"Ma Xiaotao?"
"..."
"Ma Xiaotao, Ma Xiaotao?"
"..."
There was no response for a long time, and Su Luoheng thought Ma Xiaotao was in the same weird situation again. Just when she was about to use Ultra Slap again, Ma Xiaotao suddenly raised her head.
Su Luoheng put down his arms regretfully.
Their eyes met, and he took advantage of the situation to take a look.
Only then did I realize that Ma Xiaotao was in very bad shape now. It would be no exaggeration to say that the two of them were completely different from before.
His eyes were confused, except for the red and swollen slap mark on his cheek, his face was as pale as paper, his lips were bloodless, and he looked very haggard and weak.
It's hard to believe that in only a quarter of an hour, Ma Xiaotao, who was originally full of vigor, seemed to have suddenly changed into a mentally depressed and sickly person.
Su Luoheng frowned and couldn't help but ask.
"What’s wrong with you?"
"..."
"That piece of soul bone... take a look at it again."
Ma Xiaotao ignored Su Luoheng's inquiry. After leaving a sentence in despair, she stood up unsteadily and left in a daze.
"Ma Xiaotao..."
Su Luoheng frowned slightly.
Ma Xiaotao's current state is really uneasy.
"Wait a moment!"
Just when Su Luoheng was about to step forward to check the situation, he suddenly stopped and stared at Ma Xiaotao's back with slightly condensed eyes. Or to be more precise, it's Ma Xiaotao's shadow!
At some point, the shadow under Ma Xiaotao's feet changed several times like a frame-dropping animation, twisting, deforming, dislocating, and getting stuck, until the last shadow became increasingly blurry.
But the change in the shadow did not affect Ma Xiaotao herself. She continued to walk forward step by step as if she didn't know anything. This picture fell into Su Luoheng's eyes, and there was an indescribable weird feeling.
But soon, the distorted shadow suddenly returned to normal and overlapped with Ma Xiaotao's confused back again. Everything returned to calm, and Ma Xiaotao was still walking forward.
"Ma Xiaotao, you-"
By the time Su Luoheng came to his senses and wanted to call Ma Xiaotao, she had already disappeared around the corner at the end of the path. It was like the weird scene just now had never happened.
"Just now, what was that...?"
Su Luoheng frowned deeply.
The slightly condensed eyes were unconsciously a little deeper.
Although the scene just happened only took a few seconds, Su Luoheng was sure that he had seen it correctly. At that moment, Ma Xiaotao's shadow underwent a twisted and strange change!
Reminiscent of what Ma Xiaotao mentioned earlier about the changes that occurred after she suddenly lost consciousness without any warning during the soul bone period. Su Luoheng speculated that there must be some connection between them.
even……
It is very likely that it is a chain reaction caused by the same thing!
"Shrek..."
Su Luoheng murmured, his eyes flashing slightly.
He tapped his fingers slightly on the table, lost in thought.
He felt as if he had discovered something, but he could not put these scattered clues together and grasp the key points.
But one thing is certain: this matter must be related to Shrek Academy.
And in addition to Ma Xiaotao's weird behavior, the soul bone that caused a chain reaction was also a problem. Especially her last profound reminder.
Su Luoheng naturally understood the deeper meaning.
What Ma Xiaotao meant was to tell herself that there was a problem with the soul bone.
Although Shrek's words cannot be believed entirely, this soul bone is already full of doubts. Now that Ma Xiaotao specifically informed her, it was worth a careful tasting.
"..."
Thinking of this, Su Luoheng gathered his thoughts, took the 80,000-year-old head soul bone in his hand, and observed it carefully again.
But... there is no doubt that there is still no discovery.
This result was not surprising to Su Luoheng.
In the end, Su Luoheng decided to stick to the original plan first and see if the Snow Emperor could discover the problem like the Silver Moon Wolf King soul bone did.
…
…
at the same time.
While Su Luoheng was thinking about the soul bone problem, Ma Xiaotao was stumbling on the campus, looking confused and in a daze. My mind went blank, just wandering at a loss.
In fact, the record of this head soul bone is kept highly confidential in Shrek Academy. Only the elders of the Poseidon Pavilion and a few senior martial arts department officials knew about the problem in the soul bones.
Ma Xiaotao, on the other hand, accidentally heard Yan Shaozhe mention it, and then she understood the problem in this soul bone. That's why after seeing the reward marked in the notice, he tried to remind Su Luoheng.
The interests of the college come first.
Su Luoheng would definitely not be a friend to Shrek.
Therefore, it is in the interest of the college to let him absorb this soul bone. But despite this, Ma Xiaotao could not stand idly by as Su Luoheng helped him suppress the evil fire twice.
It was precisely because of this choice that Ma Xiaotao touched the core concept of loyalty to Shrek Academy, which led to the scene just now.
In the end, Ma Xiaotao adopted a compromise plan and left a subtle reminder to Su Luoheng without betraying Shrek Academy's position.
but……
Although this bypassed the checks and balances of the rules, Ma Xiaotao could not get around the hurdle in her heart. She subconsciously knew that her behavior had betrayed Shrek Academy.
That's why she, who was suffering internally, showed a confused look when she left Su Luoheng's room.
In her current state, it may take some time for her to return to normal. After all, only she can overcome this psychological hurdle.
At least that's what Ma Xiaotao thinks.
…
…
Time flies.
Su Luoheng has arrived at the Snow Emperor's dormitory.
As usual, the first thing to do is to study the soul guidance array.
The research process is coming to an end, so during this period, Su Luoheng focused most of his energy on the research of ultra-ancient soul guidance devices, striving to see its true face in Lushan as soon as possible.
And after this period of research, Su Luoheng was able to determine that this ultra-ancient soul guidance device was actually a combined soul guidance device, consisting of two similar soul guidance formations that were closely related.
While operating independently of each other, they can also cooperate with each other.
but--
What special abilities this ultra-ancient soul tool composed of the power of destiny has, the answer needs to be personally verified after the production is completed.
And with Su Luoheng's current production speed, I believe it will be completed soon.
"Chacha——"
The sound of cutting metal continued to be heard in the room.
The Snow Emperor, who had long been accustomed to it, glanced at Su Luoheng who was busy in the room, picked up a book from the bookshelf, made a cup of Su Luoheng's homemade milk tea and pastries, and curled up on the sofa to read.
During their time at Shrek Academy, the two of them have long been accustomed to getting along like this.
Once he started researching soul guides, Su Luoheng would remain focused until the set research goals were completed. In this regard, he is very similar to Ran Ruobing.
In the blink of an eye, another two hours passed.
The sound of metallic friction stopped abruptly.
"call……"
In the room, Su Luoheng breathed a long sigh of relief, wiped away the beads of sweat on his forehead, and raised a satisfied smile on his lips.
With the completion of these two inscriptions, he has completed all the soul guidance formations on the right side of the drawing. The inscriptions on the remaining side of the soul guidance circle are basically the same as this one, so it takes a lot of effort to inscribe them.
Now that the research process has entered the final stage, it is only necessary to complete the inscription of the last short section of the soul guidance inscription. This process can be completed within three days conservatively.
In this regard, he is confident enough.
The research on soul guidance devices has come to an end for the time being, and now it is time to solve the problem of soul bones.
Su Luoheng stretched and walked to the living room.
"..."
Snow Emperor was still holding a soul guidance book and reading it carefully.
Half of the pastries on the coffee table were missing, and the milk tea in the cup was steaming. It seemed that it had just been refilled.
After hearing the footsteps, the Snow Emperor raised his eyes slightly.
He spread the book flat on his knees and combed his hair casually.
"Is everything going well?"
Su Luoheng smiled, nodded and said, "Yes, it will be completed soon."
"That's good."
Snow Emperor nodded and responded softly.
"Sister Xue, please come to Jianghu for help~"
"Look, is there anything wrong with this soul bone?"
While talking, Su Luoheng sat down next to the Snow Emperor and placed the 80,000-year-old head soul bone on the coffee table.
"Um?"
Hearing this, the Snow Emperor glanced at the soul bone: "Is this the soul bone you mentioned before?"
"Um."
"Lao Ma brought it last night. Although I checked it up and down and found no problems, it's really hard to trust Shrek's stuff."
"So you thought of me?"
"Now all I can count on is you."
As he spoke, Su Luoheng clasped his hands together and looked at the Snow Emperor with pleading eyes.
Seeing this, the corners of Snow Emperor's lips raised slightly, revealing a faint arc, and her cold voice sounded.
"Let me take a look first."
"Please, Sister Xue."
"There is probably nothing the academy can do. We can only see if Sister Xue can find out the problem~"
After saying that, Su Luo handed over the soul bone with great expectation.
When he first started using it, the Snow Emperor's eyes flashed with surprise, "It's really a genuine 80,000-year-old head soul bone. Is Shrek Academy really so kind?"
"That's what's strange to me."
"..."
After a while, Emperor Xue frowned slightly.
Even if she were to identify this soul bone, there would still be no problem. I'm sure Shrek didn't do anything about it. But with Shrek's nature, there is no doubt but the biggest doubt about the soul bone.
Under the influence of Su Luoheng, and having witnessed Xuanzi openly breaking the rules of the competition during the last soul fighting competition, the Snow Emperor no longer had a good impression of Shrek, the continent's number one soul master academy.
Head soul bone, time attribute...
etc!
The Snow Emperor paused and suddenly remembered something.
At the same time as he put down his soul bone, his expression instantly became serious.
"Sister Xue?"
"Luo Heng, you can't absorb this soul bone."
Su Luoheng's eyes narrowed slightly and he said solemnly: "Shrek really figured out how to manipulate this soul bone?"
"no."
"There is essentially nothing wrong with this soul bone."
Snow Emperor shook his head.
"The age and quality of this soul bone are very good. What's even more rare is the extremely rare time attribute. In some aspects, it is comparable to a 100,000-year-old soul bone."
"Then how..."
Su Luoheng cast a doubtful look.
Emperor Xue pressed his hands and sighed regretfully.
"There is no problem with quality, attributes, or age. If you put it in any part, it will be a diluted treasure. But it is just a piece of head soul bone, which is a pity..."
"Sister Xue, I know that the fusion process of head soul bones is difficult, but even if it is very difficult to absorb, it will not necessarily fail, right?"
Hearing this, Su Luoheng raised questions.
Snow Emperor picked up the piece of soul bone and explained slowly.
"Soul masters generally absorb soul bones through a method similar to suppression, suppressing the residual thoughts of the soul beast in the soul bones, thereby integrating and absorbing them to increase their strength."
"The brain is the most important and most fragile part of the human body. Therefore, the fusion of head soul bones has been the most dangerous of all soul bones since ancient times."
"Of course, although head soul bones with general attributes are difficult to absorb, if you have a strong enough mental power or a strong enough will, generally speaking, there won't be much of a problem."
"The problem with this soul bone is that it is a time-attributed skull.
"In the process of absorbing this type of soul bone, not only will the residual thoughts of the soul beast impact your mental power, but the power of time contained in the soul bone will also continuously wash away your brain, affecting your judgment and causing you to become completely lost. Until it dies.”
"Even the best-case scenario will give you a strong sense of time dislocation after the absorption is complete."
"Because under the erosion of the power of time, your brain will most likely think that you have spent a hundred years and your body has long since decayed."
"And once your brain thinks it's corrupt, your body is not far away from being truly corrupt."
"I once saw a human soul master named Douluo trying to absorb a ten-thousand-year time attribute skull, causing his spirit to be completely lost in time and falling into a deep sleep. He never woke up from his deep sleep until his body completely decayed. "
"This is the terrifying thing about time soul bones!"
"So Luo Heng."
After a short pause, the Snow Emperor looked at Su Luoheng and said slowly: "It's better to give up on this soul bone."
"..."
Su Luoheng's eyes flashed with horror, and he was obviously shocked.
This scene reminded him of a punishment he had heard of in his original world.
Lock a person in a dark and airtight environment and cover his eyes to block his vision.
Then lightly scratch his wrist and say it to him again.
【I have cut your wrist】
Then use water and keep dripping it on his wrist, creating the feeling that the wrist is constantly bleeding.
After about a few minutes, this person who is obviously not bleeding will fall into panic under his own psychological suggestion, and will eventually be frightened to death in this extremely nervous state.
This psychological suggestion is similar to the power of time.
However, the effect caused by the erosion of the power of time is much stronger than this simple psychological suggestion. The impact is also more serious.
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ps: Book friends, let’s take a guess, how the male protagonist solves the problem of soul bones~
