Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 388 Zhu Zhuqing's Journey to the Spirit Beast Illusion

Indeed, from Lan Yinzi's perspective, Tang San didn't need to spend too much effort on increasing the age of his spirit rings, since he wasn't lacking in spirit power at all.

However, for Tang San, increasing the age of his spirit rings was not just about saving a little spirit power when using spirit skills, but about studying the patterns and methods of increasing the internal flow of spirit power as the age of the spirit rings increased.

On the surface, increasing the age of a soul ring saves soul power when using soul skills, but in reality, it increases the internal soul power flow path, thus improving the efficiency of soul power utilization.

This improvement in efficiency is the most crucial!

If the utilization rate of soul power continues to increase, what level will it eventually reach?

Tang San was looking forward to that moment.

However, as the age of the spirit ring increases and the internal spirit power flow routes increase, the skill of ring fusion, which can greatly enhance personal strength and condense the martial spirit true body armor, also needs to be re-summarized and its details adjusted.

"Take me inside and have a look!" Gu Yuena didn't care much at first, but after hearing Tang San's description, she began to suspect that the energy quality of the spirit beast illusion might be very high, even close to the immortal spiritual energy.

Only the spirit of immortals can have such a unique effect, instinctively imitating and creating the natural world.

"Don't be in such a hurry, let's finish breakfast first." Tang San chuckled. After sending Xiao Wu, Guang Ling, Huo Wu, and Ning Rongrong to their respective jobs in the outer city, he took Gu Yuena, Lan Yinzi, and Zhu Zhuqing to the Starry Sky World and entered the Spirit Beast Illusionary Space.

Gu Yuena clenched her small hands, took a deep breath, and a glint of silver flashed in her purple eyes. She thought to herself, "Sure enough, the energy here is similar to immortal spiritual energy, only the quality is slightly inferior. But if it continues to develop, this world may very well become a world close to the realm of gods."

Lan Yinzi and Zhu Zhuqing had no thoughts like Gu Yuena's. They were simply amazed that their combined consciousness and spiritual power were exactly the same as their physical bodies. Their martial souls could possess their bodies, and their soul rings could be released. It was just like a real body.

Zhu Zhuqing looked Lan Yinzi up and down, a question mark appearing on her forehead: "You're Lan Yinzi?"

Compared to Lan Yinzi in the outside world, Lan Yinzi's appearance is somewhat different after entering the Spirit Beast Illusion. Rather than a pure and lovely beautiful woman, she is more like a dignified beautiful woman. Her appearance is only about 70% similar to her body in the outside world.

Tang San sighed, almost forgetting that Lan Yinzi's situation was different from his. He had taken over the body of a transmigrator halfway through his journey, and judging from the situation, their souls had even merged.

However, Zhu Zhuqing didn't pay much attention to it, simply assuming that this place allowed her to change her form.

Lan Yinzi was a little embarrassed when she saw Tang San, but she still walked over to his side, chuckled, and said, "How am I, Mom? Am I pretty?"

"Mom?" Zhu Zhuqing was stunned. Suddenly, she realized that Lan Yinzi was quite cunning, actually trying to surpass Tang San in seniority.

"A bit weaker than Xiao Wu and the others." Tang San slapped Lan Yinzi's hand away in annoyance and said to Zhu Zhuqing, "Don't mind him, he's joking. I'll take you to hunt spirit beasts. Their strength is not much different from that of soul beasts of the same cultivation level in the outside world, and they may even be stronger. For us, it is also an excellent place to simulate soul hunting."

Zhu Zhuqing nodded and followed Tang San to a grassland resembling a green plain, where they found a group of Shadow Leopard Cats.

Upon seeing Tang San and his companions, the leopard cats immediately surrounded them, completely disregarding the soul power fluctuations emanating from them, determined to make them their prey.

"As expected, these soul beasts... oh no, spirit beasts, are stupid. They can't sense the difference in strength between us." Gu Yuena yawned, completely unconcerned about the pack of more than twenty leopard cats.

If it were a leopard cat in the real world, it would have run away long ago upon sensing the soul power fluctuations emanating from them. Instead, it treated them as prey.

Zhu Zhuqing possessed her martial soul and did not use any soul skills. She simply relied on her speed advantage to tear the twenty leopard cats to pieces with a single strike.

Subsequently, the leopard cat's corpse transformed into pure energy, which voluntarily entered Zhu Zhuqing's martial soul, and she used it to increase the age of her soul rings.

The second spirit ring changed from yellow to purple, reaching the level of a thousand years.

Gu Yuena was now completely certain that the energy was a low-quality version of immortal spiritual energy, but it was still a rare and valuable energy for a Soul Master.

Although Soul Masters cannot directly absorb this energy to improve their cultivation due to their low level of life, injecting it into their Soul Rings to increase their age is still very beneficial for breaking through to level 100 in the future.

"How are you feeling?" Tang San asked.

"It's like absorbing a spirit ring again, but only energy, and this energy is very pure. It should increase the age of the spirit ring without being limited by the type of spirit beast that produces it, right?" Zhu Zhuqing described her feelings and then shared her thoughts.

"That's right." Tang San affirmed. "The energy of these spirit beasts is very pure. I brought you here to find the leopard cat. However, this kind of spirit beast is a feline, so it's easier for you to deal with it. You can familiarize yourself with it first and use it to practice."

"Indeed, I am most familiar with cat-type soul beasts." Zhu Zhuqing nodded.

Next, under Tang San's leadership, Lan Yinzi and Zhu Zhuqing hunted down many spirit beasts, increasing the age of their spirit rings.

Gu Yuena didn't need to increase the age of her spirit rings; she simply looked around the place like a tourist.

"Speaking of which, why aren't there any plant-type soul beasts here?" Lan Yinzi suddenly asked. "There are only animal-type soul beasts. Is it possible that plant-type soul beasts cannot appear in this spirit beast illusion space?"

"Unlike the real world, this is an energy plane. Everything here is modeled using energy. The plants here look very realistic, but they are actually just three-dimensional textures. They don't have the photosynthesis of real plants," Tang San explained. "Compared to animal-type soul beasts, plant-type soul beasts are more difficult to simulate. After all, plants can be said to be the foundation of a world. A complete natural ecological cycle can exist without soul beasts and wild animals, but it absolutely cannot exist without plants."

"If this world can mimic plant spirit beasts, then these ordinary plants must also have functions similar to those of real plants."

"If that's the case, then this world would have the foundation for a physical body to enter."

Gu Yuena understood and said, "In other words, this world is not yet real. Therefore, plants, which are extremely important to nature, cannot be imitated, not even plant soul beasts."

"That's the point. This spirit beast illusion is a rather rigid imitation of reality, but that's what makes it stable. Otherwise, we might see twisted creatures." Tang San nodded, also glad that this space was a rigid imitation of the real world. Otherwise, with so many fragments of soul beast souls from the real world mixed together, it would definitely produce images similar to those in the Cthulhu Mythos that would drive people crazy with their sanity.

After granting Zhu Zhuqing, Lan Yinzi, and Gu Yuena access to this place, Tang San's primordial spirit returned to his physical body, preparing to go to the Martial Soul Research Institute in the city to organize the flow of soul power in his soul rings and soul skills.

He had just stepped out of the room when two servants called him back...

(End of this chapter)