"What a pity. If your Second Martial Soul had awakened earlier, it would have been more suitable to cultivate as your First Martial Soul. Now that your First Martial Soul has obtained a soul ring, switching your cultivation order would waste one soul ring slot."
Tang Hao made his judgment, seeming to feel regret on Gula's behalf.
However, in that case, both Gula and Tang San would have become Support Soul Masters, which would not benefit their future growth, and it definitely was not something Tang Hao wanted to see.
If someone had to make a sacrifice, then emotionally, logically, and by order of arrival, Gula was the more suitable one.
Yu Xiaogang's eyes flickered. In his view, it was still not too late for Gula to change his main Martial Soul.
One soul ring was naturally important to a One-Ring Soul Master, but to a Nine-Ring Title Douluo, it was not that important.
The earlier he changed the Martial Soul he cultivated, the smaller the loss.
Just as Yu Xiaogang was hesitating over whether to repay resentment with virtue and win some goodwill, Gula shook his head crisply and said, "There's no medicine for regret in this world, and in my view, neither of my two Martial Souls is inferior to the other. Otherwise, they couldn't have become Twin Martial Souls."
"Besides, whether it's Spirit Attribute Soul Beasts or powerful Wood Attribute Soul Beasts, low-Years soul beasts are few in number. Instead, Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts have the ability to protect themselves and are relatively easier to find."
"I believe that no matter which Martial Soul I mainly cultivate, I can become a Title Douluo."
Gula's words were full of emotion and brimming with confidence.
Hearing Gula's words, Yu Xiaogang's lips went dry, and he simply could not open his mouth.
In his heart, he gnashed his teeth. Damn brat, always tearing open my scars. What did a Level 29 Soul Grand Master ever do to you? Is Innate Full Soul Power so amazing?!
Yu Xiaogang pressed his lips together hard. Innate Full Soul Power was indeed amazing, and he could only remain silent powerlessly.
After chatting idly for a while longer, Tang Hao left the two of them the more than three thousand Gold Soul Coins he had searched from the Soul Hunting Team, told Tang San that he would be leaving for a few months, and asked the two of them to take care of each other.
After that, Tang Hao had the two of them go back to rest and kept Yu Xiaogang behind alone, though no one knew what he said.
In any case, from then on, Yu Xiaogang often gave Tang San special lessons, and his attitude became much more self-assured.
A week later, Gula's academy life settled onto the right track.
At the classroom door, Xiao Wu called out to Gula.
"What have you been doing these past few days? The moment class ends, you disappear, acting all mysterious with Tang San."
Her words were directed at Gula, but Xiao Wu's eyes stayed fixed on the Great Ball hanging around Gula's neck, her pink lips slightly parted and her gaze full of longing.
After eating Energy Cubes, then eating her favorite carrots again, the carrots that had once been crisp, fragrant, and delicious seemed to have lost their flavor.
Xiao Wu had held back for several days, and finally could not resist taking the initiative to ease their relationship.
Gula glanced at her, Sized Up her up and down, nodded, and said, "If you want to know, follow me."
After saying that, Gula ignored Xiao Wu and quickly left the corridor. A notebook appeared In Hand, and he rapidly flipped through it.
The notebook recorded the experimental data on the Medicinal Bath Formula from the past week.
With Gula leading the process and Tang San using his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul to assist with perception, they had developed a Body Tempering Formula using Bone Jade Bamboo, Red Dried Tangerine Peel, and Ginseng Grass as the main ingredients, supplemented by over a dozen auxiliary Medicinal Herbs.
They arrived at a corner of the academy garden, where coarse cloth had been set up to block the outside Line of Sight. The nearby air was Filled with a faint citrus fragrance.
"It smells so good!" Xiao Wu hopped over step by step, her delicate nose taking a breath as she gave sincere praise.
"Xiao Wu, you came too."
Tang San lifted the cloth curtain and walked out to greet her.
"This fragrance was specially chosen by Brother Gu. It's both to neutralize the smell of the medicine and to judge the stage of the medicinal reaction from it. This gentle, restrained note right now means this batch of medicine is very successful!"
Tang San was extremely excited, but it was understandable.
He had watched with his own eyes as Gula derived, step by step, a medicinal formula that enhanced the effects of training from nothing.
Although the Medicinal Bath Formula was progressing slowly, the Oral Medicine Formula only needed the proportions of the Medicinal Herbs to be fully determined, and then they could find a way to exchange it for more Gold Coins than they could ever spend.
When the time came, whether it was forging Hidden Weapons or continuing to research medicine, they would no longer have to be as strapped as they were now, wishing they could split every coin in half before spending it.
Tang San was a research maniac by nature. Otherwise, he would not have risked stealing the Tang Sect's Inner Sect Secret Manual. It was just that his research interests had previously been focused on Hidden Weapons.
But during these days, as he watched Gula rely on the Celebi Martial Soul to analyze and mix Medicinal Herbs, he had also become familiar with pharmaceutical work.
His interest in refining medicine was still not great, but the feeling that hard work brought results was far too intoxicating, leaving him somewhat unable to stop.
"Oh, oh."
Xiao Wu felt that Tang San, whose eyes were red from the fumes, was a little scary. She softly responded a couple of times, then changed the subject.
"Then this medicine you made—does it taste good?"
Tang San's expression froze, his face conflicted. "This isn't a matter of whether it tastes good or not. It's the kind of... the kind of very rare thing, you know?"
"It can strengthen a Soul Master's physical qualities and let us attach a Thousand-Year Soul Ring to our Martial Souls for the Second Soul Ring, breaking the long-standing rule of Douluo Continent!"
The more Tang San spoke, the more excited he became. Gone was his usual calm, and his eyes were Filled with fervor.
Gula listened with boredom, covered his mouth, and yawned, his whole body giving off a sense of exhaustion.
The rapid progress in the medicinal research was closely tied to the Celebi Martial Soul.
It was not only because Celebi, as the God of the Forest, could precisely perceive and analyze Medicinal Herbs and plants, but also because of the assistance of the Time-Space Travel move.
Whether a formula was right or not, he only had to secretly take a look half an hour later, and he would know the result.
Through constant adjustments to the formula, Gula finally used a medicinal wine recipe from his memories to create a suitable oral medicine formula: Body Strengthening and Bone Tempering Paste.
The side effect was that repeatedly using Time-Space Travel, even if he only saw a single fragment of the future, was still a considerable drain on the current Gula, forcing him to rest often to recover his spirit.
Fortunately, it was all worth it. Once the prescription succeeded, he had the capital to carry out the next step of his plan.
Seeing that Tang San still wanted to explain things clearly to Xiao Wu, Gula waved his hand impatiently and said:
"Little San, the paste is almost done boiling. Turn it to low heat, and don't let it burn. I'll keep revising the thesis. In a few days, we can submit it."
Hearing this, Tang San shut his mouth and came to Gula's side. Looking at the experimental data in the notebook, he said with extreme reluctance:
"Brother Gu, are we really going to submit it and publish the formula? Wouldn't it be better to keep it for ourselves?"
This formula held the hard work of both of them—mainly Gula's hard work—and Tang San couldn't bear to share it with everyone for free.
Gula took the opportunity to educate him. "Little San, you need to change that narrow way of thinking. Of course we could keep it for ourselves."
"But if we spend our own time and effort, then have to earn money to buy the herbs and make the finished medicine ourselves, is the energy we spend on all that not worth anything? Wouldn't it be better to use that time to cultivate and train?"
"And if we sell the medicine to make money, sooner or later someone will set their sights on us. We'd have to spend a huge amount of energy scheming against other people. We might as well use the prescription directly to exchange for a large sum of gold coins, then continue researching new prescriptions."
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