Three-Tomoe Sharingan

When Tian Meng's spiritual power merged into Xiao Qiang's sea of consciousness, the surging energy caused Xiao Qiang's spiritual power, already at the peak of the Spirit Sea Realm, to soar once more. His sea of consciousness instantly transformed into an Abyss of Consciousness.

At the same time, because Tian Meng's energy directly stimulated Xiao Qiang's sea of consciousness, the origin residing within his brain intensely stimulated it as well, causing the Sharingan—originally meant to transform only when emotions reached a certain threshold—to begin evolving.

The third tomoe suddenly appeared in Xiao Qiang's Sharingan, which had possessed only two tomoe. It successfully evolved into the Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

In the Naruto World, every evolution of the Sharingan brought improvements to all attributes, including physical fitness, ocular power, and chakra.

In the Douluo World, the strength of a martial soul was also tied to one's innate Soul Power Level and physical fitness.

Thus, when Xiao Qiang's Sharingan evolved from Two Tomoe to Three Tomoe, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who was currently using Xiao Qiang's body, could clearly sense the increase in ocular power and Soul Power.

The sudden increase in ocular power allowed him to clearly see things that had previously been somewhat blurry. Once he could distinctly make out every detail of the rare metals before him, Tian Meng gave up using the soul skill Mental Probe and relied solely on his eyes to capture every detail of the rare metals.

Without needing to use spiritual power for a soul skill, the spiritual power saved made what had once been nearly impossible gradually become possible. Although crafting a fifth-grade Soul Tool was still no easy task, they could at least now be fairly certain that they could do it.

As time passed bit by bit, the Soul Guide Array on the Milk Bottle was gradually completed. When Tian Meng controlled Xiao Qiang's body and finished the final Soul Guide Array, not only Xiao Qiang, but even Jing Hongchen, who had been watching from the side, let out a breath of relief.

"I succeeded. Please inspect it, Dean."

Xiao Qiang handed over the Milk Bottle. Then, with both his spiritual power and Soul Power having reached their limits, he fainted on the spot. Jing Hongchen raised a hand and caught Xiao Qiang before he could fall.

"You did very well. Go collect the medicine for advancing to six rings. Remember, do not let anyone else know about what happened today."

"Yes. Thank you, Hall Master, for your promotion."

Wang Heng wanted to say more words of thanks, but Jing Hongchen had no mood to deal with him now. He took Xiao Qiang and left the assessment grounds.

Three hours later, Jing Hongchen sat in the main seat of Mingde Hall, reading the information his subordinates had gathered on Xiao Qiang.

"Hall Master, Xiao Qiang seems to have become somewhat different from ordinary people after awakening his martial soul at the age of six. Combined with his performance this time, he likely has quite a few schemes of his own," an old man beside Jing Hongchen said quietly.

Jing Hongchen glanced at the old man. "Schemes? Who in this world doesn't have a few schemes of their own? Whether he has them is not important. What matters is whether his talent is genuine, and whether we can confirm that he can become one of ours."

As he spoke, Jing Hongchen placed the intelligence in his hand on the table, clearly having finished reading it. "It is enough that he was born in the Sun Moon Empire, raised in the Sun Moon Empire, and is neither a soul beast in Humanoid Transformation nor a spy sent by another force. If you insist on digging into everything, not only will you make people dislike you, but you will also drive them away."

"The Hall Master is right."

Jing Hongchen waved for the old man to leave. "Have him come see me once he wakes up. Since he is a Sun Moon Empire genius worth cultivating and has chosen the Hongchen Family of his own accord, there is no reason to push him out."

"Yes." The old man clasped his hands and withdrew.

After the old man left, Jing Hongchen casually destroyed Xiao Qiang's file. You want resources? Fine. Mingde Hall has never lacked resources anyway.

"You're awake? Let me tell you some good news. My plan succeeded."

Xiao Qiang opened his eyes. The moment his consciousness cleared, he heard Tian Meng speaking in his mind.

"A plan? What plan?" Xiao Qiang asked instinctively, his mind not yet fully awake.

"Of course, the plan I made to display your talent and get them to prepare good things for us. Look at the medicinal bath you're soaking in. I can confirm that it contains at least fifteen precious medicinal herbs, and not one of them is inferior to the Beast Blood Fruit you ate before."

"As expected of Brother Sky Dream. The plan really was flawless. It's just a pity that such a good medicinal bath won't let me absorb much of its energy."

"Hey, you might not be able to absorb much, but isn't your brother here? Just because you can't absorb much doesn't mean I can't. Just watch me."

Tian Meng spoke proudly. Without needing Xiao Qiang to say anything else, he directly controlled Xiao Qiang's skin to absorb the medicinal properties within the bath.

Although even under Tian Meng's control, using the skin to absorb the medicinal properties could not absorb very much, under Tian Meng's manipulation, this medicinal bath was already far more effective than a normal one.

Xiao Qiang conservatively estimated that this medicinal bath was at least five times more effective than an ordinary one.

After the medicinal bath, Xiao Qiang sensed the increase in Soul Power within his body and took out a crystal ball for testing Soul Power. His Soul Power had risen directly from level thirty-three to level thirty-five.

He no longer needed to raise his Soul Power by eight levels in less than a year. Now he only needed to raise it by another five levels within ten months. Things could finally be considered not so difficult.

If Mingde Hall provided him with more resources, it would be even easier.

After finishing the medicinal bath, Xiao Qiang pressed a button in the room. Before long, several maids entered and helped Xiao Qiang change into new clothes.

The fabric of the new clothes was something only those with at least the rank of count in the Sun Moon Empire were qualified to wear. In a sense, this had already proven Jing Hongchen's attitude toward Xiao Qiang, as well as Jing Hongchen's influence within the Sun Moon Empire.

No matter whether you had been a commoner or something else before, once you attached yourself to Jing Hongchen, you could be treated as the equivalent of a count of the Sun Moon Empire.

"Xiao Qiang, are you willing to become my disciple?" Seeing that Xiao Qiang had accepted the clothes he had provided, coupled with Xiao Qiang's earlier performance, Jing Hongchen got straight to the point when they met again.

"This disciple, Xiao Qiang, pays respects to Master."

Without any hesitation, Xiao Qiang performed the ceremony of becoming Jing Hongchen's disciple. Binding himself to Jing Hongchen was the best solution Xiao Qiang could think of, and it was what he had intended to do from the beginning. There was no need to hesitate.

"Very good. Take this Soul Tool. It has a capacity of thirty thousand cubic meters and can also store living creatures. Inside is Ranking Seventeen Engraving Knife · Water Cold. There is also a red card containing thirty million Gold Soul Coins, which you may use to buy whatever you want. Finally, there is a token proving that you are my, Jing Hongchen's, disciple. It will grant you many conveniences and allow you to exercise certain authority. These things are yours from now on."

Xiao Qiang accepted the Soul Tool from Jing Hongchen, unable to react for a moment.

This...

He was just given all this directly for becoming a disciple? He was not even going to make empty promises first?

Didn't that make a certain academy seem a little too...