Elephant Armor Skill and the First Emergence of Divine Sense

Seeing Li Han admit defeat, Wang Sheng smiled in satisfaction.

**"Hahaha! Of course! I'm already level eight! Once I rise another two levels, I can obtain a Soul Ring and become a Soul Master.

But you're pretty impressive too. I missed you several times just now.

Does your Martial Soul increase your movement speed?"**

"Mm."

Li Han nodded without denying it.

Martial Souls naturally possessed all sorts of traits, so there was nothing wrong with letting others misunderstand.

It was better than being thought to possess a Self-Created Soul Skill.

That would only bring more trouble later.

A hidden secret was a good secret.

Before he had grown strong enough, Li Han felt it was best to hide whatever he could.

"What an incredible Martial Soul! We'll all be family from now on. Welcome aboard, Li Han."

Wang Sheng smiled and extended his right hand toward Li Han, looking every bit like the head of the household.

Li Han smiled faintly. Wang Sheng was quite responsible.

"Thank you."

"Ding. Checked in with Zhang Tie. Obtained the Elephant Armor Skill.

The Elephant Armor Skill is a mundane body-tempering martial art, divided into nine levels.

Levels one through three are easy to cultivate and can increase strength while tempering the muscles and bones.

Levels four through six are extremely difficult to cultivate, requiring one to endure indescribable pain.

At levels seven through nine, cultivation becomes easier once more, but for several days each month, one must endure inhuman pain.

Once cultivated to this realm, the body will be like it is clad in a layer of precious armor, indestructible. Strength will increase greatly, allowing one to tear tigers and leopards apart with bare hands."

As he examined the information that had appeared in his mind once more, Li Han felt a hint of delight.

*The system mistook someone for someone else again... but the reward is a fine body-tempering martial art.

Never mind how difficult the later stages of the Elephant Armor Skill are; the body-tempering effects of the first three levels alone make it worth learning.

This way, when I absorb my first Soul Ring, I can strive for one with a higher age limit.*

Li Han calculated that if he could cultivate the Elephant Armor Skill to the third level before breaking through to level ten, he might be able to attempt a Soul Ring over five hundred years old.

He might then gain a decent first Soul Skill.

Although he had the system and it would not matter even if his Soul Skill was terrible, who would ever complain about having fewer trump cards?

Besides, Soul Skills would be the abilities he displayed openly in the future, so they could not be too weak.

That night, everyone in Dorm Seven had already fallen asleep.

Li Han, however, still sat cross-legged on his bed, cultivating the Everlasting Spring Technique.

As Old Devil Han's initial immortal cultivation technique, the Everlasting Spring Technique possessed quite a few advantages.

Once cultivated to a certain level, it could cleanse the meridians and marrow, enhance the five senses, grant a photographic memory, clear the mind, and strengthen the body.

An hour later, Li Han felt that he had reached the limit of his cultivation and finally stopped.

By then, a layer of black filth covered his body.

This was precisely the effect of cleansing the meridians and marrow.

Li Han hurried off to take a bath, feeling utterly refreshed afterward.

In front of the mirror, he found that his skin had become somewhat fairer, and even his looks had improved.

*This Everlasting Spring Technique truly is extraordinary. After cultivating it for the first time, I already feel as though I've been reborn.

But this world cultivates Soul Power, not spiritual energy, so its effects have been greatly diminished.

It seems that even if I obtain other cultivation techniques later, they will be limited by this world's laws and unable to display their true power.

Still, in this world, the Everlasting Spring Technique remains a powerful cultivation technique beyond anyone else's reach.*

Li Han muttered to himself, deep in thought.

At the Everlasting Spring Technique's cultivation speed, it would take him at most a year to break through to level ten.

For a Soul Warrior with innate level-six Soul Power like him, that was already exceptionally fast.

That was the benefit of having a cultivation technique.

Tang San had used the Mysterious Heaven Skill all the way until becoming a God King, which showed just how lacking this world was in cultivation techniques.

Compared with the wuxia version of the Mysterious Heaven Skill, the Everlasting Spring Technique was merely an entry-level immortal cultivation technique, but its effects were clearly superior.

Li Han closed his eyes, and everything within a radius of ten meters appeared clearly in his mind, as if he had activated an infrared scan.

*Is this the Divine Sense of an immortal cultivator? This feeling really is wondrous.

As my cultivation deepens, the range covered by my Divine Sense will grow larger and larger.

If I head into the Soul Beast Forest alone in the future, I'll be able to avoid danger in advance.*

Li Han smiled faintly before drifting into dreams.

The next day, Li Han officially began his life as a Soul Master.

That morning, Li Han went beneath the waterfall behind the academy to cultivate the Elephant Armor Skill.

The so-called Elephant Armor Skill was a method of constantly using external blows to increase one's physical strength.

The impact of a waterfall was an extremely suitable form of external force.

Naturally, one had to proceed step by step. He could not rush straight into the center of the waterfall from the start, or he would be washed to death.

Li Han chose an area near the edge of the waterfall, removed his clothes, and used the waterfall's force to cultivate the Elephant Armor Skill.

Even so, the pain involved was not something an ordinary person could endure.

Fortunately, Li Han possessed decent willpower and managed to persevere by gritting his teeth.

After an hour of cultivation, Li Han could clearly feel that his muscles and bones had strengthened somewhat.

The immediate results made him cultivate even more diligently.

After cultivating the Elephant Armor Skill, he went to the cafeteria for breakfast.

Three Copper Soul Coins for one breakfast was acceptable enough.

Next came class time.

Nuoding Academy's courses were divided into two main categories.

The first was theory, including Soul Master history, classifications, basic Soul Beast guides, and so on.

The second was practical combat, where students sparred with one another.

The academy also had two ways to graduate.

The first was to reach level ten Soul Power, after which one could graduate and proceed to an intermediate Soul Master Academy.

The second was to automatically graduate upon reaching the age of twelve.

In the original story, Xiao Wu and Tang San had both graduated automatically.

Otherwise, with their strength, they could have left Nuoding Academy long ago.

Li Han had come specifically for Soul Master theory, so he was especially attentive during theoretical classes and took many notes.

After class, Li Han went to clean the library.

After every cleaning, he borrowed a book to read and enrich his theoretical knowledge.

As a result, his theoretical framework as a Soul Master was gradually taking shape.

Although it was only basic theory, it was already enough for him at present.

With this theoretical foundation, he had already begun considering the direction of his first Soul Ring.

In Li Han's plans, his first Soul Ring needed to meet two requirements.

First, its age limit had to be as high as possible. This would increase the age of the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo and improve the quality of his Martial Soul.

He was greatly looking forward to the birth of the Ten Thousand Year Golden Thunder Bamboo.

However, judging by the current situation, even if he absorbed limit-level Soul Rings every time, it would still be somewhat difficult to obtain a ten-thousand-year age limit before his fourth Soul Ring.

After all, according to theory, the first three Soul Rings combined could only amount to three thousand years at most.

Even Tang San, the protagonist with cheats, had only reached that number with his first three Soul Rings.

Therefore, this would be an extremely long process.

He would first lay a solid foundation in the early stages.

Second, it had to be a wood-attributed Soul Beast. This would make the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo's attribute purer and prepare it for forging the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords in the future.

Having read the novel, he knew that the purer the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords' attributes were, the better. Any unnecessary attributes would be impurities that hindered them from reaching the realm of Sword Heart Illumination.

Because of this, not only did his first Soul Ring need to come from a wood-attributed Soul Beast, but ideally all his future Soul Rings would be wood-attributed as well.

At most, he could add a lightning attribute to increase the power of the Evil-Warding Divine Thunder.

As for whether the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo could be forged into the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords, he was not worried.

Given the system's nature, it was only a matter of time before it gave him the Azure Essence Sword Art.

The Heavenly Thunder Bamboo had no soul without the Azure Essence Sword Art.