You promised to practice martial arts, but you have mastered the golden body and Dharma?

Chapter 70 A residual soul is detected!
  One day later, all the students in the Zhiyuan Building were cleared, and the power supply to a large number of equipment was cut off to ensure the normal progress of the tempering ceremony.

Li Jiu, Xie Mengshi and others took the exclusive elevator to the fifteenth floor under the leadership of Zhang De. After unlocking the door, they could see more than a dozen martial arts teachers waiting here. Five warehouse-shaped equipment lay in the center, like five metal weapons. Behemoth.

The mysterious lines on the floor connect the five devices and gather them on the square platform in the middle.

The top of the square platform was covered by glass, inlaid with five tubes storing scarlet blood, which were as hot and boiling as flames.

Even through the glass cover, Li Jiu could faintly feel his blood responding, gradually burning, and his blood vessels were like beating rubber bands!

There is a lot of power brewing in the blood!

"Please note that the essence of the tempering ceremony is to use the blood essence of the alien race to transform the body. The blood essence of the alien race still has the power of the alien race. This power will be extremely repulsive to you before it is completely exhausted."

Zhang De's deep gaze fell on the glass cover with a serious expression: "When the tempering ceremony starts, your consciousness will enter another space. As long as you think about it, you can transform into the weapons you are most familiar with."

"Entering that quenching space means that the blood essence has been activated, and the power contained in it will flow into your body like a flood for quenching. At the same time, the space will condense the shadows of the aliens during their lifetime, and they will kill you like crazy. Conscious body.”

"There are two ways to end the tempering. First, your conscious body is killed by the shadow, and the tempering is forcibly terminated. Generally speaking, if you can last for more than one minute, you have a lot of potential."

"Second, your consciousness can last until the shadow dissipates due to lack of power, and this usually takes more than three minutes. There are only a few people who can do this. There are only a dozen or so people in Jiangnan Province every year, and there are no Questions belong to the top geniuses.”

"Besides this, you cannot forcibly terminate the quenching, otherwise your consciousness will be damaged by lightning strikes and will be difficult to repair. Therefore, after entering the quenching space, you must try your best to deal with the alien phantoms."

"Remember, the tempering ritual is to plunder the power from the blood essence of powerful alien races. You'd better counterattack, don't just dodge!"

Under Zhang De's arrangement, Li Jiu lay down in the designated warehouse-shaped instrument, and a martial arts teacher from No. 1 Middle School helped to place it.

In a moment, Li Jiu was like an ice cube embedded in the sponge-like groove. The huge glass cover was slowly pulled down, and the clicking sound of the instrument's operation went from light to non-existent.

There was no wind in the warehouse, as cold as an ice cellar, as if I had been locked in a refrigerator.

Didi, didi
  A pusher-like sound rang in his ears, and seemed to squeeze from his spine to his cochlea, gently knocking on the portal of Li Jiu's mind.

Gradually, Li Jiu's eyelids pulled down, and at a critical moment, his consciousness sank rapidly as if he was falling into the deep sea, tied to a boulder weighing ten thousand kilograms.

All thoughts stopped abruptly in an instant, soundless and emotionless.

Outside the warehouse, Zhang De's sharp eyes passed through the five warehouse entrances like swords, confirming that they were in good condition, and shouted: "Start the ceremony."

despair!
  The martial arts teacher in charge of the console opened the glass cover and pressed the button. Suddenly, a buzzing sound came from the center and spread faster!
  A blood line was pierced from the head of the five blood essence storage tubes, and penetrated into the square platform along the inner wall of the glass. Suddenly, a burst of mysterious light flashed, and the lines centered on the square platform were activated in a push-forward manner!
  The evil energy from ancient times surged out, lifting the clothes of Zhang De and all the martial arts teachers, no wind automatically!

In a collapse room, lines connected five warehouse-shaped devices. The surging aura was suppressed, split into five parts with different strengths and weaknesses, and got into the limited vent!

"Strange, the atmosphere of this year's tempering ceremony is not right. Is it because the one-eyed blue bird is too powerful?"

Zhang De clenched his fists and stared at Li Jiu who was lying down. His thick and deep brows pressed the corners of his eyes, and his right eyelid twitched.

Not every alien race has blood essence. Their existence in life must be higher than that of the corresponding warriors. Xing Bureau also mentioned that the one-eyed blue bird is a bit special, and its strength in life is very strong.
  "Tick-tock! Tick-tock! Tick-tock—"

The regular ringtone of the console was like a hammer hitting Zhang De's chest. He twisted his eyes and ran away, staring closely at the data display screen.    [Remnant souls of alien races detected in the blood essence]
  The line of scarlet font that caught the eye was like a hot iron sword, piercing Zhang De's chest, leaking out a turbulent cool breeze!
  "The blood essence has been inspected layer by layer, how come there are still residual souls hidden?!"

Zhang De frowned, and a strong feeling of palpitations hit his chest.

The phantom produced by the activation of blood essence in the quenching ceremony is just a manifestation of the flow of power. It is not fatal, and at most it makes people mentally exhausted.

But if there are residual souls, they are really lethal!

Even the weakest alien remnant soul can threaten warriors, not to mention the one-eyed blue bird known as the water-controlling disaster!

Li Jiu is only a student in the Individualized Jin stage now!

"grumble--"

A crisp cry resounded through the sky, suddenly shattering the dark space where Li Jiu's consciousness was, and a mixed blue and white scene poured down!

睁！
  Li Jiu's eyes suddenly widened, his limbs and five senses revived at the moment of alternation of consciousness, and a coolness flowed like a cloud, lifting the hair on his forehead.

The heels seemed to be submerged in a layer of shallow water, as moist as jade, as if they were stepping on a sea of ​​cotton.

Looking up, his pupils trembled.

The vast sky is like an opened box lid, with light but no view, and endless still water spreading to the end of the field of vision. A large tree covering the sky stands in the center, withered and yellow branches and leaves alternate alternately, and a giant bird and beast is perched on the root of the old tree. .

It has green feathers all over its body and a single eye on its head. Its left wing is converged at its side and looks like a lofty cloud, but its right wing is covered with feathers and has no wings!

One-eyed bluebird!

Li Jiu took a deep breath, condensed the obsidian sword in his hand, and ran away wildly, creating a line of ripples under his feet, and the obsidian sword shadow cut through the water following his heels!

Zhang De, director of the Wushu Department of No. 1 Middle School, said.

The tempering ritual is to plunder the power from the blood essence of powerful alien races. It is best to counterattack. Doesn't it mean defeating the one-eyed blue bird to maximize the tempering effect?
  Anyway, in the tempering ceremony, I am only a conscious body now. Even if I am killed, I will only rest for a while!
  And being able to cause damage to the one-eyed blue bird is equivalent to drawing strength!

Li Jiu's figure was very fast, and he entered the shade of the big tree in three or two breaths. The dry trunk gradually grew in his pupils, and the one-eyed blue bird sitting on it stared at him with its single eye wide open!

The still water underfoot reflected the big tree and Li Jiu's figure, and the twisted and ferocious roots of the old tree spread out like an irregular maze.

Li Jiu, who was running quickly, was shocked to find that the tree roots were almost higher than him, climbing towards the trunk, covering the shadow of the big tree. Only by raising his neck could he get a full view of the one-eyed bluebird!
  My own obsidian sword may not be as long as the fingers on one of the one-eyed blue bird's claws!

Realizing this, Li Jiu suddenly slowed down his steps and stopped between two low wall-like tree roots. He held the obsidian sword tightly and swallowed. His tenacious eyes met the silent gaze of the one-eyed blue bird.

Chills down my spine!

(End of this chapter)