Crossing into Douluo, I Split into Five People

"I believe him. If there are things he doesn't want me to know, then I simply won't know."

Five Gather

Facing Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan turned her head and winked playfully at Ning Yulin, mouthing, Once we're back, this young lady will settle the score with you!

Ning Yulin gave her a thumbs-up, thoroughly satisfied.

Dugu Bo was both saddened and comforted.

Saddened that his granddaughter had taken someone else's shape, yet comforted that their relationship probably would not encounter any problems in the future.

In the end, he took Dugu Yan away from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well first, only tossing Ning Yulin a single sentence: he would return in a few days. It might be the next day, or it might be ten days to half a month later.

Before leaving, he shot Ning Yulin a thoroughly displeased glare. His originally good mood had vanished without a trace.

After the grandfather and granddaughter left, Ning Yulin retreated into a shadowed corner by the mountain wall, meditated, entered the space, and left messages to notify the other four.

It was time to take off!

The four of them had been keeping an eye on Ning Yulin's movements these days. The instant they saw the message, they set out immediately.

They entered Sunset Forest from different directions.

Led by Zhou Xuefeng's Blue Silver Perception, they made their way through danger without mishap to the vicinity of the poisonous miasma. Then they used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill and entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well from the air.

The five met officially in the real world for the first time. They stared at one another, and none of them spoke at first. Although each of them looked different, every one of them felt strangely as though they were looking at themselves when they looked at the other four.

An eerie silence.

"There isn't much time. Get moving."

Ning Yulin took out tools and handed them to the other four.

For himself, Aromatic Silk Beauty. For An Lan, Cock's Comb Phoenix Sunflower. For Tang Yin, Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.

Tian Rui... he had many choices, but it could also be said that he had none. He was currently focusing on the Golden Feather Luan Bird, but An Lan had chosen the Cock's Comb Phoenix Sunflower. The other fire-related Infernal Delicate Apricot would only poison someone to death if consumed alone; if taken together with the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, it would fail to achieve the greatest effect.

In the end, he chose a rare treasure called the Star Luo Spirit Pearl. This thing could absorb the essence of the stars and moon at night for cultivation, and it might be greatly helpful to cultivating the Guiding New Epoch Secret Formula. Otherwise, giving him the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng would not have been much worse.

For Zhou Xuefeng, Dark Jade Divine Bamboo. With this, the strength of his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul would rise to its peak. Afterward, there would be no need to consider any other abilities; he only needed to continuously stack Life Attribute. As for the same ice and fire immunity Tang San possessed, they would see who should absorb those two Ice Fire Immortal Herbs after everyone had finished absorbing theirs.

As for the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, they all felt that thing was inauspicious. Its story setting was too tragically beautiful. Yet obtaining it seemed certain to bring about something truly "heartbreaking." Tang San and Xiao Wu, Huo Yuhao and...

Besides, the five of them could not remove it either, so they would leave it there for now.

The remaining ones included three relatively heavyweight herbs: Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone, Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, and Aromatic Silk Beauty. They would decide what to do with them later.

They each removed their Immortal Herbs and found places to absorb them. Ning Yulin discovered some cracks in the mountain walls and a few small caves nearby, but none of them went there. They still chose to absorb them close by.

During the digestion process, they could also absorb some of the energy radiating from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Even if Dugu Bo really was spying on them in secret, it did not matter. If he discovered them, he would not immediately kill them. There was room to negotiate.

At midnight, the moon hung high in the sky.

Only then did the five gradually finish absorbing their herbs.

Their improvements were enormous, but unexpectedly, none of them felt particularly excited. This outcome had long been within the five's calculations.

Zhou Xuefeng had undoubtedly reached Level Forty, and his Soul Power felt extremely abundant. Once he obtained a Spirit Ring, his level should rise by another small amount. He was also very satisfied with his transformed Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.

Without using any Soul Skill, several strands of Blue Silver Grass woven together already possessed the force to pierce gold and split stone.

Self-Created Soul Skill: Blue Silver Overlord Spear.jpg.

As for the others, An Lan, Tang Yin, and Tian Rui were all around Level Thirty-Eight. Ning Yulin was at Level Thirty-Six, and his Martial Soul had naturally transformed into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

Of course, it was not only their currently main Martial Souls that had changed. Each of their other four Martial Souls had also improved, though the effects were not obvious because their attributes did not match.

"Who's taking those two?"

With the main issue resolved, all that remained was tempering their bodies in ice and fire.

"How about I do it?"

Zhou Xuefeng looked at the other four and asked tentatively. After considering it for a moment, the four had no other ideas. Zhou Xuefeng still needed to keep grinding in the wild, so it was best for him to absorb them.

Ning Yulin had to return to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, An Lan had to return to Spirit Hall. Tian Rui had entered Blazing Fire Academy, while Tang Yin had to pump iron.

He rose to his feet and headed toward the spring.

Suddenly, Zhou Xuefeng stopped. Another strange idea had popped into his head.

"How about we enter the Martial Soul Fusion state and see whether we can absorb them together?"

When Tian Rui and Tang Yin had used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to kill Spirit Beasts before, it seemed that both of them could use the Spirit Rings that appeared. Perhaps the Immortal Herbs could work the same way?

"Probably not, right?"

An Lan objected.

"Spirit Rings are part of the cultivation rules. Although a Martial Soul Fusion Skill can make our bodies disappear, the form that manifests in the end isn't truly flesh and blood. It's unlikely we can absorb Immortal Herbs in that state, right?"

When it was time to charge, charge. Zhou Xuefeng spoke decisively, in a tone that left the other four no room to refuse.

"How will we know if we don't try? Come on!"

Sooner or later, they had to test the five-person fusion. They might as well do it here.

They all rose and headed toward the other side of the valley, far from the Immortal Herbs. After all, they did not know what would happen when the five fused. If the energy storm was too great and affected the herbs, they would regret it beyond measure.

The five entered a temporarily excavated cave and concealed its entrance, doing their best to avoid making too much noise and attracting the Spirit Beasts outside.

They looked at one another. At the same time, they summoned their Martial Souls and released Soul Power that resonated from afar.

They pushed toward the center.

Two soul incantations slipped unconsciously from the five mouths.

"Star souls gather, five spirits unite; heaven and earth reverse, all things begin!"

The five transformed into five pillars of light. The lights touched one another, their figures vanished, and they merged into an even larger pillar of light. An energy vortex swept up broken stones and floating dust within the cave, hazy and indistinct as it gradually formed a small storm.

The mountain itself could not completely block the pillar of light.

The light pierced through the mountain and shot into the sky, only to be blocked by an invisible barrier over the valley. It transformed into multicolored radiance and scattered across the valley.

As the burial ground of the two Dragon Kings, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had already formed a special geographical environment and a self-sustaining cycle. The Five-Person Fusion Skill looked imposing, but at their current levels, they could not break through the restrictions of the Dragon Kings' power, much less with only a small amount of scattered energy.

The light spread, then gathered once more.

The energy storm subsided, and the commotion gradually faded. Specks of faint light fluttered up and down as a humanoid creature emerged from the radiance. The result of the fusion skill was not a hammer, not grass, nor a pagoda, bird, or dragon. It was completely beyond the five's expectations.

It was a person, enveloped in faint light.

The five's original self—the Zhou Xuefeng from their previous life!

Zhou Xuefeng, who primarily cultivated the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, used the name from his previous life.

The faint glow covering his entire body made him look like a being of light. If his body were a little larger, he could perhaps be called a Giant of Light.

He stood in place for several minutes, silently merging the divided memories of the five. Then he walked out of the cave and took a deep breath.

"After being smashed into a puddle of tomato paste, I never thought I'd still transmigrate into this Douluo world—and even split into five people. Hahaha... hahahaha..."

A crazed laugh.

A few seconds later, it abruptly stopped when he realized it was not amusing.

If there's a mass update, I'll try next month.

Fusion Upgrade, Power Up!

He walked toward the red and blue spring waters.

Using his tools, he neatly harvested the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, stuffed them into his mouth, and jumped into the spring.

An Lan's guess had been right. In the special state of the fusion skill, it was unlikely that they could absorb the medicinal effects of Immortal Herbs. But Zhou Xuefeng, their original self, was currently in a delicate balance between an energy state and a flesh-and-blood body, so absorbing the two herbs posed no problem at all.

Inside and outside his body, he simultaneously experienced ice and fire. The alternating heat and cold felt utterly exquisite.

This is the best high ever!

(Drills into temple)

The cycle of ice and fire, an indescribable sensation, rushed straight to his head.

He floated and sank in the center of the spring.

More than three hours later.

The absorption was mostly complete. The remaining medicinal power would slowly merge during future cultivation.

Jumping out of the spring, the original self stretched his limbs. He summoned each Martial Soul in succession, and all of them moved as naturally as his own arms and fingers, without the slightest unfamiliarity.

He could even combine them freely.

Using them separately, fusing them in pairs, fusing them three at a time, and so on.

As for fusing all the Martial Souls, the radiance surrounding his original self was its direct manifestation. It had become a pure form of power, no longer bound to any particular shape.

It gave him a feeling that heaven and earth were within his grasp, as though he had glimpsed the truth of the world. He gained many insights into things the five had never managed to break through.

The final section of the Guiding New Epoch Secret Formula, which they had never managed to enter.

Possible formulas and ingredients for the Mysterious Water Pill.

The manifestation of Spirit Forging.

Ideas for entering Magnetic Field Rotation, and so on.

"I will reverse all phenomena!!!"

He raised his right hand toward the sky. Light gathered in his palm and radiated supreme brilliance, as though he had seized the sun. He clenched his fist fiercely, and the light exploded.

Yet nothing happened.

Other than a beautiful meteor shower bursting forth.

"Looks like it was just an illusion."

Stay calm. Pretend nothing happened. There was no audience anyway, so there was nothing to be embarrassed about.

He moved a little farther away, summoned the five-in-one Blue Silver Grass, inserted it into the ground, and explored downward to see whether he could discover the burial ground of the two Dragon Kings.

Yet even with the greatly enhanced Blue Silver Grass, he could only explore about five hundred meters down.

Below that, there was immense pressure. It was not pressure caused by compressed rock and soil.

The original self strained with all his might, erupting with all his energy and concentrating it into the five-in-one Blue Silver Grass. He drove it another hundred meters downward, reaching a total depth of just over seven hundred meters before hitting his limit.

He withdrew the Blue Silver Grass, adjusted his breathing briefly, then extended it across the ground. Its reach there was more than three times greater.

"Could that be dragon might?"

"The burial ground of the Dragon Kings truly is extraordinary."

He leaped lightly. The light became a breeze, carrying his original self to the highest point of the valley. He gazed over the forest. The sea of trees rippled gently, scattered shadows swaying. He meditated atop the mountain until sunrise, then looked up for a while, sensing the flow of energy within his body. It felt deeply unreal. How boring.

Then he suddenly cursed.

"I'm the one who split them off, yet they chose little girls? What's so interesting about that? Bibi Dong, A Yin, Tang Yuehua—now they're much more interesting..."

After he said that, the faint light around him grew brighter and brighter. A few breaths later, his figure vanished, and the five reappeared.

The effects of the Ice Fire Immortal Herbs were distributed evenly among the five.

After landing back in the valley, they looked at one another and all remained silent. The atmosphere was heavy.

It was because the five felt that if their original self had not canceled the fusion state and chosen to disappear himself, the five of them might never have appeared again.

"Why do you think he chose to disappear himself?"

Tang Yin scratched his head and spoke first, breaking the silence. Zhou Xuefeng toyed with a strand of Blue Silver Grass, seemingly unconcerned that they might have disappeared forever just now. He said lightly,

"We've begun new lives. He felt that he had already become part of the past. What's so hard to understand about that..."

Their original self from his previous life had mostly been rather free-spirited. If he felt something did not belong to him, he could not be bothered to care about it.