Soul Skill That Transcended Dimensions, Judgment: Shadow Annihilation! (2)

After his joy subsided, Li Qing remained in the Myriad Soldiers Extreme Domain's training room for another three hours, using the time to consolidate his improved cultivation. It was not until dawn the next day, around the time the cafeteria began serving food, that he slowly opened his eyes.

The moment he emerged from his cultivation state, he sensed a faint disturbance within his Storage Belt.

Sending his Mental Power into the belt to investigate, Li Qing discovered that the source of the disturbance was a box. Stored inside that box was, surprisingly, the Spirit Bone he had obtained from Outlaw Zhang San—a Spirit Bone that had not appeared in a long time!

Li Qing took out the Spirit Bone and carefully examined it in his palm.

For certain reasons, Li Qing had not fused with this Spirit Bone, so he had kept it in his Storage Belt all this time. It had never done anything strange before, but for some reason today, its two eyes kept glowing! Glowing red! And flickering on and off at that!

Staring at those spindle-shaped eyes flashing with red light, Li Qing felt chills crawl up his spine. He also had an inexplicable premonition that something bad must have happened!

Instinctively, he activated the Unknowable Eye, making his aura impossible to detect.

As soon as the Unknowable Eye was activated, the "restless" Spirit Bone in his hand returned to its previous silence, and the eerie red glow vanished without a trace.

Seeing this change, Li Qing frowned even more deeply, a bad suspicion gradually forming in his heart.

At the same time, just as Li Qing activated the Unknowable Eye and the Spirit Bone calmed down, in a remote mountain village within the Star Luo Empire, a gray-robed man sat cross-legged atop a pile of dozens of corpses. The corners of his lips lifted into a smile uglier than crying as he muttered to himself.

"Found you..."

Back in the training room of Martial Soul Hall Academy, Li Qing, with the Unknowable Eye activated, seriously reflected on the matter. He decided that he should keep the Unknowable Eye active from now on. Even though it would continuously consume Soul Power, he carried far too many secrets. If other Soul Masters caught a glimpse of them, it would be disastrous.

After straightening his clothes and suppressing the unease in his heart, Li Qing prepared to return to his dormitory. But he still needed breakfast, and after the Spirit Bone's earlier abnormality, he felt that he needed more food to ease the anxiety in his heart.

At the entrance to the Myriad Soldiers Extreme Domain, Old Mo Yu lay in a recliner with his eyes half-closed. It was impossible to tell whether he was asleep or awake.

Disturbing someone's sweet dreams was certainly impolite, so Li Qing slowed his steps, intending to sneak away quietly. But then...

"Kid Li..."

Mo Yu's slightly weathered voice rang out. His half-closed eyes opened fully, and judging by how alert he looked, he did not seem like someone who had just awakened.

"Well, well, your Soul Power has broken through again! How did the final assessment go? Lately, I've been hearing the other students talk about you all the time, Genius Li?"

Faced with Mo Yu's teasing, Li Qing scratched his head awkwardly. "Grandpa Mo, please stop making fun of me."

"Alright, the final assessment is over. Do you have any plans for the holiday?" Mo Yu asked.

"Yes, I've already made arrangements," Li Qing replied.

"I see. Alright, I understand." Mo Yu's voice softened.

"What is it, Grandpa Mo?"

Sensing the shift in Mo Yu's mood, Li Qing asked in confusion. Old Mo Yu had treated him quite well, after all, and one had to be courteous.

"It's nothing. Just that an old fellow is quite interested in you. He came by last night while you were still cultivating to ask about you. But he has an important mission to complete and won't be in Spirit City for the next few days. I'm afraid you won't get to meet before your holiday begins."

Although Mo Yu appeared calm, Li Qing understood from the old man's reaction just now that this person was likely a friend of his.

"May I ask who this senior is? If the mission will not take too long, I can stay at the academy for a few extra days," Li Qing said.

Li Qing also wanted to know who this person was. Staying a few more days would not interfere with his holiday plans.

"Don't worry. It's a small mission and won't take long, three days at most. Oh, his name is Kong Yuan."

"Kong Yuan... Alright, Grandpa Mo, I understand. Our class has some arrangements later, so I'll take my leave first."

"Mm."

After having breakfast, returning to his dormitory for a hot bath, and changing into a clean set of clothes, Li Qing finally headed to class. There was still some time before it officially began.

However, the end of the final assessment also signaled the end of this semester's course schedule. Their homeroom teacher, Deng Yuguang, still had some matters to explain, as well as the final assessment evaluations.

According to Yan, this final assessment seemed to be connected to the selection of members for the next Golden Generation.

This was the second-to-last semester that Li Qing and Yan's group would spend in the Intermediate Soul Master Division, though this semester only had a few days left.

So there was a strong possibility that it was related to the Golden Generation selection. Li Qing himself did not care in the slightest about this so-called Golden Generation, but there had once been a blonde beauty who entrusted him with it full of hope, hadn't there?

A few minutes later, Yu Shaofei entered before class officially began.

"Students! The final assessments have ended, and the assessment results..."

Yu Shaofei paused. Seeing the students below with their ears perked up, looking both expectant and nervous, he could not help but find it amusing.

"The assessment results will not be announced this semester. We will announce them at the beginning of next semester."

As soon as he finished speaking, the expressions on the students' faces below became incredibly varied—disappointment, relief, happiness...

"Alright!" Yu Shaofei spoke up, and the noisy classroom immediately fell silent.

"After this class, our semester will be over, and you will be facing a full two-month holiday. Although you're going on break, that doesn't mean..." Yu Shaofei raised his voice several notches.

"...you can slack off and relax! The academy has assigned you holiday homework! I hope you'll have a 'fulfilling' holiday..."

Watching Yu Shaofei stand at the podium with a faintly "vicious" smile on his face, Li Qing could not help but laugh. Yu Shaofei was exactly like the homeroom teachers from Earth in his previous life at the end of a semester.

They practically wished students would spend their entire holiday doing homework, but...

How many people could honestly finish holiday homework when the workload was not even that large?

Yu Shaofei announced the academy's "assignment": increase their Soul Power by at least one rank!

Mm, raising one's Soul Power by one rank in two months was no easy task for most ordinary students.