Level 2 Group Upgrade: New Member Invitations, a Draw, and a Second Soul Skill

Soon, a day had passed, and midnight arrived.

Young Bibi Dong normally went to bed at eight sharp.

But with this chat group that spanned time and space, she stayed up until midnight.

Only after sending Li Qiu three hundred jin of Spirit Medicine did she get ready for bed.

[Spirit Hall Saintess: All right, I've sent you the Spirit Medicine. Give me the Pill the day after tomorrow! I'm so sleepy I can't chat anymore. Going to bed!!]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: Okay, talk tomorrow. Mwah!]

Li Qiu put all the Spirit Medicine into the Five-Element Space and left it alone.

A Pill would form every day anyway,

and some of the medicinal power would be absorbed too.

That would let him raise his Soul Power.

The next day,

Li Qiu woke at six in the morning and found he was just one step from level twenty.

He immediately took a pill from the Five-Element Space and swallowed it.

The next instant, energy surged from his stomach through every limb and bone.

His Soul Power shot up to level twenty.

Not bad.

The Spirit Medicine young Dong had sent lived up to its reputation. Combined with his Martial Soul,

it had raised him two levels in two days.

That was more than the original owner of his body had managed after a long stretch of cultivation.

Zhao Wuji woke them for a run.

Li Qiu ran with Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar.

"New student recruitment starts at nine!

I'll be the chief examiner, and Dai Mubai will be my deputy.

Don't wake me unless you find a Little Monster!"

Zhao Wuji walked ahead.

"Got it!"

Dai Mubai held his head high, looking thoroughly pleased with himself.

After all, he was the strongest student at Shrek now.

Ma Hongjun and Oscar? They were nothing.

And in his eyes, Li Qiu was less than nothing.

Ma Hongjun slowed down after running for a while.

Dai Mubai kicked him in the backside.

"Quit slacking, fatso..."

Ma Hongjun's hand struck a nearby tree, and a stabbing pain shot up his arm.

He screamed, "Ah... ah..." in agony.

His hand drooped again.

"M-my hand's broken! Boss Dai, you're heartless! You kicked my hand and broke it!"

Ma Hongjun looked miserable, his eyes full of resentment, like an aggrieved wife.

"Get lost. That armored man broke it. We only set it for you yesterday; it hasn't healed yet! Don't go spitting blood at me!"

Dai Mubai snapped.

"I went to the back mountain yesterday and didn't find that armored Soul Master. He must have fled!"

Zhao Wuji spoke as he ran. "Ma Hongjun really has it rough!"

His hand had only been set yesterday, and today it was broken again.

The bone-deep pain turned Ma Hongjun's face white as paper. He hissed, sucking in breath.

Meanwhile, Li Qiu looked at a pop-up from the chat group.

[Ding! Group activity has reached 100. The group has risen to LV1. Congratulations, host! You have earned one draw.]

[When group activity reaches 500, the group can rise to LV2 and randomly invite a second member from any era.]

[Draw now?]

Li Qiu saw the system prompt and immediately tapped yes.

[Ding! Drawing now.]

[Congratulations, host! You have obtained a Two-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.]

[Choose one of these three Soul Skills: Copy, Gravity, or Speed.]

Li Qiu saw the three options and chose without a second thought—

Copy.

This Soul Skill let him copy someone else's Soul Skill and use it himself.

He could change the Soul Skill's attribute at will, too.

He could copy five times a day, one for each of the five attributes.

Whatever Soul Skill he wanted, he could use.

Of course, its power would only match that of a two-thousand-year Soul Ring.

The system then attached the Soul Ring to him.

No one else sensed any change in his Soul Power.

His level also rose to twenty-four.

Not bad at all.

[Spirit Hall Saintess: Good morning! I've finished breakfast and am about to start today's training.]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: Morning. Do you train every day? Have you never gone out to have fun in Spirit City?]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: No. My teacher told me to train hard these next few days,]

[so I can go to Heaven Dou City and crush the younger disciples of the Upper Three Sects. That's why I'm not allowed out.]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: That's rough. I might be going to some shady school,]

[but I can still go running with my teachers and classmates. Have you never left Spirit Hall before?]

[Haven't you visited the friends you grew up with at the orphanage?]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: I'm jealous... I've been out a few times, but never for long. If I insist, I can still go out,]

[but my two friends from the orphanage were assigned to Spirit Hall Branches in different places after their Martial Souls awakened. We lost touch long ago.]

[What level are you now?]

Li Qiu chatted with the young Dong as he ran.

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: Level twenty-four. I just took a Pill, and my Martial Soul absorbed some of the Spirit Medicine you sent. That leveled me up.]

Excitement surged through him as he said it, and he ran faster.

[Spirit Hall Saintess: Congratulations, another level-up! You went from level eighteen to twenty-four in just two days. Did you get your Second Soul Ring?]

[How old is it? How did you gain so many levels?]

[A level-twenty Soul Master who absorbs a seven-hundred-year Soul Ring usually gains two levels at most. How did you reach level twenty-four?]

[You got your Second Soul Ring?]

[How old is it?]

Young Bibi Dong was startled by the information popping up in the chat group.

He had leveled up so quickly,

and obtained his Second Soul Ring so quickly too?

Was his academy near a Soul Beast forest?

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: Yeah! My Second Soul Ring is two thousand years old. The group leveled up, and I got the Soul Ring from a draw.]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: The group leveled up, and you could draw a Soul Ring?]

Young Bibi Dong's bright eyes widened.

So as activity increased, the group leveled up, and each time it did, the group owner got a draw.

On his first draw, he had obtained a two-thousand-year Soul Ring

and attached it as his Second Soul Ring.

That was almost too good to be true.

After all, even with Twin Martial Souls and a body stronger than an ordinary Soul Master's,

her Second Soul Ring was only a little over seven hundred years old.

She couldn't possibly absorb a thousand-year ring, much less a two-thousand-year one.

That showed just how extraordinary this group spanning past and present was.

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: I can.]

[By the way, in seven days, the person with the highest activity will get a draw too. That'll be you!]

Li Qiu smiled as he told her. There was no reason to hide it.

[Spirit Hall Saintess: That's great! I'm going to chat with you lots!]

[Do you know how to strengthen the body and increase the age of the Soul Rings I can absorb?]

[Or can you only exceed the maximum Soul Ring age with group rewards?]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: I know a way!]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: What way?]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: Call me Daddy...]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: ...]

[Tell me. Stop trying to take advantage of me!]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: You'd be the one taking advantage of me! How about you owe me three favors, and I'll tell you?]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: Three? I'd owe you a whole heap of favors! How would I ever repay you?]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: Repay me with your butt!]

[Or pay me back someday...]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: ???]

Why did Bibi Dong get the feeling he was being indecent?

They were more than thirty years apart anyway. Favors like that really couldn't be repaid.

After all, she would have to meet him to return a favor. If they never met, she wouldn't have to repay anything.

If that was what he wanted, she would agree. She wouldn't have to repay him anyway.

[Spirit Hall Saintess: Then I'll owe you five favors!]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: You really are generous with your favors... Fine. Do you know about whale rubber?]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: No, I've never heard of it.]