Level Twenty!

The next morning, the sun had already risen, its faint morning light shining into a room.

The girl beneath the blankets let out a soft murmur and unconsciously said, "Mom, I'll get up right away~"

But after receiving no response for a long time, the girl suddenly sat up and called out, "Dad, Mom!"

Whatever she had remembered, the beautiful scene in her dream was suddenly shattered, leaving only emptiness in her heart.

She sighed, but the night's rest had left her feeling much more refreshed.

She took out a pair of wings—the Profound Nether Phoenix Wings. The system had shrunk them to the size of a palm, but even so, she could still feel the Blood Fiend Demonic Phoenix's intense longing.

It was an even stronger desire than when she had absorbed her First Spirit Ring. She even had a premonition that after absorbing this spirit bone, her strength would definitely break through to Level Twenty.

Lin Li thought of the Marrow Cleansing Fluid rewarded by the system and asked, "System, how do I use the Marrow Cleansing Fluid?"

The system immediately replied, "The Marrow Cleansing Fluid can be taken orally or used for bathing. However, taking it orally will bring pain like having one's heart gouged out and bones carved apart, but it can open the body's main meridians. Bathing provides eighty percent of the oral effect, but the pain is halved."

The moment the system finished speaking, she swallowed the Marrow Cleansing Fluid at once. At the same time, she used Soul Power to press the spirit bone against her back.

A needle-like pain immediately spread from the top of her head to the soles of her feet. Lin Li gritted her teeth and said, "System, don't let my voice get out."

The system replied, "All right." At that moment, it felt complete respect for its Host.

Being ruthless toward others was nothing difficult, but only those capable of being ruthless toward themselves had a greater chance of succeeding!

If not for the system's restraint, Lin Li's agonized screams might have been heard throughout Saint Er Junior Soul Master Academy.

The pain of having her heart gouged out and bones carved apart nearly broke her. Neither in this life nor her previous one had Lin Li ever suffered such pain.

But when she thought of the loneliness that had followed her from childhood in her previous life, the peace she had known in this life, and the loneliness she was now enduring, she hated it. Someone who had never experienced light had finally seen it, only to be plunged back into darkness.

She refused to accept it! She refused to accept it! All her pain turned into hatred. Her wings spread open, and her nightclothes were instantly torn apart.

A layer of greasy filth was left over her body. Lin Li's eyes, tightly shut from the pain, suddenly opened. Thanks to the system's protection, the spread of the Profound Nether Phoenix Wings did not damage anything.

Only then did Lin Li properly sense this spirit bone. The Profound Nether Phoenix Wings resembled the wings she manifested through Martial Soul Possession, but they were more than ten times sharper than her Martial Soul's wings!

When her Phoenix Spirit's wings spread, they reached a length of five meters. Yet these Profound Nether Phoenix Wings were ten meters long. Not only could they increase her speed by fifty percent, they also came with a spirit ability called Profound Nether Feather Robe.

Spirit Bone Skill: Profound Nether Feather Robe. It ignored all physical and energy attacks from opponents no more than two major realms above her own!

Its effect was similar to Xiao Wu's Fourth Soul Skill. It was practically an outrageously powerful life-saving God Skill. Once her strength reached the realm of a Titled Douluo, almost no one would be able to break through the Profound Nether Feather Robe's defenses!

All of a sudden, Lin Li felt that absorbing Soul Power had become much easier. It was as if every breath naturally circulated Soul Power through her body.

What she did not know was that the main meridians the system had mentioned were meridians that even Titled Douluo might not be able to open. Once these meridians were opened, her recovery in future battles would be far faster than others'.

As for her Soul Power reserves, the opened main meridians formed a Zhou Tian. The existence of this Zhou Tian alone was enough to put her total Soul Power reserves leagues ahead of other Soul Masters.

When Lin Li sensed her own strength again, she discovered that her Soul Power had already reached Level Twenty. However, she still had no idea what to choose for her Second Spirit Ring.

After quickly washing up and getting dressed, she noticed that she had grown a little taller, then headed for the classroom.

Ye Lian had a lazy temperament. She had set aside one class each week, leaving the rest of the time for cultivation.

As she put it, "You're only first-years now. If you don't cultivate during such a good stage, are you planning to wait until you're seventy or eighty? If you don't seize this golden period for cultivation, you'll have nowhere to cry about it later!"

Even now, the knowledge taught at Soul Master Academy was still mainly about cultivation methods and Soul Beasts.

So the title of fantasy's floor tile was not without reason. Still, for a Junior Spirit Master Academy, it was already no easy feat to train Spirit Soldiers into Soul Masters, let alone teach them combat and such.

Perhaps only after Soul Masters entered an advanced Soul Master Academy would teachers thoroughly explain such techniques.

As for the theories Grandmaster had taught Tang San, Lin Li also planned to look through some ancient texts soon. But regarding Grandmaster's ten core theories—

Lin Li's view was: Forget it. Let it be.

Hadn't Grandmaster's friend Flender turned a perfectly good Phoenix Spirit into something that was practically a scruffy wild chicken?

The first two abilities were almost useless in the later stages, wasting two Spirit Ring slots for nothing.

There were still only a handful of people in the classroom, but Zhou Yurou remained seated, cultivating attentively.

What puzzled her was that Zhou Yurou's Soul Power fluctuations had already reached Level Eight. It had only been two days, yet her progress was already incredibly fast.

Lin Li sat in her seat and carefully flipped through texts about Soul Beasts. She did not plan to hunt Soul Beasts right now.

Every July, Saint Er Junior Soul Master Academy organized Soul Hunting trips for Soul Masters who needed Spirit Rings.

It was currently early February, and there was still one month until the Soul Hunting trip. She was not in a hurry over that one month. Her cultivation had advanced too quickly these past few days, and she planned to suppress it for a while and solidify her foundation.

Just like in cultivation worlds, if one failed to firmly stabilize one's foundation before breaking through a major realm, it would result in an unstable realm. That would bring her no benefit whatsoever in future cultivation.

Besides, those few levels of Soul Power had not come from honest cultivation, but from devoured Soul Power.

Time passed as Lin Li read and tempered her Cultivation Level.

Ye Lian naturally knew that Lin Li's Soul Power had broken through to Level Twenty, but she did not say much. After all, the Swift Shadow Cat King Soul Master and the Lightning Rabbit Soul Master in the class had both broken through to Level Ten, and they were all waiting for March.

She had helped Ling Xuan obtain a Spirit Ring because, although she did not want to admit it, they were related by blood, and she could not let that go.

As for the others, she could only make them wait until March, because a Soul Hunting trip took a great deal of time going there and back.

Moreover, she still presented herself to outsiders as a Level Forty-Nine Battle Spirit Sect Master. She could not bring people into the inner regions of the Star Dou Great Forest the way she had brought Ling Xuan.

They could only wander around the outer regions, which naturally made Soul Hunting take much longer. Besides, there was one more reason: she was lazy!

Lin Li was still flipping through the texts, carefully considering her Second Spirit Ability.

Her First Spirit Ability provided an all-around enhancement, so for her Second Spirit Ability, she preferred an offensive ability.

As for area-of-effect attacks, she did not dare to hope for them. Soul Beasts capable of providing wide-range attacks were usually ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts, and rarely thousand-year ones. Thus, she had set her sights on a certain Soul Beast.

The Dark Soul Devouring Spirit Beast, an extremely evil Soul Beast. It possessed a skill called Spirit Devouring Chain. Through these chains, it could devour an opponent's Soul Power, Spiritual Power, and even life force.

If her Blood Fiend Demonic Phoenix gained this skill, she would have an offensive method in the early stages. Even in the later stages, this would still be an extremely useful skill.

However, this Soul Beast was only one option. She had several other choices as well. The Flame Burst Bear, the Crimson Flame Vermilion Crane, and others were all very powerful Soul Beasts.

At that moment, Zhou Yurou suddenly gave a soft grunt, and the faint Soul Power fluctuations around her body became apparent.

Lin Li raised her brows, clearly happy for her as well!

? ?Thank you, babies, for your support. This silly author is writing for the first time and has many shortcomings. Please forgive me.