Exchange: Gale Fifty-Four Slashes

Seven days later, in the core region of Sunset Forest.

Boom!

A roar rang out, followed by a thud, as though something had struck the ground, making it tremble.

The four others, including Feng Qingyang, were all stunned. Had this 45,000-year-old Soul Beast been far too easy to kill?

Feng Qingyang said, "Was that really a Soul Beast over 40,000 years old?"

Ling Qiu, standing beside him, said, "It should have been. According to the books on Soul Beasts, it was indeed 45,000 years old."

Feng He added, "But don't the books say this kind of Soul Beast is very powerful and fast? According to them, the few of us only had a fifty-fifty chance of hunting it down, yet we killed it without even going all out?"

Cheng Cheng looked equally puzzled. "I encountered this kind of Soul Beast when I was looking for my Seventh Soul Ring. A Soul Saint and five Soul Emperors helped me, but we failed to kill it and let it escape. And that one was less than 40,000 years old."

Everyone was puzzled, and Feng Qingyang had some misgivings of his own.

Should he absorb this Soul Ring or not? If he absorbed it and the result wasn't very good, wouldn't his Seventh Soul Skill be wasted?

The Soul Saint rank was considered a dividing line in the Soul Master World, which made the Seventh Soul Skill vitally important.

After all, for Soul Masters, the Seventh Soul Skill was their Martial Soul Avatar. Having it or not was practically the difference between two entirely different things, though that was only true for the vast majority of Soul Masters.

Feng Xiaotian said, "Dad, I don't think there's anything wrong with this Soul Beast. You should be able to absorb it."

The main reason they had taken down the Soul Beast so easily was Feng Xiaotian. As soon as the fight began, he had used his speed to inject five doses of Ten Fragrance Tendon-Softening Powder into the Soul Beast before them.

Ten Fragrance Tendon-Softening Powder was effective not only against humans but also against Soul Beasts.

One dose wasn't expensive, costing only 20,000 Wolf Warrior Coins. He had exchanged coins for five doses and injected them all at once, making the fight easy.

Feng Qingyang hesitated. "Is there really nothing wrong with it?"

Feng Xiaotian nodded. "Absolutely nothing. The reason it became so weak was that I used the medicine my teacher gave me for dealing with Soul Beasts as soon as the fight started. That would have reduced its strength by well over half."

Hearing Feng Xiaotian's explanation, the others recalled what he had done during the fight, and everything suddenly became clear.

Feng Qingyang said, "Good. There's no time to lose, then. I'll start absorbing this Soul Ring now."

Ling Qiu nodded. "We'll stand guard for you."

Feng Qingyang said, "All right!"

He immediately delivered the finishing blow to the Soul Beast before him. A black Soul Ring appeared, and Feng Qingyang sat down cross-legged and began absorbing it.

Feng Xiaotian and the other three took up positions in the four directions around Feng Qingyang to prevent any Soul Beasts from ambushing him.

About three double-hours passed. The process went smoothly, and Feng Qingyang successfully absorbed his Seventh Soul Ring. Unfortunately, his luck wasn't quite good enough, and no Soul Bone appeared.

Two days later, Feng Xiaotian returned to Godwind Academy. For the following period, he cultivated at the academy and occasionally took part in a joint training session or two with the Godwind Academy team.

A month passed, and with the help of pills that had no side effects, Feng Xiaotian's Soul Power rose by two levels, reaching level 46.

He continued to receive 200,000 Wolf Warrior Coins every day as usual. In any case, he simply gave his mother, Ling Qiu, some things.

As long as she accepted them, they counted as a successful expenditure for Feng Xiaotian.

However, even after she accepted those things, only she could use them. If anyone else used them, they had no effect at all.

Thus, in a little over a month, Ling Qiu's Soul Power had also risen by one level, reaching level 66.

At that rate, Ling Qiu might reach level 70 in less than half a year.

What Feng Xiaotian had exchanged for that month was also enough to last Ling Qiu half a year. For the moment, however, he had only exchanged for cultivation techniques, pills, and the like, as well as some items for protection.

As for things like Soul Bones, those could wait until he was stronger and had more Wolf Warrior Coins.

Host: Feng Xiaotian

Status: Healthy

Martial Soul: Gale Twin-Headed Wolf

Soul Power: Level 46

Soul Rings: Yellow, yellow, purple, black

Available Wolf Warrior Coins: 4.5 million

Cultivation techniques: "Wind" Two-Star Wind Spirit Body, "Dragon Tiger Body Tempering Technique"

Martial techniques: "Gale" perfect, "Wolf Fang Fist" perfect, "Gale Consecutive Slashes" under development.

Number of goddesses conquered: 0

Looking at his attribute panel, he saw that his Soul Power had increased, while little else had changed.

Besides spending Wolf Warrior Coins on himself, he had also spent two million on a wind-attribute cultivation formation. It could accommodate ten people cultivating at once and gave a 20% increase to cultivation speed.

As for his cultivation and martial techniques, Gale Consecutive Slashes was still at twenty-four slashes, without the slightest progress.

However, he could spend money through the system to exchange for the complete technique. For instance, in the original work, Feng Xiaotian had later developed Gale Thirty-Six Slashes into Gale Fifty-Four Slashes.

So he could exchange for it directly through the system, and the cost wasn't all that high.

The complete Gale Fifty-Four Slashes cost only 540,000 Wolf Warrior Coins, basically 10,000 per slash.

"System, exchange for the complete Gale Fifty-Four Slashes," Feng Xiaotian said. Although his predecessor had developed it, he now had the system, so there was no need to waste so much time developing it further.

[Ding... Host spent 540,000. Exchange for the complete Gale Fifty-Four Slashes successful.]

Even though Feng Xiaotian himself had developed it, exchanging for it didn't mean he had mastered it.

"System, exchange to raise Gale Fifty-Four Slashes to minor mastery."

[Ding... Host spent 300,000. Gale Fifty-Four Slashes has reached the beginner stage.]

[Ding... Host spent 600,000. Gale Fifty-Four Slashes has reached minor mastery.]

The system was considerate. He had developed the first twenty-four slashes himself and had already reached minor mastery with them.

The system hadn't charged him extra. Otherwise, reaching the beginner stage and then minor mastery would have cost 1.62 million, but in the end, it had only taken 900,000.

Gale Fifty-Four Slashes was the highest stage available in the system, but when Feng Xiaotian checked his attribute panel, it still showed Gale Fifty-Four Slashes as under development.

That meant it could be developed further, and the system had also given him the requirements for doing so.

The first fifty-four slashes had to reach perfection before he could continue developing it, and the hefty development cost was no small sum either.

Besides that, Gale Consecutive Slashes could also be upgraded. Naturally, that cost even more than developing it-far more than buying a technique.

Perhaps that was the difference between developing and upgrading something and making use of someone else's work.

Looking at the rows of required costs, he saw that he now had only 3.06 million Wolf Warrior Coins left from what he had earned over the past month or so. It was nowhere near enough.

Feng Xiaotian had made up his mind. It was time to go out and gain experience. He would set off tomorrow and begin pursuing goddesses.