"The power generated by physical combat can even exceed that of releasing Spiritual Energy Soul Techniques." A line of narration flashed past.
A dragon claw, wreathed in a cyan-black aura, wrapped around the Heavy Rock Lion’s upper body and twisted with all its might!
BOOM!
A roar like the clap of spring thunder instantly echoed through the air.
The aura spread, and enormous, earthy-yellow boulders fell like meteorites.
Amidst the chaotic rain of stone, the Heavy Rock Lion’s relatively small body broke free. It landed on a boulder and let out a furious roar, its mouth gaping open.
BOOM!
A yellow beam of light several meters thick shot out from the Heavy Rock Lion’s mouth, aimed at the Hurricane Dragon.
Wherever the beam passed, the surrounding air rippled slightly.
"Super Gravity Light Cannon, an Earth Type Lord Level Soul Technique with the property of annihilating biological structures."
Seeing the thick beam of light, the name of the Soul Technique surfaced in Han Ning’s mind.
This was a long-range offensive Soul Technique primarily composed of the Earth Element, possessing an incredibly heavy property. An opponent struck by it would feel as if they were being crushed by several mountains, their body ground to dust by the sheer gravity.
The Hurricane Dragon remained completely unfazed, raising a dragon claw that was no less substantial than the light cannon.
The powerful airflow erupting from their clash blew the surrounding white clouds askew, revealing a patch of azure sky.
The Hurricane Dragon couldn’t withstand the heavy property of the light cannon. Its body was flung back several hundred meters, and it plummeted straight down.
Halfway through its fall, the radiant flames of Dragon Power ignited around its body, dispelling the negative effects of the light cannon and allowing it to barely stabilize itself.
At this stage, the size of a Soul Beast was no longer a reliable indicator of its strength.
"ROAR!!"
"ROAR!"
The dragon and the lion faced each other from a distance, opened their cavernous mouths, and roared at the sky.
Next came a series of super slow-motion shots breaking down the Hurricane Dragon’s release of Dragon Twister, which Han Ning quickly skipped past.
...
Back in reality.
Physical tempering had to be synchronized with Spiritual Energy, using highly compressed Energy to forge the body so that a War General Level Soul Beast could gradually transform and attain the physique of a Lord Level being.
Advancing from War General Level to Lord Level was a leap in life itself, different from an evolution that would awaken a bloodline, change one’s form, and improve one’s Talent.
A breakthrough in Level was a pure increase in strength.
Egg Pancake had received a legacy of knowledge about Energy Compression and a series of combat techniques related to physical tempering. Its expression turned dazed, as if it were frantically processing this information.
Han Ning didn’t disturb it. Instead, he closed the passage to the Soul Beast Space, letting it comprehend the new knowledge in peace.
Next, he took out Crystal Stones of other Attributes and continued helping Yin Yi raise its power.
Yin Yi’s Level was already at War General IV, but its Cultivation Progress wasn’t full. Now, after absorbing just a couple of Crystal Stones, its Level reached the limit, a point where no more could be added.
Once Yin Yi’s Level reached the War General Limit, just like with Egg Pancake, a small tip about unlocking an advanced technique appeared at the bottom of its data panel.
However, unlike Egg Pancake, Yin Yi’s advanced techniques included an additional one—Simultaneous Casting.
[An Elemental Spiritual Energy-type Soul Beast that has mastered extraordinary Casting techniques. It is extremely sensitive to Elemental Perception and can simultaneously release multiple Soul Techniques of different Attributes and types.]
"Simultaneous Casting..."
Seeing the description on the panel, three words immediately popped into Han Ning’s mind: ’Magic Cannon Platform.’
Still, he didn’t quite understand what this Simultaneous Casting technique truly entailed. He remembered that even before mastering this skill, Yin Yi could already cast the Wood Attribute’s Cyan Wood Radiance and the Ice Attribute’s Ice Crystal Bomb at the same time.
The unlocking cost was also 10,000 Energy Points. Since he had already unlocked the related knowledge for Egg Pancake, Han Ning felt he shouldn’t show favoritism and decisively unlocked the technique for Yin Yi as well.
WHOOSH~
A cyan-green light flickered and condensed in front of him, forming a cyan Energy Body shaped like a little girl, its edges flickering with an unsteady glow.
[Energy Projection - C Talent - Qingsen Wood Spirit - A pure Wood Attribute Elemental Soul Beast]
"Mii~"
The Qingsen Wood Spirit’s actions were the same as the Fierce Striped Cat’s before it; it first demonstrated the technique for Energy Compression to Yin Yi.
Egg Pancake was a flesh-and-blood Soul Beast. Its comprehension of Spiritual Energy and its internal reserves were actually not as high as Yin Yi’s, who specialized in the Spiritual Energy path.
Therefore... the Energy Compression Technique for a Spiritual Energy-type Soul Beast would be even more complex.
Based on Han Ning’s observations, Yin Yi’s control over Spiritual Energy was already very close to the Gathering Spirit level. The technique displayed by the Qingsen Wood Spirit was even more complex than the Fierce Striped Cat’s.
If the Fierce Striped Cat had compressed Energy to the centimeter level, then the Spiritual Energy-focused Qingsen Wood Spirit could already compress it to the millimeter level.
However, the Elemental Soul Beast did not teach the technique for physical tempering. In its place was Simultaneous Casting.
The Qingsen Wood Spirit also gave a demonstration of this.
It raised its right hand, formed entirely from cyan light-flames, and made a grasping motion in the air before it.
First, a 10-meter-long, chopstick-thin, highly compressed Cyan Wood Radiance appeared.
Then, under the Qingsen Wood Spirit’s control, another Cyan Wood Radiance of the exact same size materialized beside the first.
After that, one Cyan Wood Radiance after another emerged in front of its small hand.
In just a few seconds, it had condensed no fewer than 50 streams of Cyan Wood Radiance!
At the same time, without any visible movement from the Qingsen Wood Spirit, its petite body began to be enveloped by thick vines, rapidly growing from one meter tall into a three-meter-tall "behemoth" made entirely of vines.
During this transformation, dense vines shot out in all directions. An uncountable number of Cyan Wood Radiance streams emerged from the surface of each vine, strafing wildly everywhere.
Fortunately, the condensed Cyan Wood Radiance streams had no attack power. Otherwise... if a Soul Technique array of this scale was unleashed with the destructive power of Yin Yi’s Soul Techniques, the entire academy would probably be reduced to ruins.
’Whoa... If Yin Yi could previously cast four or five Soul Techniques at once, then the number of Soul Techniques this Qingsen Wood Spirit is releasing is simply uncountable... A cannon platform indeed. Is this the overwhelming power of an Elemental Soul Beast...?’
Han Ning’s face showed his astonishment. Beside him, Yin Yi looked as if a whole new world had opened up to it, staring intently at the demonstrating Wood Spirit.
After demonstrating the Simultaneous Casting technique, the Wood Spirit seemed to run out of Energy and transformed into a stream of Flowing Light, burrowing into Yin Yi’s body.
A new segment of knowledge appeared in Han Ning’s mind.
"Not bad, Yin Yi. Go and comprehend it well." He patted Yin Yi’s back encouragingly.
"Ling!"
Yin Yi swung its arm forcefully, as if to show it would study hard!
’Now, for the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm...’
The All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm had previously burrowed into that giant heart and obtained an abundance of flesh-and-blood power. Now it was lying dazedly inside his body, like a drunkard.
Like a nouveau riche, Han Ning took out some precious War General Level Dark Soul Crystals, used them all, and pushed the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm’s Level to the War General Limit as well.
To his surprise, however, the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm didn’t get any techniques like Yin Yi and Egg Pancake did. Instead, there was only a tip that didn’t require any Energy Points to be spent.
[From Quantitative to Qualitative Change: The All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm continuously absorbs the flesh-and-blood energy of living creatures. After converting all the Blood Qi in its body into Spirit Blood, it will meet the criteria for evolution.]
[Current Conversion Progress: 27%]
[Spirit Blood]: The Blood Qi energy contained in 1 drop of Spirit Blood is comparable to the total Blood Qi of a single War General Level All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm. Spirit Blood possesses powerful regenerative abilities. As long as a single drop of Spirit Blood exists, the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm can regenerate from that drop, making it immortal.
’Converting ordinary Blood Qi into Spirit Blood... this is basically the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm’s exclusive Energy Compression Technique, isn’t it? A higher-level flesh-and-blood compression technique? As expected of a special Soul Beast. Egg Pancake has to learn techniques, but the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm just needs to eat, eat, eat.’
Han Ning mused to himself.
The All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm’s other brethren had to put in tremendous effort to level up or evolve. But this little guy just had to eat, sleep when full, eat when it woke up, get all plump, and it could evolve in its sleep.
Its one and only drawback was that the little guy wasn’t very smart; it was a bit of a blockhead.
"Gumi~"
Perhaps sensing that its master was making fun of it, the little fat silkworm inside his body mumbled in its sleep, turned its plump body over, and went right back to sleep.
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