Douluo Continent: The Peerless Tang Sect - Sharingan Intercepts Tianmeng

Chapter 138 The Auspicious Beast is Attacked

"I can't take it anymore, I really can't continue. Let's call it a day."

Xiao Qiang knelt on the ground, panting heavily. The cold sweat on his face and his trembling body clearly showed that he was not in good condition.

"Is that enough for today? Are you planning to continue tomorrow? Your talent in swordsmanship doesn't seem to be very good, so I don't really recommend that you learn swordsmanship," Xue Di said calmly.

At first, Xiao Qiang did not intend to learn any swordsmanship from Xue Di. Compared to Xue Di's rapier, Xiao Qiang preferred to play with a greatsword.

However, after Xue Di fused with the soul bones of the Twin Souls of the Other Shore and gained the skill of Soul Transformation, Xue Di's original rapier became a greatsword after the Soul Transformation.

Xiao Qiang doesn't plan to learn the rapier, but if it's a greatsword, he'd like to try it out after creating the Heavenly Fire Judgment in the future.

So Xiao Qiang approached Xue Di, intending to learn swordsmanship from her. Xue Di felt that swordsmanship could be improved the fastest during combat, and coincidentally, Xiao Qiang possessed the soul skill "Illusory Sea Dream," which could directly pull people into the consciousness space for combat.

Under these favorable conditions, Xue Di suppressed her own level to a level similar to Xiao Qiang's in the consciousness space, and then in less than half an hour, she killed Xiao Qiang more than fifty times.

Hundreds of thousands of years of honing her swordsmanship have forged the prestige of her Imperial Sword. No matter how much her level is suppressed, it is still something that someone like Xiao Qiang, who has just learned swordsmanship, cannot withstand.

If Xiao Qiang hadn't significantly reduced his pain level because he knew he couldn't defeat Xue Di in swordsmanship in a short time, he wouldn't have been able to endure being slaughtered more than fifty times.

Despite this, the weakened pain still intensified after being killed multiple times, and the sense of powerlessness in the face of death was terrifying. If Xiao Qiang hadn't been able to stop it, a person would have truly broken down under such one-sided torture.

Xiao Qiang now understands Huo Yuhao's state after entering Dog Training Valley. However, before entering Dog Training Valley, Huo Yuhao did nothing to revive Ilex, nor did he think about what would happen to Tianmeng and the others if he died. He can understand what is right and not accept what is wrong. If Huo Yuhao wants to stand on the opposite side, Xiao Qiang will still kill him if he has the chance.

"I know, but we have to give it a try. It's only the first day. You have to do something for 10,000 hours before you can decide if you can do it. It's normal not to be able to do it when you've just started. You only have the right to speak after you've worked hard."

After kneeling and nearly vomiting up everything he had eaten the day before, Xiao Qiang's condition improved somewhat. At least now he could barely find a clean place to lie down.

"Your swordsmanship is quite persistent," Xue Di said, sitting to the side.

Xiao Qiang shook his head. "It's not really a question. I'll work hard at anything else that I feel is useful to me."

"I haven't seen you put any effort into cultivation at all."

"That's just because I felt that normal cultivation wasn't cost-effective for me. I didn't cultivate properly, but when did my level go slow? I was level 66 at fifteen, and I even had an ultimate martial soul. Even if I only had a four-ring spirit at my age, I could still be considered a genius. I can be lazy when I should be lazy, and I can work hard when I should work hard. Wealth lies in skill, not physical labor. Levels are about whether you can absorb spirit rings beyond your level and your own opportunities. If burying yourself in hard work really had a decisive effect, the world would be full of Limit Douluo."

As Xue Di heard Xiao Qiang say this, she remembered something.

It's true that the Soul Spirit was created by Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, but given Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's lazy nature, would it really be easy for it to create the Soul Spirit under normal circumstances?

Given Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's personality, it's likely that after bringing Bingdi together, it has been sleeping non-stop, conducting various experiments, and extremely squeezing out every bit of knowledge it has about soul beasts, thinking about how the intelligent soul ring and even the soul spirit should change. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem like the useless piece of trash that Bingdi used to describe, who was good for nothing but eating, drinking and sleeping.

But before Tianmeng transformed from a good-for-nothing into a genius...

"Wealth lies in divination, not in physical labor, so the divination you're referring to is scheming against the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm?"

"Huh? You plotted against me? What did you mean by plotting against me?"

Tianmeng was still in a daze, but Xiao Qiang had already understood Xue Di's meaning.

"The Snow Empress is probably referring to the matter of the Wisdom Soul Ring, right? It's about how I grew so rapidly thanks to the Wisdom Soul Ring and later the Soul Spirit system you created, Brother Tianmeng. How should I put it..."

"Mainly, I need the Wisdom Soul Ring to improve my strength as quickly as possible and increase the feasibility of the God-Making Plan. In addition, I feel that Brother Tianmeng is really not a waste, so I want him to try to materialize the Wisdom Soul Ring. Because I know that Brother Tianmeng can do it. He just lacks a little bit of determination to do it."

"So I tried to create some obsession for Brother Tianmeng, and it turned out I succeeded. Brother Tianmeng is indeed a genius. He created an upgraded version of the Soul Spirit system with intelligent Soul Rings that is unprecedented and may not be surpassed in the future. Although I believed in Brother Tianmeng at the time, I was quite surprised when he actually made it."

"Hey, so that's what it is. What did I think it was? You just wanted to provoke me, right? You really think someone as smart as me can be fooled by you?" Tianmeng said confidently after Xiao Qiang finished speaking.

Tianmeng has no regrets about creating the upgraded version of the Soul Spirit system with the intelligent Soul Ring, because he was doing something to prove himself. Tianmeng didn't really feel how hard it was at the time. On the contrary, the sense of accomplishment he felt afterward when Bingdi admitted that he was not a waste was something that Tianmeng would never have dared to dream of before.

The process wasn't painful, and the result was a happy one. Afterwards, Hyotei never called him a waste again. In addition, he found a way out for himself and Hyotei. Tianmeng really didn't know what harm it would do to him to develop the Soul Spirit System.

Moreover, Tianmeng was quite confident in his own intelligence, so how could he possibly be fooled by Xiao Qiang's few words?

The matter of Tianmeng was quickly forgotten, and the next day arrived in the blink of an eye. On the second day, just as Xiao Qiang was preparing to learn swordsmanship from Xue Di, a sudden loud noise caught the attention of Xiao Qiang, Xue Di, and the others.

Everyone looked toward the direction from which the sound came, where a fiery red mastiff with three heads had been knocked away. The moment Xiao Qiang saw the auspicious beast through his mental detection, his mind went blank for a moment; he thought of the plot where the auspicious beast was attacked.

But Huo Yuhao doesn't need a ten-thousand-year soul ring now, and he's not a top genius. So how did the plot get going?

(End of this chapter)