David Bolton paid special attention to David Foster, but there were simply too many people, and he didn’t catch sight of her. Not long after, David Bolton suddenly heard a girl’s scream from not far away. Startled, he turned to look and saw Emily Clark rushing toward him through the crowd. She threw herself into David Bolton’s arms, then bounced and jumped around, her face full of excitement, almost as if she’d gone mad.

It took quite some effort for David Bolton to wait until she calmed down. Only then did he frown and ask, “Why are you so happy? Acting all crazy? Did you already pass your three martial trials?”

“Emily is from the Hui Ling class, after all. How could I not pass?”

Emily Clark giggled and shook David Bolton’s arm. “But I didn’t expect that you, Brother David, actually defeated Mo Gong! Everyone’s saying your blade skills have reached the level where intent and action are unified. Is that true?”

Clearly, in her eyes, David Bolton’s victory this time was even more worth celebrating than her own success in the trials.

“I’m not sure, but I suppose so?”

David Bolton still answered this way. After all, it was hard for him to judge whether he’d truly reached the “unity of intent and action” realm; it was more apparent to others.

“Then it must be! To defeat Mo Gong, it would be impossible without reaching that level.”

Admiration filled Emily Clark’s eyes. “No one in our recent Hui Ling classes has reached the unity of intent and action! You really are amazing, Brother David! I should have known—you were already so strong three years ago.”

Hearing this, David Bolton felt quite pleased, his mind a little dizzy. Being looked at by this girl with such eyes felt pretty good.

“It’s actually not that hard. If you want to learn, Big Brother can teach you. I guarantee you’ll have the basics down within two years.”

“Really?”

Emily Clark’s eyes lit up at his words. Then, as if remembering something, she pulled out several small bundles from her sleeve and stuffed them all into David Bolton’s arms.

“What’s this?”

David Bolton looked puzzled and squeezed the bundles, discovering that they seemed to contain some pill bottles.

“They’re pills to increase spiritual power!”

Emily Clark grinned, her eyes shining with hope like autumn water. “Emily will definitely help Brother David pass the disciple trial!”

Chapter 0008: The Mo Family’s Young Lady

“Spiritual pills?”

David Bolton wondered how there could be so many. He simply opened the bundles one by one and found that inside were nine bottles of Yang Ling Dan, four bottles of Yun Ling Dan, one bottle of Sheng Ling Dan, and one bottle of Xuan Yuan Dan.

The pill bottles varied in size, and the number of pills inside differed, but there were quite a lot in total. Especially the seven “Sheng Ling Dan” pills, which were extremely valuable and commonly used by many official spirit masters.

There was also the matching Xuan Yuan Dan, which could ease the effects of Sheng Ling Dan, allowing ordinary people to take them—these were even rarer and more expensive.

David Bolton was silent for a while before looking up and asking, “How many of these are borrowed?”

“Ninety percent, I guess? Anyway, don’t worry, Brother David. I have lots of sisters in the Hui Ling class, and they all come from good families and have plenty of spiritual pills. Especially the Yang Ling Dan—we don’t need them anymore.”

Emily Clark tilted her head and explained nonchalantly, “Once we become official spirit masters, we’ll just return them. These things are hard to get outside the mountain, but once you’re a spirit master, they’re easy to come by.”

Hearing this, David Bolton couldn’t help but shake his head, but a wave of warmth rose in his heart. This girl hadn’t come looking for him all afternoon—she’d probably been out borrowing these spiritual pills for him.

After thinking for a moment, David Bolton then stuffed the four bottles of Yun Ling Dan and Sheng Ling Dan back.

He could keep the Yang Ling Dan; with Emily Clark’s current spiritual power, she really didn’t need them anymore.

But Emily Clark puffed up her cheeks and refused to take them back, until David Bolton stared at her for a long time. Only then did she reluctantly take the bottles back—except for the Sheng Ling Dan.

“I can’t use these pills either. Yun Ling Dan is enough for me. As for Sheng Ling Dan, I’ll use them after I become a spirit master. I borrowed them from my best friend—it’d be embarrassing to return them unused! Besides, Brother David, you just happen to need them now.”

“What do you mean?” David Bolton asked, a little puzzled. “Why do I have to use them?”

“It’s because your final opponent in the trials is most likely Olivia Hall! Mo Gong’s cousin.”

Emily Clark pointed in the direction of Mo Gong’s stretcher. “Look, that great beauty next to Mo Gong. I heard she’s the legitimate young lady of the Mo family.”

David Bolton looked into the distance and indeed saw a tall girl standing beside Mo Gong’s stretcher. She was truly beautiful, no less than his own Emily Clark, but had an icy, aloof air.

“She’s really strong—even stronger than Mo Gong! She mastered spiritual power projection six months ago, and a month ago, when she sparred with another genius from our class, she used five different spiritual techniques. One was spiritual pressure, another was spiritual vision!”

Then Emily Clark concluded, “But since you’ve already mastered the unity of intent and action, wouldn’t it be a shame not to take first place in the trials?”