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Douluo Continent: My Martial Soul is Cassius, I am the God of the Earth
Although Lion Douluo had not yet reached the ninety-seventh rank cultivation from the animation, he already possessed the strength of the ninety-sixth rank. Under his pressure, this Spirit Beast with only about six hundred years of cultivation immediately collapsed to the ground.
"Shan'er, go kill it!" Lion Douluo said, throwing a black-and-red dagger that looked like a fang to Lin Xishan.
Lin Xishan immediately pulled out the dagger, then stepped forward and aimed at the neck of the Earth Shadow Demonic Dragon, stabbing down.
A yellow spirit ring drifted out.
"Quick, absorb it! I will protect you!" Lion Douluo said.
Lin Xishan nodded, then reached out his hand. After his Spirit possessed him, he placed the spirit ring onto Cassius.
In less than twenty minutes, Lin Xishan opened his eyes in surprise. He had actually obtained this skill; things would be much easier now.
"What Spirit Ability did you get?" Lion Douluo asked curiously as he saw the joy on Lin Xishan's face.
"Teacher, please use a Spirit Ability that strengthens yourself," Lin Xishan said.
"Hmm?" Mad Lion Douluo was somewhat puzzled, but he immediately released his first Spirit Ability, Lion King's Killing Intent. His aura instantly surged, and red spirit power ignited on his body.
"First Spirit Ability, Universe Reversal!" Lin Xishan held one hand forward and the other horizontally across his chest, a Tai Chi pattern rotating in front of him.
Lion Douluo instantly felt his body weaken; the strengthening from his first Spirit Ability disappeared in an instant. At the same time, the strengthened killing intent appeared on Lin Xishan, and an ice-blue light appeared in his hand held across his chest.
He struck out to the side, instantly freezing three large trees and shattering them into ice fragments.
"Where did you get the ice attribute from?" Lion Douluo asked in confusion.
"The effect of Universe Reversal is to drain the target's strengthening effects and reverse the absorbed power into an attribute opposite to the target's before striking back," Lin Xishan explained.
"Such a terrifying ability?" Lion Douluo was shocked, then asked, "Is there an upper limit to the reversal?"
"I'm not sure. Why don't you try a more powerful one?" Lin Xishan was equally curious about this, so he suggested.
"Fine. Seventh Spirit Ability, Avatar of the Martial Soul!" Lion Douluo said.
"Universe Reversal!"
Lion Douluo watched in astonishment as the Avatar of the Martial Soul he had just released turned into an empty shell, all its strengthening vanishing. Meanwhile, Lin Xishan punched the ground, instantly freezing hundreds of meters of land.
Fortunately, this was the outer area, so it didn't disturb those high-level Spirit Beasts. Lion Douluo recovered slightly from the depletion of having his Avatar of the Martial Soul drained, calmed his heart, and then led Lin Xishan out of the Star Dou Great Forest.
"By the way, Teacher, I'm returning this to you," Lin Xishan said, handing the dagger back to Lion Douluo.
"No need. Take this as a gift for you. Also, this bracelet is a storage spirit tool with thirty cubic meters of storage space," Lion Douluo said, handing a pitch-black bracelet to Lin Xishan.
"Teacher, this..." Lin Xishan looked at Lion Douluo with feigned hesitation.
"If I give it to you, take it," Lion Douluo said.
"Thank you, Teacher." Lin Xishan reached out and took it, then put the black bracelet on his wrist. He placed the dagger in front of the bracelet, and a suction force pulled the dagger inside.
A few days later, Lion Douluo personally took Lin Xishan to the Spirit Hall Academy. In his words, he still had to cultivate in seclusion and didn't have much time to teach Lin Xishan; the academy could teach the basic knowledge.
Lin Xishan had nothing to say against it. The Spirit Hall Academy covered everything from junior to senior levels, encompassing most of the knowledge a Spirit Master would need to know.
Moreover, with the Cassius Spirit, Lin Xishan didn't really need much guidance anyway. Becoming Lion Douluo's disciple was just to find a backer.
Studying at the Spirit Hall Academy was very hard. Although it wasn't as brutal as in the manhua, it was still extremely competitive.
However, since Lion Douluo had brought Lin Xishan to the Spirit Hall Academy, he was judged by the Dean to be of the Elder Hall faction, rather than the Supreme Pontiff's faction which underwent hellish training, so he wasn't particularly exhausted.
The first year was basically focused on theory classes and memorization tests. This method was used to judge the students' comprehension, which was probably what later generations called mental force.
Lin Xishan didn't deliberately show off his cultivation. Currently, the Spirit Hall Academy was in Bibi Dong's hands, and it wasn't a place worth aspiring to.
That woman's idea was to destroy the world. Although she had indeed suffered some hardships, in Lin Xishan's view, she had purely brought it upon herself.
However, he didn't neglect his spirit power cultivation. The meditation method Lion Douluo had taught him previously not only allowed him to sense the specific attributes of his Spirit but also served for cultivation.
Throughout the year, Lin Xishan would quietly run this cultivation method every night at midnight to increase his spirit power.
By the second year, Lin Xishan's spirit power had already reached rank eighteen. Gaining eight ranks of spirit power in one year was still very fast.
Starting from the second year, students like them who did not lean toward Bibi Dong were basically left to their own devices. There was only an assessment at the end of every month; those with the strength to meet the standard stayed, while those who couldn't had to leave.
Lin Xishan was particularly satisfied with this arrangement. He began to continuously strengthen his physical abilities.
He wasn't some reincarnation from a martial arts family, nor did he have any Sect inheritance. All he could do was run and train his muscles when his mental force reached its limit during meditation.
Lion Douluo came to visit Lin Xishan a few times, and each time he would give him some extremely rare nutritional products and some gold coins.
This also touched Lin Xishan a little. Although this teacher didn't stay with him every day during his cultivation, he at least fulfilled his duties as a teacher. For Lin Xishan, this kind of material support was much more useful than a certain Grandmaster's vague companionship.
Pouring a green Body Tempering Liquid given by Lion Douluo into a bathtub, Lin Xishan was just about to take off his clothes and step in when he heard a youthful voice.
"You fellow, who gave you permission to bathe here?"
Lin Xishan looked up, puzzled, and then said, "What's wrong? This stream doesn't seem to belong to you, does it?"
"It's not mine, but the downstream area is our class's activity range. If you pour it into the stream after you're done bathing, how are we supposed to use it?" the girl said dissatisfiedly.
"Then who told your class to take the downstream area just because it was close? Besides, how do you know I'll pour it out?" Lin Xishan frowned and asked in return.
"How do I know? I know because of this!" As the girl spoke, a fox phantom appeared behind her, her small hands turned into fox claws, and an aura of charm emerged.
"If you're not convinced, let's fight. I, Hu Liena, will beat some sense into you today!" Hu Liena said aggressively...