Chapter 16 : * Spoiler *
It has been quite a few days since we crushed the Wolf taken tribe. However, we had to stay behind to heal the women and kids held imprisoned in the village. Because poison in drinking water doesn't discriminate.
In fact, poison doesn't discriminate against its user. Therefore, the only reason I survived the potent poisons I keep using is because I am stuffing the poison into the Wind tiger Left leg soul bone.
Of course, the people we rescued will never know we were behind the poison or even the fact poison was used.
Instead, I had been helping Ye Lingling in healing them while also teaching her as much medical knowledge as I can. However, she is showing far too much progress. It might be because of her martial soul, but they completed a year's worth of med school studies in a few months.
"Big Brother Zhang Kun, we were done with the healing of the amputated women and giving them the prosthetics or wheelchairs. Is there anything else to do?"
Looking at my Junior sister, I smiled.
She is much more competent and serious, unlike my infatuated teacher, who is clearly smitten with Su Muan.
I can't believe he is happily fucking with the women who seduced him for information.
[Chapter 14: She is the one from Shian Ti' s team who seduced Mo Tian for information.]
If it was me, I would never even think about it. My paranoid nature would keep making me doubt her at every second. Perhaps, that is why teacher can be happy while I don't seem to have any peace.
"U-Um, Z-Zhang Kun, May I come in?"
"Hmm,"
I gave Ye Lingling a sharp look, which got her to put away her disgusted look and called in Chu Jian, " Come inside, Big brother Chu Jian."
The one who come inside my tent was Chu Jian, an 18-year-old orphan who was allowed to stay alive by the wolf tribe. The reason for that becomes clear to anyone who sees him.
He has silver hair all over his body, which combined with his bulky built would have given him a rough hairy look. But, it was not meant to be when one looks at his right hand, a long hand completely covered in thick fur and sharp claws growing from his hand.
Chu Jian, a level 9, Wolf Hand-marital soul.
It is the rare body, marital soul that is shunned across the world. Unlike normal soul masters, the martial soul of the body soul masters is part of their body.
Coupled with the fact the hand looks exactly like the StormWind demon wolf tribe, no wonder the survivors from the village hate him.
"Zhang K-Kun, I informed sir Shian Ti of your message regarding that the patients. T-That they can move now without worsening their c-conditions ."
Feeling curious about the Shian TI who seemed to have locked himself, I asked Chu Jian, "So, what's his answer?"
"H-He said that he was waiting for this for days. He will make preparations and ensure everything is ready for us to move first thing in the morning."
Hmm, what's going on? Shian Ti has locked himself for days. Is he about to breakthrough or is he hiding something else?
[Author: ~_~]
I thought we had some level of trust, but he was hiding something. I just can't help myself from suspecting if he was sent on orders from the Star Luo empire. But, there is a reason even I put aside my suspicion. It is because we are too weak.
If Shian Ti wants to capture us, he can do that as long as he was ready to pay the price. The only ones who can put up a fight are Teacher, Mr and Miss Ju. Me, Ye Lingling and Ju Lian can be support at best.
Of course, given enough time, I can poison anyone to death. It might be because of the effect of that night's success, I am becoming more and more enamoured with poison.
"...kun, big Brother Zhang Kun, CAN YOU HEAR ME?"
I was knocked from my thoughts by Ye Lingling's call. I saw she was pouting due to me disregarding her. Because of that, I couldn't help myself from pinching her cheeks.
It was one habit that followed in into this life, pinching the cheeks of cute kids.
"AH, AH, enough. Teacher has become weird in the last few days. You see..."
I immediately got up and said, "Wait a minute, I need to go out for a second."
Fuck no, I am not in the mood to give sex education to a child.
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Seeing I was far from the village, I took out the Right leg soul bone from Cyan Wolf taken. Fuck, a 30,000-year-old soul bone. If the left soul bone from prince Dai Huo could be considered a treasure then, this is an even better.
In my estimates, my left soul bone is between 10000-20000. This soul bone alone can make my soul level get another enormous boost.
So, I immediately started on the task by absorbing the soul bone.
ROARRRRRRRRRRRR
Feeling the mad blood lust that came from the soul bone, I was fucking surprised. However, I am no joke.
Shut up
It didn't even need the help of the consciousness in my soul rings. The blood lust was easily controlled with my willpower alone.
Soon, I ran my experiment for external soul bone tail.
[Starting the experiment no 2.
Processing the data.....
Attributes Fire: 50%, Ice: 50%.....
ERROR
Resonance from left leg soul bone towards the soul power from Right leg soul bone.
Stabilization of soul power from Right leg soul bone- completed
Experiment failed]
"AGH!"
Fuck, I couldn't even do a thing before the soul power that stabilized run through my soul pathways, increasing my level to 23.
"Hahaha! It's ironic that an opportunity others envy has become my curse."
Soul bones having resonance is a good thing. Meaning one can form a soul bone armour like Tang san. Of course, Tang san's case is not applicable because his soul bone was forced to become compatible under the power of Godhood.
However, this once in a lifetime miracle is the one that disrupted my experiment to form an external soul bone.
SIGH
"Happy thoughts, Happy thoughts Zhang Kun."
After a reminder to myself, I immediately activated the soul skill, "Madness."
I could feel my muscles bulge from the soul power that is rampaging in my body. Soon, I could feel my eyes, ears and even my skin grew sensitive. Along with them, an intense desire to kill is surging through me.
[Processing....
100% increase in defence, speed and strength]
Taking a deep breath, I activated the pseudo purple eye technique I made.
I felt my spiritual power move to my eyes, bringing intense relief from the overwhelming killing intent, clearing the haze that came over my mind.
I felt like smiling whenever I look at my spiritual power.
[ Spiritual power: Spirit Origin Peak [Bottleneck] ]
However, the bottleneck is the only thing that is stopping me from entering the next realm, the spirit connection realm. The place where my I can begin to truly control my spiritual power. Unlike my current self, who put half a foot in it, ensuring me the ability to feel but unable to use it.
CREAK CREAK
But, I must say this again, the power of this skill is incredible. Feeling my bones creak from the sheer power in my body, I felt intoxicated.
Summoning my silver alloy hammers, I charge them with soul power, far surpassing my limit of gear 5.
Kept on charging
[Warning, Soul power depleting ..]
Not caring about that, I continued. A soul skill which was the intended version of a rippling wave, always out of my grasp, is here.
My body, under the state of Madness, can do it.
Feeling my hammer on the right lit up with fire because of my Fire claws and my hammer on the left chilled because of the roar of ice, I felt like laughing like a madman.
Under the power of my spiritual power, I held down the pain of my body being ripped apart and swung them while balancing the attributes according to my AI.
"Sun-Moon revolution,"
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Seeing the rising sun, I absorbed the purple Qi for the day. Instead of feeling the cool sensation, I only felt the need to sleep.
Still, I felt like snickering although my broken body was bleeding heavily in a 100 meter wide crater.
"ZHANG KUN."
Oh well, I will sleep.
--------------- A month later, Barrak kingdom's border with Heavenly Dou empire-------------
It has been more than a week for me to heal. Of course, the major reason for is Ye Lingling's incredible martial soul. However, the data I got from the experiment is enough for me to finally to form the skeleton of my ultimate soul skill.
A soul skill that will be synonymous with me.
[Sun-Moon Revolution: An explosion that occurs at the contact of opposite attributes, ice and fire, powered by the same soul power.
Side effect-1 : 100% shutdown of the host's soul power pathways.
Side effect-2 : Host suffers damage because of being at the centre of blast radius.
Improvement: The opposing rotation from the two attributes.]
Despite its outstanding name, it is a half-baked soul skill. Forget about it being a close-mid range soul kill. The fact it harms me might be a joke.
A joke that everyone seems to point out at me. However, I know that the self-destruction is only because my body can't bear the damage from fire and ice. So, I just need to avert that.
It is only a matter of time before it is perfected.
We stopped in this countryside border town for only one reason. Because this restaurant in which we are currently having our lunch is the meeting spot designated by the Nine heart flowering apple user.
That's right. The lie I told Shian Ti transformed into reality.
The blacksmith association has accepted to be the mediator between the two nine heart flowering apple users in the world.
We are not well-received by the blacksmith association right now. Two princes of the Star Luo empire ordered a ban on the new weapons orders. But since they aren't the emperor, the order was only followed in name. Secretly, the weapon trade thrived due to the ongoing conflict.
But the fact remains the rising status of blacksmiths has stopped since my foray into the conflict for the throne backfired.
"Say, Ahh,"
"Ahh,"
The moment the teacher opened his mouth, a grape landed in it, while Su Muan started peeling the apples.
Mo Tian, my teacher, is happily eating the apples that Su Muan has .
It was at this point that I realized why I have such a problem with teacher and Su Muan's relation. Because I am jealous.
Of course, not like the envy of their sexual relationship. Instead, it is because they are happy.
The surety of their love for each other in such a short time, even in this suffocating situation.
The only other person who shares my feelings of pressure, unable to be at peace, is Shian Ti. Obviously, the reasons behind that are vastly different.
It frankly baffles me I am seeing a real life ntr. Though, it was done by teacher unknown to all the parties involved, including teacher himself.
Of course, If I was in my previous life, Hollywood would have shown this as a love triangle/comedy.
"Good god, these people are like a band of wastes enjoying life rather than a group of fugitives."
The sudden voice coming from the seat in front of my table scared the shot of me.
It was only a blink, after which I saw two people sitting in front of me. A middle-aged woman with red hair and green eyes, with heavenly built, sat in front of me, accompanied by a blonde youth in his twenties or late teenage years who seem to smile at me.
It didn't even need to be said; she is a saint. Unlike the previous time, I am meeting one in real life.
Healing martial soul or not, just the sheer amount of soul power she has is enough to press us into the ground out of suffocation.
Of course, we didn't get such a treatment because of a single reason.
"Ye Lingling, come on."
With a wave of my hand, Ye Lingling, who was eating her food with her parents, stood up. However, she seemed to have frozen in fear at the lady.
"Come child. There is no need to fear me."
The moment the lady completed her words, it feels like I swam up from underwater. The sheer amount of air I took at once made me feel grateful for breathing.
Ye Lingling curiously went to towards the Soul saint, as if one sentence is enough to forget what we experienced just now.
Apparently, it is enough.
Considering that, Ye Lingling started laughing and giggling with the soul saint in the few moments of daze I had. It seems in the brief conversation I missed; the soul saint has convinced Ye Lingling into showing her martial soul. As soon, she possessed her martial soul, her yellow soul ring rose into the air, making the soul saint, happily laugh, "Good, good. At least your talent has not been destroyed. Even the spirit beast seems you chose seems to be good, for you're the flower for it to be so vibrant."
Ye Lingling giggled like she was talking with a relative that spoiled her. "Yes, it was the master who chooses the right spirit beast for me."
That spoiled the mood of the soul saint. My master immediately got down on the knees and said, "Forgive me, Nine Heart saint, I didn't know how special Ye Lingling was when I accepted her as a disciple because of my ignorance."
The nine heart saint released her martial soul, the Nine heart flowering apple, which released 2 yellow, 2 purple, 3 black soul rings. "Hmm, I wonder. You can't be so ignorant that you don't know about the innate soul power?"
The backs of everyone turned cold at that. While the novels showed the innate soul power as if they are too common, they are not. Innate soul means the soul master has the qualifications to reach the Title Doulou, a level which is impossible for me right now.
So, no wonder she is unhappy that Ye Lingling got a useless [her perspective] master, making it difficult for her to find a more powerful master.
Seeing that things are becoming heated, I immediately got down to my knees and said greeted the youth, "It is a pleasure to meet you again, Prince Xue Qinghe. It is an honour to meet the crown prince of the Heavenly Dou empire again. As per my vow back then, I returned with the gift I promised."
The moment I revealed his identity, everyone kneeled one after another.
Unlike the Star Luo empire, the Heavenly Dou empire's inheritance is clear.
The person before them is destined to rule half of the continent, from unimaginable heights.
Just the fact that the soul saint silently retreated to stand behind the seemingly ordinary youth was enough to show how terrifying his status was in terms of power.
The silence in the room was demeaning. For people on my side, it must be shock, especially Shian Ti, who would have never thought my so-called contact was the fucking crown prince.
As for the silence on the prince's part, it is a power play. At least, that is what normal folks think.
Considering it has been a year since the assassination of the Heavenly Dou emperor, I am sure that the prince doesn't remember me. Because I didn't meet the fucking prince.
In fact, this is the first time I saw him in real life and the prince didn't know that. No, it is right to say that Qian Renxue, who has stolen the identity of the prince using the orchestrate assassination on the emperor, would not know if I met the prince.
Title : Qian Renxue