Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 182 Leveraging the Douluo Continent to Hunt Soul Rings and Absorb Heavenly Dream Energy

After helping the two up, Tang San infused them with life-giving soul energy to aid in the treatment of their external injuries, saying, "How was it? Sounds simple, but doing it is a different story, right?"

Shi Mo nodded excitedly: "That's right, and it's very powerful. I didn't use much soul power just now, probably less than level five. My brother should be about the same. I didn't expect the power of the spin to be so great. It was able to throw the two of us away thirty or forty meters. If we can control it well in the future, it can perfectly protect us and form an absolute defense. The high-speed spin can throw away enemy attacks and even bounce them back."

Shi Mo was also pleased: "Moreover, within that soul power sphere, my brother and I developed a faint connection between our martial souls. Although the connection disappeared once the soul power fusion stopped, Captain, your prediction is correct. Following this method, my brother and I might actually be able to achieve martial soul fusion."

This is a Martial Soul Fusion!

It's an extremely rare skill in the world, and I never expected that these two brothers would have the opportunity to master it. They've really hit the jackpot!

He truly deserves to be called a theoretical master in the field of martial spirit cultivation!

Next was Zhu Zhuqing.

Compared to others, Zhu Zhuqing's martial soul, after obtaining the soul ring of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, achieved a score of nine or higher in all five attributes: speed, strength, defense, energy, and special abilities. Moreover, these attributes continued to increase as her soul power improved.

Moreover, in terms of endurance, it does not have the weakness of other powerful martial souls that consume a lot of soul power in the early stages. Once the martial soul is attached to the body, it can autonomously draw energy from heaven and earth to maintain itself without consuming its own soul power.

However, this energy, which sustains the existence of the martial soul, cannot be used for cultivation.

It seems that there are two energy circulation paths: one that absorbs the energy of heaven and earth to maintain the existence of the martial soul, and another that absorbs the energy of heaven and earth and refines it into soul power. These paths are parallel and do not intersect.

However, in Tang San's view, martial souls are a unified whole, and there is no way that there would be no intersection between the two energy flow paths.

Just like the human nervous system and circulatory system, don't they also exchange substances between each other?

Therefore, Tang San hopes that Zhu Zhuqing's path of creating her own soul skills will allow her to find the common ground between the "refining loop" and the "maintaining loop" of her martial soul's interaction with the energy of the outside world.

Once found, there's no need to use it to refine the energy of heaven and earth within the sustaining circuit to accelerate cultivation. Instead, one should use the "refining circuit" to control the "sustaining circuit," thereby leveraging one's own soul power to influence the energy of the entire world outside.

Tang San wouldn't have dared to hope for an ordinary Netherworld Cat, but after absorbing the spirit ring of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, Zhu Zhuqing's martial spirit could be said to have been constantly evolving.

Within the Martial Soul, there are two energy circulation loops with different functions. The "Refining Loop" is the foundation for Zhu Zhuqing to communicate with the Martial Soul during meditation, refine the energy of heaven and earth, and enhance her own soul power. The "Maintenance Loop" is the Martial Soul's autonomous absorption of the energy of heaven and earth to maintain its attached state, thereby reducing the consumption of Zhu Zhuqing's soul power.

It can be said that Zhu Zhuqing's current Netherworld Cat, with its two energy loops, can be compared to a lever.

As long as Zhu Zhuqing finds that "fulcrum," that is, the point between the two energy circuits, then she can use her own weak soul power to leverage the energy of the entire world.

"Isn't this a bit too exaggerated?" Although Zhu Zhuqing had unconditional faith in Tang San, was it really possible for him to use his own soul power to draw upon the energy of the entire world?

"This isn't a pipe dream," Tang San shook his head, "it's a fact. However, even if I point out the direction, it will still take you quite a while to figure it out."

Then, Tang San took out a small wooden stick and demonstrated the lever experiment to Zhu Zhuqing, deepening her understanding of the two energy loops of her own martial soul. He said, "The balance of the lever lies in the weight at both ends, or the applied force, multiplied by the distance between the two sides of the fulcrum."

"Theoretically speaking, without considering airflow, if there were an incredibly hard, unbendable, and infinitely extendable stick with its fulcrum fixed in one place and indestructible, then even an ordinary person could move the entire world."

"What you need to do is find the 'fulcrum' between the two paths of your martial soul, and move it to a location where your soul power can exert the least force to move the external energy of heaven and earth."

"The external energy of heaven and earth is like a heavy object, maintaining the circuit is like the lever arm on the side of the heavy object, and the refining circuit is the lever arm on the other side. Your own soul power is the force that needs to be applied."

"Find your 'fulcrum,' and move your 'fulcrum,' and that will be your path to the future."

"As for whether you can move after you find the 'fulcrum'... I think you can move with the help of external forces. After all, a martial spirit is a magical thing that lies between matter and energy. It will evolve with each new spirit ring you add."

"Secondly, your martial soul can autonomously draw energy from heaven and earth to sustain itself, helping to reduce the burden on your soul power, proving that the existing 'fulcrum' is designed to allow you to control the energy of heaven and earth more easily."

"Therefore, even if you find that 'fulcrum' and cannot move it, it will still allow you to more easily manipulate the energy of heaven and earth within a certain range."

The more Zhu Zhuqing listened, the more she felt that this was possible. But how?

"The most important thing is to strengthen your mental power." Tang San held up a finger. "Only when your mental power is strong can you better 'see' the connection between yourself and your martial soul."

"Secondly, it's about improving your control over your soul power."

"Climbing trees, wading in water, or controlling the transformation of soul power on the body's surface are all ways to increase one's control over soul power."

In fact, the best way for Zhu Zhuqing to train was to cultivate the Purple Demon Eye and Crane Control Dragon Capture techniques. However, Zhu Zhuqing was different from Xiao Wu and Guang Ling, as she did not grow up with him from the age of five or six.

Tang San's level of trust in Zhu Zhuqing did not reach 100%.

Finally, there's Blue Silver...

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After planning out individual intensive training paths for everyone, Tang San, along with Xiao Wu and Guang Ling, asked Qin Ming for a month-long vacation.

Xiao Wu has reached level 50.

Guangling has reached level 40.

Both of them need to obtain a spirit ring.

"Don't you need me to come along?" Qin Ming asked.

"Thank you for your kind offer, Teacher Qin Ming, but the spirit beast needed for the Light Feather is in the far north. The Fiery Wolf can't unleash its full power there." Tang San politely declined. The main reason was that Xiao Wu needed to return to the Star Dou Great Forest to condense her fifth spirit ring, and Qin Ming couldn't know about this.

"Be careful on the way." Qin Ming knew that Tang San was very opinionated, so he didn't insist too much.

"Don't worry, I will definitely return safely."

After bidding farewell to Qin Ming and the Heaven Dou Royal Team at the school gate, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Guang Ling headed out of Heaven Dou City.

At the fork in the road, Xiao Wu waved goodbye to Tang San and Guang Ling, and then headed alone towards the Star Dou Great Forest.

"Third Brother, is Sister Xiaowu alright on her own? You seem quite comfortable with her hunting souls alone." Guangling didn't know that Xiaowu was a 100,000-year-old soul beast in human form, but she did realize some things—Sister Xiaowu never seemed to hunt soul beasts and obtain soul rings in front of her and Third Brother.

At Notting Academy, Wang Sheng, Mohen, and others said that Xiao Wu came from a prominent family.

But it seems that she and her third brother have never even met her family.

Could they be some kind of reclusive family?

"Her identity is special. When she wants to tell you, she will naturally do so." Tang San patted Guang Ling's head, watching Xiao Wu's figure disappear into the Star Dou Great Forest, and slowly spoke. "Although I know, I promised her that I wouldn't tell anyone else, including you, my disciple."

"I think I know..." Seeing Tang San's seriousness, and recalling Xiao Wu's personality and temperament, as well as the fact that Tang San recognized the habits of the soul beasts in her novel "Xiao Rou's Wonderful Adventure", Guang Ling guessed the truth about Xiao Wu.

"Very smart."

Tang San praised, holding up a finger to his lips, and said, "However, shh—"

Guangling nodded, a strange look flickering in her eyes:

A 100,000-year-old soul beast transforms into human form and mates with a human; they probably won't have babies, right?

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The core area of ​​the Starry Sky Forest.

In the center of the tranquil Lake of Life, Xiao Wu sat cross-legged, relying on her 100,000 years of cultivation and the abundant energy around her to condense her fifth soul ring.

Half an hour later, as a deep black spirit ring appeared, Xiao Wu stood up from the head of the Azure Bull Python. Her spirit was activated, and white downy hair like sleeves grew on her arms, while two rings of golden flame-like hair appeared on her wrists.

With a surge of soul power, the golden fur on her arms burst into flames. Her punches were so fast that they left afterimages, and the flame energy on them could even condense into a giant rabbit burning with golden flames, which Xiao Wu blasted away.

It can be used for close combat or long-range attacks.

In close combat, his fists are imbued with flames. Upon contact with an enemy, he can inject this energy into the opponent's body, disrupting the opponent's soul power condensation, interrupting soul skills, and causing interference.

It has a long-range attack capability, with a straight-line distance of up to 500 meters, and it can explode with a blast radius of over 50 meters.

Although the range is long, the target is more than 60 meters away from Xiao Wu. Unless it is a dead target, Xiao Wu's accuracy is extremely low.

However, Xiao Wu doesn't mind this, since her main focus is on assassination and disruption-type agility attacks, supplemented by melee crowd control, and she doesn't crave ranged output capabilities too much.

This soul skill was named Flash Flame Fist by Xiao Wu, and its soul ring was the Flash Flame Rabbit that Xiao Wu traced back to its origin.

With a light tap on the head of the Azure Bull Python, Xiao Wu landed on the lakeside.

"Have you condensed your spirit ring yet?" Di Tian examined Xiao Wu's fifth spirit ring. "A spirit ring of 50,000 years. I didn't expect that you, in your transformation from a Soft Bone Rabbit, could reach this level. Among us ferocious beasts, if we had the same cultivation as you, we might not be able to defeat you."

"I'm still far from good enough." Xiao Wu had learned a bit of humility from Tang San and said with a grin, but secretly she was cursing: Just you wait, I'll beat you all until you call me Sister Xiao Wu!

Although the ferocious beast was powerful, Xiao Wu, after being trained by Tang San and cultivating techniques such as Jade Bone Golden Muscle Divine Treasure Technique, Free and Easy Wind Control, Mysterious Heaven Skill, and Middle Dantian Qi Storage, was no weaker than an ordinary 50,000-year-old soul beast.

If she cultivates all these techniques to their peak and reaches the level of a Title Douluo, and then combines them with all her Soul Ring skills and her Three-Sword Style assassination techniques, it is not impossible for her to defeat Di Tian.

"Having spent so much time in the human world, I'm becoming less and less like a soul beast," Di Tian said calmly. "Soul beasts always say what they mean and never try to be modest."

"Ah, right, right, right." Xiao Wu pretended to be dumbfounded and echoed Di Tian, ​​thinking from the bottom of her heart that these ferocious beasts were all quite stupid and not as smart as humans at all.

Thankfully, I'm no longer a foolish soul beast...

hmm~

In the future, we need to find a way to make Da Ming and Er Ming also take human form. If they intend to undergo the Heavenly Tribulation, we should make them transform into human form after becoming ferocious beasts, hide their aura, and live in the human world. That way, they will become smarter.

Staying in such a small place, eating, drinking, sleeping, and accumulating soul power and improving cultivation for tens of thousands of years, one's mind is bound to become dull.

Di Tian was somewhat speechless, and snorted coldly, saying, "Your talent is not bad, but you've almost used up the 100,000 years of cultivation you accumulated before you took human form, haven't you?"

A soul beast that transforms into human form can condense its first seven soul rings. The energy cannot be generated out of thin air; it originates from the 100,000 years of cultivation accumulated during its soul beast days.

Before Xiao Wu transformed into human form, she was just an ordinary 100,000-year-old soul beast. Her first four soul rings had already taken her nearly 20,000 years of cultivation, and now her fifth soul ring had taken her 50,000 years.

The cultivation essence he has left is only about 30,000 years.

Therefore, even though Xiao Wu could withstand a 100,000-year level spirit ring at her sixth spirit ring, she could only condense a spirit ring of about 30,000 years.

To obtain a seventh spirit ring, one might need to condense a spirit ring of the millennium level.

"That is indeed a problem." Xiao Wu lowered her head and pondered. Suddenly, she thought of something and said, "Beast God, why don't you find some 100,000-year-old soul beasts and ferocious beasts who think they can't survive the Heavenly Tribulation and have them sacrifice themselves to me? With my talent, I might become a god in the future, and then I can resurrect them."

"Dream on." Di Tian raised an eyebrow and sneered without any politeness. He then led Xiao Wu to a cave and said, "Come on, follow me inside. There are things inside that can increase your cultivation source."

As soon as Xiao Wu stepped into the cave, she felt a chill.

After walking for a while, Xiao Wu felt that she was going downhill and getting colder and colder. Ice crystals appeared around her, emitting wisps of cold air.

However, the cave was still well-lit, with luminous mineral crystals on the walls on both sides, which shone brightly under the light of the ice crystals.

Two hours later, Xiao Wu and Di Tian arrived at an open space filled with frost. Stalactites, frozen in ice, hung upside down from the ceiling, their ends extremely sharp.

Directly in front, more than ten soul beasts were absorbing an extremely pure energy, which was almost solidified and of extremely high quality.

Xiao Wu followed the energy streams to the end and saw a huge, fat worm, over twenty meters long, bound to an ice platform.

"You just wait!"

"Don't give me the chance!"

"Otherwise, I'll show you what cruelty really is!"

"Damn it! My 990,000 years of cultivation! My enormous, voluptuous physique! Now I'm only twenty-odd meters long. How am I ever going to see Bingbing again?!"

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The giant worm kept chattering, but no soul beast paid it any attention. Even Di Tian remained silent, as if it were a common occurrence.

"Is this an Ice Silkworm?" Having spent a lot of time with Tang San, Xiao Wu has also come to know some soul beasts, such as the Ice Silkworm. Isn't this kind of soul beast supposed to live in the far north?

Why are we in the Star Dou Great Forest?

Moreover, it is clearly a 100,000-year-old soul beast capable of speaking human language, and according to its own information, it is even a 990,000-year-old ferocious beast.

Why have we been bound here for 990,000 years?

Could it be the lord I have never met?

"My name is Tianmeng Bingcan, little sister." Upon hearing Xiaowu's words, Tianmeng Bingcan noticed that Ditian had brought a newcomer over with her large eyes and immediately corrected her, saying to Ditian, "Why did you bring a transformed soul beast with you? And judging from her condition, she's almost at maturity, and she's almost used up her 100,000 years of cultivation. And that aura... tsk tsk, in my nearly one million years of life, I've never seen a transformed soul beast that resembles a human so much. If I weren't a mentalist, I really wouldn't have been able to tell."

"This guy has really lived for 990,000 years?" Xiao Wu looked at Di Tian with a serious expression. "Then isn't he a living history of Douluo Continent?"

"Don't listen to his nonsense. This insect only has a cultivation of nearly a million years. Moreover, it was lucky that it fell into an icy marrow land, where it ate and slept, and slept and ate, which is how it reached a cultivation of 990,000 years." Di Tian explained, "In terms of age, although it has indeed lived for a long time, it basically sleeps. It can't be called a living history of the soul beast world at all. It's just a lucky one."

"I brought you here so that you could absorb his energy."

"This insect has a lot of cultivation, but it doesn't know how to use it. In terms of strength, it's not even as good as some powerful ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts. It's a waste to keep this energy on it."

Tianmeng Bingcan grumbled, "Hmph! Another slutty, greedy whore who's lusting after my body!"

Xiao Wu originally didn't want to do that, but Meng Bingcan's sharp tongue that day, calling her a "seductive slut," made her angry.

Without hesitation, Xiao Wu drew upon the remaining 100,000 years of cultivation within her body, drawing upon the energy of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm to rapidly refine and fuse it.

"Ah~ I was wrong, little sister, please forgive me!" The Heavenly Gate Ice Silkworm felt its cultivation rapidly draining away and became frightened—this speed was much faster than the devouring speed of other soul beasts!

This is naturally the effect of the Mysterious Heaven Skill.

In addition, Xiao Wu used a portion of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm's energy to cultivate the Jade Bone Golden Muscle Divine Treasure Technique. It is estimated that in a month, Xiao Wu's entire body's jade bones will be fully condensed, and her 100,000-year cultivation origin will be fully replenished, or even surpass 100,000 years, reaching 200,000 years.

Xiao Wu paid no heed to the cries of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, for she was already immersed in the joy of her rapidly increasing cultivation essence of ten thousand years.

Not knowing if she would have another chance to absorb the energy of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, Xiao Wu decided to absorb as much as possible. If her 100,000 years of cultivation essence was sufficient, then even if she became a Soul Saint and reached maturity, the remaining energy could still be used to condense a Soul Ring without having to hunt Soul Beasts.

Why not?

[Hey hey hey! Tianmeng Bingcan, who told you to insult Sister Xiaowu? You asked for it!]

Zhu Zhuqing: Give me a fulcrum, and I will move the entire Douluo Star!

(End of this chapter)