Purify Spirit and Soul Breaker

"Dear passengers, we have arrived at Eastsea Station. Passengers disembarking, please take your luggage and leave the train in an orderly manner."

Leng Yaozhu escorted the two of them all the way to the gates of Eastsea Academy. She only left after giving them a few instructions.

There were still several days before the official start of term, and the campus was deserted. Aside from the occasional staff member, there was no one else in sight.

After returning to his dormitory and resting, An Ping entered the Alchemy Laboratory. He decided to turn the Soul Bone he had obtained from the Spirit Ascension Platform into weapons.

During this time, An Ping had not neglected his Alchemy studies and had gained a deeper understanding of the properties of various materials. After analyzing the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear's Soul Bone, he understood it better. It possessed sharpness and a faint potential for growth, making it most suitable as a material for crafting weapons.

He took out the various materials and placed them on the workbench, comparing them one by one. Mithril truly deserved its status as the most popular material among alchemists; it was incredibly adaptable. Unfortunately, he did not have enough Mithril left, so in the end, he could only use Heavy Silver as the primary material and Mithril as the supplementary one.

He placed the Soul Bone into the Magic Furnace, pressed both hands against it, and began injecting Magic Power. As the Magic Power flowed in, the Magic Runes on the furnace lit up one after another, giving off a pale red glow.

Though it was called a furnace, it actually had nothing to do with fire. It merely used a Rune Array to amplify and vibrate Magic Power, altering a substance's external form while ensuring its material properties remained unchanged.

As time passed bit by bit, the palm-shaped Soul Bone slowly melted until it finally became a mass of dark gold liquid floating within the furnace. An Ping then grabbed it with Magic Hand and placed it into a special storage item at the side.

After meditating to recover the Magic Power he had expended, he processed the Heavy Silver and Mithril separately, then fused them with Shaping Art. A mass of dark silver liquid and a mass of bright silver liquid gradually merged, eventually forming a liquid dotted with shining bright silver Light Spots.

He divided it into two portions and shaped them. As he used Shaping Technique, two dark silver Longswords slowly took form. After using Magic Power to set them in place, he put them on the workbench.

He picked up the materials one by one and began preparing Magic Rune ink, proceeding steadily step by step. Finally, he dripped the pale blue, semi-finished liquid into the container holding the Soul Bone fluid. As drops of pale blue liquid were added, the dark gold Soul Bone fluid gradually turned bright gold as though it were being purified. With the final drop of pale blue liquid, the Soul Bone fluid finally became completely bright gold.

After carefully checking that there were no problems, he picked up the Rune Carving Pen and injected it with Magic Power. Like dipping a quill into ink, he dipped it into the bright gold liquid. The bright gold liquid was slowly absorbed by the bright silver quill, which gradually began to glow bright gold from its tip to its feathers.

Following a design he had practiced many times, An Ping lowered his head and carefully carved the Longsword. Strange runes appeared one after another across the blade, strokes crossing and turning. With the completion of the final stroke, the bright gold runes flashed with golden light. As they flickered, they completely merged into the Longsword and vanished.

He performed the same operation on the second Longsword. After testing them, he found that although the two Longswords looked exactly alike, their effects differed slightly.

The Soul Bone's sharpness had been retained in both without exception. An Ping had carved a Rune Array called Spiritual Energy Movement, whose main effect was to destroy and purify souls and energy structures. The slight difference between the two swords lay in their tendencies: the first leaned more toward destruction, while the second leaned more toward purification.

Overall, however, he was quite satisfied. To distinguish them, An Ping named the two swords Soul Breaker and Spirit Purifier. He used the Rune Carving Pen to engrave their names on their hilts, put them away, and reappeared in the dormitory.

Gu Yuena sensed An Ping's aura reappear in the dormitory. With a flash of Silver Light, she entered his room directly. "What have you been doing these past few days? The Opening Ceremony is tomorrow. Teacher Wu came to see you today, but no one answered the door, so I told him you might have gone out."

"Has it been that long?" An Ping said. "Didn't we get a Soul Bone before? I spent the past few days making it into two weapons."

"Weapons?" Gu Yuena looked curious. "Can I take a look?"

An Ping nodded. "Of course. Didn't we agree before that if I made an extra one, I'd give you one? I happened to make two."

As he spoke, An Ping took out the two Longswords and placed them side by side on the desk. "Here. Soul Breaker and Spirit Purifier. Pick one."

Looking at the Longswords on the table, which glimmered with faint silver light, Gu Yuena could barely see any difference between them apart from their names. She asked in confusion, "They look the same. What is there to choose?"

An Ping shook his head and introduced the characteristics of each sword to Gu Yuena.

Gu Yuena said in surprise, "Destroying and purifying souls? The names fit rather well."

An Ping shook his head. "They're just names. They're actually pretty similar. A tendency doesn't mean it has only that one trait; it just means that trait is a little stronger than the other."

Gu Yuena picked up Spirit Purifier and casually swung it twice, startling An Ping into hurriedly taking two steps back. He could tell that Gu Yuena had not injected energy to fully activate the Rune Array, but if she accidentally cut him twice, it would still cause slight damage to his soul.

Gu Yuena teased, "Is it really that scary?"

An Ping shook his head and said irritably, "Even without energy infused into it, the damage to the soul might not be severe, but it would still take a long time to recover, okay?"

"So scary? By the way, why did you make a weapon like this? Do you have some especially powerful enemy connected to souls?" Gu Yuena asked doubtfully.

An Ping shook his head. "I don't have enemies like that. I've just been studying at the Spirit Pagoda recently, and after gaining some insights, I decided to give it a try."

"Is that so?" Gu Yuena said.

"Mm." An Ping nodded.

Gu Yuena put away the Purify Spirit Sword and nodded. "All right, then. I like this sword very much. Come on. To thank you, I'll treat you to dinner today."

When they left the dormitory, they saw Xie Xie pounding on the door of Tang Wulin's room. As he knocked, he shouted, "Wulin, are you back yet? You're always nowhere to be found!"

With a soft creak, the door next to Tang Wulin's room opened. A cute Maiden poked her head out and looked around. It was Xu Xiaoyan, who had come out to see what the knocking was about. When she saw the people in the corridor, her expression changed in shock.

It's them. Xu Xiaoyan recognized the three people outside. An Ping and Gu Yuena, in particular, had left a deep impression on her. It was those two who had eliminated them in the Riot Period Spirit Ascension Platform, and her brother had nagged her endlessly about it at home.

Xu Xiaoyan exclaimed, "Why are you here?"

Hearing Xu Xiaoyan's voice, Xie Xie turned around first. "Eh? Aren't you that Little Girl from that day? Why are you here?"

Xu Xiaoyan snorted. "Why can't I be here? So you're the other Cadets from Class Zero?"