Chapter 157 - Fire, Ignited (2 more, asking for monthly votes!)

Not to mention that the next step would be to fuse spirits with demons and refine them."Throughout the long years, I have gradually forgotten the taste of success."

"Just relentlessly following the original plan, carrying out each step methodically."

"Yet unexpectedly, one day, a turning point suddenly arrived."

"Fate is always so wondrous."

Yuan Body Bone Armor, five types of Martial Arts.

If Diao Deyi could master any two of these to the point of pure white down to the bones.

Then, the long-stalled experiments may just have a chance to progress further.

In fact, even without mastering two types, Diao Deyi’s current Yuan Body Solid Foundation Technique is already suitable as material.

"No rush, after waiting so many years and finally getting such a genius, we must not startle the snake."

"However, the corresponding preparations can indeed commence now."

Yuan Hongxin took out a small notebook from his bosom.

Flipping it open, it recorded the names of a dozen or so Core Disciples.

But next to each name, various labels such as ’hand,’ ’foot,’ ’heart,’ ’sword,’ ’head,’ and numerical values indicating quality from 1-10 were written.

Some names carried multiple labels, for instance, both ’heart’ and ’head,’ each with a numerical value.

Linked together, it looked like a strange coding: heart 3, head 4.

Some names only had a single label, and their corresponding quality numbers were relatively higher.

Among these many people, one named stood out.

He had four labels: ’foot,’ ’heart,’ ’head,’ ’sword.’

Although the qualities were uneven, he was the most outstanding among them when taken together.

The highest quality was ’sword,’ reaching as high as 7 points.

But now, Yuan Hongxin took out a pen and added another name to the notebook.

"Diao Deyi, ’hand,’ 10."

Indeed.

Yuan Hongxin assigned this newly added disciple the highest quality value!

points, the limit he set in the notebook, but not the limit of Diao Deyi!

Perfect and flawless, can only be described as perfect and flawless.

Over the years, he had only seen Diao Deyi alone able to condense such pure and white Bone Armor!

"One, a talentless genius who was the bottom of the martial academy."

"The other, a senior brother cultivated with all the resources of the martial academy."

"The two of you must strive hard."

"When the time comes to enter the furnace, my cultivation of you would not be in vain."

Yuan Hongxin did not fear rebellion from the disciples below.

Through the Heart-Piercing Demon, he could control any of the disciples under his tutelage.

"Eat more, all of you eat more."

"The Heart-Piercing Demons breed, nurture, and infect your bodies inside of you."

"You will become stronger and stronger, and you will breed more Heart-Piercing Demons."

"One day, your bodies will no longer belong to you, turning into a mass of rotten flesh."

"And when that time comes, it will be my time to harvest."

Unfortunately, most of the disciples under the martial academy were not very strong.

They died young before that time.

Luckily, dragging their corpses back would also do the trick.

"I was planning to wait a couple days, to collect all the corpses and process them together."

"Who would have thought that testing Diao Deyi’s composition would force out something of my own, causing quite a loss."

"No need to wait, have someone move the corpses to the Alchemy Room."

Yuan Hongxin stood up, called someone over, and conveyed the order.

"Yes!"

That person withdrew, heading towards the side room where the corpses were kept.

Side room.

Lin Wu stood in front of a pile of corpses.

He was contemplating.

He was brewing.

He had heard that remnants of enlightenment might linger at the place of others’ enlightenment, not dissipating so quickly.

Lin Wu closed his eyes, opened his mouth, and took a deep breath.

Exhaled.

He felt nothing.

Lin Wu scratched his head.

The rumor had been debunked.

But it was not something to be happy about.

"Is it that I’m not sad enough?"

"The emotions are not in place?"

"Do I not feel a heart-wrenching pain for the deaths and departures of my brothers and sisters?"

Lin Wu wanted to achieve enlightenment.

He also wanted to soar to the heavens.

His laziness was because his talents had reached their limits, and he could not push further.

But if he could achieve enlightenment in one fell swoop, maybe he could change something.

However, faced with a ground full of corpses, he could not achieve sudden enlightenment like Diao Deyi.

"If only I had also harbored a secret love for Senior Mei!"

"To experience that ’pain, such immense pain.’"

"Then perhaps I could have achieved enlightenment sooner than Junior Brother Diao."

Lin Wu continued to ponder.

He felt he was vaguely grasping the key to enlightenment.

That was an affection deep to the utmost degree.

"So, first, you need to fiercely love a person."

"Then, you experience that person’s death, suffering a tremendous shock to yourself, and thereby attain enlightenment in a single moment!"

Enlightenment!

Lin Wu has attained enlightenment!

He felt he had found his direction.

What remained was to decide which girl to fall deeply in love with.

Girls he had encountered flashed through his mind. Dismissing relatives, he only considered the sisters from the Martial Arts school.

Suddenly, Lin Wu found his target.

Shan Feizhen.

Junior Sister Shan.

Her strength matched his, they were of similar age, and she was someone he could contact at any time—indeed, she was the perfect object of affection!

Great, he had a target!

Excited, Lin Wu secretly swung his fist and strode out.

But because he was distracted, he tripped and sent a corpse flying two or three meters away, the white cloth covering it flung off.

Bang.

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Creak.

Just then, the door opened.

Looking at the corpse on the ground, then at Lin Wu, the person at the door opened his mouth but didn’t know what to say for a moment.

"Qi... Junior Brother Qi, things aren’t what you think..."

Lin Wu hurried forward, lifted the corpse back to its original place, and covered it with the white cloth.

Then he realized that the corpse seemed a bit... dismantled by his kick?

Lin Wu felt somewhat panicked.

At this moment, Qi Dongjia spoke up.

"Senior Brother Lin Wu, if there’s nothing else, please leave."

"Master has ordered me to remove the corpses and prepare them for cremation and burial."

Lin Wu quickly nodded.

"Oh, uh huh... I’m leaving right now, leaving right now."

Lin Wu left hurriedly.

Qi Dongjia watched Lin Wu’s departing figure, puzzled but not dwelling on it, he immediately began moving the bodies.

An hour later.

Alchemy Room.

"Where... are the demons?"

Yuan Hongxin looked at each somewhat damaged corpse.

Somewhat bewildered.

The Drill-Heart Demons inside the corpses, why were there so many missing?

Could they have self-destructed so quickly?

Mutated?

Or was there a new variant?

Since he hadn’t been observing the corpses every second, Yuan Hongxin was also a bit unsure what exactly was happening.

Fortunately, after checking, some corpses still had a lot of Drill-Heart Demons remaining that could be recovered.

However, the question in his mind remained.

After thinking, he called Qi Dongjia over.

"When you went to the morgue, did you see anyone? Or anyone who had moved the bodies?"

Qi Dongjia was confused.

Who would move the bodies!

But since Master asked, he thought for a moment and answered: "When I got there, Senior Brother Lin Wu was also in the morgue."

"What was he doing there?"

"I don’t know... but Senior Brother Lin Wu kicked one of the bodies. At that time, his behavior seemed very strange."

Qi Dongjia told everything as it was, never concealing anything from Master.

"Alright, I understand, you may leave."

"Yes."

Qi Dongjia left, but Yuan Hongxin was contemplative.

"Lin Wu... Lin Family?"

"It shouldn’t be."

"Is it because Lin Wotian has died, the Lin Family started to brazenly investigate me?"

"Without Lin Wotian providing cover at the Lin Family, things have indeed become more troublesome."

Seemingly independent and autonomous, the Yuan Martial Arts School did not affiliate itself with the various powers.

In reality, there were still preferences and connections.

With Lin Wotian around, the Yuan Martial Arts School was actually somewhat biased towards the Lin Family’s power.

Only Lin Wotian did not serve the Lin Family but acted for that ultimate goal.

Thus, the Lin Family was unaware of the secrets of Yuan Martial Arts School from the beginning to the end.

But such a large family should have somewhat sensed the subtle movements of Yuan Martial Arts School.

The difference only lay in that while Lin Wotian was alive, they would not investigate.

But now, Lin Wotian is gone, and the link between Yuan Martial Arts School and the Lin Family, the lubricant, had vanished.

The relationship naturally underwent subtle changes.

As for Lin Wu, having no say in the Lin Family, he certainly was not qualified to vouch for the Martial Arts school.

"... I must accelerate my actions. If the Lin Family gets wind of my true intentions."

"All of my accomplishments will be stripped away."

Yuan Hongxin re-focused, placing the bodies into the furnace one by one.