Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 279 Xiao Wu's 100,000-Year Soul Skill (Part 1): Nerve Net

Despite facing two opponents alone, Tang San ultimately emerged victorious.

After getting dressed, Huo Wu leaned on Tang San's back, her face flushed, and said softly, "I'm tired, carry me out."

Tang San has also confirmed that the Sun Goddess is a martial soul, but she also seems to be a physical manifestation of Huo Wu's energy, having reached the level of turning the illusory into the real.

It can only be said that, as expected of Crystal Lotus, a parasitic plant that lives in the blood of a planet, is always unexpectedly powerful.

If Tang San hadn't had sex with the woman, he could have refused her advances with righteous indignation. But since they had already consummated their marriage, he had no choice but to compromise.

After carrying Huo Wu away from the crater, Tang San gazed at the hole in the inner wall of the volcano and at the continuously descending lava, and said, "It seems that large-scale volcanic eruptions will no longer occur in this place. The period of the great volcanic eruption that Lava City experiences every three hundred years is about to disappear."

This might cause Lava City to lose a festival that happens once every three hundred years, but Lava City doesn't need to worry about a massive eruption suddenly occurring in the lava volcano area one day, causing the entire city to be covered in lava.

In the future, people here can develop in peace.

"Speaking of which, now that the Crystal Lotus is gone, will the volcanoes in the lava volcano area gradually disappear?" Huo Wu suddenly asked. "Won't the soul beasts here become extinct?"

It wasn't that Huo Wu cared about the lives of the soul beasts, but rather that without the lava volcano, most of the soul beasts here might become extinct, and there would be one less place for soul masters to hunt souls.

Although human development involves taking away the living space of soul beasts, soul beasts are also an important resource!

"No." Tang San said decisively, "The volcanoes here are numerous and continuous. It would probably take hundreds of thousands of years for them to go out. Besides, the planet's tectonic plates are in constant motion, and these volcanoes are also a kind of heat dissipation outlet."

While chatting, the two descended the volcano and headed towards the outer edge of the lava volcano area.

Along the way, they encountered many soul beasts searching for ores and consuming and refining them, but compared to before, there were fewer of them. However, the people waiting on the outermost edge still dared not approach and waited for these soul beasts to disperse on their own.

Tang San and Huo Wu, on the other hand, were highly skilled and daring, and they directly entered the group of soul beasts to start picking out various precious ores and metals.

Although those soul beasts were extremely wild, they were all searching for minerals to increase their cultivation. Even the upper and lower levels of the food chain did not interfere with each other, let alone humans.

As long as Tang San and Huo Wu don't attack first, the soul beasts won't attack at this time either.

After all, the ore is hidden in semi-soft lava. If it's destroyed, the ore they need will sink into the lava and become difficult to extract.

The volcanic mineral feast lasted for three days and three nights. The soul beasts began to disperse, while the humans who had been waiting on the outskirts groped their way up, carrying tools such as pickaxes and winnowing baskets, and began to search for minerals and collect the excrement containing high-quality metal ores left behind by the soul beasts after they consumed the minerals.

Commonly known as: Shit Gold.

Perhaps this is why the spirit beasts here don't harm humans at times like this. After all, there's a lot of excrement, and the spirit beasts themselves can't stand it. If someone comes and cleans up the excrement, wouldn't that save them the trouble of waiting for the excrement to be naturally covered by lava, allowing them more time to search for ores?

Huo Wu looked at the warm, silvery gold and sighed, "Soul beasts are truly amazing; they can even purify metals. This silver ingot is already close to the level of a hundred refinements."

"Nature's artistry is indeed astonishing, but only human wisdom can rival its wonders."

Tang San knew that for most blacksmiths, the gold produced by the excrement of the soul beasts after they consumed the ore was far purer than the gold they could obtain by hammering metal hundreds or thousands of times.

But only humans can forge metal into weapons, armor, tools, and so on.

However, it must be admitted that the soul beasts that evolved in this environment have an extremely strong ability to digest ores, making them natural "metal purifiers".

Unfortunately, humans cannot actively utilize this advantage and can only passively benefit from these spirit beasts.

After seven days, Tang San and Huo Wu had collected a considerable amount of precious metals and were about to leave when the person Tang San had previously inquired about found them and asked, "Would you like to attend the grand event in Lava City? We've had a bumper harvest of metal ore this time, and the city lord is preparing to host a grand banquet!"

"Alright, then please tell me, what are the activities included in the banquet?" Tang San became interested, not just to join in the fun, but to learn about the local customs and traditions, and to collect information on the martial souls of most of the people in the city. He wanted to deduce the evolution of the martial souls of the people of Lava City, thereby strengthening existing theories and providing evidence for future new theories…

Half a month later, Tang San and Huo Wu arrived at the town outside the Star Dou Great Forest and met Xiao Wu at the agreed-upon inn.

"I knew it! You guys must have done *that*!" Xiao Wu said with a playful smile to Huo Wu. "Now that you've gotten what you wanted, shouldn't you thank us properly, Fourth Sister?"

In terms of age, Huo Wu appears to be the oldest among those present, but there is an order of arrival. Moreover, in terms of actual age, Xiao Wu is a 100,000-year-old soul beast in human form, so she is naturally the oldest!

"Hmph, what's it to you?" Huo Wu declared, "There's absolutely no way I'd ask Xiao Wu, Guang Ling, Ning Rongrong, and the others to call me 'sister'!"

However, Huo Wu did not refute the title of "Fourth Sister".

Who told her to fall behind?

"Let's not talk about that." Tang San awkwardly changed the subject, asking about Xiao Wu's sixth spirit ring: "How many years did it take to condense your sixth spirit ring, and what spirit skill does it have?"

Xiao Wu put one hand on her hip, and her martial spirit naturally possessed her. A pair of rabbit ears appeared on her head, and two tufts of golden fur, like burning flames, grew from her wrists. Rabbit fur sprouted from her snow-white legs, displaying dragon scale-like patterns.

Then, six spirit rings appeared around him one after another, trembling slightly. The sixth spirit ring was a blood-red 100,000-year spirit ring.

"As expected, you are also at the 100,000-year level." Huo Wu also possessed a martial soul and released her soul ring. The aura emanating from that red 100,000-year soul ring was on par with Xiao Wu's.

"How did your martial soul appear to possess your body?" Xiao Wu asked curiously. Huo Wu's martial soul used to be an off-body type, and now she had golden sun patterns on her body and a golden crystal skirt resembling a lotus flower around her waist.

Has the martial spirit evolved again?

How could Huo Wu withstand a 100,000-year soul ring?

Moreover, from which spirit beast did this 100,000-year spirit ring come?

"We can separate." Huo Wu's lips curled up, and the Sun Goddess detached herself from Huo Wu's body, taking the initiative to hug Tang San's back, resting her chin on Tang San's right shoulder, and her golden eyes even winked at Xiao Wu, with a slightly playful look.

Now Xiao Wu understood perfectly.

Huo Wu's Sun Goddess has evolved again, and it is highly likely that Huo Wu's consciousness has entered this martial soul body, just like having an extra body.

"That's pretty impressive," Xiao Wu asked. "What kind of soul skill is it?"

"Sunfire Lotus, an area-of-effect explosive soul skill, but there's no suitable place to test it." Huo Wu retracted the Sun Goddess and held up two fingers. "The second soul skill is Sun Seal, which can seal everything. On the way back, Tang San even found a soul beast that died naturally to test it. It can even seal soul rings. After unsealing, the soul ring can be drawn by any soul master who needs a soul ring, avoiding the requirement that the soul master must kill the soul beast to absorb the soul ring."

"That's amazing!" Xiao Wu blinked. "Now you can sell spirit rings and make money!"

"screw you!"

Huo Wu rolled her eyes, then remembered something and said, "Tang San has already told you your identity. I'm afraid you might have some strange feelings about it, so I'll tell you myself. My 100,000-year soul ring came from a crystal lotus that grew by absorbing the energy of the earth's mantle magma. It has no intelligence. Because its attributes are extremely compatible with my martial soul, it instinctively fused with the Sun Goddess. That's how I got my sixth soul ring."

"Moreover, this crystal lotus contains nearly a million years of cultivation. In the future, my seventh, eighth, and ninth soul rings can be formed autonomously with the help of the Sun Goddess."

Xiao Wu breathed a sigh of relief, then laughed and said, "Really, there's no need to explain... But I really envy you. You don't need to hunt spirit beasts for the last three spirit rings. I'll tell you how to condense spirit rings... But it's difficult for me. I'll have to figure out how to condense the eighth and ninth spirit rings myself."

"Don't worry, we'll definitely find a way later," Tang San comforted her.

"Yes, I believe in Third Brother." Xiao Wu nodded, then spoke of her sixth soul skill: "My first soul skill is called Neurotic Net."

"Just as you said, Third Brother, the Spirit Rabbit has strengthened my entire nervous system. Not only has it made my control over my blood and soul power reach a superb level, but it has also greatly improved my mental strength. Now, I can walk on the water as if it were flat ground."

"Even now, I can contend with weaker 100,000-year-old soul beasts from the Star Dou Great Forest. If I use the Fusion Ring, I can even contend with the other ferocious beasts outside of the Emperor Heaven!"

"While the skill 'Neural Network' doesn't directly grant me offensive capabilities, it does activate all the nerve tissue in my body, allowing me to perceive the movement patterns of every inch of my body."

This skill sounds useless, but only Tang San, Xiao Wu, Huo Wu and others understand how powerful it is for Xiao Wu.

With it, Xiao Wu can perfectly control her whole body, making better use of every bit of power generated by her bones and muscles, achieving the strongest effect with the least amount of effort.

In addition, Xiao Wu can also sense the rhythm of her internal organs, which can better assist her in cultivating the Divine Treasury part of the Jade Bone Golden Muscle Divine Treasury Technique and help her research on [Medicine: The Fine Structure of the Human Body].

"Give it a try."

(End of this chapter)