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After absorbing the soul ring from the cloud tree, the Blue Silver Emperor underwent another transformation. The golden veins were now adorned with dreamlike, cloud-like patterns, adding a touch of mystique.
However, the most significant change was the bright pearl at the top. Within it, a nebula formed by the sun, moon, and stars had transformed into twelve clusters. An energy-shaped shadow of the Blue Silver Emperor connected these twelve clusters, seemingly supporting twelve heavens, as if it were automatically evolving into a miniature, illusory universe.
"Perhaps, establishing an illusory world isn't as complicated as it seems," Tang San murmured.
"Tang San, what is your sixth soul skill?" Huo Wu interrupted his thoughts, looking at the Blue Silver Emperor in his hand and the one planted in the ground, noticing no difference. "Can your martial soul, like a food-type soul master's, manifest multiple entities at once? Is this the soul skill brought by the cloud tree?"
"Of course not. This is just a passive enhancement from the soul ring to my Blue Silver Emperor," Tang San explained with a smile, pointing to the Blue Silver Emperor planted in the ground. "This Blue Silver Emperor has materialized into a physical form. It's still my martial soul and can be recalled into my body, but it can also exist independently, unaffected by my soul power, like a real plant."
Huo Wu stepped forward, touched the Blue Silver Emperor, and pinched off a leaf, noticing sap oozing out. "It really has become a physical entity! But what's the use of that?"
"It seems quite useless to just become a physical entity, doesn't it?"
"Throw down the leaf you pinched off."
"Okay."
Huo Wu did as told and watched the leaf take root and grow into a new Blue Silver Emperor plant at a visible speed.
"The passive ability my Blue Silver Emperor gained after being enhanced by six soul rings is also present in these Blue Silver Emperors. My fourth soul ring bestowed the passive 'Falling Leaves Take Root' ability, which these Blue Silver Emperors have inherited."
Tang San began to explain further. With a thought, countless Blue Silver Emperor leaves sprouted within a kilometer radius. "Moreover, these two Blue Silver Emperors can use my soul skills, although they require my control."
"In addition, I can manifest energy entities within these Blue Silver Emperors through my mental power. I call this the 'Thought Form.'"
"In other words, if I plant my martial soul across the entire continent, my Thought Form, condensed from mental power, can appear anywhere on the continent and possess power not inferior to my true self."
"Since the Blue Silver Emperor can absorb the earth's power, and the Thought Form isn't a physical body, I won't get hurt."
"In essence, the passive enhancements from the soul rings, combined with my martial soul's abilities and my formidable mental power, allow me to know everything happening across the land without leaving my home."
Huo Wu was astonished and then laughed. "Won't this consume a lot of mental power?"
"So far, it doesn't increase my mental power consumption with distance." Tang San performed the nine steps of the Free Wind Movement Technique, instantly leaping a kilometer away, and then reappeared before Huo Wu in the blink of an eye. He looked at the Blue Silver Emperor planted in the ground, rubbed his chin, and gazed at the sky. "Perhaps it's because it's essentially my martial soul, so I can ignore the distance. Or maybe its extensive root system covers a vast area, allowing me to sense it... I wonder if I could still sense these Blue Silver Emperors if I left the planet."
"What an incredible ability... By the way, now that it has become a physical entity, the pearl on the Blue Silver Emperor should be a fruit, right? Can it be eaten? What's its effect?" Huo Wu reached up to pluck the pearl but found it firmly attached, no matter how hard she tried.
"I haven't studied that yet." Seeing Huo Wu struggle, Tang San handed her a dagger. "Try cutting it off."
Huo Wu took the dagger and, after much effort, only managed to scratch the stem of the pearl slightly.
"It's so hard!" Huo Wu returned the dagger to Tang San and summoned her Sun Goddess martial soul, using her first soul skill, Sun Star Ring. With increased control, the high-speed rotating ring, reduced to the size of a palm, cut at the stem of the pearl.
After ten minutes, the stem was finally severed.
Plop!
As the pearl fell, the entire Blue Silver Emperor instantly withered and vanished. Tang San could sense that the underground roots had also disintegrated.
Just as Huo Wu was about to stand up, she slipped and almost fell. Before she could discuss the pearl's use with Tang San, a bird flew by and dropped excrement on her exposed shoulder.
Tang San squinted and thought, "Brother Electrolux? Is Huo Wu having a streak of bad luck?"
"Once your Blue Silver Emperor takes root, it can absorb the light of the sun, moon, and stars, converting it into beneficial energy for the earth, even enhancing the concentration of the world's energy."
Electrolux offered his opinion. "For the entire Douluo planet, your Blue Silver Emperor represents its chance to advance. The continent's fortune will be bestowed upon you and your Blue Silver Emperor. Cutting down a Blue Silver Emperor you planted is equivalent to damaging Douluo's fortune."
"It's like the plot of that movie 'Final Destination' from your previous life."
"But it shouldn't be too serious; she'll probably just have bad luck for a day or two, since the plane consciousness of Douluo isn't that intelligent."
"Besides, I don't have extensive knowledge about fortune and such."
Huo Wu, disgusted, pulled out a handkerchief to wipe the bird droppings off her shoulder, cursing, "If I find that bird, I'll roast it!"
Caw caw!
At that moment, a flock of crows flew over.
Irritated, Huo Wu unleashed her third soul skill, Radiant Dance, sending beams of light shooting out and striking down all the crows.
"The so-called backlash of fortune must be something like this," Electrolux continued. "With enough strength, you can suppress bad luck... It's like suppressing fortune."
Tang San didn't think too much about it. He took the pearl from Huo Wu and noticed that the stem had fallen off, leaving the pearl perfectly round, like a piece of art.
The texture was as hard as diamond.
Tang San used all his strength but still couldn't crush it. He said, "It's extremely tough. Even a Titled Douluo wouldn't be able to break it. Only a Super Douluo of level 95 and above might succeed. Moreover—"
As he infused soul power into the pearl, the twelve heavens' illusion inside emitted a strong, yet not blinding, light. At night, it could certainly illuminate a wide area, making it as bright as day.
So, is this a natural soul-guiding lamp?
Tang San, unconvinced, injected his mental power into the pearl and found himself in an illusory starry sky. A Blue Silver Emperor with twelve leaves supported the surrounding barriers, each leaf bearing a nebula.
"This is the key to an illusory world!" Tang San returned to reality, then infused his mental power into another Blue Silver Emperor, delving into its pearl, and found himself in the same starry sky world.
Electrolux's consciousness also split a part to observe, saying, "Indeed, it's the same place. The pearl is merely the key to entering it."
Both Tang San and Electrolux realized that the illusory starry sky world existed within the origin of Tang San's Blue Silver Emperor. It was both real and unreal. Finding a way to solidify it into reality was the key.
When that happens, Tang San would become the master of that world!
"What's up?" Huo Wu asked curiously as Tang San stared at the pearl for a while. "You don't know what it does, do you?"
"Of course I do. It's the cornerstone of the future!" Tang San handed the pearl to Huo Wu, suggesting she focus and see if she could enter the starry sky.
Huo Wu, suspicious, glanced at Tang San, wondering if he was setting her up for a joke. But she complied, trusting that Tang San wouldn't attack her while she was focused.
Not that she would mind if he did...
Focusing her attention, Huo Wu gazed at the pearl and suddenly felt a pull. Her vision blurred, and she found herself in a peculiar starry sky world.
Outside, Tang San observed Huo Wu's body, noting her dazed eyes and the consumption of her soul power.
At the current rate, if Huo Wu didn't eat, drink, or rest, she could sustain herself for six months. On average, each level of soul power could last three days.
This consumption rate seemed manageable.
However, considering the exponential increase in soul power required at higher levels, an ordinary soul master of around ten levels could only last for two hours.
Is this what reasonable gameplay looks like?
Shaking off these thoughts, Tang San woke Huo Wu and asked, "How do you feel?"
"Wonderful," Huo Wu replied, feeling relaxed as if her soul had been cleansed by the starry sky, with a slight but noticeable increase in her mental power. "It also seems to enhance mental power."
"Indeed, it does. The more people enter, the more benefits I gain." Since Huo Wu entered the starry sky world, Electrolux had been observing. He noticed that as Huo Wu moved around, impurities in her soul were shed, which explained the slight increase in her mental power.
This enhancement wasn't an instant boost but rather a purification of her soul's impurities, naturally increasing her mental power.
These soul impurities, detrimental to soul masters like Huo Wu, were beneficial to Tang San's illusory starry sky world, enhancing its essence.
Like waste turning into excellent fertilizer for plants, helping them grow and ultimately bearing abundant fruit.
Huo Wu's mouth formed an "O" shape. After a while, she propped her chin and said, "This is an incredible ability. So, what is your actual soul skill?"
"My sixth soul ring's real soul skill—"
Tang San drew out the words, then smiled. "A hundred-thousand-year soul ring grants two soul skills. The cloud tree's sacrifice elevated the entire white cloud forest's energy to a two-hundred-thousand-year level, but it still provides only two skills. The first one, I named: Twelve Heavenly Star Cloud!"
As he finished speaking, Tang San's sixth soul ring glowed, its cloud patterns emitting golden light.
In an instant, the pearl atop the Blue Silver Emperor radiated dazzling blue-gold light. A nearly hundred-meter-tall Blue Silver Emperor shadow appeared, supporting twelve star clouds, covering an area exceeding a thousand meters.
The withered cloud trees were nourished by the life force, regrowing white cloud leaves. In just three minutes, the entire white cloud forest was revitalized.
"Under the coverage of the Twelve Heavenly Star Cloud, my first five soul skills undergo qualitative changes, enhancing their effects sixfold. This enhancement scales with my soul power growth." Tang San explained, "For instance, my second soul skill's positive and negative buffs have a sixty-two percent increase at level sixty-two. With the Twelve Heavenly Star Cloud's boost, that percentage rises to three hundred and seventy-two percent!"
"Just speaking about the soul power increase of the positive buff, if someone at level sixty were to receive this enhancement, the nearly fourfold increase in soul power could make their soul power comparable to that of a level ninety quasi-Titled Douluo!"
Huo Wu's breathing quickened as Tang San had already activated his second soul skill, with the positive buff ring floating behind her, causing all her attributes to skyrocket.
Her soul power fluctuations were now almost at level ninety-one!
In addition, her speed, defense, strength, attributes, and attack were all enhanced nearly fourfold!
"Moreover, this soul skill can directly pull the enemy's consciousness into the starry sky world you entered, leaving their physical body standing outside, as if scared stiff."
This ability might be related to the secret method Blood Sword Norman used to have other ten-thousand-year soul beasts' souls invade the cloud tree's body, which allowed the cloud tree to "wash away the dross" and gain the ability to refine soul impurities and even capture hearts.
"Doesn't that turn the enemy into a sitting duck?" Huo Wu was shocked by the terrifying nature of this soul skill, then delighted, as Tang San was on her side.
"You could say that. More importantly, my Blue Silver Emperor, after acquiring the cloud tree's soul ring, finally has an energy-externalizing skill." Tang San dispelled the huge vision of the Blue Silver Emperor supporting the Twelve Heavenly Star Clouds, demonstrating the second skill of his sixth soul ring—
As the two-hundred-thousand-year soul ring glowed again, the Blue Silver Emperor emitted a blue-golden halo in all directions, enveloping Tang San and Huo Wu.
Countless star points appeared out of thin air, rotating in a peculiar pattern to form twelve small star clouds, which then orbited around Huo Wu.
Bathed in starlight, Huo Wu felt her spirit receive unparalleled enjoyment, as if her soul had merged with the Sun Goddess, basking in warm sunlight.
When she reopened her eyes, she sensed her spirit was exceptionally vigorous, with more refined control over her soul power... her mental power had increased!
Tang San also retracted his martial soul and said, "This is the ability of the second soul skill of my sixth soul ring. It can temper a person's soul, making it more refined. Over time, it might even allow the soul to materialize, potentially reaching a god-level."
In other words, with this soul skill, Tang San's soul could transcend before his body, and with prolonged tempering, could achieve immortality!
It could enhance soul strength!
This was a true divine skill, comparable to his Cosmic Meditation Technique, and combining the two might one day elevate his mental power and soul to a level beyond the reach of the gods in the Divine Realm.
"This is really—"
Huo Wu couldn't find words to describe the soul skill's power. Her red-gold eyes were filled with admiration and reverence for Tang San.
An auxiliary soul master?
No!
The man before her was a god, and even gods couldn't compare to him!
"What's this soul skill called?" After calming down, Huo Wu couldn't help but ask.
"I named it: Nebula Forging Divine Soul." Tang San thought for a moment before naming the second soul skill of his sixth soul ring, "My fifth soul skill is called Ice Fire Refining Gold Body, so this is Nebula Forging Divine Soul, forming a 'God-Creating' system to assist others in forging a divine body and soul."
Weak auxiliary soul masters could only boost or heal, with low combat power.
But a powerful auxiliary soul master like him could not only heal and boost but also fight, and in the future, might even create gods.
"Refining Gold Body, Forging Divine Soul... It seems like they could provide a foundation for a soul master to break through to a Titled Douluo." Huo Wu pondered, even thinking that Tang San's fifth and sixth soul skills could transform ordinary people into soul masters, allowing them to start a path of soul master cultivation.
These skills could change destinies!
"Daddy." At this moment, the human form of the cloud tree jumped out from Tang San's body, joyfully calling, "I don't have to hide in the soul ring anymore. Also, Daddy has two other sisters inside."
As she spoke, Wu Lin and Wu Tong also emerged, sitting on Tang San's shoulders, happily saying, "We have a new sister!"
After becoming Tang San's soul spirit, the cloud tree still had long silver hair, but her body had shrunk significantly, similar to Wu Lin and Wu Tong, only the size of a palm, like a lifelike doll.
However, due to the cloud tree's inherent trace of creation authority, Wu Lin and Wu Tong had also become more real, and they could transform into normal little girl sizes...