Chapter 66: The Maiden's Ardent Wish

Ning Feiliu's pupils contracted slightly when he saw the task appear, but...

His eyes were filled with pleasant surprise; he had not expected such a task to be refreshed.

And it was just in time!

He had only recently obtained the Crescent Moon Divine Weapon Set, and in truth, he had not yet mastered many combat techniques.

Although he had seemed like a veteran of a hundred battles when hunting Soul Beasts to obtain his second and third Soul Rings.

That was only because the enemies he faced were merely Soul Beasts.

A Soul Beast is just something a bit smarter than an ordinary wild animal.

The original plot stated that only ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts develop intelligence similar to that of a human child a few years old.

Only Soul Beasts of at least eighty thousand years would possess intelligence equivalent to a normal adult human.

Some abnormal Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts, even after living for a hundred thousand years, are still like children who have not grown up.

Ning Feiliu could crush Soul Beasts by relying on his intelligence, but it was clearly impossible to defeat fellow human Spirit Masters so easily.

This was clearly a series task, just like the previous ones; at the very least, it was an advanced series task, like the Ivern or Wandering God series tasks.

There is only one situation where a human Spirit Master cannot defeat a Soul Beast, and that is when the Soul Beast's cultivation far exceeds that of the human Spirit Master.

Therefore, he needed to learn combat techniques.

Compared to a strong physique, intelligence is actually more advantageous.

In any case, the Spirit Masters at the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena must be more numerous than those in the "small cities" under the jurisdiction of a regional kingdom like Soto City in the original plot.

But it was not a big problem.

However, it looked like... this was a task for Jax to learn martial arts for two years; the meaning of this reward description might be the same as when he obtained the experience of Singed and Renata.

When the time came, he could also become a Weapon Master like Jax.

And the most crucial part of this task was that it only said to defeat a strong enemy, not to kill a strong enemy.

Needless to say, thousand-year Soul Beasts have intelligence that is basically non-existent.

What he obtained at the very beginning might be the experience from when Jax first started learning martial arts, before he became a Weapon Master.

If that were the case...

Ning Feiliu naturally thought of the Spirit Fighting Arena.

And it just so happened that a task to obtain the martial arts of the Weapon Master Jax had been refreshed.

For example, that six-thousand-year Silver-Maned Moon Lion, if it had not been facing Ning Feiliu.

After all, Heaven Dou City is the imperial capital.

Ning Feiliu could slowly grind the task rewards until he reached the powerful martial arts techniques Jax possessed after becoming a Weapon Master.

There are many "strong enemies" in the Spirit Fighting Arena, at least in Heaven Dou City, the imperial capital of the Heaven Dou Empire.

Facing beasts without much intelligence, Ning Feiliu could naturally rely on the boxing he learned in his past life combined with his experience from competitive games to easily defeat them.

But against other Great Soul Masters, as long as the Silver-Maned Moon Lion's abilities were not countered too severely, it could likely kill them in return by relying on its powerful physical body.

Compared to the imperial capital, even the royal city of the Balake Wangguo was nothing more than a backwater place.

And Ning Feiliu could use the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena to grind this Jax series task to completion!

Isn't it just grinding!

Ning Feiliu declared that as a grinding emperor, his whole body was made of grind!

But just as Ning Feiliu was full of ambition...

"You... are actually a Soul Elder? And aren't you an Auxiliary System Soul Master?"

Ning Feiliu turned around and saw Ye Lingling looking at him with undisguised astonishment in her beautiful eyes.

Before this, Ning Feiliu had not seen Ye Lingling summon her martial soul, and naturally, Ye Lingling had not seen Ning Feiliu summon his martial soul and Soul Rings.

His move just now had directly revealed his current cultivation as a Soul Elder, and this Soul Ring configuration was also... completely unexpected.

The most crucial thing was, wasn't Ning Feiliu a direct disciple of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect?!

The direct disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect have always had the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda as their martial soul, and as everyone knows, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul has no combat power and can only be used for auxiliary purposes.

"Yes." Ning Feiliu had no intention of hiding it.

He knew very well that paper cannot wrap up fire.

And even if he hid it, how long could he hide it for?

He could not hide it for a lifetime, and skulking about was not his style.

In his two lifetimes, Ning Feiliu had never stolen anything, never swindled or bluffed, and never bullied the weak; he had nothing on his conscience, so why should he be sneaky or hide his tracks?

"Actually, I just broke through not long ago. As for combat ability... well, as you just saw, my martial soul has developed the ability to allow me to fight."

Ning Feiliu said truthfully.

He was indeed right; before this, he had not yet broken through.

It was not until he entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and completed the task that he broke through two major levels due to absorbing the Immortal Herb, recasting his martial soul, and absorbing Soul Rings.

As for his martial soul, it was only after forging the Crescent Moon Divine Weapon Set that he had the ability to fight.

"A twelve-year-old Soul Elder..." Ye Lingling felt a strange sense of jealousy in her heart.

You must know that she had just turned thirteen and was only at level twenty-seven soul power, while Ning Feiliu had already broken through to the Soul Elder level before turning thirteen.

Not only was his medical skill far superior to hers, but his cultivation was also higher than hers.

Why... why was Ning Feiliu better than her in every way...

Even though he was younger than her.

It could only be said that this was, of course, due to transmigration and a cheat.

Without a cheat, even with the memories of his past life, it would be impossible for him to excel in both medical skills and cultivation in just half a year.

"Don't look at me as a twelve-year-old Soul Elder; I put in a great deal of effort." Seeing this, Ning Feiliu could only sigh, which counted as comforting Ye Lingling.

However, he had indeed gone to great lengths; for the past six months, he had been conscientiously conducting experiments and treating patients, never faltering through wind or rain, day or night, only then achieving today's results.

During these hundred-plus days, he spent most of his time in the laboratory, not even finding the time to replace sleep with cultivation.

The intensity of this experimental work could be compared to a graduate student majoring in chemistry in his past life.

It was just that Ning Feiliu was slightly luckier, as he did not need to polish data, make reports, or write theses.

His experimental notes were written for himself to read, written in whatever way was easiest and clearest, without needing to cite literature, worry about plagiarism checks, or pay attention to thesis formatting.

Ye Lingling took a deep breath, but she was not comforted by Ning Feiliu's feigned sentimentality.

Because she knew very well that in this world, what is more important than diligence is talent.

If diligence were useful, what would be the point of talent?

Therefore, what made Ning Feiliu formidable was not his diligence, but his talent (cheat).

The talent Ye Lingling was thinking of here naturally did not refer to Innate Soul Power or inherited martial soul, but his world-shaking wisdom!

This was the area where Ye Lingling could never compare to him.

"Then do you think I have a chance... to become a person like you?" At this moment, Ye Lingling gazed at Ning Feiliu with her beautiful eyes and asked.

The longing for Ning Feiliu in her heart now grew even more intense.

If only... she could become a person like him...

That would be great...

"... You do." Ning Feiliu said somewhat insincerely, "Your talent is even better than mine; you will have it."

It was just that... Ye Lingling did not have the cheat he possessed.

Thanks to the tea shop downstairs from YG for the 800 Qidian coin tip; watching the match tonight made me a bit late, I am writing now, I am writing now.

(End of this chapter)