Chapter 278 - 27: Surpassing Wizards: Mo Ning Shatters the Artificial Soul’s Understanding

Chapter 278: Chapter 27: Surpassing Wizards: Mo Ning Shatters the Artificial Soul’s Understanding

A startling crack of thunder exploded.

The Thunderbolt Spear erupted into a blinding net of lightning, enveloping the monsters. Their bodies rapidly disintegrated into black mist.

"BOOM—BOOM—"

The peals of thunder were incessant. The Thunderbolt Spear unleashed rolling waves of lightning, slaughtering monsters in droves.

Empowered, the Black Panther began absorbing the black mist faster and faster.

Mo Ning rode the Black Panther for several kilometers before suddenly pointing toward a group of monsters in the distance, shouting with vigor, "Charge!"

Without a moment’s hesitation, the Black Panther leaped from the ground onto a birch tree, then used the trunk as a launch point to complete an incredible leap of over thirty meters.

Mo Ning raised his right hand high. Dense blue lightning danced rapidly across his fingertips. He was bathed in a faint blue halo, looking majestic and powerful.

The moment the Black Panther soared above the monsters, he swung his right hand down.

A dazzling Thunder Chain erupted from his palm, sweeping like lightning across the hundreds of monsters gathered below.

In an instant, the hideous, grotesque monsters were swarmed and ensnared by thousands of Electric Snakes.

"BANG! BANG! BANG!"

The monsters exploded into a sky full of black gas, instantly clearing a large patch of ground.

Mo Ning couldn’t help but laugh out loud, a sense of exhilaration erupting from his core like a fountain.

"ROAR—"

The Black Panther roared as if in response.

Wherever the man and panther passed, Electric Snakes danced wildly, beginning a frenzied slaughter of the monsters.

The situation had been completely reversed.

「Inside the cabin.」

Flower was amazed to see that with the appearance of the Thunder Shadow Leopard’s phantom, the pain on her master’s face rapidly subsided.

「A dozen or so seconds later.」

The pain vanished completely.

Mo Ning’s sleeping posture returned to one of peacefulness, though his eyeballs continued to move restlessly beneath his eyelids.

Clearly, he was still wandering in his dreamscape.

The heart that had been caught in Flower’s throat finally settled back into place.

She had secretly prepared a contingency plan—if her master showed any signs of losing control, she would immediately summon Miss Anya to the Cabin in the Woods and implore her to help him escape the vortex of corruption.

The Artificial Soul had seen her master personally answer Miss Anya’s questions about Divination on more than one occasion, so she naturally guessed that she was a good friend of his.

’It’s an embarrassing request,’ she thought, ’but for the sake of friendship, it’s unlikely Miss Anya would refuse.’

It seemed that plan wouldn’t be needed now.

’It must be the mysterious Thunder Shadow Leopard that helped my master overcome this crisis,’ the Artificial Soul realized.

She knew a little about the Thunder Shadow Leopard’s origins, so she wasn’t completely shocked.

The last time her master had tried to break through to the first Spirit Ring, he had used the Starlight Resonance Secret Technique to increase his Spiritual Strength and clear out the mental residue left from a Magic Potion.

As a result, the Thunder Shadow Leopard had bizarrely transformed into a black cat and unexpectedly appeared in the Star-like Realm created by the Secret Technique, devouring a large amount of spiritual residue.

Therefore, the Artificial Soul concluded, ’The Thunder Shadow Leopard has appeared again. It must have displayed immense combat power in the dream, resisting the erosion of the corruption.’

「After another moment.」

Flower discovered something even more astonishing—Mo Ning’s Spiritual Strength had just jumped abnormally!

2.59!

She remembered clearly that while her master was writing that thesis, his Spiritual Strength had only risen from 2.56 to 2.58.

Although he had suppressed the corruption from the Soul of Deathly Silence, the rate of increase had slowed down considerably.

This was a classic sign that the Spiritual Power digestion process had entered the "final digestive phase"—an increase of only 0.02 points per hour, or even less.

However, the Artificial Soul was amazed to find that less than five minutes after the last increase, Mo Ning’s Spiritual Strength jumped again by 0.01.

This was yet another thing that defied her understanding.

「Just ten seconds later.」

His Spiritual Strength jumped again—2.60.

「Twenty-five seconds later.」

Another jump—2.61.

「Fifty seconds later.」

Yet another jump—2.62.

At this point, the cumulative increase from taking the Soul Spirit Water had reached 1.51 points.

He had finally broken the theoretical limit of 1.5 points.

Flower was completely baffled.

’His Spiritual Strength can still increase this quickly during the final digestive phase? My master can digest Spiritual Power at high speed even in a dream?’

It was the first time the Artificial Soul had encountered so many paradigm-shifting situations.

She stared at Mo Ning’s face, filled with deep astonishment, and began to diligently record the rhythm of his rising Spiritual Strength.

2.63!

2.64!

2.65!

The intervals between increases were indeed getting longer, but they were still far shorter than what was normal for the final digestive phase.

「By the time his nap was about to end.」

The Artificial Soul recorded the final jump—2.78!

In a mere ten minutes, his Spiritual Strength had soared by a full 0.2 points, bringing the cumulative increase to 1.71 points!

This was simply astounding!

’By the time the digestion process is over,’ Flower predicted boldly, ’my master’s Spiritual Strength might reach a super-high increase of 2.2 points, completely shattering what Wizards know about taking Soul Spirit Water.’

「And then.」

Mo Ning opened his eyes right on schedule.

A faint blue electric glow flashed through his eyes, and a blurry Leopard Shadow was seared into the depths of his pupils. The shadow only began to fade after a full breath.

This minute detail made Flower pause for a moment.

Mo Ning immediately felt that the lingering fatigue from before his nap had almost completely vanished. In fact, his mental state felt even more robust than it had before he took the Soul Spirit Water.

"Mr. Mo Ning, you’ve accomplished something that even Official Wizards can’t do! You’re truly amazing!"

Flower couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration.

Mo Ning just smiled.

The Artificial Soul was marveling at how he had "surpassed the Wizards," but he himself wasn’t particularly surprised.