Dream Tapir Soul Bone

Seeing that the Soul Fighting match had officially been declared a draw, Xu Xingyu could not help sighing.

Xu Xingyu was clearly very dissatisfied with the result, but he could not change it. After all, this was their turf, and they made the rules.

So all Xu Xingyu could do now was leave the Soul Fighting Arena and prepare for tomorrow's classes.

As Xu Xingyu and his group were heading back to the dormitory, Wang Dong'er suddenly asked, "Brother Xingyu, do you know who helped those two called Bei Bei and Tang Ya cheat? They only said someone was helping them earlier, but they didn't reveal who it was."

Indeed, when the referee had examined Huo Yuhao earlier, he had found that although Huo Yuhao's Soul Power had only just reached the academy's entrance requirement of level fifteen, his physique was exceptionally strong, and he also possessed a hundred-year Soul Ring.

At the same time, while checking whether Huo Yuhao had intervened to help Bei Bei and the others, the academy's teachers had learned of Huo Yuhao's first Soul Skill, Spiritual Detection.

Although they were very unhappy that Huo Yuhao had cheated like this, they also felt that he had great potential as a Control System Soul Master.

So they had merely given him a warning and had not publicly announced the identity of the person who had helped them cheat.

Of course, the people in the stands were not fools. After all, some of them had seen the referee examine Huo Yuhao and take him away.

With a little thought, they could deduce that Huo Yuhao was most likely the person who had helped them cheat.

As a result, quite a few rumors about Huo Yuhao openly cheating were bound to spread through the academy after this incident.

As for why Wang Dong'er had failed to notice, it was simply because she had not seen the referee take Huo Yuhao away.

This also showed that Wang Dong'er had room for improvement in her use of spiritual power. If she could use her spiritual power freely, her perception would reach another level.

After beginning to plan Wang Dong'er's spiritual power training in his mind, Xu Xingyu prepared to explain exactly what had happened at the Soul Fighting Arena to his girlfriend.

But just as he was about to speak, Jiang Nannan suddenly explained, "Was the person who helped Xiao Ya the Tang Sect disciple Xiao Ya mentioned to me before, the one they recently recruited? I think his name was Huo Yuhao?"

"Huo Yuhao? That Soul Master who's only level fifteen? Sister Nannan, are you sure you haven't made a mistake?" Wang Dong'er asked in surprise.

"With that guy's strength, I really can't imagine how he could have helped Senior Bei Bei and Senior Tang Ya defeat Senior Xu Sanshi and Senior Dugu Yanran."

At that moment, Xu Xingyu spoke up. "Nannan isn't mistaken. Huo Yuhao really was behind it."

"Really!?" Wang Dong'er looked at Xu Xingyu in disbelief, hoping for a denial.

Xu Xingyu merely smiled and replied, "It was definitely him. As for the details, you can ask Nannan. I believe she sensed what Huo Yuhao was doing too."

Hearing this, Wang Dong'er turned to Jiang Nannan and waited for her answer.

Seeing everyone present turn toward her, Jiang Nannan said awkwardly, "Um, Xingyu, I only sensed a little of it. Are you sure it's all right for me to explain?"

"Go ahead. I'll fill in anything you miss, and we can also see how much your use of spiritual power has improved over the past few years."

After receiving Xu Xingyu's assurance, Jiang Nannan began explaining what she had observed with her spiritual power. In short, as mentioned before, she had sensed Huo Yuhao's spiritual fluctuations, followed by attacks such as a Mental Shock aimed at Xu Sanshi to interfere with him.

Xu Xingyu added that Huo Yuhao had also supported Bei Bei and the others with Spiritual Detection.

After learning the whole story, Wang Dong'er's eyes were opened to Huo Yuhao's abilities. After all, a Soul Skill like that sounded like the ultimate combat support tool.

Although it could not fight in someone's place, it could let them find the best angle of attack and the best way to dodge.

What surprised Wang Dong'er most, however, was when Jiang Nannan had gained such powerful spiritual power. Wang Dong'er's own spiritual power was by no means weak, yet she had not sensed Huo Yuhao's spiritual fluctuations.

Admittedly, Wang Dong'er's use of spiritual power was somewhat crude, but this also showed that without a certain level of skill with spiritual power, it was impossible to sense Huo Yuhao's actions in the Soul Fighting Arena.

Seeing that she could no longer keep it hidden, Jiang Nannan had no choice but to explain why her spiritual power had suddenly soared over the past few years, and why her skill at controlling it had improved so much.

It turned out that when Xu Xingyu had accompanied Jiang Nannan to the Mysterious Underworld Sect to demand compensation, that compensation had included a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone. A year ago, Jiang Nannan had gone with Zi JI to the Mysterious Underworld Sect to choose the Soul Bone best suited to her.

In the end, they had selected a Ten Thousand Year Dream Tapir Head Soul Bone from the Mysterious Underworld Sect's collection.

The Dream Tapir was a rare spiritual-type Soul Beast. Its main ability was to feed by consuming the dreams of other living beings.

The spiritual power of the creatures whose dreams it consumed would also be purified by the Dream Tapir.

As a result, other Soul Beasts were not hostile toward Dream Tapirs. On the contrary, they were quite happy to welcome them into their territories.

After all, if a Dream Tapir consumed a Soul Beast's dreams over a long period, the Soul Beast would find it easier to develop intelligence of its own. It could even speak before reaching a hundred thousand years of cultivation, with intelligence no different from a human's.

But this same trait had also brought deadly calamity upon them, because everyone wanted to use the Dream Tapirs' ability to advance their own cultivation, and humans were foremost among them.

Dream Tapirs were far more helpful to humans than to Soul Beasts, because they could not only raise the level of a human's spiritual power but also make it easier for them to enter a state of sudden enlightenment and sense the laws of heaven and earth.

Thus, after being hunted by humans for a long time, Dream Tapirs had gradually become an endangered kind of Soul Beast. In the present world, seeing a living Dream Tapir was a rare occurrence.

The Mysterious Underworld Sect possessed this Soul Bone because the Dream Tapir that had provided it had been a pet kept by the wife of the sect's founding master.

This Dream Tapir had also been utterly loyal to the Mysterious Underworld Sect. Whenever a crisis arose, it would appear to help them deal with enemies they could not defeat.

Thus, after its death, the Mysterious Underworld Sect had preserved its Soul Bone and passed it down from generation to generation.

The reason no one had ever fused with the Soul Bone was that doing so would trap them in an endless dream from which they could never awaken.

So when the Mysterious Underworld Sect's master heard that Jiang Nannan wanted the Soul Bone, he opposed it. Setting aside the problems of the past, the side effect of never waking up alone was enough for this Soul Bone to be classified as one that must never be fused with.

But with Zi JI present, the situation was stronger than the man, and the Mysterious Underworld Sect's master could only allow Jiang Nannan to take the Dream Tapir Soul Bone.

After obtaining the Dream Tapir Head Soul Bone, Jiang Nannan began fusing with it under Zi JI's guidance.

Zi JI had insisted that Jiang Nannan fuse with this Soul Bone not only because it could greatly strengthen her spiritual power, but also because it contained the Dream Tapir clan's strongest skill, Illusory Dream Space.

Only the most gifted Dream Tapirs could possess this Soul Skill, and in the vast majority of cases, a Dream Tapir with this skill was bound to become the clan's leader.

Illusory Dream Space could create a dream space within a person's mind, and what the space contained varied from person to person.

The flow of time in this space was determined by the user. Thus, a year spent in the dream space might amount to only one day outside, and the reverse was also possible.

Those who had fallen unconscious after fusing with this Soul Bone had been unable to control the skill properly, causing them to accidentally trap themselves in an endless dream.

With the help of Zi JI, a ruler of Star Dou, however, learning to control the effect of Illusory Dream Space on herself was not particularly difficult for Jiang Nannan.

After gaining complete control over Illusory Dream Space, Jiang Nannan created a cultivation space in her mind and trained her spiritual power and Soul Power there.

This was the biggest reason she could possess cultivation approaching the Soul King level and spiritual power surpassing a Soul King's at her current age!

Of course, relying on her own strength, Jiang Nannan could only use it on herself for at most three days a week at this stage. She could not, like a hundred-thousand-year Dream Tapir, directly create a dream space where time differed from reality by more than a hundred years.

But even so, it was a heaven-defying Soul Skill!

It could only be said that ever since Jiang Nannan had been saved by Xu Xingyu, her luck had somehow improved as well, as if by an unseen hand.