Chapter 175: Seven Palaces! (1/2)

Chapter 175: Seven Palaces!

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Fatty resembled a lighthouse that would never extinguish its light. He kept spitting out flames, shining a dazzling light upon his figure towering in the darkness.

After sympathizing with Fatty, everyone hurriedly went back to training.

Shi Xueman was somewhat shocked with the surging elemental energy in her body. She had a greater understanding of elemental food than the average individual because she frequently consumed it.

Whether it was fiery-winged snake eggs, heavenly-eyed yak, or fragrant lotus golden toad, they were all dire beast-based ingredients; however, among the levels of dire beast-based ingredients, they were still considered to be entry-level ingredients.

The difference in quality between dire beast-based ingredients heavily affected their efficacy and cost.

The Avalon of Five Elements had stringently differentiated not only the level of dire beast-based food ingredients, but all of the materials which were dire beast-based. There were a total of eight levels: Heaven, Earth, Mysterious, Gold, Universe, Eternity, Flood, and Desolate.

Other than the rarity of the dire beasts from which they were derived, the preparation methods of the ingredients also played an important role in determining their quality level. Unique, skillful, and meticulous preparation methods could greatly increase the quality level of certain ingredients.

Central Pine City was just an average, small city in the Induction Ground. There were thousands of cities like it in the Induction Ground. Small and isolated cities that were located in the safest areas at the rear of the Induction Ground had little need for high-level food ingredients.

The magistrate’s office’s reserve contained mostly dire beast-based materials; as such, it was natural for Ai Hui to receive so many valuable dire beast-based ingredients.

Nevertheless, the beneficial effects of the elemental soup were… surprisingly outstanding!

Shi Xueman was extremely surprised. This proved that the elemental soup had retained at least fifty percent of the beneficial effects of the ingredients used. Such outstanding effects could only be achieved with a high utility rate of the ingredients.

She knew that such a top-quality elemental soup was hard to come by.

Currently, instead of being jealous of Ai Hui for having Lou Lan, she was curious about Lou Lan’s background. Even those elementalists who were skilled in preparing elemental soup would find it hard to produce such top-quality elemental soup. It would take extraordinary individuals to produce such a result.

Lou Lan’s background was not that simple after all.

She did not, however, want to pursue an answer just to satisfy her curiosity. Asking about someone else’s background was extremely rude and considered a taboo.

After drinking such outstanding elemental soup, the most important thing for her to do now was to train and absorb the nutrients of the soup. Such top-quality elemental soup was extremely beneficial for students who were in the middle of training.

Everyone was focused on their training except for Fatty... Shi Xueman could not help but cast a sympathetic look in his direction. Indeed, not a single one of Ai Hui’s friends was normal…

She cast an involuntary glance at Ai Hui and was stunned.

Such a weird posture!

Ai Hui was neither in bow stance nor horse stance. He was holding his sword with one hand with his elbow pointed down and his sword pointing up, forming a straight line between his glabella and the sword.

Shi Xueman’s eyes were sharp and she immediately noticed that the tip of Ai Hui’s sword was synchronized with his breathing in some mysterious way.

What inheritance was this?

She was very curious as she had never seen such a unique posture. Perhaps it was some sort of swordsmanship training method?

Suddenly, Shi Xueman discovered that her understanding towards swordsmanship was pathetic. She could not be blamed for her lack of understanding; after all, swordsmanship was really outdated and there were not many swordsmanship inheritances that were distinctive.

She was no longer in a hurry to train after her interest was piqued.

In terms of elemental energy reserves, she and Sang Zhijun had the most among everyone here. Furthermore, they were graduating soon. The Induction Ground’s criterion for graduation was very simple; all they had to do was attain Eight Palaces Completion.

She was just one step away from attaining it.

Among these people, she and Sang Zhijun had benefitted the least from the dire beast-based elemental soup.

Previously, during the battle with the blood mantis, she had felt that she would soon make a breakthrough.

When she suddenly saw the unique and seemingly powerful swordsmanship inheritance from Ai Hui, she became extremely curious.

As compared to the level of curiosity that she had for Lou Lan, the level of curiosity she had for Ai Hui was a hundred times greater. She saw with her own eyes how Ai Hui had blocked the blood bat’s attack. She had also personally experienced how a guy who had activated only four palaces could become the leader of their group.

She decided to observe him carefully.

Ai Hui did not know Shi Xueman was secretly observing him. At the moment, he was focusing entirely on his training.

His body’s condition was neither good nor bad; he was unable to even gauge his condition accurately.

He had accidentally activated seven palaces and this was a huge boost to his strength; however, his lungs and the seven palaces that were being repaired by the “spiritual force” did not seem to be too secure. Other than fusing with his lungs and the seven palaces, the rest of the “spiritual force” had been expelled and directed towards the ground by using [Arching Fish Back].

Ai Hui was worried about whether or not the “seventh palace” would work.

His lungs and seven palaces had been repaired by the “spiritual force”, not elemental energy. It was still unknown whether or not he could continue to develop his elemental energy.

Very soon, Ai Hui realized that he had worried for nothing.

As he breathed, the elemental energy from the elemental soup steadily flowed into his limbs and bones, nourishing his blood and muscles. Lou Lan had definitely considered the injuries in his body when cooking, as Ai Hui realized that the injuries within his five residences and eight palaces had healed significantly.

Ai Hui was more surprised by his sword embryo. This time, his sword embryo did not absorb any elemental energy during the Circulatory Cycle Revolution.

Weird! Did the sword embryo’s nature change?

Ai Hui just could not figure out what was going on. Previously, his sword embryo would seize any opportunity to absorb elemental energy, but now, it suddenly did want to come into contact with any. Ai Hui was puzzled by this. Could something have happened to the sword embryo as well?

As Ai Hui proceeded with the Circulatory Circle Revolution, what he had been worried about did not happen. Since the sword embryo did not try to absorb any of the elemental energy, his Circulatory Circle Revolution proceeded smoothly. The palaces were filling up faster than usual.

Shi Xueman noticed that the Dragonspine Inferno suddenly gave off a faint glow, looking extremely striking in the dark. She became even more curious.

Suddenly, she cast a glance at Duanmu Huanghun, as if she had sensed something.

Duanmu Huanghun’s sea palace was emitting a green glow.

He was truly the most exceptional genius of the Duanmu clan’s younger generation!