Singing Summer Cicada

"Understood!"

Xiao Wu immediately understood, "But the Old Monster's Inner Scenery World must be very small, right? There are only nine snakes, and the other scenes are just some crooked and abstract patterns that are hard to see clearly."

Upon hearing this, Dugu Bo's expression became somewhat embarrassed. He withdrew his Martial Soul, and the Light Wheel behind him disappeared without a trace, instead of being absorbed into his body like Soul Ring. This also meant that Zhou Qing's guess was correct. The Light Wheel was Dugu Bo's Inner World. Without Soul Ring, due to the rules of the world, his Inner Scenery World would be projected onto the outside world in a certain way when he used his Martial Soul and Soul Skill.

"I've only just started practicing this kind of cultivation. I've never even heard of many Meridians and acupoints before."

Dugu Bo defended himself, then added, "However, after completing the opening of the Inner Scenery, I achieved a near-perfect fusion with my Martial Soul. In the future, it seems that cultivation will only require focusing on the accumulation of Soul Power and the way Soul Power circulates in the human body in coordination with the Martial Soul itself... The bottleneck seems to have disappeared."

To be honest, he couldn't imagine the sensation this cultivation method would cause if it were to spread—

With the opening of the Inner Scenery, the Martial Soul and the human body can achieve near-perfect fusion, as if there are no longer any bottlenecks before Level 100.

Considering the actions of the God of Love of Love, Dugu Bo even suspected that once Soul Power reached Level 100, there wouldn't be any major bottlenecks.

How many Level 100 expert will emerge in the future?

Dugu Bo could not imagine it.

Now, he has two choices.

Firstly, eliminate these guys in front of me and keep this method for myself. Reaching Level 100 in the future will be just around the corner.

Secondly, by becoming Guardian on their path to growth, they will inevitably be able to develop even more powerful methods in the future, from which you will also benefit, and you will certainly be one step ahead of others.

Without a doubt, Dugu Bo chose the latter.

After all, he is not the kind of person who repays kindness with enmity, and although he seems to be a loner with few friends, he actually quite hates "loneliness".

In the past, he also believed that strong people were always lonely and would never have true friends, but after meeting Zhou Qing and others, he realized—

That's utter bullshit!

Despite Zhou Qing's foul mouth, being with him was truly relaxing, especially these past few days. He had witnessed how these people interacted, and even Wang Sheng, whose Martial Soul talent was extremely poor, could be treated as an equal by Zhou Qing and Tang San.

Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu even called Wang Sheng "Brother Wang".

This is simply impossible in the Soul Master World!

Soul Master have always valued strength above all else. Age doesn't matter; as long as someone is strong, even a weakling has to address a strong person as a senior. But this kind of thing won't happen in this team.

Unless it's a formal occasion or a joke, these people address each other very casually in everyday life.

Brother Zhou, Third Brother, Sister Xiao Wu, Sister Tina...

It's a complete lack of respect for elders and juniors!

Such an atmosphere made Dugu Bo very envious. In fact, he had regained his youth, as if the youthful spirit he had lost had returned.

"The bottleneck still exists," Zhou Qing said. "After all, what needs to be done in the future after opening up the Inner Scenery World is to continuously improve the world, that is, to observe everything in nature, to constantly sort out one's own Meridians, and to replicate them in the Inner Scenery ... Well, it needs to be done according to one's own Martial Soul and the situation of the Inner Scenery World."

"Hehe, you kid, you get too serious when it comes to cultivation."

Dugu Bo chuckled, stretched, and said, "Looking like this, I wonder if Yanyan will even recognize me..."

For Zhou Qing and his companions, their journey through Sunset Forest had come to an end.

Of the Immortal Herb within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, apart from the Lovesick Heartbreak Red which, due to uncontrollable factors, entered Zhou Qing's heart along with the Light Goddess Butterfly, none of the others were taken away.

Even so, everyone's gains were immense, especially the patterns of those Immortal Herbs, which Romantina had already copied. They were just waiting for Tang San to analyze, summarize, organize, and then integrate them into Soul Tool Core Formation. After several experiments, perhaps he would be able to replicate the abilities of those Immortal Herbs.

"Qing Ge, have you decided on your Fourth Spirit Ring?"

Tang San then inquired about Zhou Qing's choice of the Fourth Spirit Ring.

"The Singing Summer Cicada."

Zhou Qing had already made up her mind.

Cicadas, insects easily overlooked, but Zhou Qing knew their remarkable abilities—

The cicada's sound-producing organ is located in its abdomen, resembling a large drum covered with a tympanic membrane. The tympanic membrane vibrates to produce sound.

Because the cicada's vocal muscles can contract and relax about 10,000 times per second, and because there is a hollow space between the cover plate and the tympanic membrane, which can play a resonant role, its chirping sound is particularly loud.

Insects generally do not have a heart with the complex structure of humans, or in other words, vertebrates. Instead, they have an organ that provides pressure and power for internal circulation, mainly located in the abdomen of insects, which can expand and contract rapidly.

The abdomen of a cicada can be considered its heart.

In the Douluo Continent, the Singing Summer Cicada is Soul Beast, but it still retains the characteristics of an ordinary insect, and its abdomen is also its "heart".

The Singing Summer Cicada is of the fire attribute, which meets Zhou Qing's needs, and its vocal muscles can contract and expand more than 30,000 times per second!

If Zhou Qing could inherit this skill, he was certain that once he used the fourth Soul Skill, the function of the blood circulation in his blood circulation martial Martial Soul would be fully utilized!

If we only discuss the effects of the Soul Skill, the First Soul Skill enhances fist strength; the Second Soul Skill enhances leg strength; the third Soul Skill enhances pulmonary circulation; then the remaining fourth Soul Skill needs to truly enhance the body's circulation.

In addition, the three elements of earth, water, and wind, and the three seasons of spring, autumn, and winter have been completed, leaving only the element of fire and summer, and one season.

The Singing Summer Cicada can help him complete the element of fire.

As for the concept of "summer"—

Zhou Qing wasn't entirely sure if the Singing Summer Cicada could help him fill the gap, but the three Soul Beast whose names contained seasonal references— the Moo Spring Ox, the Dancing Winter Rabbit, and the Wind Autumn Sparrow —did indeed represent the Four Seasons Climate of the Douluo Continent in some mysterious way, so the Singing Summer Cicada must be the same.

Moreover, in my previous life, cicadas were a characteristic of summer!

Therefore, since I have already gambled three times, I will naturally gamble a fourth time as well, to make the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter in my Heart Field complete and correspond one by one with the Twenty-Four Vertebrae, and based on this, to open up a true Inner Scenery World that belongs to me!

"The Singing Summer Cicada?"

Dugu Bo frowned. "I know this kind of Soul Beast too. It keeps making noise in the summer, which is quite annoying. Although it is fire-attribute, its attack method is very strange. It keeps thumping its abdomen to make its whole body heat up, and then it uses its body to ram into things... It's a very stupid Soul Beast."

In his view, Singing Summer Cicada should develop sonic attacks, since their voices are already incredibly loud, and if they could be used directly for attacks, they would be impossible to defend against.

But Zhou Qing knew that the Singing Summer Cicada could never evolve a sound wave-based attack.

Even after becoming Soul Beast, they are still cicadas. The sound produced by the male's abdominal vocal cords is merely a signal to attract female cicadas; in essence, it is still the vibration of the abdomen.

"But--"

Dugu Bo continued, "It's autumn now, and in this Sunset Forest, it's not easy to find Singing Summer Cicada..."