Chapter 76: Life Force Seeds

Everyone stared at Xiu Ye walking into the gym with speechless expressions.

'This guy, disappears for an entire week, without contacting anyone of us as to why, and he just swaggers right back into the school without a care in the world? Who does that?!'

Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Gu Yue and Mu Xi all rubbed their eyes simultaneously and stared back at Xiu Ye. This, this wasn't the Xiu Ye that they know and love! The latter is a different feeling from one another.

Xiu Ye ignored the looks he was getting and continued walking towards Wu Zhangkong. He pulled up his sunglasses to his hair and smiled at the teacher, despite the latter shooting him a cold angry glare.

Stopping right in front of Wu Zhangkong, Xiu Ye brought up his pouch and pulled it towards him.

"Hey teach, I got the items here you requested. Sorry for taking so long, I kinda got carried away with the vacation–exam you assigned me, and ended up examining the area a bit longer than necessary," he said with a clearly fake cheerful wide smile that can cause anyone to have a toothache from how fake it is.

Even Wu Zhangkong inwardly cringed at how Xiu Ye smiled, much less everyone else.

Wu Zhangkong let out a long irate sigh and asked, "...why?"

Xiu Ye understood the question and, without dropping his smile, said, "That's because I don't want to hear you reprimand me for being late in coming back, just because I had something very important I had to do that is out of my hands, and deduct my hard earned score. Now, you can score me fairly or, be the cold teacher that you are and score me poorly and I'll start acting creepy for remaining time until the end of semester."

Xiu Ye and Wu Zhangkong stared at each other, the latter glaring while the former squinted his eyes.

A battle of extreme stubborn wills clashed; tensions rose and blue and red auras met, the temperature in the area acted erratically. Sometimes it would reach 1000 C then it would go down drastically to -50 C.

Tang Wulin and his friends retreated back in the corner of the room. They watched in amazement and speechlessness as two kings, of opposite elements, clashed their wills against one another. Their wills were so strong that the entire room started to tremble.

Xie Xie trembled in fear as he clutched Tang Wulin's arm. With a shaking tone of voice he said, "H-Hey Wulin, are you seeing what I'm seeing?"

Gu Yue glanced at him and snorted coldly, "Wuss."

Xie Xie shot her a glare and venomously replied, "Oh don't act all high and mighty with me when you're also holding onto senior sister Mu Xi." While pointing at her hand, which is holding Mu Xi's shoulder.

"I'm not the one holding onto her, she is." Mu Xi stared her in shock and disbelief.

"Excuse me?!"

Tang Wulin gulped as he ignored them, and didn't shook Xie Xie's hold on him, as he himself is on the verge of holding onto someone and shake in fear. "Y-Yeah, man. I'm seeing what you're seeing."

Wu Zhangkong narrowed his eyes further, he couldn't seem to sense the cultivation of Xiu Ye. It seems like some, strange and invisible, curtain is shrouding the aura of his cultivation. Not only that, but he feels like something is wrong with Xiu Ye's soul power.

The latter's soul power quality is much better than even a soul king but the volume is at the same quantity as a soul master. If he wasn't familiar with the concept and principle of a soul core, he would have guessed that Xiu Ye's soul power had evolved and solidified into a soul core.

If he hadn't met with Xiu Ye and be around him for months, the news of a ten year old soul grandmaster having a soul core would have made him snort and call the person who said such nonsense an idiot.

With how talented Xiu Ye is, Wu Zhangkong would be more surprise if the boy hadn't condensed a soul core when he breakthroughs to the soul emperor realm.

"You brokethrough to the soul elder realm?" Wu Zhangkong said coldly, although he couldn't see through his cultivation he could at least make an estimation.

Xiu Ye nodded and rubbed his head, "Just had a fortuitous encounter and it was enough to make me breakthrough to the next realm."

Wu Zhangkong nodded, clearly noticing at how he didn't go into the details of his so called fortuitous encounter but decided to let it be. Everyone has their secrets after all, though, "Are there any side effects?"

"Except for a temporary unstable cultivation and a decrease of volume of soul power, no adverse long term side effects." Xiu Ye shrugged his shoulders and shook the pouch in his hand. "So..."

Wu Zhangkong stared at him for a very, very long silent minute before rolling his eyes and grabbed the bag.

He opened up the pouch and raised his eyebrows.

He looked towards Xiu Ye and said, "You killed one hundred Deathly Hallows? From some of the quality I sensed from these Life Force Seeds, I can tell that you killed purple-eyed rank Deathly Hallows."

Xiu Ye rubbed the back of his neck and replied, "Well, I did say that I kinda got carried away with the task."

"Clearly you did..." Wu Zhangkong's gaze went back down to the pile of Life Force Seeds in the pouch and closed it. He tied the pouch up and tossed it back to Xiu Ye. "Congratulations. You get 98 points."

Xiu Ye caught the pouch in his right hand and pouted in protest, "Not a hundred?"

Wu Zhangkong's eyebrow twitched, "I'm being fair here Xiu Ye. You successfully delivered 100 perfectly intact Life Force Seeds, much more than I first estimated, but the one point minus comes from you being disrespectful and the other because you came back late."

Xiu Ye shrugged, "Alright, fine by me. Hey teacher Wu, do you know what they are and what they do? Also, why are they shaped like a peanut?"

Wu Zhangkong said, "Those are called Life Force Seeds: as their name suggests, they are the entire life force and vitality of the undead corrupted soul beast from when they were still alive given solid form. The Life Force Seed is considered as their core in keeping their physical body together and temporarily houses their souls."

"As you may know, Deathly Hallows are corrupted souls of soul beasts after they died and given physical form. Know this however, they cannot be killed or purified by soul masters who have either light or holy element, they can just resurrect every time they are killed. Even destroying or absorbing their Life Force Seeds cannot kill them, only delaying their inevitable resurrection."

Xiu Ye scrunched his eyebrows in confusion, "Wait, they still come back? Even when taking out their life cores or their Life Force Seeds? How is that possible?"

Wu Zhangkong stared at him and said, "As I said before Xiu Ye, the Life Force Seed only temporarily houses their soul and when their physical bodies turns to dust: their souls are expelled from the Life Force Seed and are sent into the only place their souls can go to, the forest. Don't ask how or why, even the top scientists and investigators are still looking into the answers for it. The only thing we know is that, after a Deathly Hallow is killed, they would resurrect in some random place in the forest with the same cultivation strength and Life Force Seed they had when they died."

"...they can never be killed?" Xiu Ye said in a small tone of voice, horror in his eyes as he realizes the torture the corrupted souls has experienced in the forest.

Always trapped, always hungry, and they can never be killed.

Tang Wulin and the others who was listening nearby had horrified expressions on their faces, also realizing the hell the Deathly Hallows are trapped in. None more so was Gu Yue, who was also had a horrified and angry expression on her as she grinds her teeth and clenches her hands, her body shaking.

Even Wu Zhangkong had a grim expression on his face for a brief moment before he continued speaking, "Back to the use of Life Force Seed. Its purpose is simple yet very beneficial to anyone who can absorb it: it increases their vitality, life force, life origin: basically increasing their lifespan."

Xiu Ye and his friends eyes widened in shock.

Increasing one's lifespan?

Everyone, even normal humans, knew that being a soul master doesn't necessarily mean their lifespan would, well unless their cultivation reaches Limit Douluo and they can live up to two-three hundred years. All Soul Masters below the rank Limit Douluo only has the same lifespan as any normal humans, unless they increase it via very rare heaven and earth treasures that can only be seen and harvested every one in a thousand or ten thousand years.

So the value of the Life Force Seed is very valuable, to the point that even Titled Douluos would go to war with each other.

Xiu Ye asked, "How much increase of lifespan does it gives?"

Wu Zhangkong said, "It works just like when you increase your spirit soul's cultivation age in the Spirit Ascension Platform: it depends on the quality of the Life Force Seed; a white-eyed Deathly Hallow Life Force Seed increases one year of your lifespan, a yellow-eyed Deathly Hallow Life Force Seed increases ten years of your lifespan, a purple-eyed Deathly Hallow Life Force Seed increases hundred years of your lifespan, a black-eyed Deathly Hallow Life Force Seed increases a thousand years of your lifespan, and a red-eyed Deathly Hallow Life Force Seed increases a ten thousand years of your lifespan. Moreover, the extra increase of vitality would depend on the quality of the Life Force Seed as well."

"These Life Force Seeds are so valuable, even a Titled Douluo, who's on the brink of dying from old age, would even kill you for it without any hesitation." Wu Zhangkong subtlety warned them to not easily show off any Life Force Seed out in the public.

"Wait, if these Life Force Seeds are so valuable... why is it that there wasn't any other soul masters there in the forest except for me?" Xiu Ye asked, confused.

Wu Zhangkong raised an eyebrow, "That's because not a lot of soul masters have a spiritual power at the Spirit Abyss Realm while still being a Soul Grandmaster. What you don't know Xiu Ye, is that those with the cultivation base of Soul Emperor and above will be immediately sensed by the black and red-eyed Deathly Hallows in the forest."

"They would come in hordes and swarm them the moment they take several steps into the forest, even if they defeat them they would just come back later on for revenge; that's the reason why not a lot of soul masters would go into the Deathly Hallow. Though Titled Douluos that are on the last few years of their lifespan are said to go to the Deathly Hallow to try and get a black-eyed Deathly Hallow Life Force Seed to increase their lifespan."

Xiu Ye tilted his head to the side, "But not a red-eyed Deathly Hallow?"

"Oh if it were that easy. Even a Limit Douluo with a Three-Word Battle Armor would have a hard time killing one of them. See, those red-eyed Deathly Hallows don't have an average hundred thousand year old soul beast strength, no, they have strength equal to even the strongest Great Beasts." Everyone's eyes widened in shock at what Wu Zhangkong said.

They heard about Great Beasts in the legend of Huo Yuhao, as he himself had four of the top ten Great Beasts in the world, with two being in the top three, as his spirit souls!

Great Beasts are all classified as super soul beasts with more than 200,000 years cultivation base and usually have passed their tribulation period twice. They are ranked by humans not based on strength, power or cultivation base, but on their overall physical, elemental or attribute qualities and capabilities. Currently, there Ten Great Beasts in the world, this ranking list however excludes that of existences in the sea or in the ocean.

For those red-eyed Deathly Hallows to be as powerful as even the strongest Great Beasts and easily fight against a Limit Douluo with a Three-Word Battle Armor, they were thankful that they were trapped in that forest.

Xiu Ye felt cold sweat dropping down his forehead, he asks Tiangou in his mind, 'Oi, Tiangou. How strong is the number one Death Lord in the forest? In terms of age and cultivation.'

'About the same age and cultivation as that whale twenty some thousand years ago, but the guy's overall power... I'd say she even triumphs over that black dragon king in that small forest if I remember about him correctly.' Tiangou said in a easygoing tone of voice.

Xiu Ye almost pissed his pants. A thought suddenly entered his mind however.

'Uhm, Tiangou, I might have forgotten to ask this but, uh, do you still have your Life Source Seed?'

'Hm? Haven't you already seen it?' Tiangou asked, confused.

'...I did?'

'Yeah, remember? At the end of the ritual?' Tiangou said with a tone of voice that roughly says: 'What an idiot.'

Xiu Ye did remember seeing it. His mind suddenly blanched for a moment however, as realization sunk in.

'...Tiangou.'

'Yeah?'

'D-Do I have the same lifespan as you? When I binded your life origin with mine?'

Tiangou's humming voice sounded out as she checks out her life origin and Xiu Ye's own life origin, and said a few moments later, 'Oh yeah. You share the same lifespan as my own, but unlike what that cold guy said, you actually have my entire lifespan shared.'

Xiu Ye's mouth went wide open, he ignored the looks he was getting from his friends and teacher Wu.

D-Does that mean I can live for as long as a hundred thousand years?! The shock of such a revelation would have made him faint right there when he remembered something that Wu Zhangkong hadn't explain to him.

"Hey teacher Wu, why is it shape like a peanut? And why is it called Life Force Seed?"

"...for the former, I do not know. As for it being called Life Force Seed... well, Life Force Peanut didn't sound really cool so..." Xiu Ye and his friends stared at him with flat looks, which Wu Zhangkong shared the same.

"Yeah."

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