Chapter 225: Various Remnants
Translator: TYZ Editor: CakeHermit
"What will happen to Ai Hui? Will he beco more powerful?"
Fatty looked at Ai Hui, who had just finished the basin of elental soup, and asked Lou Lan involuntarily.
"Definitely," Lou Lan replied with certainty. "Ai Hui has always been evolving, no matter what happens."
Shi Xueman did not say anything. Her gaze was fixed on Ai Hui. It wasn’t only her, everyone was looking at Ai Hui, who was seated cross-legged on the ground. They were holding their breaths for the fear of disturbing Ai Hui. Ai Hui’s health was intimately related to theirs. Right now, Ai Hui was the core of their unit. His health would have a direct impact on their future.
It wasn’t at all an exaggeration. A slight mistake on the battlefield would result in death.
They had seen too many deaths. It was unknown whether or not even half of the students in Central Pine Academy had survived. Among all the units, the A-1 unit had the highest survival rating; however, if Ai Hui hadn’t held the pass by himself against the flood of blood fiends during the battle on the streets, the A-1 unit would have been wiped out.
Even those students who had previously hated Ai Hui wholeheartedly pledged their allegiance to him now.
Ai Hui remained silent.
The elental soup that filled his stomach had materialized into elental energy which flowed through every single part of his body.
He... did not feel good at all!
Traces of tal elental energy were flowing throughout his body and the unique, sharp aura of the tal elental energy caused him waves of pain. As the traces of tal elental energy travelled through his body, they slowly transford into sword-shaped elental energy and their aura beca significantly sharper. Ai Hui ca to understand what it felt like to be pierced through by a sword.
Since there was a huge number of tal elental energy traces, the number of elental energy swords forming was similarly huge. Currently, Ai Hui felt as if there were nurous mini swords travelling throughout his body.
His body trembled involuntarily. His face had turned pale-white and pea-sized beads of sweat flowed down his forehead.
"Lou Lan, what’s going on?" Fatty asked anxiously.
Lou Lan was also very surprised. His glowing yellow eyes flickered non-stop. If one took a closer look, he or she would realize that the yellow glow in Lou Lan’s eyes was brighter than before.
"There is a unique aura in Ai Hui’s body. This aura is able to transform the tal elental energy into a specially shaped energy. Other than this unique aura, there are also a lot of electric currents in his body. Right now, the condition of Ai Hui’s body is very complicated. Lou Lan has not thought of any good ideas yet. Co on Ai Hui!"
If Ai Hui could hear what Lou Lan had said, he would praise the latter to high heaven.
Lou Lan’s diagnosis was completely correct. Even though the sword embryo in Ai Hui’s body had ruptured and was destroyed, the essence-breath-spirit that it had released still remained in his body. The invisible energy waves from the sword embryo’s remnants were what was transforming the flowing tal elental energy into the streaks of sword-shaped glints.
This was not a good thing for Ai Hui.
Ai Hui could easily absorb and store pure tal elental energy in the eight palaces; however, when the tal elental energy traces transford into elental energy swords, they beca more stable, making it hard for Ai Hui to absorb and store them.
The more troubleso issue was the huge amount of leftover lightning in Ai Hui’s body.
His last move, the lightning version of [Dust Fall] that had given Ai Hui the nickna "The Lightning Blade," had caused severe damage to his body. A large amount of electric currents had filled Ai Hui’s flesh and blood. Every ti these electric currents burst forth, Ai Hui’s muscles would beco numb.
This created huge difficulties for Ai Hui when he tried to control his body.
Fortunately, Ai Hui was ntally prepared. A price definitely had to be paid if one experienced an outburst of power that far exceeded the limit of their base level. For Ai Hui, the price he’d paid was both the destruction of his sword embryo and the induction of electric currents into his body. This price, however, was nothing compared to death.
Even though the current situation seed terrible, Ai Hui felt that it was much better than what he had expected.
At least his body remained intact. He had not lost his limbs and his five residences and eight palaces were undamaged and could still work perfectly. As long as these body parts were fine, the other problems could slowly and eventually be worked out.
As the elental energy swords continued to flow through Ai Hui’s body, the sharp aura from the elental energy swords caused the lightning remnants to zap. The piercing pain from the elental energy swords and the numbing effect of the lightning remnants beca inextricably intertwined.
There were more and more elental energy swords. The effect of Lou Lan’s elental soup was indeed astonishing. The replenished tal elental energy continued to transform into elental energy swords that were scattered all over Ai Hui’s body.
What should he do?
Ai Hui pondered deeply.
Very soon, Ai Hui decided on a plan. First, he could not let the elental energy swords run amok in his body. The sharp and destructive aura of the elental energy swords was not the reason why his body was damaged; the main reason for the damage was his letting the elental energy swords run amok in his body.
How could he contain them?
Ai Hui thought for a while. Since they were elental energy swords, he could deal with them the sa way he dealt with a sword. Before, when he’d still had the sword embryo, the sword embryo had automatically taken care of all the sword-related elental energy for him. Even though he did not have the sword embryo anymore, that did not an that he could not do anything about the sword-related elental energy.
After Ai Hui had received a huge volu of sword-related fine details during the battle on the streets, his understanding towards swordsmanship had reached a completely new level. After absorbing the essence-breath-spirit from the sword embryo’s rupture, his base level had temporarily reached an unimaginable altitude.
He was like a disciple who had been temporarily possessed by his master and got to feel what it was like to be a high-level individual.
This experience would not imdiately improve his fighting capabilities, but it would definitely have a long-lasting effect on them. He could see what the higher realms of swordsmanship would look like in the future. This would play an important role in his future developnts.
According to his understanding of swordsmanship, Ai Hui felt that the elental energy swords could be controlled.
Ai Hui, who had been trembling non-stop and had his face turned pale-white, suddenly opened his mouth and, with a hoarse voice that was filled with anguish, yelled, "Sword!"
Sword?
Everyone was stunned. Shi Xueman’s reaction was the fastest. Her right hand flashed across her waist and a cold glint flew towards Ai Hui. She then yelled coldly, "Catch it!"
With a distorted facial expression, Ai Hui raised his hand. He still felt more or less alright as long as he did not move, but once he started moving, his body felt as if it was being pierced through by a sword. His eyes were closed but his hand still managed to catch the sword that Shi Xueman had thrown him.
A faintly discernible smile appeared on Sang Zhijun’s face. Even though Shi Xueman specialized in the spear and did not have the habit of carrying a sword, there was actually a sword hanging on her waist.
At the very mont Ai Hui’s palm made contact with the hilt of the sword, his previously distorted and anguished face suddenly cald down.
Everyone was shocked by this bizarre scene.
Shi Xueman’s face was ice-cold like an iceberg, remaining emotionless; however, one could see that her eyes had lit up slightly.
This was the unique part about Ai Hui.
He was always hiding sothing special in him that he would not normally reveal. Sotis he was a rascal, sotis he was a miser, sotis he was a loner, and most of the ti he was an individual who ignored things that were of no concern to him. However, if a dangerous situation was to arise, he would beco a completely changed man, revealing imposing fighting capabilities and captivating everyone’s attention.
This might be an insignificant move but it contained a mysterious power to it.
When Ai Hui grabbed hold of the sword, his mind beca tranquil and the agitated elental energy swords in his body cald down as well.
The sword’s nurous fine details gushed through his mind like a flash flood. The sword’s texture, its weight, the sharpness of the blade, etc. All these little details were clearly displayed in his mind.
Ai Hui noticed this ability that he hadn’t had in the past and beca sowhat happy. It seed that he had not only made losses, but gains as well.
It was a pity that it was not the Dragonspine Inferno...
Sorrow involuntarily arose in his mind. The Dragonspine Inferno was the sword that he was the most comfortable with and had used for the longest period of ti. It was a pity that it had been completely destroyed when he’d executed [Dust Fall]. The powerful lightning bolt had destroyed the sword body, leaving only the seven prismatic crystals.
The sword currently in his hand seed very ordinary. It had been picked up by Shi Xueman from a dead elentalist.
However, it was still a sword.
Ai Hui focused his attention on the sword. Even though he could not enter the miraculous ntal state he’d been in during the battle on the streets, he could still feel the elental energy swords in his body beco slightly sluggish.
It was working!
Ai Hui restrained his joy and started slowly brandishing the sword.
His movents were very slow as he could not yet control his muscles, making him look like an awkward-moving wooden puppet. His movents were indescribably rigid and unsightly.
Ai Hui did not care about it and focused on brandishing the sword.
The elental energy swords involuntarily transford according to the sword moves Ai Hui executed. Very soon, more and more elental energy swords were beginning to move along with how Ai Hui brandished the sword.
He was right!
Ai Hui felt more confident and began to brandish the sword more seriously.
Ai Hui had a deep understanding of the sword embryo. The elental energy swords ford when the elental energy was affected by the remnant energy waves of the sword embryo. The sword embryo had a direct reaction to anything that was related to swords. Ai Hui was wondering whether or not the elental energy swords preserved this unique characteristic of the sword embryo.
The reality had confird Ai Hui’s conjecture.
As Ai Hui continued brandishing the sword, more and more elental energy swords continued to gather, resembling densely-packed fish. Even though they were crowded together, they were very orderly. The pain Ai Hui felt in his body relieved significantly.
Very soon, Ai Hui ca across a new problem. How was he to direct these elental energy swords into his eight palaces?
The elental energy swords flowed endlessly. They did not stop at all when passing by the eight palaces.
Generally speaking, the eight palaces had a powerful attractive force over elental energy, causing it to stay in the eight palaces involuntarily. Only by using certain special channelling techniques could the elental energy be directed out of the palaces to form moves.
In Ai Hui’s situation, it was the complete opposite.
A terrifying amount of elental energy was flowing through his body, and yet, it wasn’t stopping at the eight palaces. The eight palaces were completely empty. If the elental energy was not stored in the palaces, it would dissipate very quickly.
Ai Hui knew that this was because the elental energy in his body had transford into elental energy swords. The eight palaces had a strong attractive force over pure elental energy, but for elental energy that had changed form, the eight palaces would have zero attractive force.
The thing was, as long as the remnant energy waves of the sword embryo were still in his body, the elental energy would imdiately transform into elental energy swords.
Without elental energy to fill them up, the eight palaces would shrink and close as ti passed. This would cause his base level to drop sharply.
What should he do?
Ai Hui racked his brain as he brandished his sword.
He thought of a daring plan, but did not know if it would work.
This ti around, he was slightly hesitant and did not imdiately begin carrying out the plan.
This plan was slightly risky...
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