Chapter 56: Fifth-Grade Spirit Core

  In an instant, Su Qingchen's body moved again, his right palm continuously gathering and compressing soul power. When a small soul bead floated in the center of his palm, a low voice echoed in Su Qingchen's heart: "Lei Fist Second Style - Cun Duan." His right fist struck Zhang Long's shield spirit like thunder.

  "Boom"

  A deafening explosion shook the air, Zhang Long's body suddenly retreated backward, and after retreating several steps, he barely stabilized his figure. The shield spirit was somewhat visible, and as his figure stabilized, Zhang Long's whole body shuddered, his right foot fiercely stomping the ground, emitting a majestic aura throughout his body. With the input of soul power, the shield spirit flashed again with its dazzling light, declaring itself unbreakable and waiting for others' attacks at any time.

  Su Qingchen twisted her waist in mid-air, and with a calm turn, she said: "Take my sword, slash the void." Unbeknownst to anyone, the sword spirit had already appeared in Su Qingchen's palm. As her hand grasped the hilt, her soul power surged violently, causing her sleeves to emit a crackling sound as they tore through the air. Her body shot towards Zhang Long like an arrow.

  Zhang Long watched as Su Qingchen attacked, thinking to himself that something was off. He couldn't understand why Su Qingchen could launch such a powerful attack in succession. After the previous punch, the soul power within his body had already shown signs of disorder. If he took another hit, he would definitely be unable to withstand it. With no other choice, Zhang Long forcibly accelerated the circulation of his soul power.

  Just as Su Qingchen's sword spirit was about to hit the shield spirit, a burst of explosive soul power suddenly flew out from the center of the yellow shield spirit and collided with Su Qingchen's sword spirit. The explosion of soul power slowed down Su Qingchen's attack speed, but it did not stop the incoming attack. Su Qingchen's body paused in mid-air for a moment before charging at Zhang Long again.

  "Boom"

  The collision of Jian Ling and Dun Ling, in an instant, both figures flew out simultaneously. However, Su Qingchen had a hint of a smile on his face, while Zhang Long's face was filled with pain.

  Su Qingchen landed on the ground, withdrew his soul into his body, and looked at Zhang Long who had fallen to the ground in the distance. A sly smile appeared on his face as he thought to himself: This guy is quite strong, my three consecutive attacks didn't even harm him, only exhausting his soul energy, while mine was also depleted by more than half.

  Su Qingchen's attack this time was an attempt to hone the transition between his Soul Decree and Soul Skills, as well as their rational coordination. The transformation from Xuan Ming Gang to Xi Tian Jue earlier had already reduced the time it took by a significant amount, providing great assistance in his battle.

  Su Qingchen thought that Zhang Long was absolutely the most perfect sparring partner, and he would definitely practice with him more often in the future, taking the opportunity to hone this young man's skills. He would become an indispensable general of his team one day.

  In the previous battle, Su Qingchen discovered that the transformation of Lei Quan and Jian Ling's attacks solved the problem of continuous use of soul skills requiring time to buffer. Any Soul Master needs to wait for a period of time when using soul skills continuously, and if it is the same type of soul skill, the waiting time will be longer. However, there is no such restriction between Lei Quan and Jian Ling's attacks, as long as Xuan Ming Gang and Shi Tian Jue Yun are successfully converted, one can continuously launch attacks.

  "Boss, I've always been puzzled, why don't you use soul attacks but instead become even stronger?" Zhang Long's voice broke into Su Qingchen's contemplation.

  Su Qingchen raised his head and glanced at Zhang Long, saying casually: "You think that little mountain is going to collapse?" After finishing speaking, Su Qingchen turned around and walked towards the dormitory, no longer paying attention to Zhang Long. He knew that if he continued to entangle with Zhang Long on this issue, he himself didn't know how to explain it.

  After returning to the dormitory, Su Qingchen sat cross-legged on the ground amidst Wang Xing's three astonished and puzzled gazes. His soul power floated around his body as he entered a state of mind for practicing soul techniques. He wanted to try if he could find the opportunity to transform Xuanyuan Attack and Sky Devouring Slash in his mind.

  Wang Xing rubbed his head, looking puzzled, and couldn't help but think to himself, "It can't be over that quickly, can it? I haven't even had a chance to place my bets yet?"

  Just after Su Qingchen and Zhang Long went out, Wang Xing and the other two were discussing in the dormitory how to set up a gambling game, let the students participate, and make a good profit. They knew that this time Su Qingchen would definitely win again, so the three of them discussed it and just came up with a perfect plan for the gamble. But before they could even go out to start the game, Su Qingchen and Zhang Long returned. Looking at Zhang Long's disheveled face, they guessed that he had lost, and what's more, he had lost too quickly.

  The three of them let out a sigh at the same time, shook their heads, and the expressions on their faces were extremely gloomy. Such a perfect plan was ruined just like that, it's really a pity. Since losing money to Su Qingchen in the last match, Wang Xing and his friends had been thinking of ways to win back the money, because they were now penniless, even eating meals had become a problem.

  After Wang Xing and the others went to class in the afternoon, Zhang Long walked up to Su Qingchen's front, gazed at him for a while, and when he saw that Su Qingchen was not cultivating his soul but was lost in thought, he decided to wake him up. Zhang Long stretched out his hand and patted Su Qingchen's shoulder, suddenly feeling a thread of suction coming from the spot where he touched Su Qingchen's shoulder. Out of curiosity, Zhang Long followed the suction and input a thread of soul power into his hand. As soon as the first thread of soul power entered Su Qingchen's body, the soul power in Zhang Long's body was no longer under control and surged straight into Su Qingchen's body.

  Time passed bit by bit, Zhang Long's face turned slightly pale, the soul power in his body was almost drained, and his own soul decision began to rotate, starting to absorb the soul power in the air to make up for it. However, he still couldn't keep up with Su Qingchen's absorption speed, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, his heart growing anxious. He had never encountered such a situation before and didn't know what to do.

  After a moment of panic, Zhang Long took out a fifth-level spirit core from his spatial waistband. He tightly grasped the spirit core in his left hand, and pure energy flowed into his body through his meridians. Instantly, Zhang Long's face returned to normal, and a hint of complacency appeared on his face, completely forgetting his earlier awkward expression.

  This fifth-grade spirit core was given to Zhang Long by his father for breaking through to the Spirit Master, who knew that Zhang Long was also a rare talent in cultivation, but he was lazy and didn't like to cultivate. After taking the Ling Dan, he broke through from eighth-grade Spirit Master to ninth-grade, and with the remaining medicinal power and his own understanding of the Soul Decision, he forcibly broke through to the Spirit Master in one breath. With several days of stability, he actually broke through again to reach the lower ranks of the Spirit Master.

  This excited Zhang Long's father for a long time, and as a reward, he gave Zhang Long a set of high-level Qing Huan Soul Techniques. However, before he could continue to lock him up and make him learn the soul techniques, that little scoundrel Zhang Long had already snuck out.

  The fifth-grade spiritual core contained a soul force that was indeed pure and thick. At this time, Su Qingchen and Zhang Long formed a bright soul force circulation route between them, with both of their bodies emitting a faint glow. Su Qingchen's Devouring Heaven Technique also operated automatically, with the soul force in his meridians constantly increasing. When it reached saturation, the speed of absorbing soul force not only did not slow down but accelerated instead. With Zhang Long's pure and thick soul force continuously inputting, Su Qingchen wholeheartedly devoted himself to the transformation of his soul force.