The Sister Xiao Gui that Xiao Lin mentioned was naturally the same Sister Xiao Gui from six years ago—the one who, with their help while hunting a soul ring, caused her Osmanthus martial soul to mutate into a Moon Laurel martial soul.
Not only did Sister Xiao Gui's martial soul mutate into Moon Laurel, but its nature also shifted toward the food-type. This greatly increased her potential.
Coupled with the rarity of food-type soul masters—and the fact that food produced by food-type martial souls can be used in emergencies—Sister Xiao Gui became extremely popular in Notting City. Soul masters often sought her out to purchase Moon Laurel flowers.
With frequent use came frequent practice, and as a result, Sister Xiao Gui's cultivation intensity steadily increased.
Then, three years ago, under Xiao Lin's recommendation, Sister Xiao Gui successfully obtained her second soul ring.
Her second soul ring came from a soul beast known as the Frost Moon Rabbit, with a soul ring age of 800 years.
Afterward, her martial soul underwent another beneficial mutation, further enhancing the potential of the Moon Laurel martial soul.
Moreover, her second soul skill was called Moon Shadow Lingering Fragrance, which could increase a soul master's speed by 20% and perception by 30%.
Even now, Xiao Lin felt that Sister Xiao Gui was close to acquiring her third soul ring.
As he recalled all this, Xiao Lin couldn't help but nod inwardly in satisfaction.
There was a reason he had chosen the Frost Moon Rabbit, an animal-type soul beast, instead of a plant-type soul beast, when helping Sister Xiao Gui acquire her soul ring.
First, it was naturally to test whether a plant-type martial soul that specialized in the food system could absorb an animal-type soul beast's soul ring.
Looking at the results now—not only was it possible, but there was also plenty of room for enhancement.
Second, it was to test whether, after specializing in the food system, a plant-type martial soul could still gain the strength benefits of an animal-type soul beast's soul ring.
The second experiment also succeeded.
Because of the Frost Moon Rabbit's soul ring, Sister Xiao Gui's Moon Laurel martial soul gained significantly more toughness, and her own physical constitution also improved slightly.
The success of the second experiment allowed Sister Xiao Gui to perform real-time healing to some extent and greatly enhanced her ability to avoid danger.
However, although Xiao Lin had chosen the soul beast for Sister Xiao Gui partly for experimental purposes, he had actually done precise calculations beforehand and only then selected a Frost Moon Rabbit with an extremely high success rate.
From the soul beast records Xiao Lin had read, the Frost Moon Rabbit was not only capable of launching frost attacks using moonlight, but under moonlight, its speed and perception were greatly enhanced.
Most importantly, Xiao Lin believed that the Frost Moon Rabbit's droppings could be used medicinally.
On this point, Xiao Lin had even asked Tang San back then.
He asked whether the droppings of rabbit-type soul beasts could be made into Moon-Gazing Sand.
Only after receiving Tang San's confirmation did Xiao Lin let Sister Xiao Gui hunt the Frost Moon Rabbit. Its ability to produce Moon-Gazing Sand was treated by Xiao Lin as a guaranteed fallback enhancement for the food system.
After explaining his past experiences with Sister Xiao Gui and the reasoning behind them to Tang San and the others, Xiao Lin couldn't help but lift his head, wearing a proud expression.
Tang San quickly came to a realization—so that was why Brother Lin had asked him that question back then.
Xiao Wu, on the other hand, was furious. Rabbits were clearly so cute…
At this moment, Tang San was full of curiosity. He moved closer to Xiao Lin, wanting to ask about the data from Sister Xiao Gui's second soul ring.
Xiao Wu, however, didn't want to pay Xiao Lin any attention and sulked by herself.
Moon-Gazing Sand… Brother Lin was really too disgusting.
If Xiao Lin knew what Xiao Wu was thinking, he would only cry injustice.
He didn't eat Moon-Gazing Sand, nor did he eat Sister Xiao Gui's martial soul.
And he definitely wasn't paying attention to Xiao Wu's "Moon-Gazing Sand" either—he wasn't a pervert. At most, his ideas were a bit unorthodox.
Before long, under Xiao Lin's data analysis, Tang San relaxed his brows.
"So what you're saying, Brother Lin, is that if the soul beast itself has medicinal value, then when my Blue Silver Emperor absorbs a soul ring, I can at least get a guaranteed baseline effect?"
Tang San hadn't paid much attention to anything else, but after hearing this theory from Xiao Lin, he felt it was worth trying.
"Mm-hmm. But before that, it's still best to prioritize vitality."
Xiao Lin reminded him.
Tang San's sixth soul ring was still a long way off. He couldn't possibly level faster than Sister Xiao Gui, who had gone from the twenties to the thirties.
Now they just had to wait for Sister Xiao Gui to come find them.
"Then what kind of soul beast soul ring should I look for?"
Tang San's face was filled with curiosity, and his gaze soon unconsciously drifted toward Xiao Wu.
At this moment, although Xiao Wu had her back turned to Xiao Lin and Tang San in anger, she was extremely sensitive to Tang San's gaze.
When Tang San finished speaking and looked at her, Xiao Wu's whole body jolted.
Brother San isn't thinking about "Moon-Gazing Sand" too, is he? That would be way too perverted.
At that instant, Xiao Wu suddenly turned around and stared at Tang San.
When she saw that Tang San's expression wasn't perverted at all, she quietly let out a sigh of relief.
Thank goodness—Brother San was just spacing out.
Immediately after, Xiao Wu shot a fierce glare at Xiao Lin.
The little thing was quite angry.
Seeing this, Xiao Lin couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"Xiao San, how many snake-type soul beasts do you think can be used medicinally?"
As soon as Xiao Lin said this, Tang San's eyes instantly lit up.
Not to mention shed snake skin—snake meat, snake bones, snake gallbladders, and even snake blood could all be used as traditional medicine.
"Brother Lin, you mean I could look for a snake-type soul beast with strong vitality as my sixth soul ring?"
"Exactly."
After receiving Xiao Lin's confirmation, Tang San began stroking his chin, thinking seriously about what kind of food-type soul skill he might obtain.
"A snake-type soul beast with strong vitality guarantees the vitality of my Blue Silver Emperor. And snake-type soul beasts also have good toughness and physical strength—my Blue Silver Emperor's overall strength would improve as well."
"With the baseline secured, and considering snakes in traditional medicine—dispelling wind and dampness, replenishing deficiency, reducing swelling and detoxifying, promoting blood circulation, nourishing yin and reducing fire…"
"Then as a food-type ability, it could either increase vitality and healing, enhance physical qualities, improve the body, reduce hidden injuries, or even boost virility, detoxify, replenish qi, and so on…"
The more Tang San spoke, the more excited he became, completely forgetting that he was just talking about obtaining one soul ring.
Wanting so many effects from a single soul ring—why not just make a wish instead?
Very quickly, Xiao Lin pulled Tang San back to reality.
"Maybe you'll just get an all-attribute enhancement ability, along with some detoxification and healing effects."
Xiao Lin remembered that Oscar seemed to have a soul skill with a similar effect.
If Tang San obtained such a soul skill, he would only become even stronger.
That was because Tang San's Blue Silver Emperor had a much deeper foundation and far greater vitality.
Oscar, at the end of the day, simply had good personal talent.
A sausage as a food-type martial soul—one look was enough to tell that its quality was quite ordinary.
If it were a heavenly herb as a food-type martial soul, Xiao Lin believed that even the current Tang San, if he truly obtained an all-attribute enhancement soul skill, would be able to surpass others easily.
Thinking along these lines, Xiao Lin felt that Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan, as an assault-type soul master, had completely chosen the wrong path.
Setting aside the fact that Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum was a martial soul that could make one indestructible—if he insisted on going the assault route, he should at least have absorbed metal-attribute soul rings.
Moreover, the best path for him should have been the food system.
Xiao Lin could only eat the Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum heavenly herb once. But if Yue Guan had followed the food-type path, perhaps he could have kept eating it indefinitely.
(End of Chapter)