Chapter 801: Beat The Shit Outta It! (I)

Chapter 801: Beat The Shit Outta It! (I)

“Whatever you wish,” the Black Armor responded indifferently after a while. “But remember, non-students are not allowed to enter the campus. They can only stand by the gates! Also, don’t forget that fines will be levied for destruction of school property. You better hand over the previous fines as well. Interest will be collected on it if you don’t!”

Li Hao blinked. Interest? There was even interest on that?

“Is the interest rate... high?”

“Not that high. Thirty-six percent a year..”

Li Hao started. Holy hell, how is that not high? You’re a loan shark! They’d been fined fifty-five million last time. A year’s worth of interest was... Li Hao’s scalp crawled. Almost twenty million stones! He’s so black-hearted!

But a year... dragging things out for a year might also be nice. Perhaps twenty million wouldn’t be much to him after a year. That’s also good!

“Thank you, senior!” Li Hao smiled. He vanished as he left the ruins, then returned with a group of people. They stayed outside the gates instead of entering the campus proper. The Black Armor floated in the air and silently watched the group, soon sensing various auras erupting on the scene. He only needed to observe for a while to know what they wished to do.

Puppets leaned on the windows of the various classroom buildings, all of them curious. Li Hao was oblivious to their presence. Gradually, some puppets wandered around the school gates like they were on patrol, and the ones shaped like toys at the gates also opened their eyes.

The young man could sense it now—it felt like a lot of people were looking at him. He turned around for a look, but didn’t see anything out of the ordinary. He couldn’t help but mutter to himself that the Black Armor’s gaze was quite intense! It felt like hundreds of people were staring at him!

Indeed, a group of puppets, toys, and the Black Armor were quietly watching the visitors’ actions. The Black Armor could sense more than the rest and detected some changes in the environment—not inside the ruins, but the world outside. It seemed to have loosened some of the restrictions on them. The void outside seemed more stable.

Does it have to do with these characters? They are very similar to Tranquil Star’s ultimate art, but they incorporate mental strength and life force. It rather suits these modern humans. Does this count as having created a new dao, which is why this world is revitalizing on its own?

The Black Armor was stunned by his trial of thought. If this was the case, then this world might soon return to the conditions that he was familiar with in his time.

Once more people walk this path, it might become a unique cultivation method that is similar to core origin. Or it might be a new dao of the inner world...

In the ancient civilization, core origin dao had been the mainstream dao of the initial years in New Martial. The later mainstream dao had been the one of the inner world as created by the Human King. It was much more difficult, however, so a lot of the old guard still cultivated core origin.

These visitors at the gates looked to be walking another path. How interesting! However, the Black Armor could also tell that this path was not complete. It needed the aid of external resources, which was not a good sign.

If only it could be combined with the golden body!

The Black Armor was of the opinion that cultivation methods for the body should be individually created. Otherwise, this path was not suited for widespread propagation.

Li Hao bobbed his head up and down, new reflections striking him. These favored geniuses of heaven all had their own thoughts, alright. Hou Xiaochen was correct, the actual characters themselves were just an outward appearance. What was key was whether there was a change in its strength.

Hou Xiaochen sent the spear forward without a word! Despite the lack of the Flaming Phoenix Spear, the group struggled to hold onto their minds. An inexplicable pressure bore down on their weaker members and expressions shifted drastically.

Hou Xiaochen retracted the spear and his character vanished.

“The... Broken Will intent seems stronger than before,” Li Hao breathed. “Did the director incorporate the supernatural lock of the head that represents mind intent?”

It was said that the lock of the head indicated the strength of one’s mind intent, which was the mental intent in the ancients’ eyes.

“That’s too dangerous.” Hou Xiaochen shook his head with a smile. “I haven’t decided to integrate that for now. It’s just that my spear intent has solidified with mysterious power and is wholly contained by the character. That doesn’t inflict much strain on the body, so it’s easier to display the spear intent.

“There’s actually a massive benefit to forming these supernatural characters...” he mused. “If you wish to walk the path of multiple auras, interference from your other auras will be of grave concern. If you meld all of your auras into the characters and completely contain them within, it will be easy for you to comprehend other auras once you accomplish that with the auras of your five organs.”

Grasping one aura wasn’t hard for a genius like Li Hao, it truly wasn’t. The young man hadn’t encountered martial dao for long before comprehending the earth aura. He’d been an absolute rookie at martial dao then. The disruption caused by multiple auras after grasping them was what made cultivation difficult. But what if that disruption was not a factor?

“The same goes for all of us!” Hou Xiaochen looked at the rest. “If we completely place the aura inside a character, we’ll be able to easily comprehend another aura if we wish. We can meld that into another character and continue the process. It’s easy for us to grasp more without the interference of our pre-existing aura.”

His words raised eyebrows, particularly He Yong’s.

“Not everyone is suited for multiple auras!” Sky Sword said faintly. “One aura will do! My aura is the sword and my sword aura is the one and only! Pure and simple or multifarious, they all lead to the same destination in the end!”

“This depends on individual choice.” Hong Yitang nodded as well. “Director Hou is right, now is a great time to comprehend other auras. The characters isolate our current auras, making it easier to grasp new ones. Li Hao, for example, will easily understand more if he cultivates some secret arts.

“I don’t actually recommend the others to comprehend more... But Light Sword... You can comprehend one more, the dark aura!” Hong Yitang advised. “Your light aura is your primary aura—light and shadow occur successively. Those of us present won’t see much benefit from it because we focus on other elements, but I think two auras will find great effect with you.”

Light Sword turned over his words thoughtfully, then regarded the man square in the face. “Do you have other motivations in mind because you’re beginning to find me pretty lately?”

“......” A hush stole over the group as everyone looked to the sky, not saying a word. Light Sword... was certainly growing confident!

Yao Si smiled at seeing them engaged in earnest conversation. He was familiar with this group of Silver Moon martial masters. They either appeared fiery and explosive on the surface or were coolly aloof, but they were rather brainless in private!

“None of this is key,” he interjected. “Don’t you guys think that the supernatural locks are the most important at our current stage?”

Everyone looked at him.