Douluo Continent Villain Simulator: Persecuting Qian Renxue at the Start

Chapter 22 The Pope Invites You

"Is there anything special about the ultimate earth attribute?"

After hearing his explanation, Qian Renxue pondered for a moment, but still had no clue.

As the young master of the Spirit Hall, she has also read a lot of books with Su Cheng over the years, and has gained an understanding of ultimate attributes.

But as far as she knew, these attributes were more applicable to special martial souls. And apart from her extreme strength, she didn't think she had any other outstanding qualities.

You'll see soon enough.

Su Cheng didn't offer much explanation. He wasn't entirely sure whether this method could improve the malignant mutation of his innate martial soul.

The two walked side by side and soon arrived at the back mountain of Wuhun City.

Wuhun City was built on a mountain range at the border of the two great empires, Tiandou and Xingluo. The area behind the mountain range was extremely large, dozens of times larger than Wuhun City itself.

The outer guards of Wuhun City, the core reserve members of Wuhun Hall, and some of the spirit beasts they kept all gathered here.

Su Cheng and his companion kept walking and soon arrived at the place specifically for imprisoning soul beasts.

Inside a cage, a massive bronze-horned rhinoceros with cloud patterns was bound tightly to the ground by special iron chains.

Its skin is light gray, and looks extremely rough and thick, indicating that its defensive capabilities are astonishing. It is also covered with an artistic cloud-like pattern that shimmers brilliantly in the sunlight.

The thick rhinoceros horn, over a meter long, curved backward, covered with thick, dark deposits that gave it a dull metallic sheen.

This soul beast was over two meters tall at the shoulder and more than five meters long, but its current appearance of lying on the ground on the verge of death greatly diminished its imposing presence.

Su Cheng naturally had no pity for soul beasts.

Silently extending his right hand, he summoned his martial spirit and then plunged a sword into its heart.

The already dying bronze-horned rhinoceros with cloud patterns immediately perished, and its soul ring quickly appeared.

Seeing this, Qian Renxue's eyes flickered, and her heart stirred slightly.

It has nothing to do with this soul beast.

Instead, it was Su Cheng's sword thrust that seemed to contain some kind of Daoist charm that she couldn't understand.

With just this one sword strike, she felt that even with her current strength, she still couldn't withstand it.

"Teacher, your sword strike..."

Su Cheng glanced at her and said calmly, "Focus on improving your cultivation first, don't think about anything else. I will teach you soul skills after you reach level 70."

After saying that, he unbuttoned his shirt, revealing his well-defined, bare upper body.

He then took out the medicine and silver needles from his soul tool, preparing to stimulate his potential and enhance his physical strength in order to absorb the soul ring later.

Seeing this, Qian Renxue, who had been secretly observing with her lips tightly pressed together, quickly stepped forward and said, "Let me help you."

"No need."

Su Cheng waved his hand in refusal, not giving her a chance to continue speaking. He quickly applied the medicine to his body and skillfully inserted silver needles into his body. The series of actions were completed in a smooth and fluid manner.

Then I saw his muscles bulge, a familiar burning sensation flow through his body, and a strong thirst came through his meridians.

This is caused by the significant dilution of soul power when it circulates through the meridians after the meridians are instantly stimulated and widened by acupuncture with silver needles.

This method can also significantly accelerate the absorption of soul power in a short period of time, but it is not actually suitable for cultivation.

To avoid overdrawing his potential, Su Cheng's acupoint stimulation method can only be effective for a short period, lasting at most half a day. If his cultivation and physical strength do not experience a significant breakthrough during this time, he will revert to his original state, and any excess soul power will still need to be released outside his body; otherwise, it will only tear his meridians.

Therefore, this method is only applicable to absorbing soul rings.

Su Cheng immediately sat cross-legged on the ground and began to absorb the special soul ring that had been carefully prepared for him.

Qian Renxue stood not far behind him, silently watching his back.

Just as Su Cheng was working hard to absorb the spirit ring, in the Papal Palace, Bibi Dong was also protecting Hu Liena as she absorbed her second spirit ring.

However, there was not much risk involved in absorbing the second spirit ring, and the spirit beast used was a species that could be easily found in the back mountains of Wuhun City, so it didn't take much effort.

Her thoughts had already drifted elsewhere, pondering the situation of Su Cheng and Qian Renxue.

To be honest, the growth rate of those two over the past few years has exceeded Bibi Dong's expectations, making her wary.

In her heart, she always regarded Qian Renxue as an enemy, so naturally she did not want to let her develop peacefully.

As blood relatives, Bibi Dong certainly had feelings for Qian Renxue, but these feelings were suppressed deep within her heart, perhaps even to the point that she herself was unaware of them.

"A twelve-year-old Soul Master is quite fast, but not a cause for concern. Once I complete the Rakshasa Divine Trial, I will be able to change everything."

That's what I said, but for some reason, I still felt uneasy.

In her perception, Su Cheng was a rather wicked person.

Sometimes you can see the shadow of Yu Xiaogang in him, and sometimes you feel that the two are completely different.

Most importantly, she now realizes that this person is truly theoretically invincible and often does things that defy common sense.

She hadn't paid much attention to entrusting Qian Renxue to Su Cheng for training, since theory was just theory after all.

Her anger back then stemmed more from the fact that the other party had thwarted her plans to usurp the throne.

However, in recent years, seeing Qian Renxue and Su Cheng inseparable every day, supporting each other and progressing side by side, she subconsciously always felt very uncomfortable.

"Xiaogang, if only you were still by my side."

She couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

Over the years, Bibi Dong has been secretly keeping track of Yu Xiaogang's situation.

Although she couldn't inquire too much due to various constraints, judging from the information transmitted back from the various branch halls, Yu Xiaogang had indeed benefited a lot from the release of the Spirit Hall's "Core Competitiveness of the Fourth Spirit Ring" and was speculated by many to be one of the participants in this theory, after all, his name was so distinctive.

Although his reputation is still far inferior to Su Cheng's, at least his public image has clearly begun to reverse.

Thinking of this, Bibi Dong's spirits lifted.

He glanced at Hu Liena, and seeing that her breathing was steady, he stepped out of the hall and summoned Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan, asking, "How is Su Cheng's research on martial souls going lately?"

Yue Guan wasn't surprised to hear this. His Holiness the Pope had been paying close attention to Su Cheng's situation. "It seems to be progressing well. Mr. Su mentioned a long time ago that there might be a chance to resolve the problem of malignant mutation of the martial soul."

"Him?"

Bibi Dong raised her delicate eyebrows high, her face full of disbelief.

Soul ring absorption is based on human body research, which is completely different from martial soul theory. She understood the difference between the two very well.

But... that's a matter of spirit mutation, isn't Xiao Gang's spirit a case of malignant mutation...?

Wasn't her initial impression of Su Cheng also due to that trash martial soul with the same level 0.5 innate soul power?

"Summon Su Cheng to the Papal Palace."

(End of this chapter)