Douluo: The Dragon King - I Planted the Divine Tree in Douluo.

On the podium, Wu Changkong looked at Xu Xiaoyan, who was so ashamed she wished she could disappear into the ground, and a trace of nostalgia flashed in his otherwise calm eyes.

Xu Xiaoyan's shy appearance reminded Wu Changkong of how he and Long Bing were when they were dating.

Back when his relationship with Long Bing was exposed at Shrek Academy, they reacted similarly, too ashamed to face anyone.

"The four of you assemble on the playground for practical training."

After pondering for a moment, Wu Changkong gave orders to Su Mo and the others.

Su Mo, unusually, did not stand up to object to Wu Changkong's order.

After all, she was there to integrate into Tang Wulin's group, not to argue with the dance master.

As Su Mo and the others got up and left the classroom one by one, the huge Class Zero was soon left with only Xu Xiaoyan all alone.

Seeing that no one was around, Xu Xiaoyan slowly raised her head from her arms and looked around like a thief.

After confirming that everyone had left and no one was spying on her, Xu Xiaoyan's tense shoulders relaxed considerably, and a faint blush remained on her fair and delicate face.

"Waaaah~"

"How could I have said something like that!"

Thinking about her incredibly emotional speech, Xu Xiaoyan, who was lying on the table, writhed on the table in shame.

She didn't know why she had acted impulsively and blurted out those words, leaving her unsure how to face Su Mo and the others now.

"It's all the dance teacher's fault!!!"

Helpless, Xu Xiaoyan could only blame it all on Wu Changkong.

If Wu Changkong hadn't asked her to be Gu Yue's substitute, she wouldn't have felt so disappointed.

If she didn't feel disappointed, why would she be overjoyed by Su Mo's invitation, and why would she impulsively say such things?

Of course, Xu Xiaoyan also knew that Wu Changkong's arrangement was correct; with her strength, being a substitute for Gu Yue and the others was the best choice.

But even knowing it was true, when it actually happened to her, she couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness.

So when Su Mo invited her, the sudden attention and anticipation she received almost made her heart leap out of her chest.

Not to mention, she already had a very high level of affection for Su Mo.

The combination of these two factors led her to impulsively utter those extremely emotional words.

Despite feeling ashamed, the thought of fighting alongside Su Mo in the Tianhai Grand Competition made Xu Xiaoyan chuckle to herself, a mix of shame and sweetness swirling in her heart.

After a brief moment of joy, Xu Xiaoyan became somewhat worried again, her little leather shoes dangling in mid-air, flapping back and forth.

"Will Su Mo... think I'm too stupid...?"

Recalling her earlier fearless demeanor, Xu Xiaoyan felt inexplicably guilty, her fingertips nervously gripping the hem of her skirt, her mind a jumbled mess.

She only wanted to leave a good impression on Su Mo, but she ended up making things worse.

"What if... what if he's already treating me like a child?"

Xu Xiaoyan muttered to herself, her cheeks puffing up like a hamster's, her eyes filled with annoyance and unease.

She didn't want Su Mo to treat her like a younger sister who needed to be taken care of; what she wanted was to be with Su Mo.

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Donghai College Playground

Once she calmed down, Xu Xiaoyan saw four figures entangled together in the distance. It was Wu Changkong and Tang Wulin conducting combat training.

Facing the combined attack of Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue, Wu Changkong appeared remarkably at ease, effortlessly deflecting their attacks time and time again.

But what surprised Xu Xiaoyan the most was that Su Mo did not participate in the actual combat training. Instead, he sat in a shady corner of the playground watching Tang Wulin and the others train.

"Blanching failed again!"

In the shade, Su Mo scratched his head in frustration.

Since adding earth attribute to his chakra spirit, he has lost count of how many times he has tried to combine wind and earth chakra nature transformations to create Magnet Release, only to have nothing happen.

As is well known in the Naruto world, any two chakra nature transformations can be fused together in a certain proportion to create a "bloodline limit".

The conditions for creating a bloodline limit seem easy to meet at first glance.

After all, in principle, as long as one masters the nature changes of the two chakra attributes and knows the fusion ratio of chakra, one can create a bloodline boundary.

But when you actually try it, you'll find that the former is easy to satisfy, while the latter is a bottomless pit.

Looking across the entire ninja world, let alone those who have mastered chakra nature transformations of two natures, there are a lot of people who have mastered chakra nature transformations of all five natures.

Su Mo himself is proficient in the chakra nature transformations of the six attributes: water, fire, wind, earth, lightning, and yin.

Even so, before Su Mo was blasted away by the Ten-Tailed Beast Ball and reincarnated into the Douluo Continent, he was still unable to develop a completely new bloodline limit.

The reason for this is that Su Mo did not know the fusion ratio of chakra.

The ratio in which the nature transformations of the two chakras are fused to create a bloodline limit is purely based on luck; there's no skill involved.

In the Naruto world, anyone who can create a bloodline limit is practically blessed by the heavens.

This is why bloodline limits in the Naruto world are mainly based on bloodline inheritance.

Of course, a very small number of people are able to reproduce it through repeated attempts under the guidance of the creator of the bloodline limit, but such people are extremely rare.

It's common for someone like Su Mo to not only have Magnet Release data from Sunagakure, but also to have tried it tens of thousands of times, big and small, but not even see a trace of Magnet Release.

If Su Mo hadn't used the Hundred Healings Seal to store a massive amount of soul power, the soul power consumed by these attempts alone would have been enough to drain him dry.

According to Su Mo's rough estimate, the soul power he consumed in his repeated attempts had exceeded the total soul power possessed by a peak quasi-god.

As for Mu and Onoki, the master and disciple who mastered the Bloodline Elimination technique, Su Mo could only say that he knew in his heart whether they had activated it or not.

"No, I need to find myself a power bank!"

Feeling that nearly one-fifth of his soul power had been consumed by the Hundred Healings Seal, Su Mo sighed and decided to postpone his plan to become a Jinchūriki.

There are no tailed beasts, but there are soul beasts.

"Su Mo, aren't you participating in training?"

Just as Su Mo was pondering which ferocious beast he should have captured to serve as his power bank, a faint fragrance reminiscent of gardenias wafted in on the breeze, followed by Xu Xiaoyan's gentle yet somewhat timid voice ringing in his ears.

Su Mo looked up and found Xu Xiaoyan standing in front of her, her hands behind her back, staring at her with her big, bright eyes full of curiosity.