Chapter 4: The Crystal of the Soul

There are only three days left before the graduation assessment, and Lin Yuming, Huang Hao, and Nie Bingbing are practicing hard after returning home from school, not missing a minute or a second, because the graduation assessment is quite important for them students.

A powerful spirit master has been cultivating since childhood, and only when he lays a good foundation at the childhood stage can he become a powerful spirit master when he grows up. Therefore, on the Grace Continent, each country has its own spiritual master academy to train these children's spiritual masters.

The age of entry to the Spiritual Master Academy is generally six years old, a total of six academic years, and after graduating at the age of twelve, after going through countless examinations, you can graduate and become a full-fledged spiritual master.

The reason why the graduation assessment is important is because students who pass the assessment can enter the highest spiritual master system of each country, the spiritual master main hall.

Strictly speaking, the main hall of spiritual masters belongs to the state, but it is also a system that is not controlled by the state, and it is composed of all spiritual masters, and it is a system exclusive to spiritual masters who only do things for their own country. Nobles or ordinary people in the country can entrust various tasks through the Spirit Master Temple, and the Spirit Master Hall will distribute these tasks to their own Spirit Masters, complete these tasks, and then get commissions and some items.

Only under such non-stop training can the spirit master grow step by step, so the students will desperately want to pass the assessment of the academy and enter the spirit master hall.

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Back at home, Lin Yuming finished dinner with the Huang family's father and son, and returned to his room to start cultivating.

Sitting cross-legged on the wooden bed, picking up the iron box left by his parents, opening the general outline of spiritual illusion, and reading some of the contents, Lin Yuming began to close his eyes and practice, the spiritual power in his body operated, and began to absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, forming a cyclone in the lower abdomen, and at the same time, the spiritual power moved, and merged into the newly absorbed spiritual power.

When Lin Yuming was cultivating, what he didn't know was that in front of him, in the iron box left by his parents, the turbid gray long strip of spar was emitting a faint light, the turbid color slowly became translucent, and a cyclone was also formed in the center of the spar, absorbing the aura of heaven and earth.

When the spar is abnormal, Lin Yuming will always feel that his spiritual power suddenly becomes controllable, and the speed of cultivation will speed up by a few points, although he doesn't know why, but since it is beneficial and harmless, Lin Yuming will not think much about it, just think about it as the wonder of the Illusion Holy Technique.

Lin Yuming continued to absorb the aura, constantly integrated the spiritual power, and finally started again.

The long gray hedron in the outside world gradually began to change.

The original color of the turbid spar became more and more shiny, and the rough and uneven surface became extremely smooth, and the cyclone formed by absorbing the spiritual energy continued to rotate faster, like a large vortex constantly sucking all the spiritual power around it.

Lin Yuming only felt that the spiritual power around his body had been swept away by a whirlpool, although he could still compete for a trace of spiritual power in that whirlpool, it was many times slower than before. Suddenly, Lin Yuming stopped cultivating, opened his eyes, and found the scene in front of him.

"Huh?"

The long gray spar that originally stayed in the iron box was suspended in the air and then on his chest at this time, flashing with a soft and not dazzling light in the dark night, floating up and down, Lin Yuming, who was illuminated by the light, only felt refreshed, and couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief.

What is going on? Lin Yuming was curious, stretched out his hand, and his slender hand grasped the long gray spar.

The moment he held the spar, Lin Yuming felt that he was trapped, as if all the power in his body had been completely withdrawn by another incomparably majestic force in an instant. Lin Yuming, who wanted to let go immediately, found that he couldn't do it at all, as if his hand no longer belonged to him and he couldn't control it.

Just when Lin Yuming felt that his last trace of strength was also being extracted, the gray spar gradually stopped absorbing the spiritual energy, and the faint light also stopped flickering, no longer floating, and gradually stopped

Suddenly, Lin Yuming felt a pain in his palm, and a trace of blood flowed out, sliding down the surface of the spar, but at the moment when it was about to drop, it seemed to be absorbed by the spar and poured into the spar.

Lin Yuming was extremely surprised, and with a hint of panic, this spar was originally a relic left to him by his parents, and he had been keeping it well, but he didn't expect that not long after he turned to the Illusion Holy Technique, this spar underwent a mutation, and it was absorbing his own strength and his own blood, how could Lin Yuming, who was only twelve years old, not panic?

"Soul ...... Soul ......" Suddenly, Lin Yuming seemed to hear a voice calling softly, but it was as if he hadn't heard it at all, hazy and fleeting, as if it was real and illusory.

Countless pieces of information flowed into Lin Yuming's mind like fragments, making Lin Yuming feel a swelling and tingling pain in his mind, as if his whole head was about to explode, and he lay down on the bed unconsciously, unconsciously.

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The sky had just dawned, Lin Yuming opened his eyes vaguely, his mind was full of pain, and his whole body was sore.

Barely supporting his body, leaning on the head of the bed, Lin Yuming looked at the gray long spar that was still clenched in his hand, and there was no longer fear and panic in his eyes, but a trace of surprise and joy.

Before he passed out last night, the messages that the long spar melted into his mind told him many, many things, including the name of the hedrome: Soul Crystal.

In the huge information conveyed by the Soul Crystal, there are twenty-three generations of Phantom Masters' Soul Master Experience, according to which they are all left by each generation of Phantom Saint Sect Sect Masters himself, so it can be said that this is a more precious Phantom Master's experience than the Psychic General Outline.

Although Lin Yuming still doesn't understand some of the contents in it, he believes that all the things in it will make the spirit master world crazy if they go out together.

Finally, what made Lin Yuming look excited was the message from his father Lin Luo, which was left by his father before he died.

"My son, Yuming, when you hear this spiritual message, your mother and I are no longer there, I am not a good father, nor a husband, I have not protected your mother and son, and I can't watch you grow up step by step...... Dad is here to say sorry.

Dad and your mom decided to entrust you to Uncle Huang, Uncle Huang is a good person, and if anything happens in the future, I will listen to your Uncle Huang. Mom and Dad left you a few things, the Psychic Outline, the Soul Crystal, and your mother's ancestral storage bracelet, which you should cherish and will definitely help you in the future.

Dad's time is running out, Yu Ming, it's all up to you in the future, work hard, Mom and Dad want you to grow up happily......"

When he heard this message, Lin Yuming's eyes were already oozing tears, and tears continued to flow down his cheeks, but there was no crying, only choking, and a voice:

"Mom and Dad......

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On the way to school in the morning, Huang Hao and Nie Bingbing felt the loss in Lin Yuming's expression, and asked again and again, but Lin Yuming just shook his head and said it was okay.

Go to class, go home, practice. Time passed in such a boring period.

After the Soul Crystal incident, Lin Yuming secretly decided in his heart that he must become a powerful spirit master and live up to his parents' expectations. In the future, I will find out the culprit who killed my parents' surnames and avenge my parents.

After waking up that day, Lin Yuming tossed around on his mother's jasper bracelet of special material for a while, but he couldn't open it, and later asked Huang Yunqing, only to learn that this 'storage bracelet' could only be opened by injecting spiritual power into the realm of the soul controller.

Lin Yuming's current cultivation is an eighth-order primordial spirit master, each realm of a spirit master has nine levels, and when he cultivates to the ninth order, he is a bottleneck, and only by breaking through the bottleneck can he enter the next realm, and some spirit masters may be stuck in a bottleneck in their lifetime and cannot break through.

Because of the basic exercises taught in the cultivation academy since childhood, he only transferred to the illusion saint technique in the general outline of spiritual illusion not long ago, although Lin Yuming's cultivation is not low in the academy, it is one order lower than Huang Hao and Nie Bingbing, both of whom are now a ninth-order primordial spirit master.

And Wu Wei is only at the level of a seventh-order primordial spirit master, the reason why he was beaten by Wu Wei that day was only because Lin Yuming was a spirit master who majored in spirit, and he was not as good as martial arts masters like Huang Hao and Wu Wei in terms of hand-to-hand combat ability.

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Three days later, the annual spiritual master graduation assessment was held.

A long red banner hung above the gate of the Star Iron Spirit Master Academy: The 367th Star Iron Spirit Master Graduation Assessment. It shows the long history of the college and the importance that the college attaches to graduation assessment.

On the central square of the college, there were crowds of people, and the audience seats around the square were full, including students and teachers, as well as some nobles and ordinary people who came in from outside the college.

Each class of the academy's spiritual master graduation assessment is held very formally and solemnly, allowing the junior students to watch and learn, all the teachers to watch the judgment, and the nobles and the common people to watch the excitement, and this session is no exception.

"Be quiet, be quiet. A voice amplified by spiritual power came from the center of the square, and the audience saw that it was a middle-aged man dressed as a college teacher, holding a large loudspeaker in his hand, signaling the noisy audience to quiet down.

Seeing that the audience gradually calmed down, the man raised his horn and continued: "Today is the 367th graduation assessment of our Star Iron Country First Academy, Star Iron Spirit Master Academy, I am honored to stand here to preside over this assessment, and I wish every college can pass the assessment and enter the Spirit Master Main Hall." Now I announce the rules of this assessment......"

The middle-aged man's rambling opening remarks won unanimous boos from the audience, but the man unhurriedly explained the rules carefully from beginning to end, and only officially announced in the impatient shouts of the audience:

"The three hundred and sixty-seventh class, the Star Iron Academy Spirit Master Graduation Assessment has officially begun!"