Chapter 253: Research

Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.

Because of the so-called Tang Hao assassination incident, the Empire Academy entered a period of non-stop reconstruction.

Also because of this incident, the Empire made a new site selection for the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, relocating the original inner courtyard of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy into the interior of Heaven Dou City, so that the Empire could better provide security.

Moreover, the number of inner sect students is relatively small, so the requirements for the Mimicry Cultivation Environment are also relatively much lower, and the pressure in terms of construction is also relatively much smaller.

Site selection, construction, a series of operations later, it took no more than a short month's time; it must be said that with Spirit Masters around, this speed of infrastructure construction is truly astonishing.

Furthermore, the new Heaven Dou Imperial Academy is even more magnificent and grand than before; the overall area not only did not shrink in the slightest, but was actually expanded significantly, which is enough to show the importance the Empire places on the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.

During this month, Shi Quan remained reclusive, immersed in various research; for the necessary consumables, he directly had someone send a letter to Xue Qinghe, and Xue Qinghe would do his utmost to prepare them for Shi Quan. As for other matters, Shi Quan did not concern himself with them for the time being, immersing his whole heart and mind into his research.

On the academy's side, in order to facilitate Shi Quan's research, they specially built a research institute for him, and established the largest library in the Empire, collecting all kinds of books within the entire territory of the Empire, storing them in the library by category to facilitate Shi Quan's reading.

With the reconstruction of the academy, Shi Quan also moved back to the academy.

His daily life also became simple and singular; apart from research, it was just keeping the two women company, talking and chatting, living a life that was warm and peaceful.

Plus, with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, and the fact that Shi Quan himself spent most of his time every day immersed in research, the two of them had almost no interaction.

If a Spirit Beast could not withstand the experimental process, he would let the students finish off the Spirit Beast at the first opportunity and absorb the Soul Ring.

Gu Yuena naturally would not wantonly hunt Spirit Beasts to bring back for experiments; after weighing the options, Shi Quan proposed selecting students from the academy who were breaking through bottlenecks to cooperate with their experiments, and directly capturing the Spirit Beasts they needed back to the academy.

Among the three soul bones, two were of the ten-thousand-year level, and one was a thousand-year one, though it was around eight thousand years; from these three soul bones, it is enough to see Ning Fengzhi's thoughtfulness.

By capturing them back this way, the students also don't have to go to the trouble of searching for and hunting Spirit Beasts, saving them the effort.

Looking at the soul bones sent by Ning Fengzhi, Shi Quan also gladly accepted them; soul bones delivered to his door, it would be a waste not to take them.

These students need to hunt Spirit Beasts anyway; even if Shi Quan didn't help them capture them, the academy would still help them hunt Spirit Beasts.

Another month later.

Although Ning Rongrong had returned to the academy, the relationship between her and Shi Quan had unknowingly grown distant.

As the research progressed, experiments were inevitable.

After sending Ning Rongrong back, the research of Shi Quan and Gu Yuena continued; as the research progressed, they also discovered that the existence of a Soul Spirit is not purely a soul.

After accepting the soul bones, Shi Quan had Ning Fengzhi send Ning Rongrong to the academy; Ning Rongrong had the best talent in the entire Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, so helping her martial soul evolve was the easiest.

After helping Ning Rongrong evolve, Shi Quan would then give the simplified version of the martial soul evolution method to Ning Fengzhi, which could be considered fulfilling his end of the bargain.

Ning Fengzhi came to visit with three soul bones.

It was just that in order not to make the martial soul evolution too simple, Shi Quan deliberately controlled the speed, letting Ning Rongrong stay at the academy for over a month before her martial soul, under the accumulation of many days, transformed in one fell swoop into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

As for martial soul evolution, even without an Immortal Herb, Shi Quan had a way to make the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda evolve into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

As for how to make Ning Rongrong's martial soul evolve, Shi Quan used his own blood as a guide, combined with some special medicinal herbs, and used the power of yin and yang to help her temper her martial soul; these were enough to help Ning Rongrong's martial soul evolve.

Ning Fengzhi's purpose was also self-evident: martial soul evolution.

It is a special energy body that combines the origin of the life imprint, the origin of the mental imprint, and the origin of energy.

To reproduce a Soul Spirit, one must start from these three aspects.

This simplified version of the evolution method is nothing more than some special medicinal prescriptions, combined with a special body-tempering method that works with the Zhou Tian Circulation Method; if one can find a martial soul possessing the power of the sun and moon, or a martial soul possessor whose martial soul can complement the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, it can also achieve the effect of upgrading the martial soul. Even if it cannot upgrade the martial soul to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, the possibility of an Eight Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda will be greatly increased.

The experiments of Shi Quan and Gu Yuena could also be carried out effectively.

With the passage of time, the two's research progress on Soul Spirits became deeper and deeper.

Slaughter City.

The cold aura was suffocating; inside the Hell Slaughter Arena, a total of ten people walked in slowly. Zhu Zhuqing walked in the third position among these ten people. But she was the focus of the other nine people's attention.

Seventy-two participations, and naturally seventy-two victories; this is Zhu Zhuqing's current record. In the entire Hell Slaughter Arena, only two people have a better record than her. They are Hu Liena with ninety-eight consecutive victories and Tang San with ninety-nine consecutive victories.

With seventy-two consecutive victories, the number of deaths under Zhu Zhuqing's hands had long since exceeded four digits.

With the constant consecutive victories, there were almost no people who dared to attack Zhu Zhuqing after the matches ended.

Zhu Zhuqing also encountered the same situation as Tang San and the others; after the number of winning matches increased, fewer and fewer people dared to enter the arena when she participated in the slaughter matches. Now, one of her matches requires waiting several days to gather enough people.

Unknowingly, Zhu Zhuqing had already been in Slaughter City for a full year; in just one year, Zhu Zhuqing had achieved such a record, and such speed is enough to rank her in the top three since the establishment of Slaughter City.

Compared to when she first arrived here, Zhu Zhuqing's originally cold expression had turned into a chilling one, and even her body released a faint scent of blood. Cold, cruel, and sinister had long since become her synonyms.

Zhu Zhuqing also acquired her own nickname: Evil Piercing Demon.

It was just that Zhu Zhuqing did not like this title very much, because she felt that this nickname did not sound good.

Before Zhu Zhuqing entered the Slaughter City, the various martial arts that Shi Quan had imprinted in her mind also made rapid progress in these real-combat matches; the Evil God Thorn was also something Zhu Zhuqing discovered could devour and absorb the enemy's power after killing them, otherwise she wouldn't even use the Evil God Thorn.

During this year, while the Evil God Thorn grew stronger, the feeling of transformation within her body also became increasingly clear; at the beginning, Zhu Zhuqing was not very sure, but now she could be certain that this change originated from her Soul Ring.

It was just because in Slaughter City, the Soul Ring was suppressed, so she was not clear about what happened to the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Soul Ring.

At this moment, on the Hell Slaughter Arena, when the nine people were locked into the arena, the nine people almost immediately surrounded Zhu Zhuqing in the center. Because they knew that if they didn't kill Zhu Zhuqing, they wouldn't be able to survive at all.

In her ink-colored pupils, there was an extra touch of blood red. A cold, bloodthirsty killing intent spread from Zhu Zhuqing's body in almost an instant.

Roars and hisses, nine sounds rang out almost simultaneously from the nine directions around Zhu Zhuqing. Those nine opponents lunged at Zhu Zhuqing at the same time.

The slightly crouching figure was like a demon of the night, and behind the demon was an Evil God Thorn like a poisonous scorpion; Zhu Zhuqing's figure instantly turned into an afterimage and disappeared from where she stood.

This was also the origin of Zhu Zhuqing's nickname; her extreme speed was like a demon, and every time she appeared, she would take away an opponent's life and carry away their Soul Soul.

On the spectator stand.

On both sides, Hu Liena and Tang San sat opposite each other.

There was a strange tacit understanding among the three of them; no matter whose match it was, the other two would go to watch if they were free.

Hu Liena looked at Zhu Zhuqing on the stage below; in Hu Liena's view, in terms of perseverance, Zhu Zhuqing's perseverance was even higher than Tang San's.

Hu Liena considered herself a genius, but in front of the current Zhu Zhuqing, she could not help but admit defeat.

Tang San had the same feeling when facing Zhu Zhuqing; with constant observation, Tang San, relying on his powerful intuition and judgment, judged that Zhu Zhuqing's current strength was no longer what it used to be, and she was no longer an existence he could easily resolve.

Even if he went all out, it would not be easy to win against Zhu Zhuqing; he did not know why Zhu Zhuqing had suddenly undergone such a big change; whether it was strength, speed, or physical intensity, he felt that Zhu Zhuqing was now crushing him.

Previously he still had techniques, but the various techniques Zhu Zhuqing was now displaying were not in the slightest weaker than the Hidden Weapon, Crane Controlling Dragon Capturing, Mysterious Jade Hand, and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track that he had mastered.

In the past, Zhu Zhuqing was nothing more than a target with slightly faster speed in his eyes, but now, the feeling Zhu Zhuqing gave him was like a venomous snake lurking in the shadows, waiting for the right moment to strike, and she might take her life in the next second.

Although he did not know why Zhu Zhuqing had undergone such a great change, he knew it must have something to do with Shi Quan; before he entered Slaughter City, he had heard that Shi Quan had taken Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan out on a journey.

With such a change in Zhu Zhuqing's strength after only a few short years of traveling, what kind of changes would there be in the strength of Shi Quan, who was already powerful to begin with?

Tang San found it impossible to imagine, and the immense pressure also spurred him forward; he wanted more and more to leave this world that felt like Hell as soon as possible.

On the field, Zhu Zhuqing's high-speed figure faced the siege of nine people with composure, her form flickering like a phantom, and her extreme speed caused the encirclement of the people on the field to collapse on its own.

In almost an instant, Zhu Zhuqing's figure flashed before one of her opponents; this person did not even have a chance to react before Zhu Zhuqing's palm had already landed on his chest.

The man's face turned pale instantly, and the sound of shattering bones came from his chest cavity; her seemingly soft and powerless palm appeared to contain the strength of ten thousand jun.

What was eerie was that the massive power seemed to explode only within that person's body; his standing figure remained quietly in place, not even moving an inch, yet he had already lost his breath...