Douluo Continent: Gretchen at the start, empowered by the Star God.

Chapter 36 Heading to Sunset Forest

"Gresch is a shy girl too~"

On the way, Lang Lei said with a teasing smile.

Just now, Lang Lei quickly bought the clothes and changed into them. However, when Lang Lei found Little Gretchen, he discovered that she was staring at a little blue dress.

Their pleading looks were extremely endearing.

Seeing this, Lang Lei bought the little dress without hesitation. However, little Gretchen didn't change into it; she kept her original outfit. As for the reason...

Little Gretchen wanted Langley to help her change, but she felt a little embarrassed in that kind of place.

"Brother Lang Lei is a bad guy!" Gretchen angrily turned her head away.

"Sorry..." Lang Lei chuckled. He rarely saw Gretsch looking shy before; most of the time, Gretsch was an expressionless, emotionless girl.

"Hmph~"

"Brother Lang Lei will buy you candied hawthorns later, okay?"

"snort!"

"Hmm...two?"

"good!"

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Soon, the two who had bought candied hawthorns left Soto City, but unlike before, this time they headed in a different direction.

After getting lost many times, Lang Lei finally stopped being stubborn this time. Just a short distance outside the city gate, he and Gretsch rode a Painted World Creation and soared into the sky.

Their target this time is Sunset Forest...

What's there is probably self-evident.

The most valuable opportunity on the Douluo Continent—the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire—is right there.

That's right, Lang Lei's purpose in going to Sunset Forest was to find the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire.

This absorption of a million-year soul ring gave Lang Lei a signal: his future journey will not be limited to the Douluo Continent.

Elita has been appearing less and less frequently lately, and even when she does appear, she seems listless.

Based on the first ability of this million-year spirit ring, Lang Lei speculated that this new function is likely related to a world outside of Douluo Continent.

The system wouldn't act without reason. As the only way to significantly improve Lang Lei's level outside of Douluo Continent, Lang Lei felt it was necessary to give it more attention.

Furthermore, even without considering this aspect, the million-year soul ring condensed from his second martial soul, Heavenly Fire Judgment, still provides him with a significant boost.

It's common knowledge in Douluo Continent that twin martial souls cannot be used simultaneously, and even a transmigrator like him has to abide by this rule.

When using the zero rated power of the Heavenly Judgment, he was unable to use Earth Dragon Dust to reduce the backlash he suffered.

However, after Lang Lei's experiment, it was found that all the effects provided by the first soul ring of the Heavenly Fire Judgment were effective.

He can use fire control abilities that far surpass those of ordinary extreme fire while activating the Earth Dragon Dust Martial Soul.

The same applies to fire resistance; it will also take effect.

Moreover, these abilities are all passive skills!

As we all know, passive skills generally have very low cost, and many even have no cost.

Unlike active skills, passive skills are completely automatic, eliminating the need for careful adjustment of intensity and precision.

Therefore, even without considering matters outside of Douluo Continent, Lang Lei has every reason to pay more attention to this aspect.

As for whether he will encounter Dugu Bo...

Lang Lei would prefer to run into the other person, as it would save him a lot of trouble.

Of course, Lang Lei is not going to ruthlessly wipe out the other party or bully them with his power; he doesn't do any of that!

His system actually has several built-in functions.

One feature is that it can automatically identify unclaimed items or items transferred from others that Lang Lei encounters as acquired items and directly store them in the system space.

Secondly, it allows you to view item information for items in the system space.

This directly saved him the steps of picking and identifying.

As for how this relates to persuading Dugu Bo to give away the treasure...

Given the number of immortal herbs possessed by the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye, he didn't believe there wasn't an immortal herb that could solve this problem.

As for why Tang San in the original novel didn't explain this point...

Lang Lei speculated that it was most likely related to his personal motives.

First possibility:

Both Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan's martial souls are the Azure Phosphorous Serpent, known for its poison. However, Dugu Bo transformed into the Azure Phosphorous Serpent Emperor after becoming a Title Douluo, but in essence, he is still the Azure Phosphorous Serpent.

The immortal herbs or precious medicines that can evolve this martial soul are most likely related to poison, or in other words, these herbs are very useful to Tang San!

Let's take a look at what Tang San is best at.

Hidden weapons and poison!

In the original Douluo Continent novel, after Tang San obtained the herbs from the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire, he immediately forged the hidden weapon "King Yama's Decree".

The power of this hidden weapon lies not in its physical attack effect, but in the almost misunderstood poison it contains!

It is highly likely that the rare and precious materials needed by Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan overlapped with the medicinal materials needed to refine the [King Yama's Decree]. Given Tang San's personality, he would never do something so selfless.

What's more, the other party was someone who had just threatened his life.

Therefore, Tang San decided to settle for this and chose to slowly stall Dugu Bo by refining medicine.

This way, one can obtain a titled Douluo bodyguard and also gain greater benefits.

Why wouldn't Tang San be happy to do it?

Second guess:

Tang San was reluctant to part with her.

There is actually an easier solution to the problem between Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan.

Evolve your martial spirit.

The problems of Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan are essentially due to flaws in their martial souls.

The solution is simple: let the martial soul evolve to make up for this defect.

However, there are very few immortal herbs that can evolve a martial soul. Given Tang San's personality, even if he has no immediate use for Dugu Bo after he has already squeezed all of Dugu Bo's value out of him, he will most likely keep them to create greater value for himself...

Of course, this has nothing to do with right or wrong.

In the end, Tang San did indeed help Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan solve their martial soul problem; it's just that Dugu Bo was deceived by the information gap.

If a person doesn't look out for themselves, they'll be punished by heaven and earth.

Lang Lei didn't intend to blame the other party, after all, he was going to do the same thing, only... he was a little more generous.

He's guaranteed to make a profit by sacrificing two immortal herbs in exchange for an entire treasure land!

Ultimately, it was because Little Gretchen was there, and because Lang Lei wasn't a truly wicked person. Otherwise, with the power Lang Lei currently possessed, he could have directly seized the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, and Dugu Bo wouldn't have dared to utter a single complaint.

As for why they didn't use the methods from the original story like Tang San to achieve the goal of obtaining more profits...

First, he didn't take novels that seriously in his previous life. He didn't even pay much attention to Dugu Bo's symptoms. If he made up something, Dugu Bo, with his medical expertise, definitely wouldn't believe it.

Secondly, he has no idea how to make medicine...

"Brother Lang Lei..."

Suddenly, little Gretchen, who was in front of Langley, made a sound.

"Hmm? What's wrong, little Greta?" Lang Lei immediately stopped thinking and looked at little Greta.

"Can you chat with me for a bit?" little Greta whispered. "I'm so bored..."

"sure!"

(End of this chapter)