Needle Soul Art!

Chen Feng thought for a moment, then smiled. "Teacher, I'm already at Blood Qi Stage Nine!"

What? Teacher Wei Zheng's pupils suddenly contracted. This student was already at Stage Nine?

Chen Feng, with his support-type martial soul, had actually reached Blood Qi Stage Nine?

Since he was at Stage Nine, with results like that, even if he stopped cultivating now, he could still meet the university admission threshold and would not need to serve in the military.

Teacher Wei Zheng felt a little embarrassed, thinking, Why didn't you say so earlier, brat?

You made me ramble here for half the day, yet it turned out your own strength was already enough to get into university.

"Uh... not bad! At such a young age, you already possess this level of strength! Once you enter university, ordinary students won't be able to compare to you. I think highly of you!"

Teacher Wei Zheng nodded.

Chen Feng sensed that the way his teacher looked at him had changed somewhat.

Once one became stronger, changes really did appear. Teachers also liked students with potential, just as students liked powerful teachers.

"Oh, right, let me remind you. Now that you've awakened your martial soul, you can go to the school library and choose a martial soul cultivation method."

The teacher smiled. "The school lets students read basic cultivation methods for free. Go study them in the library yourself! If there's anything you don't understand, you can come ask me. I'll explain it to you."

"Thank you, Teacher!"

Chen Feng nodded and turned to leave.

Teacher Wei Zheng watched Chen Feng's retreating figure and muttered to himself.

Stage Nine?

Didn't that mean he was already among the best in the school? This kid was that terrifying?

The teacher suddenly found it unbelievable. This kid wasn't just bragging, was he? In a few days, I need to take him to the training room and test his strength data. If it's true, this is no small matter!

At that moment, Chen Feng arrived at the library of Jiangzhou High School.

The surroundings of the library were not much different from those on Earth, but the books here contained knowledge about various races. In one section, there were cultivation methods, mostly body-tempering techniques that taught people how to rapidly increase their physical strength.

This was all a free section, with no limit on reading time.

As Chen Feng browsed through the books, a voice sounded beside him.

"Are you looking for a cultivation method for martial souls?"

Chen Feng looked over. Jiang Shiran had appeared behind him at some point.

She was tall and graceful, already a slender young beauty. Dressed in clean white clothes, she had delicate features, gleaming pearly teeth, and skin as white as snow.

Her pair of bright, lively black eyes flickered like gemstones as she looked around.

A tightly cinched white belt at her waist accentuated her exquisite figure and beautiful curves.

The genius female student who had awakened the Fire Feather Divine Bird yesterday?

He had not expected to run into her here.

"There's nothing you want in the section you're looking through. The section over there is where you should be!"

Jiang Shiran smiled and pointed with the slender index finger of her right hand toward a bookshelf section not far away.

"Uh... you know me?" Chen Feng asked.

"Of course. You have Nine Divine Tree Martial Souls. It would be hard for me not to remember you!" Jiang Shiran smiled.

"..." Chen Feng fell silent.

"These are all cultivation methods. Just choose one you like to cultivate."

Jiang Shiran smiled.

"Alright, thank you!" Chen Feng nodded.

After Chen Feng and Jiang Shiran exchanged a few simple words, they each began looking for the books they wanted to read.

Chen Feng looked around, but had no clue where to start. After flipping through many books, he found none of them suitable.

Then he picked up a cultivation method called "Needle Soul Art."

It was a martial soul cultivation method.

According to the method, one first had to gather one's Soul Power into a mass, then condense it into a needle and use it to pierce oneself. The process would cause excruciating pain to one's consciousness.

Moreover, one had to control the degree precisely. Too much, and one might turn oneself into an idiot; too little, and there would be no tempering effect.

This method used the agony of piercing to temper one's will and increase Soul Power.

As Soul Power increased, one could condense a second needle, then a third. This cultivation method had no specific limit, because ordinary people could only condense three needles. Beyond that, it was no longer something simple to achieve.

Soul Needles could be used to temper oneself. Used against others, they could pierce the Soul Power of those weaker than oneself and kill them.

A Soul Skill derived from a cultivation method.

Such a Soul Skill could target an enemy's divine soul, or the Soul Needles could gather the vital energy within one's body and shoot out, killing enemies from afar.

In short, it amounted to two minor techniques.

Whether they were powerful or not depended on the caster's Soul Power and personal strength.

As Chen Feng flipped through it, Jiang Shiran smiled beside him. "It would be best if you didn't cultivate the one in your hands."

"Uh... why?"

Chen Feng was puzzled.

Jiang Shiran smiled. "Because this is a method for condensing needles. With our current strength, it won't be easy. Condensing a single Soul Needle requires extremely abundant Soul Power. By the time you manage to condense one, you'll have wasted too much time—the yellow flowers will have gone cold. It would actually be less effective than other cultivation methods! And afterward, you'll need to condense even more needles."

"Wouldn't condensing more Soul Needles make it stronger?"

Chen Feng asked.

"It would be very powerful, but the problem is, leaving aside whether you can condense a needle at all right now, even if you succeed, according to the method, condensing the second one afterward means you must divide your attention in two.

"To bring out the method's effects, you may even need to divide your attention further in the future.

"If you can condense needles quickly, its Soul Power growth effect will be stronger than that of other cultivation methods. If you can't, I suggest choosing something else."

"Many people have cultivated this method. At most, they could divide their attention into three or four parts, and could not divide it any further. In the end, the effects slowed down, and they could only give up.

"This method is similar to the Emperor Grade Cultivation Method Myriad Sword Art, which is said to be extremely difficult to cultivate but incredibly powerful. Have you heard of the Myriad Sword Art?"

Jiang Shiran looked at Chen Feng.

Chen Feng said, "I haven't, but the name isn't hard to understand. It should be a technique that stimulates vital energy, condenses it into swords, and freely controls them to kill enemies, right?"

Jiang Shiran smiled. "You're right! But the Myriad Sword Art requires one to divide one's attention into ten thousand parts. Otherwise, how could one cultivate the Myriad Sword Art?

"Of course, simply condensing vital energy into swords and scattering them in a vast wave does not count. The true Myriad Sword Art divides one's attention into ten thousand parts, with every strand of Sword Qi controlled by Spiritual Sense. On the battlefield, it can attack ten thousand people in an instant.

"No matter which direction enemies flee in, it can pursue them. That is the Myriad Sword Art.

"Your cultivation method condenses needles, but it has equally high demands on the mind. Ordinary people cannot divide their attention too many ways. Right now, the martial soul cultivation methods suitable for you should be visualization methods.

"For example, the Hell Visualization Method uses terrifying imagined scenes to plunge oneself into a state of terror, thereby tempering the mind and spirit.

"Or the Flame Burning Method, which lets one sense fire elements, or borrow fiery vital energy to burn the Sea of Consciousness and temper it continuously. Or the Tearing Method, and so on.

"Your method is not as direct or effective as those, but it does have one advantage."

"What advantage?"