Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 278 Talking about this kind of thing in front of an eight-year-old girl...

With her meticulous control over her soul power, Huo Wu dispersed the Sunfire Lotus and then condensed a lotus flower.

Compared to the previous fire lotus, this one has no golden flames on its petals and is more crystal clear, emitting a faint white light.

"This is the second skill of my sixth spirit ring: Solar Space."

Huo Wu threw the lotus flower toward the Radiant Cloud Bird. Once it hovered above the Radiant Cloud Bird, its thirty-six petals immediately spread out, enveloping the bird and connecting with each other to form beams of light that continuously drew closer to it.

Before long, the entire Radiant Cloud Smoke Bird, along with the Sun Crystal Pillar, was enveloped by the thirty-six petals, began to shrink, and finally turned into a lotus bud the size of a palm.

"That's the effect. It can seal soul beasts, or even people, inside. And the sealing effect is extremely powerful. As long as the lotus bud is not broken, it can remain sealed indefinitely."

"More importantly, I can transform this solar space lotus into a solar fire lotus and explode the entity sealed within it."

After saying that, Huo Wu withdrew from the state of being possessed by her martial soul, and the Sun Goddess returned to her body. A bead of sweat appeared on her forehead. "Phew~ Using two 100,000-year soul skills took quite a bit of energy."

After Tang San restored the lotus bud's soul power, he took it, squeezed it slightly, and found it to be quite firm. He asked, "How do we open it without using force?"

"I'll just infuse it with soul power." Huo Wu reached out and infused a wisp of soul power into the lotus bud. The lotus bud quickly opened, and the Radiant Cloud Bird flew out, returning to its original size.

"Quack quack!"

The Flame Cloud Bird, now back to its original size, swung its neck and made a cawing sound like a crow at Fire Dance.

The Titan Fire Ape, not far away, also showed fear, immediately lying down on the ground and pretending to be dead, hoping to escape the torment of these two terrifying upright apes.

As the lotus bud in his hand dissipated, Tang San realized that the seal of this soul skill was a one-time thing. Once the seal was broken, the carrier of the seal would dissipate and could not be reused. Huo Wu would need to use the Sun Space soul skill again.

"Are there any restrictions on this soul skill?" Tang San asked.

"Yes, it can only be used 36 times a day. After all the uses are used up, even if you have enough soul power, you can't use it anymore and need 36 hours to recover."

Huo Wu sensed the flow of soul power in the second soul skill within the 100,000-year soul ring. Although she couldn't see it very clearly, she still observed 36 nodes with her spiritual power. One of them was broken, but it was slowly recovering and would take about an hour.

This kind of recovery cannot be accelerated by soul power; it can only be restored by the power of the soul ring itself.

"That's not bad either." Tang San nodded. "Especially your martial soul, which has also evolved. It can possess other beings or exist independently, becoming your clone."

"It's about gravity—"

Before he could finish speaking, Huo Wu interrupted him with two "humphs," saying, "After absorbing the Crystal Lotus, my control over gravity has also improved."

"Is that so?" Tang San pondered for a moment and offered his opinion, "It's probably because the Crystal Lotus, a plant-type soul beast, originally grows in magma, which is relatively close to the core of the planet, so it was somewhat affected. Or perhaps it's because it can move up and down in the mantle layer, thus possessing a gravitational-like ability?"

Tang San didn't know the specifics, but he was happy for Huo Wu.

"That's not all!"

Huo Wu said proudly, "After absorbing the entire Crystal Lotus, its enormous energy exists within my Martial Soul. In the future, I won't need to hunt Soul Beasts for my seventh, eighth, and ninth Soul Rings. As long as I reach the corresponding level, I can condense them with the help of my Martial Soul."

"This crystal lotus's cultivation period isn't just the hundred thousand years you guessed, it's nearly a million years!"

Upon hearing that the Crystal Lotus possessed such abundant energy, Tang San was also shocked. He then smiled and said, "Isn't that great? It will save us the trouble of hunting soul beasts in the future, allowing us to focus on cultivation or delve into our side hustles."

Speaking of side hustles, besides studying physics, Huo Wu also does forging in her spare time.

However, unlike ordinary blacksmiths who forge metal with a forging hammer, Fire Dance uses flames to melt metal and then, based on her research on gravity, continuously compresses the molten metal liquid.

This method is far more efficient than that of ordinary master blacksmiths, and can produce nearly half a ton of wrought iron in one go.

However, for most blacksmiths in Soul Guidance Technology City, this was cheating; the refined Hundred-Refined Iron had no soul!

"That's true. Maybe I can become a master weapon refiner by then." Huo Wu put one hand on her hip, her gaze falling on the Titan Fire Ape and the Radiant Cloud Smoke Bird, and asked, "What should we do with these two soul beasts?"

"Let them go," Tang San said slowly, glancing at the two of them.

Titan Fire Ape secretly opened one eye.

The radiant clouds and smoke birds also gazed at Tang San.

"Release them? These two soul beasts are both of different species, and one has a cultivation level of 50,000 years and the other 60,000 years. Their chances of dropping soul bones are much higher than other 50,000-year-old soul beasts." Huo Wu looked at the two soul beasts with human-like expressions of fear and found it quite amusing.

"Alright, stop scaring them." Tang San shook his head. "We don't need their spirit rings, so there's no need to kill them indiscriminately. After all, every ten-thousand-year-old spirit beast on the continent that's killed is one less to go."

Under the watchful eyes of the Titan Fire Ape and the Radiant Cloud Smoke Bird, Tang San and Huo Wu left through the original cave entrance. The two birds exchanged a glance, both exhaling like humans, seemingly relaxing their guard. But soon, their roars and cries resumed, arguing and vying for territory. Finally, they used the original location where the Crystal Lotus had grown as a boundary, agreeing not to interfere with each other, and began to gnaw on the island composed of solar crystals beneath their feet…

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"If those two soul beasts devour the island where the Crystal Lotus grows, their cultivation should increase rapidly, right?" Huo Wu, still thinking about the soul bones of those two soul beasts, licked her lips. "Should we kill them and take their bones when they reach 100,000 years old?"

"Soul bones are a special type of material, but they're not that important right now," Tang San said. He explained that a Soul Master can dedicate their entire life to studying Martial Souls and Soul Rings, and research Soul Guidance Devices by understanding the principles of Soul Rings and Soul Skills.

Soul bones are relatively rare and cannot be obtained on a large scale. Soul beasts are also a rare resource, and they cannot be slaughtered indiscriminately in order to obtain soul bones.

Not to mention, Xiao Wu is a 100,000-year-old soul beast in human form!

Even though transformed soul beasts have betrayed the soul beast race in terms of race, they still have an ideological inclination towards soul beasts.

Therefore, we should avoid indiscriminate killing if possible.

Secondly, Gu Yuena's feelings also need to be considered. In the future, he hopes that humans can get rid of the restrictions of soul beasts and soul rings, and even one day be able to coexist peacefully with soul beasts... Hmm~ This is not very realistic, but at least there should be a tendency to respect each other, rather than taking advantage of soul beasts and using them merely as resources for their own advancement.

Another point is—

"I've already taught you the Jade Bone Golden Muscle Divine Treasure Technique, why would you need a soul bone?" Tang San asked curiously. "A soul bone is an impurity to a jade bone, but judging from your situation, it seems that jade bones don't really reject external soul bones. Is it because external soul bones can also evolve? That's something worth considering."

"Alright, let's talk about that when we get back. Right now, I want to have a good, satisfying battle with you!" After walking around the spiral-shaped passageway inside the volcano, Huo Wu suddenly leaped in front of Tang San, pinned him against the wall, and released the Sun Goddess. She pressed herself against Tang San from both sides and began to grope him.

"Here?"

Tang San was shocked. He hadn't expected Huo Wu to be so bold as to want to do the great thing of procreation in this place, and even release her martial soul... What was she up to?

"I want to see if you can take on two opponents at once with your strength," Huo Wu said with a smile, then said seriously, "and help me test whether this martial spirit body is exactly the same as a real person's."

"What a joke! How dare two mere foes fight me? Even ten of them, I could handle!" Tang San scoffed, responding to Huo Wu's enthusiasm and engaging in a protracted tug-of-war...

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Wuhun City.

Soul Martial Manor.

Gu Yuena found Guangling and followed her to learn about soul tools.

As the ruler of all soul beasts, she has realized that the strength of mankind lies in wisdom, and soul tools are the crystallization of human wisdom. As long as she learns this knowledge, she can also lead the soul beasts to rise!

Unfortunately, Gu Yuena was too naive in this regard.

Regardless of the intelligence of soul beasts, if you want soul beasts to rise, you must first make them give up their hierarchical position in the "food chain," prohibit them from preying on each other, make them all eat vegetarian food, and even prohibit them from eating plant soul beasts.

Otherwise, even if humans categorize all plants and animals with soul power as soul beasts, soul beasts are not a true race. They include different species such as Blue Silver Grass, Soft Bone Rabbit, Lone Wolf, White Tiger, Luan Bird, and Human-Faced Demon Spider, and their relationship with each other is simply one of eating and being eaten.

Even a 100,000-year-old soul beast, possessing human intelligence, will never know how to change if it does not transform into human form or leave its original habitat. Over the long course of time, the intelligence it has painstakingly developed, comparable to that of humans, will become stagnant.

At this time, Gu Yuena was not aware of this, but perhaps even she herself did not know that when she finally returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, she might find the environment there very difficult to adapt to.

"Guangling, aren't you afraid that Tang San will also consider Huo Wu as his spouse?" While studying the soul guidance patterns, Gu Yuena suddenly asked this question, "You and Xiao Wu might have another sister soon!"

Guangling gave Gu Yuena a strange look, and said matter-of-factly, "It's normal for outstanding men to be liked by girls."

"Xiao Wu, Rong Rong, and I aren't jealous. Besides, Huo Wu is so familiar with us, and we know she has feelings for Third Brother."

"Besides, Third Brother is very strong~"

"We will all be sexually happy."

Gu Yuena: "???"

Something's wrong with you!

(End of this chapter)