Chapter 24: What?! Luo Sanpao Is Actually a Benign Mutated Martial Soul?!
Originally, the girls actually felt that Tang San's Blue Silver Grass first soul skill—Entanglement—was… acceptable.
It could be considered a normal, fairly standard control-type soul skill.
After all, the Datura Snake should add quite a bit of toughness to Blue Silver Grass, and it even came with paralyzing venom.
But after Lin Yuan put it that way, they suddenly reacted.
That's right!
Blue Silver Grass itself already possessed the ability to entangle. As long as Tang San's level increased or he trained more diligently, he could naturally master "Entanglement" as a self-created soul skill.
There was absolutely no need to rely on a soul ring to grant it!
Moreover, Tang San didn't even inherit the Datura Snake's core venom. That was a massive loss!
Rather than absorbing such a soul ring, it would've been better to absorb a plant-type soul ring of the same age!
This Yu Xiaogang really was misleading his disciple!
Quite a few people also recalled the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Souls that Lin Yuan had mentioned earlier.
Among them was one particular theory: plant-type martial souls can absorb beast soul rings.
It's just that this theory has never been verified.
Nor was it recognized by the outside world.
Yu Xiaogang believed that beast martial souls could absorb beast soul rings as well as plant soul rings.
Weapon-type martial souls—such as swords—could also absorb both kinds.
And since plant-type martial souls were categorized as weapon-type martial souls, why should they be limited to only absorbing plant-type soul rings?
They should, like sword-type martial souls, be able to absorb both!
However, the moment this theory was made public, it was ridiculed.
So wasn't he using Tang San's life to conduct an experiment?!
If it truly failed and caused a conflict, the lightest outcome would be the destruction of the martial soul, while the worst could mean death!
Thinking this way sent a chill through many hearts.
Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect
Ning Rongrong frowned slightly.
"This Yu Xiaogang—if he wanted to verify whether his theory was correct, why did he have to make Tang San absorb a beast soul ring?"
"Even though Tang San's innate soul power was boosted by the Mysterious Heaven Skill, it's still full innate soul power no matter what. And behind him stands Tang Hao."
"If the experiment really failed, isn't Yu Xiaogang afraid of Tang Hao's retaliation?"
"There are plenty of plant-type martial soul masters on this continent. With his status, it shouldn't be difficult for him to find experimental subjects, right?"
As the sect's little princess—and now an observer—Ning Rongrong directly raised this question in her heart.
In truth, similar experiments had likely been conducted internally within the Spirit Hall.
After all, setting aside special bloodlines, beast soul rings did provide far more attributes than plant-type soul rings.
This was something very intuitive.
You could easily see extremely powerful beast martial soul masters, but you would rarely—if ever—see powerful plant-type martial soul masters.
From this, it was easy to reach a conclusion: plant-type soul masters absorb plant-type soul rings, which makes them inferior to beast martial soul masters.
Although this conclusion was rather arbitrary.
Soon after, the contents of the diary were updated once again.
And this time, the bomb Lin Yuan threw out directly stunned every female character secretly peeking at the diary!
[Having finished discussing Tang San's soul ring choice, let's talk about Yu Xiaogang himself.]
[Many people—including Yu Xiaogang himself—believe that because his martial soul underwent a malignant mutation and turned into a pig that can only fart, his innate soul power was limited to half a level, making him a complete waste.]
[But here, I must say a fair word.]
[Luo Sanpao says: I refuse to take the blame for this!]
[Because Luo Sanpao is absolutely NOT some useless martial soul created by a malignant mutation!]
[On the contrary—it is an extremely rare… benign, growth-type mutated martial soul!]
The girls: ???
Seeing these words, whether it was Bibi Dong in Spirit City, Qian Renxue in the Crown Prince's residence, or Liu Erlong at Blue Tyrant Academy—
A line of question marks instantly popped up on their foreheads.
Benign mutation?
A pig that only goes "luo luo," attacks by farting, and has only half a level of innate soul power?
And you're calling that a benign mutation?
You have to understand—before Yu Xiaogang, the concept of "half a level" of innate soul power didn't even exist.
Generally, anything below level one was categorized as incapable of cultivation.
But who was Yu Xiaogang?
Even at his lowest point, he was still the young master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
By forcibly stacking resources through the clan, they directly boosted his strength to rank twenty-nine!
And then—
Very quickly, Lin Yuan gave them the answer.
This was precisely where Lin Yuan deliberately said he would completely expose Yu Xiaogang's useless side to those who possessed copies of his diary.
Could someone like this still be called a theory master?
There was no denying that Yu Xiaogang did have some real ability—otherwise, Tang San's theoretical foundation wouldn't be so solid.
But some of his theories were genuinely riddled with errors!
It just so happened that for Tang San, those errors weren't fatal.
[Don't let Luo Sanpao's pig-like appearance fool you—within its body flows the noble bloodline of the 'Golden Holy Dragon'!]
[According to the current classification of martial soul quality, they are roughly divided into: ordinary, high-level, top-level, and god-level.]
[Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, Seven Kill Sword, and Clear Sky Hammer all fall under the category of top-level martial souls.]
[Meanwhile, the Six-Winged Angel and Sea God martial souls are god-level.]
[But ten thousand years later, between top-level and god-level, there will actually be another level—super-level.]
[Unfortunately—or rather, fortunately—the Golden Holy Dragon is precisely a super-level martial soul!]
[Its quality surpasses even what is currently recognized as the number one beast martial soul on the continent—the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon—by an entire level!]
Boom!
These words struck like a bolt of thunder, exploding within the minds of the girls.
Super-level martial soul?!
That useless Yu Xiaogang… awakened a martial soul second only to god-level?!
How was this possible?!
Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect
Ning Rongrong suddenly jumped off the swing, her small face flushed red, filled with indignation.
"Nonsense!"
"How could a pig possibly be stronger than Grandpa Sword's Seven Kill Sword?!"
"Grandpa Sword's Seven Kill Sword is known as the number one attack-type weapon martial soul! What does that pig even count as?!"
Ning Rongrong stomped her foot angrily.
As the sect's little princess, she deeply admired the two guardian deities of her sect.
Now Lin Yuan was saying that the martial soul of that useless man was even stronger than Grandpa Sword's—how could she possibly accept that?
Besides, in her memory, wasn't the Golden Holy Dragon the martial soul fusion technique of the Golden Iron Triangle?
Meanwhile, at Blue Tyrant Academy.
Liu Erlong felt as if she'd been struck by lightning, her entire body frozen in place.
"Golden Holy Dragon…"
She murmured, her eyes filled with shock and sudden realization.
As one of the Golden Iron Triangle back then—the bearer of the Slaughter Horn—
She knew all too well what their three-person martial soul fusion technique was.
It was precisely—
The Golden Holy Dragon!
"No wonder… no wonder when the three of us activated the three-in-one martial soul fusion technique back then, even though Xiaogang's soul power was the lowest—he could even be said to be the one dragging us down…"
"And yet, the core and guiding force of the fusion technique was still him—or rather, his Luo Sanpao!"
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