Blue Silver Grass Guide.

Chapter 565: Illusionary Skull
The 2629th year of the Douluo calendar was very peaceful, and peace meant that time seemed to have been accelerated, and a new chapter was turned in the blink of an eye.

In the early summer of the 2630th year of the Douluo calendar, in a valley in the southwest area of ​​the "Star Forest".

A soul beast that still looked extremely tall even when lying sideways had just lost its vitality. Bits of soul power dissipated and gathered above the corpse. Under the influence of the laws of heaven and earth, it was about to form a soul ring.

The "Four-Winged Dragon Bird" has been cultivating for 47,000 years and possesses the blood of dragon and phoenix. Its combat power is extremely astonishing!

Flanders sat cross-legged in front of the corpse of the "Four-winged Dragon Bird", silently looking at the strange-looking soul beast in front of him, with a dragon head, a phoenix neck, a bird body, two wings on its back, a pair of scaled flesh wings, and a pair of long feather wings. He was not happy about his upcoming breakthrough to the Seventh Ring Soul Saint, but instead was in a trance, looking absent-minded.

Time passed by minute by minute. At a certain moment, Yu Xiaogang, who was standing on a huge rock more than ten meters away, frowned and looked back, reminding: "Flender, the spirit ring has been condensed successfully, you should absorb it~"

"Oh...Okay--!" Flanders woke up as if from a dream, nodded vigorously and responded loudly.

Immediately, Flanders took a deep breath, held it for about ten seconds, and then slowly exhaled, forcing himself to calm down.

With a thought, a huge owl phantom with special patterns around its eye sockets appeared behind Flanders.

When the "Cat-Owl" martial spirit appeared, Flanders no longer hesitated and directly used his soul power to pull the dark soul ring floating above the body of the "Four-Winged Dragon Bird" towards himself.

When hunting this "Four-winged Dragon Bird" before, Flanders did not do much. From lurking close to the bird, to launching a surprise attack, to establishing the victory, all were done by Yu Xiaogang alone, and Flanders only delivered the fatal blow at the last moment.

Therefore, Flanders' condition can be said to be at its peak. Combined with the martial arts realm that has been honed in the dark energy for several years, both the physical strength and the mental toughness allowed Flanders to absorb the soul ring without any danger and complete the breakthrough steadily.

With Flanders' breakthrough, Yu Xiaogang, who had been paying attention to this place, slightly raised the corners of his mouth, as if he was happier than Flanders himself.

Three days later, in the [Xingluo Empire], in the Beiyuan Province, "White Dragon City", a mansion in the south of the city.

After a cordial and friendly conversation with the owner of the house, Yu Xiaogang and Flanders were granted temporary residence rights in this rather luxurious courtyard.

"You should practice hard and try to stabilize the realm you just broke through as soon as possible."

Yu Xiaogang instructed Flanders with a warm smile, without any trace of the ruthlessness that had just been there in making the owner's family "tidy and tidy".

Of course, Yu Xiaogang just kept smiling throughout the whole process. In front of the homeowner who was proud of his strength as a Three-Ring Soul Master and was rampant in the southern area of ​​​​"White Dragon City", he refined the other party's parents, wife and children into blood essence fruits one by one. Finally, he was very considerate and put the Three-Ring Soul Master who was crying and begging for mercy into the same jade box.

Watching Yu Xiaogang turning and leaving, Flanders grabbed the jade box in his hand, his knuckles turned white, and his five fingers sank into the jade box, but there was no strange sound.

"boom--!"

Yu Xiaogang's figure disappeared behind the door of a vacant guest room. Flanders' body finally couldn't help but tremble slightly. Behind his lowered glasses, his eyes quickly flashed with all kinds of negative emotions: madness, hatred, fear, hatred...

A breeze blew through the hall, dispelling the slight smell of blood in the hall, but it failed to dispel the distracting thoughts that were growing wildly in Flanders' heart at the moment.

Slowly raising his head, Flanders' eyes were bloodshot, and thoughts emerged in his mind, but were suppressed by him in an instant.

run away?

The "Four-Winged Dragon Bird" flew a thousand feet in an instant, but in the end it couldn't even run twenty miles before being caught up by the "Seven-Headed Blood Dragon King". After one blow, it lost the ability to resist!
Desperately?

Flanders mouth was bitter, his current strength of the Seventh Ring Soul Saint was all accumulated by the other party using the Blood Essence Fruit and other great medicines. If it weren't for the martial arts under the guidance of the other party, he would have broken through to the Dark Power early, I'm afraid he wouldn't even be able to control his own strength. Not to mention that the other party broke through to the Eighth Ring Soul Douluo realm two years ago!
beg for mercy?

Begging for mercy?
Playing the emotional card?

Flanders didn't know if it would be useful. After all, he was different from Shi Nian. Shi Nian had a rebellious mind, but Flanders had been following Shi Nian since he came out of Lingyun City. Logically, he should...

On the other side, Yu Xiaogang, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed in the guest room, sensed the chaotic mental fluctuations coming from Flanders. His eyelids drooped slightly, and a hint of sarcasm and a fleeting cold light flashed in his eyes.

With his right hand, he touched the belt inlaid with many white jade stones, and a skull emitting colorful light appeared in Yu Xiaogang's hand.

Soul bone, and among the six soul bones, the skull is second only to the torso bone in preciousness!
This soul bone came from a 43,000-year-old "God-bewildering Butterfly". The opponent's soul ring helped Shi Nian break through to become a seven-ring soul saint, while the soul bone was collected by Yu Xiaogang.

"Shi Nian's spiritual power and illusion talent have been completely absorbed. We can proceed to the next step~"

Muttering to himself, Yu Xiaogang did not hesitate and pressed the head soul bone in his hand on his forehead.

At the same time, Yu Xiaogang mobilized his mental power and slowly injected it into the head soul bone.

In an instant, the colorful light on the head soul bone suddenly became stronger, suddenly covering Yu Xiaogang's upper body, forming a layer of colorful light shield.

Wrapped in the colorful light, Yu Xiaogang was the first to feel a trace of cool soul power fluctuation injected into his mind. It was a kind of energy fluctuation that made him feel very comfortable.

The cool air penetrated directly from the point where his forehead and soul bone were connected, gradually stimulating his brain. Wherever it passed, his brain seemed to be gradually opened up.

This wonderful feeling of transparency is second only to the feeling when he devoured the remaining soul of the blood-red nine-headed bat king. It is much more comfortable than when he devoured Shi Nian and absorbed the opponent's soul power and mental power!

Under the influence of the cool airflow flowing out of the soul bone, Yu Xiaogang could feel that his brain seemed to be separated from his body. The mental power that had been able to barely penetrate the body since the six-ring Soul Emperor, and later the seven-ring Soul Sage and eight-ring Soul Douluo, was strengthened by the breakthroughs again and again, and after devouring the "Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King", the fallen soul master Hannibal, the Storm Duke Aerys Targaryen, Canmeng Shinian and others, his increasingly powerful mental power began to grow rapidly again.

'coming--!'

After about three or four breaths, Yu Xiaogang suddenly shouted secretly, with an infinite joy welling up in his heart.

At this moment, Yu Xiaogang felt a flash of inspiration in his mind. All the puzzles and conjectures that he had accumulated in the past suddenly became clear as if with divine help --!!!
'Is this how Ling Yi feels when he thinks about problems on a daily basis?' Yu Xiaogang thought to himself with a split mind. He had also experienced this 'super god state' when he devoured the "Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King" before, but it was his first time to encounter it. He was so happy that he had no extra energy to think about other things. He was concentrating on deducing and calculating how to go on the subsequent cultivation path, how to evolve his martial soul, how to improve his strength, how to act on Douluo Continent... and so on.

Now, having been mentally prepared in advance, Yu Xiaogang devoted a little of his mind to recalling the scenes of his interactions with Ling Yi, deducing the other party's state at that time, as well as the various knowledge and artistic conception revealed in his every move.

However, before Yu Xiaogang could think carefully, the cold airflow suddenly became stronger and almost submerged his spiritual world in an instant!

In the outside world, the soul bone that was originally attached to the center of Yu Xiaogang's forehead had enlarged to the same size as his head. At a certain moment, two balls of colorful flames suddenly burned at the eyes of the skull, which was glowing with colorful light. The colorful flames jumped a few times, and the entire soul bone immediately turned into a phantom and quietly merged into Yu Xiaogang's head.

In the spiritual world, Yu Xiaogang has been submerged in a psychedelic sea of ​​bubbles. Everything in the outside world disappears at this moment, as if the body and soul are separated from each other and cannot sense each other's existence.

Yu Xiaogang's spiritual consciousness floated in the sea of ​​bubbles and approached one of the bubbles.

"Even if you are an ant, you should have lofty ambitions! Even if the hope is slim, you must try your best--!!!"

Ling Yi's passionate and uplifting voice came out from the bubble. Before Yu Xiaogang could think about it, his spiritual consciousness was sucked into the bubble.

The world changed, and when Yu Xiaogang regained consciousness, he found himself in a very familiar classroom!
『Lingyun City』, 『Martial Soul Research Institute』, 3rd floor, room 303!!!
Yu Xiaogang looked around and found more familiar faces: Nixing, Liu Hao, Wu Xian, Weiyi, Gu Ying, Er Yuexuan, Shang Wenqing, Xingkong Hui, Ah Huan, Qing Yu'an...

They are all researchers from the 'Wuhun Research Institute'!!!
It can be seen that everyone at this moment has a serious look on their faces, listening carefully to the lecture at the podium, and turning a blind eye to Yu Xiaogang's strange behavior.

At this moment, the lecture on the podium suddenly stopped, and a voice that could almost be said to be imprinted in the depths of Yu Xiaogang's soul suddenly sounded: "Xiaogang, is there something wrong?"

"City Lord?!" Yu Xiaogang stood up subconsciously, lowered his eyes, and prepared to apologize.

However, in the next second, Yu Xiaogang suddenly woke up. He was no longer the two-ring Great Soul Master, but an eight-ring Soul Douluo who could go anywhere in the world! He had also left Lingyun City and the Wuhun Research Institute for many years!

So, Yu Xiaogang raised his head and looked directly at the figure on the podium - Ling Yi!
"what happened?"

'Ling Yi' looked at Yu Xiaogang with curiosity. His lively eyes made Yu Xiaogang believe that the person in front of him was the real Ling Yi.

However, Yu Xiaogang, who had already reacted, understood that everything in front of him, including the seemingly real 'Ling Yi' opposite him, was all an illusion!
Illusion·Wisdom·Skull——!!!
This should be the name of the head soul bone that I absorbed!

Yu Xiaogang thought secretly.

'Wisdom' is very obvious. Yu Xiaogang can feel that at this moment, his thinking is still extremely agile. Things that took a long time to figure out in the past can now be figured out with just a little thought.

This head soul bone has spiritual blessings, which can make people's thinking work faster and make them smarter!
As for the 'illusion'.

Yu Xiaogang did not answer Ling Yi's question. He looked around, taking in all the people around him and every brick and wood in this large classroom. A hint of nostalgia flashed in his eyes, but it was fleeting.

It can be clearly seen that apart from 'Ling Yi' who has already started to frown on the podium, everyone else looks very dull.

If it were a real scene, someone would have scolded Yu Xiaogang for his behavior at that moment.

I'm talking about you, Er Yuexuan!
Yu Xiaogang raised his hand and reached out to the figure sitting four seats in front of him, grabbed the figure in mid-air, and threw him onto the desk in front of him. With a flash of red in his eyes, he directly broke the figure's neck.

With a "click" sound, Yu Xiaogang slowly withdrew his hand, with a look of relief in his eyes.

He has wanted to do this for a long time!
However, the joy of having one's wish fulfilled did not last even two seconds, and was swept away immediately, all because of Er Yue Xuan's stiff and indifferent expression from beginning to end.

It was this stiffness and indifference that made Yu Xiaogang realize clearly that the person he had killed was not Er Yuexuan himself, but just an illusion created in his mind.
Yu Xiaogang, feeling disheartened, shook his head, turned around and left this bubble illusion without even glancing at Ling Yi on the podium.

As a result, he didn't even notice the thoughtful expression on Ling Yi's face when he looked at him.

After leaving bubble illusion No. 1, Yu Xiaogang immediately selected another bubble at random and entered it.

"Soul power, how can it be such an inconvenient thing!"

In Lingyun City, at the parade ground in the west of the city, Ling Yi, wearing a tight suit and holding a staff, stood in front of a crowd. His piercing eyes scanned everyone, and his voice was sonorous and powerful: "Soul skills exist to allow soul masters to use relatively complex soul power in the simplest way."

"But this does not mean that without soul skills, we cannot use soul power!"

"call out--!"

The shadow of the stick flashed, the wind whistled, and Ling Yi raised the stick high in his hand and chopped it vertically, chopping out a visible energy force in the air.

"Mobilize your soul power to increase the strength of your waist, abdomen, shoulders, arms, wrists, palms, five fingers and other parts. Even if you don't use soul skills, you can still exert an effect that is no less than soul skills!"

"In addition, you can also rely on your own physical strength to achieve the same effect."

"You must remember, whether it is soul skills or soul power, I want to use it just because I want to use it. It does not mean that without it, I can't achieve my goal--!"

After saying that, Ling Yi began to teach everyone how to stand in a stance, using their own spirits to sense the strength, and to feel how to mobilize the soul power in the body to strengthen and increase physical strength.

In the past, Yu Xiaogang could only learn a superficial understanding of the teaching, and it was barely enough to have a half-understanding. But at this moment, being taught by Ling Yi again, he discovered many knowledge points and skills that he had never noticed before.

Yu Xiaogang could feel that if he turned all of his previous teaching memories about Ling Yi into illusions and experienced them again, his martial soul theory, martial arts understanding, soul skills, combat skills... would be sublimated in all aspects!
Ling Yi, so terrifying——!!!
(End of this chapter)