Chapter 29: Su Mo's Greatest Achievement
During the days of training at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eyes,
after successfully digesting the Eight-Angle Black Ice Grass and the Fiery Apricot Jiaoshu with the help of the Yin-Yang Eyes, Su Mo's cultivation improved greatly, jumping directly from the twenty-first level of Spirit Grandmaster to the thirtieth.
But this wasn't Su Mo's greatest achievement on this journey.
The true highlight of his time at the Yin-Yang Ice and Fire Eyes was guiding Bibi Dong to alter the original plot and seize the Yin-Yang Eyes, which were originally meant for Tang San. This gave him a new opportunity to add memories!
With this opportunity, as long as he designed the script carefully, Su Mo could create another "reborn" goddess.
This naturally made Su Mo extremely happy.
However, Su Mo did not stay at the Yin-Yang Ice and Fire Eyes for long.
After digesting the Black Ice Grass and the Fiery Apricot Jiaoshu, Su Mo followed Bibi Dong to the Sunset Forest to hunt a Soul Devouring Beast with nearly five thousand years of cultivation.
After absorbing it, Su Mo obtained the third soul skill he was aiming for: Soul Devour!
As its name implies, Soul Devour allows him to enhance his cultivation and even increase the age of spirit rings by devouring souls and absorbing the spiritual power they contain.
Yes! It's a broken ability!
But of course, the reason this soul skill could have such an effect was primarily due to the strength of Su Mo's Martial Soul: Death Scythe.
This Death Scythe Martial Soul was established by Su Mo based on the system's maximum limit. It belongs to a high-tier Douluo-level Martial Soul, a Super God King level, and its potential is comparable to the Dragon God Martial Soul.
If a Dragon God Martial Soul even exists in this world.
But before leaving, as Su Mo looked back at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eyes, he still felt a trace of regret.
Because during his time training there, thanks to the Death Scythe Martial Soul, Su Mo sensed two powerful soul remnants buried beneath the Yin-Yang Eyes.
These should be the remnant souls of the fallen Ice and Fire Dragon King.
After all, according to the plot, the reason the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eyes existed was that the corpse of the ancient Ice and Fire Dragon King lay buried beneath them.
Unfortunately, Su Mo's current strength was far too low.
Even though his second soul skill was a control-type ability that could subdue and dominate souls,
Su Mo was still far from being able to enslave the soul remnant of the Ice and Fire Dragon King, who had once been a divine beast. It's estimated that only when Su Mo reaches Title Douluo level will he be able to return and try to subdue the soul remnant of the Ice and Fire Dragon King, which lies dormant beneath the Yin-Yang Eyes.
After achieving his goals during this trip, Su Mo returned to Spirit City with Bibi Dong.
Back in Spirit City, Su Mo resumed his intense training.
He had no choice—since his "golden finger" (system) was too weak, Su Mo had to rely on cultivating the goddess Bibi Dong to protect him, even though he was the protagonist!
If he could help it, there were some things Su Mo would rather do himself.
Needless to say, he had to capture all kinds of goddesses, steal the opportunities that originally belonged to Tang San, torment Yu Xiaogang, and eventually even go after Tang Hao and Tang San!
This was Su Mo's true purpose under the banner of supporting Bibi Dong.
And to do all that, he needed sufficient strength.
So, Su Mo had to work harder than ever!
Two years passed in a flash.
Over these two years,
thanks to the Eight-Angle Ice Grass and Fiery Apricot, and after absorbing his third spirit ring, Su Mo quickly reached the thirty-fifth level.
Moreover, the medicinal power of the two immortal herbs was still in his body, not yet fully absorbed or digested.
Thus, thanks to Su Mo's hard work and the assistance of his Soul Devouring skill, he reached the Soul King level!
It's worth mentioning that,
to harvest powerful souls and rapidly improve his cultivation, Su Mo joined the enforcement team of the Spirit Hall shortly after returning to Spirit City and frequently went out to hunt fallen and evil spirit masters who caused chaos throughout the Douluo Continent.
This led to Su Mo being prematurely nicknamed the Cold-Faced Killer in the world of spirit masters.
While Su Mo grew rapidly, Bibi Dong did not fall behind.
However, unlike Su Mo, Bibi Dong kept a low profile since she did not have a soul skill like Soul Devour to hide the rapid growth of her cultivation.
Over these two years, Bibi Dong focused mainly on strategy and preparing to overthrow Qianxunji and take over the Spirit Hall.
Eliminating Qianxunji and torturing Yu Xiaogang were both part of her plans.
Over time, Yu Xiaogang gradually became immersed in his self-created identity as a scholar of spirit theory.
With Bibi Dong's help, he came to believe that, thanks to her, he had earned the respect of some common spirit masters in the world.
Yu Xiaogang couldn't help but become hopeful: he believed he could prove his worth through spirit theory research and finally escape his reputation as a worthless man.
Obsessed more and more with his theories,
Yu Xiaogang started to believe in his own carefully constructed persona.
Unfortunately, only Yu Xiaogang and a few low-level spirit masters believed in this theoretical expert image.
Within the Spirit Hall, Yu Xiaogang's reputation had long since gone down the drain!
Even in the original story, without Bibi Dong's protection, his reputation was never great.
When he had a good relationship with Bibi Dong, the people of the Spirit Hall tolerated him and didn't dare expose his true hypocritical and shameless personality.
But once he broke ties with Bibi Dong, the Spirit Hall turned him into a complete clown in the world of spirit masters!
Thus, under Bibi Dong's instigation, Yu Xiaogang suffered greatly in Spirit City. Getting beaten was a daily occurrence; being humiliated and toyed with in various ways was nothing new.
But when Bibi Dong deliberately pretended not to believe the rumors in Spirit City and chose to trust only him—her "brother Xiaogang"—their relationship grew even closer.
Seeing his dreams within reach, Yu Xiaogang refused to give up!
As the saying goes: "Those who achieve great things don't sweat the small stuff."
He, Yu Xiaogang, was the young master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and no matter how much the people of Spirit Hall hated him, they wouldn't dare kill him.
And if he could shake off the reputation of being a waste within the Spirit Hall—thanks to Bibi Dong—then he could surely return to his clan in glory.
What was a little humiliation?
In Yu Xiaogang's eyes, no humiliation in Spirit City was as painful or humiliating as being branded a waste by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan!
However, just as the outside world saw Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang getting closer, Qianxunji finally lost his patience and ordered someone to summon Bibi Dong.
(End of Chapter)