Chapter 76 – The Advancing Xiao Wu? Power of Vital Blood?

Not long after Xiao Wu returned to the core area, following a brief chat, Da Ming and Er Ming quickly learned about her daily life in the human world.

Besides Xiao Wu, there were actually two human children whose cultivation speed wasn't inferior to hers.

One of them had even steadily suppressed Xiao Wu, with a spirit power level a full level above hers.

And these two children came from a small rural village in a border town.

Since when did humans have such terrifying talent?

If these two children's talents were extrapolated to the massive base population of humanity, Da Ming and Er Ming couldn't imagine how powerful humans could become in the future.

Perhaps it wouldn't be long before humans far surpassed the strength of soul beasts.

Were humans really such terrifying creatures?

The Azure Bull Python was momentarily speechless. He was not quite the same as Er Ming and Xiao Wu.

Thanks to his Azure Dragon bloodline, he had an extraordinary innate talent, making it easy for him to enter that circle in the future.

Er Ming was doing okay too—if he put in the effort, he could just about make it into that circle as well.

But now, the cultivation speed of humans had truly shocked him.

And according to Xiao Wu, the two human brats—one was skilled in theory, the other in combat.

Both possessed top-tier talent, especially the one who was proficient in theory, who also had some skill in martial arts.

"So, Sister Xiao Wu, this time you came back because…?"

After a long silence, Da Ming finally voiced the question.

"Da Ming, Er Ming, please train me. I want to train under Er Ming's gravity field and inside Da Ming's slow domain."

Xiao Wu knew very well that if she wanted to grow stronger, she had to improve according to Xiao Lin's training methods.

And gravity and slow-domain training were already very close to the Hyperbolic Time Chamber-style training in Xiao Lin's plan.

Xiao Wu's plan was to reach level 20 before returning, and condense her own thousand-year purple soul ring.

Following the soul ring plans of Xiao Lin and Tang San—two thousand years and fifteen hundred years respectively—

She believed she could condense a ring of over fifteen hundred years herself.

By then, she would show Xiao Lin that the Soft Bone Rabbit was not a useless martial soul.

She would make Xiao Lin, right in front of her, cry and revise her profile to reflect a top-tier martial soul.

"Hehehe-honk honk honk!"

Suddenly thinking of something funny, Xiao Wu burst into laughter with a bizarre goose-honking sound.

She was going to smack Xiao Lin and take her revenge, step by step, until they all respectfully called her Sister Xiao Wu.

"Sure, but can you really reach level 20 in just two months?"

The Azure Bull Python frowned in doubt. Even with a ten-thousand-year cultivation base and a cheat-like boost, that speed seemed too fast.

"Hmph! I definitely can!"

Xiao Wu snorted confidently and cheered herself on.

A few days later, Xiao Wu fled.

She was hiding under a big tree, panting heavily, her chest heaving up and down.

"Da Ming and Er Ming have gone crazy. I was just taking a break and they wouldn't even let me rest!"

A look of lingering fear appeared on Xiao Wu's flushed face. She had only trained for an hour each day, and already couldn't take it.

Yet Da Ming and Er Ming claimed they were only using the lowest intensity—and still forced her to continue.

Hmph! Even at Nuoding Academy, there were rest days!

There had to be rest days here too—at least two per week!

Meanwhile, in the back mountains of Holy Soul Village…

Xiao Lin and Tang San were moving in and out of a small, shaded mountain cave, completely ignoring the mutated Demonic-Eyed Devil Tree, repeatedly exploiting its weaknesses.

By now, Xiao Lin had reduced the tree's paralysis effect on him to just five seconds.

This progress was nothing short of astonishing.

The reason for such improvement wasn't just that Xiao Lin had adapted to the tree's spiritual paralysis—it was mainly because his True Form of the Tool Spirit had activated.

Under the Innate Tool Spirit Sacred Body, Xiao Lin's body was a fusion of the Coiling Dragon Rod and his flesh.

This state boosted all of Xiao Lin's physical stats and gave him some resistance to mental attacks.

Although that resistance wasn't huge, it was enough for him to gradually adapt and find patterns.

Sometimes, Xiao Lin would deliberately stay inside the cave for a few seconds to experience full paralysis.

In just a few short days, Xiao Lin's spiritual power had soared, and he was on the verge of upgrading from the Three-Aperture Mind of Control to the Four-Aperture Heart of Constancy.

While attempting to use spiritual power to control his body, Xiao Lin also discovered that circulating soul power through his meridians could substitute for his nervous system to move his body.

This discovery greatly shocked him.

Although moving his body this way was like running a decades-old machine on the verge of breaking down,

It helped him accelerate the expansion of his meridians.

After sharing this discovery with Tang San, the martial arts genius agreed. Tang San said:

A soul master could passively heal their body through meridian-circulated soul power, which is why their recovery was much stronger than normal people.

So using soul power to move the body made sense—it wasn't even difficult.

In fact, repeating this process essentially became a form of physical training.

Xiao Lin fully trusted Tang San's words.

Not just because Tang San's soul power inherently carried life force,

But because all soul masters had unusual recovery abilities.

Thus, repeatedly stimulating the meridians and strengthening the body through soul power was normal and effective.

However, Xiao Lin's soul power didn't contain life force—it was purely firm and unyielding.

So his approach was more like inflating a balloon bit by bit, then reinforcing it with indestructible soul power.

In a sense, one used life energy, and the other indestructible soul power—both were incredibly potent special energies.

If the two could be perfectly combined, their power might rival that of vital blood energy—a fusion of life force and physical strength.

But for now, they couldn't merge their soul powers, and their Martial Soul Fusion Technique hadn't shown any progress either.

"Whew…"

"Shaved off a bit more time."

Lying on the ground, Xiao Lin mentally calculated. Only after the paralysis ended did he slowly get up.

"Brother Lin, your progress is so fast. At this rate, in half a month, you might completely ignore the paralysis effect!"

Tang San said with joy. He was different from Xiao Lin.

Although he started split-focus control training later than Xiao Lin, he had already achieved One Mind, Three Uses, reaching the Three-Aperture Mind of Control.

And thanks to the Purple Demon Eye, he too was on the verge of breaking through to the Four-Aperture Heart of Constancy.

Now Xiao Lin was just one step away from the same level—an incredibly fast advancement.

In Tang San's mind, Xiao Lin didn't even cultivate the Purple Demon Eye, which boosted spiritual power.

That made Tang San all the more amazed and excited.

If it were him, maybe he could even push the Purple Demon Eye to a new level.

Tang San eagerly looked forward to finishing Xiao Lin's training so he could take over and train next.

"Heh… I don't think it'll be that easy."

Unlike Tang San's confident expression, Xiao Lin wasn't so optimistic.

It was like the 100-meter dash—once you break 10 seconds, even improving by 0.01 seconds becomes incredibly hard.

Xiao Lin no longer expected to completely ignore the paralysis. As long as he could limit the delay to under half a second, it would be good enough.

Then Tang San could start practicing too—and they could progress together.

"Sigh… With such an amazing training environment, I wonder how Xiao Wu is doing…"

Suddenly, Tang San sighed at the thought of Xiao Wu.

"Xiao Wu? She's probably living the good life."

Xiao Lin shook his head. Considering her relationship with Da Ming and Er Ming, she was practically the little boss of Star Dou Forest. Way more comfortable than school life.

(End of Chapter)