I Transmigrated into Douluo and Split into Five People Chapter 50

Zhu Zhuyun: "Mm~"

Zhou Xuefeng: "..."

Zhu Zhuyun: What Attitude Should I Take Toward This Person?

The air fell silent for a moment, leaving their mouths dry.

Zhou Xuefeng coughed twice and told her to get up.

"Summon your martial soul. Circulate your soul power through all the meridians in your body."

Seeing that she was still dazed, Zhou Xuefeng frowned. He extended a finger and poked the hollow of her waist. A faint spark flashed, and Zhu Zhuyun shuddered before abruptly sitting upright.

Hmm, it seemed my Current Drive had reached the beginner level.

I could study it more thoroughly when I had time.

As she got up, the numb, tingling sensation at her waist lingered for quite a while before Zhu Zhuyun came to her senses. Following Zhou Xuefeng's instructions, she calmed herself and circulated her soul power. After several cycles—

The corners of her eyes stretched upward toward her temples, where thin layers of dark-blue keratin appeared. They were so faint that one could easily mistake them for tattoos at a glance. Mysterious patterns spiraled around her temples, curved back along her brows, and finally settled beneath her eyes beside the bridge of her nose.

It really was a fucking External Soul Bone! It looked like an eye-type External Soul Bone.

As it emerged, her pupils changed color as well. Her originally black eyes now held deep-blue pupils.

When she heard Zhou Xuefeng say that she had fused with a Spirit Bone, Zhu Zhuyun was overjoyed. But then she froze in place.

A Spirit Bone...

This guy wasn't going to kill her and dig it out, was he?

Zhou Xuefeng could tell what she was thinking from her expression and said disdainfully,

"It's just a Spirit Bone."

Zhou Xuefeng was rather curious about the Spirit Bone's ability. Leaving the inn, they found a patch of woods outside and fought wildly amid the trees.

After several hours of battle—

They had roughly figured out the Spirit Bone's ability.

In some ways, it was rather useless. But on another level, it was downright heaven-defying.

Its specific function was to help her lock onto an enemy's weak points. After activating the Spirit Bone, her eyes transformed into a kind of "Demon Eye." At lower levels, its effects were average, but this was an External Soul Bone. If its age increased, perhaps it could one day become a "Straight Death Demon Eye"?

Straight Death Demon Eye was a bit of an exaggeration.

Still, this ability suited her extremely well.

Moreover, using it could enhance the power of her Second Spirit Ring. Conversely, when she used her Second Spirit Skill, the Spirit Bone's effects were enhanced as well.

"Don't expose the existence of this Spirit Bone lightly. If someone kills you, don't expect me to avenge you."

For a few seconds, Zhou Xuefeng had considered digging out the External Soul Bone. She had only absorbed it recently, so it definitely had not fully fused with her yet. But its ability did not suit the five of them very well.

All five of them followed a straightforward, domineering path of overwhelming others through sheer force. This kind of ability was clearly better suited for a speed-type assassin.

Besides, the earlier feeling had been quite memorable.

With Zhu Zhuyun's Spirit Ring issue settled, Zhou Xuefeng still needed his fifth Spirit Ring. He planned to search carefully for this one. Based on his physique, thirty thousand years would be the minimum.

If things went smoothly, he would immediately begin the plan to obtain high-age Spirit Rings. It was inconvenient for her to follow, so he would send her back to Seven Treasure City first.

When he returned to Seven Treasure City, he discovered that Ning Yulin was next door. Somewhat surprised, Zhou Xuefeng went over to meet him.

They discussed his fifth Spirit Ring.

"Tang Yin and I are enough. We can look for the location of the Blue Silver Forest while we're at it."

The Blue Silver Grass was already strong enough, and it would only grow stronger as his level increased. His fourth Spirit Ring also granted negative-status resistance. For his fifth Spirit Ring, he had two goals. First, to enhance his spiritual power and improve his control over the various forms of Blue Silver Grass. Second, naturally, to further enhance his Life Attribute.

Over the past two years, he had thought a great deal about the development of Blue Silver Grass. Blue Silver Grass lacked powerful abilities and attributes. Elements, strength, speed—forcing it to develop in those directions would only make it inferior. Though it was not as foolish as Master Yu and Buddha Tang adding poison to Blue Silver Grass, it was still a case of abandoning strengths to compensate for weaknesses.

Those attributes could be added, but they were best not cultivated as the primary direction.

If the ultimate goal was not godhood, but merely becoming a relatively powerful Title Douluo, then it did not matter. Any attribute could strengthen Blue Silver Grass.

But if he wanted to become a god, it was best to remain more pure.

And he remembered someone.

In Huo Yuhao's era, there seemed to have been someone whose Spirit Rings were all enhancement-type. He had carved out a path for himself through self-created combat techniques.

Blue Silver Grass was well suited to that route.

Its form made it easy to pursue a physical path. Moreover, increasing its vitality would also enhance the power of its martial soul fusions with the others.

The search for the Blue Silver Forest was not for his fifth Spirit Ring. It was so that, when they later obtained high-age Spirit Rings, the others could accurately locate high-age Blue Silver Grass.

As for the specific choice for his fifth Spirit Ring, Ning Yulin and An Lan had helped gather information on soul beasts supposedly related to the Life Ancient Tree. Zhou Xuefeng planned to verify them one by one.

If he could directly absorb a genuine Life Ancient Tree, it would be perfect. His life force would surely be enhanced to an utterly terrifying degree.

But that was unlikely.

Among the five's guesses, there were probably two places where a Life Ancient Tree might exist. One was the true core region of the Star Dou Great Forest. There seemed to be a tree on the island at the center of Lake of Life. Even if it was not the actual Life Tree, it should be a closely related subspecies.

The other place definitely had one: the God Realm, with the Life God King. But if they had the ability to obtain a Life Ancient Tree from her, why would they need to develop so sneakily now?

After speaking with Ning Yulin, he returned next door.

He rested for two days.

"I'll be gone this time for as little as two months, or as long as half a year. Focus on your cultivation. When I return, if I find that your results differ too greatly from my calculations, prepare yourself mentally."

After throwing those words at Zhu Zhuyun, he pinched Zhu Zhuqing's still baby-fat cheeks and patted Zhu Zhuyu on the shoulder. Before leaving, he went to meet Tang Yin.

Zhu Zhuyun watched him depart, then slowly closed the front door.

Once they reached an uninhabited area, he summoned his martial soul and used Blue Silver Fine Thread to weave a giant eagle. The Glazed Pagoda Second Spirit Skill bestowed it with life.

Flying mount acquired!

Tang Yin had been traveling when, halfway there, he saw Zhou Xuefeng descend from the sky.

"Holy shit! You..."

Zhou Xuefeng glanced at him, raised a hand, and swept it across his Soul Tool. A pile of materials in all kinds of shapes spilled out. They were all rare metals Ning Yulin had collected during this period, along with gemstones, crystals, and other materials with unusual textures.

Tang Yin inspected them one by one, chuckling as he stuffed them into his own Soul Tool. At first, he had studied forging to help Ning Yulin research the method of Cultivating Soul with Artifacts. Now, though, he had begun to enjoy the process of hammering iron himself.

Watching rough materials take on the forms he wanted gave him the feeling of creating life, which was immensely satisfying.

Zhou Xuefeng asked, "How's the forging going? Can they be used?"

After sorting the items into categories, Tang Yin took out three objects and handed them over.

One was an arm-length short blade, another a short spear. The last was difficult to describe. It resembled a lifted coil of mosquito incense, spiraling around and around, with dark-blue patterns running across it.

Blue Silver Haotian Fusion Technique

"This is the best thing I can make at my current level."

Tang Yin explained,

"I can now smoothly capture the emotions within the materials, elevate their vitality, and fuse in a certain amount of soul power for use. However, I'm still some distance away from Spirit Forging—giving them true spirituality and integrating them into the body. I call these two Soul Power Conduction Weapons. You can think of them as the chakra-conducting weapons from Shadow Fire."

"This Spiral Tower is something I researched myself. It amplifies magnetic fields and helps cultivate Current Drive. The effect is quite good. I should be able to use nearly two thousand volts of electricity now—enough to completely melt a standard ten-cubic-centimeter iron ingot within five minutes."

This bastard had secretly reached this level without telling anyone. They had held so many meetings in their shared space over the past two years, yet he had managed not to say a single word?

Zhou Xuefeng narrowed his eyes. The other four of them could currently produce, at most, several hundred volts through Current Drive, nowhere near a thousand. Of course, if they used the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul, the power would naturally far exceed that.

What they were discussing now was the power produced by making their body cells move rapidly through willpower—spiritual power—while disregarding their martial souls.

They first tested the two weapons. After soul power was injected, a faint glow appeared on the short blade. It could slice through hair with a breath and was exceptionally sharp. The short spear, meanwhile, became slightly longer after soul power was infused into it, increasing its penetrating power.

After using the Spiral Tower, Zhou Xuefeng nodded. It truly provided considerable help in cultivating Current Drive.

Seeing his reaction, Tang Yin was quite pleased and began discussing the next direction for his experiments.

"Next, I'm planning to see whether adding beast blood or human blood can awaken their spirituality."

"Mm-hm."

Zhou Xuefeng nodded and took out a map. It marked the locations of soul beasts that Ning Yulin and An Lan had investigated. Tang Yin leaned over.

They could not go to Mizong Grand Canyon now. Spirit Hall members frequently appeared there. After pondering for a moment, Zhou Xuefeng pointed at a spot.

"We'll go here first."

At the very bottom of the map, in the southwest of the Star Luo Empire, lay a small soul beast habitat.

Across the entire continent, apart from the three great soul beast gathering grounds—the Star Dou Great Forest, Sunset Forest, and Frozen Forest—there were also countless soul beast habitats of varying sizes scattered throughout.

Small habitats generally found it difficult to produce soul beasts that had exceeded ten thousand years. If they threatened the survival of nearby humans, Spirit Hall or the empire would mobilize forces to encircle and hunt them down.

Yet none of the three major powers would actively investigate these small gathering grounds without reason. They usually went to the three—no, the two—major soul beast gathering grounds, where there were more species and greater numbers.

In this era, Frozen Forest was not considered an existence on the same level as Sunset Forest and Star Dou Great Forest.

He summoned the flying mount again, and they headed there in a straight line.

They arrived at the first location.

"Mm."

"Sigh, it falls a little short."

In the valley stood a lush, towering tree with blue leaves. Seen from the sky, it resembled a cluster of strange blue thorns beneath the sunlight.

Its age did not meet the requirement, and the soul beast also contained toxins.

The next location.

Its age was sufficient, but its species was lacking. The improvement would be too small, so they moved on.

Third, fourth...

"Where do you think the Golden Ancient Tree is?"

On the back of the Blue Silver Flying Eagle, after confirming their next destination, Zhou Xuefeng casually asked a question. Tang Yin crackled with electricity in both hands as he carefully used electromagnetism to temper the object in his hand.

"Hiss, that's a little hot."

Purifying it directly through electromagnetism was harder to control than using a hammer. He lowered the voltage.

"The Golden Ancient Tree should be another name for the Life Ancient Tree, right? They should be the same thing. No one knows where Shrek Academy got that tree from."

"They probably aren't the same kind of existence, though?"

Zhou Xuefeng muttered. Among the information they had investigated, there was a type of soul beast called the Golden Tree. He did not know whether it had any connection to the later Golden Ancient Tree.

He seemed to remember someone saying that the Golden Ancient Tree was an evolved form created after Ah Yin fused with the Life Tree.

Ah Yin... Blue Silver Emperor plus Life Ancient Tree equals Golden Ancient Tree?

Zhou Xuefeng summoned his own Blue Silver Grass. In terms of strength and toughness alone, after absorbing the Dark Jade Divine Bamboo, it had already surpassed the Blue Silver Emperor. What it lacked was only its level and a little life force.

They moved in winding routes according to the distances between each location, traveling for several days.

They never found a target that satisfied them.

Midway through, they encountered an unbroken expanse of thunderclouds. Zhou Xuefeng silently cursed his bad luck and changed direction, passing through a region of clear skies.

Over the course of two months, they traveled from place to place, circling around in the end before finally heading to the Star Dou Great Forest.

"Are you sure it's this one? You won't change your mind?"

Tang Yin covered his nose and stared warily at the soul beast in the distance.

"It's this one!"