LRAB Chapter 44: Ideas about Soul Cores
Chapter 44: Ideas about Soul Cores
"Bang—" He slammed his fists down heavily on the makeshift metal lab table, sending metal shards flying. His voice was hoarse with anxiety and anger.
Why?
Why can't I do it?
"I even stopped suppressing my soul power level and used a soul skill that controls metal! Why? Why can't I even reach half of his level? One minute, just one minute! How did he manage to carve all six sides?!"
"How can his hands be so fast and so steady? How can his mental strength keep up? Why doesn't his soul power break down!"
He practically screamed the last sentence, covering his face with his hands and trembling with excitement.
"Brother..." Meng Hongchen was almost in tears, "I believe you can do it. Let's eat something and rest for a bit, okay?"
These words seemed to have an effect; Xiao Hongchen lowered his hand, his expression regaining some composure.
"Yes, sister, you're right. I am the greatest genius in the history of Sun and Moon. I can do it. Let me try again..."
He pulled out a brand new carving knife, ready to begin carving. A sudden shout abruptly stopped him in his tracks—
"That's enough!"
Jing Hongchen's short, stout figure appeared in the doorway, his long, reddish-brown hair swaying slightly with anger, his domineering aura inadvertently revealed. He looked just like a bloated toad.
"Grandpa, I still want to..."
"Stop talking! Your most important task right now is to eat and rest!"
Enraged, Jing Hongchen strode over to Xiao Hongchen and slammed his hand on the metal table in front of him, breaking it in two. He spoke with exasperation to his usually mild-mannered grandson:
"Laugh, look at yourself now! All you do is act impulsively. Are you out of your mind? Sculpting is just one part of being a Soul Master. Let him be strong, why are you getting so hung up on this?"
Jing Hongchen's words perfectly grasped the crux of Xiao Hongchen's dilemma. Upon hearing this, a light flashed in Xiao Hongchen's eyes, and he said:
"Grandpa, you mean that although my carving skills are not as good as his, I can still surpass him in the overall production of soul tools, right?"
Jing Hongchen remained silent for a while. He already knew about Kong Tianxu's astonishing soul ring ratio, so he didn't think that Xiao Hongchen, who was also a Soul Sect Master, had any advantage over him. However, looking at his grandson's hopeful eyes, he still couldn't bring himself to say no.
"Grandpa believes in you. Now, hurry up and fill your stomach, then tidy yourself up. Look at you, what a mess you look like."
"Hmm!" Xiao Hongchen nodded. He had been holding on by a strong obsession, but now that energy had dissipated, and a strong sense of hunger surged up. He felt like he could eat a whole cow.
Upon seeing this, Meng Hongchen quickly handed over the food box containing her own portion.
"Slow down, slow down." Jing Hongchen looked at her grandson's ravenous eating with affection, but sighed inwardly.
"Sigh, I don't know if it was right or wrong to make Kong Tianxu this child's imaginary enemy."
He knew that his teacher's only grandson was exceptionally talented. After his martial soul awakened, Master Kong and His Majesty had always kept it a secret, only revealing that he was born with full soul power.
He originally thought that, since they were both born with full soul power, Xiao Hongchen's aptitude should be about the same as his opponent's.
Now it seems that the child's martial spirit and talent are both ridiculously extraordinary...
The afternoon class went as Kong Tianxu expected. Although it wasn't a face he recognized, it was a genuine level nine soul master, and the martial soul should be elemental.
Even without using his X-ray vision, Kong Tianxu could clearly perceive the powerful elemental soul force surging and flowing around his soul core, thanks to his elemental affinity.
Even on his way home after class, he was still thinking about it. In the future, he would definitely complete the Yin-Yang dual soul core, or even a triple soul core, and deciding on the first soul core would be a difficult problem.
The Silver Dragon Martial Soul granted him a far greater number of attributes than ordinary people. Generally speaking, multi-attribute martial souls rarely possess more than seven attributes; even mastering three attributes is extremely rare. Moreover, the more diverse the attributes, the more dispersed the power.
The Silver Dragon Martial Soul, however, goes against the grain. It is born with extremely high-level attributes, and as it masters more attributes, Kong Tianxu can feel its essence constantly strengthening, as if it is constantly completing itself. This is unprecedented in the history of Martial Souls.
This greatly facilitated his soul core condensation. As long as he found a powerful source that matched the attributes he possessed, his success rate in condensing a silver dragon attribute soul core would greatly increase. For example, the ten-thousand-year-old Xuanbing Cave beneath the Earth Dragon Gate was one of the soul core nutrients he had planned to obtain.
However, he did not intend to condense the Silver Dragon Martial Soul Core as his first Soul Core. The higher his cultivation level, the greater the potential revealed by the Silver Dragon Martial Soul, and the clearer he realized how terrifying his Supreme Body Martial Soul, which could suppress the Silver Dragon, was.
If possible, he will use his original martial soul core as his first soul core, that is, his main soul core. In this way, his yin-yang complementarity will be more difficult, but the third soul core will be much smoother.
It's not impossible that they could even challenge the forbidden path that the Beast God Di Tian once walked.
After all, he had enough confidence in his physique, but he really didn't expect a Limit Douluo to transfer his power to him.
But where could he find so many high-level, attribute-free soul powers that were compatible with his own martial soul? He smiled bitterly to himself, shook his head, and suppressed these thoughts for the time being before walking onto a secluded path that few people frequented.
He was about to go check out the auxiliary cultivation room. Cain had some urgent business to attend to and needed to return to her sect—the Mingyu Sect, which she belonged to in the original story. The Mingyu Sect had a close relationship with the Kong family; its sect leader, Kong Tangyu, was Kong Deming's cousin and also a titled Douluo.
Without his maid's company, Kong Tianxu was unusually alone this time. However, he remembered that Ye Nongfeng seemed to have taken the same path, so he might run into him at his destination. He was quite interested in this unconventional soul guide genius who could develop aging rays.
It was late autumn, and the streets were deserted, with only the occasional rustling of leaves in the wind, making the campus exceptionally peaceful and serene.
In the midst of this tranquility, Kong Tianxu's extraordinary hearing detected a discordant noise.
He stopped and his ears twitched.
Amidst the gentle breeze, several shouts and muffled thuds of flesh colliding were clearly audible:
"You little bastard, still so arrogant? Go apologize, go apologize!"
It seems this kind of thing happens everywhere. Some memories, tinged with the smell of rust, surfaced in his mind. His gaze sharpened slightly, and he silently moved toward the source of the sound.
In a secluded grove behind the teaching building, a whip flashed, whistling through the air, as it lashed out at the back of Ye Nongfeng's head.