Douluo Continent: The Eternal Dawn

Chapter 62 Pressure from the Senior Sister
On their journey back to Shrek City from the Star Dou Great Forest, Ye Xixuan and Tang Ya traveled at a leisurely pace, stopping frequently along the way, which took them nearly half a month.

In Tang Ya's words, she ostensibly asked Ye Xixuan to help her suppress the evil energy in her martial soul, but in reality, she gradually found enjoyment in it herself.

Tang Ya had just awakened her Devouring Talent. Although the evil energy contained in her Martial Soul Origin was enormous, Ye Xixuan's tireless efforts finally allowed him to completely absorb the evil energy within Tang Ya's body in half a month.

Without that evil energy, Tang Ya's Dark Blue Silver Grass martial soul naturally lost its ability to devour life force and nourish itself. However, the effect of her Blue Silver Grass vines devouring soul power and blood energy remained, just like the innate ability of those top-tier martial souls, which was also called a talent ability.

It devours the opponent's soul power and blood essence, thereby amplifying the power of its own martial soul.

This alone wouldn't be enough to classify someone as an evil soul master. After all, it doesn't involve using other people's soul power and blood to improve cultivation, nor does it affect one's mind; at most, it just makes the martial soul's abilities a bit strange.

Tang Ya's situation is somewhat similar to Ma Xiaotao's. As long as she finds Ye Xixuan to expel the evil energy from her body in time, she can cultivate normally. She truly lives up to her reputation as the Fire Phoenix Saintess and Blue Silver Saintess of the Holy Spirit Cult in the original story.

To Tang Ya's delight, after her martial soul mutated into Dark Blue Silver Grass, her cultivation speed had fundamentally improved compared to before. While her current cultivation speed might still lag behind top outer court geniuses like Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi, it was already on par with ordinary geniuses like Jiang Nannan.

But the biggest beneficiary was actually Ye Xixuan. After absorbing the wave of evil energy from Tang Ya's body, his soul power cultivation broke through to level thirty-seven. Moreover, the age of his three soul rings was significantly increased. When he enters the outer academy, he will surely give those self-proclaimed genius freshmen a little shock in terms of soul ring configuration.

When Ye Xixuan and Tang Ya returned to Shrek Academy, only a few days remained of their month-long vacation.

Tang Ya needed to prepare for the promotion assessment in the fourth grade, so she separated from Ye Xixuan in the outer academy and planned to go back to the dormitory to meet up with Jiang Nannan first.

Ye Xixuan went to the Sea God Pavilion alone, intending to explain to Elder Mu about Tang Ya's martial soul mutation.

He had his own reasons for not taking Tang Ya with him to see Elder Mu.

The relationship between Tang Sect and Shrek Academy is special. If he takes Tang Ya with him to see Elder Mu, it would be as if he were indirectly questioning Elder Mu about why the academy is ignoring the decline of Tang Sect.

He had received kindness from Elder Mu since childhood, so naturally he could not do such a thing.

Tang Ya, too, did not want to receive favors from the academy for no reason because of Ye Xixuan; she wanted to rebuild the Tang Clan through her own strength. She would not rely on anyone else except Ye Xixuan.

The clear waters of Poseidon Lake reflected the lingering twilight on the horizon, the golden light of the sky and the reflections of the white clouds blending together, making it difficult to distinguish between them.

Ye Xixuan ascended and flew high in the sky using the power of the Heavenly Spider Claw. The evening breeze that came his way gave him a gentle and peaceful feeling, which also relaxed his mood.

He landed steadily on the open ground in front of the Sea God Pavilion and immediately saw Old Man Mu lying on a wooden chair, his life hanging by a thread.

Bathed in the glow of the setting sun, Old Mu's eyes, which had been dull and lifeless, seemed to burst forth with a touch of vitality, and he wore a kind smile.

Ye Xixuan quickly stepped forward to Elder Mu's side and bowed respectfully.

"Mr. Mu."

"Was the trip successful?" Old Mu raised his withered hand, and an invisible force lifted Ye Xixuan up.

Under Elder Mu's gaze, Ye Xixuan felt for some reason as if he had been seen through, and couldn't help but nod somewhat guiltily.

"Helping Sister Xiaoya hunt spirit beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest went quite smoothly this time. We encountered a Ghost King Vine with a thousand years of cultivation. However, after absorbing this third spirit ring, her martial spirit underwent some changes." Elder Mu smiled slightly.

"I can sense that the evil energy within her has completely disappeared. You used your martial soul ability, didn't you? Overall, she's in much better shape than Xiao Tao, and is currently completely under control. As long as she doesn't devour her opponents' soul power and blood to improve her cultivation in the future, she'll basically be unaffected."

"Elder Mu, you knew all this?" Ye Xixuan was startled, but quickly understood.

With Elder Mu's cultivation level, he probably sensed them the moment they stepped into Shrek Academy.

Elder Mu smiled without speaking, and after a moment of contemplation, he continued, "However, absorbing soul power and blood essence is a characteristic of her martial soul, so it's inevitable that it will be brought into her body when she retracts her martial soul. Here's what we'll do: go find her a soul bone that can store soul power. The foreign soul power brought back with her martial soul can be temporarily stored in the soul bone and then slowly expelled from her body. With such a soul bone as a barrier, there shouldn't be any problem."

"A soul bone that stores soul power?" Ye Xixuan stared at him thoughtfully, then took out the head soul bone from the Ten Thousand Year Light Cyclops from his storage soul tool.

"Elder Mu, this soul bone is also one of my finds in the Star Dou Great Forest. Could I use it to exchange for a suitable soul bone for Sister Xiaoya?"

“Soul bones with the property of storing soul power usually come from plant-type soul beasts, but unfortunately there are no such collections in the academy.” Elder Mu shook his head regretfully, then changed the subject.

"However, we can use the academy's channels to search. Besides the Star Dou Great Forest, the other major wild spirit beast habitats within the Star Luo Empire are famous for producing plant-type spirit beasts, so there should be quite a few spirit bones that meet the requirements. Or we can simply spread the word among the inner disciples that there are spirit bones for trade. The quality of your spirit bone is quite good; it's a head spirit bone of the Light attribute, and the spirit skill attached to it should be the strongest talent spirit skill of the solidified Light Cyclops, Cyclops Aurora. Someone will definitely be interested."

Elder Mu's words only went this far, but Ye Xixuan clearly understood the deeper meaning behind them.

The inner disciples of Shrek Academy are mostly from great Soul Master families, originally from various parts of Douluo Continent. This is a huge network of connections, even more convenient than using Shrek Academy's channels.

The trading of soul bones is usually done through barter, where soul bones are exchanged for other soul bones. Both parties can obtain soul bones with attributes suitable for them, making it a win-win situation.

"Le Xuan is currently in the library of the Sea God Pavilion. Let her handle it for you."

"Sister Le Xuan has emerged from seclusion?!" Upon hearing Elder Mu's last words, Ye Xixuan's expression instantly became somewhat unnatural. However, Elder Mu closed his eyes and remained silent. He could only bow slightly again before bracing himself and entering the Sea God Pavilion.

The library was located on the top floor of the Sea God Pavilion. When Ye Xixuan walked through the wooden door, he saw a beautiful woman with a quiet and gentle temperament sitting on a long wooden bench by the window, flipping through an ancient book.

Her long, smooth black hair swayed in the wind, gently caressing her fair and delicate face. A few rays of the setting sun pierced through her hair, adding to her ethereal and otherworldly beauty.

Sensing Ye Xixuan's gaze, Zhang Lexuan subconsciously raised her head.

Their gazes met in mid-air, and Ye Xixuan immediately called out softly.

"Sister Le, Sister Lexuan."

Zhang Lexuan remained as gentle as ever, but Ye Xixuan felt an inexplicable pressure from her gaze.

After staring at each other for a long time, Zhang Lexuan stood up and walked to Ye Xixuan. After carefully examining him, she spoke in a calm tone.

"Xi Xuan, you seem to have changed."

(End of this chapter)