Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 398 Another two years have passed in a flash—The Heavenly Dou Fractal

Tang San was not surprised that Bibi Dong guessed Xiao Wu's identity.

In the past, it would have been understandable if Bibi Dong hadn't noticed, since Xiao Wu had a way to conceal the aura of soul beasts before she reached the Soul Saint level.

However, after condensing the Qi and Blood Golden Core, the Soul Power Core, and the Spiritual Spirit, Bibi Dong could no longer see it, which was a favor to herself and a matter of human relationships.

Now that Xiao Wu has become a Soul Saint, she has completely become human.

Bibi Dong brought this up now probably to test his attitude... After all, she had hunted a 100,000-year-old Soft Bone Rabbit, who was Xiao Wu's enemy: "My Soul Devouring Spider King's seventh spirit ring came from a 100,000-year-old Soft Bone Rabbit. To be honest, this spirit ring is completely incompatible with the Soul Devouring Spider King. Fortunately, it was used on the seventh spirit ring, and I gained a Martial Soul True Body skill and a physical skill, which I named: Spider King Eight-Stage Tight-Fit Lock."

Eight-section tight lock?

No wonder Bibi Dong never used this soul skill in the original work. This kind of physical style is completely incompatible with the spirit-type martial soul, Soul Devouring Spider Emperor.

Even if Bibi Dong's powerful physique allows her to use it, given her status, she wouldn't use it... Wait, didn't she use it on herself last time?

Tang San immediately dismissed the thought and said, "Indeed, the Soft Bone Rabbit is not suitable for you."

"That's not the point." Bibi Dong stared at Tang San and asked quietly, "If your woman clashed with me and sought revenge, whose side would you choose to help?"

"Actually, we can reconcile." Tang San skipped over the question that was equivalent to "If I and your mother fell into the water at the same time, who would you save first?" and proposed another possibility.

"Reconciliation? What reconciliation?" Bibi Dong wondered. Could it be that Xiao Wu had given up on revenge?

"Actually, Xiao Wu's mother's remaining soul has already been obtained from you, and I myself possess resurrection skills. Currently, she is being nurtured in the starry world, awaiting her resurrection." Tang San thought for a moment and then told the whole story.

"How dare you!" Bibi Dong's anger simmered, her aura pressing down on Tang San. "When did you do this?"

"When you were holding me." Faced with that aura that seemed like the roar of thousands of wronged souls, Tang San focused his mind, remained unmoved, and told a little lie without changing his expression.

The challenge to seize Xiao Wu's mother's broken soul occurred after the conclusion of the Continental Elite Tournament.

But you can't say that, otherwise the nature of the situation changes...

When Bibi Dong heard Tang San say this, her imposing aura immediately dissipated. After all, she couldn't really blame Tang San for what happened back then. He had sensed something and taken the opportunity to steal the soul of the Soft Bone Rabbit... Was it an equal exchange? Did she lose or gain?

"Is the repaired soul still the same one?" Bibi Dong came back to her senses, temporarily setting aside those distracting thoughts, and asked about the Immortal True Spirit.

"Regarding the research on the Undying True Spirit, we currently only know that such a thing exists." Although Tang San and the other spirit-type soul masters of the Spirit Hall have been conducting research on the Undying True Spirit in the Starry Sky World and the eighteen levels of hell of the Soul Seal Throne of Goodness and Death opened by Ilex, using the souls of those who have fallen, the progress has been zero.

After all, once an immortal spirit emerges after the natural death of the soul, it will immediately disappear, and there is currently no way to capture it... Obviously, it is not something they should be researching at this stage. "For mortals with emotions, memories and the outer shell of the soul are the foundation, while an immortal spirit should be similar to a soul guide battery."

Although Tang San and Bibi Dong both knew that the Undying True Spirit could not be replaced by something as simple as a "Soul Guidance Battery," but was the very foundation of a person's true self.

But they can't access that level right now, which is something they can't help.

"Then, we should try to avoid shaping the soul as much as possible in the future, otherwise people will become like mass-produced life-type soul tools, except that people have memories and feelings." Bibi Dong didn't say much more on this topic, which can be regarded as agreeing with Tang San's decision.

"That's natural." Tang San nodded. After all, who would have thought that not only could the physical body be cloned, but the soul could also be replicated? This was truly a terrifying thing.

There are so many unknowns in this universe...

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Two years have passed in the blink of an eye.

The six outer cities of Wuhun City have become increasingly prosperous, and their area has expanded by 0.2 times. This is mainly because the two empires have restricted the outflow of population, resulting in a decrease in the population growth of Wuhun City.

But development continues, especially in the Soul Guidance Technology City, which has truly taken on the flavor of an industrial revolution, with all sorts of novel soul guidance devices emerging one after another.

Two Great Empires—

On the Xingluo side, things remained the same. They were arguing fiercely about whether or not to research weapon-type soul tools, resulting in slow progress. Zhu Zhuqing, on the other hand, wanted to use her sister Zhu Zhuqing and brother-in-law Davis's connections to obtain an official position from Dai Lego, and to win over insightful people to begin handling imperial affairs. Her decisive and serious style, as well as her earnest attitude in dealing with people, earned her considerable fame.

Many young people in China regard him as an idol.

Furthermore, because Zhu Zhuqing doesn't participate in matters related to soul tools, some families hope to win her over to oppose Davis and Zhu Zhuyun...

Meanwhile, in the Heavenly Dou Empire, after Emperor Qinghe had consolidated his power over the past two years, he began to crack down on the hereditary nobles and wanted to learn from Xingluo to abolish other duchies and kingdoms.

Upon hearing this news, the rulers of many small countries united to form the "New Heaven Dou Alliance," or New Heaven Dou Federation for short, led by the Kingdom of Barak. They repeatedly petitioned Xue Qinghe to rescind his order.

However, Xue Qinghe remained steadfast in her opinion, determined to carry out large-scale reforms within the Tiandou territory. She even felt that this was still an opportunity, and once she quelled the rebellion, her prestige would surely reach its peak. At that time, even if she reverted to her female form, not many people would care—those who dared to care were not her own people and could be killed.

As for Emperor Xueye, he has been bedridden for nearly a year and will pass away in a few days.

However, the emperor's tragedy was that, even among those close to him, few were truly grieving when he was dying. But when he was finally buried, perhaps a large number of unrelated people would come to pay their respects.

Regarding the split of the Heaven Dou Empire into the original Heaven Dou and the new Heaven Dou, the Spirit Hall stated that it would not participate in the internal strife of Heaven Dou, but would only be responsible for resettling the displaced people.

This has led the people of Tiandou to admire the Spirit Hall even more, while they have many grievances against both the original and new Tiandou, with more complaints against Emperor Qinghe than against the nobles of the new Tiandou.

After all, the common people didn't care about the plans of the higher-ups; they only knew that Xue Qinghe's orders had led to the division of the empire and worsened their living conditions.

In terms of propaganda and public opinion tactics, the old nobles of the new Heavenly Dou are no less capable than Xue Qinghe.

If Xue Qinghe hadn't caused trouble, they would have tolerated it. But not only did she want to establish the imperial examination system, selecting only the talented, she also wanted to strip them of their hereditary noble status.

The latter, in particular, is absolutely intolerable!

This is destroying their very foundation!

So the only option is to rebel, no, to hope that Emperor Qinghe can understand that the Heavenly Dou Empire can only exist peacefully and for a long time because of nobles like them!

(End of this chapter)