Chapter 181 - Life Force
The blackboard was floating in the air; it was a square with lengths of hundred zhang and was filled with small characters.
Thirty-seven-thousand miles away from Pu Ban City, the irrigation canal of a clan was blocked because an Evil Spirit Snake had occupied that canal. Apprentices who would kill the Spirit Snake could get a bottle of ‘tiger fetus bone-strengthening pills’.
In the Southwest, a hundred and ninety thousand miles away, girls of three clans had gone missing. Anyone who could discover what exactly had happened to those girls, could get three ‘soul-comforting blood spirit flowers’.
In the Feng Luo Mountain, two large-scale clans, the Lieshan Family and the Fangfeng Family were fighting for sources of water, and the clashes between these two clans, which had involved over fifty-thousand clansmen, had flared up for five times in a row. Apprentices who could open up new water sources for these two clans and resolved conflicts between these two clans, could get ‘ten magic crystals’ that were condensed from the natural power, and were in correspondence with his or her own power.
Tasks appeared on the blackboard one after another. The apprentices who had been standing on the square all this time, only briefly browsed those tasks, after which they all walked towards the few elderly Magi tutors, taking over appropriate tasks according to their own power-levels, interests, and needs. Finally they called their friends and left together.
Those characters on the blackboards were glowing brightly. Once a task had been taken over by one or a few apprentices, it would immediately dissipate on the blackboard. Within only ten minutes, over a thousand tasks were taken over.
None of the others took another glance at Ji Hao, Taisi, and those Southern Wasteland Society’s boys. It seemed as if Jiang Yong, who had been badly battered and now had a bloody nose and a swollen face, Yao Kaijiang and Yao Kaiyuan, whose bodies now were covered in wounds, and nearly a hundred ‘old’ Senior Magi, who were lying on the ground, twitching and struggling, didn’t even exist.
The little group of elderly Magi tutors stood under the blackboards peacefully and calmly, keeping their eyes closed. None of them had even thrown a glance at Ji Hao, Taisi, and all those other boys.
This was a hidden rule of the Magi Palace; apprentices should solve all of their conflicts and fights by themselves. As long as nobody was killed, Magi tutors would never step in between the conflicts of apprentices.
Taisi had forcibly taken the life force of nearly a hundred young Senior Magi with his [Life-Taking Magic], turned them into old people within such a short time, but they didn’t die immediately. Therefore, no rule had been broken by Taisi, and the Magi tutors wouldn’t even inquire what had transpired.
Ji Hao glanced at the blackboard, and shook his head while smiling, then he nodded to Taisi and his sister Shaosi, and told them his room number and said, “Taisi, Shaosi, come to my room when you’re free, we can probably have some tea together. I have arrived at the Magi Palace for over a half of a year so far, but I’ve been blindly busy all the time, I didn’t really make any friends.”
Taisi noddded hurriedly, and seemed as if he wanted to say something; but he looked at Saosi in frightened, then laughed embarrassedly, without saying another word.
Shaosi gripped the black jade bottle in her hand, looked at Ji Hao in all seriousness for a short while, but also remained silent. She then turned to the blackboard, browsed through those tasks, and said to Taisi, “Taisi, this time you have to go out with me. I can’t leave you here in the Magi Palace alone, you will always cause troubles.”
Taisi waved the white bone cane hard in anger and responded, “Shaosi, you have to be reasonable, I never cause trouble!”
Ji Hao shook his head again, turned around and prepared to leave while fiddling with the crystal that was condensed from the life force of those Southern Wasteland Society’s boys. A few Southern Wasteland Society’s boys suddenly darted in front of him and blocked his way. They stared at Ji Hao with a trace of fear in their eyes, while gnashing their teeth and said, “Leave this, and you can go! From now on, we shall mind only our own businesses. We won’t trouble you, and you should leave us alone as well.”
Ji Hao threw the ten-million stone weighing crystal that had been condensed from the life force into the air, then caught it and weighed the crystal in his hand, let out a sneer and said, “You mean this? Why should I give it to you? If I swallow it I would have fifty-thousand more years of life, why the hell should I hand such a treasure to you?”
Jiang Yong slowly staggered over, his face filled with anger and fear.
Nearly a hundred young senior Magi were lying on the ground, a great part of their lives had been taken by Taisi, and only a small part of life was remaining for each of them. They could quiver their legs and die anytime now. All these were as such because Jiang Yong had bullied Taisi earlier, threatened Taisi, and intended to force Taisi to betroth his sister to him.
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