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Within the borders of the Kingdom of Balak.
Soto City.
Mu Tian arrived here and found the shop where Flander sold soul devices, spending three thousand Gold Soul Coins to purchase a piece of impurity-laden yellow crystal.
"Panel Crystal, the protagonist's opportunity, is mine now," Mu Tian exclaimed excitedly. Although he paid a bit more, he was thrilled because inside this panel crystal lay a naturally occurring hidden weapon called Dragon Whisker Needle. In its normal state, it appeared as small spherical beads, but when infused with soul power, they transformed into threads as fine as hair.
However, upon smashing open the panel crystal, Mu Tian discovered that the golden beads scattered rapidly, some even flying out of the window or falling into crevices—there was no time to intercept them. When he finally gathered them, he counted only fifteen.
Instantly, Mu Tian's face darkened.
While the Dragon Whisker Needle was a natural hidden weapon, collecting it was extremely difficult. Furthermore, Mu Tian realized he had no idea how to wield the hair-thin needles even after infusing them with soul power.
Hidden weapons looked cool, but without the corresponding techniques, even with soul power infused, they could only be thrown with brute force, resulting in a frighteningly low accuracy rate.
Realizing that the Dragon Whisker Needle wasn't particularly useful for him, Mu Tian felt somewhat disappointed. Nevertheless, he stored the fifteen beads into his storage soul device and then checked out from the hotel counter, preparing to go to the Rose Hotel to meet Dai Mubai.
"Now, I'm following Tang San's path," Mu Tian murmured to himself. "Tang San was also a transmigrator, and seeing the current situation, he doesn't plan to follow the path of Shrek Academy. So, I'll take his place, befriend Dai Mubai, recruit Oscar and Ma Hongjun, and then pursue Zhu Zhuqing."
Thinking of Zhu Zhuqing, Mu Tian recalled the manga and anime images of her from his past life, cursing himself for being foolish.
Why chase after that little witch Ning Rongrong? Could his small frame handle her princess-like temperament?
Isn't it better to pursue Zhu Zhuqing? She's the true epitome of youthful beauty with ample bosoms! Coupled with her aloof personality, isn't it like fire and ice?
As he arrived at the outskirts of Shrek Academy, he saw a group of people queuing, some even accompanied by their parents.
In front of him was a girl with blue hair, petite and delicate, like a fairy in the woods, exuding a natural charm.
A faint fragrance wafted into Mu Tian's nostrils, calming his mind, prompting him to greet the girl ahead: "Hello, are you also here for the Shrek Academy assessment?"
The girl with blue hair turned around, her beautiful face almost leaving Mu Tian dumbfounded. "That's right. I heard they only admit monsters here. Considering my strength at twelve years old and level thirty-one, I should be able to get in."
"Level thirty-one? That's impressive. I'm also level thirty-one. Wait a moment!" Mu Tian suddenly realized that during this period, there shouldn't be anyone with the strength of a Soul Elder just starting school. Could the person in front of him be a transmigrator?
"Odd or even?" Mu Tian decided to test.
"Hmm?"
"Don't know? How about 'The king's covering the earth, the tiger hiding in the corner'?"
"Is this some new and secret phrase?" The girl with blue hair was a bit curious.
"No, it's not. Just forget it when I go crazy..." Mu Tian awkwardly smiled, then changed the subject. "What's your name? I'm Mu Tian."
"I'm Lan Yinzhi."
The girl with blue hair revealed her name.
"Lan Yinzhi, such a nice name."
"Hehe." Lan Yinzhi could sense Mu Tian's awkwardness and chuckled a few times before turning away, no longer engaging in conversation. However, her smiling face turned gloomy inside, thinking to herself: A transmigrator?
Lan Yinzhi had her own secret—that she wasn't actually human but a hundred-thousand-year soul beast in human form, undergoing her second transformation, albeit in a peculiar way.
Her true form was the Blue Silver Emperor, previously transformed into Ah Yin, married to Tang Hao, and bore a son. However, she was later sacrificed to her husband, her essence condensed into a seed.
Her husband, despondent, planted her in a cave with moisture, and later, someone uprooted her and swallowed her anew.
Yet, being a hundred-thousand-year soul beast reborn, even though her cultivation of a hundred thousand years was gone, a trace of her spiritual power remained.
If the person who uprooted her had simply burned her body, she would have died. Without a vessel, her spiritual power, no matter how strong, would be useless and would simply dissipate.
But why did that person swallow her?
Thus, relying on her slight spiritual power as a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, she gradually took over the soul of the person who swallowed her, luckily for her, that person's soul was Blue Silver Grass; otherwise, it would have been incredibly difficult to succeed.
As the Blue Silver Emperor, she could sense all Blue Silver Grass, including souls.
Therefore, after taking over the soul of the person's Blue Silver Grass, she began to constantly erode his mind. It took her six years to finally complete the possession.
When she woke up, she realized that the body she had taken over was merely that of a little girl, but this girl's spiritual power was not bad, and she possessed many unfamiliar pieces of knowledge.
Among them was the Douluo Continent series.
After organizing those memories, the Blue Silver Emperor chose a new name for herself, Lan Yinzhi, to conceal her identity.
In the Douluo series, she watched, unsure how to treat her son Tang San. Soul-wise, he might not be her biological son, but physically and in terms of bloodline, he was indeed her child.
Moreover, in the Douluo Pentalogy, Tang San was quite good to her; he resurrected her, reunited her with Tang Hao, and even helped her achieve the will of the Douluo Continent. Even one of the Dragon God's avatars, the Silver Dragon King, would call her 'ancestor' in the distant future.
Apart from the Douluo Pentalogy, Lan Yinzhi also saw many fan works from the transmigrator's perspective. The protagonists in those stories mostly climbed to power using her son, with their mouths disparaging Tang San while their actions were even worse, which was actually praising him.
Even if Tang San was truly a usurper, he was responsible for his biological parents' bodies. But what about those transmigrators?
Most of them came to chase after women. Having multiple partners might be acceptable for strong individuals, but their moral compasses were exploding.
Was there any need for such comparisons?
Tang San might be an usurper, but you transmigrators awakening your past lives' memories and reincarnating, right?
She'd rather believe that Tang San also awakened his past life's memories!
In these fan works, she was depicted as a fool, lacking any ability to think independently. Some "versions" of herself were even tempted by the transmigrators and wanted to kill Tang San for revenge for her own biological son.
That's even more absurd.
She was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast in human form!
She didn't have human-like moral standards. For descendants, as long as the bloodline matched, the soul and spirit didn't matter much.
What's more, didn't Tang Hao intentionally do that in the first place, passing her identity to the Spirit Hall, aiming to force her into sacrifice... Although it was indeed very coincidental, but with Tang Hao's mind, how could he think of so much?
He was just a brute!
A guy who swings a hammer at the slightest disagreement, would he come up with such a plan?
She'd rather believe it was Tang Hao's father!
It was precisely because of this that she fell in love with him in the first place, not the more stable-minded Tang Xiao.
However, Lan Yinzhi understood that after taking over the body of this transmigrator, she was also influenced by his memories, developing a bit of "rejection" towards Tang San...
The conditions for the Blue Silver Emperor's possession were quite strict: the quality of her own spiritual power couldn't be poor (according to the original work, after resurrection, the Blue Silver Emperor retained all memories from before sacrifice and after sprouting, so she probably had strong spiritual power, but due to insufficient cultivation before being transplanted into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, her spiritual power was relatively scarce at that point, making it difficult to unleash its full potential, or perhaps she simply didn't know how to utilize spiritual power more effectively and could only rely on instincts, such as sensing similar kinds... judging from the Skydream Ice Worm, another spiritual attribute soul beast with such strong spiritual power but mixed poorly, the Blue Silver Emperor probably wasn't much better off), and the martial soul of the person being possessed had to be the same as the original body's, at least from the same category.
Typical hundred-thousand-year soul beasts couldn't be replicated.
Perhaps savage beasts could—
Like the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, nearly a million years old, intending to possess Tang San during his final divine examination, but it failed since it was happening right under the previous Sea God Poseidon's nose.
(End of Chapter)