Douluo Dalu: Ice Snake Martial Spirit, Infinite Evolution

Chapter 152 Breaking Through Level 60

the other side!
Dugu Han walked to Wu Ming's dormitory.

She was cultivating with Ma Xiaotao when she saw Dugu Han arrive. She immediately became happy and said, "Dugu Han, come here quickly! Without you cultivating with me these past few days, I feel like I'm cultivating at a snail's pace. I've lost all my passion for cultivation!"

Ma Xiaotao ran over immediately, smiling as she hugged Dugu Han's arm, and said ingratiatingly, "Is Junior Uncle here to share the soul bone with us?"

"Soul bone?"

Dugu Han looked at her with surprise: "Why do you say that?"

"That's what the teacher said!"

"The teacher said that Junior Uncle has more than ten soul bones in his hands, all of which are 100,000 years old, including two fire-attribute ones."

After saying that, Ma Xiaotao immediately grabbed his hand and shook it: "Junior Uncle, you know that I am your only junior nephew, and I have always followed your lead."

Upon hearing that Dugu Han was holding more than ten soul bones, Wu Ming rushed over immediately: "You're holding more than ten soul bones that are 100,000 years old?"

"There aren't that many left!"

Dugu Han pulled the two women inside and then took out the two fire-attribute 100,000-year-old soul bones.

The soul bone emanated a strong fluctuation of fire-attribute soul power.

The moment Ma Xiaotao saw the two fire-attribute soul bones, her eyes lit up, and she quickly said, "Thank you, Junior Uncle," before reaching out to take them.

A soft 'snap' sound!
Dugu Han pushed her hand away: "This is for Wu Ming."

"Dugu Han, I love you!"

Upon hearing this, Wu Ming excitedly pounced on Dugu Han.

Ma Xiaotao stared blankly at her small hand that had been opened, then looked at Wu Ming, who had pounced on Dugu Han.

She pointed at Wu Ming, then at herself, bewildered: "Junior Uncle, are you sure you're not mistaken? I, I'm your most adorable junior nephew!"

"I know!"

Dugu Han pushed Wu Ming away, looked at the somewhat aggrieved Ma Xiaotao, and comforted her by taking her hand: "That's why you can't absorb this ordinary 100,000-year soul bone. If we're going to absorb one, how about absorbing the Crimson King's 300,000-year soul bone? If that doesn't work, Di Tian's soul bone will do too. I'll help you get people to take it down."

"Di Tian is the most ferocious beast on the continent. No matter how many people you send, you can't defeat him."

Ma Xiaotao rolled her eyes at him, but she no longer felt so aggrieved.

"How about... we each take one?"

Looking at the two 100,000-year-old soul bones in front of her, Wu Ming said with some reluctance.

"no need!"

Ma Xiaotao looked at the two 100,000-year-old soul bones with equal reluctance, and finally closed her eyes with a heavy heart: "You absorb them. Anyway, I have the support of the entire academy, and I will be able to fully equip my soul bones sooner or later."

"Don't worry, Xiao Tao. Junior Uncle will definitely not treat you badly. I will find a way to get you the Crimson King's soul ring and soul bone sooner or later."

Dugu Han smiled and rubbed Ma Xiaotao's little hand, pondering whether to hunt down the Crimson King when Ma Xiaotao reached her ninth soul ring, or to take the Crimson King to the far north and trick it into making a sacrifice under the guise of becoming a god.

He thought for a moment and then shook his head.

Ma Xiaotao isn't even a Contra player yet, so it's too early to talk about that now.

"Let's absorb the soul bone first!"

Dugu Han also took out the 100,000-year-old left leg bone with ice attributes.

He placed it against his left leg, and then took Ma Xiaotao's and Wu Ming's small hands in his hands.

Wu Ming also took the 100,000-year-old soul bone from his left leg and attached it to his own left leg, then held the hands of Dugu Han and Ma Xiaotao respectively.

The three of them were already very familiar with cultivating together, and in no time, a wave of soul power, red and blue with a golden glow, emanated from their palms.

And when they began their cultivation.

Elder Mu also convened a meeting of the Sea God Pavilion.

Meeting content: Do everything possible and use all resources to help Ma Xiaotao improve her fire attribute.

"Increase attributes?"

Old Master Lin frowned and said, "Little Peach is already at the pinnacle of fire; it will probably be quite difficult to improve her attributes further!"

Elder Zhuang also said, "To further enhance the attributes of the ultimate fire, only a top-tier fire-attribute treasure can achieve this. However, all the major powers keep such top-tier treasures extremely secret. Nobody knows who has such a treasure. Even if we exchange a 100,000-year-old soul bone, we still won't find a target."

"Elder Mu, I want to know why Xiao Tao, who already possesses the ultimate fire attribute, still needs to improve her attributes?" Elder Song also frowned.

She felt it made absolutely no sense.

Elder Mu listened to the questions from the group of senior members and answered them one by one.

"It's difficult, but we must do everything we can to get it done."

"If we can't find a target, then the target will come to us. We'll spread the word that we'll exchange a 100,000-year-old soul bone for a top-tier treasure that can enhance fire attributes. We can even exchange it with the Sun Moon Empire."

"As for why we still need to help Xiaotao improve her attributes."

As Elder Mu finished speaking, his gaze swept over the group of elders.

The elders looked at him with great incomprehension, not understanding the purpose of helping a Soul Master of Ultimate Flame to further enhance their attributes.

“I know you are all very confused and don’t understand.”

Elder Mu pondered for a moment and said, "But I can't say the reason for now. I can only say that this is very beneficial for Xiao Tao and for the academy."

After saying that, he said, "Let's vote!"

"agree!"

"I agree!"

Yan Shaozhe and Cai Meier immediately expressed their opinions.

"Ma Xiaotao is your only apprentice, so you must have agreed!"

The group of elders stared at the two of them speechlessly.

Immediately afterwards, Xianlin'er and Qian Duoduo also expressed their agreement.

They didn't have any particular ideas; they simply supported Elder Mu.

After a moment's hesitation, Elder Lin and Elder Song agreed.

Seeing this, Elder Zhuang and the other elders had no choice but to agree.

"Unanimous vote passed!"

Elder Mu smiled and said, "The second thing is that the academy's 100,000-year-old fire-attribute soul bone was originally intended to be used as an incentive for Xiao Tao. I think we shouldn't use it as an incentive anymore. Let Xiao Tao absorb it directly. Anyway, it will be hers sooner or later."

"agree!"

"agree!"

None of the elders had any objections to this.

Just as Elder Mu said, that fire-attribute soul bone will belong to Ma Xiaotao sooner or later, it's just a matter of time.

"Alright, in that case, Shao Zhe, you can take it and give it to Xiao Tao later!"

Old Mu smiled and prepared to adjourn the meeting.

At this moment, Elder Lin hesitated for a moment, then suddenly said, "I have something to say about Xuanzi."

"Mr. Xuan?"

Upon hearing this, everyone turned to look at Elder Lin: "What's wrong with him?"

Elder Mu also looked at her, frowning as he asked, "What's wrong with Xuanzi?" "He seems to be somewhat dissatisfied with the academy!"

Elder Lin said in a deep voice, "After he was initially expelled from his position as a senior member of the Sea God Pavilion, he often drowned his sorrows in alcohol, getting drunk every day. But when I visited him these past two days, he stopped drinking and kept telling me about how much he had done for the academy. In the end, the academy treated him like this because of his one dereliction of duty..."

Everyone frowned upon hearing this.

"A single dereliction of duty?"

Old Master Mu was so angry he laughed!
Then he sighed and said, "Meeting adjourned. I'm going to check on Xuanzi."

After saying that, he shook his head and walked out of the Sea God Pavilion, where he found Xuanzi complaining again.

"Elder Mu... Elder Mu!"

When Elder Xuan saw Elder Mu approaching, he quickly sat up straight and dared not complain anymore.

"Xuanzi!"

I heard you complaining!

Old Master Mu said in a deep voice, "I want to know what you're complaining about?"

"I'm not complaining, I just can't accept being..."

As Elder Xuan was speaking, he saw the anger in Elder Mu's eyes and dared not continue!
"You can't accept it?"

Elder Mu rebuked, "Do you think the academy can accept the death of one inner court student and the crippling of three inner court students?"

“But casualties are something that Shrek Academy’s oversight team members can’t avoid,” Elder Xuan muttered softly.

"But we absolutely cannot allow this injury or death to be caused by the mistake of the teacher in charge."

After reprimanding him, Elder Mu remained silent for a moment before saying, "Xuanzi, it's been two months!"

"In these two months, you had time to get drunk every day, and you had time to complain about the academy, but you didn't have time to look at the dead Yao Haoxuan, or to look at Chen Zifeng, Gongyang Mo, and Xixi who can no longer cultivate."

"You don't have time to hunt down that Death Messenger to avenge those children."

"Think about it for yourself!"

After saying this, Old Mu turned and left in disappointment.

Elder Xuan stared blankly at Elder Mu's departing figure, lost in thought.

After a long while, he finally came to his senses, clutching his messy hair in regret: "I should have sought revenge on the Grim Reaper, I should have!"

After angrily banging his head, he immediately stood up and walked resolutely toward the Sea God Pavilion.

But after taking a couple of steps, he hesitated again. Finally, looking in the direction of the Sea God Pavilion, he murmured, "I will definitely bring back the Grim Reaper."

After saying that, he resolutely flew away from the academy.

Old Master Mu stood at a distance watching Xuanzi leave: "You should go and check on those children first."

……

Two days later!
After Dugu Han completely fused with the 100,000-year-old left leg bone, a powerful surge of soul power suddenly emanated from his body.

"Level 60!"

Dugu Han opened his eyes, felt the surging soul power within his body, and a smile appeared on his lips.

Once your soul power breaks through level 60, all you need to do next is absorb a head soul bone with a 100,000-year spiritual attribute. After your spiritual power breaks through the tangible and intangible realm, you can try to condense your first soul core!

However, there's no rush. We can wait until Wu Ming breaks through level 80, then take her to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye to absorb the Blazing Apricot Blossom, which is conveniently on the way to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

At this moment, Ma Xiaotao and Wu Ming sensed Dugu Han's surging soul power and also woke up from their cultivation.

"Junior Uncle, you've broken through to level 60?" Ma Xiaotao asked.

"Breakthrough!"

Dugu Han smiled and nodded, then looked at Wu Ming and asked, "How are you? Have you broken through to level 80?"

"Almost!"

"My soul power has increased from level 77 to the peak of level 79. I need to absorb another soul bone to break through to level 80 directly."

Wu Ming was a little disappointed, but the next second she exclaimed excitedly, "I obtained two soul bone skills, one of which is particularly powerful."

"What kind of soul bone skill?" Ma Xiaotao asked curiously.

"One is 'A Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire,' a ranged attack soul skill."

"Another one is Body Burning, an amplification-type soul bone skill that can ignite oneself to gain a 100% amplification of strength in all aspects. However, after each use, one will be in a state of weakness for a day."

Wu Ming was very satisfied with the Soul Bone skill, Burning Body.

A 100% increase in one's own strength is essentially a downgraded version of the Martial Soul True Body!

Upon hearing that it was such a powerful soul skill, Ma Xiaotao immediately looked at Dugu Han again: "And what about you, Junior Uncle!"

Wu Ming also looked at her curiously.

"The soul bone skill I acquired is not bad either."

Dugu Han smiled and said, "The two are Ice Guardian, which can condense an ice shield to protect oneself and is a defensive soul skill; the other is Snow Burial Abyss, which uses sharp snowflakes falling from the sky to cut and slash, and is a group area attack."

"That would be perfect for synergizing with your Ice Blast skill."

Ma Xiaotao said with some envy, "After you use this Soul Bone skill, snap your fingers and use the Ice Blast skill. Instantly, all the falling snowflakes will explode. How cool is that!"

"That's really cool!"

Dugu Han smiled, then stood up and said, "I'm going out to check on Le Xuan's absorption of the soul bone."

"Let's go take a look too!"

Ma Xiaotao and Wu Ming followed.

The three of them walked all the way to Zhang Lexuan's dormitory, where Dugu Han used his mental power to sense her.

Zhang Lexuan was still absorbing that piece of torso bone.

The process went smoothly, but it would take two more days to absorb a soul bone that was 200,000 years old.

"Let's go!"

After confirming that Zhang Lexuan's absorption was going smoothly, Dugu Han felt relieved and led the two women back.

On their way back, they encountered Yan Shaozhe.

Yan Shaozhe has been coming over whenever he has free time these past two days, just to give Ma Xiaotao that 100,000-year-old soul bone as soon as possible so she can absorb it!

"Xiao Tao, this is the 100,000-year-old soul bone that was originally intended as an incentive for you. Your grandmaster has decided not to use it as an incentive and will let you absorb it directly."

"Thank you, teacher!"

Upon seeing that it was a 100,000-year-old soul bone, Ma Xiaotao excitedly reached out and took it, unable to suppress the smile on her face.

"Hurry up and absorb it!"

Yan Shaozhe smiled, then said something to Dugu Han and left!
As soon as he left, Ma Xiaotao excitedly pulled Dugu Han and Wu Ming back to the dormitory.

This 100,000-year-old soul bone is a left arm bone.

She pressed it against her left arm, then excitedly grabbed Dugu Han and Wu Ming's hands: "Hurry, hurry!"

Wu Ming also attached another 100,000-year-old right leg bone to his right leg, grasped Dugu Han's other hand, and the three of them began to cultivate together.

(End of this chapter)