Exam

The Southern Moon Elephant King's attacks were all ground-based, so it could do nothing to Meng Li in the air and could only keep watch from below!

The Sacred Winged Angel Martial Soul behind Meng Li raised its golden spear.

"Fourth Soul Skill: Sanction!"

Several golden feathers appeared out of thin air and shot toward the Southern Moon Elephant King with piercing whistles. Its massive body made it impossible to dodge. The tips of the feathers ignored the Southern Moon Elephant King's Soul Power shield and plunged directly into its skin.

"A nine-year-old child is soloing a ten-thousand-year soul beast. You all saw that, didn't you?" The Spirit Pagoda staff member was even more excited than Wu Changkong.

Although Meng Li's Martial Soul naturally countered the Southern Moon Elephant King, his attack power could not be overlooked.

Over the next half day, the Southern Moon Elephant King was slowly worn to death by Meng Li's feathers and collapsed. Absorbing a ten-thousand-year soul beast did little to increase his spirit soul's age limit; it could only add a thousand years. If he wanted to raise his spirit soul to a hundred thousand years, he would need to kill soul beasts with a combined age of one million years.

Looking at the fallen Southern Moon Elephant King, its body riddled with bloody holes and white fluid drifting from its head, he could not help vomiting. A profound sense of guilt rose within him, and he did not absorb it.

What am I even doing? Meng Li's eyes were somewhat vacant. The soul beast before him was fabricated, yet he found it inexplicably terrifying. What was the purpose of a soul master's existence? Was it slaughter?

His modern way of thinking made him begin to reject, even loathe, killing soul beasts, even virtual ones.

"Why did he throw up?" Long Hengxu frowned slightly, but before he had time to think about it, an accident occurred in Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Xie Xie's battle against the Thousand Year Ice Crystal Bear.

Because Tang Wulin did not know that the Ice Crystal Bear would self-destruct upon death, he was caught in the blast, turned into an ice statue, and fell from the air, shattering into pieces!

A faint, imperceptible smile appeared at the corner of Gu Yue's lips as she walked toward the fragments of the ice statue!

"Quick, quick, quick! Somebody get over there and save him!"

Tang Wulin, who had been smashed into pieces, had suffered a tremendous psychological trauma. It was hard to say whether he could even wake up. As the second-ranked genius in the class and the student Wu Changkong thought most highly of, Wu Changkong completely panicked.

After Meng Li dealt with the Southern Moon Elephant King, no nearby soul beasts came looking for trouble with him. The purity of the Soul Power here was extremely high. As Wu Changkong had said, there was no time limit inside the Spirit Ascension Tower; one could stay as long as one wished. Meng Li sat cross-legged and absorbed the Light Element Soul Power.

"How long has he been in there?" A Spirit Pagoda staff member stared at Meng Li, who was continuously cultivating in the intermediate Spirit Ascension Tower.

"It's already been one month and five days..."

"Heavens, we're losing big on this intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform entry pass..." The Spirit Pagoda staff member did not dare imagine it.

An intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform entry pass cost 1.2 million Federal Coins. The average person spent half a day inside. By that calculation, they had lost at least over twenty million Federal Coins.

Moreover, the Spirit Ascension Platform's riot period was about to begin, and they would lose even more.

"What do we do now?" asked the Spirit Master on duty.

"Let him be. He's a promising prospect; we must recruit him into the Spirit Pagoda," said the bald Spirit Master.

"Ask those other children who came today too. See if there's a chance to bring them into the Spirit Pagoda."

"Yes!"

"Mm, I'll find an opportunity to report the situation here to the higher-ups!"

That day, Meng Li was leveling up as usual, trying to break through the Rank 50 bottleneck. Just as the bottleneck broke, his vision suddenly went black.

Smelling a rather familiar fragrance, Meng Li asked in surprise, "Gu Yue, why are you here?"

"You've become much stronger again?" Gu Yue stuck out her little tongue. Having her thoughts guessed the moment she arrived made her a little disappointed, yet also somewhat delighted.

"I just broke through..." Meng Li said with a faint smile.

"You're already Rank 50?" Gu Yue asked curiously.

"Mm." As Wu Changkong had said, the one who would walk alongside him the longest would certainly be Gu Yue, another one of the prodigies. Aside from his deepest secret of being a transmigrator, Meng Li had no intention of hiding anything else from Gu Yue.

"Nine years old and Rank 50—you're the number one genius on the continent!" Gu Yue said with a smile. In truth, she had long seen through Meng Li's Soul Power Level with her strength.

"Sigh, there are always greater people beyond others and greater skies beyond the heavens. Perhaps there are geniuses who have yet to emerge," Meng Li said with a smile.

"You're too modest," Gu Yue said, smiling.

"By the way, why did you come here? Shouldn't you be with Tang Wulin and the others?" Meng Li asked doubtfully.

Meng Li did not know that after Wu Changkong discovered that Gu Yue had lured the Thousand Year Ice Crystal Bear toward Tang Wulin that time, he had severely scolded her. Her relationship with Xie Xie had developed some distance and had only recently begun to improve. Besides Meng Li, she was usually cold toward everyone else, which was what people called being unsociable.

"Isn't it the final exam? As long as we hold out for an hour in the Spirit Ascension Platform during the riot period, we pass. Teacher Wu asked me to come tell you that you have to return for the final exam and take the next test. Mm, and I'll be taking the exam here while I'm at it."

"One hour..." Meng Li froze. He had already stayed in here for over a month. Wouldn't staying for an hour be effortless?

"Don't relax. The Spirit Ascension Tower is about to enter its riot period. We're in the intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform, and countless soul masters below Rank 70 will enter. We have to proceed carefully!"

"Mm, your strength is relatively low, so stay by my side during this time!" Meng Li nodded and became alert.

Outside, Tang Wulin was hesitating over whether to enter the Spirit Ascension Platform. After experiencing that agonizing feeling for the first time, he had become resistant to what lay inside. Besides, the soul beasts inside would be in a riotous state this time.

"The person who lured the Thousand Year Ice Crystal Bear over last time has already gone to find Meng Li. Relax. As long as we're careful, nothing will happen!" Xie Xie comforted him.

"You have three seconds to put it on, or get out of Class Zero!" Wu Changkong said coldly. He had not expected that incident to affect Tang Wulin so deeply.

Tang Wulin hesitated for a second, then entered the pod!

Wu Changkong let out a sigh of relief. As long as he went in, everything would get better. With this matter handled, he looked toward the other side.

Gu Yue, Meng Li, you two really are children I can't see through. I wonder whether having you join the Tang Sect was a good thing...

Inside the intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform.

A huge pile of soul beasts lay at Meng Li and Gu Yue's feet. There were no fewer than twenty hundred-year and thousand-year soul beasts. They all shared the same trait: a large bump on their heads, no wounds on their bodies, and they were all still alive.

"..." Gu Yue asked in confusion, "You're not killing them?"

"Would you kill them? Anyway, I won't," Meng Li said.

"Why?"

"I can't bring myself to do it..." Meng Li said somewhat embarrassedly, his face reddening slightly.

"But they're illusions..." Gu Yue's expression shifted slightly.

"Even so, I can't do it. I hate this feeling of slaughter," Meng Li explained.

Gu Yue looked at Meng Li in surprise. This boy's behavior was far too unexpected. Someone who had originally feared neither heaven nor earth was actually afraid of killing soul beasts.

"Even if they're illusions, can you really be sure they don't truly exist?"