NABC Chapter 13 Qin Ming's Envy, Jealousy, and Hatred
Chapter 13 Qin Ming's Envy, Jealousy, and Hatred
Lin Hao sat down cross-legged, focusing his attention on the martial spirit in his right hand.
As the Hundred-Year Life Goddess Butterfly Soul Ring approached, he felt an unprecedentedly powerful pressure. His entire skeleton cracked slightly.
Soon, the halo descended upon Lin Hao's head, enveloping his body. Then, the spirit ring rapidly contracted, becoming as large as a bracelet, and solidly settled onto the Blue Silver Grass spirit in his right palm.
"hot!"
A burning word suddenly crashed into Lin Hao's mind, and then transformed into a real, searing pain that swept through his entire body.
He felt as if his right hand had been thrown directly into erupting lava. The skin on his palm instantly went numb.
Immediately afterwards, a violent surge of heat rushed in through the stem of the Blue Silver Grass, like a raging fire dragon, traveling upwards along the meridians of the arm. Wherever it passed, the meridians felt as if they were being branded by a red-hot iron, sending out tearing pains.
The heat was so fast that he didn't even have time to react before it rushed into his chest.
In an instant, my heart was burning with anguish.
My heart felt like it had been thrown into a furnace; each beat was accompanied by a searing pain, as if it were about to be burned to a crisp.
The air he inhaled was no longer cool, but turned into a scorching wave of heat, burning his trachea and alveoli, making him want to cough but unable to, and he could only let the heat surge through his chest.
Even my stomach felt like it was on fire, with acid mixed with a burning sensation pushing upwards, my throat tightening, and a faint burnt, bitter taste rising on the tip of my tongue.
"Focus on your Martial Soul. No matter how much the power of the Soul Rings impacts your body, you must remain conscious."
The next second, Lin Hao's consciousness entered another scalding ocean world.
At the heart of the ocean resides his martial spirit, Blue Silver Grass. A domineering energy surges forth from the outside.
No matter how turbulent the energy, it can never destroy the solitary Blue Silver Grass.
Under the scorching heat of the flames, the Blue Silver Grass began to change.
First, the leaves.
The slender leaves began to grow longer and wider.
The leaves danced gracefully in the sea of flames. The golden spots on them began to multiply, resembling golden butterflies—a truly beautiful sight.
Then come the stems and roots.
The stem begins to grow vigorously upwards. The number of roots gradually increases, swaying in the wind.
"boom!"
All the surging heat seemed to melt Lin Hao's body.
Before Lin Hao could even catch his breath, a mysterious surge of heat suddenly rushed and crashed through his body.
"what!"
Lin Hao let out a suppressed groan of pain.
He could clearly feel that after the heat stopped on his back, it suddenly began to surge outward, as if it wanted to break through the constraints of his skin.
First came a sharp, throbbing pain, as if something was taking root and sprouting under the skin, constantly expanding.
Immediately following was a sharp, stinging pain; the heat was like a sharp knife, cutting through his meridians and opening up new pathways.
Soon, two thin "tributaries" separated from the main heat flow and extended upwards along the edge of the scapula. Wherever they passed, the muscles and meridians under the skin twitched violently, causing Lin Hao's hair to stand on end in pain, and cold sweat almost completely soaked through his clothes.
Qin Ming frowned slightly, his expression grave.
After graduating from Shrek Academy, he went to Tiandou City to work in the north, applying for a teaching position at the Tiandou Royal Academy, and was promoted from a Tianwei-level teacher to a Tianzhi-level teacher.
Looking back now, it has been eight years.
He had previously led many students to hunt soul beasts and obtain soul rings, but none of them had ever been like Lin Hao, with their facial features contorted and their whole body trembling in pain.
Could there be something wrong with the soul beast?
Qin Ming looked down at the Goddess of Life butterfly at his feet.
To distinguish between the life goddess butterfly that is a hundred years old, you only need to look at the antennae on its head.
Every hundred years that pass, one more blue and white stripe is added.
That's right, it's four paths.
The age of the spirit ring is correct; it is a four-hundred-year spirit ring. This does not exceed the upper limit for a spirit master absorbing their first spirit ring.
The question is, why did Lin Hao feel pain?
Soul Masters cannot tolerate being disturbed when absorbing Soul Rings.
Qin Ming wanted to help Lin Hao, but was powerless to do so.
He could only watch helplessly as Lin Hao grimaced in pain, cold sweat beading on his forehead, his clothes soaked through.
As time went by, two small bulges slowly appeared on Lin Hao's back.
The lump kept getting bigger, from the size of a fingertip to a fist-sized abscess.
Qin Ming's eyes were moved.
He had never encountered such a situation before.
"Is he going to explode and die?"
In the world of Soul Masters, it is not uncommon for Soul Masters to die from backlashes caused by absorbing Soul Rings that are not compatible with their own abilities.
Qin Ming shook his head.
"No, the Goddess of Life Butterfly is of the life attribute. Blue Silver Grass possesses non-exclusivity; the Blue Silver Grass spirit won't repel the Goddess of Life Butterfly's spirit rings. Then, what's going on with his back?"
Qin Ming was completely baffled. As a teacher, his knowledge was insufficient to explain the unexpected situation he was facing.
"Pop!"
As the sound of tearing fabric rang out, blue light burst forth from the pustules on Lin Hao's back, piercing through his skin.
The pain of his body being broken caused Lin Hao to tremble all over.
He kept Qin Ming's instructions firmly in mind: He must remain alert; only then could he better utilize the power of the spirit rings in the future.
Blood flowed from the wound, staining his clothes red.
The light that burst forth from the body was extremely dense, and began to wriggle in two different directions, just like a solid object.
This situation did not last long.
The thick, deep blue light vibrated, and blood splattered, revealing its true form.
"wing?!"
Qin Ming's eyes widened, and he stood there stunned.
Lin Hao was like a monster, with a pair of deep blue wings growing from his body.
Upon closer inspection, one can see some golden patterns among the wings, adding a touch of nobility.
"These are the wings of the Life Goddess Butterfly!"
Qin Ming's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed in sudden realization, "It's an external soul bone!"
External soul bones are products of the condensed part of a soul beast's soul core, and their rarity and value are second only to 100,000-year soul rings.
Compared to the six main soul bones, external soul bones retain the characteristics of the soul core and thus have growth potential, enabling them to overcome the physical limitations of a soul master's body structure.
Lin Hao slowly opened his eyes.
A ticklish sensation came from my back.
The blue light emanating from the broken wings was healing the wounds on his back.
Lin Hao slowly landed on the ground, and he saw a burning, greedy look in Qin Ming's eyes.
To Lin Hao's surprise, Qin Ming knew about the external soul bone.
Qin Ming approached Lin Hao.
Lin Hao held his right hand behind his back and began to gather soul power. A spherical Rasengan slowly condensed and took shape as Qin Ming approached.
Qin Ming's martial spirit does not have the ability to fly.
Lin Hao was already prepared. If Qin Ming attacked him, he would use Rasengan to attack Qin Ming, and then, without hesitation, expose the right leg bone of the Blue Silver Emperor and fly away from here first.
The wings on his back also have the ability to fly, but since he has just obtained the wings of the Goddess of Life Butterfly, Lin Hao cannot fly yet.
As Qin Ming approached Lin Hao, he sighed with envy and jealousy.
"Don't be afraid, what's on your back is called an external soul bone. Lin Hao, I never expected you to be so lucky, obtaining an external soul bone whose value is second only to a 100,000-year soul ring. I'm truly envious!"