Chapter 270: When Do We Start?

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Huo Wu, hands on her hips, pondered, "Titan Blazing Ape, Bright Crystal Beast, Radiant Flame Cloud Bird. They all sound suitable for my Sun Goddess with light and fire attributes."

"I certainly wouldn't choose a spirit beast that doesn't match your martial soul's basic attributes." Tang San smiled confidently. "Although Gravity is experimental, these three spirit beasts, even if they can't help with your Gravity cultivation, can maximize your fire or light attributes."

"Firstly, there's the Titan Blazing Ape. This type of spirit beast lives in the extreme southern lava volcanic region of the Douluo Continent. A variant of the Titan Ape, it controls the power of lava. Since the Titan Ape itself controls gravity, its variant must also have this ability. If you obtain its soul ring, it's very likely that your martial soul will also control gravity, which would greatly benefit your future development in Gravity."

"The only problem is whether this kind of spirit beast still exists, which is unknown."

As a variant of the Titan Ape, the number of Titan Blazing Apes is extremely rare, and they may even be extinct.

After all, the Titan Ape is only one in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Moreover, the Titan Ape is extremely powerful, not to mention that its variant, the Titan Blazing Ape, also controls the power of lava. Add to that its presence in a place like a lava volcano, enhanced by the environment, and its strength is even greater.

This spirit beast is relatively difficult to hunt.

Of course, with Tang San's strength, hunting a Titan Blazing Ape is not a problem. It's just uncertain whether this spirit beast still exists on the Douluo Continent.

According to the records of the Martial Soul Hall, the last recorded appearance of a Titan Blazing Ape was a thousand years ago. Its cultivation base was at fifty thousand years, and it was hunted by a titled Douluo with a martial soul of Flame Monkey, obtaining its soul ring and soul bone. Its related skills are—

Soul Skill: Lava Eruption.

According to the description: Breaking the earth, manipulating magma, erupting volcanoes. Tang San estimates that besides controlling fire and earth elements, the essence of this soul ring also involves gravity. Otherwise, it would be impossible to pull magma from underground with just soul power.

Soul Bone Skill: Gravity Manipulation.

This is unnecessary, as it's a skill inherent to the spirit beast itself. As a variant of the Titan Ape, having the ability to manipulate gravity is to be expected.

"This is indeed a good choice." Huo Wu was excited. After all, this is a variant of the Titan Ape. Even if the attributes don't match the martial soul, as long as it can be hunted, most soul masters wouldn't refuse it. The boost it brings to soul masters is enough to overlook the mismatch between it and the soul master's martial soul.

"Consider it as an alternative, after all, we don't know if it exists," Tang San mentioned the second type of spirit beast. "The Bright Crystal Beast, a light attribute spirit beast, lives in the Stormwind Canyon. Its body resembles crystal and has the characteristic of floating. It is said that even when dead, it will float above the ground instead of falling to the ground."

"Moreover, they like thunderstorms and will appear massively during storms..."

"The book 'Where Are the Magical Spirit Beasts' records: The Bright Crystal Beast has a gentle temperament and likes thunderstorm weather. It seems to want to completely break free from the earth's constraints by using those storms and fly into the sky, entering the sun... Maybe due to limitations in understanding, descriptions of spirit beasts in this book have a bit of a fantastical tone, and I haven't truly seen a Bright Crystal Beast, so I can't judge whether this so-called floating is due to gravity control or some kind of magnetic field."

It's not surprising that Tang San would speculate like this. After all, the fact that they "like thunderstorms" made the modern Tang San instinctively think of magnetic levitation in regards to the Bright Crystal Beast's floating ability.

But ultimately, he would have to personally find a Bright Crystal Beast to study. If it's not suitable, then it would be abandoned.

"Is that so?" Huo Wu pondered, "But the Bright Crystal Beast at least has the light attribute, right?"

"Yeah, the light attribute is definitely there. The ancestors must have been able to sense the light element of this kind of spirit beast. But whether the light element is truly pure is hard to say." Tang San's gaze was deep. According to the book's records, besides having an opaque core, the body of the Bright Crystal Beast is like a real crystal...

Crystal, which can transmit light, scatter light, or focus light.

Perhaps, this kind of spirit beast relies solely on soul power to use external light to acquire the light attribute over time.

If the above speculation is true, then even a soul master with a light attribute martial soul who obtains the Bright Crystal Beast's soul ring wouldn't be able to access its true inherent abilities.

"And next is the third type, the Radiant Flame Cloud Bird." Tang San continued, "Just by hearing the words 'Radiant Flame,' you can tell it possesses both light and fire attributes, which are very compatible with your Sun Goddess. And the 'Cloud Bird' indicates that this bird combines light and fire elements. Its body is always burning with flames and flowing with light, like clouds of smoke. And even after its death, it never touches the ground, showing a floating property."

"That sounds good." Huo Wu's eyes lit up. "Is the floating also related to gravity?"

"Uncertain, but even if it's not, it doesn't matter. This kind of spirit beast feeds on lava and can directly absorb the power of light, enhancing its cultivation." Tang San shook his head, then his eyes flashed. "Even if you can't inherit its floating ability, you'll definitely make your martial soul absorb light and fire elements more effectively."

"And besides, the likelihood of you not inheriting its floating ability is very low, especially since your Sun Goddess already has the floating characteristic."

Both the Radiant Flame Cloud Bird and the Sun Goddess have light, fire, and floating characteristics. Even though Tang San isn't sure about the floating principle of the Radiant Flame Cloud Bird, it's highly probable that it's related to gravity.

After all, just like the Titan Blazing Ape, the Radiant Flame Cloud Bird lives in a lava volcano, where the magnetic field is chaotic, and there's no record indicating that this type of spirit beast would fly into the smoke and clouds with slight electric arcs during a volcano eruption.

However, this type of spirit beast is also a super-level spirit beast, capable of rivaling those from a thousand years, and because it can fly, hunting it would likely take quite some time, maybe even several months just to find it.

Fortunately, Tang San took half a year off this time.

During their conversation, they had already arrived in front of that cloud tree.

Three years ago, this cloud tree, with its branches and leaves blood-red, exuded a terrifying aura. But now, it had shed its red color, and its nine-layered canopy had turned back to a snowy white color, even emitting a silver-blue halo under the sunlight, dazzling.

"It's so beautiful!" Huo Wu couldn't help but exclaim, "Compared to before, this cloud tree has undergone a complete transformation, turning this area into a fairyland."

"Daddy!"

The cloud tree trembled, gathering energy from heaven and earth, and a cute little girl appeared, with a pair of eyes as golden as gold. She had long silver-white hair that was almost twice as long as her entire body. "You've come to pick me up! Do you know how long I've been waiting! Every day, I think about Daddy, longing to merge with Daddy!"

"Speaking human language! A hundred-thousand-year spirit beast!" Huo Wu was shocked. She didn't expect this cloud tree to become a hundred-thousand-year spirit beast in just three years. Little did she know, Tang San had infused a bit of the aura of the Golden Tree into the cloud tree, allowing her to accept the gift of the Golden Tree.

"Of course, this baby is very powerful!" The little girl formed by the cloud tree jumped into Tang San's arms, her golden eyes sizing up Huo Wu, confirming her identity—one of the humans who had helped her three years ago. She then smiled triumphantly and said to Tang San, "Daddy, when do we start?"

(End of this chapter)