One year later.
Spirit City, Holy Son Palace.
Seven-year-old Ye Qifeng sat cross-legged on his bed.
Behind him, one to the left and one to the right, two Light and Dark Martial Souls—one black and one white—floated quietly. Both Martial Souls looked identical to Ye Qifeng and emitted soft black-and-white halos.
The black-and-white halos intertwined, complementing each other and forming a slowly rotating Taiji Diagram.
Compared to before, the Taiji Diagram had become much clearer.
Ye Qifeng was currently meditating, consolidating his cultivation.
Over the past year.
With the support of the special Secret Realm provided by Spirit Hall Academy, Spirit Masters below the Soul Elder realm cultivated much faster inside it than in a mimicry environment, nearly two or three times faster than at a Mimicry Cultivation Ground.
As a result, Ye Qifeng's Soul Power had grown remarkably quickly.
By now, he had broken through to the Soul Elder realm, absorbed his Third Spirit Ring, and reached level thirty-three Soul Power.
A seven-year-old Soul Elder.
This shocked quite a few people once again.
When Ye Qifeng broke through level thirty, Xie Yue, Yan, and Hu Liena—the other three members of the Orphanage quartet—were the first to learn of it.
Xie Yue and Yan both sucked in sharp breaths on the spot. They were shocked, envious, and somewhat frustrated.
After all, they were a full three years older than Ye Qifeng.
Over the past year, their Soul Power had only risen four levels, reaching level twenty-nine.
They still needed to work hard for some time before breaking through level thirty.
At Spirit Hall Academy, Ye Qifeng had almost always cultivated alongside them, yet his progress had consistently stayed several steps ahead of theirs.
Although Xie Yue and Yan had accepted their defeat in the Soul Fight against Ye Qifeng a