Chapter 26: Cultivation

Just as the Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master was about to scream in terror, Lin He's voice reached everyone's ears.

"Lin Xuefeng, when you used the Ice Treasure Staff earlier, your application of the ice element and soul skills was quite good.

However, you still need to strengthen your ability to control the water element, and at the same time, strengthen your physical fitness," Lin He offered his advice to the Spirit Master with the Ice Treasure Staff named Lin Xuefeng.

Afterwards, he turned his head toward the Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master and said, "And you, Kai Weisheng, your application of soul skills is very good, and the quality of your own martial soul is also excellent.

But your physical fitness is somewhat low, which will affect your future growth path; you must make some changes."

After Lin He finished speaking about Kai Weisheng's strengths and weaknesses, he looked at Zhou Heng.

Lin He's expression was incomparably complex, and he said in a complicated tone, "Your martial soul should be the Element Spirit Tree martial soul, and its main ability lies in controlling elemental power.

In terms of elemental control, you no longer need me to teach you, and in terms of soul skill development, I am also unable to offer you guidance, but I recommend that you strengthen your mental power as much as possible, as that can enhance the precision of your elemental control."

Zhou Heng nodded and said with a smile, "I understand, Teacher Lin."

Lin He nodded with a smile and looked again at the students who had not yet sparred, saying, "Ninth match participants, step forward."

Three more people walked onto the arena and began a new round of sparring.

However, Zhou Heng was no longer watching these Spirit Masters' battles; through his observations of these few rounds of other Spirit Masters' battles, he concluded that in one-on-one combat, his own strength was absolutely the strongest in the entire class.

But Zhou Heng could not shoulder everything himself.

Zhou Heng had long planned to recruit some Spirit Masters within the Spirit Hall Academy to serve as his subordinates.

However, the martial souls of these people were not considered good; if the Spirit Hall Academy did not recruit these ordinary Spirit Masters, they would basically never come into contact with those large Spirit Master factions.

Zhou Heng did not intend to participate in the subsequent battles, so he left the Martial Arts Arena directly and went to a Jin Yuansu Nitai Xiulianchang within the academy, where he began his own cultivation.

Zhou Heng released the Profound Thunder Purple Bamboo, rooting it in this pit made of metal ore, and absorbed the metal element in the air to accelerate its own growth.

Zhou Heng sat cross-legged on the ground, released his Element Spirit Tree martial soul, and by relying on the Element Spirit Tree martial soul's affinity for elemental power, he absorbed the elemental power in the air, drawing it into his own body.

After the elemental power entered his body, it was attracted by the soul power within his body and began to circulate through his body following the soul power.

Finally, after these elemental powers had run a cycle through Zhou Heng's body, they ultimately entered Zhou Huan's internal organs.

This was a cultivation technique Zhou Heng had created himself, named "True Art of the Heavenly Stems," which attracted the Five Elements' elemental power, connected the power of Yin and Yang, strengthened the five internal organs and six entrails internally, strengthened the physical body and Blood Qi externally, and could also swallow and absorb Heaven and Earth Origin Qi to transform it into his own energy.

At the same time, Zhou Heng created an additional Yin and Yang Five Elements visualization diagram; when cultivating, visualizing this diagram could not only slowly enhance his affinity for the Five Elements attributes but also slowly enhance his own mental power.

Zhou Heng felt the elemental power attracted by the Element Spirit Tree; the metal element was the most abundant, the water element was second, while the other elements were far lower than these two in both quantity and quality.

Zhou Heng had deduced this "True Art of the Heavenly Stems" through the Yin and Yang Five Elements theories he had seen in his past life.

His initial goal was to transform his five internal organs and six entrails, and through their transformation, cause his entire physical body to transform, finally achieving a god-level body after the technique reached completion.

By then, whether he created his own Godhood or inherited one, he should be able to obtain more benefits.

On the Martial Arts Arena, Lin He looked at the spot where Zhou Heng should have been standing, but that figure had now disappeared, and his whereabouts were unknown.

However, Lin He did not pay attention to the departed Zhou Heng; in the Spirit Hall Academy, you do not have to study, as long as you can pass during the assessments.

But if you skip class and then fail the assessment.

Then, sorry, from the moment you fail the assessment, you are no longer a student of the Spirit Hall Academy.

Furthermore, you must compensate the Spirit Hall Academy for all the resources spent on you.

Zhou Heng was selflessly cultivating the "True Art of the Heavenly Stems" in the mine pit; Zhou Heng's lungs were being stimulated by the metal elemental power, slowly transforming and becoming more full of vitality.

Zhou Heng sat cross-legged in the mine pit until high noon, when he finally stopped his cultivation process.

Feeling some hunger in his stomach, Zhou Heng retracted the Profound Thunder Purple Bamboo and walked toward the Spirit Hall Academy's cafeteria, preparing to go there to eat.

After Zhou Heng arrived at the cafeteria and had just received his food, preparing to find a place to sit, a dainty and cute figure came to Zhou Heng's side.

When this figure arrived at Zhou Huan's side, she brought a breeze, and a voice sounded in Zhou Huan's ear: "Classmate Zhou Heng, let's eat together."

Zhou Heng raised his eyes to look over; it was Bibi Dong's disciple—Hu Liena.

"One doesn't visit the temple without a cause; what do you want with me? Just say it directly." Zhou Heng did not refuse Hu Liena's invitation, but went straight to the point, asking about the intent behind Hu Liena's invitation.

Hu Liena was not angry either, but led Zhou Heng to sit down at a table.

At this table, besides Zhou Heng himself and Hu Liena, there were only Xie Yue and Yan.

These two people had originally both been looking down at their food, but after Zhou Heng sat at the table, the two of them cast their gazes toward Zhou Heng.

Especially after Hu Liena also sat beside Zhou Heng, the two's gazes carried some sense of scrutiny, staring straight into Zhou Heng's eyes.

As soon as Zhou Heng sat at the table, he began to lower his head and shovel food, directly ignoring the gazes of Xie Yue and Yan.

Not long after Zhou Heng began to eat, Hu Liena said to Zhou Heng, "Classmate Zhou Heng, I wonder if you have any research on our martial souls? Can you improve our combat effectiveness?"

Zhou Heng looked at the Hu Liena in front of him who was speaking to him in a soft voice, and then thought of the Hu Liena in the original work he had read who betrayed her master for the sake of so-called love; these two people did not feel like the same person at all.

'I will observe for a few days before deciding whether to teach them.'

"My research on martial soul theoretical knowledge is still a bit lacking, but give me some time, and I will carefully study your martial souls during this period; when the time comes, we can talk about improving your strength. What do you think?"

Zhou Heng proposed a method and began to discuss it with Hu Liena and the others.