Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 28 Why work so hard?

"What did you say? What do you mean, 'deep in the mountains'?"

Xiao Wu's heart skipped a beat, and she almost rushed out the door, but she held back and pretended to be confused.

"It's just a metaphor."

Tang San walked to the edge of the pool, his back to Xiao Wu.

"Phew~"

Xiao Wu secretly breathed a sigh of relief and walked to the edge of the pool, asking, "What are you looking at in the pool? The fish in there are so big."

Several carp in the pond caught Xiao Wu's attention.

"Have you ever thought about walking on water?" Tang San suddenly asked.

"Walking on water? That's impossible, I don't have such a soul skill." Xiao Wu shook her head like a rattle drum, her scorpion braid swinging back and forth, making Tang San almost want to tug at it.

"This is to hone our ability to control soul power."

Tang San looked at the jujube tree beside him, concentrated his soul power under his feet, rushed towards it, and then ran along the trunk.

He only ran five meters high before falling down.

His footprints were left on the tree trunk.

"This is my idea: to concentrate my soul power in the soles of my feet and run along the trees until one day I can use my soul power to stick to the tree trunks without falling down. That would mean that my control over my soul power has reached an extremely high level."

After Tang San steadied himself, he explained to Xiao Wu, "And after that, the next stage is walking on water, or even running on flowing water."

"If we can achieve this, it means that our control over soul power has reached a superb level. We can walk, run, or even hang upside down on the ceiling by relying on soul power."

Xiao Wu looked incredulous, because she felt that according to Tang San's explanation, it seemed possible to actually do such a thing using soul power.

Is this what humans are like?

How clever!

"Did you come up with this?" Xiao Wu couldn't help but ask.

"No," Tang San said. "I've seen people do this before, but I don't know the specific method. I can only imitate it, but it's very beneficial for improving our control over our soul power."

Xiao Wu couldn't tell if it was true or false, so she believed it for the time being and started trying to climb the tree with her feet, but she fell down after running less than a meter.

"It hurts!"

Xiao Wu, clutching her bottom, grimaced as she got up and said to Tang San, "We should put a mat underneath."

"That won't do. With a mat, you'll just be thinking about slacking off. Besides, isn't your first soul skill a waist bow? Before falling, you can use a similar method to twist your waist and land steadily on the ground. It's also a way to train your soul skill." Tang San refuted Xiao Wu's suggestion and offered his own advice.

"Fine, fine, you decide, but why should I listen to you? Honestly." Xiao Wu muttered to herself, but continued practicing, while Tang San practiced climbing the same jujube tree.

A tree trunk with a diameter of fifty centimeters is enough for two people to practice from two different angles.

And so, the two practiced for a whole morning.

Tang San was the tallest, only able to run up to seven meters, while Xiao Wu hovered around two or three meters.

"This is really tiring," Xiao Wu complained. "But this thing requires a really high level of control over soul power. If you have too much soul power, the bark will be crushed; if you have too little, it won't stick."

"It is indeed a bit difficult for beginners. Even for me, it would probably take some time before I could walk upright on things like trees." Tang San realized that soul power and chakra are not the same thing. In the setting, chakra is a combination of spiritual energy and cellular energy. It can be regarded as the combination of essence and spirit among the three treasures of essence, energy and spirit. It comes entirely from oneself and should be easier to control.

Soul power can be considered as "qi" among the three treasures of essence, qi, and spirit. It is refined by absorbing the energy of heaven and earth from the outside world, and it is indeed more troublesome to control.

Even someone like him, who possesses skills like controlling cranes and capturing dragons and has a stronger grasp of soul power than most soul masters, still progresses so slowly, let alone other soul masters.

However, his ability to run seven meters proves that this method is very effective in controlling the precision of soul power. If he can achieve what he envisions, he may truly master the extraordinary power of soul power. At that time, he can easily use any self-created soul skill that relies on soul power.

"Let's go eat. You can treat me, after all, I'm being your guinea pig." Xiao Wu rubbed her slightly flattened stomach and said to Tang San, "Using soul power to forge is such a luxury, and I get hungry so quickly."

"Okay, it's on me."

Tang San smiled wryly. Xiao Wu's reminder made him realize that he needed to find a way to make money, otherwise he couldn't afford the expenses of research and cultivation.

Also, he needs to find a blacksmith shop to work as a blacksmith.

It wasn't that he wanted to become a master craftsman or anything like that. After all, he had absolutely no memory of hidden weapons. As for making firearms by hand... forgive him, he didn't understand the principles, and even if he did, he couldn't make them by hand.

The main reason is that the Chaotic Cloak Hammering Technique is a hammering technique that uses the opponent's force against them. Through vibration, it can also strengthen the muscles and bones of the whole body, thereby enhancing physical fitness.

More importantly, if he can master the more fundamental ability of vibration through the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique, then his future can be described as limitless.

After leaving the backyard, Tang San took Xiao Wu to find Matthew and said, "Grandpa Matthew, we're going to have lunch. Would you like to come with us?"

"No, as the head of a branch hall, I have to report the city's crime situation to the next higher level, the Spirit Hall, every month. Tomorrow is the day to submit the report, so I have to hurry up and prepare it."

Matthew shook his head, then remembered something, called Tang San over, handed him a bulging brown bag, and said, "Little Tang, that Thousand-Root Banyan Tree was auctioned off at the Notting City auction house. The starting price was five hundred gold soul coins, and it was finally bought by a carving master for two thousand gold soul coins."

"I know you won't benefit from it, but in Soul Hunting, the soul beasts hunted belong to the soul masters who obtain soul rings, while those who help hunt receive a share based on their contribution."

"Therefore, I took eight hundred, Su Yuntao and Sisi each took three hundred, and the remaining six hundred is yours."

Tang San took the small bag and said, "Thank you, Grandpa Matthew."

"No need to be so polite, this is what you deserve. If you hadn't said that these thousand banyan trees were valuable to the sculptor, we wouldn't have known they were so valuable." Matthew said with a sigh, "Who would have thought that a single tree could be so valuable, more than my monthly salary?"

After chatting with Matthew for a while, Tang San didn't disturb Matthew's busy work. He just said that he would help bring food when he returned, and then he and Xiao Wu left the Spirit Hall.

"You got six hundred gold soul coins. It would take me six hundred months to get them back from the Spirit Hall," Xiao Wu said innocently. "You're rich now!"

"Although I have money, please rest assured that I will never lend it to you to waste, except for the occasional treat." Tang San thwarted Xiao Wu's wicked thoughts. "It's all needed for research and cultivation."

"How stingy." Xiao Wu's eyes were filled with resentment as she pouted, just like a little girl. "Besides, what's the point of working so hard to cultivate?"

Regarding the question of other time travelers.

In three words: information gap.

It's not that other transmigrators knew Tang San was one of their kind; that doesn't matter. The protagonist of this book has this kind of personality, he can't pretend, and if he's discovered, he's discovered.

The information gap refers to the fact that other transmigrators, fearing Tang Hao's strength, did not know whether Tang Hao was actually by Tang San's side at this moment.

If they want to catch rabbits, Tang Hao is an obstacle they can't get around.

Daring to steal the Blue Silver Emperor doesn't mean you can beat Tang Hao. If you could beat him, you wouldn't need to steal it. After all, given the nature of most fanfiction protagonists, wouldn't it be a bigger and better blow to Tang Hao to just take it directly?

...They probably just stumbled upon the location of the Blue Silver Emperor by accident (this is a spoiler), since the soul bone is still there, which means that the other party couldn't find where the soul bone was hidden, couldn't break through the cave wall, and wasn't very strong.

Also, I've been describing Tang San's perspective throughout, emphasizing that this is a realistic world, which is also a setup...

Other transmigrators won't be exceptionally powerful, at least not in the early to mid-stages. There definitely won't be any transmigrators with systems. Writing about that would be extremely disjointed. Shouldn't the author also give Tang San a system? That would be too contrived.

(End of this chapter)