Soul Power Level 12

"Xiao Wu? What are you doing here?"

When Mo Bai arrived at the Spirit Hall Branch, he unexpectedly saw Xiao Wu from the same dormitory.

Could she have come here for certification like him? But hadn't Xiao Wu become a Soul Master several days ago?

"Mo Bai? Why are you here too?"

Xiao Wu was equally surprised to see Mo Bai.

"What else could I be here for? Of course, I'm here to get certified as a Soul Master!"

Mo Bai replied flatly, then asked, "What about you? What are you doing here? Shouldn't you have gotten certified long ago?"

"No, I haven't. Can't I come now?"

"And don't forget, I'm not just the boss of Room Seven now—I'm the boss of every student in Notting Academy. You should call me Xiao Wu-jie!"

Xiao Wu curled her lips, planted her hands on her hips, and glared at Mo Bai with a fierce yet childish expression, trying to force him to call her Xiao Wu-jie.

"When I was the boss before, you never called me boss either, so I don't have to call you that!" Mo Bai's lips curled slightly as he fired back with perfect logic.

"I'm not arguing with you. I still need to get certified as a Soul Master!"

With that, Mo Bai waved his hand and entered the Spirit Hall Branch ahead of her.

"You... jerk!"

Xiao Wu stomped her foot as she watched his retreating back.

"It's you. Your name is... Mo Bai, right?"

"You came here to get your Soul Master rank certified, just like Tang San did a few days ago?"

After Mo Bai entered, Su Yuntao, the deacon of the Dance Soul Hall Branch in the main hall of the Spirit Hall Branch, happened to spot him. His eyes lit up as he immediately questioned Mo Bai.

"Yes, Deacon Su Yuntao."

Mo Bai nodded in reply.

"Hmph, don't forget about me!"

As soon as Mo Bai finished speaking, Xiao Wu's voice rang out as well. Clearly, she had followed him in right after he entered.

"Xiao Wu, have you absorbed your First Soul Ring too? What kind of Soul Ring was it? How many years?"

When Su Yuntao saw Xiao Wu come in, his eyes brightened again. He immediately began questioning her enthusiastically, even more warmly than he had spoken to Mo Bai.

Mo Bai felt somewhat annoyed standing to the side. First, the man had brought up Tang San, and then he had tossed Mo Bai aside because of Xiao Wu.

Damn it, this was so irritating!

Su Yuntao had indeed temporarily forgotten about Mo Bai. Xiao Wu was also a genius with Innate Full Soul Power whom he had discovered during her awakening, and in his eyes, she had even greater potential than Mo Bai and Tang San.

Back then, Su Yuntao had directly invited Xiao Wu to join Spirit Hall.

However, Xiao Wu had refused outright. Now that he had seen her again, Su Yuntao naturally wanted to try and recruit her into Spirit Hall once more.

"You want to trick me into joining Spirit Hall again, don't you? No way!"

Xiao Wu was far from stupid. Before Su Yuntao could even say anything, she had already refused him.

"By the way, after getting certified as a Soul Master, that one Gold Soul Coin issued every month comes from the empire, right?"

Then Xiao Wu instead began questioning Su Yuntao.

She had heard that the Gold Soul Coins distributed by Spirit Hall were provided by the empire, which was why she had decided to come and get her Soul Master rank certified.

Otherwise, she would never have wanted to come to Spirit Hall for certification!

Spirit Hall was her enemy!

"Well, you could put it that way. But without Spirit Hall, the empire wouldn't be providing this money either!"

Su Yuntao did not hide the truth in response to Xiao Wu's words, though he also pointed out Spirit Hall's role.

When people asked, those from Spirit Hall would generally tell the truth. But if they did not ask, Spirit Hall would not take the initiative to tell them.

"Then that's fine. We're here to get our Soul Master ranks certified, so hurry up and get us tested!"

Xiao Wu smiled lightly and urged him on.

"Are you really not willing to consider joining Spirit Hall?"

"If you join us, we can—"

Su Yuntao was still unwilling to give up and intended to continue persuading her.

"No! I said I don't want to join Spirit Hall!"

However Su Yuntao tried to persuade her, Xiao Wu simply refused.

Left with no choice, Su Yuntao brought Mo Bai and Xiao Wu inside, where Vice President Ma Xiuno of the Spirit Branch Hall tested their Soul Power levels.

In the end, Mo Bai and Xiao Wu had the same Soul Power level: Level 12!

From this, Mo Bai learned that plant-type soul beasts were indeed comparatively weaker than animal-type soul beasts. They had both absorbed four-hundred-year Soul Rings, yet Tang San had risen directly to Level 13, while he had only reached Level 12.

After completing the appraisal, Vice President Ma Xiuno did not forget to invite Xiao Wu to join Spirit Hall. Xiao Wu still refused firmly.

Vice President Ma Xiuno was helpless and could only turn to invite Mo Bai.

Did he have no pride at all?

He was only being asked after someone else had refused. He did not care for it!

Mo Bai had some pride of his own as well, and he promptly refused outright.

"Xiao Wu, I noticed you seem pretty resistant to Spirit Hall. Why is that?"

After leaving the Spirit Hall Branch together with Xiao Wu, having collected their subsidies, Mo Bai curiously asked her about it.

Ever since entering the Spirit Hall Branch, Mo Bai had noticed that Xiao Wu was very resistant to Spirit Hall.

Could the faction behind Xiao Wu be an enemy of Spirit Hall?

"That's right, I just don't like Spirit Hall!"

"What? Were you planning to join Spirit Hall? Then why didn't you agree just now?"

Xiao Wu plainly stated that she disliked Spirit Hall, then scrutinized Mo Bai.

"No, didn't I refuse too?"

Spirit Hall really was a good place to go, but knowing that the little girl before him disliked Spirit Hall, Mo Bai naturally would not admit it, lest he make her dislike him.

After all, they would be living in the same school, perhaps even the same dormitory, for many years to come.

"That's more like it. If Spirit Hall tries recruiting you again in the future, remember not to agree!" Only then did Xiao Wu smile.

After returning to Notting Academy, Mo Bai found an unoccupied spot, summoned his martial soul, Blue Silver Grass, then plucked a leaf 🍃 from it and tried using it as a hidden weapon.

Whoosh—

The leaf instantly vanished from Mo Bai's hand, turning into a green streak that shot rapidly into the trunk of a tree.

Puff—

After striking the trunk, the leaf sank three inches into the wood, with half of it piercing directly into the tree.

"Not bad. It really can be used as a hidden weapon!"

"Although firing hidden weapons also consumes Soul Power, it costs far less than using a Soul Skill!"

Seeing the damage caused by the Blue Silver Grass leaf, Mo Bai was satisfied.

Everything had gone just as he predicted. Although his First Soul Skill was utterly useless, the evolved Blue Silver Grass leaves were not. They had achieved the effect he wanted.

He could use them as ordinary hidden weapons!

Having tested the results, Mo Bai did not immediately return to the dormitory.

The Jing Yu Secret had broken through, so he could continue cultivating his poison art, Jade Hand.

Mo Bai's Jade Hand was a poison art cultivated by absorbing the poison from toxic creatures.

Previously, Mo Bai had cultivated it using ordinary poisonous creatures, such as spiders, centipedes, venomous bees, and the like.

Once mastered, his hands would turn jade-green from wrist to fingertip when activated, like jade itself. Thus, it was called Jade Hand.

Beautiful, yet deadly!