chapter 1976-1980
Chapter 1976
“You don’t have to speak to me like that; I have a reason for saying what I said. Martial art techniques or
martial skills with the soul attribute can be considered one of the more difficult to practice. I wouldn’t have
any questions if you’ve practiced martial art techniques or martial skills of the five elements attributes.
Think of this as me persuading you. Even the masters in the sect don’t simply train for the martial art
techniques or martial skills with the soul attribute, let alone those like you, a newly recruited informal
disciple.”
Noel did not exaggerate in his words. Among all the martial art techniques and martial skills, those that
belonged to the five elements were the easiest to be practiced.
Even though the power unleashed after they achieved the level ofpletion was not as strong as the
martial art techniques and martial skills of other attributes, it was easy to practice those, and the
possibility of sess was also much higher.
Noel rubbed his slightly red eyes and leaned back in his chair, unhurriedly continuing, “Throughout the
years, those who were able to achieve the level ofpletion when practicing the martial art techniques
or martial skills with the soul attribute are those extremely talented formal disciples. Even the chosen
disciples wouldn’t simply try this unless your soul is very special, or you’re just extremely talented. I don’t
think you’re any of those, though. Why else did you not join the proper informal disciple assessment and
join the sect in such a way?”
For disciples like Noel, assessment for the informal disciples previously could not be considered as a
usual way of assessing disciples. They could only describe this as an unusual way to do things at an
unusual time.
jackieie did not want to continue an entanglement on this issue with Noel, thus he calmly interjected, “I
just chanced upon this opportunity. You don’t have to teach me these things, Senior brother Noel. I came
to the Soul Hall to increase my speed in training the martial skill, and I’ve already made up my mind.
These words won’t affect my decision.”
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Noel raised his eyebrows and chuckled in contempt. He was not that involved with jackieie; he just
wanted to remind him out of goodwill. He would not waste time talking to jackieie, then, since jackieie
was not appreciative.
He raised his chin toward jackieie. “As per our usual rules, training for a day costs you ten sect
contribution points. It doesn’t matter how long you stay inside throughout the day-it’ll still be counted as
one day.”
Ten contribution points each day?! This meant that the reward jackieie obtained could only pay for five
days in the hall!
jackieie could not help but secretly exim at the thought.
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This was quite expensive, more so than what he imagined it to be. He initially thought that the 50 sect
contribution points he had were enough to support him to train for one month, but it seemed like wishful
thinking at this point.
Noel seemed to have realized the slight surprise on jackieie’s face. With a cold smile, hemented,
“Ten sect contribution points a day isn’t expensive. You need to think about it: The Soul Hall requires the
support of power while you’re training, and this uses up a lot of spirited crystals. As payment for the
power consumption, you only need to pay ten contribution points a day. Even I feel that this is quite a
small amount that we need to pay.”
Before he arrived, jackieie had already heard that the Soul Hall was actually arge formation, and its
function was to raise the speed of somebody practicing the martial art technique or martial skill that
belonged to the soul attribute. Since it was arge formation, it required power to run itself, and this
meant that a lot of spirited crystals were required. Considering this, ten contribution points a day could
not be considered a huge amount.
Noel looked up and continued speaking, “I need to inform you something beforehand. I don’t care if you
stay inside for as long as a joystick burns or as long a s somebody drinks a cup of tea, but you have to
pay me ten contribution points. Although ten contribution points isn’t arge amount, it’s great fortune
enough for newly recruited informal disciples like yourself. Let me give you another piece of warning:
People that are untalented like yourself shouldn’t waste time on martial art technique or martial skill with
the soul attribute. The soul is something illusory and hard to understand.”
Chapter 1977
“Stop thinking that you’re stronger than any other person. Many had the same train of thoughts like you
do, but they were examples to those who came after them that this is wishful thinking.” Noel was not
reminding jackieie; he was taunting jackieie for overestimating himself. Just like what he said, there were
so many disciples in the sect, but only a very small number of people practiced the martial art techniques
and martial skills of the soul attribute.
After all, the soul was an illusory thing, and it was untouchable like the five elements. Numerous seniors
had trained the gold, wood, water, fire, and earth elements, and they could be used as references.
jackieie merely gave a small nod wordlessly, to which Noel chuckled without a care and continued,
“Since you insist on going in and wasting those ten contribution points, there’s nothing else I can say.”
Noel did not believe that jackieie would be capable of hastening his mastery over his martial art
techniques or martial skills after he entered the hall. To Noel, that was impossible. It might be possible if
jackieie had broken through into the intermediate stage of innate level, but judging jackieie’s fighting
prowess, he knew jackieie had just achieved the initial stage of the innate level. He did not have the
strength to have a soul enlightenment.
“I won’t waste my time talking nonsense with you. Pick a difficulty level-there are seven of them. The
easiest one is level one, and difficulty level seven is exceptional. In fact, I don’t even have to ask you
this. The most you can do is stay in difficulty level one, probablysting as long as somebody finishing
their tea or a joystick burning.” Hezily stood up from his chair and picked up the formation of jade strips
in front of him, adding a couple of runes that jackieie did not understand on the jade strips.
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Just as Noel was about to inject energy, however, jackieie interrupted him.
“I’d like to train in difficulty level two.”
“What? You want to go for difficulty level two? Young man, can you not rush in when you know nothing?
Even chosen disciples won’t be able to stay inside for longer than the time taken to finish tea if I start
difficulty level two, let alone you!” Noel was borderline yelling at this point, looking at jackieie as though
he had gone crazy.
Exasperatedly, Noel added, “You shouldn’t think that there isn’t a big difference in the levels when there
are only seven difficulty levels. I’m telling you that there’s a big difference, and opening the difficulty level
two has a stronger effect on the soul that’s several times more than difficulty level one. People like you
won’t be able to take it once you enter the formation. You’ll be forced out by the strong souls inside, and
you might change the levelter. You have to be joking with me right now.”
Even after Noel finished his rant, jackieie’s expression did not change much. “I want difficulty level two.”
Noel was rendered speechless instantly, and the corners of his mouth twitched. He felt that not only was
this guy’s brain filled with water, he probably had been kicked by a donkey, too. He spent his energy
exining things, only for it to be wasted as this guy ignored everything.
He chuckled and felt that jackieie was absurd. “Young man, do you think that I’m joking with you? If you
can’t take it, your soul might be wounded. A soul wound isn’t funny, and I need to be responsible for that.
It doesn’t matter if you end up dead or disabled for life, but you might cause me to be punished by the
upper management. Who did I offend to end up with this?”
Chapter 1978 Noel grew increasingly angry as he spoke. He could not help but rush forward to p
jackieie harshly on his na?ve-etched face so that he would wake up from his daydream. He would not
have said so much to jackieie if he would not be severely involved if jackieie’s soul was hurt.
“Do you know what you’re talking about? Adjusting the difficulty level to level two, and I’m sure that you
won’tst longer than a person drinking their tea. You’lle running out with your tail between your legs
after I take several breaths.” Noel looked at jackieie like he was looking at a stubborn fool. jackieie
sighed lightly, knowing very well that his actions must trante to him being an idiot in the eyes of people
like Noel.
However, he did this because he did not want to waste time. After all, the usual difficulty would not be a
huge improvement to a martial skill at the level o f the Destroying the Void. In fact, he asked Noel to
adjust the difficulty to level two because he did not understand if this was useful to him under such
difficulty.
jackieie said helplessly, “You don’t need to worry. If anything happens to me when I’m inside, I’ll inform
the elders or deacons that I did this on my own will, that it had nothing to do with you. I’ll make sure that
this won’t implicate you.”
Noel lightly curled the corners of his mouth, no longer knowing what to say. He rolled his eyes and said,
“Nevermind. Since you insist on ignoring my persuasion and ignore the possibility of wounding yourself,
there’s nothing much that I can say. I need to tell you, though, that the wounds to the soul can’t be
stopped bymon pills, and it’ll directly affect your training in the future. You shouldn’t lose your future
because of your temporary curiosity or because you want to act tough to me.”
jackieie raised his eyebrows and said calmly, “You don’t have to worry; I’m in no mood to act tough in
front of anyone. You can just adjust the difficulty level to level two.”
Noel scoffed, thinking to himself that jackieie would not give up unless he faced the consequences. From
the insufferably arrogant expression on jackieie’s face when he spoke, he seemed to think that he could
stay in the difficulty level two area for one to two days.
He wanted to see the expression on this guy’s face when he could not stand it anymore and came out
himself. Noel stretched out his hand, harrumphing as he dered, “Hand over your identification card. I’ll
deduct the contribution points to pay for one day.”
jackieie nodded and handed Noel his identification card obediently. Noel proficiently deducted ten of
jackieie’s contribution points. Although it was merely ten points, jackieie still felt unhappy about it.
There were only 40 sect contribution points left on his identification card, and he would finish the
remaining 40 points soon. If he wanted to continue training, he had to make time and earn himself some
contribution points.
“Alright, I’ve arranged the difficulty and set the time. You can go in now. Let me just make something
clear: If anything happened to you inside, it has nothing to do with me. I’ve already persuaded you and
all, and you should stop acting tough. Just get out if you can’t handle it. Don’t force yourself to withstand
things as it isn’t worth it when your soul gets wounded, turning you into a dummy.”
jackieie nodded as he put his identification card away. He walked toward one of the small doors that was
one monthnally behind him. However, Noel spoke up again behind him as he was about to cross the
threshold,” You need to understand that even chosen disciples have a record of staying inside for a
maximum of three days and three nights. If you turn into a dummy because of your impulsive moves, I’ll
be affected by your actions.“
Noel felt his head hurt when he thought of this possibility. This newly recruited informal disciple is like an
idiot who could not be stopped even if ten bulls were pulling him back.
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If something bad happened to jackieie inside, Noel would be implicated if he could not exin that he
had already persuaded jackieie but jackieie insisted on entering the room. He could be punished if it was
something minor, or he could be imprisoned if it was something serious.
He felt his stomach hurt when he thought about this.
jackieie nodded without turning back. He understood that Noel was telling him all this crap because Noel
was worried for his personal gain, but that was understandable.
Chapter 1979 This was a pitch-ck world, and it made a person’s heart tingle. Everything around him
was enveloped In darkness. jackieie stretched out his hand and subconsciously groped around him, but
there was nothing around him. It did, however, make him feel as if it was difficult to walk.
The space he was in was very different from the space outside, and the darkness in this ce was also
very much differentpared to the darkness outside. If hepared the space outside like a clear
spring in a stone pond, this area was like a pot of cooked porridge as it had an unspeakable stickiness to
it.
He balled both his hands into fists, and it seemed like he had caught the space around him in his hands.
This was the true center area of the Soul Hall, and it was also the ce that could help him improve his
training of martial skill.
In fact, he was able to recognize from what Noel said that it was not easy to train here. However, he did
not back away and continued to walk two steps ahead. As he was about to walk forward again, the
abrupt sound of gusts blowing over treetops subconsciously startled him.
Following that, another wave of wind came blowing toward him. This gust was different from the usual
wind outside. It blew straight toward jackieie, ignoring the skin and bones, sting straight against his
soul. The wind felt like sharp knives, and it was an unspeakable pain. It was so painful that jackieie could
not stand, causing him to kneel.
“Why is it so painful?” jackieie subconsciously wailed. The strong wind continued to blow toward him,
sting right against his soul. It felt like arge ax was dealt against his soul.
This hurt several times morepared to the attack against jackieie’s body. jackieie had a higher pain
endurancepared tomon folk, but he still wailed out in pain. His breathing also slowed down.
Was this what it meant by the second level of difficulty?
No wonder Noel repeatedly said that this level of difficulty was not something usual people could
withstand, and what he said seemed to be true. jackieie dared not dy and started activating
Destroying the Void. He allowed the activation tactics of Destroying the Void to continuously course in his
body.
After three turns, jackieie managed to slightly subdue the soul-stabbing pain. jackieie had to thank the
fact that he did not practice amon martial skill, but a martial skill that was at least at the heaven
level.
Activating usual martial skill would also make it difficult to withstand such impacts on the soul. Following
the suppression of such pain, jackieie also started to understand the waves of soul powershing out on
his body.
It turned out that the wind blowing toward his body was not wind. In fact, they were soul-shockwaves
formed by the coagtion of souls. These soulshockwaves were not aggressive and seemed to be
formed by the gathering of actual souls. He could even feel thest wails of these souls to the world
before they physically perished.
“Let go of me! I don’t want to die!”
“You b*stard! You filthy, worthless *sshole! I’ve groomed you with so much care throughout the years,
and you repay me by betraying me! You even killed me!”
“I’m sorry… Can you please let go of my child? You only hate me, but this has nothing to do with my
child. My death would’ve paid for all my debts.”
Thest words of the dead had been integrated into the souls. These words rang incessantly in jackieie’s
ears as the souls transformed into soul-shockwaves that flurried toward jackieie. The desire to stay alive
and the fear of death continuously challenged jackieie’s determination.
Chapter 1980
The shockwaves formed by the concentration of souls kept rushing into jackieie’s soul. Although the
activation of the Destroying the Void by jackieie withstood the pain brought on by these soul
shockwaves, he was not entirely immune to them. The soul-shockwaves came rushing toward him
continuously and caused jackieie’s soul to feel waves of stabbing pain.
This, however, did not trouble jackieie-he was, in fact, delighted. After all, he had finally found the crucial
reason as to why he could not form the second soul sword. In the past, jackieie’s soul had been
extremely stable, and he would not feel anything extraordinary If he was not stimted.
Just like what Noel had said, the soul was an illusory item. Without special stimnts, jackieie was able
to feel the soul but was unable to feel many other things. However, these soul-shockwaves kept charging
against jackieie’s soul, inflicting impact after impact. jackieie also used this opportunity to master the
motion of his soul.
Forming a soul sword happened to require the soul motion and everybody’s soul motion was different.
This was why the great master’s perceptions and experiences were unable to help jackieie in forming the
soul sword.
The great master had a different soul motionpared to jackieie, and when he practiced Destroying
the Void, he was extremely powerful. Hence, it was a simple thing for him to feel his soul motion, which
waspletely different for jackieie. jackieie was not so strong at the moment, and he was unable to feel
or master his soul motion as easily as the great master,
However, jackieie was able to slowly do it under the attack of the soul-shockwaves. He held his breath
and gathered his attention, allowing the soul shockwaves to continuously attack his soul. He then
activated the Destroying the Void and continued in his attempt to form the second soul sword!
In the Soul Hall, different disciples were in charge of the matters there at different time periods. Noel
would be the Soul Hall’s minor steward for 20 days, and unless something unexpected happened, he
would be the highest person in charge of the Soul Hall.
Of course, Noel was not the only one guarding the Soul Hall during this period. Two other runner
disciples were in charge of the hall’s cleanliness, and the person in charge of cleaning this day was
somebody Noel was very familiar with, Zayn Allen.
The two of them were rtives, and even though they were not as close, they shared a much better
rtionship than the others.
Zayn made his way into the Soul Hall in a familiar manner with the cleaning tools in his hands. He
immediately saw Noel standing in front of the Array Eye Door in an upright manner, which puzzled him.
Normally, Noel would be sleeping on the table when he had some free time. Zayn seldom saw Noel
standing in front of the Array Eye Door with his eyes fixated on the door as if he was studying something.
Zayn raised his eyebrows and subconsciously asked,” Senior Brother Noel, what are you looking at?!”
Noel was obviously startled by Zayn’s voice as his entire body trembled, his expression contorted darkly.
“What are you yelling for? Is there something wrong with you?! You frightened me!”
Zayn, meanwhile, seemed to have had his fair share of teachings from Noel during normal days, and he
seemed unfazed by these horrible words. He continued to look at Noel in curiosity.
There was nothing different with the Array Eye Door. There were still runes and seals that he did not
understand on the door. Was Noel investigating the formation on the Array Eye Door?
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