Synesthesia Beacon

Synesthesia Beacon

Outside, preparations were in full swing on all sides.

Master Ratio's great name spread like a spring breeze, blowing from Spirit City to every corner of the land.

But Xie Yue was having a miserable time. The Three Elements Fusion Skill cultivation manual that Master Ratio had casually written was condensed to fewer than a thousand words, yet after pondering it all night, he had understood only a third of it.

At this rate, he might still fail to learn it before the time came!

That would be far too humiliating for Dr. Ratio!

Xie Yue clutched at his hair, his face filled with dejection. Stubble had even appeared all over his face.

"Xie Yue, don't push yourself so hard. Maybe there's something wrong with it? It might not be your problem. And what's this about fusing martial souls, soul rings, and Soul Power into three elements? Isn't that way too outrageous?"

Yan leaned against the corner of the wall and could not help trying to comfort him.

But Xie Yue ignored him completely, continuing his research and continuing to mobilize the three elements.

Seeing Xie Yue like this, Yan felt even more helpless. Rubbing his butt, he sighed. "Sigh, I got severely lectured by my family. You're all just too fixated on that ugly eight—"

"Yan! If I hear you slander Dr. Ratio again, then we won't be brothers anymore!"

Xie Yue suddenly shouted coldly, glaring at Yan.

Yan's expression stiffened. The Golden Generation had been raised together since childhood, yet now Xie Yue was treating him like this because of Ratio. He felt utterly wronged.

"I understand..."

"Sigh, Na Na isn't talking to me either. It seems like something happened to the Pope."

Yan said boredly.

Xie Yue paid no attention to him, throwing himself wholeheartedly into cultivating the Three Elements Fusion Skill.

His four soul rings began to merge with one another.

The two yellow Hundred Year Soul Rings merged first, followed by the two purple soul rings. But when the two sides tried to continue merging, they could not fully blend together. They soon separated under some inexplicable force!

This represented the failure of the Three Elements Fusion Skill.

A true Three Elements Fusion Skill could merge all soul rings into one's martial soul.

In other words, it directly violated the principle that Soul Masters had to reveal their soul rings before using Soul Skills!

That effect alone was enough to excite any Soul Master.

Yan watched Xie Yue cultivate without speaking again. But the other party failed time and time again, with almost no glimmer of success in sight.

"Xie Yue, I can't stand watching anymore. Seriously, go ask Master Ratio for guidance. You'll definitely understand it better than trying to figure it out yourself." Yan persuaded him.

Xie Yue failed once more, and a dejected look surfaced on his face.

He hesitated. "But Master Ratio seems to dislike people asking him questions..."

Yan immediately stepped forward, slinging an arm around Xie Yue's neck with a grin. "Can you be the same as everyone else? You're the one who's going to help make him famous. If you can't understand the Three Elements Fusion Skill, then he'll be the one losing face!"

Xie Yue hesitated for a moment, but was ultimately persuaded.

The two of them went to find Ratio together.

Ratio was not in his room. Xie Yue knew of another laboratory, the room where Master Ratio spent the most time. It was located in a cave structure on Pope Mountain.

They arrived outside the laboratory. Green plants surrounded them, and though it was called an entrance, it was actually just a stone wall.

From the outside, it was hard to believe that this was the entrance to a laboratory.

"Dr. Ratio, I have some questions and hope to receive your guidance." Xie Yue said respectfully.

"!!!"

Yan's eyes widened. In the next second, cracks appeared across the stone wall he had taken for ordinary rock. Then came the sound of gas being released, and a hole opened in the wall!

It could work like that???

Yan could not make sense of it at all. Dazed, he followed Xie Yue inside.

After passing through the tunnel within the cave, they finally arrived in a laboratory. The vast open space made them instinctively feel small.

It was filled with all kinds of exquisite instruments and equipment, brimming with a technological atmosphere.

It was completely at odds with the style of Douluo Continent. Yan was nearly dazzled, and the only things he could clearly make out were several massive containers by the western wall. They were filled with green liquid that bubbled continuously.

At the center of the laboratory stood an unknown device covered with Red Cloth.

Though nothing was visible, it made Yan's heart pound with dread.

It felt as if he could die beneath that unknown thing at any moment!

Yan gritted his teeth and forcefully suppressed the discomfort in his heart.

When he looked at Ratio, busy at the Experiment Table, he suddenly lost all his previous swagger.

Only now did he truly realize the enormous gulf in intelligence between them, and genuinely acknowledge the other man's ability.

Of course, he did not dare say anything openly, though he still grumbled about it inwardly.

Xie Yue carefully approached Ratio's side, not daring to make the slightest sound.

"Ratio, look at how frightened you've made Xie Yue. You don't need to be so overly cautious. The sound of you walking won't cause Ratio even the slightest trouble."

A laugh rang out. Light Feather Douluo appeared on Ratio's other side, seated atop a piece of equipment as he smiled at Xie Yue and Yan.

"Fifth Elder..."

Xie Yue and Yan hurriedly greeted him.

Light Feather Douluo ignored the two of them and looked at Ratio, muttering, "Ratio, what exactly did you bring me here for? I've watched you fiddle with that liquid for an hour already. It's so boring."

Xie Yue and Yan both looked at the test tube in Ratio's hand, which contained a transparent liquid.

Ratio drew it out with a syringe and looked at Light Feather Douluo. "Give me your hand."

"So you're making me a guinea pig again..." Light Feather Douluo complained, but he did not hesitate to roll up his sleeve and bare his arm.

Ratio inserted the syringe and pushed all the transparent liquid into it.

Light Feather Douluo asked curiously, "What is this?"

"A Synesthesia Beacon. After injection, it allows you to communicate with other species of living creatures." Ratio explained, pointing to the white mouse in the corner of the Experiment Table.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak..." the white mouse cried.

Light Feather Douluo's eyes widened. Pointing at the white mouse, he jumped down from the table and stammered, "It... it's saying it's hungry! Hungry! Oh my god! I can actually understand what it's saying?"

Watching Light Feather Douluo make such a fuss, Xie Yue and Yan's faces were also full of curiosity.

Being able to understand other creatures was an ability they had both fantasized about when they were young!

"Xie Yue, did you come to admit that you're an idiot?"

Ratio asked flatly.

Xie Yue's face reddened. Lowering his head, he said ashamedly, "I'm sorry, Dr. Ratio. I've disappointed you. I..."

"It has only been a day, and you've already run out of patience... Still, I can give you an opportunity..." Ratio's voice was calm. He truly answered Xie Yue's doubts, and Xie Yue left with delight filling his heart.

Ratio watched Xie Yue's retreating back, his brows slightly furrowed.

Light Feather Douluo was engrossed in listening to the white mouse speak. Seeing this, he asked in confusion, "Ratio, you could clearly teach him easily. Why go through all this trouble?"

"Besides, that child trusts you greatly. If you trained him up, he could even become your assistant."

Ratio did not answer, merely shaking his head slightly.

Yes, Xie Yue was still too dependent on him!

This was, in fact, blind faith in authority!