Douluo Continent: I, the world's greatest immortal master, have taken Ning Rongrong as my disci

Chapter 30 Xiao Wu's Question to the Master
At Peach Blossom Academy, Su Ran meticulously taught Meng Yiran two unique skills: Heavenly Summoning of the Dead and Thousand Cries of Netherworld Artifacts, setting Meng Yiran's development path as a summoning-type soul master and a master of hellish hidden weapons.

Zhu Zhuqing also absorbed a piece of Netherworld Beast Soul Bone, a 30,000-year-old Netherworld Beast Right Leg Bone, which gave Zhu Zhuqing a decent Netherworld skill and significantly increased her soul power, granting her the Soul Skill: Netherworld Vortex.

To Su Ran's surprise, after returning to the academy, he learned that Ning Rongrong's absorption of the Steel-Bone Ironclad Tiger's third spirit ring not only perfected her second level of the Golden Heavy Spirit, but also caused a piece of ironclad torso bone to burst out.

Unexpected yet reasonable, this is one of the reasons why Su Ran hunts soul beasts that are compatible with his own cultivation method for them. What if a soul bone drops out?
Soul bones are extremely rare in the Douluo Continent. Even a thousand-year-old soul bone is something that soul masters dream of.

The strength of a soul bone lies not only in the possibility of granting a soul master a soul skill, but also in its potential for growth. Even a thousand-year-old soul bone can grow stronger as the soul master strengthens, although the growth rate is very slow. Few soul masters can cultivate a physical body stronger than a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast.

External soul bones, which are independent of the six major soul bones, will grow faster.

Fortunately, the iron-clad torso and the Seven Treasures Golden Bell Shield complement each other perfectly.

Having already cultivated the defensive ultimate skill—Golden Bell Shield—and with the addition of the Iron Bones Soul Bone Skill, Ning Rongrong can gain more than 50% defense and the weight bonus of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, raising her shield value to a level that no Soul Master of the same realm can break.

Su Ran also provided Ning Rongrong with a special bone-nourishing liquid that could quickly increase the age of her soul bones. Given time, it could increase her soul bones to over ten thousand years, and the effect would be greatly enhanced.

While in the Star Dou Great Forest, Su Ran considered hunting down the Human-Faced Demon Spider that Tang San needed, since it contained an external soul bone called the Eight Spider Lances that could be upgraded. However, after thinking about it, he gave up.

First, finding the Human-Faced Demon Spider in the vast outer perimeter of the Star Dou Great Forest wouldn't be easy. Second, even if he found it, the Human-Faced Demon Spider's age was only two thousand years, which was too low. Moreover, Zhu Zhuqing and Meng Yiran, who were suitable to absorb the Human-Faced Demon Spider's soul ring, were both girls, having already absorbed the Eight Spider Spears...

Can you imagine a young girl, just beginning to bloom, having her clothes torn in the back during a battle between Soul Masters, exposing her upper body and revealing eight spider spears?
There was a very strong woman on the mainland who was timid and hesitant in battle because spiders were too ugly. She avoided using her martial spirit power whenever possible, and as a result, she was furious when she was beaten to the ground by someone who was four or five levels lower than her.

Simply because that thing is too ugly.

Su Ran then gave up.

He can find better soul bones for his disciples in the future, so he doesn't need to care about an Eight Spider Lances.

……

In the following period, Meng Yiran followed Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong for daily training, each practicing their unique skills. Among them, because Zhu Zhuqing had previously come into contact with a kind of hellish hidden weapon given to her by Su Ran—the Ghost Shuttle—Zhu Zhuqing also learned a bit of the Netherworld Weapon Thousand Cries and exchanged and sparred with Meng Yiran.

The Undead Summoning is a cultivation method that aligns with Meng Yiran's martial soul. It requires absorbing the power of the sun, moon, and stars through the snake staff and absorbing the death energy of the earth's veins. It is exclusive to her martial soul, and she can only be considered to have entered the realm of cultivation when the snake staff evolves into the Undead Snake Staff.

In addition to learning about the knowledge of hellish and underworld hidden weapons, the Netherworld Artifact Master Qianming also needs to practice movement techniques and crafting methods. Like Tang San's Xuan Tian Gong, he has a very important ability: practice.

However, Tang San practices the Xuan Yu Hand, while Zhu Zhuqing and Meng Yiran practice the Di Ming Hand. The two have similarities, but they are also very different.

However, one thing is certain: if Tang San were to see the Earthly Nether Hand they had mastered, he would be greatly astonished.

It was at Peach Blossom Academy that four students diligently cultivated top-tier martial arts techniques, reversing their destinies.

The students at Shrek Academy were not idle either.

Under the urging of Zhao Wuji and the new teachers at Shrek Academy, Tang San, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and Xiao Wu also trained diligently. Each of them used primitive weight-bearing methods, carrying a large rock on their backs, running back and forth between Shrek Academy and Soto City like idiots under the scorching sun or in heavy rain, to improve their basic physical fitness.
As for Taoyuan Academy, even when Ning Rongrong was training her basic physical fitness, Su Ran specially spent money to create equipment for her to wear with weights to fit her body and move around.

Shrek, they're really that poor.

If moving bricks was useful, then all the guys on construction sites would be titled Douluo, right?
……

"Monsters? These are the so-called monsters? I heard as soon as I arrived that you were all beaten to a pulp by the Peach Blossom Academy next door. You have the nerve to call yourselves monsters? I think you're all good-for-nothings."

"Everyone, add ten more laps of round trip running!"

At Shrek Academy, a middle-aged man of average build and appearance, around forty or fifty years old, joined the school. As soon as he arrived, he overheard Zhao Wuji and several little monsters reporting the situation to Flander.

He was quite pleased to learn that Tang San had absorbed the Human-Faced Demon Spider and the external soul bone Eight Spider Lances, but his expression changed instantly when he learned that several other students in the academy—Dai Mubai, who was severely injured by Zhu Zhuqing, who was at a lower level than him, and Ma Hongjun, the Evil Fire Phoenix, were evenly matched with a support character.

Waste, all waste!
The following day, he joined forces with Zhao Wuji to conduct special training for several Shrek Academy students:
Students within the academy are divided into groups for a Soul Master duel, plus a weighted running exercise.

It's hard to say how effective it was, but those little monsters from Shrek were definitely exhausted, their backs bent under the weight of the rocks.

As dusk fell, after finishing the last lap, Oscar was completely exhausted and collapsed at the entrance of Shrek Academy. Ma Hongjun also collapsed from exhaustion, sitting on the ground and grumbling.

"Master, isn't this intensity too high? I feel like I'm going to die from exhaustion."

"I can't take it anymore, my whole body aches. If it's this intense tomorrow, I feel like I'm going to meet the King of Hell."

"No pain, no gain. If you can't even withstand this little bit of special training, do you think you can achieve anything great in the future? You're just dreaming," Master Yu Xiaogang scoffed.

"Want to reduce the burden? Only talk about this again when you can surpass the students of this Peach Blossom Academy!"

"The master is right. Look at how those students from Peach Blossom Academy have put you all in this state! You still don't have a shred of ambition?"

"Xiao Gang is one of the most learned people on the mainland. He was the brains of our Golden Triangle. With his special training and guidance, you will definitely surpass those students from Taoyuan Academy in time. Train hard, do you hear me?"

Because the students at Peach Blossom Academy were performing so well, and it's said that they recently recruited a new student, but he failed to poach him. Flanders felt a strong sense of crisis.

"so tired."

Is this the kind of special training that a human could come up with?
Running with bricks on my back, freedom is my direction!
Xiao Wu looked exhausted and let out a deep sigh, but when she heard Flander praise the master's wisdom, she tried her best to cheer up.

"Alright, stop complaining. I've already calculated your load limits. You won't even get injured, let alone be exhausted. It's just a run."

"What do you think, mistress?"

Yu Xiaogang stood with his hands behind his back, looking at Tang San and said.

Tang San was also exhausted, but he still nodded with a forced smile: "Teacher must have his reasons, I believe in teacher."

"Okay, that's good. Now you can go in and rest."

With Tang San's affirmation, Yu Xiaogang felt even more confident. He nodded and gestured for the little monsters to return to the academy to rest.

"Ouch, my back!"

Not long after Yu Xiaogang spoke, Oscar got up from the ground, took a few steps, and his expression changed because after a day of sudden negative pressure, his back... collapsed.

"Grandmaster……"

Oscar looked at Yu Xiaogang with a wronged expression, "Didn't you say we wouldn't get injured because of this training...?"

"It's alright, it's alright, Xiao San. Help him back to rest for a while, and apply some medicine to him. Food-type Soul Masters are naturally weaker."

"Mm." Tang San nodded.

……

"They're all exhausted and have gone back to lie down. Why aren't you going back to rest yet?"

Watching the students return to the academy one after another after their special training, Yu Xiaogang sighed. When he turned around, he realized that the only girl in the academy was still there, looking at him from behind, as if she wanted to say something.

"Well, I heard from my third brother that you, Master, are very knowledgeable and have a lot of experience. I have a question I would like to ask you."

Xiao Wu rubbed her fingers together and stammered.

"What kind of question? As long as it's not a particularly secretive or niche question, I should be able to give you the answer," Yu Xiaogang said confidently, head held high.

“Um… Master, you are so knowledgeable, do you know who the most handsome young man in mainland China is right now? What is his name? Where is he now? Hmm, he should be no more than twenty years old, and about six or seven feet tall.”

Xiao Wu looked at Yu Xiaogang expectantly.

This issue is very important to her.

She would not complain even if she had to run with heavy loads for another month, as long as she could get an answer.

This chapter mentions the evolution of soul bones, and some readers have questions about it.

I have read the original novel's description of soul bones. The original novel does mention that soul bones can evolve, but it's possible that Tang Jia San Shao changed the setting and later rewrote it so that the characteristic of external soul bones can grow along with the soul master.

Here I adopted the previous setting: all the bones absorbed into the Soul Master's body are connected to the Soul Master's bloodline, so they should all grow together with the Soul Master, with only differences in the speed of evolution. Otherwise, if I'm level 99 and my bones are only 5,000 years old, is that reasonable? Wouldn't my bones shatter if hit by another Limit Douluo?

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