The Martial Emperor with Dragon Blood Chapter 1652 - 1653: Violet Blade

Ye Mo tilted his head to look, and saw a burly man nearly nine feet tall, tiger-backed and bear-waisted, walking over with a smiling face.

Each step he took was like a mountain trembling; around his body, the fluctuations of the Five Elements Laws continuously flowed—clearly, he was an Immortal Class expert of extremely formidable strength.

"Who is he?"

Ye Mo couldn’t help but ask in a low voice.

"He’s called Qiuu Tianyue, the fifth-ranked powerhouse on the Earth Tier List. His strength should have reached the Immortal Class Seventh Layer, far above Mad Sword. At most in another two years, he’s very likely to enter the Heavenly Boundary."

Ling Shan looked at Qiuu Tianyue and also drew in a deep breath.

"Immortal Class Seventh Layer?"

Ye Mo glanced at Qiuu Tianyue again; from his body, he indeed felt a slight pressure. Even if he unleashed the Godslayer Celestial Domain, he might not be able to withstand such a powerhouse.

"Junior Sister Ling Shan, if you’re short on Immortal Stones, I can lend you some!"

Qiuu Tianyue acted as if he hadn’t seen Ye Mo at all, only smiled at Ling Shan. "The Spiritial Artifact Hall is only open for one month. After one month, it will close, and if you want to Feed the Spirit again, you’ll have to wait until next year. Now that all of you new students have already exhausted your Immortal Stones, without the help of us seniors, you’d have to go carry out missions to earn Merits before you could enter the Spiritial Artifact Hall."

With a single sentence, Qiuu Tianyue laid out how difficult it was for new students to enter the Spiritial Artifact Hall.

After entering the Hall of Five Elements to comprehend the Five Elements Laws, having one or two million Immortal Stones on you was already pretty good. So there were very few new students who could Feed the Spirit in the Spiritial Artifact Hall in their first year. Even Qiuu Tianyue himself had not yet begun feeding spirits.

"If Senior Brother Qiuu is willing to help me, that would naturally be all the better. Ye Mo and I both want to enter the Spiritial Artifact Hall—we’re still short two million Immortal Stones."

Ling Shan smiled calmly, happily accepting Qiuu Tianyue’s offer.

However, Qiuu Tianyue clearly hadn’t expected that Ling Shan would even have him sponsor the man beside her. He had done this precisely to get closer to Ling Shan. One million Immortal Stones might not be an enormous figure, but it was not small either; converted to Merits, that was 100 Merits. Completing an ordinary-difficulty mission only earned 100 Merits.

Yet his words had already gone this far, so naturally he couldn’t take them back—especially with several new students watching nearby. If he refused outright, as the fifth-ranked powerhouse on the Earth Tier List, he truly wouldn’t know where to put his face.

"Haha, a mere two million Immortal Stones—if I can help Junior Sister Ling Shan, that’s naturally all the better!"

Qiuu Tianyue let out a loud laugh, directly pulling out two bills from his person and handing them to Ling Shan.

Ling Shan took the bills without hesitation and said, "Senior Brother Qiuu, I’ll repay the two million Immortal Stones within one month."

"Junior Sister Ling Shan, a trifling two million. I just emerged from seclusion and was about to go Feed the Spirit. Why don’t we go in together?"

Qiuu Tianyue still didn’t spare Ye Mo a single glance, gesturing invitingly to Ling Shan. Ling Shan’s expression also shifted slightly, then she took Ye Mo by the hand and headed toward the Spiritial Artifact Hall.

Qiuu Tianyue’s expression immediately froze. Only after a long moment did he force out an awkward smile and slowly walk into the Spiritial Artifact Hall.

"Qiuu Tianyue, boy, don’t let yourself lose to that Ye Mo."

Elder Mingjian reminded him.

"So he’s the Ye Mo whose Potential Composite Score surpassed Zhou Han’s? No wonder he could win Ling Shan’s favor. But I’ll let him know what a true genius is."

Qiuu Tianyue gave a cold laugh, handed over 600 Merits to Elder Mingjian, and then walked toward the Spiritial Artifact Hall.

Ye Mo directly pushed open the great hall doors; in an instant, a powerful surge of spiritual nature rushed toward him, making quite a few people’s minds tremble. The few Earth Tier students beside him were also slightly shocked. This feeling was as if countless Immortal Treasures were erupting with spiritual nature at the same time, like thousands of enemies in iron armor clashing on the battlefield.

"What a powerful spiritual nature!"

Ye Mo was faintly astonished.

"Making a fuss over nothing. All the failed Artifact Spirits produced by our academy’s Artifact Refiners are thrown into the Spiritial Artifact Pool of this hall—and they’re all failed Immortal Treasure Artifact Spirits. The energy within is extremely suitable for Artifact Spirits to absorb."

Qiuu Tianyue spoke with marked disdain, taking the lead as he stepped into the Spiritial Artifact Hall.

The interior of the Spiritial Artifact Hall was extremely spacious, yet there was a giant circular pool at the center. Within the pool surged vast Spiritial Artifact Energy, and several Immortal Treasure weapons floated within.

"You just need to throw your own Immortal Treasure into the Spiritial Artifact Pool and let it automatically absorb the energy within to complete Feeding the Spirit. Generally speaking, the longer you Feed the Spirit, the more energy the Immortal Treasure will absorb."

One senior student had already taken out his Life-bound Immortal Instrument—a Yellow-rank Superior-grade Immortal Treasure, a Purple Longsword. The sword’s body was suffused with violet radiance, looking extremely dazzling.

This time, his goal was to directly upgrade this Immortal Treasure that had accompanied him for many years to the Xuan Grade.

"Is that weapon the Violet Blade?"

Suddenly, one senior student recognized the longsword in his hand at a glance.

"The Violet Blade?"

Qiuu Tianyue fixed his gaze on the weapon in his hand. Speaking of this Violet Blade, it did have some renown. Back in the day, this weapon had reached the level of a Heaven-rank Immortal Treasure, but in the midst of colliding with another Heaven-rank Immortal Treasure, it was directly damaged. The Artifact Spirit’s strength had already fallen below the Xuan Grade; to restore it to Heaven Rank was far from easy.

"It’s precisely the Violet Blade!"

That senior student wore a proudly satisfied expression and then tossed the Violet Blade longsword into the Spiritial Artifact Pool.

What followed was the process of the Violet Blade absorbing Spiritial Artifact Energy.

Ye Mo naturally understood this. Back then, Hong Ling had also entered a Spiritial Artifact Pool and battled Evil Spirits within, directly absorbing their energy to strengthen herself. But the Artifact Spirits in this pool were all extremely gentle in energy; they shouldn’t give rise to Evil Spirits.

"It’s already been absorbing for half an hour. Looks like the Violet Blade has a great chance of advancing to Xuan Grade."

Everyone was gathered around the Spiritial Artifact Pool, patiently waiting. During this process, quite a few new and senior students crowded in as well. Generally, the longer the Artifact Spirit absorbs, the higher the chance of advancement.

Time ticked by bit by bit. Just when everyone thought the Violet Blade would successfully advance to Xuan Grade, that senior student suddenly spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, his face instantly turning deathly pale.

At the very instant he spat blood, the Violet Blade longsword slowly floated up from the Spiritial Artifact Pool. The violet radiance on the sword’s body gradually dimmed, and finally vanished completely.

That senior student’s face was bleak. This round of Feeding the Spirit had not only failed to upgrade his Artifact Spirit; it had utterly failed, and even the Violet Blade had been completely destroyed.