Xiao Bai's Little Mouse Tang San

While Tang San absorbed the spirit ring, Mo Bai browsed through Master's book, Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul.

After giving it a rough read, Mo Bai had to admit it.

Master was indeed exceptionally knowledgeable. He understood a great deal about matters related to martial souls.

The so-called Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul listed within were each supported by extensive examples, analyses, and even experiments. However, they seemed to cover only the broad outlines, without fully explaining the finer details.

As for the so-called Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul, Master had also made it clear that they were the most fundamental core knowledge concerning martial souls, derived from his own collection of information, experiments, and conjectures.

"Level Bottleneck and Spirit Power: Once spirit power reaches the level of a Spirit Master rank, it can continue to be cultivated even without absorbing a spirit ring. The accumulated spirit power will manifest after a spirit ring is absorbed!"

"Martial Soul Mimicry Theory: Plant-type martial souls do not necessarily have to absorb spirit rings from Plant Spirit Beasts. Animal-type martial souls may not be unable to absorb spirit rings from Plant Spirit Beasts either! Absorption can be carried out based on certain similar characteristics between Plant Spirit Beasts and Animal Spirit Beasts!"

The two core competencies Mo Bai read aloud were Master's own conjectures, which he had included among the so-called Ten Core Competencies.

"No wonder people laugh at you. Fine, summarize everything if you want, but you even mixed your own conjectures into the summary, placing them alongside established knowledge as part of the Ten Core Competencies. Of course you'd be ridiculed and mocked!"

"This is just fishing for fame and gilding your own reputation!"

Mo Bai shook his head and complained.

Still, despite his criticism, Mo Bai had to admit that Master was truly impressive. His reserve of knowledge related to martial souls was astonishing; otherwise, he could not have compiled the so-called Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul.

Mo Bai then went back and looked over Master's two conjectures. The first seemed rather meaningless, since any Spirit Master would eagerly seek out a spirit ring to absorb as soon as they reached a rank bottleneck.

"As for the second one, there's obviously something wrong with it!"

"Tool martial souls can not only absorb spirit rings from Plant Spirit Beasts, but also those from Animal Spirit Beasts!"

"Then why is it that, when it comes to beast martial souls and plant martial souls, beast martial souls can only absorb spirit rings from Animal Spirit Beasts, while plant martial souls can only absorb spirit rings from Plant Spirit Beasts?"

"How did such common knowledge even come about?"

Upon seeing Master's second conjecture, Mo Bai found himself rather baffled.

According to Master's description, Spirit Masters throughout Douluo Continent had always believed this, and it had practically become common knowledge among Spirit Masters.

Mo Bai did not know how such common knowledge had gradually formed over the years, but from his own logical perspective—

Since tool martial souls could absorb spirit rings from other types of Spirit Beasts, beast martial souls and plant martial souls should naturally be able to do so as well.

"Since this theory came from Master, then judging by Master's character, it should be verified later on!"

"The most likely possibility is that Tang San became a guinea pig and helped Master verify his conjecture!"

"So it seems Master truly deserves to be called Master. His thinking isn't bound by so-called common knowledge, and he dares to draw his own conclusions!"

"Still, there must be a reason why this common knowledge formed!"

"Perhaps plant martial souls are relatively weak and have difficulty absorbing spirit rings from Animal Spirit Beasts. Maybe there were repeated cases of people exploding to death, which led to this common knowledge!"

"What exactly it is, I'll slowly find out..."

"Tang San seemed to have taken leave and left earlier. He should have gone hunting for a spirit ring with Master!"

"Once Tang San returns, I'll be able to determine whether Master's conjecture is feasible!"

"If it works, I'll have more options when choosing spirit rings to absorb in the future!"

"Looking at it this way, guinea pig Tang San, I actually hope you succeed!"

Thinking of this, Mo Bai immediately smiled.

He could reap the results that someone else had risked their life to verify without taking any risks himself. What a wonderful feeling.

Within the Spirit Beast Forest, Tang San sat cross-legged with his five hearts facing the sky. The savage expression on his face gradually calmed down.

"He succeeded?"

Master watched from the side, and joy immediately appeared on his face, his eyes filled with barely concealed excitement.

His theory was about to be proven!

"Phew..."

Besides Master, a figure hidden behind a tree some distance away also quietly let out a breath of relief.

It was Tang Hao.

Ever since Tang San had come here to study, he had been secretly protecting him.

When the Four-Hundred-Year Mandala Snake appeared earlier, he had nearly been unable to hold himself back from intervening.

He simply had not expected Tang San to give him such a surprise. He did not even know when his son had become so formidable.

That was a Four-Hundred-Year Spirit Beast. Even Master, who was level 29, was no match for it and had told Tang San to run the moment he saw it!

When Tang San chose to absorb that Four-Hundred-Year Mandala Snake spirit ring, Tang Hao had nearly revealed himself to stop him.

It was only after considering that this Master was indeed quite capable that he decided to let Tang San try according to Master's theory.

Of course, it was also because he believed that if anything went wrong, he would be able to handle it once he stepped in.

It was only a Four-Hundred-Year Spirit Ring. Once he confirmed that Tang San could not absorb it, he could forcibly interrupt the process!

Judging by the result, this was another pleasant surprise.

If his son's Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul could also absorb Spirit Rings from animal-type Spirit Beasts, then the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul could develop even better!

"No wonder—even if he was mocked by the world, he was still publicly acknowledged as a Master!"

Tang Hao glanced at Master, affirming him.

Moreover, when Master had faced danger earlier, he had let Tang San escape while staying behind to cover his retreat. That also reassured Tang Hao that he could entrust Tang San to Master's guidance.

Buzz—

Just then, the fluctuating aura around Tang San finally settled and stabilized.

The next moment, Tang San opened his eyes, clear delight shining within them.

"Little San, did you succeed?"

Perhaps because Mo Bai's interference had caused some changes, Master had not been poisoned this time. Seeing Tang San awaken, he immediately asked with excitement and anticipation.

"Yes, Teacher. I succeeded!"

Tang San looked at Master and nodded firmly.

Not only that, his Mysterious Heaven Skill had finally broken through to the first level!

"Teacher, your theory was correct. Plant-type Martial Souls can also absorb Spirit Rings from animal-type Spirit Beasts!" Tang San said sincerely, looking at Master in delight.

At that moment, Tang San once again felt fortunate that he had taken Master before him as his teacher.

His teacher truly had genuine ability. He had already been impressive enough, and now even one of his theoretical hypotheses had been proven correct. That made him all the more extraordinary.