Douluo Continent: The True Body and Blood Soul, Starting from Blacksmithing

Chapter 106 Divine Heart? How could you choose that?

Having just absorbed the soul bone, the lingering heat deep within Lin Yu's bone marrow had not yet completely subsided.

Lying flat on the bed, Lin Yu could still feel a series of subtle tremors lingering in his spine, as if something was gently tapping the bone walls deep within his bone marrow cavity, each tap causing his spine to emit a buzzing sound that only he could perceive.

Faced with Bibi Dong's exploitation, they naturally dealt with it hastily and simply.

His physical strength had already been largely depleted by the tempering of his soul bones, and the persistent low-grade fever deep within his bone marrow made him feel weak all over. His range of motion and endurance were reduced by more than half compared to usual.

Fortunately, this battle also led him to discover a passive skill that comes from absorbing the essence of a soul bone—Hot-bloodedness.

As blood flow increases, the temperature of his blood will gradually rise.

At first, his temperature was only less than half a degree higher than normal, but once he got into the zone, his blood temperature rose at a perceptible rate.

Each pump of the heart in his chest cavity, strengthened by the three-headed Flame Lion, felt like molten iron being injected into his blood vessels.

The heat spread along the arteries to every part of the body, and the blood vessels under the skin faintly glowed with a dark red light under the lamp.

When the blood is at a high temperature, all abilities are significantly enhanced. The flow of soul power is faster, the explosive power of muscles is stronger, and even the sensitivity of the senses is improved by a level.

However, the increase in blood temperature only increases the body's overall combat strength by less than 10%, which is not an exaggerated increase, but this special effect has special uses in special scenarios.

For example, right now. Bibi Dong's feelings are the most direct.

Although Lin Yu didn't exert much effort tonight, Bibi Dong had a stronger sense of time and knowledge at the beginning.

In this situation, a slight increase in temperature is enough to push her to the peak.

After relieving the stress and recovering from the electrotherapy, Bibi Dong turned to her side, propped her elbow on the pillow, buried half her face in the soft goose feather pillow, and looked at Lin Yu, who was lying on the other side of the bed with her eyes closed, seemingly in a sage mode.

The edge of the pillow pressed a faint red mark onto her cheek. Her long hair was spread out on the pillow, the ends curled and spread out, gleaming with a cold luster under the lamp.

A few strands of hair, damp with sweat, clung to her forehead and temples, trembling gently with the rhythm of her breathing.

"You've been getting quite close to a guy named Tang San lately?"

Bibi Dong's voice still carried a touch of the languid hoarseness that comes with time, with the last syllable drawn out a little longer than usual, like a stretched sugar thread, thick and slowly unfolding in the air.

Lin Yu opened her eyes, turned her head, and met Bibi Dong's gaze.

Her eyes were full of teasing, and there was even a faint smile on her lips.

The smile wasn't well hidden; the corners of her eyes curved slightly, and a faint smile line appeared on her lower eyelid.

She just looked at him like that, as if waiting to see how he would explain himself.

"Tang San is the son of Tang Hao, the Haotian Douluo."

Lin Yu's voice had mostly returned to normal, but her throat was still a little dry, and her Adam's apple bobbed up and down.

As he spoke, he could feel a lingering burning sensation in his throat, a consequence of his blood temperature not having completely cooled down.

Sensing the apprehension in Lin Yu's words, Bibi Dong's brow twitched slightly.

Her eyebrows were already quite thin, and this movement created a very shallow vertical line between them.

It's rare to hear any sense of apprehension from Lin Yu, since he usually looks at everyone with an expression that says "it's not a big deal."

Even when he was asked to take action against Liu Erlong, he still had that "there's nothing in the world I can't handle" expression.

It's rather unusual to hear such wariness towards a child coming from someone like this.

Bibi Dong pressed for the reason, her voice becoming more serious than before, and the languidness in her tone fading slightly.

Lin Yu didn't hide anything. He laid out Tang San's current situation in detail.

He possesses innate full soul power and twin martial souls: one is the Clear Sky Hammer, and the other is the Blue Silver Emperor, which has not yet been fully awakened.

Upon hearing the words "twin martial souls," Bibi Dong's expression visibly became more serious.

Her fingers, which had been lazily resting on the pillow, unconsciously tightened, her nails scraping lightly against the pillowcase, making a soft rubbing sound.

She herself possesses twin martial souls, so she knows all too well the weight of those words.

But when she heard that Tang San, because of Yu Xiaogang's guidance, hadn't even realized the true power of the Blue Silver Emperor, and hadn't even come into contact with the normal methods of cultivating twin martial souls, Bibi Dong fell silent.

In silence, she turned her head to look out the window, her fingers unconsciously scratching Lin Yu's skin.

Her nails were neatly trimmed, leaving only pale white streaks when they brushed against her skin before quickly returning to their original color.

The night was thick, and only a lone lamp on a distant watchtower flickered faintly outside the window, its orange light shining and fading in the darkness.

She remained silent for a long time, long enough that Lin Yu could feel the rhythm of her scratching her change several times before she turned her face back to her.

A faint, enigmatic smile appeared at the corner of his lips. That smile contained a mixture of many things: mockery, sarcasm, and a deep-seated bitterness.

Bibi Dong simply smiled at Lin Yu's plan to trick Tang San, deliberately give him incorrect training guidance, and wait for the child to be overwhelmed by the backlash of the power of the twin martial souls.

"As long as you have your own plan, that's fine."

Her tone returned to its usual coolness, and she withdrew her fingers from his body, placing them on her crossed arms.

"However, let me remind you that the Twin Martial Soul Cultivation Method I mentioned is only something I summarized myself. It works for me, but it might not work for someone else."

She paused, tapping her fingertips lightly on her arm twice, as if carefully choosing her words.

"You should consider Tang San an exception. His mother was a 100,000-year-old Blue Silver Emperor in human form, which means his physical structure may be completely different from that of ordinary soul masters. The hybridity of soul beast and human may make his meridians wider and more resilient than those of ordinary soul masters, and his upper limit for withstanding soul power conflicts is also higher. If you are just hoping to break him through the conflict of twin martial souls, that's a bit of a gamble."

Having said all she could say, Bibi Dong didn't linger on the topic. She swept her long hair, which had fallen over her shoulders, back to reveal her entire face. Under the lamplight, her expression had returned to its papal calm.

"Don't you have a divine heart?"

She asked the main purpose of her trip, her voice flat and even.

"After all this time, have you discovered its use?"

Lin Yu genuinely hadn't discovered the purpose of the Divine Heart. The spherical object in the heart location had remained quietly there since he acquired it, neither emitting light nor generating heat nor vibrating. If he hadn't truly sensed its existence while in a state of spiritual separation, he might have even doubted whether such a thing had ever been inside his heart.

Lin Yu was quite curious as to why Bibi Dong would suddenly ask this. Wasn't she the successor of the Rakshasa God? Why was she concerned about his divine heart?

“A little over a month ago,” Bibi Dong shifted her gaze from his face to a plain scroll hanging on the opposite wall, “I reported your situation to the deity behind me. Your craftsmanship, your divine heart.”

Her fingers slowly traced circles on the bedding, leaving tiny wrinkles in the fabric wherever her fingertips touched. "Then there was silence. More than a month passed without a single word of response."

The training room was quiet for a moment, with only the sound of their overlapping breaths spreading slowly in the air.

"A few days ago," Bibi Dong continued, a hint of emotion in her voice that Lin Yu had never heard before appear, and a voice different from His responded to me.

"It wasn't the voice of Rakshasa, but another voice I had never heard before. That voice told me that I could continue to inherit Rakshasa's divine position and simply complete the divine test step by step; or I could choose to give up the divine power reward and obtain a divine heart."

As she said this, she propped herself up from the pillow, sat cross-legged in the middle of the bed, and the blankets slipped off her shoulders and piled up at her waist.

She held up two fingers and gently drew a line in front of her: "Two choices. Either continue as an heir, or take the Divine Heart and create your own divine position."

Lin Yu fell silent. He stared at the ceiling for a few seconds, his mind racing through all the possible aspects this matter might involve.

However, the amount of information is too small and the clues are too fragmented to piece together a complete picture.

Perhaps some kind of change is taking place in the realm of gods. It's just that he's not qualified to pry into the truth of that level yet.