Shaking his head and not thinking more, Xiao Ling skipped the gold coins and began checking the item descriptions.
[Ten-Thousand Soul Banner: Can store souls; the souls within devour each other to increase strength.
Can summon souls within for combat and view their memories.
Quality can be improved through blood sacrifice.
Currently can only hold ten souls and only those with the same soul power rank as the user.]
Seeing this description, Xiao Ling was shocked: “Oh my god, the famous Human Emperor Banner.
‘If you don’t work hard at cultivation today, tomorrow we’ll be brothers in the banner.’ This thing is too evil; unless necessary, better use it as little as possible.” With a wave of his hand, a black banner appeared in his hand.
It looked very ordinary, just like a common black flag.
Xiao Ling bit his tongue and dripped blood onto the banner to claim it.
After a while, he felt a mysterious connection with it.
From now on, unless he died and his soul vanished, no one else could use it.
He tucked it away and looked at other descriptions.
[A bottle of Fixed Face Pills: Contains fifteen pills.
Fixed Face Pills can make the user’s appearance stay young forever, unchanging.]
“Fixed Face Pills!
This is a good thing.
They are very precious even in the cultivation world; the herbs required are all over a thousand years old.
Old Devil Han couldn’t have refined them without the Heavenspan Bottle.” Xiao Ling thought of it, and a porcelain bottle appeared before him.
Holding it and opening the stopper, there were indeed fifteen pills inside.
“In the future, I’ll give these to my wives as gifts!”
[Yellow Dragon Pill Recipe: Records the refining technique and required materials for the Yellow Dragon Pill.
Consuming it can help practitioners increase their power and achieve a transformation.]
“Yellow Dragon Pill.
This was a treasure that helped Old Devil Han increase his cultivation in the early stages.
I wonder if Battle Qi practitioners can use it.” With a wave of his hand, the recipe fell into his hand.
He began checking the materials and technique.
“The materials can be found with similar properties in the Battle Qi Continent, but the resistance will be higher.
It can only increase the speed of Battle Qi cultivation, similar to Foundation Building Spiritual Liquid.
I’ve already figured out the recipe for Foundation Building Spiritual Liquid myself—thanks to the detailed descriptions in the original story.
Both oral and medicinal baths—the effect will surely be great.”
[Forgetful Pills: Contains fifteen pills.
Can make the user forget memories of the past day.]
With a thought, a porcelain bottle appeared in his hand.
Inside were fifteen Forgetful Pills.
Shaking his head, Xiao Ling tucked them away.
This thing has high potential for use, but it’s currently not very useful.
[“Great Desolate Imprisoning Heavenly Finger”: Created by the Great Desolate Emperor of the Heavenspan Continent; its grade is Creation Martial Art.]
Seeing this manual, Xiao Ling was a bit surprised: “Isn’t this the move often used by Lin Dong, the protagonist of Wu Dong Qian Kun and a future Master expert?” With a wave of his hand, the cultivation method fell into his hand.
After reading it, he sighed: “This move is indeed useful.
Although I can’t use it yet—it requires Battle Spirit rank—it has a high upper limit and can be used until the high-stage Battle Saint level.
It’s slightly higher than the ‘Emperor Seal’ and has a lower entry requirement.” Xiao Ling nodded in satisfaction and stored it in the system space.
[Imperial Pole Pill: A peak Tier 6 pill.
Consuming it can help a Battle King expert increase their rank by one or two stars.
Can only be taken once in a lifetime.]
[Breaking Ancestor Pill: A peak Tier 6 pill.
Consuming it can increase the chance of a peak Battle King breaking through to Battle Ancestor and stabilize the cultivation if it fails.]
With a thought, two pills appeared in his hand.
Currently, these two were of no use to Xiao Ling.
He took out two jade bottles, used Vacuum Palm to put them in, and tucked them into his belt.
Looking out the window, it was now night.
The sky looked like a piece of black silk, dotted with countless flickering stars.
A bright moon hung high in the sky, casting silver-white light, as if giving the earth a light gauze.
Without thinking more, Xiao Ling formed the hand seal and used cultivation time to replace sleep.
The next morning:
Xiao Ling ended his cultivation and walked out of the room.
He checked the time; it was almost time for the appointment with Principal Hu Gan.
Ling Ying, in the adjacent courtyard, saw Xiao Ling leave early.
Remembering his lady’s instructions from yesterday, he glanced at the sleeping Xiao Xun’er and then followed not far behind Xiao Ling.
Xiao Ling was completely unaware of this, but he wouldn’t have cared even if he knew.
Reaching the office door and knocking, Xiao Ling spoke: “Principal Hu Gan, I am Xiao Ling.”
Hu Gan’s voice came from inside: “Xiao Ling, come in.
The door is unlocked.”
Hearing this, Xiao Ling pushed open the door and entered.
Seeing Hu Gan smiling at him, Xiao Ling first bowed, found a seat, and spoke: “What did the Principal want to see me about?”
Seeing Xiao Ling find a seat, Hu Gan didn’t care at all.
Over the past two years, Xiao Ling had built good relationships with teachers and elders.
Once you knew him, you realized he was a very casual person.
And this side was only shown to those close to him.
Hu Gan smiled gently and spoke: “Aren’t you going to train outside Jia Nan City?
Your progress over these few years has been excellent, and we are very satisfied.
This time, I’m giving you a trial task.
If you complete it, when you enter the Inner Academy and reach the Battle Spirit rank, we can specifically open a one-man Fallen Heart Flame essence body tempering for you.
It will be much harder than tempering ten people together, but with your recovery ability, you should be able to endure it.”
Hearing this, Xiao Ling sighed in his heart: “The academy truly treats me well.
They’re even opening a one-man tempering for me.”
Xiao Ling asked impatiently: “What is the trial task?”
Stroking his beard, Hu Gan spoke: “Choose someone from the Law Enforcement Team’s wanted list with a strength of 5-Star Great Battle Master or higher and kill them.
These are people who broke order within Jia Nan City and fled.
Their strength is definitely not weak among their peers; you must not be careless.”
Hearing this, Xiao Ling nodded and spoke: “Then I’ll go complete the task.
Wait for my good news.” After saying that, he turned and left.
Hu Gan watched him leave and nodded.
Actually, he had originally planned to persuade Xiao Ling to practice in the academy for a while longer today, and that even if he went, someone would be arranged to protect him in the dark.
But the mysterious Battle Emperor protecting Xiao Xun’er came to tell him yesterday that he would ensure Xiao Ling’s safety.
Then he had nothing to worry about.
Besides, a true expert must experience the grinding of combat.