment, a nameless fire rose from the bottom of Zong Yin's heart, and his good mood was gone. He scolded Lan Xin in a fit of rage. Originally, he wanted to say that the real mastermind behind the scenes was his senior brother, but thinking about it, there was no evidence, and after hearing Zong Yin's words, Lan Xin's expression became somewhat aggrieved. Zong Yin softened for a moment and didn't bother to continue speaking. He dropped a harsh sentence and fell silent.

  "Sorry, I didn't know... This is the latest version of 'Shattered Heart Strike', and all the materials for cultivation are also complete. I took two of your sealed technique scrolls, consider the materials as payment for another scroll."

  Lan Xin didn't have any experience in handling matters, foolishly leading Zong Yin to a bookshelf that belonged solely to her, picking out a brand new soul technique from the thick stack of books, and then taking out a storage ring, also handing it over to Zong Yin.

  Zong Yin was in a good mood and didn't decline, putting the Soul Technique and Na Jie into his pocket. It just so happened that he needed to cultivate the Soul Technique, originally he still had to go get materials himself, but the academy didn't have any. He wanted to successfully cultivate it, but would have to wait until next month's break. Now it saved him the trouble.

  "Is there 'Star Burst' in here?"

  He casually handed the sealed book to Lan Xinzong and was about to leave when he saw the thick stack of books, his heart skipped a beat, and with a try-it-out attitude, he asked a question.

  " 'Seiken' is a secret technique of the Kuroba family, I don't have it here. You want 'Seiken'? Isn't your mentor Kuroba? Why don't you go ask him?"

  Lan Xin shook her head and replied truthfully, immediately guessing the reason why Zong Yin asked this question. She looked puzzled and asked Zong Yin back, "Logically speaking, Hei Sen should have had 'Star Burst' already, so why did you come all the way to find me for it?"

  When Zong Yin heard this answer, his face twitched, and he realized that what he had always wanted was right next to him! He had been taking a detour all along! Without even looking at Lan Xin, he turned around and left.

  "Hum! Men can be so petty!"

  Dai Zong hid and walked far away, Lan Xin pouted and stomped her feet. Then she stared blankly at the sealed technique manual in her hand, suddenly realizing that it didn't seem to attract him as much as before, and the boy who could always move her heart had taken up a place in her heart instead.

  "Haha, did you two have a fight? It's okay, arguing and making up will only make your relationship stronger."

  Fan Lao Ren appeared suddenly behind Lan Xin with a strange smile on his face and patted her shoulder, laughing heartily.

  "Old Man Fan! Who's dating that stone statue now?"

  At once Lan Xin's face involuntarily turned red, and in a fit of shyness and anger, she grabbed at Old Man Fan's beard.

  "Haha."

  Fan Lao saw this and his eyes narrowed into two slits, allowing Lan Xin to grab his beard as he let out a string of inexplicable laughter.

  Zong Yin rushed back to his dormitory at the fastest speed after leaving the library, he couldn't wait to master the Shattered Heart Strike. With the Shattered Heart Strike, he felt that the monthly trial which had started to become dull might be able to stir up his spirit, and perhaps even break through the shackles that he had never broken before, entering the top twenty.

  Just as Zong Yin returned to the dormitory, he opened "Shi Xin Ji" again and his head started hurting. The reason was simple: the preparation process for cultivating Shi Xin Ji was too complicated. Not to mention the distant ones, just grinding, soaking, and burning various materials were already overwhelming. Fortunately, Lan Xin had already prepared all the materials for Zong Yin to cultivate "Shi Xin Ji", he only needed to pour the solvent into water, drink it in a certain order, and that was it.

  According to the book, Zong Yin drank four kinds of strange-tasting liquids one after another. When he felt a mysterious soul power being generated within his body, he knew that the first step was complete. What Zong Yin didn't know was that the value of these few doses of medicine exceeded a thousand gold coins.

  Next is the most crucial step, guiding that sudden surge of soul power to form an identical soul technique pattern on the surface of one's own Soul Stone, following the texture in the book. If this step fails, it must be restarted from scratch.

  Even if Zong Yin's control over his soul power was far superior to that of others at the same level, he had failed three times in a row to complete the Soul Technique pattern for Huo Le Suixin. If it weren't for a dose of medicine that could take effect more than seven times within his body, Zong Yin would have had to go get some materials from Ba Fang himself.

  Suppressing the urge to explode in rage, Zong Yin had a feeling that he was carving flowers on a grain of rice. The soul technique pattern couldn't have any slight mistake, or else no one knew what kind of accident would occur. He could only endure and slowly, bit by bit, engrave the shattered heart's soul technique pattern onto his own person's soul stone.

  He finally succeeded in drawing the fourth soul technique pattern. Letting out a deep breath, Zong Yin finally understood why there were so few high-level soul techniques above Blue Star level - the higher the level of the soul technique, the more intricate the soul technique pattern was. The Blue Star soul technique pattern had already given Zong Yin a headache for half a day; if it were someone else, they probably wouldn't be able to complete one with even multiple materials.

  With the soul force as a guide, the soul technique pattern of Shattered Heart Strike was formed on the Soul Stone, but this does not mean that it has been successful. Zong Yin took several more doses of medicine and soaked his entire body in a large bucket of medicinal water that had been prepared earlier, waiting for the remaining materials to take effect, permanently imprinting the soul technique pattern on the Soul Stone, making Shattered Heart Strike truly belong to Zong Yin.

  Zong Yin cultivated his soul power while operating the "Soul-Refining True Explanation", and at the same time, he enjoyed the feeling of a certain special energy in the medicinal liquid slowly penetrating into his body, and fell asleep soundly.

  "Achoo!" The next morning, Zong Yin woke up with a sneeze, and the medicinal water that had been soaking him had already cooled down, its effects fully absorbed into his body. He shivered, and hastily climbed out of the wooden barrel, casually wrapping a piece of clothing around himself, carefully sensing the additional soul technique patterns on the Ren Hun Stone.

  As expected, after a night of soaking, the Soul Technique tattoo had permanently imprinted itself on Zonghui's Soul Stone. A surge of excitement rushed to Zonghui's forehead, like a gust of wind, and he burst out of his dormitory in no time, rushing towards the training room. He couldn't wait any longer to savor the thrill brought by the Blue Star Martial Soul Technique.

  Just as Zong Yinwo was recklessly squandering his soul power in the training room, enjoying the joy brought by Shixin's strike, the new students who went out for vacation returned to the Soul School one after another.

  A somewhat suspicious-looking soul cultivator entered the Soul Academy and sneaked into a small grove in the corner, emerging a moment later with a joyful expression on his face. Over the course of an entire morning, nearly twenty powerful and unrivaled soul masters entered this small grove.

  Until the school gate closed and no new students returned to school, a figure slowly walked out from the depths of the small forest.

  "Hmph! With this batch of things, I'll see how you die!"

  Ao Fei's face wore a ferocious smile as he quickly disappeared into the nearest building.

  "Boss, should we stop him or let this new guy continue to mess things up? I'm afraid our plan will ultimately fail if...or else..."

  As soon as Ao Fei's figure disappeared, a thin mist dissipated, revealing two blurry figures. The slightly shorter figure among them stared intently in the direction Ao Fei had left, with a murderous intent already rising in his heart.

  "No need to bother with him, we'll take out the two guys under his command and he'll be completely isolated in Soul Academy, let him struggle on his own. Tell the other executives to cut off all contact with him, anyway he doesn't know our identities, it's a good opportunity to use him as bait and see if there are any traps waiting for us. Out of the six people who died last time, we only recovered four Na rings, two Na rings are still unaccounted for, they should be in the hands of those two new students who killed them."

  Another figure emerged, a faint smile of mockery playing on the corner of his mouth, with no hint of emotional color in his eyes.

  "What should we do? Should we send someone to retrieve the Nāga's ring, just in case..."

  The little one's eyebrows furrowed, and there was a hint of worry between them.

  "Don't stir up trouble, he can be exposed, we can't. This fool won't be foolish enough to hand over important information to his subordinates, those newcomers should be after the Red Star's soul technique, and even if something is taken away, our secret language isn't something that just anyone can decipher, anyway their identities haven't been exposed, they don't know what it is in a situation where those things will only be thrown away as trash."

  The person known as the big brother shook his head, unwilling to take risks. What if something else was exposed during this time? Then it would be them, a group of old people who had been hiding for more than a year, who would be exposed. Once they were exposed, it could affect the entire plan.

  But what led him to make this decision was that he had too much confidence in the Swallowing Heaven Sect, and did not know that the higher-ups of the Soul School had already begun to pay attention to their actions. The two Nascent Soul rings had also fallen into the hands of Ye Feng and Fan Lao.

  "News from outside has arrived, we will take action soon after the annual exam. Everyone should get ready and continue with the plan as usual. We will secure the top ten spots in each grade and obtain the Soul Revival Bead to coordinate with the actions of the elders."

  He sneered for a moment, and the illusory figure twisted and turned before finally disappearing into the forest.

  "The grandson who has been spoiled for five years is finally going to take action?"

  The thin fog dispersed, finally revealing the only person left, a small figure of a boy who looked like a lovely younger brother next door. He whispered something lightly and his figure also disappeared along with it.