Chapter 233: That Hits Hard, Bro~!

It is worth mentioning that the Indigo Jade Ascending Dragon Ginseng's 40% full attribute boost surpasses the effect of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda Soul Sage's amplification, which is reduced by half due to soul skill restrictions.

After all, the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda Soul Sage's attribute boost ratio is only 80%, and when enhancing teammates with amplification soul skills, it is generally impossible to boost all attributes simultaneously. Instead, they selectively enhance a teammate's primary attributes to reduce soul power consumption.

Additionally, the Martial Soul True Body of a Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda Soul Master does not increase the amplification effect of their soul skills; it only reduces soul power consumption.

In contrast, the Martial Soul True Body of a food-type Soul Master usually enhances the effects of their soul skills. Once he advances to a seven-ring Soul Sage in the future, the full attribute boost ratio of the Indigo Jade Ascending Dragon Ginseng will be even higher.

However, compared to the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda Soul Sage's amplification, which is halved, the Indigo Jade Ascending Dragon Ginseng also has a major drawback—it cannot bypass level gaps and take full effect on higher-rank Soul Masters without any reduction.

At present, for Soul Masters above level 70, the actual full attribute boost ratio of the Blue Jade Ascending Dragon Ginseng is far lower than 40%, and it may even be completely ineffective.

Of course, rather than using it to support teammates, Mu Yang values its ability to enhance himself more.

A full attribute boost naturally includes a boost to spiritual power.

With this 40% boost, combined with the increase in spiritual power driven by advancing to the six-ring Soul Emperor, Mu Yang estimated that his Divine Illusion Secret Art would be effective against the vast majority of the continent's eight-ring Soul Douluo.

Unfortunately, perhaps due to the soul ring's age not being high enough or because the soul ring is below the seventh ring, the Indigo Jade Ascending Dragon Ginseng, like the Yellow Jade Detoxification Ginseng, the Green Jade Guardian Ginseng, and the Blue Jade Thorn Ginseng, has only a ten-day shelf life.

Once this storage period is exceeded, the Indigo Jade Ascending Dragon Ginseng's effects will gradually weaken until they become completely ineffective.

After finishing the soul hunt, they rested for half the night. At dawn, the three of them left the Star Dou Forest.

However, after leaving the Star Dou Forest, the three parted ways. Due to geographical reasons, Shui Yanyu and Shui Bing'er headed directly north to return to Sky Water Academy, while Mu Yang set off northwest to return to Blazing Academy.

Back when the preliminary competition ended, the Divine Wind Academy's dean, Feng Zhen, had already agreed to the merger of Blazing, Sky Water, and Divine Wind Academy to form the new Elemental Academy. Since then, in Mu Yang's eyes, Feng Xiaotian had become one of his own.

Back then, he had picked quite a few immortal herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Although most had already been used, he still had two left—Singular Velvet Sky-Chrysanthemum and Beautiful Silk Tulip.

If it weren't for the special nature of immortal herbs and the fact that they had been harvested with extreme care, these two herbs would have long since gone bad.

The main purpose of returning to Blazing Academy this time was to retrieve the Singular Velvet Sky-Chrysanthemum and recruit Feng Xiaotian as his die-hard follower.

Although Feng Xiaotian was much older than him, that didn't matter. When taking in younger brothers, age wasn't the key—what mattered was whether his own strength as the big brother was overwhelming enough.

Three days later, in the afternoon, at Blazing Academy.

Returning to his previous residence, Mu Yang suddenly saw Feng Xiaotian sitting on a stone chair in the courtyard, meditating in cultivation.

Hearing the approaching footsteps, Feng Xiaotian ended his meditation and turned to look over.

"Feng Xiaotian, why are you here?"

Mu Yang asked in surprise.

"Mu Yang? Isn't the academy about to merge? The dean sent me to Blazing Academy as an exchange student."

Feng Xiaotian explained.

"Exchange student?"

Mu Yang raised an eyebrow, then narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "I see, you applied for this yourself, didn't you?"

"Cough cough, keep it low-key, keep it low-key~"

Feng Xiaotian awkwardly cleared his throat.

"Where are my older cousin and older cousin-sister?"

Mu Yang was curious. Since Feng Xiaotian, the big bootlicker, was at Blazing Academy, shouldn't he be following his cousin Huo Wu around all the time?

"They went to the simulated training grounds in the back mountain to cultivate."

Feng Xiaotian's expression turned slightly embarrassed. As a wind-element Soul Master, the lava simulation field of Blazing Academy wasn't suitable for his training. If he followed along, he would suffer immensely.

Well, more importantly, since Huo Wu was focused on training, he didn't dare to disturb her!

"Alright then, just in time—I have something for you. Wait here~"

Saying this, Mu Yang went upstairs and returned to his room.

Not long after, when Mu Yang came back to the courtyard, he had a delicate jade box in his hands.

"For me?"

Seeing the jade box in Mu Yang's hands, Feng Xiaotian's eyes lit up, and he quickly asked.

Although he didn't know what was inside, since Mu Yang was deliberately giving it to him, it definitely wasn't some ordinary item. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth offering.

"A few conditions first?"

Mu Yang didn't answer immediately but asked with a smile.

"???"

Feng Xiaotian was a little confused.

"Back when the five elemental academies met, among me, you, Huo Wu ,Huo Wu Shuang, Bing'er, and Yue'er, your soul power level was the highest, and you were a battle-type Soul Master with innate full soul power, so your cultivation speed should have been the fastest.

Logically, your soul power level should now be the highest among the six of us.

But the reality is that your soul power level is actually the lowest. Do you know why?"

Mu Yang asked with a sly smile.

Hearing this, Feng Xiaotian felt as if an arrow had pierced straight through his heart.

That was brutal, bro~!

But to be honest, Feng Xiaotian was also quite confused about this.

After the Elemental Academy meeting, he hadn't slacked off in his soul power cultivation at all. He had been working hard to win over his goddess.

He was confident that his cultivation speed wasn't slow—at the very least, it should have been at the level of an average innate full soul power Soul Master. Yet somehow, Mu Yang and the others had all surpassed him one by one, and in terms of soul power level, he was now at the bottom among the six of them.

Hmm, even in terms of strength, he was probably at the bottom too, since he wasn't fully confident he could defeat the weakest among the other five, Shui Yue'er.

"Why?"

After racking his brain and failing to figure it out, Feng Xiaotian asked outright.

"Brother Feng, the academy is about to merge. Who do you think should be the leader of the new academy's younger generation?"

Tapping the jade box lightly, Mu Yang asked with a meaningful look.

'Trying to buy me off?'

Feng Xiaotian glanced at the jade box in Mu Yang's hands and raised an eyebrow.

They say that wealth cannot corrupt, poverty cannot sway, and power cannot subdue. How could a dignified man like Feng Xiaotian bow for mere five pecks of rice?

"Brother, you're my real brother! If you're not the leader, I, Feng Xiaotian, will be the first to object!"

Feng Xiaotian immediately pounded his chest and spoke with conviction.

A mere five pecks of rice? He wouldn't bend for that.

But if there was enough rice, well, that was another story!

His mind wasn't slow—Mu Yang's seemingly unrelated remarks made it obvious that whatever was inside this jade box was something precious, possibly the very reason why Mu Yang and the others' cultivation speeds were so abnormal.

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