Rasengan

Yu Xiaogang raised his head and looked at himself in the mirror. He felt that he could use this appearance to create an alternate identity and stir up trouble in the future. Hehe! What did anything Deep Blue did have to do with Yu Xiaogang? After all, no one had ever seen his Second Martial Soul.

"Deep Blue, how do you feel? Try to see if you can assist me. I'm processing medicinal herbs according to the animation you demonstrated."

Yu Xiaogang asked Deep Blue in his mind. After Deep Blue possessed him, he felt closer to the world. He could directly observe the energy that kept the world running; the energy in the air was like a vast ocean. He could observe and control anything within a radius of fifty meters.

"Master! It feels amazing. Deep Blue will assist you in processing the medicinal herbs now!"

"Mm, then let's begin testing the abilities of my Second Martial Soul while possessed. I feel like I can control anything within thirty meters around me."

Yu Xiaogang closed his eyes and carefully sensed the Soul Power surging around him. When he opened them again, he suppressed the illusion that he was a god. After Deep Blue possessed him, he did not need to think through whatever he was handling. Deep Blue would instantly calculate everything, and he only needed to follow its instructions. If there was something he could not react to in time, Deep Blue would even help control his body.

With a lift of both hands, all the medicinal herbs flew out from his Storage Soul Tool and floated before him. With a single thought, Deep Blue automatically helped circulate the Soul Power of the Life Nurturing Skill through his heart, carrying out a trace of Heart Fire Qi and making the flowing Soul Power incomparably scorching.

Blazing, fiery-red Soul Power burst from his hands and instantly processed all the herbs that needed drying. A trace of Yi Wood Qi from his liver fused into the Soul Power, nourishing the medicinal herbs with Soul Power and maximally stimulating their medicinal properties.

"Whew! After cultivating the Life Nurturing Skill for so long, my Five Chest Qi have basically taken shape. But using my meridians for the first time still makes them feel a little swollen. Deep Blue, we need a cultivation method to strengthen the body. If only Tang San had reincarnated already. Then I could find a way to get the Mystic Jade Hand and have Deep Blue use Deduction to turn it into the Mystic Jade Body."

There was nothing he could do for now. Douluo Continent had no body-tempering cultivation methods; everything depended entirely on talent. Deep Blue's Deduction also needed a database to support it. How could one build a high-rise without a foundation?

"It's alright, Master! According to the original Douluo Continent story you gave me, Tang San will reincarnate in twenty years. By then, Master will already be very powerful! Taking in an ancient shut-in as a disciple will be easy, won't it?" Deep Blue comforted him in his mind.

That was true. If he worked hard until then, he might even become a Titled Douluo. With Deep Blue, would he lack Internal Cultivation Method manuals? He only had two now, but there would be more and more later.

Yu Xiaogang stopped dwelling on it and began controlling his Soul Power into threads, fusing them with the Metal Qi in his lungs. He immediately felt as though his meridians were being sliced by blades. Fortunately, he had protected them with Soul Power beforehand. Metal Qi was simply too sharp.

He controlled the Metal Qi-infused Soul Power threads in his palm, gathering and kneading them into a sphere. Then it began spinning wildly around its central point in an irregular pattern.

With a movement of his Mental Power, the freshly processed medicinal herbs were drawn into the Soul Power sphere in his palm. He had not prepared a water ball to practice the Rasengan with, but he had Deep Blue! It could directly step in and help control the Soul Power!

When the medicinal herbs entered the Rasengan, Yu Xiaogang immediately felt the Soul Power becoming difficult to circulate. If Deep Blue had not helped him control it, the Rasengan would have exploded on the spot. He practiced the Rasengan while using it as a grinder, and before long, all the herbs had been pulverized into medicinal powder.

Yu Xiaogang added some processed Hundred-Year Whale Rubber and honey to the medicinal powder as binding agents, then used Soul Power to shape it into pills. The medicinal soup was finished. Later, he could simply toss one into hot water and let it dissolve—simple and convenient.

Since he had no high-level soul beast blood to use as a medicinal catalyst, he could only use Hundred-Year Whale Rubber for now. After that, Yu Xiaogang followed the same process to make oral pills.

Yu Xiaogang worked until very late. Snowball had fallen asleep while waiting beside him, and the sky gradually darkened.

He finished preparing the materials for tomorrow's first lecture, along with nourishing pills for the Elite Class after training. He glanced at the Soul Tool streetlights that had already lit up outside the window.

"It's so late. Snowball, stop sleeping. Let's go eat." Yu Xiaogang felt as though his Soul Power had nearly been drained dry. If not for his backup energy source, he did not think he could have lasted all afternoon. Now that he was done, he called out to Snowball.

Snowball's ears twitched. The moment it heard there was food, it immediately got up and walked to Yu Xiaogang's side, affectionately nudging his palm with its head. It was saying that it wanted soul beast meat today. Ordinary poultry was tasty, but it did not contain much energy. Soul beast meat was still more satisfying to chew.

"Alright, alright, I know. There'll still be soul beast meat today, you little glutton!"

Yu Xiaogang fondly rubbed Snowball's tiger head, then took it out to the Academy Cafeteria. He wondered whether the Academy Cafeteria had restocked its soul beast meat. Last time, he and Snowball had devoured all of it.

The students they met along the way respectfully greeted him. After all, the academy had been making big moves lately, and news of the Elite Class had already spread. As the teacher in charge of the Elite Class, he had become well known as well.

"The usual! Boss, do you still have soul beast meat? If you do, make some for me!" Yu Xiaogang asked the owner at the second-floor counter of the cafeteria.

The Academy Cafeteria used a contracting system. Yu Xiaogang had been surprised by that at the time. Douluo Continent was too strange—feudal nobles, commoners, and modernized systems were all mixed together. Soul Masters lived off talent, unchanged for tens of thousands of years.

"Oh! Teacher Yu! Yes, yes, we do. A fresh shipment just came in! Teacher Yu, find a seat first. I'll bring your food right over!"

The cafeteria owner saw Yu Xiaogang, his big spender. After all, Yu Xiaogang had single-handedly wiped out a week's worth of stock last time.

"Alright. Put extra chili on the roasted meat."

"Got it!"

After ordering, Yu Xiaogang went to find an empty table. He suddenly spotted Dean Kahn, whom he had not seen for several days, eating as well. Dean Kahn was sitting alone before a table full of small dishes, sipping wine with a look of utter satisfaction.

"Dean Kahn, did you break through? You look awfully happy drinking by yourself."

Yu Xiaogang asked tentatively. However, Dean Kahn's Soul Power fluctuations were obvious after his recent breakthrough. Once Yu Xiaogang's Mental Power scanned him, Deep Blue informed him in his mind.

"Ah, Master Yu! It's all thanks to that new Meditation Method you gave me. I'd been stuck at level thirty-nine for many years. I thought this was all I would ever amount to in my life."

Dean Kahn was extremely excited when he saw him. He immediately stood up and hurried over in two quick strides.

Kahn gripped Yu Xiaogang's shoulders and patted them forcefully in excitement. His eyes glistened with tears. Based on his talent, he had thought this was all he would ever achieve in his life. Who would have thought that helping his old friend in dire straits out of kindness would bring him such a great gift?

"Master Yu! I now believe your theories are correct. Your new Meditation Method is proof enough! I plan to follow your theory and absorb an animal-type soul beast for my fourth soul ring! Let this friend of yours lend you a hand too!"

"Don't! Kahn, there's no need. Many of my previous theories were only my own assumptions and had never been verified. My knowledge was shallow back then. After breaking through level thirty myself, I realized that many of the theories I published before were wrong. Once I sort them out again, I'll release them under the academy's name. The Elite Class is my first step."

Yu Xiaogang felt exhausted. Now he still had to clean up after the original owner of this body.

Thank you to all the readers for your Recommendation Tickets and favorites. The author has had some family matters recently and hasn't been in the right state of mind, so inspiration has been lacking and the writing has gotten a little stuck. Don't worry, updates will not stop.