Ling Xiao’s injury gradually healed. With healing medicines he had exchanged from the Medicine Hall and the powerful recovery of <Nine Transformation Golden Body Art>’s sixth transformation, normal wounds healed quite easily.
In this fashion, he competed with his Martial Soul Clone in the training room.
With every battle, his understanding of that terrifying finger grew.
When his understanding accumulated to a certain level, he stopped fighting, sat down cross-legged, and began to comprehend that terrifying finger move.
In the end, he was not trying to crack that finger but rather learn from it.
Currently, that blue-robed woman’s casual finger was too mysterious and far exceeded all the advanced martial skills he had previously learned.
But after repeating this process, with the Landscape Martial Soul’s Analyze and Deduction Ability and Ling Xiao’s own remarkable talent, he had a comparatively large gain in a single night.
His so-called comparatively large gain mirrored roughly 10% of that blue-robed woman’s terrifying finger.
Even like that, this finger already matched small success peak martial skills.
When he completely comprehended it, how terrifying would it be?
Ling Xiao was ecstatic.
Those injuries he had suffered had definitely not been in vain.
Now, dozens of small and big holes penetrated his body. Although most had stopped bleeding, they still marred his form.
As for his clothes, they were already tattered.
Compared to his gains, they were nothing.
“You are so powerful! I will give you a straightforward name fitting your might: A Terrifying Finger!”
Ling Xiao didn’t think much about it. He chose a tacky name because this finger move gave him one feeling——
Terror!
Such being the case, why shouldn’t he name it “A Terrifying Finger”?
“I’ve barely comprehended it, but I want to test this move!”
He suddenly smiled and looked at the Martial Soul Clone. “You have been bullying me for a while. Now, it’s my turn to bully you. Stand still, and don’t move!”
Ling Xiao mischievously smiled and pointed his finger.
Gang qi invisible to the naked eye turned into a blade-like aura and shot forward.
“Puchi!”
A hole appeared in the Martial Soul Clone’s shoulder.
“Hahaha, it’s truly amazing! Merely, my control is not enough. Okay, you can move and even attack me, but you can’t use this move.”
If he only practiced attacking fixed targets, he wouldn’t truly feel the terrifying aspect of this move.
This finger was terrifying in two aspects: its great power and amazing speed!
After continuously using A Terrifying Finger ten times, Ling Xiao discovered something.
Although it consumed some gang qi, it wasn’t much.
However, this was not a good thing. Since it consumed relatively little qi, it naturally consumed something else.
A Terrifying Finger unexpectedly consumed soul power!
Every time he used A Terrifying Finger, his soul would make a movement.
With his current soul power, he could at most use this move ten times.
“It’s even more essential to improve my soul power now. I wonder if the third floor of the Library Pavilion has some peak secret techniques to cultivate my soul.”
Thinking of this, he was already impatient.
He directly stopped cultivating and left the training room. Rushing to his room, he changed into new clothes and prepared to go to the Library Pavilion.
However, he was dumbfounded upon walking into his courtyard.
A person knelt there.
It was a pretty woman .
“Ling Yu, what are you doing?”
Ling Xiao frowned at this kneeling girl.
Ling Yu knelt with tear stains on her cheeks while crying like a weeping beauty. Her current appearance truly made people desire to protect her.
But that was other people.
Ling Xiao’s heart was already dead for this woman.
If bullying the beggars in the past had been her being naughty and mischievous, abandoning him at his most difficult time had truly disappointed him.
Fortunately, he hadn’t fallen in love with this woman; therefore, he didn’t feel any sadness.
He only felt pure disappointment.
“Ling Xiao! Now, I understand my heart. In fact, I liked you when you were still a beggar. At that time, I bullied you because I liked you.”
Ling Yu looked at Ling Xiao and asked: “Haven’t you heard that harsh words and deeds demonstrate one’s love?”
Ling Xiao felt only disgust. Taking a deep breath, he said: “Don’t mention the past. We don’t have any relationship. I will not bear grudges for what you did to me before. Merely, in this life, we are doomed to just be strangers.”
“Ling Xiao, are you truly unwilling to give me a chance? I truly, truly like you very much. I was only with Ling Feng to stimulate you. I wanted you to become stronger!”
Ling Yu burst into tears again.
This woman was truly shameless.
Ling Xiao coldly looked at her and reiterated, “I’ve already said that there is no chance of anything between you and me. Leave, and don’t say words that will make people look down on you again. If you had obediently stayed beside Ling Fei, I might have thought more highly of you.”
Ling Yu fell to the ground.
During the elimination rounds, she had plotted how to kill him.
Merely, after seeing him unexpectedly defeat Ling Feifan in the finals, her heart had been immediately swayed.
She had imagined that when she chased this silly boy with her charm, wouldn’t he kneel and lick her feet?
Now, she was disappointed.
Ling Xiao’s decisiveness and straightforwardness made her lose all hope.
“Ling Xiao!”
“Junior Apprentice Brother!”
Suddenly, two voices rang outside, and his irritated mood immediately improved.
Ling Yihang and Ling Yixue had arrived.
When Ling Yu saw Ling Yixue, she finally understood something.
Outside the Ling Clan, she had been a proud little princess. Others had followed her whims and protected her.
However, after coming to the Ling Clan, she had fallen from being a beautiful white swan to an ugly duckling that nobody cared about.
Thus, she had given up on working hard and attached herself to men like Ling Feng by relying on her beauty.
However, Ling Yixue who had similarly been treated like an ugly duckling had chosen a completely different path.
Ling Yixue had neither relied nor fawned on anyone. She had diligently worked hard, forgetting her beauty and charm as a woman.
Therefore, their paths had forked.
Ling Yu had become an article attached to others, unable to improve her strength.
Meanwhile, Ling Yixue got more and more powerful as her position rose higher and higher. She relied on her own strength to become a true white swan.
In fact, although Ling Yu’s aptitude was not as good as Ling Yixue’s, it was not much worse. This could be seen from her ability to learn Soul-Stirring Technique.
If she had worked hard like Ling Yixue, she absolutely wouldn’t have suffered this outcome today.
It was a pity!
Until now, she hadn’t realized her mistake.
She had only been crazily jealous of Ling Yixue. Why could she receive Ling Xiao’s smile and his care?
Why couldn’t she?
Gritting her teeth, she turned and ran out of Ling Xiao’s residence.
“Isn’t that woman together with Ling Feng? Why did she come look for you?” Ling Yihang asked in confusion.
“It’s nothing. Anyway, why did you two come look for me?” Ling Xiao was too lazy to talk about Ling Yu.
