Chapter 77: Exchange, Eighth Soul Ring

Since Dai Xiyu said to wait a bit longer, the teachers also stopped interfering.

As Dai Xiyu said, Teacher Hu released the subdued spirit beast and didn't strike again.

But unexpectedly, Dai Xiyu's remark increased Xiao Wu's favor quite a bit.

【Gain from Xiao Wu's Qi +500000】

As the two's relationship grew, the amount of Qi that could be plundered from each favor increase also began to drop.

However, even with the reduction, it remained quite considerable.

Thus, to exchange for a divine-bestowed soul ring, only another 500,000 Qi remained.

The team regrouped at their scattered positions, the vice-dean counted the numbers, and then arranged for the students to board the returning carriages.

In this spirit-hunting exercise, including Dai Xiyu, a total of six students reached rank ten.

After it ended, the other five all possessed their first soul ring, while only Dai Xiyu still had an empty slot.

In previous years, although rare, there have been cases like Dai Xiyu's.

Actually, most people would rather receive the Spirit Hall's gold soul coin subsidy early.

Especially for work-study students, if they could receive a monthly gold soul coin subsidy, they wouldn't need to do work-study; after deducting tuition and miscellaneous fees, they'd still have plenty left.

So, as a work-study student, Dai Xiyu's ability to refrain from obtaining a soul ring is still quite remarkable.

On the way back, Dai Xiyu naturally stayed with Xiao Wu the whole time; their hands were almost always joined, and at night they would also practice dual cultivation together.

Two days later, everyone returned to the academy; the vice-dean evaluated the past few days' outing and announced that this spirit-hunting activity had concluded perfectly.

Afterwards, the team disbanded, the students were given half a day off to tidy up their personal hygiene.

Dai Xiyu went to the men's bathhouse, took a shower, changed into a clean academy uniform, returned to the dorm, placed his clothes at the head of the bed, and said to Xiao Wu:

"I have some business; I need to go out for a while, possibly returning very late."

Xiao Wu had also just finished showering and returned; her hair was damp, her cheeks flushed.

Hearing Dai Xiyu say he had business to go out, she couldn't help but curiously ask: "What's the matter? Can I come along?"

Dai Xiyu thought, shook his head, and said: "I can go alone; after a few days when we have vacation, I'll bring you along to play."

Xiao Wu instantly understood that Dai Xiyu's matter was probably rather private.

So she no longer insisted, nodded and said: "Then you should come back early; if it's too late, I'll come look for you."

Dai Xiyu smiled, reached out, and rubbed Xiao Wu's head: "I'll come back early."

Having said that, he turned and left the dormitory.

Just after Dai Xiyu left, Xiao Wu lowered her head to look at the dirty clothes she had taken off, then glanced at the grimy academy uniform on Dai Xiyu's bedside.

Without thinking much, Xiao Wu casually picked up Dai Xiyu's clothes and put them together into her own washing basin.

Meanwhile, Tang San, who had been secretly observing Xiao Wu, upon seeing this scene, felt heartbroken and almost tore the bedsheets apart.

Moreover, his hatred toward Dai Xiyu intensified.

"What a Xiyu! At the month-end assessment, I'll make you look bad!"

Thinking viciously inside, he of course wouldn't say it out loud, still maintaining an appearance of nonchalance.

Just as Dai Xiyu had just stepped out of the dormitory door, a prompt appeared before him.

【Gain from Tang San's Qi +1000000】

"What's going on? What blow did Tang San suffer again?"

Looking at the inexplicably increased Qi, Dai Xiyu was bewildered.

However, gaining Qi is always good; no need to worry about it.

Today, Dai Xiyu came out precisely because his Qi was sufficient, to begin absorbing the eighth soul ring.

The Qi unexpectedly contributed by Tang San was merely a bonus.

After leaving the dormitory, Dai Xiyu didn't go out through the students' main gate; instead, he climbed over the wall from the rear.

Along the way, he kept an eye on the upper-left prompt, focusing on Tang Hao's name.

After leaving the academy by a hundred meters, Tang Hao indeed followed behind for a while, until Dai Xiyu had wandered through various markets for over ten minutes, after which Tang Hao finally left.

After waiting another minute, Tang Hao's name no longer appeared, and Dai Xiyu then continued onward toward the city outskirts.

Nuoding City is a small town; it doesn't take long to walk from the center to the city gate.

After leaving the city gate, Dai Xiyu found his direction and headed all the way to Nuoding Mountain, about five li from Nuoding City.

Having climbed to a hundred-meter-high cliff, he sat beneath a large tree growing on the summit and immediately opened the Qi store.

【Qi Balance: 4565326】

【Current goods on sale (updated in 113 days)】

【500-year soul ring: 6000 Qi】

【1000-year soul ring: 10000 Qi】

【5000-year soul ring: 50000 Qi】

【10000-year soul ring: 100000 Qi】

【50000-year soul ring: 500000 Qi】

【100000-year soul ring: 1200000 Qi】

【Divine-bestowed soul ring: 3500000 Qi】

【10000-year right arm soul bone: 200000 Qi】

【100000-year external attached soul bone (random): 2000000 Qi】

【1,000,000-year thunderstorm assault right arm bone: 20,000,000 Qi】

【1,000,000-year wind-speeding left leg bone: 20,000,000 Qi】

Soul Power (Rank 1): 10 million fortune

【Free Attribute Points: 400000 fortune】

【Third Martial Soul (Random): 5000000 fortune】

【A bag of gold soul coins (1000): 1000 fortune】

……

Opened the store, Dai Xiyu immediately chose to exchange for a Divine-bestowed Soul Ring.

【Successfully exchanged Divine-bestowed Soul Ring, fortune-3500000】

The prompt appeared, fortune had already changed from 4,560,000 to 1,060,000.

And in the warehouse, there was now an extra Divine-bestowed Soul Ring.

Dai Xiyu sat in place, quietly waiting for a long time.

Only after ten minutes did the upper left corner of the vision still show no prompt, then Dai Xiyu relaxed.

Opened the fortune store, took out the Divine-bestowed Soul Ring, and infused soul power into it.

The golden Divine-bestowed Soul Ring instantly turned into a stream of light, merging into Dai Xiyu's body.

And Dai Xiyu quickly focused, beginning to concentrate on absorption.

This time, the age of the Divine-bestowed Soul Ring grew much faster than last time.

As soon as absorption began, it directly skipped over a hundred years, a thousand years, and ten thousand years, jumping straight to one hundred thousand years.

One hundred thousand years, one hundred fifty thousand years, two hundred thousand years……

Two hundred fifty thousand years, two hundred seventy thousand years, three hundred thousand years……

After reaching three hundred thousand years, there was still no sign of stopping, and the age continued to increase rapidly.

Three hundred twenty thousand years, three hundred forty thousand years, three hundred sixty thousand years……

Four hundred thousand years, four hundred twenty thousand years, four hundred fifty thousand years……

Until four hundred eighty thousand years, only then did it finally run out of strength, beginning to slow down.

Although this was the case, Dai Xiyu did not intend to stop, but wanted to try to break through the limit as before.

He was already just one step away; if he didn't give it a try, it would be too regrettable.

Thus, accompanied by intense pain in his body, Dai Xiyu's forehead was sweaty, yet he did not stop at all.

The soul ring's age also increased slowly and firmly. (End of chapter)