Chapter 196: Tang San: You Already Have a Path to Death.....

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The day's competition ended quickly.

After the members of the Tian Dou Royal team had their meal, they split up and began to wander around the Martial Soul City.

After all, it was the first time for all of them to come to this city of soul masters.

During the night, the Martial Soul City was even more beautiful compared to the daytime.

The main reason was the effect of various soul guide lamps similar to neon lights, making the entire Martial Soul City brightly lit as if it were daytime.

Xiao Wu was very curious about everything here. She looked left and right, lingered at various stalls for a while, bought some novelty items, and shared her joy with Tang San and Guang Ling.

"San Ge, this snack is really delicious."

"You should try it too, Guang Ling."

Before long, Tang San and Guang Ling's arms were filled with quite a few large and small packages. The two of them looked at each other helplessly and could only help each other pack them into their storage wristbands and white jade belts.

Compared to Xiao Wu's curiosity about various new things, Guang Ling appeared more "knowledgeable." Although she was also curious, she was only interested in some life-type soul devices she hadn't seen before, and she wouldn't buy them once she understood their basic principles, being quite thrifty.

Suddenly, Xiao Wu's nose twitched, and she signaled for Tang San and Guang Ling to follow her to a small shop.

Helplessly, the two of them could only follow along.

When the three of them arrived in front of the small shop, Tang San and Guang Ling had already stored the items Xiao Wu had previously purchased in their white jade belts and storage wristbands.

Looking up, there was a sign above the small shop with three large characters written on it: "Treasure Medicine Shop."

No wonder Xiao Wu was attracted here; she had smelled the scent of medicine.

"Excuse me, what kind of special medicinal herbs do you have here? I smelled a very fragrant aroma, which seems to be very effective for enhancing Qi and blood." Xiao Wu's delicate nose twitched as she looked towards the leftmost medicine cabinet.

The old man beside the counter hurriedly blocked Xiao Wu's line of sight, then realizing his own behavior was too nervous, he smiled broadly and said, "The guest's nose is indeed sensitive. Is your martial soul a rabbit?"

"Why do you ask?" Xiao Wu raised her eyebrows, wondering how the old man in front of her could tell, could it be that he was a master from the stories Tang San told?

"Please wait a moment."

The old man turned around and went to the leftmost medicine cabinet, opened the middle box, took out an antique-looking wooden box, and carefully placed it on the counter, opening it gently, afraid of making a mistake.

And as the wooden box opened, the contents inside were revealed.

It was actually a ginseng that was entirely like crystal, resembling a piece of art sculpted by nature.

"This is Crystal Ginseng, a seed of carrots and blood ginseng intertwined, forming a whole, and later growing into this ginseng, which is like a crystal diamond."

The old man said slowly, "This kind of ginseng has a fatal attraction to rabbits, and it is the same for soul masters with rabbit-type martial souls."

"Ordinary people who consume it can replenish Qi and blood, while rabbit-type soul masters who consume it are said to gain spatial abilities."

"Of course, it is rumored that only Crystal Ginseng that is over a thousand years old has that effect. This one is only about five hundred years old."

Xiao Wu was very satisfied with the old man's honesty and asked, "How much is this Crystal Ginseng?"

"Although this one is only five hundred years old, it can still be added to some secret medicinal baths to enhance its effects, so, ten thousand gold soul coins, no bargaining." The old man didn't beat around the bush, directly stating the price.

"Can you lower the price a bit?" Xiao Wu blinked her cute big eyes, causing the old man to turn his head and say, "Nine thousand nine hundred, I can't go any lower, or else I'd be losing money. I bought it for nine thousand gold soul coins and am only making nine hundred from you; it's quite a good deal."

Purchased for nine thousand?

Xiao Wu had become quite savvy now; she definitely bought it for less than five thousand—Tang San had said that merchants prioritize profit, and the most conscientious businesses sell things for at least twice the cost price.

Just like the small workshop they bought in Tian Dou City, they produced soul-guiding cameras, soul-guiding photographic boxes, and parent-child soul-guiding photographic balls. The cost price of a soul-guiding camera was only twenty copper soul coins, but they sold it for twenty gold soul coins, making a profit of a thousand times.

Huge profit!

So, Xiao Wu continued to haggle with the shopkeeper, and eventually, she bought it for eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight gold soul coins.

Just as Xiao Wu was about to put it into her white jade belt, a voice suddenly came from outside the door:

"Wait!"

Tang San turned around to see it was Huo Yuhao—daring to appear directly in front of him; he really had guts.

Guang Ling glared at the other party. If Tang San hadn't been holding her hand, she might have released her martial soul and shot him through—still holding a grudge about Tang San fainting last time.

"Is there something you need?" Xiao Wu picked up the box and stored it in her white jade belt without giving the other party any face.

"Shopkeeper, can I buy that ginseng you just showed? I'm willing to pay double the price." Huo Yuhao didn't know what kind of ginseng it was or what it did, but just by looking at its appearance, he knew it was extraordinary.

Moreover, since he had already offended Tang San, he might as well offend him thoroughly.

However, Huo Yuhao overlooked one thing:

This was the Martial Soul City.

"Double the price indeed makes me very tempted. So, young lady, would you like to return the goods?" The old man asked kindly.

"No, thank you." Xiao Wu flatly refused—paying money and getting the goods, the transaction was done, and the Crystal Ginseng was already hers.

"That's a pity."

The old man sighed and said to Huo Yuhao, "There's nothing I can do. If this young lady doesn't return it, I can't force her to. Our shop is a small business and we don't engage in forced sales or demand customers to return goods."

"If the young brother really wants it, he can negotiate with this young lady."

Doesn't the old man want double the price?

Of course he does.

But this is the Martial Soul City. Once goods are sold, unless customers find a reason for a refund, the shop cannot forcibly demand customers to return the goods.

This is also to avoid malicious bidding.

It can be said that any merchant who can grow their own business will not maliciously raise prices due to competition from multiple customers. After all, shops are not auctions. If they are mixed up, their peaceful days will come to an end.

Hearing this, Huo Yuhao didn't say a word and turned around to leave.

Apart from not expecting the shops in the Martial Soul City to be so principled, he also didn't want to embarrass himself.

He could figure out that Xiao Wu definitely wouldn't yield.

"This guy is really audacious, actually daring to snatch things from me, just wait until we encounter the Canghui Academy in the next few rounds of the competition, I'll teach him a good lesson." Xiao Wu said fiercely, "And that big meat worm, really knows how to pick people, all equally disgusting, it's like birds of a feather."

"Big meat worm?" Guang Ling was puzzled.

"I'll tell you later." Xiao Wu realized she had spoken too much, but Guang Ling was on her side, so it didn't matter, and the old man at the medicine shop didn't even know what she meant by big meat worm, so there was nothing to worry about.

"Let's go."

Tang San walked out of the medicine shop first.

Guang Ling and Xiao Wu followed closely behind.

After wandering around for a while, the three of them returned to the accommodation arranged by the Martial Hall. Tang San called the two girls into his room, and the scene of the two girls entering Tang San's room was seen by Yu Feng, who was out using the restroom. He was surprised and opened his mouth wide, "Wow, Captain, you're awesome, having a threesome!"

Inside the room, Xiao Wu took out the Crystal Ginseng, and Tang San took it, using Endless Grass to control its roots, penetrating into the walls and absorbing the power of the earth, then transmitting it into the ginseng.

The first soul skill, Endless Recovery, had a comprehensive recovery effect on humans, but for plants, it could indeed enhance their cultivation.

Perhaps the energy of the earth was beneficial to plants and could be directly absorbed, while for humans, it needed to undergo a transformation to become an energy that the human body could accept, and this energy could not be directly used to enhance soul power.

With the infusion of earth energy, the Crystal Ginseng became more and more translucent, even emitting a faint silver-white light, and countless silver-white particles gathered into it from the surrounding space.

"This Crystal Ginseng only has a lifespan of five hundred years. To elevate it to ten thousand years, it will take at least ten years. If it were in a place like the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, one year would be enough." Tang San felt the age of the Crystal Ginseng increasing slowly under the infusion of earth energy and objectively reported two timeframes.

"One year? I can wait. When it reaches ten thousand years and I consume it, it will merge with the space power I already possess, which will definitely enhance the origin of the space attribute. By then, when I reach the rank of Titled Douluo, the probability of awakening the space-type domain can reach one hundred percent."

Speaking of domain-type abilities, Xiao Wu was advancing towards Tang San's planning direction, striving to possess a spatial domain herself.

And Tang San?

The Blue Silver Emperor would definitely have a Blue Silver Domain, but for Tang San, although the Blue Silver Domain had life attributes and could provide a certain degree of amplification for allies, the most dazzling performance when used by the protagonist in the original work was deception and disguise.

In short, the life attribute of the Blue Silver Domain was not pure enough.

Since he was going down the path of life, the future awakened domain should at least be a life domain, not just a mediocre Blue Silver Domain.

As for Guang Ling's future domain...

Regarding this, Tang San couldn't judge for now. Even whether Guang Ling could awaken domain-type skills was still unknown.

After all, the number of recorded domain cases on the continent was much fewer than the number of discovered soul bones.

In the future, there would be opportunities to consult the archives of the Hall of Souls, search for a large number of cases, and consult the Titled Douluos who possessed domains, so that Tang San could truly determine the objective existence of domains.

On this point, Electrolux couldn't give a clear definition—although he was a strongman from another world with rich knowledge, he didn't have relevant knowledge reserves about domain-type skills and couldn't explain anything.

However, Electrolux could provide a concept, that is, the birth of a domain was related to the spiritual momentum of the soul master. When the spiritual momentum of the soul master resonated with the martial soul in a certain way, a domain could be born.

According to this theory, all soul masters could give birth to domains.

But in fact, the owners of domains were few and far between, and even Titled Douluos didn't necessarily have them.

For this reason, Tang San felt that the birth of a domain was still related to the affinity between the soul master and the martial soul. However, in the end, he needed to find more information to perfect this theory.

Even, Tang San felt that after his Blue Silver Emperor awakened its domain, he could conduct a large number of tests to serve as a reference for whether Guang Ling could awaken a martial soul.

After all, Guang Ling's soul power was one level lower than his and Xiao Wu's, with a time difference and a gap in soul power. But he could wait.

Moreover, it wasn't true that if one couldn't awaken a domain before reaching the rank of Titled Douluo, they would never be able to awaken it. Based on the relevant information Tang San could find at present, the recorded soul masters who possessed domains were mostly those who awakened them at the level of Titled Douluo.

So, no rush.

"Guang Ling, your future domain-type skill should be postponed a bit." Tang San comforted.

"It's okay, I can cultivate, that's already very good, there's no need to have too many expectations." Guang Ling wasn't so eager for her own martial soul to awaken domain-type skills.

Soul devices were her true love!

Another—

"It's getting late, you guys should go back to your rooms and rest."

Tang San glanced at the sky, walked to the door, and opened it...

Clatter!

Yu Feng, Oslo, Yu Tianheng, Shi Mo, Shi Mo, and others fell in.

Fortunately, Tang San was quick-witted and didn't get knocked down.

"What are you guys doing?" Tang San cocked his head, with a black face and a question mark.

"Well, um..."

Seeing that Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Guang Ling were all neatly dressed, and the bed was not in disarray, Yu tianheng knew that their pure thoughts had been misled by Yu Feng—after all, there was no sound of moaning or other noises outside the door just now.

"It's like this, Yu Feng said that Xiao Wu and Guang Ling went into Captain's room to have a private chat, so we wanted to come over and listen." Oslo's mind was quick, and he immediately came up with a reason, and he also pushed their reasons for being here onto Yu Feng.

"Damn! Do you have a friend like him? You're just selling your friends out!" Yu Feng was furious, pinching Oslo's neck and shaking him vigorously.

Oslo didn't show weakness either, and pinched back.

The two of them didn't use soul power, just acting out a skit of pretending to be in distress. Meanwhile, Shi Mo, Shi Mo, and Yu tianheng smiled awkwardly and backed away from the door.

"Don't pinch each other. With no change in your complexion, who are you trying to fool?" After the figures of Yu tianheng, Stone Shi Mo, and Shi Mo disappeared, Tang San shouted to the two still pinching each other, "They've all left."

"Damn it! You're not enough of a brother, actually not pulling us along!" Yu Feng immediately let go of Oslo's hands, straightened his collar, and forced an awkward smile on his face. "Uh, Captain, sorry for disturbing your private matters, you don't mind, right?"

"Hmph, what private matters? I'm leaving." Xiao Wu realized the reason why Yu Feng and the others had been outside just now, her face flushed, and she walked out of the door directly.

"Brother San, then I'll leave too." Guang Ling's cheeks were also flushed, resembling a red apple, and she followed Xiao Wu out.

Yu Feng and Oslo's hearts both thudded.

"We're finished! We really disturbed the Captain's private matters. Is he going to kill me?" Yu Feng cried out in his heart, sweat beads as big as soybeans oozing from his forehead.

"We're finished! I've been tricked by Yu Feng! Am I going to be buried with him tonight?" Oslo seemed to have a tacit understanding with Yu Feng in his heart, and he was shocked, pondering how to break the deadlock.

Tang San walked over to the two with a smile, hooked their arms separately, and chuckled, "It's late at night and you're so idle, instead of resting properly, you come here to eavesdrop on me with Shi Mo, Shi Mo, and Yu tianheng. You guys are really something."

"Especially you, Yu Feng, aren't you in a relationship with Bai Chenxiang?"

"Why didn't you go find her? Instead, you came here to join the fun?"

"Is it because you're not capable?"

Oslo immediately said, "I can testify, Yu Feng is really not capable. His ex-girlfriend broke up with him because he couldn't perform and needed to eat Golden Fly."

"Shut the hell up!" Yu Feng exclaimed angrily, "Am I not capable? It's because their soul power was too weak and couldn't handle it. How could I not be capable? How could I need to eat Golden Fly? You're looking down on me too much!"

"You really don't need to eat it?" Tang San looked at him playfully, "Then how do you know what Golden Fly is?"

Golden Fly, on the Douluo Continent, fell under the category of "aphrodisiacs."

To be honest, Tang San knew about it because he had watched Douluo Continent in his previous life—Oscar's seventh soul skill.

"Captain, don't talk nonsense, how would I know what Golden Fly is? Ask Oslo, he knows." Yu Feng immediately diverted the topic away from his knowledge of Golden Fly.

"Cough, Captain, actually, I don't know either." Oslo pretended to say, "I just heard Vice Captain Yu Tianheng say that this kind of drug can enhance a man's performance. After all, among us, only I and Dugu Yan have established a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship and had intercourse."

"Is that so?" Tang San was suspicious, his eyes revealing only three words: I don't believe it.

With the open atmosphere on the Douluo Continent, if Yu Feng and Oslo's words could be believed, then pigs could queue up to dive into the ditch.

"Captain, how do you know about Golden Fly?" Yu Feng felt his scalp tingle as he listened to Tang San's laughter.

"The effect of whale glue, I was the first to discover and publicize it, right?" Tang San smirked, patting Yu Feng's shoulder. "I naturally have corresponding research on drugs and the like. How could I not know what Golden Fly is?"

This was naturally Tang San deceiving Yu Feng. After all, Golden Fly was a finished synthetic drug, not a raw material like whale glue. If he bought that kind of stuff, the boss of the medicine shop in Nuoding City would look at him with strange eyes for the rest of his life.

"So, Captain, how are you going to let us go?" Yu Feng wore a pained expression on his face, not knowing what to do. If he had known earlier, he wouldn't have been so curious.

Tang San said sinisterly, "Let you go? What are you thinking? Do you know? You've already dug your own grave."

Yu Feng: "???"

(End of this chapter)