Interlude (1)

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[Volume 5: Hungry Vengeful Ghosts, begins.]

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Chapter 46 — Interlude (1)

"Can I go outside to attend some personal business?" I asked Shi Yeng.

"Sure, but for how long?" Shi Yeng nodded in agreement.

"I don't know."

Shi Yeng watched my expression that was especially dark today.

In the end, she didn't deny my request to go out.

After obtaining her permission, I left Heaven Dou City.

I rode a soul train headed to Glorybound City to settle some unfinished business.

Upon my arrival, I first went to the Red Mountain Academy to confirm my graduation.

I undressed my shirt to show them my purple soul ring.

Since it was real, the teachers were stunned to witness me using a purple soul ring as my first soul ring.

After the confirmation, I received a fancy

Elementary Graduation Certificate For Soul Masters.

I gazed at my graduation certificate with a distant expression, slowly remembering a time where I spent a cozy dinner with my family.

"I'm gonna become a Soul Master! I'll make you guys proud by completing every level of school!"

At that time, my family gazed at me with complicated expressions.

"Right, we'll love to see you graduating soon from an Elementary Academy."

They simply changed the topic, but I was always easily swayed.

"Okay! I'll definitely graduate at the top of my class! I'll become rich so we can fly like a bird in the sky and always live together forever!"

My family started to smile brightly while laughing aloud.

At this moment, I was probably smiling and laughing happily with them.

Yet everything felt so distant.

As those precious times were already swallowed by blood and flames.

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I visited Meng Tian's Workshop.

"I came here to resign."

Meng Tian wasn't surprised as he knew this day would eventually arrive.

"Have you already graduated?"

I simply nodded.

Mang Tian then asked again with some hope, "Will you go to the Intermediate Academy in the Eastsea City?"

I shook my head in response.

"I joined the Spirit Pagoda, so I will focus on forging metals for myself."

I didn't need to do forging jobs for money anymore.

"Spirit Pagoda!?" Meng Tian was quite surprised before smiling. "You lucky bastard."

I just went silent from those words.

Luck?

It was a concept so foreign to me.

"Although you'll leave, it's not like we'll not meet each other again. If you need some help, then come find me at Eastsea City."

"I see. I'll try."

"Also, don't slack with your forging even if you've joined Spirit Pagoda."

Meng Tian glared at me.

"I never planned to."

I'll just hand it over to Liu San, I thought inwardly.

"Then I'll take my leave now." I was about to leave, but stopped for a moment. "Thank you for the guidance."

Meng Tian was quite taken aback upon hearing those words.

He then remember something.

"Try to visit Tang Wulin. That brat seems down after Na'er left him. Now, even his rival will leave."

"Okay."

I nodded as I waved my hand.

Meng Tian watched me leave. For some reason, he could feel an indescribable sorrow from my back.

"That kid… I hope he's okay…"

Meng Tian couldn't help but worry inside his heart.

Those words of gratitude…

It also felt like a last will.

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As I walked, I visited the Tang Household.

"Where's Tang Wulin?"

I asked Tang Wulin's parents whose faces were filled with sorrow.

"He hasn't come home yet."

I gazed at the sky, and saw it was dark now.

Tang Wulin was mostly likely at the field of blue silver grasses.

The place where he mostly trained with Na'er.

I soon arrived at a field full of blue silver grasses.

And as expected, I saw Tang Wulin who was silently absorbing his first spirit soul.

There was a dense network of golden lines spreading throughout his whole body.

I curiously examined the golden lines, but felt my blood reacting strangely from those strange lines.

A strange emotion was rising from the deepest depths of my blood.

The golden lines gradually grew vivid and clearer to the eyes. The golden network was extremely vast and dense, but it couldn't remotely compare to my blood circuits.

I saw the golden network spreading into the snake spirit soul, the golden lines condensing into a golden reverse scale under the snake's neck.

And that wasn't the only strange transformation.

A golden trident symbol faintly appeared from Tang Wulin's forehead—the lustrous trident radiating a sacred and divine aura.

It also appeared over the forehead of the snake spirit soul, causing its green snake body to be completely dyed by the color of the sea.

At the same time, Tang Wulin's Blue Silver Grass grew until it was as thick as a finger and appeared similar to vines. It was covered by grass scales, but not only did it seem more thick and durable, its flexibility and blue shade similar to the sea were equally impressive.

As slender golden lines formed along the vines, I saw a white soul ring hovering above the Blue Silver Grass.

The absorption of the soul ring was finally complete.

Exiting his meditation state, Tang Wulin quickly noticed me.

"You saw my white soul ring?" A smile appeared on his face.

I was confused because I knew they were wealthy enough to buy even yellow spirit souls.

"Don't worry. I strangely felt perfectly compatible with the snake spirit soul, so I fused it without regret."

Tang Wulin's smile then turned sorrowful, but his eyes were determined.

"It was Na'er who said the compatibility rate between soul master and spirit souls were the most important factor."

After reading Na'er letter, Tang Wulin now knew why her sister left them. In order to meet her again, he was determined to become a powerful soul master.

"Although others may disagree, I also think the same." I nodded upon remembering my spirit heart's evolution after merging with Liu San.

"Even if my spirit soul starts with a very low white age, there's still the Spirit Ascension Platform."

Tang Wulin happily thought of the Spirit Ascension Platform.

A special place that was frequently mentioned by the biographies of various soul masters.

"But you're weak. It's not a place you can simply enter." I destroyed his hope before it could get over his head.

"I know, but I'll just grow much stronger now!"

Tang Wulin wasn't affected.

I sighed complicatedly upon witnessing his pureness and positivity.

"Your martial soul and spirit soul has changed. Check them out first."

Tang Wulin curiously summoned his martial soul, but was surprised upon witnessing its new appearance.

A vast difference.

"Why is it so different now…? It looks much stronger and tough!"

When Tang Wulin called the snake spirit soul, its appearance also changed like his martial soul.

"Woah, the snake became completely blue with a strange reverse golden scale."

"It seems to be a mutation."

As the snake appeared, I saw Liu San in his human form also coming out curiously.

"Is that your spirit soul?" Tang Wulin replied interestedly upon seeing it looking exactly like me.

"Yes." I nodded.

Liu San and the snake began to happily play with each other.

Meanwhile, I deeply observed Tang Wulin's martial soul.

A question entered my mind.

"Your parents… are they really your own parents?"

"Huh? What do you mean by that?" Tang Wulin tilted his head.

"Nevermind."

It was a rude question.

But I couldn't help but remember the previous strange occurrence.

It felt like they both came from Tang Wulin's bloodline.

No, I'm certain the mutations resulted from his bloodline.

And if it's someone who possesses the golden trident and was loved by the seas…

Sea God Tang San.

It was none other than him.

Not only the golden trident, Tang Wulin was also favored by the sea.

Yet his parents didn't have that kind of powerful bloodline.

Maybe…

I thought of something, but it was unlikely since we were thousands of years apart.

And It was known that the Douluo Divine Realm had vanished.

If my guess was true, then I felt a grand scheme was playing with our mortal lives.

"Can I test my new soul ring ability against you?" Tang Wulin asked excitedly.

"Sure."

I was also curious.

Our spar soon started.

Tang Wulin quickly used his soul ring to empower his martial soul.

"Sea Vines!"

I saw blue silver grass formed into thick ropes rushing towards me like a bunch of snakes.

As he knew about my incredible strength, Tang Wulin immediately wrapped strands of vines into a thick rope to restrict my movements.

After the mutation, his strand-type vines were much tougher and thicker.

But as they neared me, the thick ropes of vines soon transformed into water ropes that wrapped around my body.

"A soul ring ability that turns the solid vines into a liquid state?"

I tried using a little of my strength to break them, but I soon realized the water ropes were very resistant and much tougher than I thought.

Tang Wulin also realized using his senses that merged with his martial soul. He didn't seem to feel soul power consumption when I tried to break it, so the water ropes themselves contained the properties to be naturally resistant to physical forces.

However, they were utterly useless before my Water Star that suppressed the water ropes.

It was even more useless before my absolute strength.

Bang!

I simply tensed my muscles, but the water ropes were immediately destroyed.

Tang Wulin seemed to not lose soul power from the destruction, only the action of forming the vines into water vines caused him to lose soul power.

After I destroyed the water vines, Tang Wulin already had vines digging from the underground.

From below my feet, I saw vines shoot upwards.

The propelled vines then turned into highly pressurized water vines that were quite sharp and strong.

I also felt normal thick ropes wrapping around my feet to stop me from moving.

When I tried to destroy them, I felt the vines increasingly becoming more resistant.

The resistance was constantly consuming soul power from Tang Wulin.

The normal vines were now capable of absorbing the soul power to become more resistant and tougher.

A weakness now, but a powerful asset in the later stages.

Whooosh!

The high-pressure water jets slammed into my body, but it was completely harmless like water guns.

I never bothered to avoid them to test out their strength.

Our spar was soon over.

Tang Wulin then explained.

"My first soul ring ability is Sea Vines. It can transform my normal vines into water vines capable of restricting, defending, and attacking."

An impressive soul ring ability for a white spirit ring.

Was it the influence from the golden trident and golden lines?

"My normal vines also consume my soul power to increase its resistance, but the sea vines are naturally resistant to physical and elemental forces."

Tang Wulin was happy since the soul ring he obtained wasn't bad.

He knew listening to Na'er was a great idea.

But he soon remembered something important.

"Oh right, but why did you come to meet with me?"

"I was gonna say my farewell. Meng Tian asked me." I simply replied.

Tang Wulin was stunned.

"Are you also going to attend the Eastsea Academy?"

"No."

I shook my head.

"In that case, when we meet again in the future, let's fight again! I'll show you how much I've improved! Hehehe."

I knew that with his current cultivation improvement, I don't think he could reach so easily.

Come to think of it, I have never met someone of my own age that interested me in fighting.

Really.

All of them were so weak.

Not that it matter now.

"I'll give this to you as a parting gift.

I gave him a vial that contained my Elixir Blood.

"Thank you…"

Tang Wulin was now feeling sorrowful and bitterness.

Na'er left.

And I was also leaving.

Tang Wulin realized nothing in the word lasts forever.

It constantly changes.

But it didn't mean they wouldn't cross paths again.

As long as he continued to get stronger, Tang Wulin would meet with Na'er once again.

As for me…

He was unsure.

Tang Wulin felt I would really be gone away somewhere after I left.

"Nai An, see you again in the future."

Tang Wulin said with a bright smile, hoping I won't completely be gone.

I never paid attention to his smile as I took my leave.

The next time we meet again…

I don't even know if there was a next time for me.

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