Xiao Wu: Is My Brain Actually Going to Develop After Birth?

"Um... Grandmaster Ma Xiunuo, do you think this is a good thing?"

Su Yuntao was surprised and doubtful. After all, Alice's identity was known to everyone in Nuoding City. If he wanted to be with her, "I would have to leave the Spirit Hall!"

To leave the Spirit Hall is tantamount to betrayal!

but--

"Do you think our small city's Spirit Hall Branch is as strict as the sub-hall, main hall, and Holy Hall above, where once you join, you can't leave?" Ma Xiunuo shook his head. "We don't have that many rules here. But have you really thought it through? Do you want to leave the Spirit Hall?"

"Not yet." Su Yuntao's heart was filled with complex emotions. After all, he had been a member of the Spirit Hall for so many years and was striving to become the next branch hall master.

Giving up suddenly inevitably involves reluctance and unwillingness in one's heart.

But asking a girl who had secretly loved him for years to give up the job she had worked so hard to get and marry him would be too unfair to Su Yuntao.

"You're not as decisive as Zhou Qing. Once he's set his sights on something, he'll take action." Ma Xiunuo pulled Su Yuntao up. "Instead of hesitating here, why don't you come have a meal with me?"

"Lunch?" Su Yuntao glanced at the Soul Guidance Alarm Clock on the counter. It was already 11:30, indeed lunchtime. "Where should we eat?"

"Nuoding Guild".

"Huh? That's not a restaurant, is it?"

Su Yuntao was a little uneasy.

When Zhou Qing told him that Alice had a crush on him, Su Yuntao became hesitant to go to the Nuoding Guild.

"It's not a restaurant, but it does offer food and beverage services, doesn't it? Besides, that place originally belonged to the Spirit Hall ..." Ma Xiunuo smiled slightly, "And occasionally, dishes made from the Hundred-Year Soul Beast Meat can be found there. They are not only delicious, but also very beneficial to the cultivation of Soul Master."

"All right."

Su Yuntao looked helpless, but he understood that Hundred-Year Soul Beast Meat was extremely rare and hard to come by in this small Nuoding City. Grandmaster Ma Xiunuo's main goal was probably to force him to face Alice directly...

Inside the Nuoding Academy cafeteria.

Amidst the noise, Zhou Qing, Tang San, Romantina, Xiao Wu lined up on the first floor to get their food.

Some people wanted to give up their seats to them, but Zhou Qing stopped them, saying, "We are only slightly higher in Soul Power Level than you, not in status. We don't have the privileges of nobles, so let's go first, first come, first served."

Seeing this, the person in front stopped insisting.

Among the ordinary students and work-study students getting food on the first floor, those who had cut in line by asking their friends for favors showed shame on their faces and voluntarily went to the back of the line.

In the Soul Master World, strength is paramount.

The strongest students, Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina, all set an example by not cutting in line. How could these students with lower Soul Power Level dare to cut in line?

Moreover, many people were already dissatisfied with those who cut in line, so it couldn't be better that these people are now queuing up obediently.

"What kind of mission are we going to pick up this afternoon?"

After the four of them got their food, Xiao Wu started talking about the mission while eating, "I don't want to do patrol missions or sparring missions anymore."

After swallowing the food in her mouth, Romantina said, "There's nothing we can do. The Nuoding Guild only has these kinds of missions right now. If we want to choose challenging missions, we can only go to towns near where there are still Soul Beast Forest that have not yet been fully controlled by humans. Adventurer's Guild and the Spirit Hall in those places will issue a lot of missions to explore the forests and hunt Soul Beast."

"It's obvious that we can't go to places like that right now, right?"

Tang San didn't want to enter the real Soul Master World so early. He wanted to develop his skills in Nuoding City and try to equip everyone in his small team with his Soul Tool Hidden Weapon in order to make full preparations.

"It's so boring! Those tasks aren't challenging at all," Xiao Wu complained listlessly as she quickly finished her food.

"Then study more in your spare time. You've recently developed the habit of looking through Library materials, haven't you? Try harder and learn the meridian charts and acupoint charts of the human body. Understand how Soul Power circulates in the human body and what role those acupoints play. It will benefit you."

Zhou Qing discussed the knowledge about the meridians in the human body with Tang San and also taught it to Xiao Wu, but she still hasn't memorized it. Therefore, Zhou Qing half-jokingly and half-seriously advised, "In my opinion, a qualified Soul Master must also be Theoretical Grandmaster. At the very least, he must have a complete understanding of his own body and Martial Soul, rather than just relying on talent to grow."

"Those dense lines and dots just give me a headache." Xiao Wu just wanted to say that those things were simply impossible for a human to remember.

Speaking of meridians and acupoints, Zhou Qing also discovered that Xiao Wu's transformed body was a pure human body with meridians and acupoints no different from ordinary humans. Moreover, perhaps because she had completed the Secondary Soul Ring Refinement, her Meridians and acupoints for circulating Soul Power were much wider and fuller than before.

Does the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit understand human anatomy?

So much so that when she transforms, she can not only take into account the structure of the major biological tissues of the human body, but also the distribution of meridians and acupoints.

Absolutely impossible!

Zhou Qing could only guess that the transformation of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was actually similar to the process by which Soul Master manipulated Soul Power to flow through their Martial Soul, infuse it into Soul Ring, and use Soul Skill:

The essence of Soul Master releasing Soul Skill is to inject Soul Power into Soul Ring that has already been set with the corresponding Soul Skill route, similar to a one-click, foolproof operation.

When Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast chooses to transform into human form, it is by injecting its cultivation into a certain part of a pre-programmed sequence.

For example, one can inject cultivation energy into a special organ that contains something like Soul Tool Core Formation, or is made of flesh and blood or energy. Then, that organ can be activated, allowing the flesh and blood body of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast to evolve into that of a human cub.

It's the same old story: I don't understand the principles, but I can do it.

However, considering that all kinds of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast can choose to transform into humans, Zhou Qing believes that the special "organ" that allows Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast to transform into humans is not in the Soul Beast's body, but exists in the rules of the Douluo Continent. However, only Soul Beast with Hundred-Thousand-Year cultivation can sense that rule and make use of it.

In fact, the best way to study the possibility of the existence of the "Soul Palace" is to observe a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast that is currently in the process of transforming into human form.

Because in the process of transformation, how Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast can separate its original form and reshape it into Martial Soul must also go through a gestation process.

With the help of the immense Spiritual Power of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, it is entirely possible to observe in detail the entire process of the "Soul Beast Prototype" transforming into a "Martial Soul".

"Oh, you really don't know how lucky you are."

Tang San was speechless.

Those meridian and acupoint diagrams, in his previous life, would have been a necessary prerequisite for all martial arts practitioners to cultivate internal energy; otherwise, even if they obtained a divine skill manual in the future, they would not have been able to cultivate it.

Because without understanding these basic meridian circulation principles, it's impossible to comprehend the contents of the divine skill manual.

It is precisely because the Martial Soul of the Douluo Continent are so unique that they have made human beings extremely convenient in the path of cultivation. As a result, any Martial Soul with Innate Soul Power can allow Soul Master to perceive the way the Martial Soul drives the Soul Power to operate in the human body through meditation, thereby mastering the method of Soul Power cultivation.

However, precisely because of this, the basic theories of cultivation in this world are too weak, leading to situations where "Meridians are damaged when absorbing Soul Ring, most Soul Master do not know how to recuperate and repair themselves, and simply let their bodies recover on their own, which in turn affects the speed of Soul Power cultivation, or makes it impossible to continue cultivating."

"I understand, Tang San. There's no need to Taunt me. I'll try my best to memorize those lines and dots later."

Xiao Wu was dejected, feeling that her brain was about to undergo a very frustrating "postnatal development" in the next month.