Chapter 399: Terrifying Soul Storm
Cao Ying secretly used her soul power to observe Xiao Yan and found that Xiao Yan was still like a rock, not affected at all. She raised her eyebrows and directly separated a wisp of soul to blast towards Xiao Yan. She would not be satisfied until Xiao Yan took a step back, even if the test result was lower. After all, separating the soul to attack at this time would obviously affect the soul value.

After Elder Sheng noticed Cao Ying's actions, he frowned slightly, but he didn't ask any questions. As long as it didn't disrupt the assessment, he wouldn't ask any questions.

Xiao Yan sensed a soul attack coming towards him and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth. This was really a case of him bringing trouble upon himself!

The soul attack dissipated instantly after it came into contact with Xiao Yan. The soul power suddenly dissipated, causing Cao Ying to feel a tightness in her chest and a feeling of dizziness. Her hand that was sticking to the stone tablet also loosened.

As Cao Yingyu's hand left the stone tablet, the numbers on the stone tablet also stopped, and finally stopped at 1011.

The dizziness came and went quickly, and it only caused a little loss of soul power. It did not have much impact on Cao Ying. However, when Cao Ying woke up, she was stunned when she saw the blood-red numbers on the stone tablet. The results on it were obviously far from her actual results.

Cao Ying turned her head to look at Xiao Yan beside her and found that Xiao Yan was looking at her with a half-smile. However, she was the one who took the initiative, so she could only blame herself for her bad luck. Although her results were not good, as long as she could pass the test, it would be fine. What she wanted to know most now was Xiao Yan's soul value.

Seeing Cao Ying step aside and having no intention of retesting, Xiao Yan did not take it too seriously and walked directly to the stone tablet and placed his hand on it.

At this time, everyone in the hall turned their eyes to Xiao Yan. After all, Xiao Yan's origins were mysterious, and almost all the major events that had happened recently were related to Xiao Yan. However, what you hear is not as good as what you see. Today, we will know whether Xiao Yan is a mule or a horse.

Xiao Yan closed his eyes slightly, and the soul power in his body swept out like a flood, flowing along his arms and into the stone tablet.

The crazy surge of soul power caused a terrifying soul storm to quickly form around Xiao Yan, which caused the space to distort and the hard floor to shatter with a bang.

The terrifying soul storm quickly spread in all directions, shaking everyone in the square back. Cao Ying and Dan Chen knew that Xiao Yan was extraordinary and were well prepared, but they only lasted a moment before being blown away by the powerful soul storm.

"Damn it!" Cao Ying was pushed back dozens of steps before she finally stopped. She originally wanted to stay still like Xiao Yan. After all, she was too proud to allow herself to be weaker than others. But today, she suffered a setback in front of Xiao Yan and she felt very uncomfortable.

However, when Cao Ying looked at Dan Chen who was also shocked away, she found that Dan Chen had been staring at the stone tablet in the center of the square with a dazed look on his face.

Cao Ying followed Dan Chen's gaze and looked at the stone tablet. Looking at the large blood-red characters on the stone tablet, her heart felt as if it was hit hard by a hammer.

"1999!"

This terrifying number is almost twice that of Cao Ying. Although there were some unexpected results in Cao Ying's test, it is still scary.

Not only was Cao Ying shocked, but everyone in the hall also fell into silence. Everyone knew what this terrifying number meant.

"Even this old man can't reach this soul value! I didn't expect Xiao Yan to have reached the eighth-grade intermediate alchemist at such a young age, and he is only one step away from the advanced level. It's really scary!" Elder Sheng Yao looked at the blood-red characters on the stone tablet, and his heart was suddenly filled with emotion. Ye Zhong looked at the blood-red characters on the stone tablet and smiled from ear to ear. This meant that the position of the Ye family in the five major families was stable.

"Haha, not bad! Not bad! In this soul test, the Ye family's representative Xiao Yan ranked first, and I think this record will be maintained for a long time in the future." Elder Sheng Yao stroked his beard and laughed.

As soon as Elder Sheng finished speaking, the entire hall was in an uproar, and everyone secretly sighed at the good luck of the Ye family. At this critical moment, they were able to invite such a powerful young man.

"The soul test has ended, and the next test is called soul control." Elder Sheng Yao looked at Xiao Yan and the others with a smile, and then took out a pitch-black iron bead from his storage ring.

The surface of the iron bead is extremely smooth and pitch black, as if it can devour a person's soul, and it gives people an extremely heavy feeling.

"This is a pillar made of soul steel, called a soul-detecting bead. It is very light in your hand, but if you want to use soul power to pick it up, it will be like a thousand-pound giant. Many soul-detecting beads will be sprinkled from the ceiling soon, and whoever catches the most will have the best score." Elder Sheng Yao introduced with a smile.

At this point, Elder Sheng Yao looked at Cao Ying and then at Xiao Yan. He knew that the two had been competing with each other. In the last assessment, Cao Ying won first place by taking 89 pills at once, and this record has been maintained ever since. Now, two years have passed, and the results will be even better.

"By the way, let me remind you, don't think about catching them all at once. This is the stupidest thing to do." Elder Sheng Yao looked at Xiao Yan and the others and gave them a kind reminder, then quickly stepped back.

As soon as Elder Sheng Yao stepped out, many densely packed black holes appeared on the ceiling above the hall. Black iron beads kept falling from these holes, pouring down like a rainstorm.

Faced with the iron beads scattered from the ceiling, Bai Ying and Qiu Ji chose to take action first, while dodging the iron beads to prevent them from hitting them. If the iron beads hit them, the body would be fine, but the soul would suffer, and the pain was indescribable.

Xiao Yan did not do what Bai Ying and Qiu Ji did. He just stood there and used his soul power to condense two huge dragon claws. One dragon claw grabbed the steel ball that fell from the ceiling, and the other dragon claw was responsible for holding the iron bead.

Seeing that Xiao Yan did not dodge or evade, Cao Ying and Dan Chen's fighting spirit was immediately aroused. Cao Ying had already started fighting with Xiao Yan, and was trying to oppose him in every way.

As for Dan Chen, although he looks weak on the surface, he immediately becomes energetic once he encounters something related to alchemy.

The five people continued to catch the iron beads that fell from the sky. As time went by, Bai Ying and Qiu Ji's soul power was a little weaker, and their faces turned red. After the two of them persisted in catching one or two iron beads, their bodies began to tremble. Knowing that they had reached their limit, the two did not continue to persist. After all, with their results, they had passed the assessment, and there was no need to force a competition with monsters like Xiao Yan.

If you are not careful and overdraw your soul power, and drop all the iron beads on the ground, then you will be in trouble.

(End of this chapter)