The Strength-Eating Immortal Gu's Second Soul Skill, Trouble at Heaven Dou Academy!

This surge of soul power was incredibly vast, like a burst river threatening to wash everything away!

When the soul power reached Qin Qi, it uncontrollably split into two streams.

One surged into Qin Qi's body, while the other flowed into the Strength-Eating Immortal Gu's body. The originally fierce impact was immediately reduced by half.

"Phew. After constant training, my physical strength has now reached around level thirty-seven or thirty-eight."

"With the Strength-Eating Immortal Gu diverting and buffering it, this time should be fine."

Qin Qi felt the soul power flood into his body. There was a slight swelling pain, but it was not intense.

His body was strong enough to withstand this level of soul power impact.

Second by second, Qin Qi gradually absorbed all the soul power. He also broke through the level-twenty bottleneck and entered the Grand Soul Master realm.

His physical strength also rose by one level under the impact of the soul power, reaching level thirty-nine.

"My soul power has probably risen to around level twenty-four or twenty-five now."

Qin Qi stood up and sensed the power within his body. The energy from absorbing the thousand-year soul ring, together with the energy he had accumulated through cultivation—

Had pushed him all the way to level twenty-five in one go. His gains could be considered immense.

"Purple, purple—both soul rings are thousand-year soul rings!"

"Boss Qin Qi... you can really be impulsive sometimes!"

Shi Mo and Shi Mo stared wide-eyed at the two soul rings appearing behind Qin Qi.

Earlier, they had already learned from Qin Ming about the dangers of absorbing soul rings beyond one's level.

One wrong move, and it could cost someone their life. Yet Qin Qi had absorbed both of his soul rings beyond his level.

That required not only tremendous strength, but tremendous courage as well!

"Boss Qin Qi, we'll follow you from now on. Please take good care of us!"

Shi Mo and Shi Mo exchanged a glance, then walked up to Qin Qi and bowed respectfully.

"You two are making me sound like some kind of thug. Forget about following me."

"We're all friends from now on. Let's hang out when we have time."

Qin Qi smiled and lightly punched Shi Mo and Shi Mo. He liked their personalities quite a bit.

"Hehehe, alright then. We'll be friends from now on. Boss Qin Qi, please look after us."

Shi Mo and Shi Mo scratched their heads and spoke with smiles.

Qin Ming watched from the side and only spoke after the three had finished talking.

"What is your second soul ring skill?"

Qin Ming asked.

"My second soul ring skill... seems similar to the first one. But this time, it isn't eating meat. It seems to be eating my own soul power."

Qin Qi looked at the Strength-Eating Immortal Gu on his shoulder. After absorbing the second soul ring—

The Strength-Eating Immortal Gu had begun continuously absorbing his soul power. After refining the absorbed soul power within its body—

It returned higher-quality soul power to Qin Qi. This was not a one-time process; it needed to keep feeding and refining bit by bit.

"It seems your martial soul should be an auxiliary-type beast martial soul."

"The martial soul itself basically has no direct combat ability, but it can continuously enhance the soul master."

Qin Ming pushed up his glasses. He had been unable to determine its type with only one soul ring before, but now it was clear.

Qin Qi's martial soul was a self-enhancement auxiliary type. It was highly unlikely that his future soul rings would grant direct offensive soul skills.

"What? Boss Qin Qi is an auxiliary type?"

"Teacher, quit joking. What kind of auxiliary type can punch a thousand-year soul beast to death?"

Before Qin Qi could speak, the Shi Mo brothers could not help blurting out.

If this guy counted as an auxiliary type, then what were they? Agility-attack martial souls?

"Though it may sound absurd, Qin Qi relies entirely on his own brute strength in battle."

"Other than that, his martial soul has no combat power at all, and his soul skills have no offensive power either."

"According to the soul master world's classification system, this is a completely pure auxiliary-type martial soul."

Qin Ming found it absurd too, but there was no helping it. The theory world did not classify martial souls based on how well their owners could fight.

It only looked at the martial soul's traits and soul skill abilities. If it could attack directly, it was not an auxiliary type. If it could not attack directly, it was an auxiliary type.

"Alas, the Strength Path is declining, the Strength Path is declining."

Qin Qi felt the increasingly refined soul power within his body and could not help sighing.

It seemed he still had to work harder on developing Strength Path killer moves.

With the martial soul hunt complete, Qin Qi and the others set out to return to Heaven Dou Royal Academy. The journey took three or four days.

After returning to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Qin Ming first went to greet the three instructors, while Qin Qi and the others were free to do as they pleased.

Qin Qi brought Shi Mo and Shi Mo to the place where everyone drank tea, intending to introduce them to Dugu Yan and the others.

But the moment he arrived at the tea room and saw Dugu Yan's group, he felt that the atmosphere was off.

"What's wrong with you all? Why do you look so upset? Who made you angry?"

Although Qin Qi said "you all," his eyes were fixed on Dugu Yan. At that moment, the resentment radiating from her was practically solid.

"None of your—"

Hearing someone speak behind her, Dugu Yan was about to snap. But when she turned around and saw that it was Qin Qi, her expression immediately brightened.

"You're finally back, little brother Qin Qi! Do you know how much I've been bullied lately?"

Dugu Yan's expression changed at once, turning into a beaming smile. She wrapped her arms around Qin Qi's arm as she spoke.

"Sister Yan Yan, don't do this. You're scaring me."

"Just tell me what happened."

Qin Qi suddenly felt a chill down his back. One did not pay a visit without a reason; for Dugu Yan to act like this, she definitely needed something from him.

And it was no ordinary matter.

"Actually, I didn't want to tell you, since you're still young. But since you insist on asking, I'll tell you."

"Lingling and I were out shopping before when we ran into an incredibly arrogant woman."

"We both took a liking to the same dress, and there was only one left in the shop."

"To snatch it from us, she just attacked us outright."

As Dugu Yan spoke, tears streamed down her face. She put on a weak, pitiful look, wiped at her tears, then secretly glanced at Qin Qi.

"You got beaten up? Who did it?"

Qin Qi looked Dugu Yan over and saw no obvious injuries, but with Ye Lingling around, it was possible that any wounds had already been healed.

"That little bitch Huo Wu from Blazing Fire Academy!"

"I'm telling you, it's not that I couldn't beat her. They just had more people and bullied us because we were outnumbered."

"Besides, the people from our academy are all useless."

As Dugu Yan spoke, she shot a fierce glare at Xue Beng sitting beside her. The useless person she meant was him.

"Cough, cough."

Xue Beng shrank back, looking somewhat embarrassed, but there was nothing he could do. He simply wasn't good at fighting.