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Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
Due to the so-called Tang Hao assassination incident, the Imperial Academy entered a period of non-stop reconstruction.
Also because of this incident, the Empire made a new site selection for Heaven Dou Royal Academy, moving the original Heaven Dou Royal Academy inner court to within Heaven Dou City, so that the Empire could provide better security.
Moreover, the number of inner disciples is relatively small, so the requirements for a simulated Cultivation environment are also much less, and the pressure on construction is also much smaller.
Site selection, construction, and a series of operations were completed in just one month. It must be said that with Spirit Masters present, the speed of infrastructure construction is astonishing.
Furthermore, the new Heaven Dou Royal Academy is even more magnificent and grand than before. Its overall area has not only not been reduced at all, but has been expanded significantly, which is enough to show the Empire's Pay attention to of Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
During this month, Shi Quan still lived in seclusion, immersed in various studies. For the consumables he needed, he would directly send a message to Xue Qinghe, and Xue Qinghe would do his best to prepare them for Shi Quan. As for other matters, Shi Quan temporarily ignored them, fully immersing himself in his research.
To facilitate Shi Quan's research, the Academy specially built a research institute for him and established the largest library in the Empire. They collected all kinds of books from across the Empire, categorized them, and stored them in the library for Shi Quan's convenience.
With the reconstruction of the Academy, Shi Quan also moved back to the Academy.
His daily Life became simple and singular; besides research, he would spend time talking and chatting with the two girls. Life was warm and peaceful.
Another month passed.
Ning Fengzhi arrived with three Spirit Bones.
Two of the three Spirit Bones were ten-thousand-year level, and one was a thousand-year level, but still around eight thousand years. These three Spirit Bones were enough to show Ning Fengzhi's sincerity.
Ning Fengzhi's purpose was self-evident: Martial Spirit evolution.
Looking at the Spirit Bones Ning Fengzhi sent, Shi Quan gladly accepted them. Spirit Bones delivered to his door were not to be refused.
As for Martial Spirit evolution, even without Immortal Herbs, Shi Quan had a way to evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
After accepting the Spirit Bones, Shi Quan had Ning Fengzhi send Ning Rongrong to the Academy. Ning Rongrong had the best talent in the entire Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, so helping her Martial Spirit evolve would be the easiest.
Although Ning Rongrong returned to the Academy, the relationship between Shi Quan and her had unconsciously become distant.
Coupled with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, as well as Shi Quan himself being immersed in research for most of each day, the two had almost no interaction.
As for how to make Ning Rongrong's Martial Spirit evolve, Shi Quan used his own blood as a guide, combined with some special herbs, and used the power of Yin and Yang to help Body Tempering her Martial Spirit. These were enough to help Ning Rongrong's Martial Spirit evolve.
However, to prevent the Martial Spirit evolution from becoming too easy, Shi Quan deliberately controlled the speed, making Ning Rongrong stay at the Academy for over a month. Only after days of accumulation did Ning Rongrong's Martial Spirit transform into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda in one go.
After helping Ning Rongrong evolve, Shi Quan then gave Ning Fengzhi the simplified version of the Martial Spirit evolution method, which was considered fulfilling his task.
This simplified version of the evolution method was nothing more than some special medicinal formulas and a unique Body Tempering method that cooperated with the Heavenly Cycle operation. If one could find a Martial Spirit with the power of the sun and moon, or a Spirit Master whose Martial Spirit could complement the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Martial Spirit, they could also achieve the effect of enhancing their Martial Spirit. Even if it couldn't elevate the Martial Spirit to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, the possibility of an Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda would be greatly increased.
After sending Ning Rongrong back, Shi Quan and Gu Yuena's research continued. As the research progressed, they also discovered that the existence of soul spirit was not pure Soul.
Instead, it was a special energy body formed by the combination of the Origin of Life imprint, the Origin of spiritual imprint, and the Origin of energy.
To recreate soul spirit, one must start from these three aspects.
As the research progressed, experiments were inevitable.
Gu Yuena naturally wouldn't wantonly hunt Spirit Beasts back for experiments. After weighing the options, Shi Quan suggested selecting students from the Academy who were at a Bottleneck in their Breakthrough, to cooperate with their experiments, and directly capture the Spirit Beasts they needed back to the Academy.
During the experiment, if a Spirit Beast could not withstand it, the student would immediately end the Spirit Beast's Life and absorb its spirit ring.
These students all needed to hunt Spirit Beasts anyway; even if Shi Quan didn't help them capture them, the Academy would help them hunt Spirit Beasts.
By capturing them this way, the students wouldn't have to bother searching for and hunting Spirit Beasts, making it easier for them.
Shi Quan and Gu Yuena's experiments could also proceed effectively.
As time passed, their research on soul spirit deepened.
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Slaughter City.
The icy aura was suffocating. Inside the Hell Slaughterfield, ten people slowly entered. Zhu Zhuqing walked in the third position among these ten people. But she was the focus of the other nine people's attention.
Seventy-two participations, and naturally seventy-two victories, this was Zhu Zhuqing's current record. In the entire Hell Slaughterfield, only two people had better records than her. They were Hu Liena with ninety-eight consecutive victories and Tang San with ninety-nine consecutive victories.
With seventy-two consecutive victories, the number of deaths under Zhu Zhuqing's hands had already exceeded four digits.
As her winning streak continued, almost no one dared to attack Zhu Zhuqing after a match ended.
Zhu Zhuqing also encountered the same situation as Tang San. As her winning matches increased, fewer and fewer people dared to participate in the Slaughter matches she was in. Now, one of her matches required waiting several days to gather enough opponents.
Unconsciously, Zhu Zhuqing had been in Slaughter City for a full year. In just one short year, Zhu Zhuqing had achieved such results, a speed that was enough to rank her among the top three since the establishment of Slaughter City.
Compared to when she first arrived, Zhu Zhuqing's originally icy expression had turned sinister, and a faint bloody aura even emanated from her body. Coldness, cruelty, and viciousness had long become her synonyms.
Zhu Zhuqing also acquired her own nickname: Evil Sting Demon.
However, Zhu Zhuqing didn't particularly like this title because she felt the nickname wasn't pleasant to hear.
Before Zhu Zhuqing entered Slaughter, the various martial arts Shi Quan had imprinted in her mind had advanced by leaps and bounds through these real combat experiences. Zhu Zhuqing discovered that the Evil God Thorns could evolve by devouring and absorbing the enemy's power after killing them; otherwise, she wouldn't even use the Evil God Thorns.
During this year, as the Evil God Thorns grew stronger, the feeling of transformation within her body became increasingly clear. At first, Zhu Zhuqing wasn't very sure, but now she could confirm that this change originated from her spirit ring.
It was just that in Slaughter City, her spirit ring was suppressed, so she wasn't clear what was happening to her Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger's spirit ring.
At this moment, on the Hell Slaughterfield, after the nine people were locked into the arena, they almost immediately surrounded Zhu Zhuqing in the center. Because they knew that if they didn't kill Zhu Zhuqing, they wouldn't survive.
In her ink-colored pupils, a hint of blood-red appeared. Icy, bloodthirsty Killing Intent spread from Zhu Zhuqing's body in an instant.
Roars and howls, nine voices almost simultaneously erupted from the nine directions around Zhu Zhuqing. The nine opponents simultaneously pounced on Zhu Zhuqing.
Her slightly crouched figure was like a demon of the night, with a scorpion-like Evil God Thorns behind the demon. Zhu Zhuqing's figure instantly transformed into an afterimage and vanished from her original spot.
This was also the Origin of Zhu Zhuqing's nickname; her extremely fast figure was like a demon. Each appearance would take away an opponent's Life and their Soul.
On the stands.
Hu Liena and Tang San sat opposite each other on either side.
There was a strange tacit understanding between the three. No matter whose match it was, the other two would go to watch if they had time.
Hu Liena looked at Zhu Zhuqing below the stage. In Hu Liena's opinion, in terms of determination, Zhu Zhuqing's determination was even higher than Tang San's.
Hu Liena considered herself a Genius, but even she couldn't help but concede defeat in front of the current Zhu Zhuqing.
Tang San had the same feeling when facing Zhu Zhuqing. With continuous observation, Tang San, relying on his powerful intuition and judgment, concluded that Zhu Zhuqing's current strength was no longer what it used to be. She was no longer someone he could easily deal with.
Even if he went all out, it wouldn't be easy to defeat Zhu Zhuqing. He wasn't clear why Zhu Zhuqing had suddenly undergone such a great change. Whether it was strength, speed, or physical toughness, he felt that Zhu Zhuqing now completely overpowered him.
Before, he still had techniques, but the various techniques Zhu Zhuqing now displayed were not inferior to the Hidden Weapons, Controlling Crane Catching Dragon, Mysterious Jade Hand, and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track he mastered.
Previously, Zhu Zhuqing was just a fast target in his eyes, but now Zhu Zhuqing gave him the feeling of a venomous snake lurking in the dark, ready to take her Life at any moment.
Although he didn't know why Zhu Zhuqing had undergone such a significant change, he knew it must be related to Shi Quan. Before he entered Slaughter City, he had heard about Shi Quan traveling with Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan.
In just a few years of travel, Zhu Zhuqing's strength had changed so much. What about Shi Quan, whose strength was already powerful?
Tang San could barely imagine. The immense pressure also propelled him forward. He increasingly wanted to leave this World, which felt like Hell, as soon as possible.
On the arena, Zhu Zhuqing's extremely fast figure faced the encirclement of nine people with composure. Her figure flickered like an illusion, and her extreme speed caused the opponents' encirclement to break down on its own.
Zhu Zhuqing's figure almost instantly flashed to one of her opponents. This person didn't even have time to react when Zhu Zhuqing's palm had already landed on his chest.
The person's face instantly turned pale, and the sound of bones shattering came from his chest. The seemingly soft and powerless palm seemed to contain ten thousand jin of force.
Strangely, the immense power seemed to only erupt within that person's body. His standing figure remained still in place, not even moving, and he had already lost his breath...