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"Please don't label me as a good person, thanks. I'm a big villain, specializing in abducting kids," Tang San teased Gu Yuena.
Gu Yuena: "(ˉ▽￣～) Tch~~"
Abducting kids? Ha.
She wasn't really a kid, so how could she be abducted? As for being a villain... Well, Gu Yuena didn't really care much about the morality between humans, considering herself a spirit beast. Besides, she felt Tang San treated her well and imparted some moral lessons, though sometimes his words could be infuriating, yet strangely not entirely dislikeable.
He was quite an interesting person.
Later, the two arrived at the secluded meditation chamber for soul power cultivation.
Tang San took out several dozen black spherical stones from his storage wristband, precisely the Soul Awakening Stones.
According to Tang San's research, these stones were also soul tools. When infused with soul power, they could condense the energy of heaven and earth into golden specks of light.
This energy could resonate with martial souls, thereby awakening the martial soul within a person's body.
In Tang San's view, the principle of condensing the energy of heaven and earth with awakening stones could be replicated to create formations like the Awakening Array or be applied to soul tools to enable them to recharge automatically.
Currently, Guang Ling was studying the patterns on the awakening stones...
"Stand in the center of the array."
Typically, to awaken a martial soul, a circle formed by six awakening stones would suffice. However, Tang San used thirty-six awakening stones arranged in a hexagram, a method devised with Electrolux's help to condense even more golden specks.
When Gu Yuena stepped into the center of the awakening stones, she immediately felt something different—
Even without the infusion of soul power, the thirty-six awakening stones seemed to be condensing the energy of heaven and earth, converging towards her body.
"Is this human wisdom?" Gu Yuena was amazed. Then she saw Tang San releasing the Blue Silver Emperor, with five soul rings floating around him: one yellow, two purple, one black, and one red, with two stripes on the red ring.
Following that, two adorable little girls emerged from the red soul ring.
Gu Yuena's pupils slightly contracted.
That was the complete soul of a spirit beast, enveloped in energy, condensed into a physical form with an unfathomable vitality, coexisting with Tang San himself in a peculiar way.
Was this a symbiosis between human and spirit beast? Moreover, could these two progress together with Tang San, even to the level of becoming gods? Such a method existed?
"Focus, I'm starting now."
With a reminder, Tang San infused soul power into the array formed by the thirty-six awakening stones.
Suddenly, countless energies of heaven and earth condensed into numerous golden specks, forming a golden vortex swirling around Gu Yuena.
Standing within the radiant vortex, Gu Yuena felt a slight tremor in her origin, as if it was being guided out.
Beast martial soul? Or tool martial soul?
Gu Yuena realized she didn't have much time to consider. With a thought, her origin floated to the surface and transformed into a silver long spear. The spear's body was entirely silver-white, adorned with dense elliptical dragon scales, each radiating colorful energy. The tip of the spear, about a third of its length, tapered into a cone with twelve grooves.
"A Silver Dragon Spear?" Tang San mused inwardly. Then he noticed Gu Yuena's hands as the silver dragon spear dispersed, numerous dragon scales adhering to her body, turning her hands into silver-clad dragon claws. Two wings, over two meters wide, sprouted from her back, and two sharp silver dragon horns grew from her forehead.
Twin martial souls?
No!
It's a fusion of tool martial soul and beast martial soul.
His Haotian Hammer, after hosting Austin Griffin, can transform into a beast form. Similarly, beings like the Silver Dragon King can naturally allow the Silver Dragon Spear martial soul to transform into a beast martial soul. After all, this is a part of the Silver Dragon King's essence, so there seems to be no major issue with the conversion between them.
Perhaps, a small portion of particularly powerful tool martial souls are transformed from beast martial souls.
"Is my martial soul very powerful?" Gu Yuena squinted her eyes, waiting for Tang San's praise. With a lift of her hand, the beast martial soul, Silver Dragon, separated from its attached state and transformed into the Silver Dragon Spear.
"Very impressive. Yours is the third martial soul I've encountered that simultaneously possesses the qualities of a beast martial soul and a tool martial soul," Tang San nodded.
"The third?"
Gu Yuena was puzzled, "Who else has a martial soul similar to mine?"
"The Martial Soul Hall has a Titled Douluo named Bloodlust. His martial soul is a Snake Spear, possessing both a tool martial soul, Spear, and a beast martial soul, Snake. However, while in the snake state, he cannot fuse with his martial soul, but he should be able to exist within that energy-form snake state while in his martial soul's true body," Tang San explained, then released the Haotian Hammer, "And the second one is me, but I'm a special case..."
When Gu Yuena saw the Haotian Hammer for the first time, her mind trembled, and she couldn't help but take a step back.
As if sensing something, the Haotian Hammer trembled and split open, transforming into a land dragon-like creature with five heads, each curiously observing Gu Yuena.
"Let me introduce you. This is my second martial soul, the Haotian Hammer, and I've named it Nine Haos. It possesses extremely strong self-spirituality, even soul. If my Blue Silver Emperor represents life, then Nine Haos represents destruction," Tang San introduced the Haotian Hammer's situation, "Though Gu Yuena remained silent, she realized Tang San harbored grand ambitions, wanting to control both life and destruction simultaneously. Moreover, this representation of destruction, Nine Haos, contained an extremely formidable energy, mastering both power and elements, not inferior to the Dragon God in its heyday, especially excelling in the aspect of destruction.
Could there really be such terrifying martial souls in the world?
If their consciousness were to awaken, it would probably destroy the entire Douluo Continent!
"Nine Haos, don't scare the little girl," Tang San patted Nine Haos's five heads and retracted it into his body. Then, he took out a crystal ball, saying, "Although I've sensed your soul power fluctuations, let's still test it to have a clear idea."
Gu Yuena regained her senses and obediently placed her small hand on the crystal ball.
As Gu Yuena's soul power was absorbed into the crystal ball, its surface was covered with light, about two-thirds of it.
"Innate level twenty."
Tang San's crystal ball could test soul power up to level thirty.
"Why no reaction at all?" Gu Yuena was speechless. "I'm at Innate level twenty! Aren't there many people in the world at Innate level twenty?"
"Not many," Tang San said expressionlessly. "Actually, I have a poker face."
Innate level twenty?
This level of soul power was within Tang San's expectations. Honestly, even if Gu Yuena were at Innate level one hundred, he wouldn't be surprised, considering this fellow didn't need to cultivate at all.
While others strive to cultivate diligently, aiming to create a royal account, what about Gu Yuena? She's just playing on a secondary account, and moreover, she can directly inherit the experience points from the main account. The so-called "cultivation" before level one hundred is probably just for show in front of others.
Gu Yuena felt skeptical, but she didn't dwell too much on this topic. She continued, "By the way, when I awakened my martial soul, I saw the phantom of a silver dragon. She said she wanted to choose me as her successor, and in the future, my soul rings could manifest on their own, without needing to hunt spirit beasts."
"Is that so?" Tang San still wore a blank face, understanding inwardly that this little girl was trying to find a suitable excuse for the origin of her future soul rings.
That's fine. In the future, when they go to the Martial Soul City, such an explanation might seem fanciful to others, but as a successor to a divine inheritance, Bibi Dong would have a probability of over ninety percent to believe it.
"Why aren't you surprised at all?"
"I told you, I have a poker face."
"Liar! I saw you having a great time with those two women last night!"
"Hmm?"
Tang San squinted, "You're quite good at hiding your abilities. I didn't even notice. How about teaching me?"
Gu Yuena was stunned, "Do you have no shame? Most people would feel embarrassed and awkward when their secrets are exposed. Yet, you actually want to learn how to hide your aura from me?"
"Oh~ little Yuena, you know so much at such a young age. Why didn't you seem embarrassed when you saw it?" Tang San countered.
"Hmph, I'm still young and ignorant," Gu Yuena blushed momentarily, but the blush vanished in an instant. Then she said, "Teaching you the method of hiding your aura is not impossible. But I realized it when I was living as a 'wild child,' so it's quite precious."
The implication was an equivalent exchange.
"You eat mine, use mine, wear mine..."
"Fine, I'll teach you for free, consider it my debt to you. Can it offset the thirty million then?" Gu Yuena rolled her eyes, stating her condition.
"In the human world, one must think like a human. If you owe money, you should pay it back. After all, as she is now, it seems she really can't beat Tang San, unless she's willing to directly improve her cultivation. But that would expose her disguise, which is not worth the risk.
"The method of hiding one's aura, which I couldn't even detect, is indeed precious. But for me, it's optional, so it's not worth thirty million, at most a hundred thousand."
Gu Yuena's eyelids jumped at these words. "How can you haggle like this?"
"Isn't it just like you, bidding on yourself at the auction?" Tang San brought up Gu Yuena's embarrassing past, causing her to grind her teeth at how foolish she had been.
At that moment, Ling Meng rushed into the meditation chamber. Seeing Gu Yuena biting Tang San's wrist, she paused for a moment before reminding, "Lord Count, Master Yuehua, Tang Yuehua, wishes to visit you."
"Let her in."
Tang San scratched Gu Yuena's ticklish spot, making her giggle and release his wrist. She immediately jumped to the door and said to Lingmeng, "Could you take care of this little girl for me? I'll help her awaken her martial soul later... She's quite stubborn. Just a few words and she can't handle it, starting to talk back."
"Of course, Lord Count." Lingmeng smiled faintly and went to Gu Yuena's side, lifting her up and saying, "Little sister Yuena, shall we go to the backyard and swing on the swing? Is that okay?"
(End of this chapter)