Library of Heaven’s Path 2: Eternal Destiny

Chapter 61: Someone Poked My Belly

The essence blood of the Qingguang Beast and Lingyun Beast was extremely valuable. When sold, each drop was precise, with no excess. In contrast, essence blood from creatures like the Luo Zhi Bird and Hanbei Turtle, which were less popular, often came with promotions, sometimes even giving extra drops for free.

This meant that the bottles from Liu Mingyue and Yu Xiaoyu, labeled as containing one drop, actually had at least two drops.

Zhang Xuan had been focused on helping them ignite their furnaces and hadn't noticed, casually tossing the bottles aside after using one drop. He hadn't realized there was leftover essence blood, which Chen Hao now had.

"Two drops left?"

"Is it really Qingguang Beast and Lingyun Beast essence blood?"

"Miss Yu and Miss Liu both ignited top-grade peak furnaces. It can't be fake."

The crowd was abuzz. The wealth of these noble families was incredible, using one drop and discarding another.

"What's the matter? No one wants to try? Don't worry, I've been at the academy for three years, reached the fourth level of the source pool, and helped teachers ignite furnaces for junior students. I have practical experience…"

"I want to try…"

"Me too…"

These students, from modest backgrounds, rarely had the chance to ignite even a mid-grade source pool. The opportunity to ignite a top-grade pool was too tempting to pass up.

"Alright, you two." Chen Hao selected two keen-looking boys and bowed to Lu Mingrong, "Dean Lu, I would like to try helping them ignite the furnaces. May I?"

"This…"

Knowing Chen Hao was targeting Zhang Xuan, Lu Mingrong frowned and looked at the young man. Seeing Zhang Xuan's calm demeanor, showing no displeasure, he nodded, "It's understandable for students to want to try. However, if you can't succeed, to avoid wasting the essence blood, I will step in personally."

Though he spoke of preventing waste, Lu Mingrong's real concern was avoiding Zhang Xuan's displeasure. If Chen Hao did manage to ignite the furnaces, Lu Mingrong intended to step in and claim the credit himself.

This way, the public lecture wouldn't be as awkward.

"Of course..." Chen Hao felt relieved and nodded eagerly, excitement showing in his eyes.

As an admirer and follower of Liu Mingyue, he had resented this auxiliary teacher since the humiliation yesterday.

He had hoped to embarrass Zhang Xuan during today's public lecture, but now it seemed the tables had turned. He couldn't resist stepping forward. If he did well this time, Mingyue might think more highly of him…

Thinking of this, he glanced at Liu Mingyue. Despite her injuries, her face was still bruised and swollen. Her eyelids trembled with nervousness, and it was unclear what she was thinking.

"Don't worry about me!" Chen Hao snorted lightly and approached the two new students. He took out the formation flags he had prepared and began setting up. After about ten minutes, he had completed a small formation for igniting furnaces, the "Furnace Ignition Fire Formation".

"Unexpectedly, Chen Xiao's son has set it up quite well…" Lu Mingrong thought to himself.

Chen Xiao, the head of the Chen family, was influential. For a student to help others ignite their furnaces and openly challenge a teacher, it was naturally due to Chen Xiao's influence.

The method Chen Hao used was the standard furnace ignition technique, and the Furnace Ignition Fire Formation ensured a higher success rate.

Lu Mingrong had used the same method to help Mo Yanxue train.

He initially thought the student's challenge was a joke, but now he saw that Chen Hao knew what he was doing, following the correct sequence without error.

"You come first!" Chen Hao called one of the new students to sit by the formation, closed his eyes, and activated it with a light touch. A glow like a firefly's appeared, activating the formation.

"Let's use the Lingyun Beast essence blood! Normally, someone of your status wouldn't even have heard of this, let alone used it. Consider yourself lucky!"

Chen Hao said as he opened the jade bottle from Liu Mingyue. A drop of essence blood immediately appeared at the center of the formation.

Buzz!

Enveloped by the formation, the essence blood released a greenish glow, transforming into tiny flames floating in the air.

This was the basic method of igniting a furnace… the "Fire Blood Flame" technique!

"Impressive!"

"No wonder he's Young Master Chen…"

Exclamations of admiration rose from the crowd.

Even some teachers couldn't perform this so smoothly. A student not only succeeded but did so with such precision, exceeding expectations. No wonder he dared to openly challenge.

Chen Hao sighed in relief.

Though he had learned the method, it wasn't always a guaranteed success. Achieving it on the first try this time was quite lucky.

"Get ready, I'm sending the ignition flame into your source pool now…" he said, grabbing a small flame and pressing it into the student's shoulder acupoint.

The Fire Blood Flame traveled through the meridians, transforming into tiny stars within the source pool. Knowing this process required patience, Chen Hao continued infusing flames for nearly half an hour, sweating as he transferred all the flames into the student's body.

If visible, the student's source pool would be filled with tiny flames, like stars in the sky.

"Just one last step…"

Wiping sweat from his forehead, Chen Hao exhaled deeply and pressed his joined fingers against the student's source pool.

Immediately, refined true energy shot from his fingertips into the student's abdomen.

A spark can ignite the 'source'!

Normally, this energy would activate the stars, forming a furnace to refine source energy. But today, the result was disappointing. Despite Chen Hao's efforts, the student remained unresponsive, eyes closed, showing no reaction.

Having used all his strength without success, Chen Hao grew anxious.

The auxiliary teacher had casually given essence blood to Liu Mingyue, and she succeeded. Why was this student so unresponsive? Even after infusing all the energy into the source pool, there was no reaction.

Frustrated, he continued pressing, sending in more true energy.

One press, two presses, three presses…

Soon, he had pressed over 30 times, sending over 30 streams of source energy, but the student remained motionless.

Sweat formed on his forehead. By all logic, the ignition should have happened long ago… Why wasn't it working?

This was Lingyun Beast essence blood, far stronger than anything he'd used before.

After a dozen more presses, feeling his energy nearly depleted and seeing no change, Chen Hao couldn't hold back any longer.

"Do you feel anything?"

"Me?"

The new student kept his eyes closed and said, "It feels like... someone is poking my belly."