Ling Xiao’s wounds had gradually healed. He originally had healing dicine exchanged from the Pharmacy Hall, and when added to the powerful recovery effects after achieving the sixth rotation of the Nine Revolutions Golden Body Technique, if it were only ordinary injuries, recovery would still be relatively easy.
Thus, he repeatedly sparred with his Martial Soul Avatar in the Practice Room.
Each spar allowed him to gain a clearer understanding of the Terrifying Finger.
When this understanding accumulated to a certain extent, he stopped fighting, sat down cross-legged, and began to contemplate the Terrifying Finger.
After all, he wasn’t trying to decipher it, but to learn it.
Although the casual finger strike of the woman in blue was extrely mystical and far surpassed the high-level martial skills he had learned,
the repeated practice,
combined with the Mountain and River Martial Soul’s analytical and rehearsal effectiveness, and Ling Xiao’s own exceptional talent, resulted in quite significant progress after a whole night.
His so-called significant progress was actually about ten percent of the standard of the woman in blue’s Terrifying Finger.
But even then, this finger technique had already reached the small success standard of a top-level martial skill.
If he were to fully comprehend it, just how terrifying would that be?
His heart was bursting with ecstasy.
It seed that the injuries he had suffered today were absolutely worth it.
He had dozens of punctures big and small on his body, so had stopped bleeding, but the holes could still be clearly seen.
As for his clothes, they were already ragged beyond recognition.
But compared to what he gained, that was naturally much less.
"You’re so aweso, so I might as well give you a na, let’s call it Terrifying Finger."
Ling Xiao didn’t think too much about it. The reason he chose such a common na was simply because this finger technique made him feel just one thing—
Terror!
So why not na it "Terrifying Finger"?
"I’ve almost grasped it, it’s ti to try out the power of this move!"
He suddenly laughed wickedly and said to the Martial Soul Avatar, "You’ve been bullying , now it’s my turn to bully you for once, just stand still."
Ling Xiao rubbed his hands together, and then suddenly pointed out a finger.
An almost imperceptible stream of Gang Qi shot out like a blade.
"Pff!"
The shoulder of the Martial Soul Avatar was pierced, creating a hole.
"Hahaha, indeed powerful, it’s just a pity that my control isn’t proficient enough yet. From now on, you can move, and even attack , just don’t use this move."
If it were only attacking a fixed target, the fearsoness of this move wouldn’t show.
The reason why the Terrifying Finger was fearso mainly lay in two aspects, one was its sufficient power.
The other was its frighteningly fast speed!
After continuously executing the Terrifying Finger more than ten tis, Ling Xiao suddenly noticed a phenonon.
Although the Terrifying Finger also consud Gang Qi, the consumption was very little.
This wasn’t necessarily a good thing, because of the conservation of energy, if it used so little Gang Qi, it naturally would consu sothing else.
What the Terrifying Finger depleted the most turned out to be Soul Power.
Ling Xiao could clearly feel that each ti he perford the Terrifying Finger, his soul would be affected.
With his current Soul Power, he could at most execute ten Terrifying Fingers with ten percent power.
"It looks like what’s more important next is to enhance my Soul Power, I wonder if the third level of the Book Collection Pavilion has any top-secret thods for soul cultivation, it would be great if there were."
Thinking this, he could no longer wait.
He imdiately stopped his cultivation, left the Practice Room, changed into a new set of clothes in his room, and was about to head to the Book Collection Pavilion.
However, as he walked into the courtyard, he was stunned.
There was soone kneeling in the yard.
A woman.
"Ling Yu, what are you doing?"
Ling Xiao looked at the girl kneeling there and couldn’t help but frown.
Ling Yu was kneeling there, crying like a pear flower bathed in tears, her cheeks streaked with them, truly invoking a desire to protect her.
But that was for soone else.
Ling Xiao had given up on this woman a long ti ago.
If bullying them when they were beggars was just child’s play, then abandoning him at his lowest point truly disappointed him to the core.
Fortunately, he had never fallen for this woman, so there was no question of heartbreak.
It was purely disappointnt.
"Ling Xiao! I have realized my true feelings for you. In fact, I liked you even when you were still a beggar. My bullying was simply because I liked you."
Ling Yu said to Ling Xiao, "Haven’t you heard that hitting and scolding are signs of affection?"
Ling Xiao felt nauseous and took a deep breath, replying, "Let’s not bring up the past. We no longer have any relationship. I won’t hold a grudge against you for how you treated , but the two of us are simply strangers in this lifeti."
"Ling Xiao, don’t you want to give a chance? I really do like you a lot. The only reason I went out with Ling Feng was to provoke you and make you stronger!"
Ling Yu wept again as she spoke.
This woman was truly shaless.
Ling Xiao coldly cast a glance at Ling Yu and answered, "I’ve already said, there’s no possibility between you and . Leave now and stop saying things that make you look contemptible. If you just stay obediently by Ling Feng’s side, I might still think highly of you."
Ling Yu fell to the ground with a thud.
During the elimination rounds, she thought she could find so way to kill Ling Xiao.
But after seeing Ling Xiao defeat Ling Feifan in the final, her heart fluttered with excitent.
She thought with her charm, ensnaring this foolish boy would be easy as pie.
But she was disappointed.
Ling Xiao’s decisiveness and straightforwardness completely dashed her hopes.
"Ling Xiao!"
"Junior brother!"
Suddenly, two voices ca from outside, and Ling Xiao’s previously irritated mood suddenly improved a lot.
The visitors were Ling Yihang and Ling Yixue.
Ling Yu, seeing Ling Yixue, seed to understand sothing in an instant.
Outside of the Ling Family, she was a proud princess; everyone had to cater to her will, everyone had to protect her.
But once she ca to the Ling Family, she instantly transford from a beautiful swan into an ignored ugly duckling.
Therefore, she fell from grace, choosing to give up hard work in favor of relying on her looks to cling to n, to cling to Ling Feng.
But faced with the sa plight as an ugly duckling, Ling Yixue chose a completely different path.
Ling Yixue did not rely or ingratiating herself with anyone; she worked diligently, forgetting her beauty, forgetting the charm she possessed as a woman.
It was precisely for this reason.
The paths of the two won diverged greatly.
Ling Yu beca a dependent of soone else, and naturally, her strength improved little.
Ling Yixue, on the other hand, beca increasingly powerful. Her status kept rising, relying on her own might to beco a true swan.
Truth be told, although Ling Yu’s potential was not as great as Ling Yixue’s, it wasn’t by much; her ability to learn the Soul Capturing Technique was evidence enough.
If she had worked as hard as Ling Yixue, she definitely wouldn’t have ended up with her current fate.
What a pity.
Even at this mont, she still hadn’t recognized her mistakes.
She was just madly jealous of Ling Yixue. Why was it that Ling Yixue could receive Ling Xiao’s smiles, his care?
Why couldn’t she?
Clenching her teeth, she got up and ran out of Ling Xiao’s residence.
"Wasn’t that woman with Ling Feng? What did she co to find you for?" Ling Yihang asked, puzzled.
"It’s nothing. What brings you two here at this hour?" Ling Xiao was even too lazy to ntion Ling Yu at this point.
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