A storm quietly died down with Dugu Yan's intervention.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Even the three lackeys who had tried to surround Li Jingzhe earlier retreated behind Xue Feng.
Xue Feng lightly fanned himself, looking at Dugu Yan before glancing at Li Jingzhe. A playful smile gradually curled at the corners of his mouth.
He simply watched as Dugu Yan paid and Li Jingzhe handed over the goods.
The porcelain bottle was ordinary.
But the moment Dugu Yan removed its stopper, a refreshing medicinal fragrance wafted out...
Xue Feng couldn't help perking up. He even faintly sensed the Soul Power inside him stirring...
Could it really be true?
He narrowed his eyes, but his gaze remained fixed on Dugu Yan...
He saw Dugu Yan take a deep breath, tilt back her head, and swallow the Greater Restoration Pill. She immediately sat down cross-legged.
Boom—
The instant the pill entered her body, a surge of energy exploded inside her;
Its medicinal power turned into rolling waves of heat that coursed rapidly through her meridians, growing hotter and warmer;
She instinctively used the poison-refining method from Thousand Spider Poison Hand. Poison was energy, and the tremendous medicinal power in her body was also a form of energy;
She guided the medicinal power through her meridians. After just two cycles, a flash of delight crossed Dugu Yan's brows... So this was how the Greater Restoration Pill completely healed injuries?
As the medicinal power coursed through her entire body, she could clearly feel the hidden injuries left behind by more than twenty years of torment from the poison in her body healing at a visible pace;
Tang San, that bastard, had deceived her grandfather. He had neutralized the poison she had accumulated over more than twenty years, but only treated the symptoms, not the root cause;
Thousand Spider Poison Hand could release the poison inside her, so she no longer had to worry about its buildup, but... neither of those things could heal the hidden injuries caused by the accumulated poison.
It was like a drop of ink falling on a solid wood tabletop. You could wipe away the drop, but not the ink that had seeped into the grain. To remove it completely, you could only scrape off the contaminated part, but... the body wasn't wood, and hidden injuries couldn't be scraped away. Even if they could, the damage to the body would be no better than leaving them untreated.
But as the Greater Restoration Pill's medicinal power entered her body, not only were the hidden injuries scraped away, the damaged parts also began to grow back under the pill's effects, brimming with life as if newly reborn.
Something this good has to be used on Grandpa too!!
She had already made up her mind to buy another Greater Restoration Pill from Li Jingzhe later!
Just then, her Soul Power suddenly surged;
Once the injuries in her body were completely healed, the remaining medicinal power swiftly transformed into nourishment that enhanced her Soul Power. It opened a meridian she had never noticed before, then began opening another she had never paid attention to, while her Soul Power rose steadily alongside it;
Her Martial Soul, the Jade Phosphorous Serpent, appeared of its own accord. Its four yellow, yellow, purple, and purple Soul Rings pulsed with her breathing. With each breath, her Soul Power had already broken through level forty-three and reached level forty-four;
Every breath brought another rise in Soul Power: level forty-five... level forty-six... level forty-seven... In the blink of an eye, she reached level forty-nine. Her Soul Power was clearly rising more slowly, but it was still increasing...
"Th-this... Th-this..."
The former captain of the Second Team—the bruised young man—was so shocked he couldn't speak. His mouth opened and closed, but he couldn't manage a complete sentence.
He was still one of the better ones!
Thud—
Thud—
Some of the substitute team members standing farther back pointed at Dugu Yan with trembling fingers; others wore looks of terror, their faces frozen like stone statues. Some were so shocked they simply fell to the ground.
It was rising!
It was really rising!
Senior Dugu's Soul Power was surging, shooting up!!
Even Ye Lingling instinctively covered her red lips, as if afraid she might cry out in shock...
They had heard of methods to rapidly increase Soul Power in a short time, but those methods usually came at the cost of a massive drain on one's foundation, life force, and very essence;
Moreover, Soul Power gained through such methods was often unstable and scattered;
That was why many of them had come hoping to watch a spectacle, but...
Dugu Yan looked rosy and healthy. She showed none of the damage to her foundation or depletion of her essence that the rumors described.
Her rapidly rising Soul Power was also incredibly solid, with a stable foundation and not the slightest hint of instability!
At that moment, the eyes of everyone on the Second Team grew scorching with excitement!
Senior Dugu hadn't lied to them. This really was a chance to undergo a transformation—even a chance to defy fate and change their lives!
The seven standing at the very front were especially excited. They had all been regular team members, with Soul Power levels of thirty-five, and they were all under twenty-five. If they could reach level forty before turning twenty-five, their status and influence in their families would rise to a whole new level!
Watching Dugu Yan's Soul Power climb steadily, seemingly on the verge of breaking through level fifty, Xue Feng unconsciously tightened his grip on his fan.
Dugu Yan's Soul Power was registered as level forty-three when she joined the Second Team. Now... the fluctuations in her Soul Power are already close to level fifty...
Can this Greater Restoration Pill really increase Soul Power? At least five levels, perhaps even more?
If I could give one to the old man...
His gaze discreetly swept over the row of items before Li Jingzhe. The expensive, prestigious folding fan in his hand creaked under his grip.
"You're the Pavilion Master, right?"
"I'll ask you this: does the Greater Restoration Pill work on all Soul Masters, or only low-level ones? Are there any Soul Power level requirements for those who take it?"
Oh?
Li Jingzhe narrowed his eyes and sized up this spoiled young man. If he remembered correctly... those people had called Xue Feng a young lord earlier. Was he the eldest son of that Prince Xue Xing?
Heh, this kid's Soul Power fluctuations were only around level thirty, yet he'd deliberately asked whether the Greater Restoration Pill worked on all Soul Masters... Could he be planning to give it to his old man, Xue Xing?
Although the original story never said exactly what level that Prince Xue Xing was, judging by Xue Feng's reaction, could Xue Xing be stuck at a bottleneck, unable to advance?
Hmm, that was certainly possible!
The original story never mentioned Xue Xing's level, but it did say that Emperor Xue Ye was an eighty-eight-level Soul Douluo. With his older brother setting such a high bar, and with the royal family's resources supporting him, Xue Xing couldn't be that bad—as long as he didn't have a Trash Martial Soul.
Yet after Xue Ye died in the original story, the one who took the throne was Xue Beng, whose Soul Power was only in the forties at the time...
No matter how useless Xue Xing was, he had to be better than that good-for-nothing Xue Beng, right?
The reason was probably that the officials, led by Ge Long—the Heaven Dou Empire's highest-ranking military commander and an eighty-something-level Soul Douluo—recognized only Xue Beng as the legitimate heir, not Xue Xing, who came from a collateral branch. Yet Xue Xing couldn't make the officials bow to him through strength;
It couldn't be ruled out that Ge Long and the others intended to use Xue Beng as a puppet. After all, that was exactly what Xue Xing had done in the original story. A powerless playboy sitting on the throne would be so easy to control!
But if Xue Xing took the Greater Restoration Pill and broke through his bottleneck... Tsk, the Heaven Dou Empire was in for a lively time!
But what did any of that have to do with Li Jingzhe?
It didn't matter if the sky fell. He was invincible inside the Scripture Depository anyway.
"Everything from the Scripture Depository is a fine product! Even a Titled Douluo would benefit from taking it!"
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