Sharing Power

A cloud of poisonous mist spat out and spread through the air, gradually turning transparent and colorless.

The wild boar enveloped by the poisonous mist lasted only a few seconds longer than the rabbit before its whole body convulsed, foam poured from its mouth, and it collapsed dead on the ground.

A White Soul Ring slowly rose...

Once he saw the soul ring appear and confirmed it had been poisoned to death,

Li Chang'an finally twisted his Snake Body at a leisurely pace and approached the massive wild boar, comparing the difference in size between them. He immediately realized that swallowing this pig whole like he had the rabbit was impossible.

This thing was too big.

Looks like he could only eat it piece by piece.

With that thought, Li Chang'an opened his huge mouth, which was packed with fangs, and bit a chunk of meat straight off the wild boar. The Azure Serpent Emperor's body structure was different from that of snakes in the real world. Its mouth did not only have venomous fangs; it also had chainsaw-like teeth that could easily cut and tear through prey!

Swallowing was not its only way of eating. It could also rip and devour prey like a shark.

Its teeth were abnormally sharp, tearing off the boar's fatty flesh with ease. Even the bones snapped effortlessly under its bite. Before long, it had divided and eaten the entire boar, consuming everything edible on its body. Only some innards and miscellaneous scraps were left uneaten.

The energy contained in this wild boar was not something that rabbit could compare to. Even if their ages were roughly the same, the difference in body size alone meant the boar contained far more energy than the rabbit.

Li Chang'an had once again eaten until his body was misshapen. He needed to return to the burrow, rest, and slowly digest the food.

This time, however, his age only increased by about ten years.

Clearly, this wild boar had been stronger than the first rabbit in every aspect and contained more energy, yet the improvement it brought him was instead inferior to the rabbit's. Naturally, there was a reason for that. After he had swallowed the rabbit earlier, the increase in age had caused his body to grow, and as a result, the energy he required had naturally increased as well.

As his age continued to rise in the future, the energy that Ten-Year Soul Beasts like these could provide him would become less and less effective. He would have to hunt higher-level soul beasts to achieve leaps in improvement.

For now, there was no need to mention the Soul Beast Clone quietly developing here.

Elsewhere.

His human main body.

Li Chang'an was currently holed up in his room, sitting cross-legged in the Five Hearts Facing Sky meditation posture as he silently followed the Meditation Method and began drawing in the soul power of heaven and earth to cultivate. The process was very fast. His talent of Innate Full Soul Power allowed him to feel his soul power rising at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After cultivating for a while,

his aura gradually settled. Then he opened his eyes and murmured, "Level 13."

After hunting his first soul ring, Li Chang'an's level had reached a little beyond level 12. Now, after a few days of cultivation, he had easily risen by another level. But he was not satisfied with this.

Because this rapid improvement was only temporary. His soul power was still very low right now, so his cultivation speed appeared extremely fast. Once his level grew higher later on, the speed of improvement would become increasingly slow.

According to records in the empire's historical books over several thousand years, most possessors of Innate Full Soul Power only became Titled Douluo in their seventies or eighties. Only a very small number became Titled Douluo in their fifties or sixties. In the Original Work, Tang Hao became a Titled Douluo at forty-four, breaking the record for the youngest Titled Douluo.

As for Tang San and the others becoming Titled Douluo in their twenties, that was purely because the Sea God gave them a Cheat. If they had truly cultivated honestly, then from Soul Saint onward, every single level would have been measured in years. Becoming a Titled Douluo in one's seventies or eighties was the norm.

If he did not know the plot, Li Chang'an might not have felt anything was wrong. The problem was that by the time he became a Titled Douluo after several decades, it would probably all be too late.

By then, everything would have long since been settled. Tang San would possess Dual God Positions, standing high above and overlooking the mortal world! He would regard all living beings as ants and treat the Douluo Continent like his own vegetable garden. He would begin poisoning the masses with all sorts of high-sounding excuses and block off everyone's path to godhood.

And he, a Transmigrator without a Cheat, would be destined to fade into the crowd, becoming a tiny Titled Douluo who could not even leave his name in history. How could he possibly accept that?

Having finally transmigrated once, if he did not leave a mark on this world, he would simply have wasted his identity as a Transmigrator.

Li Chang'an knew that if he wanted to rise! If he wanted to have a say in the future, he only had roughly twenty years left. If he could not gain enough strength to intervene in the plot within those twenty years, then once the opportunity of the Sea God inheritance was taken, even the best talent would no longer give him a chance.

So he desperately hoped to increase his strength. Ideally, he wanted to reach Soul King before the age of twelve, Soul Emperor at fourteen or fifteen, Soul Saint at seventeen or eighteen, and Soul Douluo at twenty... At that point, he would scheme for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and gain the Sea God's recognition. His ultimate goal was to become a god in his twenties!

However, even if he was a genius with Innate Full Soul Power, wanting to possess at least Titled Douluo-level strength in his twenties was utterly impossible unless he had a Cheat.

"Fortunately, I still have a Soul Beast Clone!"

A smile appeared at the corner of Li Chang'an's mouth. It was only recently that he discovered the connection between the Azure Serpent Emperor clone and his main body was far closer than he had imagined.

When the Soul Beast Clone began cultivating by devouring soul beasts and increasing its soul power, Li Chang'an was surprised to discover that a power was being transmitted from the clone to him in the unseen, becoming his strength.

That power had increased his soul power by quite a bit. This meant that when the Soul Beast Clone became stronger, his human main body could also receive a certain amount of feedback. It was not even limited to soul power; even his body would be strengthened to a degree.

Although the amount of power he could share from the clone each time was not much, it was still soul power he had gained for free. Over time, accumulating day after day, the amount would become extremely considerable.

Li Chang'an felt that perhaps this Soul Beast Clone was his Golden Finger Cheat? It was just that compared to other Transmigrators, whose systems appeared at the drop of a hat, whose starts came with God-level Martial Souls, Innate level ninety-nine soul power, and who could win simply by lying down, this Cheat that shared power and slightly strengthened his physical quality seemed rather unimpressive.

After learning that the clone's increase in strength could feed back part of its soul power and physical quality to him,

Li Chang'an discovered through experiments that aside from the direct enhancement to his physical quality, the shared soul power that fed back to him could be temporarily left unreceived and stored for later.

He was not sure where the power fed back from the clone would be stored if he did not accept it immediately. Perhaps it was stored with the clone? Or perhaps in some alternate space? Who knew?

Li Chang'an had no intention of investigating the principles behind it. He only needed to know that he could temporarily store the power shared over from the Soul Beast Clone and absorb it when necessary. That was enough.

And now, feeling that the accumulated power had already become quite substantial, he finally decided to use this stored power to increase his strength.