Eric's outstanding performance in the Mystical Spirit Academy was like a huge boulder thrown into a calm lake, creating ripples one after another.
His name spread rapidly in the academy and became the focus of heated discussions among many students.
Some students admired him and took the initiative to make friends with him, hoping to learn something from him.
While others were jealous.
Especially those aristocratic children who had previously tried to suppress him regarded him as a thorn in their side and were constantly looking for new opportunities to cause trouble for him.
At a spiritual skill exchange meeting organized by the academy, Eric was invited to display his unique spiritual skill on stage. He stood in the center of the stage, slightly closed his eyes, adjusted his breathing. After a moment, his hands quickly danced, forming a series of complex hand seals.
As the hand seals changed, a layer of dark blue spiritual power light emerged around him.
The light gradually gathered and formed a vivid spiritual sparrow.
The spiritual sparrow soared high, circling around Eric.
Its feathers sparkled with a lively luster, as if woven with pure spiritual power.
Each time it flapped its wings, it brought a gentle spiritual power breeze.
The students in the audience could clearly feel the fluctuation of the spiritual power and couldn't help but exclaim.
However, some aristocratic children in the audience were secretly sneering.
They had already bribed the student in charge of controlling the spiritual power fluctuation in the venue.
At the critical moment when Eric was displaying his spiritual skill, they suddenly increased the spiritual power interference around.
Eric immediately felt a powerful external force pulling his spiritual power.
The form of the spiritual sparrow began to become unstable, and the light flickered, as if it might dissipate at any time.
But Eric didn't panic.
He quickly calmed down, mobilized the Spiritual Source Awakening System, and used the Spiritual Source Insight ability to accurately analyze the source and pattern of the spiritual power interference.
He changed the way of spiritual power output, concentrated the originally evenly output spiritual power into a powerful spiritual power core, and then based on this, reconstructed the form of the spiritual sparrow.
The spiritual sparrow instantly burst out a strong light, not only got rid of the spiritual power interference, but also became more vivid and lifelike.
It let out a clear chirp, as if demonstrating to those who were playing tricks secretly.
The audience in the audience was first stunned, and then burst into thunderous applause.
They were impressed by Eric's powerful strength and calm response ability in the difficult situation.
As his experiences in the academy increased, Eric gradually discovered some little-known secrets about the Mystical Spirit Continent.
One day, when he was looking up materials in the ancient library of the academy, he accidentally discovered an ancient book covered with dust.
The paper of this ancient book had turned yellow, and the handwriting on it was a bit blurred.
But Eric still managed to make out some records about the origin of the Mystical Spirit Continent.
According to the ancient book, the Mystical Spirit Continent was not like what it is now a long time ago.
It was a barren land without spiritual power, spiritual plants, or spiritual practitioners. Later, a mysterious spiritual star fell from the sky and landed on this continent.
This spiritual star contained huge spiritual power.
Its power gradually penetrated into the earth, giving birth to all things in the world, and then there was the present Mystical Spirit Continent.
But Eric still had doubts in his heart.
Where did this mysterious spiritual star come from?
And why did it choose to land on this continent?
While he was deeply thinking about these questions, he met a mysterious student named Aiden.
Aiden was always alone and seldom interacted with other students.
But there was a deep wisdom and mysterious aura in his eyes.
Once, Eric met Aiden in a remote corner of the academy.
Aiden seemed to see the confusion in his heart and took the initiative to talk to him.
"You are exploring the origin of the Mystical Spirit Continent, right?"
Aiden's voice was low and calm.
Eric was startled and quickly asked, "How do you know? Do you know something?"
Aiden smiled slightly and said, "I know much more than you think.
The record about the spiritual star you saw is just the surface.
That spiritual star did not accidentally land on this continent.
It was guided by a mysterious force. Behind this mysterious force, there is a huge conspiracy that concerns the fate of the entire Mystical Spirit Continent."
Eric was deeply attracted by Aiden's words and asked eagerly, "What conspiracy? Tell me quickly!"
Aiden looked around to make sure no one was eavesdropping and then said slowly, "Deep in the Mystical Spirit Continent, there exists a dark force.
This dark force has been secretly planning how to control the spiritual power source of the entire Mystical Spirit Continent and thus rule the whole continent.
They use various means to create chaos and start wars all over the continent to distract the spiritual practitioners so that they can carry out their plan.
And that spiritual star is a key part of their plan.
They summoned the spiritual star to this continent through a special ritual, aiming to open a passage to the dark abyss with the power of the spiritual star and release more powerful dark power."
Eric was greatly shocked after hearing this. He realized that the Mystical Spirit Continent he was in was facing an unprecedented crisis.
He clenched his fist and said, "We can't just sit back and do nothing. We must stop them!"
Aiden shook his head gently and said, "It's not that simple.
This dark force is extremely powerful.
They have been lurking on the continent for hundreds of years and have infiltrated every corner.
Moreover, their leader is a dark spiritual practitioner with unfathomable strength.
It is said that he has reached the peak of the Spirit Venerable Realm and has the powerful strength to destroy an entire city.
Our current strength is far from enough to compete with them.
"A glimmer of determination flashed in Eric's eyes and he said, "Then we will work hard to improve our strength and find allies. I believe that as long as we unite, we can stop their conspiracy."
Aiden looked at Eric's determined eyes and was slightly moved.
He said, "You have courage, but you should know that this path is full of hardships and dangers.
However, I can give you some help. I know some special methods of improving strength and some mysterious ruins hidden all over the continent.
These ruins may contain powerful spiritual skills, precious spiritual objects or special opportunities to improve spiritual power cultivation.
But most of these ruins have powerful restrictions and guardian spirit beasts. It is not easy to obtain the treasures in them."
Eric looked at Aiden gratefully and said, "Thank you, Aiden. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, I am willing to try."
Since then, while working hard on the academy courses, Eric began to explore those mysterious ruins hidden all over the Mystical Spirit Continent according to Aiden's guidance.
His adventure journey was full of challenges. Each time he entered a ruin, it was like entering an unknown world.
Some ruins were full of various trap.
A slight carelessness would trigger a fatal attack.
Some ruins had powerful guardian spirit beasts.
They were hostile to the intruders and would launch attacks without hesitation.
But with the powerful ability of the Spiritual Source Awakening System, his increasingly exquisite spiritual skills and tenacious perseverance, Eric turn danger into safety time and time again and obtained many precious treasures and powerful spiritual skills in the ruins.
During an exploration of a ruin, Eric encountered a huge flame spirit lion.
This spirit lion was burning with raging flames all over its body.
Each of its roars could cause a violent fluctuation of the spiritual power around. Eric knew that this was a tough battle.
He first used the Spiritual Source Insight ability to carefully observe the spiritual power operation law and attack pattern of the spirit lion.
He found that the flame spiritual power of the spirit lion was mainly concentrated in its abdomen and mouth, and these two parts were the main power points of its attack.
So Eric made a battle plan.
He first displayed a defensive spiritual skill and formed a solid spiritual power shield in front of him.
Then he quickly approached the spirit lion, trying to get around to its side and avoid its powerful frontal attack.
The spirit lion sensed Eric's intention and angrily waved its claws and pounced on Eric.
Eric nimbly dodged sideways.
At the same time, he formed a seal in his hand and displayed a freezing spiritual skill, trying to freeze the spirit lion's action.
After being hit by the freezing spiritual skill, the spirit lion's body was slightly sluggish, but it quickly broke free from the freezing constraint.
It opened its huge mouth and spat out a huge pillar of flame.
Eric was well-prepared. He mobilized the spiritual power in his body, gathered it to his feet, and displayed a spiritual skill that could increase speed, quickly retreated backwards and avoided the attack of the pillar of flame.
After a fierce confrontation, Eric finally found the flaw of the spirit lion.
He seized the opportunity, displayed his strongest attack spiritual skill - Spirit Piercing the Heavens.
A beam of light containing powerful spiritual power shot directly at the abdomen of the spirit lion.
After being hit by this beam of light, the spirit lion let out a painful roar.
Its body began to shake and the flames gradually went out.
Eric took the opportunity to launch the final attack and successfully defeated the flame spirit lion and obtained a precious flame spirit crystal from the ruin.