Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 39 Choosing the Second Soul Ring (Part 1)

After the New Year, Tang San and Xiao Wu stayed in Holy Soul Village for seven or eight days before bidding farewell to Old Jack and preparing to return to Notting City.

Old Jack escorted Tang San and Xiao Wu to the village entrance, and the village children followed along, hoping that Tang San and Xiao Wu could play with them again and tell them stories.

After returning to Notting City, Tang San and Xiao Wu went to the academy to report for duty, and then went to the Spirit Hall to resume their usual training.

Wang Sheng, however, submitted an application to Notting Academy to graduate early, preparing to join the Spirit Hall and start as a grassroots patrolman, working his way up step by step.

Graduation requirements for the junior academy are simple: possess a spirit ring and become a spirit master, and you can apply for graduation. The academy's teachers will not insist on keeping you.

"Wang Sheng, don't forget to come here to have your martial soul and body checked, and to train your first soul skill, when you're not working. If I really do research a true method for cultivating qi and blood, it will benefit you," Tang San said to Wang Sheng, who was about to go out to start his first patrol mission.

"If Third Brother gives the order, how dare I disobey?" Wang Sheng clasped his hands in a mock-serious gesture. "Even if I have to ask for leave, I have to come."

"No need for that, just come whenever you have time." Tang San smiled and patted his shoulder. "Go on, don't be late for your first patrol mission."

"Um."

Wang Sheng nodded and, led by Su Yuntao, headed towards the Spirit Hall's patrol team.

Tang San also told Matthew about reaching level 20 and preparing to hunt soul beasts.

"Level 20?" Matthew was taken aback. "Seven years old, level 20, Tang, you are a true genius, unprecedented and unlikely to be surpassed in the future."

"Grandpa Matthew, I only progressed faster in the early stages of cultivation. As my Soul Master level increases, the amount of Soul Power required for each level increases, and the progress will slow down later on," Tang San said modestly.

"Do you need Grandpa to go with you this time?" Matthew asked, used to Tang San's modesty.

"No need, Grandpa Matthew. As you know, I spar with Brother Tao and Sisi regularly, so my strength is decent. I can easily handle a hundred-year-old soul beast," Tang San said with a smile. "Besides, this time during the soul hunt, I also want to prove another theory of mine, so I can write a second theory paper then."

"Speaking of theory, I've already sent your previous theory to Spirit City, and it's expected to be published in the Spirit Newspaper this February." Matthew said, referring to Tang San's previous theoretical book, which provided a precise analysis of the classification and positioning of Spirit Masters. "You might think it's a bit late, but Spirit City receives a huge number of Spirit theory reports almost every year. They're written by Spirit Masters whose Spirit Power levels can't be improved any further, but who still want to become famous. The staff there need time to distinguish which theories are valid and which aren't, which takes a lot of time."

"I understand, Grandpa Matthew."

Tang San believed that his paper would definitely be noticed and published in the Martial Soul Newspaper.

Afterwards, Tang San spent three days preparing for his soul hunting mission, carrying a large bag on his back, ready to head to the Barak Forest to hunt suitable soul beasts.

Barak Forest is also a Soul Hunting Forest, located within the Barak Kingdom. Unlike other Soul Hunting Forests, this forest has very few animal soul beasts and mostly plant soul beasts.

Moreover, within the Kingdom of Barak, there are many people whose martial souls are plant-based, and there is also an advanced soul master academy: the Plant Academy.

Besides that, the most famous is Barak College.

However, Tang San had little interest in either the Plant Academy or the Barak Academy, at most considering them as potential alternative academies for the future All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Competition.

Upon learning that Tang San was going to hunt souls, Xiao Wu also prepared to join in the fun.

During the holidays, Xiao Wu not only played but also worked hard to cultivate her soul power, reaching level eighteen. She should be able to advance to level twenty before the end of her first year.

"It seems you've been working hard at cultivation, and your soul power is increasing quite quickly. You truly deserve to be called a person with innate full soul power," Tang San praised.

"Even if I'm fast, I'm still two levels lower than you." Xiao Wu snorted and followed Tang San into the carriage bound for the Barak Kingdom. "Are you going to hunt plant-type soul beasts?"

"Yes, the main purpose is to improve the life attribute of my martial soul. Secondly, it is to make my Blue Silver Grass more resilient. Thirdly, it is to give my Blue Silver Grass a better amplification skill that can comprehensively improve the soul master's attack, defense, speed, attributes, and so on." Tang San had these basic requirements for his second soul ring.

"An amplification skill? Your single soul skill is more powerful than the enhancement of three or four soul rings from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School?" Xiao Wu exclaimed in surprise. Having spent a long time with Tang San, she had come to understand some of the abilities of soul skills.

Among the amplification-type soul skills, there is a very rare type that can grow by a percentage. The amplification percentage can increase as the soul master's cultivation level increases, but the soul power consumed will not increase.

This is the terrifying power of this type of amplification skill, and it's also why the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul can only be cultivated to the Soul Saint level, but Soul Masters with this Martial Soul can establish sects and develop them into one of the three upper sects.

Other offensive and defensive soul skills can only increase their power by increasing the amount of soul power input.

"There's nothing wrong with that," Tang San said. "My Blue Silver Grass spirit can't release energy, but as a plant, how do you think I should use amplification-type spirit skills?"

Xiao Wu knew Tang San was testing her, so she thought for a moment, then held up one finger and said, "I know, it can be eaten!"

As a rabbit, thinking about eating grass is a perfectly normal thing.

Therefore, Tang San did not expect Xiao Wu to answer completely correctly, but this answer was close enough.

Not entirely correct.

Tang San chuckled and said, "While Blue Silver Grass is indeed edible, it doesn't taste very good; it's better suited for making tea... Think again, what other parts of plants are edible?"

"Edible parts?" Xiao Wu thought for a moment and said, "I've eaten carrots and sweet potatoes in the academy's cafeteria. You said those are plant roots and stems, so the roots are edible. Then, leafy greens are edible, but judging from your expression, you probably didn't eat the leaves of the Blue Silver Grass. So, that leaves only fruit."

"It's fruit, right?"

Tang San nodded and said, "That's right, it is indeed a fruit. Blue Silver Grass also flowers and bears fruit, but the flowers and fruits are very small, even smaller than sesame seeds. If you don't pay attention, you can't see them at all. It is precisely because the seeds are small that they can grow anywhere, as long as there is water, the temperature is suitable, and there is a place for them to take root."

"My requirements for my second spirit ring, besides strengthening its original characteristics, are to give my Blue Silver Grass the ability to generate seeds. The way to amplify a spirit master is to let them absorb those invisible seeds, thereby amplifying their abilities."

"This method is much more subtle than the amplification effect of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda."

"The amplification of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, or rather most of the soul skills that can amplify a soul master, is performed in the form of light. That is, the martial soul emits a beam of light that shines on the soul master. This is too conspicuous. Unless the enemy is blind, they will know that the other party has been amplified."

"But if I could amplify my companions with seeds invisible to the naked eye, wouldn't that leave our enemies wondering why we've suddenly become stronger?"

For the sake of the plot: The Plant Academy is set in the Kingdom of Barak.

Of course, it can also be said that there is more than one college of plants.

After all, there are more than a hundred advanced academies in the original work, but only a few can be named, so you can add more as you like without much of a problem.

(End of this chapter)