Douluo Continent: I can nurture soul beasts and even perform super evolution.

Chapter 236 Dugu Bo: Condensing the Soul Core, I Will Become a God!
"Kid, why are you helping me?"

Inside the courtyard halfway up the mountain at the Royal Academy of the Heaven Dou Empire.

Dugu Bo quietly took a sip of tea, dressed in a tight-fitting outfit, and looked at Su Wen with suspicion.

Clearly, he has decided to return to public life.

Su Wen may be alone and helpless in the outside world, but after staying in the secret realm for countless years, everything had changed when he came out. His friends were dead, and his family had disappeared. Therefore, he had to come out to support the family.

Dugu Bo has always been a man of great loyalty and righteousness. How could he possibly hide in a corner and pretend to be dead after receiving a favor from someone?

Even if Su Wen offended the Spirit Hall, he would still immediately join the group.

But what puzzled him was that this kid was too kind to him. He helped him detoxify for free, identified the immortal herbs in the immortal herb garden that were suitable for him, and enabled his martial soul to advance. Now he was even helping his granddaughter with special training.

"Wait, you wouldn't happen to have taken a fancy to my granddaughter, would you?!" Dugu Bo's eyes widened.

"What are you thinking about?" Su Wen shook his head, put his arm around Dugu Bo's shoulder, and said with a smile, "I just wanted to let you win this time."

ヽ(￣ω￣(￣ω￣〃)ゝ

"Win what? When have I ever lost?" Dugu Bo blushed and said somewhat awkwardly.

"I heard you offended the Spirit Hall?" Seeing that Su Wen was unwilling to reveal the "truth," he changed the subject.

"Aren't you supposed to be a recluse? How did you find out about this?" Su Wen glanced sideways at Dugu Bo.

"Hehe, you've been in this secret realm for so many years, you've long since become out of touch with the normal continent. Don't be fooled by my reclusive life, I still have some connections... Right now, there's a sign hanging at the entrance of the Spirit Hall: 'Only Su Wen is not allowed to enter.'"

Su Wen: "..."

His lips twitched slightly.

He really didn't know this.

"Don't worry, even if a Spirit Hall expert comes to the Heaven Dou Empire, with me in charge, they'll be more wary," Dugu Bo patted his chest confidently.

"Afraid of you?" Su Wen raised an eyebrow.

"After my martial soul advanced, I have now broken through to level ninety-two. You are not weak, but don't underestimate my name, Poison Douluo," Dugu Bo said proudly.

"..."

The scene fell silent for a moment.

The two exchanged glances and instantly teleported into the air.

A dense, dark green poisonous miasma emanated from Dugu Bo's body, condensing above his head into a large, dark green serpent, flicking its tongue and exuding an imposing aura. This was Dugu Bo's true martial spirit form, with clearly visible, hard, dark green scales.

"What a fine Azure Phosphorus Serpent." Su Wen smiled.

With a flash, carrying immense power, he transformed his hand into a blade and slashed directly at the snake's body.

Along with its entire body, a layer of light golden patterns appeared, which was the attribute of the Golden Behemoth... the ultimate gold, as well as the immense strength and defense flowing in its flesh and blood.

"Hiss~!!"

The giant snake let out a mournful cry, turned its head, and spat out a mouthful of dark green poisonous mist at Su Wen.

"Om..."

Su Wen was momentarily dazed.

It was as if he were facing Ye Xishui's Tower of Death, and the feeling of his soul being forcibly and completely separated from his body was all too familiar... However, of course, the intensity of this counterattack that Dugu Bo had suffered was far less than that of the Tower of Death.

"Are you okay?!"

Dugu Bo reverted to his original form, his expression slightly anxious.

"It's alright." The Golden Behemoth's physical body, let alone one Dugu Bo, even if ten of them surrounded it spewed poisonous miasma, would hardly be able to cause any harm...

Su Wen pondered for a moment and nodded slightly, saying, "Corroding the soul and dissipating soul power? This direction of advancement for toxicity is indeed quite good."

He was already pondering which deity he should guide Dugu Yan, or perhaps this one, in the direction of cultivation...

Are there poison gods in the divine realm?

Maybe not.

But speaking of which, Dugu Bo is a truly loyal friend. Letting him become a god... is definitely a profitable deal.

The most suitable thing for him would be one of the seven deadly sins, or perhaps stealing Zhou Weiqing's God of Destruction.

"It was just a friendly spar, and you used such a vicious attack." Dugu Bo grimaced, clutching his aching back, and glared angrily.

"Old Poisoner, do you want a divine position?" Su Wen's question stunned Dugu Bo, who forgot his back pain and uttered a single word with his eyes wide open.

"what?"

"A divine position," Su Wen said with a smile, "As long as you speak, I will help you become a god."

……

The pitch-black vortex remained quietly within Su Wen's body. All the surrounding spiritual energy surged towards Su Wen, only to be swallowed by the black hole-like soul core. Like a voracious eater, it tirelessly devoured the spiritual energy, converting it into its own soul power.

The so-called cultivation in this world is actually the process of absorbing the primordial energy of heaven and earth into the body, using the martial spirit as a carrier, and transforming it into soul power.

Cultivation talent refers to the quality of your "Martial Soul" (the vessel) and your innate soul power, which represents the speed at which you will absorb the energy of heaven and earth in the future.

Therefore, the emergence of the Soul Core is tantamount to triggering an industrial revolution on this continent.

This world is also changing; it is not static for thousands of years. It's just that under the watchful eye of the divine realm, the continent's development is somewhat constrained, and many things that pose a potential threat to a certain god-king are nipped in the bud.

"Huchi..."

Su Wen exhaled a breath of stale air.

Dugu Bo slowly woke up from his daze.

"What a terrifying absorption speed! What a powerful thing!" He swallowed hard, and it took him a long time to utter these two sentences. He naturally didn't believe Su Wen's promise to make him a god, thinking that the kid was just making fun of him. But he didn't expect Su Wen to pull out such a trump card!

"If I could also condense this thing..." Dugu Bo's eyes lit up. His future cultivation speed would increase by at least three or four times!
Even his strength improved along with it!

"Don't even think about getting a soul core of my level," Su Wen said with a smile, shaking his head.

"The two elements for condensing a soul core are physical body and spiritual power. Which one do you have?"

"I..." Dugu Bo blushed, "Am I poisonous?"

"Nonsense."

“However, with your strength, you are still capable of condensing a soul core.” Su Wen shook his head.

Ten thousand years from now, the number of Title Douluos will be "abundant," several times greater than it is now.

In reality, it simply means that advancing to the title level is now easier. Previously, to reach the title level, one had to rely on their own martial spirit to gradually overcome that bottleneck. Therefore, even Dugu Bo, who was the "weakest title holder," would definitely be a true genius ten thousand years later.

Ten thousand years later, the threshold for becoming a titled Douluo was lowered and made more straightforward—as long as you condense a soul core, you can advance to the titled Douluo level. This also means that most titled Douluo have a far less profound understanding of their own martial soul than Dugu Bo did ten thousand years ago.

This is also an advantage.

Being able to advance to a title ten thousand years ago and condense a soul core would give one combat power enough to crush the same level of powerhouses ten thousand years later, and even be comparable to the same level of "evil soul masters" or powerful beings with their own martial soul.

(End of this chapter)