Chapter 325 - Seeing What Shouldnt Be Seen (1/2)

Chapter 325 - Seeing What Shouldn't Be Seen

With Feng Wuyu's workshop behind him, Tang Wulin felt his whole body relax, limbs no longer held tightly together by ropes of tension. Just thinking about how an unreasonable madman like Feng Wuyu would respond to rejection sent s.h.i.+vers down his spine. Fortunately, Feng Wuyu showed a modic.u.m of rationality today and let him off the hook. That wasn't to say Tang Wulin didn't understand the importance of blacksmithing, but it was not his number one priority right now.

However, Tang Wulin would be lying to say he wasn't at least curious about Feng Wuyu's special method. Especially if it could boost his soul power without any side effects. It likely required the consumption of heavenly spirit items. Even so, ten spirit refined products was too large of a price for Tang Wulin to hand over.

He had no choice but to be stingy. In order to refine his blood essence, he had to sh.e.l.l out the money for the spirit items necessary to break his seals. This was impossible to accomplish unless he saved every penny! Once sixteen, he would have to break one seal a year, and judging from the items required to shatter the third seal, he could only imagine the outrageous treasures needed for the later ones. There was no way he had enough cash stashed right now.

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Night creeped along, each working student nestled within their dorms not letting out a peep.

Flitting his eyes open, Xie Xie spared a glance at Tang Wulin. He was currently cultivating in his bed, a thick aura of blood essence lingering around him. His body burst with vitality. Whenever he cultivated with Tang Wulin, Xie Xie felt more motivated. And while his soul power rank may be higher than Tang Wulin's, he had never felt superior to him.

Climbing off his bed with the full grace of a cat, a slight tap from his feet touching the ground and nothing more, Xie Xie crept past Tang Wulin's bed. Careful to not alarm the two girls, who slept on the other side of the curtain splitting their room in half, he kept this act and snuck out the door.

Xie Xie basked in the refres.h.i.+ng night breeze once outside. He looked to the sky, eyes trembling with one part frustration and two parts resolve.

For the past few days, he had been working hard reshaping and improving himself. His understanding of himself grew twofold after the compet.i.tion for presidency.

Stepping foot into Shrek Academy had forced Xie Xie to reevaluate his strength relative to his peers. It was a hard thing to swallow. Back in Eastsea City, he had been among the cream of the crop, but now, he was barely above average. He had understood Tang Wulin was strong back then, but he had thought he could still compete with his speed. However, Tang Wulin's improvement rate went beyond his imagination. He didn't believe it at first. Tang Wulin's advancement did not slip one bit.The combination of his destructive golden dragon claw and Tang Sect secret arts placed him higher than Xie Xie now.

But perhaps most important was their difference in combat ability. Xie Xie had never been his match in this regard.

Elder Cai's criticism had served as a wakeup call for him. Since then, he redoubled his efforts into mastering the mysterious Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track

He could produce clones with both his martial souls, not to mention invisible ones using his Shadow Dragon Dagger. Heeding Elder Cai's advice, he worked on polis.h.i.+ng his advantages and minimizing his weaknesses.

He realized he lacked control, since he had never invested much effort to improve it. This realization spurred Xie Xie to practice Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track with one clone. Because of this, he managed to achieve favorable results in the cla.s.s compet.i.tion. He had accomplished the amazing feat of winning a one-against-two match at Shrek Academy, not to mention that his opponents were both control-types.

But after the cla.s.s compet.i.tion, Shen Yi had asked him and Xu Xiaoyan if they wanted to throw their hats into the ring for the vice-president positions. Although he had given up in the end, he wasn't completely convinced.

Despite that, he understood why Shen Yi posed the question to him. He wasn't strong enough! Not even he could deny this fact. Furthermore, he lacked the confidence to fill a vice-president's shoes.

As Xie Xie recalled that scene, he couldn't help but clench his fist. Aside from that, one other thing left a deep impression on him: Wu Siduo's self-soul fusion skill.

Just like her, he had twin martial souls, though they weren't considered true ones since he had to get each of them soul rings at the same time. However, because Light Dragon Dagger and Shadow Dragon Dagger were extremely similar, there was a possibility he could pull off a self-soul fusion skill as well. This idea had been gnawing at Xie Xie lately.

With his current cultivation and the characteristics of his twin martial souls, Xie Xie was confident he could ascend to the Genius Youths Ranking with a self-soul fusion skill under his belt.

As such, he had been wracking his brain on how to do this. Unfortunately, he found little success.

Unable to focus on meditation tonight, Xie Xie sought fresh air. The cool night breeze cleared his mind of clutter. If I can't do it by myself, then I'll just have to ask Teacher Wu for help. Maybe he'll have an idea on how to get me a self-soul fusion skill.

As he mulled things over, Xie Xie strolled around the dormitory. The walk helped ease his mind.

A few minutes later, he saw a bright glow spreading from one of the rooms.

Huh. Isn't there supposed to be no one living there? Why's the light on? Xie Xie's gaze sharpened.

Gently pus.h.i.+ng off the ground, he skulked over to the room's window. He took a peek.