After opening the box, an intense white light flashed around and then receded back inside the box, revealing a pure white jade flickering with an invisible layer of lightning.
Although Shen Yi can't see it, he can sense the dangerous power in it, which is threatening even his spiritual sense.
'Thankfully my soul realm is already in the low heavenly stage, which is equivalent to the soul of top dou venerated experts or even half saints; it won't be a problem for me to suppress the lightning in it with my spiritual power.'
Shen Yi thought to himself, and then he closed his eyes and released his spiritual sense outside toward the box in his hand.
Immediately an invisible spark flashed midair, and tiny cracks appeared in the void around. The next moment the jade flew up and shot toward his skull, merged with his forehead, and disappeared.
At the same time, Shen Yi's brow furrowed, feeling the jade appear in the middle of his soul space and start releasing intense invisible lightning waves as if a humongous monster were standing in the middle of his soul space and roaring, releasing intense sound waves.
Puff!!!
Shen Yi spouted out the blood and hurriedly ran the primordial art; the dou qi started rotating through his crystallized meridians, and the wood attribute dou qi moved toward his soul space. Immediately his soul felt a soothing sensation as it was healed by the wood attribute and repaired.
'I was careless; this soul thunder effect is contrary to the physically based thunders I absorbed before. Probably it will take some time to absorb this soul thunder.'
Shen Yi thought to himself, feeling the jade in his soul space once again release the soul thunder, damaging his soul.
Once again the wood dou qi moved and repaired it; at the same time, his primordial art route slowly changed as it started suppressing the soul thunder released by jade and merging it with his damaged soul while repairing it.
His primordial art is evolving towards the Heaven Rank exercise finally. Shen Yi stayed motionless on the stone as time passed.
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Day and night cycles passed, and weeks went by. Even months passed one by one,
"Old man, have you found out what happened to him? It's been a few months, and Brother Shen Yi is staying on this stone like this."
Zi Yan asked Elder Su as she glanced in the direction of Shen Yi worriedly, looking at his skeletal figure, which looked extremely thin and weak compared to a few months ago.
If it weren't for the invisible lightning lingering around his physique, which is constantly releasing an annihilation-like aura, she would have fed him something.
Elder Su observed the ten-meter invisible domain around Shen Yi's body, protecting him inexplicably.
He shook his head and replied with a sigh,
"I don't know, maybe it's related to his practice; you shouldn't pass the ten-meter range around him… I am feeling a dread as if my soul will be annihilated the next moment if I force my way toward him."
After reminding, he gave Shen Yi a deep glance and added, "We can't do anything, except keep an eye on him and don't let any disciple come near him. Also, I will try contacting the dean; if he returns, maybe he will be able to do something about it."
Zi Yan nodded while looking at Shen Yi in a daze; looking at his skinny and skeleton-like figure, she felt lost and inexplicable emotion but couldn't do anything about it.
...
Time passed, day by day the cycle changed,
Finally another few months passed; it's been two years since Shen Yi joined the Jia Nan academy. Now he is seventeen years old.
But instead of growth in the past year, his body became extremely weak, thin, and skeletal, as if a thin bone structure was glued on the stone; even the tailored robe on his body looks extremely loose, as if clothes were hanging on the wire. If it weren't for the extremely slow hibernating heartbeat pulses, everyone would have considered him dead by now.
While the only thing that changed is the surrounding hundred-meter mountain range, which completely became a barren land with no grass or trees, even birds and worms in the hundred-meter range above and below underground are annihilated, as if this area became a nonliving domain.
While a few hundred meters away, Zi Yan with lengthy purple hair flickering behind her was sitting on a tree branch dangling her feet below, looking at the direction of Shen Yi constantly with a calm and waveless gaze.
Zi Yan has been staying beside him for a whole year and is not willing to leave him alone, carrying a hope that he will wake up soon.
"Brother Shen Yi, please wake up; at this rate your body really won't be able to make it."
She muttered thoughtfully, looking at him, then she glanced at the hundred-meter area around him; a light fear flashed through her pupils as she sensed the invisible lightning flickering chaotically in this range.
She recalled the scene from a few days ago: the ten-meter invisible domain around Shen Yi suddenly expanded to a hundred meters. Despite feeling the unimaginable crisis and reflexively running away using her space talent, Zi Yan soul was hit by invisible lightning. It was an extremely painful experience for her.
Zi Yan then lowered her head, looking at the last two index and small fingers of her right hand; they are bent and completely unconscious. She can't control them as if they aren't her body parts. It was the consequence of spiritual damage she received.
Although her whole hand was damaged, but because of her special bloodline, her spiritual damage slowly recovered in these days; now only two fingers remain.
"That old man was right; if I had stayed for a few moments, my soul would have been annihilated by now. Brother Shen Yi is becoming scary day by day… I have to stay alert all the time."
She muttered and then glanced in the direction of Shen Yi, who had been staying motionless on the stone for the past whole year.
Immediately her pupils shook as she sensed that the invisible lightning disappeared; the next moment she became alert and started looking around and jumped away, landing a thousand meters away.
After seeing nothing happened, her expression became doubtful, and then she heard a light sound; her face changed.
Thud!!!
Immediately she glanced in the direction of the stone, seeing the sitting figure of Shen Yi is now lying on the stone unconscious.
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