I am a mortal who has achieved enlightenment through burning my secrets

Chapter 243 Life Transfer
"Twelve years old, she really is only twelve years old..."

"His soul power is actually level twenty-nine..."

"Your second spirit ring is actually a thousand years old, and judging from its color, it's at least five thousand years old... Can you tell me how you did that?"

Upon hearing the question posed "casually" by the education commissioner named Meng Shenji, Xiao Wuji widened his round eyes and then "naively" replied:
"It's my first soul skill. It can draw life force from plants to heal injuries. It's thanks to it that I survived!"

Upon hearing this, Meng Shenji was even more puzzled. When absorbing a soul ring, one cannot even receive a soul skill, let alone use one. Otherwise, wouldn't the Nine Heart Begonia be even more effective?

"Drawing life force to heal? Can I experience it?"

Xiao Wuji shook his head and said, "No, this soul skill can only be used on the martial soul. Even I can only use it after I have withdrawn my martial soul!"

After hearing Xiao Wuji's explanation, Meng Shenji became heartbroken. How could such a useful soul skill not be given to someone else?

Although deeply saddened, he outwardly appeared quite relieved and said:

"Such a divine skill is bound to have some flaws, and it's not impossible to make up for them with other soul skills in the future..."

Xiao Wuji wholeheartedly agreed, saying, "That's what I think too, but I don't know which soul beast to get it from, which is why I thought of coming to the school to further my studies..."

"Welcome!"

Meng Shenji showed great enthusiasm for Xiao Wuji, personally helping him complete all the enrollment procedures and arranging a detached villa for him as a student dormitory.

"These next few days, focus on your cultivation, and I'll find you a suitable soul beast as soon as possible!"

"Ok!"

For the next ten days or so, Xiao Wuji continued his cultivation as usual, never leaving his room. Meals were delivered to him regularly, making him almost believe he was under house arrest!

But when Xiao Wuji broke through to level 30 and saw the soul beast lying on the ground half-dead, he changed his mind!

It was a bamboo shoot with dark green rhomboid crystals growing on its roots. Apart from those crystals, its entire body resembled a piece of fine white jade.

Xiao Wuji asked, "What kind of soul beast is this?"

Meng Shenji stroked his beard and said with a hint of pride, "This soul beast is called the Linglong Jade Bamboo Mutant Soul Beast. It has a Linglong Heart, which can be used to store life force."

"This soul beast mutated from the Snow Jade Bamboo, and its attribute changed from ice and snow to life."

"Once the Exquisite Jade Bamboo is formed, no matter how high its cultivation level is, it will be protected by other Snow Jade Bamboo!"

"The roots of the Exquisite Jade Bamboo are connected to those of other Snow Jade Bamboo. Normally, it can absorb the life force of its prey and store it, then replenish the Snow Jade Bamboo when needed!"

"Speaking of which, if it weren't for the fact that this old man Zhilin's family had records of it, we really wouldn't have known that such a thing existed!"

Following the direction Meng Shenji pointed, Xiao Wuji saw an ordinary-looking old man and immediately stepped forward, bowed, and said:

"Thank you so much, Education Commissioner Zhilin! I will always remember your great kindness!"

"Ok!"

Zhilin nodded slightly, then said calmly, "Go and give it a try. Mutant soul beasts have all sorts of soul skills, so it's best not to have too high hopes!" "Regardless, I must thank the committee members!"

Xiao Wuji thanked him repeatedly, then summoned his martial spirit, which wrapped around the exquisite jade bamboo and slowly devoured its life force.

The exquisite jade bamboo lived up to its reputation for storing life force, and he only managed to "kill" it after his soul power was completely exhausted. And this was even after most of the life force within the exquisite jade bamboo had been consumed.

The fact that the soul ring was turning blackish-purple meant that this exquisite jade bamboo was extremely close to being ten thousand years old. Fortunately, it had not actually broken through the ten thousand-year limit, otherwise Xiao Wuji would not have been able to absorb it!
He withdrew his martial spirit, sat cross-legged, and began to activate his spirit rings!

The moment the spirit ring entered his body, Xiao Wuji felt immense pressure. His meridians were torn open with countless tiny wounds, as dense as porcelain, as if they might break at any moment.

The life force gathered within the body after the martial soul was recovered also began to take effect. It repaired the damage wherever it was caused.

Tear, repair, tear, repair!
In this repeated torment, Xiao Wuji's face also wore a mask of pain, and the blood seeping from his pores made the three education committee members watching from the side sweat for him.

One hour, two hours, three hours!
Sunset and dawn!

Xiao Wuji's aura gradually returned to normal.

Through repeated tearing and repair, Xiao Wuji's meridians became more resilient. Unfortunately, Xiao Wuji did not know any martial arts techniques and could only rely on his martial spirit to perform the most basic meditation.

Regarding the issue of cultivation techniques, Xiao Wuji was also at a loss. It was almost impossible to get information from Tang San, since he hadn't even taught Xiao Wu. He didn't think he had more influence than Xiao Wu.

As for creating it himself? That's simply impossible. He doesn't even know where the Twelve Meridians are, and he wasn't a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner in his past life. If he lets his soul power run rampant in his meridians, he probably won't even know how he died.

If possible, he plans to cultivate his second martial soul towards the mental type, to see if there will be an opportunity to "search Tang San's soul" in the future!
After absorbing the soul ring, a strange look flashed across Xiao Wuji's face, but it was fleeting. When the three education committee members noticed it, they thought there was something wrong with his soul skill.

Opening his eyes, Xiao Wuji glanced at the three tense-looking education committee members, then stood up from the ground and summoned his martial spirit, which then entwined around the three education committee members and the flowers and plants in the courtyard.

The first and third spirit rings flashed in succession, and a faint life force traveled along Xiao Wuji's martial spirit, using himself as a conduit, and was transmitted to the three education committee members.

"My third soul skill is called Life Transfer, which can transfer the life force of plants through the martial soul."

"However, because you cannot store this life force, as I transmit it, you dissipate, making it difficult for the concentration of life force to reach the level within my body."

"If applied to absorbing spirit rings, the effect would probably not be ideal!"

"It would probably take dozens of such soul beasts to saturate the life force in a person's body, but that would require hunting far too many soul beasts! It's simply impossible to promote this on a large scale!"

Upon hearing this, the three education commissioners also showed thoughtful expressions. The number of high-age plant-type soul beasts was already relatively small, and it would indeed be inappropriate to hunt them on a large scale. It seems that they can only be used to cultivate talents for the empire in the future!
The three exchanged glances and nodded, then Meng Shenji spoke:

"No problem, we will finalize some conditions and then report to His Majesty so that he can issue an order. We will absolutely not allow anyone who does not meet these conditions to waste resources!"

"The Education Commission is truly righteous!"

Seeing this, Xiao Wuji breathed a sigh of relief and exclaimed, "How noble!"
He deliberately concealed 90% of the effects of his soul skill, not only to reduce the hunting of plant-type soul beasts, but also to reduce the waste of his own time.

If they knew the true effects of soul skills, he would probably be so busy he wouldn't have a moment to spare. Since he was focused on becoming a god, he naturally wouldn't allow such a thing to happen.

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(End of this chapter)