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"This kid …" What exactly is this freak?! " After a long while, Shen Jiuyou's face finally twitched. Amidst his shocked mutterings, he was filled with disbelief.
He was the creator of the Nine Nether Thunder Soul Tempering Technique and knew better than anyone in the world how difficult it was to cultivate it.
According to Shen Jiuyou's initial estimate, although Ye Hao's talent was not bad, if he wanted to transform his mind into a soul, Ye Hao would need at least two months or so.
After all, although the Nether Lightning Seed was refined by him and its power wasn't as terrifying as the most primitive, with the mind of a Body Tempering Stage cultivator, even if he cultivated for the first time, he would probably only be able to endure thirty or so times before reaching his limit.
But right now, Ye Hao, within half a day, endured 276 times and his mind transformed into a soul. That completely overturned Shen Jiuyou's imagination.
He was very clear that although the lightning that Ye Hao attracted could not be considered the real power of the Dark Thunder, it was not something that even a Spiritual Sense's mind could handle.
"276 times. It seems that this little guy's soul is not simple at all …" Shen Jiuyou's sword-like eyebrows creased, while his deep eyes revealed a look of contemplation.
"Uncle Shen, it's done!" This cultivation technique is not as difficult as you said it was. " At this time, Ye Hao had already entered the Gray Bead space again, and was looking at his current state with a novel expression. His delicate and pretty face was filled with joy, and there was even a trace of boasting on it.
He could feel that after his mind transformed into his soul, both his perception and reaction became much stronger than before. This feeling of clarity was something he had never experienced before. Even with Ye Hao's mental state, he couldn't help but feel a bit relaxed.
Shen Jiuyou, on the other hand, was speechless. He wanted to give a few punches, but when he thought about how the youth had only taken half a day to transform his mind into a Spiritual Sense, he could not help but bitterly smile and shake his head.
Ye Hao's abnormal cultivation speed was too much of an impact for him.
"Kid, the attack you received did not even reach a thousandth of the power of the Nether Thunder, what do you have to be proud of? In the path of cultivation, the most taboo is to be arrogant and impetuous. Your path … It's still growing. " Shen Jiuyou displayed the bearing of a Grandmaster, disdainfully looking down at Ye Hao, while his gaze, on the other hand, carefully sized up the youth that had just transformed into a Spiritual Sense, thick confusion appeared in the depths of his eyes.
From his point of view, Ye Hao's soul was just like other people's when they first evolved. It was very weak and illusionary. There was nothing special about it.
"What a strange boy."
Shen Jiuyou couldn't understand why Ye Hao was able to withstand such a large amount of Netherthunder for the first time. It was truly against common sense.
"Hehe, so it's not even one in ten thousand yet." Ye Hao laughed foolishly, but he was not discouraged at all.
Although he couldn't even get close to the [Dark Thunder Seal] now, he believed that one day, he would be able to withstand the power of the [Dark Thunder] 's tempering.
Ye Hao gradually suppressed his joy after saying this. His spirit drifted to Shen Jiuyou's side. He looked at the black cloud chains binding his limbs and said, "Liu Tie, try again."
Shen Jiuyou nodded. He was also a bit nervous. If Ye Hao's soul transformation could not help him get rid of this chain, then his last chance of survival would be completely cut off.
Fortunately, Ye Hao's soul trembled in pain after grabbing one of the chains, but he was not sent flying.
He used his mind to communicate with the vast Spiritual Array. After a few breaths, the black cloud chain wrapped around Shen Jiuyou's arm suddenly collapsed and shattered as if it had consciousness. It turned into a grey mist and entered the Black Cloud Barrier behind Shen Jiuyou and completely disappeared.
"Done!" Seeing one of the chains disappear, Ye Hao's expression became happy. Looking at the vast and spectacular Black Cloud Barrier in front of him, he felt absent-minded.
He never thought that his own consciousness would actually be able to communicate with this terrifying Spiritual Array.
Shen Jiuyou, on the other hand, had a look of joy on his face as he asked: "Brat, you communicated with this Spiritual Array using your consciousness, have you found anything?"
Hearing that, Ye Hao frowned and shook his head: "I don't have any special feelings, or even …" I'm not even sure if it's because of me. "
This Spiritual Array that connected heaven and earth, and was so extravagant that it was hard to imagine, was truly beyond Ye Hao's knowledge.
Previously, when he held onto the black cloud chain, he only had the thought of letting it dissipate. Although the chain did dissipate in the end, he did not get any feedback from the Spiritual Array, so much that he could not even sense its existence.
"Forget it, let's ignore it for now." Shen Jiuyou let out a sigh. He was anxious to reach the other chain to Ye Hao. He had been trapped here for too long, so he didn't want to stay here any longer.
Very quickly, Ye Hao removed the last chain for him, Shen Jiuyou's figure moved as fast as lightning, and rushed far away, immediately turning to look at the vast and spectacular Black Cloud Barrier, he angrily scolded: "You f * cker, if you have the ability to suck Old Master Shen again! In the short span of a few months, you've already drained seventy percent of Liu Tie's soul power.
The Black Cloud Barrier seemed to understand Shen Jiuyou's curses and started rolling.
"F * ck!" Shen Jiuyou's expression changed and he quickly shut his mouth. His body turned into a ray of light and rushed into the distance.
Ye Hao couldn't help but feel speechless as he looked at the direction the former disappeared in. This cheap Master was really something … Weird.
Shaking his head, he looked at the Black Cloud Barrier deeply, then quickly left.
After a long while, Ye Hao finally arrived at an open area and saw Shen Jiuyou, who had a face full of anger. Shen Jiuyou was cursing in a low voice, obviously, the shadow that the Black Cloud Barrier gave him was extremely huge.
Seeing Ye Hao, he seemed to have found an outlet to vent his anger, and said with an angry face: "Old Master Shen has lived for so long, but I've never seen such an evil Spiritual Array. I really don't know which wicked bastard set it up here."
Ye Hao said with a wry smile, "Uncle Shen, don't provoke it."
"Brat, you really don't have a goal." Shen Jiuyou rolled his eyes and scolded, "Such a rare super Spiritual Array like this is the highest goal of my generation's Spiritual Array Masters. Naturally, I have to thoroughly study it."
"Alright, I won't waste any more words with you. Liu Tie's soul power consumption is too great. He needs to properly rest for a period of time." Shen Jiuyou sat cross-legged and with a flick of his right finger, two streams of light shot into the space between Ye Hao's eyebrows.
"When your soul is in the initial stages of condensing, Old Master Shen will pass on two array diagrams to you. As long as you can successfully arrange one of the Spiritual Array s, don't even mention Ye Tianlin, you can even fight against Life Sea Stage cultivators."
Checking the two mysterious Spiritual Array Diagrams in his mind, Ye Hao's face burned with passion. He nodded to Shen Jiuyou who had already closed his eyes and gone silent, then left the space.
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The next day, early in the morning.
The sun was shining and a breeze was blowing.
After Ye Hao informed Qing Wu, he stood in the courtyard and looked towards the Black Mountain Range with a solemn expression.
It was getting closer and closer to the enrollment period of the Tianxuan Academy. He had to make himself as strong as possible in the remaining time until he could contend against Ye Tianlin.
The current him, although he had only just revealed his Spiritual Sense's power and was already at the beginner stage of the path of Spiritual Array, after a night of studying, Ye Hao had also realized that the two Spiritual Array diagrams that Shen Jiuyou taught him were simply too profound and obscure. If he wanted to successfully arrange them, he still needed to continue cultivating.
Of course, on the basis of cultivating the Spiritual Array, he had to go to the Black Mountain Range to sharpen himself and try to refine the drop of the Blood Essence's power that was left in his body.
There were two ways out. As long as he succeeded in one, he was confident that he could win the placings from Ye Tianlin four months later.
After Ye Hao made up his mind, he didn't waste any more time. He let out a sigh and walked out of the courtyard.
On the martial stage, a group of two or three youths of Ye Family were chatting and laughing together. Seeing Ye Hao appear, everyone simultaneously quieted down. Their gazes towards the youth were complicated and filled with reverence.
As for the clansmen who used to mock the most, they shrunk their necks back in embarrassment, not daring to look the former in the eye.
The current Ye Hao, not only had his strength completely recovered, he had also successfully entered the clan's Martial Hall. Whether it was strength or position, he far surpassed them.
"Leaves..." Ye Hao, good morning. " In the end, a pretty young girl had a bright and warm expression on her face as she answered with a smile.
"Right." Ye Hao replied indifferently. Without much emotion, he walked toward the Ye Family gate without turning his head back.
If it was back then, he might have enjoyed the crowd's gaze of reverence, but after four years of silence, Ye Hao had seen too much into the human nature of warmth. He knew that at this moment, if his cultivation level was still low, he would definitely receive a wave of mockery and ridicule.
Towards this kind of fake feelings and incomparably realistic relationships, he really didn't want to waste time on it.
Seeing Ye Hao's cold and indifferent response until he disappeared from the main gate, the young girl's smiling face turned extremely awkward. Immediately, a hint of regret appeared on her face. Everyone present also sighed lightly with a complicated expression.
Who would have thought that the Ye Family Heaven's Pride who had fallen from the divine altar back then would one day rise again.
At that moment, at the corner of the martial arts training ground, a gloomy-looking young man was like a poisonous snake hiding in the darkness as he stared at the direction Ye Hao left with ridicule. He sneered and said, "Hiding for two months, have you finally come out?"
"Let's go, we have to cripple him as soon as possible so that we can report to Young Master Lin." Beside him, Ye Hui turned his neck. His eyes flashed with bloodlust and his body disappeared from the spot.
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Outside the city, on the main road leading to the Black Abyss Mountain Range, crowds of people flowed in and out of the city in groups of five or three.
This scene made Ye Hao, who just got out of the city gate, slightly shocked.
It had to be known that the Black Mountain Range was extremely dangerous and filled with killing intent everywhere. Although there had always been cultivators that went into the mountains to hunt Demonic Beast in exchange for cultivation resources, there had never been a scene as lively as this.
Ye Hao walked in the crowd with a puzzled expression as the Spiritual Sense spread out. Very quickly, whispers and talk came out one by one, appearing clearly in his perception.
It turned out that ever since the Black Ghost Fog had erupted that day, for some reason, the Demonic Beast within the mountain range had become even more ferocious than before. Sometimes, they would even form a beast tide and charge out of the mountain range to devour cultivators.
What was even more shocking were the many rare Heavenly and Earthly Treasures s that appeared in the vicinity of the Black Abyss Mountain Range in an extremely abnormal manner after that. There were even rumors that rogue cultivators in the outskirts of the mountain range were able to obtain an extremely rare third grade spirit medicine.
In an instant, many spiritual medicines and the iron ores that were essential to forging spiritual tools appeared in the outer region of the Black Yuan Mountain Range.
And it was because of this that many Heiyuan City Cultivators and groups of three to five people entered the mountain range in droves to seek their fortune.
"How strange." After figuring out the reason, Ye Hao couldn't help but frown. He recalled the demonic and strange Black Ghost Fog and the Grade 3 Elixir that grew in the ghost fog back then.
"Hmm? It's those two guys? "
As the Spiritual Sense was spreading out, Ye Hao suddenly felt that not far behind him, there were two black robed figures following him at a steady pace.