One day later.
Near the Ice and Fire Yin–Yang Eyes.
After a full day of Tang San's treatment, both Ah Yin's consciousness and the Autumn Water Dew had recovered.
However, for Ah Yin to truly revive, or for the Autumn Water Dew to reach a usable state, much more effort would still be required.
At a location far away from the immortal herbs and Ah Yin.
Xiao Lin and the others carried out, for the first time, the kind of training they had only imagined before—gravity training.
With the effect of Tang San's fused soul bone, his first soul skill could impose up to four times gravity on everyone.
This level of gravity was extremely oppressive for Xiao Lin and the others.
Although their physical fitness was fairly good, the strength of their internal organs—such as the five viscera and six bowels—was far from as robust as one might imagine.
At this moment, within a specially designated gravity-training area, Xiao Lin suddenly stopped doing push-ups.
"This won't do. Just four times gravity isn't enough."
Xiao Lin frowned slightly and said in a calm tone.
His words left Tang San and Xiao Wu speechless. Don't underestimate four times gravity—on top of that, the weight of the Clear Sky Hammer itself also exerted pressure on the surroundings.
In other words, it was effectively four times gravity plus the pressure generated by the Clear Sky Hammer.
Among the three of them, only Xiao Lin—the monster—could completely ignore it, with only his internal organs feeling some pressure.
Tang San and Xiao Wu, meanwhile, were both wearing Blue Silver Regeneration Bracelets.
Looks like the environment still needs to become harsher.
Xiao Lin paid no attention to their expressions and continued thinking to himself.
At present, the best solution would be for him to absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul bone.
Lei Lei had already told Xiao Lin everything about the soul bone skills. It turned out that a hundred-thousand-year soul bone also possessed two soul skills.
When Xiao Lin first heard Lei Lei mention only one, he hadn't paid much attention, since that was what he had originally believed anyway.
For example, he only remembered one of Xiao Wu's soul bone skills, and the same was true for the soul bone skills of Da Ming and Er Ming.
After all, he had watched Douluo Continent in his previous life when he was just around ten years old—and now nearly twenty-five or twenty-six years had passed.
Lei Lei's second soul bone skill was actually quite decent.
It was the special magnetic field that Xiao Lin's Coiling Dragon Staff had once copied.
A soul skill capable of altering spacetime.
Its name was Magnetic Storm Spacetime—a skill that combined the destructive power of lightning and magnetic fields to induce chaos in the surrounding spacetime.
Strong? Not particularly. Weak? Not really either.
Its main purpose was to counter spacetime-type soul skills. For example, if an opponent froze time, Xiao Lin could rely on this ability to disrupt the frozen time, allowing him to move.
It was essentially a passive skill.
But if used actively, even Xiao Lin didn't know what might happen.
Would it cause changes or distortions in the surrounding spacetime?
Xiao Lin was thinking of absorbing it now to see whether it could interact with Tang San's gravity, possibly creating a cultivation environment similar to a Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
Should he absorb it?
If this were earlier, Xiao Lin probably would have already done so.
But after recently hearing Tang Hao's words, he began to hesitate again.
If he absorbed it now, wouldn't that be telling everyone that he possessed a hundred-thousand-year soul bone?
Then, during the academy tournament instance, Tang Hao would already have to save quite a few people. If something happened to Xiao Lin as well, wouldn't that only increase Tang Hao's burden?
Seeing Xiao Lin spacing out, Tang San suddenly thought of something. There was a question he had wanted to ask for a long time.
"Brother Lin, the three paths you mentioned yesterday—what kind of soul beast soul rings should I absorb?"
Tang San was thoroughly puzzled. With his current soul power level, there were very few soul beasts suitable for him.
Blue Silver Tree, Blue Silver Medicine, or Blue Silver Steel—none of these seemed to have appropriate soul beasts.
Moreover, for his later soul rings, he wanted the effects of all three combined.
"Hmm… actually, a soul beast that combines all three can basically be said to not exist. But there are quite a few that combine two."
Xiao Lin replied directly, though he couldn't immediately think of any three-in-one soul beasts.
For example, Blue Silver Tree–type soul beasts—couldn't powerful plant-type soul beasts do that?
That would require plant soul beasts like the Ancient Life Tree or the Demon-Eyed Magic Tree.
And if the Blue Silver Emperor were to gain medicinal properties, it would require immense vitality—wouldn't that still be life-type soul beasts like the Ancient Life Tree?
As for Blue Silver Steel—heh.
For the Blue Silver Emperor to mutate in that direction, it would need soul beasts with extremely powerful physical bodies.
And in reality, soul beasts with strong physiques also tend to have decent vitality.
"Uh… Brother Lin, even with your knowledge, you can't find a suitable soul beast? Then maybe just two-in-one would be fine."
Tang San didn't want to make things too difficult for Xiao Lin. He decided to look for three two-in-one soul beast soul rings—wouldn't that essentially be equivalent to two three-in-one ones?
After spending so much time with Xiao Lin, Tang San had also picked up this kind of spur-of-the-moment inspiration.
"You know what, that might actually work. But I've already thought of one soul beast for you."
"This soul beast is called the Life-Weaving Spider Spirit. It's a medium-sized soul beast with a spider-like body structure, but its body is covered in emerald-green scales, granting it powerful defensive capabilities. It can also spit out spider webs with instant healing effects."
"Moreover, as a spider-type soul beast, it possesses most spider abilities—such as the toughness and flexibility of its silk—which perfectly satisfies the third condition."
As Xiao Lin finished speaking, Tang San quickly became troubled.
A soul beast like that sounded extremely rare—it probably wouldn't be easy to find.
What soul master goes searching for a soul beast by targeting a specific species?
When Xiao Lin searched for the Thunder Emperor Dragon, that was because he already knew where it was—it was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast with its own exclusive territory.
But this Life-Weaving Spider Spirit sounded like a medium-sized soul beast. It might not even be as big as a person. Searching for it in a forest would be like looking for a needle in the ocean.
Even with the Blue Silver Domain, Tang San didn't think he could find it.
It wasn't just Tang San—Xiao Wu thought the same.
She had never heard of such a soul beast in the Star Dou Forest. It might already be extinct.
"Brother Lin, how about you think of some two-in-one ones?" Tang San suggested.
"Six."
Xiao Lin rolled his eyes and said speechlessly, "Why don't you consider the Ancient Life Tree or the Emerald Swan instead?"
"Dragon-type soul beasts with powerful vitality could also work."
Once Xiao Lin said that, Tang San knew there was basically no hope of finding suitable soul beasts.
Just from the names, they sounded terrifyingly powerful. How could he, a mere Soul King, even think about them?
What if those soul beasts were protected by even stronger ones? Even if he called his father, it would probably be useless.
Seeing Tang San fall silent, Xiao Wu suddenly thought of a suitable soul beast.
"I remember there's a hundred-thousand-year soul beast in the Star Dou Forest called the Sacred Soul King. How about trying that?"
"Xiao Wu, you really think highly of me."
Tang San felt exhausted. Now even hundred-thousand-year soul beasts were being brought up.
Soon, Tang San dismissed the gravity training and lay down on the Blue Silver Grass lawn.
Perhaps he really shouldn't be so greedy—unless there was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast willing to sacrifice itself.
"So, Little San, you should walk the food-type path. Accumulate vitality. The advantage of the food-type route is that you can absorb all kinds of soul beast soul rings."
Before Xiao Lin even finished speaking, Tang San immediately asked back,
"But Brother Lin, how should I do that?"
Xiao Lin smiled calmly. "Perfect timing. I remember that Sister Xiao Gui should be close to level thirty now. When she goes to obtain her third soul ring, we'll collect the final set of data."
As Xiao Lin's words fell, Tang San and Xiao Wu began recalling the adventure from six years ago.
(End of Chapter)