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After helping the two brothers up, Tang San infused them with soul power containing vitality to assist in treating their external injuries, saying, "How was it? Sounds simple, but doing it is another matter, right?"
Shi mo nodded excitedly, "Indeed, it is. And it's very powerful too. I used only a little soul power just now, probably less than Rank 5. My brother should be about the same. I didn't expect the rotational force to be so strong, being able to fling us both out for thirty to forty meters. If we can control it well in the future, we can perfectly protect ourselves and create absolute defense. High-speed rotation can fling away the enemy's attacks, or even rebound them."
Shi mo was also delighted, "Moreover, within that soul power ball, my brother and I felt a faint connection between our martial souls. Although the connection disappeared as soon as the soul power fusion stopped, Captain, your speculation was correct. By following this method, my brother and I might really be able to achieve martial soul fusion."
This is martial soul fusion!
An extremely rare skill in the world, unexpectedly available to them, they were truly fortunate!
Truly worthy of being a master of martial soul cultivation theory!
Next was Zhu Zhuqing.
Compared to others, after obtaining the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's soul ring, Zhu Zhuqing's martial soul's speed, strength, defense, energy, and special attributes all reached nine or above, and they continued to strengthen with the increase in soul power.
Moreover, there was no weakness like other powerful martial souls in the early stages, where they consumed a lot of soul power. Once her martial soul was attached, she could autonomously draw on the energy of heaven and earth to maintain itself without consuming her own soul power.
However, she couldn't use this maintained energy of heaven and earth for cultivation.
It's as if there were two separate systems for the circulation of energy within her martial soul, with one for refining heaven and earth energy to enhance her own soul power during meditation, and the other for autonomously absorbing heaven and earth energy to maintain the attached state of her martial soul, thereby reducing the consumption of Zhu Zhuqing's soul power.
It can be said that Zhu Zhuqing's current Dark Demon Evil God Tiger martial soul, with its two separate energy circulation systems, can be likened to a lever.
As long as Zhu Zhuqing finds that "refining circuit," which is the point between the two energy circulation systems, she can use her weak soul power to leverage the energy of the entire world.
"Isn't this too exaggerated?" Although Zhu Zhuqing already had unconditional trust in Tang San, the idea of using her soul power to move the energy of the entire world seemed too far-fetched.
"This is not a fantasy," Tang San shook his head, "but reality. However, to achieve it, even if I point out the direction, it will take a lot of time for you to explore."
After that, Tang San took out a small stick and demonstrated a lever experiment for Zhu Zhuqing, deepening her understanding of the two energy circulation systems within her martial soul. He said, "The balance of a lever depends on the weight or force applied at both ends, multiplied by the distance length on each side of the fulcrum."
"In theory, disregarding airflow factors, if there were an extremely hard, unbreakable, and infinitely long stick, and the refining circuit were fixed somewhere unassailable, even an ordinary person could leverage the energy of the entire world."
"What you need to do is find the 'refining circuit' of your martial soul's two circulation systems and move it to the point where your soul power can exert the minimum force to leverage the energy of the outside world."
"The energy of the outside world is equivalent to the weight, the maintenance loop is equivalent to one side of the lever arm with the weight, and the refining loop is the other side of the lever arm. Your own soul power is the force that needs to be applied."
"Finding the 'refining circuit' and moving the 'refining circuit' will be your future path."
"As for whether you can move the 'refining circuit' after finding it... I think it's possible to move it with external force. After all, martial souls are magical entities between matter and energy, and each addition of a soul ring leads to evolution."
"Therefore, even if you can't move the 'refining circuit' after finding it, you can still easily leverage a certain range of heaven and earth energy."
The more Zhu Zhuqing listened, the more she felt that this was achievable. But how should she proceed?
"The most important thing is to strengthen your mental power," Tang San said, holding up a finger. "With strong mental power, you can better 'see' the connection between yourself and your martial soul."
"Secondly, you need to improve your control over soul power."
"Climbing trees, walking on water, or controlling the transformation of soul power on your body are all ways to increase your control over soul power."
In fact, the best training method for Zhu Zhuqing would be to cultivate the Purple Demon Eye and the Crane Controlling and Dragon Catching techniques. However, unlike Xiao Wu and Guangling, Zhu Zhuqing did not grow up with Tang San since the age of five or six.
Tang San did not trust Zhu Zhuqing completely.
Finally, there's was Lan Yinzi..."
After planning out individual training paths for everyone, Tang San took a month-long vacation with Xiao Wu and Guangling.
Xiao Wu broke through to level fifty.
Guangling reached level forty.
Both of them needed to obtain soul rings.
"Don't you need me to come along?" Qin Ming asked.
"Thank you for your kind offer, Teacher Qin Ming, but the soul beast Guangling needs to hunt is in the Extreme North, where the Blaze Wolf won't be able to exert its strongest power," Tang San politely declined. The main reason was that Xiao Wu needed to return to the Star Dou Forest to condense her fifth soul ring, and Tang San couldn't let Qin Ming know about it.
"Then be safe on your journey," Qin Ming said, knowing that Tang San was very decisive and didn't insist further.
"Don't worry, we'll definitely come back safely."
At the school gate, Tang San bid farewell to Qin Ming and the Tian Dou Royal Academy's team, then left with Xiao Wu and Guangling.
At a fork in the road, Xiao Wu waved goodbye to Tang San and Guangling, then headed alone towards the Star Dou Forest.
"Brother San, is Xiao Wu okay by herself? You seem very confident in her ability to hunt soul beasts alone," Guangling asked. Although she didn't know Xiao Wu's true identity as a hundred-thousand-year soul beast in human form, she realized that something was off — Xiao Wu always hunted soul beasts and obtained soul rings without Tang San and her present.
During their time at the Nuoding Academy, Wang Sheng, Mo Hen, and others had mentioned that Xiao Wu came from a big family.
But she and Brother San seemed to have never met her family.
Could she be from some hidden family?
"Her identity is special. When she wants to tell you, she will," Tang San patted Guangling's head and looked at Xiao Wu's disappearing figure in the Star Dou Forest, then said slowly, "Although I know, I promised her not to tell anyone, including you, my disciple."
"I think I know..." Guangling, seeing how serious Tang San was and recalling Xiao Wu's personality and temper, as well as the behavior of the soul beasts she wrote about in "Xiao Rou's Bizarre Adventure" being recognized by Tang San, guessed Xiao Wu's true situation.
"Very clever."
Tang San praised, holding a finger to his lips, indicating silence.
Guangling nodded, her eyes showing a hint of mystery:
A hundred-thousand-year soul beast in human form, combined with a human, wouldn't give birth to babies, right?
Star Dou Forest, the core area.
In the center of the tranquil Lake of Life, Xiao Wu sat cross-legged on its surface, using her own hundred-thousand-year cultivation and the abundant energy around her to condense her fifth soul ring.
Half an hour later, a deep black soul ring emerged, and Xiao Wu stood up from the head of the Sky Azure Bull Python. Her martial soul manifested, and white fluff like sleeves grew on her arms, with two circles of golden flame-like hair at her wrists.
As her soul power surged, the golden hair on her arms burst into flames. Her fists were so fast that they left afterimages, and the energy on them could even condense into a giant rabbit burning with golden flames, which Xiao Wu blasted away.
Capable of both close combat and long-range attacks.
In close combat, her fists were accompanied by flames, and upon contact with the enemy, she could inject this energy into the opponent's body, disrupting their soul power condensation, interrupting their soul skills, and causing interference.
For long-range attacks, she could reach a straight distance of five hundred meters and explode, with a burst range exceeding fifty meters.
Although the range was far, if the target was more than sixty meters away from Xiao Wu, her accuracy would be very low.
However, Xiao Wu didn't mind this. After all, she specialized in assassination and disruptive agile attacks, supplemented by close combat control. She wasn't too eager for long-range output capabilities.
And this soul skill, named Flash Flame Fist, was derived from the Flash Flame Rabbit that Xiao Wu traced back to.
Stepping lightly on the head of the Sky Azure Bull Python, Xiao Wu landed on the shore.
"Have you condensed your soul ring?" Di Tian looked at the fifth soul ring on Xiao Wu's body. "A fifty-thousand-year-level soul ring, I didn't expect that, with your form as a Soft Boned Rabbit, you could reach this level. Among us savage beasts, if we had the same cultivation as you, we might not be able to take you down."
"I still have a long way to go," Xiao Wu learned a bit of humility from Tang San and said with a smile. Secretly, she cursed: Wait for me, I'll make you all call me Big Sister Xiao Wu in the future!
Although savage beasts were powerful, Xiao Wu, in human form, had been trained by Tang San and had also practiced techniques such as the Jade Bone Golden Skin Divine Secret Method, the Free and Unrestrained Wind Control, the Mysterious Heaven Technique, and the Middle Dantian Qi Storage. She was not weaker than an ordinary fifty-thousand-year-level soul beast.
If these techniques were cultivated to their peak and her cultivation reached the level of a Titled Douluo, combined with all her soul ring skills and her three-blade assassination techniques, defeating Di Tian wouldn't be impossible.
"After mingling in the human world for so long, you seem less and less like a soul beast," Di Tian said indifferently. "Soul beasts have always been straightforward and never humble."
"Oh, right, right." Xiao Wu pretended to be dumbfounded, echoing Di Tian. Deep down, she felt that these savage beasts were quite stupid, not as smart as humans at all.
Fortunately, she was no longer a stupid soul beast herself...
Hmm~
In the future, she should find a way to get Drming and Erming to transform as well. If they intend to overcome their heavenly tribulation, she should let them transform into human forms after becoming savage beasts, hide their auras, and live in the human world. That way, they would become smarter.
Di Tian was somewhat speechless, snorted, and said, "Your talent is not bad, but isn't the source of your hundred-thousand-year cultivation before transformation almost exhausted?"
Transformed soul beasts can condense up to seven soul rings. The energy couldn't come out of thin air; it originated from the hundred-thousand-year cultivation they accumulated during their time as soul beasts.
Before transforming, Xiao Wu was just an ordinary hundred-thousand-year soul beast. She had already used up nearly twenty thousand years of cultivation for her first four soul rings. Now, for the fifth soul ring, she had used up fifty thousand years.
She only had about thirty thousand years of cultivation source left.
Therefore, even if Xiao Wu could withstand hundred-thousand-year-level challenges by the time of her sixth soul ring, she could only condense a soul ring of around thirty thousand years.
And later, if she wanted to obtain the seventh soul ring, she might only be able to condense a soul ring of the thousand-year level.
"That is indeed a problem." Xiao Wu pondered with her head lowered, suddenly thinking of something. She said, "Lord Beast God, how about you find some hundred-thousand-year soul beasts or savage beasts who think they can't survive the heavenly tribulation and let them sacrifice themselves to me? With my talent, I might become a god in the future, and then I can resurrect them."
"You have quite the imagination." Di Tian raised an eyebrow, coldly chuckled without any politeness, then took Xiao Wu to a cave entrance and said, "Come, follow me inside. There's something that can increase your cultivation source inside."
As soon as they entered the cave, Xiao Wu felt a chill.
After walking for a while, Xiao Wu felt like they were going deeper, and it was getting colder. Ice crystals appeared around them, emitting a faint cold air.
However, the cave was still well-lit. There were luminous mineral crystals on both sides of the walls, making it bright despite the presence of ice crystals.
Two hours later, Xiao Wu and Di Tian arrived at a spacious area filled with frost. There were stalactites frozen above, with extremely sharp tips.
In front of them, more than ten soul beasts were absorbing an extremely pure energy, which almost condensed into substance, with very high quality.
Following the flow of energy, Xiao Wu looked toward the end and saw a huge fat worm, over twenty meters long, bound to an ice platform.
"You guys wait for me!"
"Don't give me a chance!"
"Otherwise, you'll know what cruelty is!"
"Damn it! I had ninety-nine thousand years of cultivation! My huge and plump body! Now, I'm only over twenty meters long. How am I going to meet Bing Bing in the future!"
The big worm kept grumbling, but no soul beast paid attention to it. Even Di Tian remained silent, as if this was normal.
"Is this an Ice Silkworm?" Having been with Tang San for a long time, Xiao Wu also knew some soul beasts, such as Ice Silkworms. Aren't these soul beasts supposed to live in the Extreme North? Why are they here in the Star Dou Forest? Moreover, it's obviously a hundred-thousand-year soul beast that can speak, and according to its own information, it's even a ninety-nine thousand-year savage beast.
Why is a ninety-nine thousand-year savage beast bound here?
Could it be the master they haven't met yet?
"I'm called Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, little sister," Tianmeng Ice Silkworm heard Xiao Wu's words and immediately corrected her, then said to Di Tian, "Why did you bring a transformed soul beast here? And judging from her situation, she's almost reaching maturity, her hundred-thousand-year cultivation is almost depleted, and that aura of hers... tsk tsk, in my nearly million-year-old life, I've never seen a transformed soul beast so human-like. If not for me being a spiritual type, I wouldn't have noticed."
"This guy has really lived for ninety-nine thousand years?" Xiao Wu looked at Di Tian with a serious expression. "Isn't it a living history of the Douluo Continent?"
"Don't listen to his nonsense. This bug's cultivation is just close to a million years. He was lucky enough to fall into an ice marrow area, eat and sleep, sleep and eat, before reaching ninety-nine thousand years of cultivation." Di Tian explained, "In terms of age, although it has indeed lived for a long time, it basically sleeps all the time and can't be considered an active history of the soul beast world. It's just a lucky guy with good luck."
"Bringing you here is to let you absorb his energy."
"This bug has a lot of cultivation, but it doesn't know how to use it. In terms of strength, it's not even as good as some powerful ten-thousand-year soul beasts. Leaving this energy on him is just a waste."
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm grumbled, "Humph! Another cheap slut who's lusting after my brother's body!"
Originally, Xiao Wu didn't want to do it, but Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's foul mouth made her angry.
So, without hesitation, Xiao Wu activated the remaining hundred-thousand-year cultivation source in her body, and quickly refined and fused Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's energy.
"Ah~ I was wrong, little sister, spare me!" Tianmeng Ice Silkworm felt its cultivation rapidly depleting and became afraid—this speed was much faster than the devouring speed of other soul beasts!
This was naturally the effect of the Xuantian gong.
In addition, part of Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's energy was also used by Xiao Wu to cultivate the Jade Bone Golden Muscle Divine Hidden Technique. It was estimated that after a month, Xiao Wu's entire body's jade bones would be fully condensed, and the hundred-thousand-year cultivation source would also be replenished, even surpassing a hundred thousand years and reaching two hundred thousand years.
As for Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's wailing, Xiao Wu ignored it because she was already immersed in the joy of rapid growth of her hundred-thousand-year cultivation source.
She didn't know if she would have the opportunity to absorb Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's energy again in the future, but Xiao Wu decided to absorb more. If her own hundred-thousand-year cultivation source was sufficient, then even if she became a Soul Saint, reached maturity, the remaining energy could still condense soul rings without having to hunt soul beasts.
Why not?
[Hey hey hey! Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, who asked you to insult Sister Xiao Wu? You brought this upon yourself!]
Zhu Zhuqing: Give me a refining circuit, and I will move the entire Douluo Continent!
(The end of this chapter)