# Chapter 1026: The Wonderful Use of Martial Souls
At this moment, Hou Qinglin's footsteps came to a halt as he walked toward the vast cluster of buildings on the left.
"We've arrived. It's this palace ahead." Hou Qinglin spoke, then stepped forward and pushed open the palace doors.
The crowd was puzzled in their hearts. They had actually come to a palace. They wondered what exactly Hou Qinglin's round of assessment would be.
Several thousand people filed into the great hall. They saw that the hall was extremely spacious, not luxurious, but radiant with light shooting in all directions.
The moment the crowd stepped into the palace, their eyes immediately sharpened. They saw that on all four sides of the palace were various patterns. Those patterns were all extraordinary, and at a single glance, they made their hearts pound with excitement. They must be some powerful divine ability techniques.
"Everyone, come in." Hou Qinglin strode into the great hall. After the crowd entered, their eyes were fixed on the mural walls on all sides, as if unwilling to look away.
"This is a place where I and my fellow senior and junior brothers often come to exchange martial arts insights. Occasionally, we inscribe some martial arts divine abilities on the walls using gestures or sacred mark power. Right now, I am bringing you in to let you carefully contemplate and comprehend them."
The crowd's gazes contracted. So that was it. These were martial arts divine abilities inscribed by Hou Qinglin and his fellow disciples. No wonder they felt they were profound just from a single glance. Hou Qinglin and the others were incredibly powerful. Even the divine abilities they casually used were likely extraordinary. Those worth inscribing on the walls must be formidable techniques.
"I will give you two hours to cultivate and comprehend these techniques here. You must remember: during these two hours, you are to achieve the deepest comprehension possible. Seek depth, bring out your strongest power, and do not seek variety. Remember my words."
Hou Qinglin said to the crowd. Everyone nodded in agreement.
"One more thing: within these two hours, no fighting is allowed. After two hours, I will give you the opportunity to see who is an ant and let you fight to your heart's content. If anyone disobeys my words, I will personally throw them off the Heavenly Terrace!"
Hou Qinglin finished speaking, then his body flickered and disappeared, directly leaving the palace, giving the crowd two hours of time.
"After two hours, let you fight to your heart's content!" The crowd recalled Hou Qinglin's words and felt a shock in their hearts. Especially those with weaker cultivation levels felt somewhat panicked. If there was fighting, they would certainly be at a disadvantage.
Qiu Yuexin came to Lin Feng's side and asked, "Lin Feng, what do you think he means by this?"
Lin Feng shook his head. "Hou Qinglin is a reasonable person. Since this round of assessment is decided by him, he would never do anything unfair. We just need to follow his instructions. Within these two hours, cultivate the divine abilities inscribed on these walls to maximize our combat power."
"En, I think so too. This is the first time Stone Emperor and Yu Emperor are recruiting Martial Emperor's Disciples. Although they have entrusted it to their personal disciples, I think they have also deliberated. They wouldn't act arbitrarily." Qiu Yuexin nodded in agreement.
"Go pick the technique you find easiest to comprehend and cultivate. No one knows what we'll face next. Try your best to follow Hou Qinglin's instructions." Lin Feng's gaze began to search the walls. Soon, his eyes locked onto a set of patterns.
This set of patterns was very simple. It seemed to be a set of finger techniques. At the top of the patterns, fingers were inscribed, as if about to pierce through the void.
As Lin Feng looked at those fingers, he felt a powerful force about to burst out from the wall and destroy him. Moreover, from those patterns, he seemed to sense the power of the void.
"I'll take this one!"
Lin Feng locked onto that finger with his gaze, nodded to Qiu Yuexin, and then walked over in that direction.
"I enjoy sword cultivation and also understand a trace of void power. This finger seems to want to break through the heavens with a single point, possessing the indestructible intent of the sword path. At the same time, the patterns seem to contain a trace of void power. If I practice it, it should be quite suitable." Lin Feng thought to himself. Since he had chosen this set of patterns, he would cultivate it to its strongest level.
Arriving before that stone wall, Lin Feng sat cross-legged, preparing to immerse himself in cultivation.
"Even if an ant manages to climb to the Ninth Heaven by luck, it remains lowly. It only dares to pick the simplest techniques to cultivate. But what use is that?" A sarcastic voice came, causing Lin Feng's gaze to contract. He looked to the side and saw Yang Zilan not far from him, having also chosen a spot to cultivate.
In Yang Zilan's view, the sacred mark power and that finger Lin Feng was cultivating were too simple. It was just a set of powerful finger techniques. His Yang Clan had countless such techniques. He didn't even deign to look at them.
"Climbed to the Ninth Heaven by luck!" Lin Feng glanced at Yang Zilan, the corners of his mouth slightly curling. He smiled faintly and indifferently, then shifted his gaze without looking at Yang Zilan again. He didn't even bother to see what Yang Zilan was cultivating. It was just that Yang Zilan's mind was twisted and distorted because Lin Feng had climbed to the Ninth Heaven.
Seeing Lin Feng's actions, Yang Zilan's smile instantly froze. Disdain. Lin Feng was showing him naked disdain.
"Later, I'll make you die an ugly death and let you know what an ant truly is." Yang Zilan thought of the battle two hours later, and a brilliant smile couldn't help but appear on his face.
Lin Feng calmed his mind, his gaze fixed on the wall. He immediately entered a state of self-forgetfulness, sinking his entire mind and spirit into it.
At this moment, Lin Feng's pupils gradually deepened. The patterns and images seemed to slowly imprint themselves into his mind. His eyes also slowly closed.
In his mind, a special hand seal was forming. A phantom finger appeared indistinctly, flickering and unstable. Suddenly, that finger shot forward through the void, carrying a terrifying sharp aura as it stabbed out.
"Void Finger Technique!"
Lin Feng's heart trembled. The moment this finger was unleashed, it seemed to penetrate into the void, possessing the power of the void. The next time it appeared, it would directly obliterate the target.
"Impressive!" Lin Feng was shocked. There was indeed a hidden mystery within it. Just as he had sensed, the pattern imprint triggered void power, allowing this finger to tear through the void and strike directly, killing without a trace.
Among Heavenly Martial Realm cultivators, very few could touch upon the power of the void.
Lin Feng sank his mind into it, quietly sensing that trace of sacred mark void power.
In his mind, that scene kept replaying. Although Lin Feng's comprehension was now powerful, if he wanted to comprehend the power of the void and unleash this Void Finger Technique within two hours, it was fundamentally impossible.
Unconsciously, the Heavenly Book Martial Soul slowly opened. That desolate world appeared there once again.
That set of patterns slowly imprinted itself into the martial soul, expanding and presenting itself within the martial soul. Every stroke was clearly outlined. The trajectory of the sacred marks was completely revealed.
Lin Feng trembled violently. The martial soul was presenting sacred mark power. He had never discovered this before. The martial soul actually had such a divine ability.
Previously, he thought the Heavenly Book Martial Soul could only restore treasures like the Heavenly Jade Stone and the Demon Sealing Stele. But now, this martial soul could even outline sacred mark techniques.
His heart trembled slightly. If the martial soul could even present sacred marks, then wouldn't cultivating sacred mark power in the future become much simpler?
But soon, Lin Feng calmed the fluctuations in his heart and immersed himself in comprehending those sacred marks. At this moment, the sacred marks seemed to be dissected, their trajectories clear. Lin Feng's hand seemed to move, a finger slowly forming a special pattern, from unfamiliar to familiar, gradually taking on an unpredictable quality.
In the blink of an eye, an hour passed. Lin Feng stopped cultivating, a smile appearing on his face.
"I didn't expect this martial soul to have such a wonderful use." Lin Feng's smile was especially bright. He had never discovered this before. Even though this Void Finger contained sacred marks, he had still comprehended it quickly through the martial soul. This meant that from now on, cultivating any divine ability technique would be much faster.
He glanced at Yang Zilan beside him, who was still cultivating. Others were also still at it, clearly all remembering Hou Qinglin's words.
"It seems there's still time to cultivate another divine ability technique." Lin Feng said with a smile, then began searching with his gaze again!
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