Tang San practiced the Mysterious Heaven Skill year-round,
and his originally tough meridians had reduced in elasticity and were growing harder, causing the maximum soul power capacity he could tolerate to drop!
This meant that his strength had permanently declined,
because his explosive power could no longer match others'!
Furthermore, if in a critical moment he forcibly mobilized excessive soul power, his past meridians might only have been injured yet capable of recovery,
while his current meridians might suffer permanent damage!
Why?!
Tang San's brain boiled as he frantically racked his brains, pondering everything his teacher had ever said,
everything, everything...
yet the teacher had never once mentioned meridian hardening!
Much less mentioned meridian blockage!
Why... why?!
Teacher... why?!!
No... no!
I am going to find Teacher!!
I am going to find Teacher!!
With bloodshot eyes and unable to wait a moment longer, Tang San clenched his fists and rushed out of the dormitory, heading straight for Flender's office.
He wanted to leave, he wanted to find Teacher!
Flender's office.
The arrangement was simple.
A desk and chairs used for many years, a few accented plants, and scattered other items
made up the entirety.
Flender and Zhao Wuji sat in the black wooden chairs.
Both wore heavy expressions.
"Xiao Wu... heard a cow bellow?"
Flender found it hard to believe; having roamed the mainland for twenty years, he had seen and heard all sorts of bizarre and eccentric things,
yet...
captured by a hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape, hearing a cow bellow, getting released, waking up to absorb a soul ring, and returning completely unscathed?!
This was simply too absurd!
Flender looked at Zhao Wuji's serious expression, knowing his character well.
If it were anyone else, he absolutely would not have believed these words!
Zhao Wuji nodded.
"I also know