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The next day, Tang San woke up Gu Yuena, who was clutching his arm. He said, "Wake up. Honestly, you fell asleep without even taking off your clothes. They're all wrinkled now."
"You scoundrel, I'm only eight! You beast!" Gu Yuena, as if possessed by a drama queen, hugged her shoulders. "How could you want me to take off my clothes!"
"Aren't you older than me?" Tang San rolled his eyes. In truth, Gu Yuena was the real "beast" here. "If anything happened, I'd be the one at a disadvantage."
"As the king's subject, what's wrong with sleeping next to me?" Gu Yuena jumped off the bed. It was only then that Tang San noticed she hadn't even taken off her shoes the previous night.
"Do you even hear yourself?" Tang San was at a loss for words. He didn't continue arguing, but changed his clothes and freshened up. "After you change, come down for breakfast. I've got a busy day ahead."
In typical noble households, servants helped with dressing and washing, but Tang San had a sense of dignity and preferred to handle these basic tasks himself.
Tang San's busy day was because he had limited time in this place. He needed to check the conditions of Ling Meng, Ling Xi, Fan Niu, Fan Ma, and the twelve owners of the body martial spirits, absorb their experiences to strengthen the detailed aspects of his Jade Bone Golden Skin, enhance the cohesion of his soul power core, and further understand the cycle of essence, energy, and spirit.
After breakfast, Tang San called Ling Xi and Ling Meng to check their self-condensed soul rings. Compared to their initial soul rings, each was missing a chain, indicating they had broken through some restraints.
Within the soul rings were three flowers representing essence, energy, and spirit. Ling Xi's flowers each had five petals, while Ling Meng's had four, indicating their respective power levels.
Once both reached the Titled Douluo level, each flower should have nine petals.
Upon closer examination, Tang San discovered that both women's physical and spiritual strength far exceeded those of soul kings and soul sects at the same level. Their physical bodies, in particular, were comparable to soul beasts of the same cultivation level.
This Three Flower Gathered Top soul ring simultaneously boosted their essence, energy, and spirit. Enhancing one aspect also enhanced the others, saving them significant effort.
Similarly, their soul power requirements per level were much higher than average soul masters because they needed to convert some soul power into spiritual power and blood energy.
The advantage was that, with the balance of essence, energy, and spirit, even without breaking through to level 100, they could maintain eternal youth and beauty. Each major breakthrough would also be accompanied by a surge of world energy, accelerating their cultivation.
This combination gave them the longevity of soul beasts and the cultivation speed of humans, making these cat-girl mother and daughter truly unique in this world.
"As expected, while condensing your soul rings, your blood energy, soul power, and spiritual power can all actively enhance one another. Even the soul power circulation method I taught you has evolved according to your individual circumstances."
Ling Xi's martial spirit was thunder attribute, making all three energies highly aggressive. Blood energy could stimulate all her cells, enhancing all attributes. Her soul power had a paralyzing effect, stimulating the nervous system with thunder. Her spiritual power was highly offensive, capable of disrupting others' mental strength and being extremely sensitive to metals and magnetic minerals.
Ling Meng's martial spirit was wind attribute, making her energies more "light." Blood energy formed an automatic whirlwind on her body surface, providing strong defense against soul king-level attacks. Enhanced by soul power, she could briefly float and had a cutting attribute. Her spiritual power could sense air currents, similar to Xiao Wu's Wind Whisper.
Honestly, these two points somewhat surprised Tang San. Generally, only soul power would carry attributes influenced by the martial soul, while blood energy and spiritual power remained relatively pure. Most soul masters could only attribute these two elements when using specific soul ring skills that converted soul power into spiritual power or blood energy.
However, in Ling Xi and Ling Meng's normal state, their soul power and spiritual power already carried the attributes of their martial souls, embodying the qualities of wind and thunder.
This was because the three energies—essence, energy, and spirit—could perfectly transform, involving the martial soul itself... No, their martial souls had already become part of their physical bodies, no longer a semi-independent extraordinary organ.
Even without considering the fusion and materialization of beast martial souls with the physical body, Tang San realized that to achieve perfect transformation and circulation of the three energies, blood energy and spiritual power must also carry corresponding attributes—creation, destruction, life, and death.
"You can retract your soul rings now."
Having understood the key point, Tang San felt enlightened. He then based on Xuantian Skill and their respective conditions, created two cultivation methods that integrated soul power with leg and hand techniques: "Wind Spirit Art" and "Thunder Spirit Art."
"These two cultivation methods were created according to your individual attributes. Practicing together will be faster, and they can even be combined into 'Wind and Thunder Art.'"
"Wind and thunder, these two elemental energies can naturally merge. In the future, you might achieve a fusion of soul power and soul skills within your martial soul fusion technique."
Martial souls with the same attributes could fuse as long as their attributes were balanced, even if they were identical—what mattered was the balance between their attributes.
However, Tang San wasn't sure if this mother-daughter pair's beast martial souls, which had fused and materialized with their physical bodies, could still achieve such fusion.
"However, there are only chapters on cultivating soul power. In the future, you can develop methods for cultivating blood energy and spiritual power based on your experiences."
This was Tang San's hope for the two of them: to excel in their cultivation and management while also exploring the martial soul cultivation materials he left in the Silver Blue Manor, and innovating from there.
Even if they couldn't create new methods, it wouldn't matter. The Three Flower Gathered Top soul ring connected their essence, energy, and spirit. As their soul power increased, the other two would also improve.
"We will not disappoint you, Count!" Ling Xi vowed.
"There's no need to be so solemn. While I hope to see you both forge your own paths with this new cultivation method, I also want to see you live your lives to the fullest," Tang San said with a gentle smile. "Don't feel wronged, even in front of me, understand?"
"Yes, Count!" the mother and daughter replied in unison, their cheeks turning red as they lowered their heads, embarrassed to show Tang San their shyness.
Next, Tang San summoned the brothers Fan Niu and Fan Ma to check their progress with the Tiger Bear Body Refining Art.
"How is your cultivation coming along?"
(End of this chapter)