From the beginning of finishing his cultivation in the cultivation room every morning, Xia Ling began his boring and fulfilling day.

In the morning, I couldn't go to the library to read books.

At noon, I look at the learning situation in the morning, whether I can solve lunch by myself, or go to the cafeteria to stir-fry vegetables and earn some extra money by the way.

In the afternoon, go to the lab to practice the inscription of the advanced core formation, as well as the core module set used to make the steel giant ship.

Still looking at the situation and settling dinner, Xia Ling would usually go to the laboratory where Luo Hongchen and Elder Zhe merged together to listen to the knowledge of high-level soul guides.

Or go to Elder Liang and discuss with him the production and design of the melee soul guide.

Occasionally, when there was no problem, he would continue to go back to the library to read.

It wasn't until after twelve o'clock in the evening that he went back to the dormitory to wash up, and practiced his spiritual power in bed by sleeping until the next morning.

No one thought of it.

It's this way of learning that doesn't waste a day at all, and Xia Ling is actually insisting on it every day.

Even on the designated days off every week, he can always be seen in the library.

His behavior made many students in the inner courtyard sigh.

I'm not afraid that others are not geniuses for you, but I'm afraid that others are more talented than you.

The king of the king of volumes, can't be compared, can't be compared.

......

In the blink of an eye, autumn goes to winter, and winter goes to spring solstice.

Almost a year has passed.

During this year, Xia Ling almost never left the school for half a step.

The only time he went out was because Old Man Jin sent someone to inform him.

The construction of the steel giant ship has begun to take shape, and some details need to be checked by him on the spot.

In this way, Xia Lingcai rarely took half a month's leave and went to the eastern part of the mainland.

By the way, he also brought the soul guide engine set that he had already made.

Different from the traditional soul guide core array, Xia Ling used a combination of the immortal path formation and the core array this time.

Theoretically, this is probably the ultimate upgrade Plus version of the soul guide engine.

After infusing the energy storage tank with soul power, the massive engine package was enough to generate the thrust that would propel the behemoth.

In terms of technical level, the technical content of this giant engine set alone is definitely not inferior to that of any eighth-level soul guide.

It's just that from the perspective of the core formation, it is indeed not enough for level eight.

Not even the pinnacle of the seventh level.

There are many technical difficulties that were directly jumped by Xia Ling by overtaking in corners by three means: formation, refining, and forging.

There is no need to use complex core formations to drive, and there is no need to use multiple core modules to repeatedly nest.

When he got the core power source of this ship, the other parts didn't have to worry too much about Xia Ling.

Other facilities on the ship have a bunch of high-level soul masters hired waiting to show their skills.

The hull itself is supervised by Old Man Jin himself, staring at the ultra-luxury shipbuilding team that brings together nearly eighty percent of the top shipwrights and top blacksmiths in the whole continent, as well as many middle and high-level soul masters.

With the current productivity of the Sun and Moon Empire's soul guide technology, it would take a long time to make such a giant ship.

A year later, the ship is only halfway through construction, and it is expected that there will be a year before it can officially sail to sea.

As for the construction time of this ship, Xia Ling still had the patience to continue to wait.

However, in terms of his own true cultivation, he was almost unable to suppress it.

Not long after he first came to the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Master Academy last year, he had already broken through the sixty-ninth level.

If nothing else, even if he didn't take the initiative to cultivate, he would be able to break through the seventy-level mark within half a year.

Within a year, he will definitely break through the seventy-first level and advance to the Soul Saint.

When Xia Ling had already cultivated half a level, he suddenly remembered.

I'm not a soul master in the traditional sense.

He can go from level seventy to level seventy to level seventy to break through without even needing a soul ring.

But this breakthrough process is going to be a catastrophe!

Of course, he couldn't have been in the academy in public, otherwise wouldn't his previous elaborate disguise be completely exposed?

After going back and forth like this, he could only hurriedly stop cultivating his soul power temporarily.

Even he struggled to compress and refine his soul power every day to avoid breaking through earlier.

Even so, he had passively risen to the peak of level seventy in just one and a half years.

It only takes a little bit of advancement, and the catastrophe will soon be ushered in.

Until recently, Xia Ling felt that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't continue to press down.

In less than a month, I will definitely break through.

Breakthrough is breakthrough, and the location of the catastrophe must not be placed in the academy at that time.

The best solution is to seek a soul beast forest as a breakthrough on the grounds that you need to go out to obtain a soul ring for cultivation improvement.

The Hive Forest, where the Evil Eye Tyrant is located, is the first choice for the Summer Spirits.

If there is a chance to use the 100,000-year soul ring of the entire spiritual system as the seventh ring, he will not refuse to come.

Anyway, no matter how high the age of the seventh soul ring is, it is always the true body of the martial soul.

It's better to be the entire Evil Eye Tyrant who can be an experience pack, and he can passively help him improve some mental power.

In this way, Xia Ling raised his surface cultivation by one level again, reaching the level of fifty.

In order to be able to ask Luo Hongchen for leave in the future, and go out to seek the soul ring for his breakthrough.

In the Sun and Moon Empire's Royal Soul Master Academy, there is only one reason for asking for leave that can be returned to school without limiting the date of return, and it all depends on the soul master individual.

The inner courtyard of the Sun and Moon Empire's Royal Soul Master Academy, in the underground laboratory.

Luo Hongchen carefully checked Xia Ling's physical condition with the machine, and couldn't help but praise: "I have to say, Chaoguang, you are really a genius." ”

"Thank you for the teacher's compliment, but it's just that I worked weekdays, and it's not worth mentioning. Do you see my application? ”

"Through the passage, your teacher and I are the dean of the inner court, don't you have this right yet? Wait a minute, go back and pack your things and go. ”

While speaking, Luo Hongchen took out an object similar to a large heart goggle and solemnly handed it to Xia Ling's hand.

"Although there is an eighth-level soul master sent by that old guy Jin Jun to follow you this time, I still feel a little unsteady in my heart. This is the eighth-level peak defense soul guide that I just researched some time ago, I named it Hongchen Attachment, you can take it and wear it in your heart. This thing is passively stimulated, and it can be used with your current cultivation. ”

Good guys, red dust affection.

This can be regarded as a ninth-level red dust in 10,000 years, and is attached to its ancestor, right?

This naming style, the Hongchen family is really in the same vein.

Xia Ling excused himself again and again: "Teacher, this is too precious, and the disciple can't ask for it." Besides, my level is already very close to the eighth level soul master, and I will be able to do it myself when the time comes. ”

Luo Hongchen brutally stuffed it into Xia Ling's hand, and then crossed his arms on his chest.

"If you take it, you will take it, why are you so stubborn? If it weren't for the fact that I and your senior brother, Lao Zhe, and Lao Liang were busy with a large-scale joint project recently, and they couldn't leave, I would have followed you for anything. The disciple hunts the soul ring, and I, who is a teacher, is not around, so where can I make sense? ”

To say that Luo Hongchen usually looks smiling, like a good-tempered Maitreya Buddha.

As soon as his stubborn temper comes up, Xia Ling really can't resist him.

I had to put it on close to Luo Hongchen under Luo Hongchen's stern eyes and start it.

"Okay, okay, I'll give it back to you when I get back."

Luo Hongchen waved his hand outward.

"It's still a fart, take it and leave, I've got to be busy. If you kid have a little conscience, come back quickly, and come back to help me study this project after passing the eighth-level soul master assessment, this ghost thing is about to fall out of the teacher's hair. ”

"Don't worry, I'll go and come back quickly, and the disciple will go first."

......

Outside the school gates.

Summer Spirit put on a very rudimentary flying soul guide, stretched out a pair of large steel wings, and headed straight for the northwest of the continent.

His target was the Demon Forest further west of the Jingyang Mountains.

In the conversation with Luo Hongchen, he lied a little.

He claimed that Old Man Jin, who was the Jin Jun mentioned in Luo Hongchen's mouth, would send a Contra Douluo-level eighth-level soul master of the Jin family to assist and protect.

Theoretically, this is true.

Since Luo Hongchen and several other eighth-level soul masters were really inseparable, Old Man Jin sent one of his own guests to accompany Xia Ling.

But he just went to the tribulation, and he didn't really go to obtain the fifth soul ring.

If someone followed, wouldn't it be exposed?

So in fact, Xia Ling had already greeted the eighth-level soul master in advance.

He claimed that he needed to be trained, and that he should wait for him near the Demon Forest when the time came.

After showing off the seventh-level soul guide on his body, and after actually learning about it, the eighth-level soul master felt that according to his equipment and physical fitness, it should be easy to kill a 10,000-year-old soul beast.

Therefore, under some favors and bribes, he also agreed half-pushed.

It's a big deal, and I'll be ten kilometers away from it when the time comes.

With such a luxurious piece of equipment and a Contra-level physical fitness, he can't be directly seconds by a mere 10,000-year-old soul beast, right?

Plan pass.

As for the so-called fifth soul ring, what to do?

Anyway, Xia Ling doesn't often open martial spirits, as long as he uses his divine sense and qi and blood to simulate one casually.

This can be done even by the two old dragon kings who have been sleeping in his spiritual sea all year round.

......

With the flying soul guide that Luo Hongchen personally made for him, Xia Ling no longer had to endure the slow carriage, and headed in a straight line in the air in the direction of the Demon Forest.

A few days later, he and the eighth-level soul master had successfully met at the target location.

Before entering the forest, the eighth-level soul master did not forget to tell him.

"You have to be careful, careful, careful inside the forest. Otherwise, if something happens to you, I can't afford the wrath of Dean Hongchen and Lord Jin. ”

Summer Ling lifted his coat and revealed the red dust attachment fixed on his heart.

He tapped his finger and tapped on the large heart goggle, which emitted a pleasant soft sound and heavy ripples.

"Everything is assured. You see, this is an eighth-level peak passive soul guide made by the teacher himself. Even if it was the full force attack of the eighth-level peak soul guide cannon, within ten attacks, it would not be able to break through its defenses. ”

The eighth-level soul master nodded.

"It turns out that Dean Hongchen has been prepared for a long time, so I am relieved. Have a great time in the Demon Forest and go well on your soul hunt. I will follow you from a distance of more than ten kilometers from you, and in case of emergency, I will sound the signal flare on my body, and I will be there in a few minutes. ”

"Okay, I'll use flares for help if there's a dangerous situation."

After breaking away from this eighth-level soul master of the Jin family, the summer spirit consciousness was fully activated, scanning every grass and everything in this demon forest.

Soon, he had passed through the outer reaches of the Demon Forest.

The strength of the surrounding soul beasts also began to become stronger.

Hundred-year soul beasts and thousand-year soul beasts can be seen everywhere, and ten thousand year soul beasts occasionally encounter one, but their strength is very weak.

Two hours later.

Relying on the scanning of his divine sense, the summer spirit was unimpeded in the demon forest, and soon approached the range of the inner circle.