Female Novel
chapter 1976-1980
Chapter 1976 “You don’t have to speak to me like that; I have a reason for saying what I said. Martial art techniques ormartial skills with the soul attribute can be considered one of the more difficult to practice. I wouldn’t haveany questions if you’ve practiced martial art techniques or martial skills of the five elements attributes.Think of this as me persuading you. Even the masters in the sect don’t simply train for the martial arttechniques or martial skills with the soul attribute, let alone those like you, a newly recruited informaldisciple.”
Noel did not exaggerate in his words. Among all the martial art techniques and martial skills, those thatbelonged to the five elements were the easiest to be practiced.
Even though the power unleashed after they achieved the level of completion was not as strong as themartial art techniques and martial skills of other attributes, it was easy to practice those, and thepossibility of success was also much higher.
Noel rubbed his slightly red eyes and leaned back in his chair, unhurriedly continuing, “Throughout theyears, those who were able to achieve the level of completion when practicing the martial art techniquesor martial skills with the soul attribute are those extremely talented formal disciples. Even the chosendisciples wouldn’t simply try this unless your soul is very special, or you’re just extremely talented. I don’tthink you’re any of those, though. Why else did you not join the proper informal disciple assessment andjoin the sect in such a way?”
For disciples like Noel, assessment for the informal disciples previously could not be considered as ausual way of assessing disciples. They could only describe this as an unusual way to do things at anunusual time.
jackieie did not want to continue an entanglement on this issue with Noel, thus he calmly interjected, “Ijust chanced upon this opportunity. You don’t have to teach me these things, Senior brother Noel. I came
to the Soul Hall to increase my speed in training the martial skill, and I’ve already made up my mind.These words won’t affect my decision.”
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Noel raised his eyebrows and chuckled in contempt. He was not that involved with jackieie; he justwanted to remind him out of goodwill. He would not waste time talking to jackieie, then, since jackieiewas not appreciative.
He raised his chin toward jackieie. “As per our usual rules, training for a day costs you ten sectcontribution points. It doesn’t matter how long you stay inside throughout the day-it’ll still be counted asone day.”
Ten contribution points each day?! This meant that the reward jackieie obtained could only pay for fivedays in the hall!
jackieie could not help but secretly exclaim at the thought.
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This was quite expensive, more so than what he imagined it to be. He initially thought that the 50 sectcontribution points he had were enough to support him to train for one month, but it seemed like wishfulthinking at this point.
Noel seemed to have realized the slight surprise on jackieie’s face. With a cold smile, he commented,“Ten sect contribution points a day isn’t expensive. You need to think about it: The Soul Hall requires thesupport of power while you’re training, and this uses up a lot of spirited crystals. As payment for thepower consumption, you only need to pay ten contribution points a day. Even I feel that this is quite asmall amount that we need to pay.”
Before he arrived, jackieie had already heard that the Soul Hall was actually a large formation, and itsfunction was to raise the speed of somebody practicing the martial art technique or martial skill thatbelonged to the soul attribute. Since it was a large formation, it required power to run itself, and thismeant that a lot of spirited crystals were required. Considering this, ten contribution points a day couldnot be considered a huge amount.
Noel looked up and continued speaking, “I need to inform you something beforehand. I don’t care if youstay inside for as long as a joystick burns or as long a s somebody drinks a cup of tea, but you have topay me ten contribution points. Although ten contribution points isn’t a large amount, it’s great fortuneenough for newly recruited informal disciples like yourself. Let me give you another piece of warning:People that are untalented like yourself shouldn’t waste time on martial art technique or martial skill withthe soul attribute. The soul is something illusory and hard to understand.”
Chapter 1977 “Stop thinking that you’re stronger than any other person. Many had the same train of thoughts like youdo, but they were examples to those who came after them that this is wishful thinking.” Noel was notreminding jackieie; he was taunting jackieie for overestimating himself. Just like what he said, there wereso many disciples in the sect, but only a very small number of people practiced the martial art techniquesand martial skills of the soul attribute.
After all, the soul was an illusory thing, and it was untouchable like the five elements. Numerous seniorshad trained the gold, wood, water, fire, and earth elements, and they could be used as references.
jackieie merely gave a small nod wordlessly, to which Noel chuckled without a care and continued,“Since you insist on going in and wasting those ten contribution points, there’s nothing else I can say.”
Noel did not believe that jackieie would be capable of hastening his mastery over his martial arttechniques or martial skills after he entered the hall. To Noel, that was impossible. It might be possible ifjackieie had broken through into the intermediate stage of innate level, but judging jackieie’s fighting
prowess, he knew jackieie had just achieved the initial stage of the innate level. He did not have thestrength to have a soul enlightenment.
“I won’t waste my time talking nonsense with you. Pick a difficulty level-there are seven of them. Theeasiest one is level one, and difficulty level seven is exceptional. In fact, I don’t even have to ask youthis. The most you can do is stay in difficulty level one, probably lasting as long as somebody finishingtheir tea or a joystick burning.” He lazily stood up from his chair and picked up the formation of jade stripsin front of him, adding a couple of runes that jackieie did not understand on the jade strips.
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Just as Noel was about to inject energy, however, jackieie interrupted him.
“I’d like to train in difficulty level two.”
“What? You want to go for difficulty level two? Young man, can you not rush in when you know nothing?Even chosen disciples won’t be able to stay inside for longer than the time taken to finish tea if I startdifficulty level two, let alone you!” Noel was borderline yelling at this point, looking at jackieie as thoughhe had gone crazy.
Exasperatedly, Noel added, “You shouldn’t think that there isn’t a big difference in the levels when thereare only seven difficulty levels. I’m telling you that there’s a big difference, and opening the difficulty leveltwo has a stronger effect on the soul that’s several times more than difficulty level one. People like youwon’t be able to take it once you enter the formation. You’ll be forced out by the strong souls inside, andyou might change the level later. You have to be joking with me right now.”
Even after Noel finished his rant, jackieie’s expression did not change much. “I want difficulty level two.”
Noel was rendered speechless instantly, and the corners of his mouth twitched. He felt that not only wasthis guy’s brain filled with water, he probably had been kicked by a donkey, too. He spent his energyexplaining things, only for it to be wasted as this guy ignored everything.
He chuckled and felt that jackieie was absurd. “Young man, do you think that I’m joking with you? If youcan’t take it, your soul might be wounded. A soul wound isn’t funny, and I need to be responsible for that.It doesn’t matter if you end up dead or disabled for life, but you might cause me to be punished by theupper management. Who did I offend to end up with this?”
Chapter 1978 Noel grew increasingly angry as he spoke. He could not help but rush forward to slapjackieie harshly on his na?ve-etched face so that he would wake up from his daydream. He would nothave said so much to jackieie if he would not be severely involved if jackieie’s soul was hurt.
“Do you know what you’re talking about? Adjusting the difficulty level to level two, and I’m sure that youwon’t last longer than a person drinking their tea. You’ll come running out with your tail between your legsafter I take several breaths.” Noel looked at jackieie like he was looking at a stubborn fool. jackieiesighed lightly, knowing very well that his actions must translate to him being an idiot in the eyes of peoplelike Noel.
However, he did this because he did not want to waste time. After all, the usual difficulty would not be ahuge improvement to a martial skill at the level o f the Destroying the Void. In fact, he asked Noel toadjust the difficulty to level two because he did not understand if this was useful to him under suchdifficulty.
jackieie said helplessly, “You don’t need to worry. If anything happens to me when I’m inside, I’ll informthe elders or deacons that I did this on my own will, that it had nothing to do with you. I’ll make sure thatthis won’t implicate you.”
Noel lightly curled the corners of his mouth, no longer knowing what to say. He rolled his eyes and said,“Nevermind. Since you insist on ignoring my persuasion and ignore the possibility of wounding yourself,
there’s nothing much that I can say. I need to tell you, though, that the wounds to the soul can’t bestopped by common pills, and it’ll directly affect your training in the future. You shouldn’t lose your futurebecause of your temporary curiosity or because you want to act tough to me.”
jackieie raised his eyebrows and said calmly, “You don’t have to worry; I’m in no mood to act tough infront of anyone. You can just adjust the difficulty level to level two.”
Noel scoffed, thinking to himself that jackieie would not give up unless he faced the consequences. Fromthe insufferably arrogant expression on jackieie’s face when he spoke, he seemed to think that he couldstay in the difficulty level two area for one to two days.
He wanted to see the expression on this guy’s face when he could not stand it anymore and came outhimself. Noel stretched out his hand, harrumphing as he declared, “Hand over your identification card. I’lldeduct the contribution points to pay for one day.”
jackieie nodded and handed Noel his identification card obediently. Noel proficiently deducted ten ofjackieie’s contribution points. Although it was merely ten points, jackieie still felt unhappy about it.
There were only 40 sect contribution points left on his identification card, and he would finish theremaining 40 points soon. If he wanted to continue training, he had to make time and earn himself somecontribution points.
“Alright, I’ve arranged the difficulty and set the time. You can go in now. Let me just make somethingclear: If anything happened to you inside, it has nothing to do with me. I’ve already persuaded you andall, and you should stop acting tough. Just get out if you can’t handle it. Don’t force yourself to withstandthings as it isn’t worth it when your soul gets wounded, turning you into a dummy.”
jackieie nodded as he put his identification card away. He walked toward one of the small doors that wasone monthnally behind him. However, Noel spoke up again behind him as he was about to cross thethreshold,” You need to understand that even chosen disciples have a record of staying inside for a
maximum of three days and three nights. If you turn into a dummy because of your impulsive moves, I’llbe affected by your actions.“
Noel felt his head hurt when he thought of this possibility. This newly recruited informal disciple is like anidiot who could not be stopped even if ten bulls were pulling him back.
If something bad happened to jackieie inside, Noel would be implicated if he could not explain that hehad already persuaded jackieie but jackieie insisted on entering the room. He could be punished if it wassomething minor, or he could be imprisoned if it was something serious.
He felt his stomach hurt when he thought about this.
jackieie nodded without turning back. He understood that Noel was telling him all this crap because Noelwas worried for his personal gain, but that was understandable.
Chapter 1979 This was a pitch-black world, and it made a person’s heart tingle. Everything around himwas enveloped In darkness. jackieie stretched out his hand and subconsciously groped around him, butthere was nothing around him. It did, however, make him feel as if it was difficult to walk.
The space he was in was very different from the space outside, and the darkness in this place was alsovery much different compared to the darkness outside. If he compared the space outside like a clearspring in a stone pond, this area was like a pot of cooked porridge as it had an unspeakable stickiness toit.
He balled both his hands into fists, and it seemed like he had caught the space around him in his hands.This was the true center area of the Soul Hall, and it was also the place that could help him improve histraining of martial skill.
In fact, he was able to recognize from what Noel said that it was not easy to train here. However, he didnot back away and continued to walk two steps ahead. As he was about to walk forward again, the
abrupt sound of gusts blowing over treetops subconsciously startled him.
Following that, another wave of wind came blowing toward him. This gust was different from the usualwind outside. It blew straight toward jackieie, ignoring the skin and bones, blasting straight against hissoul. The wind felt like sharp knives, and it was an unspeakable pain. It was so painful that jackieie couldnot stand, causing him to kneel.
“Why is it so painful?” jackieie subconsciously wailed. The strong wind continued to blow toward him,blasting right against his soul. It felt like a large ax was dealt against his soul.
This hurt several times more compared to the attack against jackieie’s body. jackieie had a higher painendurance compared to common folk, but he still wailed out in pain. His breathing also slowed down.Was this what it meant by the second level of difficulty?
No wonder Noel repeatedly said that this level of difficulty was not something usual people couldwithstand, and what he said seemed to be true. jackieie dared not delay and started activatingDestroying the Void. He allowed the activation tactics of Destroying the Void to continuously course in hisbody.
After three turns, jackieie managed to slightly subdue the soul-stabbing pain. jackieie had to thank thefact that he did not practice a common martial skill, but a martial skill that was at least at the heavenlevel.
Activating usual martial skill would also make it difficult to withstand such impacts on the soul. Followingthe suppression of such pain, jackieie also started to understand the waves of soul power lashing out onhis body.
It turned out that the wind blowing toward his body was not wind. In fact, they were soul-shockwavesformed by the coagulation of souls. These soulshockwaves were not aggressive and seemed to be
formed by the gathering of actual souls. He could even feel the last wails of these souls to the worldbefore they physically perished.novelbin
“Let go of me! I don’t want to die!”
“You b*stard! You filthy, worthless *sshole! I’ve groomed you with so much care throughout the years,and you repay me by betraying me! You even killed me!”
“I’m sorry… Can you please let go of my child? You only hate me, but this has nothing to do with mychild. My death would’ve paid for all my debts.”
The last words of the dead had been integrated into the souls. These words rang incessantly in jackieie’sears as the souls transformed into soul-shockwaves that flurried toward jackieie. The desire to stay aliveand the fear of death continuously challenged jackieie’s determination.
Chapter 1980 The shockwaves formed by the concentration of souls kept rushing into jackieie’s soul. Although theactivation of the Destroying the Void by jackieie withstood the pain brought on by these soulshockwaves, he was not entirely immune to them. The soul-shockwaves came rushing toward himcontinuously and caused jackieie’s soul to feel waves of stabbing pain.
This, however, did not trouble jackieie-he was, in fact, delighted. After all, he had finally found the crucialreason as to why he could not form the second soul sword. In the past, jackieie’s soul had beenextremely stable, and he would not feel anything extraordinary If he was not stimulated.
Just like what Noel had said, the soul was an illusory item. Without special stimulants, jackieie was ableto feel the soul but was unable to feel many other things. However, these soul-shockwaves kept chargingagainst jackieie’s soul, inflicting impact after impact. jackieie also used this opportunity to master themotion of his soul.
Forming a soul sword happened to require the soul motion and everybody’s soul motion was different.This was why the great master’s perceptions and experiences were unable to help jackieie in forming thesoul sword.
The great master had a different soul motion compared to jackieie, and when he practiced Destroyingthe Void, he was extremely powerful. Hence, it was a simple thing for him to feel his soul motion, whichwas completely different for jackieie. jackieie was not so strong at the moment, and he was unable to feelor master his soul motion as easily as the great master,
However, jackieie was able to slowly do it under the attack of the soul-shockwaves. He held his breathand gathered his attention, allowing the soul shockwaves to continuously attack his soul. He thenactivated the Destroying the Void and continued in his attempt to form the second soul sword!
In the Soul Hall, different disciples were in charge of the matters there at different time periods. Noelwould be the Soul Hall’s minor steward for 20 days, and unless something unexpected happened, hewould be the highest person in charge of the Soul Hall.
Of course, Noel was not the only one guarding the Soul Hall during this period. Two other runnerdisciples were in charge of the hall’s cleanliness, and the person in charge of cleaning this day wassomebody Noel was very familiar with, Zayn Allen.
The two of them were relatives, and even though they were not as close, they shared a much betterrelationship than the others.
Zayn made his way into the Soul Hall in a familiar manner with the cleaning tools in his hands. Heimmediately saw Noel standing in front of the Array Eye Door in an upright manner, which puzzled him.
Normally, Noel would be sleeping on the table when he had some free time. Zayn seldom saw Noelstanding in front of the Array Eye Door with his eyes fixated on the door as if he was studying something.
Zayn raised his eyebrows and subconsciously asked,” Senior Brother Noel, what are you looking at?!”
Noel was obviously startled by Zayn’s voice as his entire body trembled, his expression contorted darkly.“What are you yelling for? Is there something wrong with you?! You frightened me!”
Zayn, meanwhile, seemed to have had his fair share of teachings from Noel during normal days, and heseemed unfazed by these horrible words. He continued to look at Noel in curiosity.
There was nothing different with the Array Eye Door. There were still runes and seals that he did notunderstand on the door. Was Noel investigating the formation on the Array Eye Door?
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