Chapter 0199: Thunderfire Heavenly Lion

Chapter 0199: Thunderfire Heavenly Lion

Du Gui shook his head and sighed, "We don’t know. It’s still a mystery to us! In the Cloud Dragon Mountains, there are countless beasts stronger than us. We can’t venture deep into the area to investigate thoroughly."

Qin Yun realized that the days ahead wouldn’t be easy to get through, but fortunately, he had already stockpiled hundreds of millions of crystal coins!

"Qin Yun, I need to tell you in advance that if the beast horde arrives, our Star Profound Martial Academy will also need to send students to deal with the ferocious and ghost beasts. So, you’d better prepare yourself," Du Gui advised. "When the time comes, every student will have a task."

Qin Yun nodded. "If it’s ghost beasts, I’m not too worried."

"The problem is that there are likely to be more ferocious beasts! We don’t know what’s really happening deep inside the Cloud Dragon Mountains, and suddenly so many beasts have emerged," Du Gui sighed. "Our days ahead won’t be easy."

After Du Gui left the tree hollow, Qin Yun immediately entered his room and took out a sealed soul pearl containing a low-grade White Gold Fire martial soul.

"I need to quickly learn how to engrave spirit patterns on the martial soul! I must forge a powerful martial soul for my Heavenly Lion arm."

Qin Yun released the martial soul from the sealed soul pearl and took out his engraving knife to carve the ghost-repelling runes into the White Gold Fire martial soul.

The art of soul refinement also detailed the process of engraving runes on a martial soul, which was somewhat similar to inscribing runes on weapons or talismans. The only difference was that when engraving runes, the runes had to be infused with the soul.

"The key to engraving spirit patterns on a martial soul is to make the patterns generate a soul during the carving process, so they can merge with the martial soul."

Qin Yun tried for half a day but failed. The main issue was that the runes he carved out of thin air couldn’t attach to the martial soul.

The martial soul was like air; unlike inscribing runes or refining weapons, it couldn’t be directly engraved on. Therefore, engraving spirit patterns on a martial soul was an extremely difficult task.

Although Qin Yun failed multiple times, he wasn’t discouraged and worked to solve the issues he identified.

"My mysterious martial soul seems to have a strong regenerative power. Perhaps I can separate a strand of the martial soul and use it as the base, combining it with blood soul power to engrave the spirit patterns."

After thinking it over, Qin Yun could only come up with this one solution.

"Let me give it a try!" He immediately took action, using a method from the art of soul refinement to separate a strand of soul from his black mysterious martial soul.

He had expected separating the soul strand to be extremely painful, but he felt nothing at all.

What surprised him the most was that the black martial soul’s regenerative ability was indeed very strong, quickly replenishing the separated soul strand.

Though delighted, Qin Yun used the soul strand infused with blood soul power and carefully carved the spirit patterns onto the White Gold Fire martial soul with his engraving knife.

At first, the blood soul power released by the engraving knife successfully attached to the martial soul and didn’t dissipate.

"It’s working!" Qin Yun was secretly pleased and continued to engrave seriously.

Engraving spirit patterns on a martial soul consumed a lot of time and mental energy. It took Qin Yun a day and a night to successfully embed the ghost-repelling rune into the White Gold Fire martial soul.

"Even though I’m very familiar with the ghost-repelling rune, it still took me a long time!" Qin Yun wiped his sweat. Although he was exhausted, he felt immense joy seeing his success.

The martial soul with the embedded spirit pattern could be integrated into both a person’s body and weapons.

Although Qin Yun had thirty-six spirit patterns, only a few were suitable for embedding into a martial soul.

"I need to obtain more spirit patterns." Qin Yun then forged the White Gold Fire martial soul with the embedded ghost-repelling rune into his Spirit Refinement Blade.

The Spirit Refinement Blade was a spiritual weapon, the best weapon against ghost beasts. Now, with the embedded ghost-repelling rune, its effectiveness against ghost beasts would definitely be even better.

"My brown martial soul is very unique and can’t be exposed for now, so I need to use my spiritual power and Heavenly Lion arm to hide it. Therefore, I must make my Heavenly Lion arm even stronger."

Qin Yun had already planned this out. The first step was to infuse a powerful enough martial soul into the Heavenly Lion arm.

The best soul bead that he extracted was Ye Changchao's Purple Gold Thunder soul bead.

"Since it's a soul bead for the Heavenly Lion arm, I should engrave two types of spiritual patterns! What patterns should I engrave?"

Qin Yun pondered, thinking about which of the thirty-six spiritual patterns would be suitable for the Heavenly Lion arm and the Purple Gold Thunder soul bead.

"The Heavenly Lion totem is inherently of the fire attribute, so I must engrave a fire spiritual pattern. This way, the Purple Gold Thunder soul bead will gain a fire attribute and successfully integrate into the Heavenly Lion arm."

"My Heavenly Lion arm is extremely strong; it might even withstand a low-grade spiritual weapon... If I engrave an alchemy spiritual pattern, I might be able to use the high temperature from the alchemy pattern to destroy other weapons."

Qin Yun thought that the Flame Light Fist could be used together with the alchemy spiritual pattern, making his Heavenly Lion arm function like a hammer. If he were to use the Six Dragon Forging Techniques, it would be like wielding a hammer, and the power would be terrifying.

"Alright, let's do it this way!" Qin Yun decided, and took out a purple gold glowing sealed soul pearl.

Inside this sealed soul pearl, electric threads flickered, exuding a violent energy, indicating a high grade, far more active than ordinary soul beads.

After resting, Qin Yun happily released the soul bead and then separated a few strands of soul power from his mysterious black soul bead, beginning to engrave patterns on the Purple Gold Thunder soul bead.

He had just entered the seventh level of the Martial Body stage not long ago and couldn't rush to increase his cultivation. At least, he needed to wait until his golden bones were completely stabilized.

"When I reach the eighth level of the Martial Body stage, the soul bead will become a Diamond soul bead, which will be stronger. I'll be able to release it then. I forgot to ask Yuelan how she cultivated so many soul beads."

Qin Yun now had dual soul beads, making cultivation very challenging. He was also eager for his soul bead to be able to leave his body.

Two days later, he finally embedded the fire spiritual pattern into the Purple Gold Thunder soul bead! After resting for a while, he continued engraving patterns; this time, he would engrave the alchemy spiritual pattern.

He was relatively familiar with the alchemy spiritual pattern, but he felt very unfamiliar when engraving it on the soul bead.

Fortunately, his experience was rich, allowing him to proceed smoothly. Engraving the second pattern was also very difficult because he needed to ensure it didn't interfere with the previous fire spiritual pattern.

This was similar to engraving a second or third spiritual pattern on a spiritual weapon. He had to arrange the positions of the two patterns properly so that they wouldn't interfere with each other to be considered successful.

Qin Yun spent a lot of time engraving the second spiritual pattern and had to rest several times during the process!

A few days passed by in a hurry.

Looking at the two mysterious spiritual patterns inside the Purple Gold Thunder soul bead, Qin Yun felt a great sense of accomplishment. It took him a total of nine days to successfully embed two spiritual patterns inside the soul bead.

"Now, let's integrate the soul bead. This should go very smoothly!" Qin Yun controlled the Purple Gold Thunder soul bead and let it float into his Heavenly Lion arm.

As the soul bead entered the arm, the Heavenly Lion totem on it lit up!

Roar!

The arm shook and emitted a low roar, astonishing Qin Yun.

He had thought the fusion process would be painful and difficult, but once the soul bead entered the arm, it connected with it in a mysterious way, integrating perfectly.

"It's successful! This is the totem soul! The arm has indeed become extremely strong!" Qin Yun clenched his fist, feeling the tremendous power of the Heavenly Lion beast, vast and powerful.

To his amazement, the Heavenly Lion arm began drawing a large amount of inner energy from the vibrating inner essence in the heart area and the black inner essence in the Dan Tian, gathering its own inner energy!

"Wonderful!" Qin Yun secretly excited, then lay in bed to rest. He had been extremely tired over the last few days.

Adequate rest would allow him to relax and grow stronger quickly.

At the Star Profound Martial Academy, every student was immersed in intense cultivation. They all knew that a large group had crossed the Cloud Dragon River and left the Cloud Dragon Mountains, entering the human world in a formidable force.

Even many teachers were feeling uneasy because once the beast army entered the human world, it would wreak enormous destruction, making it dangerous for humans to move around freely outside.

For the various empires and factions, mineral resources must also be safeguarded. Once the beast swarm invades, the strongest of the evil beasts will definitely try to occupy the crystal mines.

Everyone wants to know why there are suddenly so many evil beasts, but because the human forces here are too weak, they cannot explore the Cloud Dragon Mountains to uncover the truth.

Qin Yun, who was resting, was suddenly awakened by a piercing screech.

He jumped up from the bed and rushed to the tree hole, only to witness a double-headed vulture with a body length of twenty to thirty meters flapping its huge wings, circling in the scorching sun.

Du Gui, Hou Xingfeng, and several other powerful martial artists from the Star Profound Martial Academy soared up, launching attacks on the double-headed vulture.

In an instant, various inner energy flashes exploded in the sky. Colorful waves of inner force surged and enveloped it, turning the sky over the Star Profound Martial Academy into a kaleidoscope of colors.

Qin Yun sensed the powerful auras of several martial artists and was deeply shaken.

What was most astonishing was that the huge double-headed vulture, under the assault of so many powerful martial artists, lost only a few large black feathers before fleeing in terror.

If more of these powerful flying beasts appeared, the consequences would be dire. The evil beasts suddenly appearing from the Cloud Dragon Mountains were far more terrifying than anyone had imagined.

As Qin Yun watched the double-headed vulture vanish into the distance, his fear slowly dissipated. He suddenly realized that humans, when confronted with such enormous creatures, were still too weak!

Cultivating martial arts is to strengthen weak humans, to gain the power to combat such powerful evil beasts and various natural disasters!

The appearance of the huge double-headed vulture indicated that the beast swarm in the Cloud Dragon Mountains was also approaching. The flying evil beasts emerged first, and it would take some time for the ground-based beast horde to arrive.