Chapter 300: Sea of Resentful, Broken Souls
Time flowed quietly as Li Fan continued to familiarize himself with the special characteristics of the Five Elders Council cultivators’ souls.
With the Wraith Hairpin serving as a Curio, his sensitivity to souls was greatly enhanced. Thus, his identification success rate nearly doubled. From one in a thousand, it had become two in a thousand—a monumental leap!
Hmm, it is indeed useful. A pity my original foundation was too poor. To reach a passing standard, I still need to intensify my training.
As he threw himself wholly into the process of examining souls, the density of golden light within the Soul-Gathering Pearl plummeted.
Seven days later, after all fifteen of the previously eliminated “lucky ones” had returned to the Cosmos Branch Academy, the second phase of closed-door training officially began.
The students had heard more or less about the "accidental" deaths of Tantai Tao and the others, and their expressions were somewhat complex. However, everyone understood the matter ran deep; no one discussed it openly.
Besides studying the inner structure of the Tianxuan Soul-Locking Array, the second phase of training focused on further improving the accuracy of sensing Soul Contract marks. The requirement was to achieve one hundred percent accuracy.
For substitute members like Li Fan, who had originally failed to meet the standard, this was quite difficult. Fortunately, Ji Hongdao had considered this point and had very "thoughtfully" prepared special training for these stragglers.
"You were originally eliminated, yet due to certain... circumstances, you have returned here.
"This is your fate. Though your talent may be inferior to others, your fate is better than those geniuses.
"Fate... is important.
"The reason you were eliminated before was essentially that you failed to sense Soul Contract marks. The wasted Soul-Gathering Pearl proves you are not adept in this path.