Chapter 345: Chapter 345: Illusion of Mirror and Moon, Turn into Nothingness
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Upon seeing the severity of Zeng Yi's injuries, Xue Qinghe suggested that Bone Douluo take Zeng Yi to their residence in the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team. There, Nine Heart Flowering Apple Spirit Master Ye Lingling could heal Zeng Yi's injuries.
As soon as Gu Rong heard this, he nodded. He had also heard about the terrifying abilities of the Nine Heart Flowering Apple Martial Spirit. Since Zeng Yi and Xue Qinghe were friends, he decided to accompany the heavily injured Zeng Yi to the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team in Heaven Dou City.
Back at their residence, Xue Qinghe immediately ordered someone to fetch Ye Lingling. When Ye Lingling arrived and saw Zeng Yi's miserable condition, she couldn't help but cover her mouth in shock.
She couldn't understand how Zeng Yi had sustained such severe injuries in just a short span of time.
However, Ye Lingling didn't ask for details. She immediately released her Martial Spirit, the elegant Nine Heart Flowering Apple, which gently swayed its petals and landed on Zeng Yi's body, merging with it.
As a Spirit Ancestor realm expert, Ye Lingling's abilities to heal injuries were extraordinary. Under the nourishment of her gentle and vibrant life force, Zeng Yi's torn chest, even the visible ribs, began to regenerate flesh.
A few minutes later, to Gu Rong's astonishment, Zeng Yi's chest had completely healed, his swollen and bruised face subsided, and a healthy rosy hue appeared on his pale cheeks.
"Zeng Yi, how do you feel? Can you open your eyes now?" Xue Qinghe anxiously asked as she saw that Zeng Yi's external injuries had been healed.
Zeng Yi slowly opened his eyes, and his blurry vision gradually became clear. He saw three figures reflected in his line of sight - Xue Qinghe, Ye Lingling, and Gu Rong.
He nodded, indicating that he was fine.
With Zeng Yi's sight restored and Xue Qinghe's worries eased, she was about to ask him about what had happened when she heard him say, "Sorry, I need some time alone."
Zeng Yi's voice was low, leaving the three of them bewildered. They could sense that his current emotional state was somewhat low, as if something deeply sorrowful had happened.
After saying this, Zeng Yi ignored the others and silently stood up, turning around and walking away.
The three didn't follow. They knew that Zeng Yi had just experienced a tragedy.
Hearing Zeng Yi's voice, Xue Qinghe felt relieved. "Since you've just recovered from your injuries, you don't need to participate in tomorrow's match. I'll send other members from the second team."
After a long silence in the room, a single word was heard.
"Okay."
However, Zeng Yi was nowhere to be seen in the room.
Under the night sky, a cool breeze blew as a figure leaned against a slanted rooftop, hands supporting the head, gazing at the bright and shiny full moon in the sky.
As the cool breeze blew, a strand of hair on Zeng Yi's forehead gently swayed. His eyes, reflecting the round moon, were filled with longing and sadness.
"The moon tonight is exceptionally bright. I wonder if at this moment, Dad, Mom, and Xiao Xi are also gazing at the moon together?"
Gazing at the moon, Zeng Yi sighed mournfully.
A purple bamboo flute appeared in his hands, and Zeng Yi changed his posture to a sitting position. He held the flute with both hands and played a melodious tune.
The flute music flowed ethereally, desolate, lonely, crying and telling stories, seeming both real and illusory. It was profound and melancholic, resonating with the night and evoking a sense of sadness and emotion, as if immersed within it.
Not long after Xue Qinghe left Zeng Yi's room, she heard the resounding tunes of the flute in the hallway. She couldn't help but stop in her tracks, turned her head towards the direction of the music, and disappeared on the spot.
On the rooftop, Zeng Yi sat facing the moon, playing the flute. His clothes and long hair swayed in the night breeze.
Standing not far behind Zeng Yi on the rooftop, Xue Qinghe gazed at him in a daze. She felt drawn into his world, filled with endless melancholy, sorrow, and solitude.
Knowing Zeng Yi for so long, she had never seen him display such emotions. The loneliness and sadness that pervaded the surrounding space inadvertently infected her own emotions.
Listening to the emotions conveyed by the flute, Xue Qinghe gazed at Zeng Yi's back and couldn't help but be captivated.
Suddenly, she noticed a crystal tear rolling down her cheek, falling from her delicate chin onto the rooftop, splashing and scattering.
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The next day arrived, once again bringing forth the highly anticipated Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament.
Especially when it was time for the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team's match, the cheering from the audience instantly intensified.
However, their faces were filled with confusion when they realized that only seven members appeared, and Zeng Yi was not among them.
"Just because there are such powerful players, they decided not to arrange for them to participate and let these useless ones take the stage openly?"
"Do these capitalists think we're fools?"
With Zeng Yi absent from the lineup, the audience burst into a chorus of insults, criticizing the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team for their disrespectful treatment and burying such a talented spirit master.
In no time, the audience's enthusiasm for this match dissipated.
Originally, the strength of the seven members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team was quite good, placing them in the medium range among the 30 participating teams. Today, they faced a team of similar strength, as both were composed of Spirit Elders.
After enduring the crushing defeat from the Shrek Team and the leader's criticism and education, the arrogant attitude of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team's seven members had subdued significantly. After a bitter struggle, the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team barely secured victory in this match.
During the night, Zeng Yi took out the Spirit Bone he obtained from that Spirit Saint.
The dazzling Spirit Bone appeared in his hand, its crystalline surface shining with multicolored radiance that plunged one's consciousness into it, unable to extricate oneself.
Just by looking at this Spirit Bone, Zeng Yi could feel the strange aura it emitted, causing a dizziness that was indescribably peculiar.
It felt as though as long as he used his spirit power to guide it, this Skull Spirit Bone would merge with his body and become a part of him.
However, Zeng Yi restrained the impulse in his heart.
This Spirit Bone seemed to be nothing more than an ordinary stone. Zeng Yi held it in his hand, tossing it up and catching it repeatedly. As he played with the Spirit Bone, he contemplated whether or not he should fuse with it.
Ever since his battle with that Spirit Saint and experiencing their ability to control his five senses, Zeng Yi became highly interested. However, he didn't know if the ability to control his senses belonged to this Spirit Bone's technique.
Zeng Yi contemplated whether he should place a bet on the chance of obtaining that unique ability from this Spirit Bone.
As a Spirit Saint with seven spirit rings, plus one Spirit Bone, he would have a total of eight abilities.
Firstly, he excluded the seventh spirit skill, the True Body of the Martial Spirit. Then, the 2 yellow-hued 100 year spirit rings were unlikely to possess such overwhelmingly powerful and abnormal spirit skills.
That left five spirit skills.
Calculating further, that sense manipulation skill should be a 10,000 year spirit skill, which meant it required at least 2,000 year spirit rings. Therefore, he could eliminate the two 1,000 year spirit rings.
That left three spirit skills.
With a one-third chance, Zeng Yi felt it was worth taking a gamble.
Zeng Yi looked at the Spirit Bone in his hand and calculated the probability of obtaining that spirit skill upon fusing with the Spirit Bone.
Then, let's begin.
Zeng Yi made up his mind and immediately sat cross-legged. He guided his spirit power to connect with the Spirit Bone. In an instant, the Spirit Bone turned into a stream of colorful light and entered Zeng Yi's forehead.
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At dawn, as the sun rose, its warm rays spread like a gentle spring breeze, bathing the world in light.
All of creation revived. Moist soil gently shifted, and a tender sprout emerged, gradually unfurling. A crystal dewdrop slid down from the sprout's leaf, falling onto a porcelain tile on the rooftop and scattering.
At the peak of the cliff, amidst the vast sea of clouds, where its whereabouts were unknown, cranes sang endlessly, the lingering melodious tunes intertwined.
"Drunk on the wind, exploring flowers in the mist, singing madly with a sword, amidst the vast sea of clouds."
In the hazy space, a palm parted the clouds, and in an instant, the whole world appeared with ripples, becoming blurred and distorted.
"Mirror and Moon, Turn into Nothingness!"
As this heavenly sound reverberated, cracks appeared in space, the world shattered, and the sky above was filled with a spiderweb-like network of tiny fissures.
Crack!
With a crisp sound of shattering, the world fragmented like a broken mirror, dissipating into nothingness.
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