Chapter 800: Zheng Yang Lectures

He saw the clone's soul leave its body, frantically absorbing the spiritual energy in the pool.

At this moment, the soul body had doubled again, reaching a size of twenty meters, seemingly filling the entire cave.

After filling the animal skin, more than half of the spiritual liquid remained, almost all of which was absorbed by this fellow.

Although his cultivation was still at the Return to One realm, the powerful soul body, like a floating deity, gave a sense of inexhaustible and unending power.

It seemed to have broken through the shackles of twenty meters, and the soul form had undergone some unknown change, becoming stronger and more terrifying in power.

Compared to such a huge soul body, even Lu Chong's original form seemed pitifully weak.

He had used less than one percent of the spiritual liquid to break through a major realm, but this fellow had absorbed the entire pool dry... just thinking about it was infuriating.

He had originally planned to sell some after obtaining it, but now, sell nothing!

It wasn't even enough for this fool to use!

Whoosh!

Hearing his shout, the soul body flickered and drilled into the body, and the entire clone immediately surged with powerful force, making Zhang Xuan's eyebrows jump.

He was no match for it before, and now it was even more unthinkable.

With the same soul split in two, nurtured by the Nine Heavens Lotus Embryo, this clone was far stronger than the original.

The original couldn't defeat the clone... if word got out, it would be truly embarrassing!

But it didn't matter; both were the same consciousness, essentially the same person. The clone's strength was also good for him.

"First, get into the storage ring!"

Knowing that once this stuff was absorbed, it couldn't be spat out no matter what he said, Zhang Xuan had no choice but to wave his hand and let the clone enter the ring.

He himself lightly leaped and flew out of the pool.

With his cultivation breaking through to the peak of the Return to One realm, his true qi power smoothly reached 14 million cauldrons, comparable to the early stage of the Step Void realm.

His soul power also reached 11 million cauldrons. Adding his physical body's 8 million cauldrons, his total power had reached 33 million cauldrons, not much weaker than the peak of the ninth level of Mortal Transformation, the Silkworm Cocoon realm. (Peak of Silkworm Cocoon realm: 34 million cauldrons.)

This strength was not weak among the students of the Master Teacher Academy, but compared to many holy beasts outside, it was still far behind.

"Let's go out!"

Knowing he couldn't confront those creatures head-on, Zhang Xuan again separated his soul, placed his physical body in the storage ring, and quietly flew out of the cave while holding it.

"Something's wrong. Why does the spiritual energy inside feel much weaker?"

"Let's go in and check!"

Before he could reach the cave entrance, he heard the roars of holy beasts, and then two holy beasts charged straight in.

Zhang Xuan dared not move, pressing his back against the wall and quietly placing the storage ring he was holding behind a rock.

Whoosh!

Just as he prepared, he felt two huge holy beasts fly past him at great speed, stirring up a gale.

When the earthly vein spiritual liquid filled the area, spiritual energy was everywhere. Now that it had been absorbed clean, even a fool would notice something was wrong.

"Quick, go!"

Knowing that once they discovered the spiritual liquid was gone, they would go mad searching, Zhang Xuan did not pause. His soul moved, carrying the storage ring as he dashed out of the cave.

"Ah... the spiritual liquid has been stolen!"

"Damn it! Who, who did this..."

Just as he left the cave, he heard roars of anger. Zhang Xuan did not stop; carrying the storage ring, his soul directly jumped into a nearby stream.

As soon as he entered the water, he felt a vast force, as if it could crush the earth to powder, rush out from the cave and envelop the surroundings.

"Someone has infiltrated Cloud Mist Ridge! All spirit beasts, listen to my command: chase them..."

Boom!

Then a huge sound rang out, followed by the sounds of countless holy beasts and spirit beasts taking flight, unceasing. In an instant, the entire Cloud Mist Ridge was sealed off by a tremendous force.

"It's not going to be easy to escape..."

Knowing that with all the spirit beasts of Cloud Mist Ridge mobilized, escaping would be difficult, Zhang Xuan was not anxious. He slowly moved forward along the river.

After advancing a short distance, he saw over a dozen spirit beasts dive in to search.

But now he was in his soul state, and the storage ring could be hidden in the mud. These spirit beasts circled several times but found nothing, so they had to return in frustration.

He swam for who knows how long, reached the end of the river, and quietly emerged. By then, the sky outside was completely dark, with stars filling the sky; it must have been deep night.

Looking around, he saw there were still many spirit beasts, but as long as they hadn't reached the saint level, it was hard for them to detect him.

Still, it was better to be careful. Some spirit beasts had keen noses, others good hearing. If he was careless and got surrounded, he wouldn't be able to escape.

He moved forward with stops and starts until the sky was barely light, then finally descended the mountain.

Leaving the range of Cloud Mist Ridge, he arrived at a small mountain col, released his physical body, and let his soul drill into it. Then he summoned the Purple-Winged Heavenly Male Beast and flew quickly toward the academy.

He hadn't saved Wei Changfeng, but he had to save his daughter!

From going to Cloud Mist Ridge until now, a full day and night had passed.

...

While Zhang Xuan was gone, he didn't know that the entire Master Teacher Academy was about to explode.

Sun Qiang came in the morning to report to the young master, wanting to tell him that some people had gone to learn martial techniques and spear techniques from Zheng Yang and the others... but naturally, he didn't find him.

He didn't find the person, while Zheng Yang and the others had already followed Xue Zhenyang into the headquarters of the True Sun Society.

It was a huge courtyard.

"Gather everyone!"

As soon as he returned, Xue Zhenyang gave the order.

Before long, all members of the True Sun Society had assembled.

As expected of one of the top societies in the academy, the True Sun Society had over two thousand members, covering grades one through four.

"I've called everyone here today because I've found an expert to teach you martial techniques and give you a tutorial!"

Seeing everyone had arrived, Xue Zhenyang looked around and said.

"A lecture?"

"Hasn't the president always been the one to tutor us in martial techniques? Did the president find someone even better than him?"

Everyone looked over in confusion.

Apart from their own teachers, Xue Zhenyang was the one who tutored them in martial techniques, which was the main reason these people joined the True Sun Society.

Today, he suddenly called them over and said someone would give a lecture. Was it true?

"This is my newly acknowledged spear teacher, Zheng Yang. His spear technique is extraordinary. Today, he will give us a lesson. Everyone, experience the charm of martial techniques!"

With a grand wave of his hand, Xue Zhenyang introduced him.

"Zheng Yang?"

"Spear technique?"

"This guy is only sixteen or seventeen, right?"

"A sixteen- or seventeen-year-old teaching us spear techniques?"

Only then did everyone notice a teenage child walking onto the high platform. They looked at each other, all dumbfounded.

They were all master teachers, geniuses among geniuses. A ten-year-old child giving them a lecture... this was too much of a joke.

"I will talk about spear techniques..."

It was his first time lecturing so many people, and Zheng Yang was a bit nervous. But once he started talking about spear techniques, the pride buried in his heart emerged. He spoke eloquently without pause.

"Spear techniques can be practiced like this?"

"Amazing! After listening for a while, I feel my understanding of spear techniques has deepened by several levels!"

"The principles he explains are concise and go straight to the core. Not only for spear techniques, but they can be applied to any weapon!"

"Listening to him talk about spears has also increased my understanding of swordsmanship..."

...

At first, everyone was dismissive of a mere teenager giving a lecture, but after listening for a while, they were astonished.

This young man, though not old, went straight to the core of cultivation. Even the academy's elders might be far inferior in their understanding of spear techniques.

No wonder the president had invited him; he truly had the qualifications.

...

"What did you say? Xue Zhenyang somehow found a spear technique expert to teach the members?"

At the Cangyue Society, Long Cangyue looked at the student reporting to her, full of disbelief.

"Yes. The person he invited has a profound understanding of spear techniques. In less than an hour of lecturing, nearly half of the True Sun Society members who practice spear techniques broke through!"

The student hurriedly said.

"Half broke through?"

Long Cangyue was startled.

Spear techniques are martial techniques. Breaking through in martial techniques is harder than breaking through in cultivation; it requires understanding and insight. To make people break through by lecturing...

How was that possible?

Where did Xue Zhenyang find such an extraordinary guy?

"If this is true, the True Sun Society will become stronger and stronger... I'll go discuss with Dong Xin!"

Filled with curiosity, unable to contain herself, Long Cangyue called out and strode toward where Dong Xin was.

...

"Nonsense!"

In the dean's office, Xu Changqing, the dean of the Martial Techniques Academy, waved his arm upon hearing a teacher's report.

Xue Zhenyang was his personal student. It was one thing to fool around usually, but today he actually invited a teenager to lecture the academy's master teachers on martial techniques... wasn't this a joke?

If word got out, where would the face of their Martial Techniques Academy be?

"I'll go over there!"

Snorting, Xu Changqing left the room and also strode toward the True Sun Society headquarters.

Before long, he arrived near the courtyard.

"So many people..."

He glanced inside and his eyebrows jumped.

The courtyard was packed with people, layer upon layer. From a distance, it was impossible to count how many.

The True Sun Society, though a student organization, he had heard of it. It had only about two thousand members. When had it become so many?

This must be no less than five thousand!

Five thousand people listening to a lecture from a teenager?

Nonsense! This was utter nonsense!

Just as he was about to walk over, he saw a fat man blocking the entrance, holding a basket.

"One hundred mid-grade spirit stones. Pay up before entering..."

"They're charging money?"

His face darkened, and Xu Changqing's eyebrows twitched.

Not only did they bring in some unknown person, but they were also charging money. One hundred mid-grade spirit stones... that price was even higher than that of a six-star master teacher!

The fewer students in a lecture, the higher the price; conversely, the more people, the lower the price.

Now, with a class of nearly five thousand, they were still charging one hundred spirit stones per person... didn't that mean one lecture would bring in five hundred thousand mid-grade spirit stones?

Not even a six-star master teacher, let alone a seven-star, charged like that!

"What's the matter? Can't afford it? If you can't afford it, don't come to the lecture. No wonder you're so old and still haven't graduated from the academy!"

Seeing that the old man didn't want to pay, the fat man curled his lips in disdain: "So you're a pauper!"