Bibi Dong's Shock

"Su Mo, why do you always carry your Soul Hunting Spear on your back?"

Su Mo's habit of constantly carrying his Martial Soul, the Soul Hunting Spear, behind his back soon aroused his classmates' curiosity. Xiao Wu, who was somewhat closer to Su Mo, directly asked him about it.

"Nothing much. I'm just trying to cultivate a soul skill."

Su Mo gave a simple answer.

But Su Mo was doing far more than merely attempting to cultivate a soul skill. He was playing for something much bigger.

"What soul skill?"

Xiao Wu immediately pressed him curiously.

"It's nothing. I don't even know if it'll work yet!"

Su Mo smiled and brushed her off.

"Oh, forget it if you won't say!"

Xiao Wu immediately lost interest. She quickly left and returned to Tang San's side, chatting and laughing with him.

Among their classmates, she found Tang San especially familiar and capable, so she preferred spending time with him.

In her eyes, Su Mo was just a weirdo.

He was rarely seen in the classroom, and even when he did show up, he never played with the others.

Watching Xiao Wu run back to Tang San's side, Su Mo could only sigh inwardly.

Although he had stopped Xiao Wu and Tang San from sleeping in the same bed, he could not stop Xiao Wu from becoming friends with Tang San anyway.

The truth was, Su Mo simply could not spare much time to spend with Xiao Wu.

Besides, Su Mo knew that Xiao Wu was definitely under Tang Hao's watch, so he did not continue approaching her.

Su Mo continued doing things his own way.

Of course, the one change was that ever since returning from the Soul Hunting Forest, Bibi Dong had begun appearing before him frequently.

It was Su Mo who had asked Bibi Dong to teach him about Martial Souls.

Several months ago, Su Mo had already discovered that there was nothing left for him to learn in Notting Academy's library.

So after Bibi Dong took the initiative to appear, Su Mo seized the opportunity to ask her to teach him.

Su Mo had already prepared himself to be rejected.

To his surprise, Bibi Dong hesitated before agreeing.

Thus, the time Su Mo had once spent studying in the library every day was replaced by entering his Spirit Space to receive Bibi Dong's instruction.

And so, Su Mo continued living each difficult yet fulfilling day.

Time continued to pass.

By persistently merging his Martial Soul, the Soul Hunting Spear, with the iron spear every day, Su Mo gradually discovered that his connection with the iron spear was growing closer and closer.

What had once felt like only the faintest blood connection had, on the eve of graduation three years later, become a sensation that the iron spear was truly a part of his body, just like the feeling his Martial Soul, the Soul Hunting Spear, gave him.

After throwing the iron spear, Su Mo only needed a thought and a certain amount of Soul Power to summon it back into his hand.

Notting Academy's Back Mountain.

The same familiar location.

Swish! Swish! Swish!!!

Su Mo wielded the long spear in his hands freely in the clearing. The spear moved like a dragon, every sweep and thrust incomparably fierce, leaving spear marks all across the ground.

Moon Breaker!

Cloud Chaser!

Star Chaser!

Hundred Prairie Slashes!

In the end, Su Mo even performed a full set of Yun Ying's moves from Honor of Kings with considerable flair. However, his final move failed to unleash Yun Ying's three layers of spear intent, and he merely slammed the long spear viciously into the ground.

"Whew..."

After finishing his training, Su Mo let out a long breath. Fine sweat covered his face and body.

Yet Su Mo only felt refreshed all over. For someone who exercised every day, skipping even one day of training felt uncomfortable instead.

After a while, Su Mo looked around. Once he confirmed that no one was nearby, his expression became serious.

Holding the long spear formed from the fusion of his Martial Soul, the Soul Hunting Spear, and the iron spear with both hands, Su Mo willed it inward. Return.

Su Mo was not only trying to recall his Martial Soul into his body. He was also trying to recall the iron spear.

He had attempted this many times before, but he had never succeeded.

But this time was different. This was Su Mo's first attempt after feeling that he had completely refined the iron spear.

Buzz—

The long spear in Su Mo's hands trembled lightly before vanishing entirely from his grasp.

"It worked?"

Su Mo's eyes immediately lit up at the sight.

Then, Su Mo excitedly closed his eyes and began examining his Spirit Space inwardly.

After entering his Spirit Space, Su Mo saw his Martial Soul, the Soul Hunting Spear.

But at that moment, the Soul Hunting Spear had already fused with the iron spear Su Mo had refined. The entire spear trembled faintly, emitting wave after wave of Soul Power fluctuations.

Su Mo understood after only one glance.

His Martial Soul, the Soul Hunting Spear, was completely merging with the iron spear he had refined. Once the fusion was complete, the two would no longer be distinguishable from one another.

Whoosh~

At that moment, a slender figure flashed out from the Blood-colored Mist beside the Soul Hunting Spear.

"Little one, what is going on?"

After glancing at the changing Soul Hunting Spear, Bibi Dong turned to Su Mo and questioned him in surprise.

Bibi Dong had never known about Su Mo refining the iron spear. She only knew that Su Mo would merge his Martial Soul with the iron spear while training. Su Mo had never told her that he was attempting to refine the iron spear, so Bibi Dong had remained unaware.

Now that she saw Su Mo's Martial Soul undergoing a mutation, she was naturally shocked.

After all, aside from when absorbing Soul Rings, which could alter a Martial Soul's appearance, Martial Souls would not change under any other circumstances.

Yet Su Mo was clearly only level 19. He had been stuck at level 19 for several months and had failed to break through to level 20, so this could not possibly be a change caused by absorbing a Soul Ring.

"Goddess Sister, I'm evolving my Martial Soul!"

Seeing Bibi Dong's surprise, Su Mo grinned and said proudly.

Buzz—

Just as Su Mo finished speaking, the Martial Soul that had been trembling finally stopped. Its evolution was complete, and the fusion had become total.

The Soul Hunting Spear that reappeared before Su Mo looked more refined overall. One glance was enough to tell that it had become much stronger than before.

"Evolving a Martial Soul?"

"How is that possible?"

Bibi Dong's first reaction upon hearing Su Mo's answer was disbelief. But when she saw Su Mo's Martial Soul complete its evolution, her eyes widened. She looked at Su Mo in disbelief. "How did you do it? What did you do?"

At that moment, Bibi Dong truly felt as though her entire worldview had been shaken.

No matter how hard she tried, she could not imagine what Su Mo had done to genuinely evolve his Martial Soul.

She could tell at a glance that Su Mo's Martial Soul had truly evolved.

Su Mo's Soul Hunting Spear had originally been a low-grade Martial Soul, but it had now reached the quality of an intermediate-grade Martial Soul.