Chapter 112: Seeing with Eyes

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"Not bad, you've learned quite a lot these days," Tang San praised Xiao Wu, "My suggestion is to strengthen your legs. After all, you've already practiced with your arms, wielding two short knives, and the short sword made of golden tree at the end of your scorpion tail. It's enough for you to exercise and strengthen yourself, or you can choose a soul skill in the fifth soul ring that can strengthen your arms."

"Indeed, all of my current soul skills are basically unrelated to speed. For the fourth soul ring, I need to find a soul skill that can enhance my legs, improve my speed, and also strengthen my kicking skills. It should complement my first soul skill, Waist Bow, and the third soul skill, True Spirit Bone."

Listening to Tang San's simple analysis, Xiao Wu agreed, but what kind of soul ring should she choose?

"For your fourth soul ring, you can choose the Dragon Scale Rabbit," Tang San suggested.

"Dragon Scale Rabbit?"

Xiao Wu's eyebrows raised slightly, "It sounds like a rabbit with dragon bloodline?"

"Yes, it's rumored that this type of soul beast indeed has the bloodline of dragons. As I've said before, the Dragon Scale Rabbit is a mysterious extinct soul beast, and it's also a branch of the Dragon Rabbit. Legend has it that they concentrated the dragon bloodline into the length of their two thighs, causing four golden scales to grow at their knees and ankles, resembling dragon scales, which can provide them with extreme speed."

"And extreme speed also means the need for powerful mental strength to control it. The Dragon Scale Rabbit also possesses considerable spiritual power. However, according to records, it seems that no one has obtained any spirit-related soul skills from them, only skills to enhance speed."

"But you're different."

"The Dragon Scale Rabbit is closely related to the Dragon Rabbit, so maybe you can improve your spiritual power a bit and enhance your control... Your third soul ring is the Dragon Rabbit, so if you acquire the Dragon Scale Rabbit's soul ring, it might trigger an evolution of your martial soul, making it even more powerful."

Can the martial soul of a hundred-thousand-year transformed soul beast evolve again?

Based on Xiao Wu's strengthening of her martial soul, Tang San could be sure that it could.

Tang San speculated that for transformed hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, after their bodies transformed into human form, their original form became their martial soul. The first few soul rings could be condensed by themselves, or even through the origin of their hundred-thousand-year cultivation, they could find corresponding soul rings from their own kind, allowing their martial soul to undergo an evolution surpassing their original form.

This was the true way of evolution for a hundred-thousand-year transformed soul beast.

Unfortunately, hundred-thousand-year transformed soul beasts were influenced by their past lives when condensing soul rings and choosing soul skills. They only chose skills that they once possessed.

Such soul skills might be most suitable for their original form's survival, but after the hundred-thousand-year soul beast transformed into human form and entered human society, this so-called "most suitable" needed to be questioned.

This was a mindset caused by long-term environmental influences.

However, under Tang San's suggestion, Xiao Wu gradually changed and became stronger.

Tang San was actually quite proud of this.

"I understand."

Xiao Wu decided to choose the Dragon Scale Rabbit for her fourth soul ring.

For others, even if their bodies could withstand it, they might still fail to absorb it due to insufficient mental strength. However, she was different. Her soul rings were condensed with the origin of her hundred-thousand-year cultivation, so she didn't have to worry about the mental shock or soul impact caused by absorbing soul rings.

At least, not for her first seven soul rings.

"Oh, right, my seventh soul ring can only choose the Soft Boned Rabbit." Xiao Wu suddenly thought of something and said to Tang San, "So, how should I choose my fifth and sixth soul rings in the future?"

"Is it like this?" Tang San didn't ask Xiao Wu why her seventh soul ring could only choose the Soft Boned Rabbit. Instead, after pondering for a moment, he said, "That's okay, after all, under normal circumstances, the seventh soul ring can only bring one soul skill: Martial Soul True Body."

"That's true." Xiao Wu smiled embarrassedly, not daring to say that her seventh soul ring would definitely be a hundred-thousand-year soul ring with two soul skills, as it was not yet the time.

Xiao Wu felt that Tang San knew about her identity as a hundred-thousand-year soul beast transformed into human form, and even felt that Tang San knew that she felt he knew.

He asked Di Tian for a method to conceal the aura of a soul beast, which could deceive others and even other Titled Douluo, but it definitely couldn't deceive the martial soul theory master in front of him.

He didn't say it, and she didn't dare to say it.

Although this was good, there always seemed to be some friction between the two.

"Um, actually, I have a secret." Xiao Wu thought for a moment and felt that it was better to clarify it in advance.

"Mm, I have one too," Tang San responded. "But there's no need to tell me. Everyone has their privacy."

"No, I must say it." Xiao Wu took a deep breath and led Tang San to the study, leaving Guang Ling alone to speculate: Is Xiao Wu going to confess to San Ge?

Bang!

Inside the study, Xiao Wu closed the door, took a deep breath, her modestly sized chest rising and falling slightly. Then she looked at Tang San and said slowly, "Actually, I'm not human."

"You are human," Tang San said.

"No, I'm a hundred-thousand-year soul beast transformed into human form." Xiao Wu shook her head and revealed her true identity, staring straight at Tang San.

"So—" 

Tang San stroked his chin, elongating his tone, "You're a hundred thousand years old?"

Xiao Wu blushed, suddenly feeling that Tang San was being unreliable: "No, a hundred-thousand-year soul beast means that my cultivation has reached a hundred thousand years. It doesn't necessarily mean that I've lived for a hundred thousand years. In some peculiar environments, the cultivation speed of soul beasts can accelerate. I used to live in the core area of the Star Dou Forest and practiced there. My cultivation progressed rapidly. In terms of age, I'm only about sixty thousand years old."

"Oh, still quite old. Should I call you Grandma?" Tang San blinked, asking seriously.

"I'm not joking!" 

Xiao Wu's eyes were serious. "Will you report me?"

"You've already been treated as my grandchild by my grandfather. How could I report you?" Tang San shrugged and smiled slightly. "Actually, I've suspected it for a long time. After all, even the Martial Soul Hall couldn't guarantee finding a Dragon Rabbit, yet you found it... There's only one possibility: you condensed the Dragon Rabbit's soul ring by yourself, and there's a method to condense the soul core. I reckon even the Martial Soul Hall doesn't have it."

Xiao Wu felt a bit disheartened. "Am I that obvious?"

"I can only say that your personality doesn't fit that of a commoner. Most people would probably think you're a runaway young lady from a wealthy family." Tang San nodded slightly. "At first, I thought so too, but later I found out that you completely lack the etiquette expected of a pampered princess type, even those pampered princesses would have a facade of elegance (like Ning Rong Rong), but you don't. You're completely like a wild and mischievous tomboy."

Xiao Wu blushed and scoffed, "You can't describe people like that!"

"Sorry, my bad." Tang San's apology seemed insincere, but Xiao Wu wasn't angry because, in her opinion, this was just how siblings interacted, no need for so much formality.

"So, now that I've confessed my identity, what do you think of my soul beast transformation?"

(End of Chapter)