Transmigrated into Douluo, I Split into Five People

Crack.

Zhou Xuefeng's vision suddenly went black, and a stabbing pain pierced his head.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda shattered.

The pain stimulated the Fire Leopard's strength, and it bit the Glazed Pagoda apart. Just as it was about to turn and attack, Zhou Xuefeng forced himself to stay conscious and shoved the branch in another section with all his strength, all the way to its tip.

He staggered back two steps, leaned against a tree, and passed out.

The Fire Leopard's eyes bulged, saliva dripping from its mouth. It trembled with every step as it approached Zhou Xuefeng and slowly raised a claw. But its strength ran out, and it toppled sideways, its breathing gradually weakening.

The surrounding Blue Silver Grass slowly pressed against Zhou Xuefeng's exposed skin.

An hour later, Zhou Xuefeng abruptly opened his eyes. He stared blankly for over half a minute before remembering what he needed to do.

He raised his head and searched for the Fire Leopard's corpse. It was right in front of him. A bright yellow ring illuminated the dim surroundings.

He stood and prepared to summon the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to absorb the Fire Leopard's Spirit Ring. Feeling resistance, he lowered his head and found countless strands of Blue Silver Grass clinging to him.

"So that's why..."

Only after he summoned his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul did they disperse. He steadied his breathing, barely made his way to the Fire Leopard's corpse, and switched to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul.

The moment Zhou Xuefeng saw the Glazed Pagoda Martial Soul's condition, he could not help drawing in a sharp breath. From the top of the pagoda to its base, dense cracks covered its entire body. It looked as though the slightest bump would shatter it into fragments.

Still, he could feel the Soul Power sustaining it slowly recovering.

"I need to hurry. A Spirit Ring seems to last only one shichen."

He released his Soul Power, drawing the Spirit Ring over and onto the Glazed Pagoda.

"Hiss..."

As his Martial Soul cracked, it felt as if his body had suffered the same injuries. Zhou Xuefeng felt as though he had swallowed boiling water. A wave of heat roamed through his body, scorching and tearing at him again and again.

But in the end, he did not die.

He endured this wave of Soul Power's impact.

The absorption continued for an hour. He was not worried at all about other soul beasts appearing. As the Fire Leopard had moved, its excrement had scattered throughout the area, filling it with its scent.

Once the absorption ended, he checked the Glazed Pagoda's condition.

The originally translucent, seven-colored glazed body now had a distinctly visible layer of red airflow constantly surging through it.

And the soul skill...

"Flame Infusion? Hahaha, good! It worked!"

It could infuse a designated target with fire-attribute power. It could target one person or a group, others or himself. Its duration depended mainly on his own Soul Power.

As for everything else, it remained the same as the original Glazed Pagoda's abilities. The first Spirit Ring provided a ten percent boost; now it was twenty percent. Furthermore, the effect that ignored the target's own level still remained.

However, his original plan to use the Spirit Ring's energy to repair his shattered Martial Soul had not completely succeeded. Quite a few cracks still remained across the Glazed Pagoda.

"My current condition isn't suitable for adding another Spirit Ring."

At that moment, his body was already completely falling apart. Although a Blue Silver Grass soul beast's Spirit Ring energy might be relatively gentle, it would still have a certain degree of impact, and he could not withstand it.

He could only wait until he had fully recovered before making further plans.

Since the experiment had succeeded, he needed to share the news with the other four as soon as possible.

Meditate.

He entered the space. No one was there, so he left a message telling them to gather, then exited the space and found a dense patch of Blue Silver Grass to heal his injuries.

Midnight.

Zhou Xuefeng opened his eyes and exhaled a breath of stale air. While cultivating the Essence of Qi Method within the Blue Silver Grass Mimicry Environment, breathing in and out with the Blue Silver Grass' exchange of breath, he had unexpectedly awakened an ability similar to a domain that helped heal him.

Yu Tianrui and An Lan could sense the enhancement of their Martial Soul attributes. Perhaps this was also an attribute of my Blue Silver Grass.

Now that he had become highly proficient with the Qi Method, Qi Regulation Method, and Solar Term Method, Zhou Xuefeng wanted to try the more cultivation-oriented Assisted Guiding Breath-Swallowing Method and Guiding New Epoch Secret Formula.

"Assisted Guiding Breath-Swallowing Method. The prince said: Those who study guiding techniques use qi to abstain from grain, teaching others not to eat, their natures becoming somewhat frail and weak..."

The entire text boiled down to one theme: breathe in and out the Qi of Heaven and Earth to achieve abstinence from grain. Simply put, he could live just by breathing.

The Guiding New Epoch Secret Formula was even more profound and mysterious on that foundation. The Qi of Heaven and Earth entered the body; daytime yang qi nourished the body, nighttime yin qi nourished the spirit. Heaven and man gave birth to transformation, refining and reaching the origin of man, returning to the innate, using the human body's mustard seed to connect with Heaven and Earth's vastness. Living as long as Heaven and Earth, resting alongside Heaven and Earth.

In simple terms, cultivate a miniature universe within the human body and connect it to the greater universe outside. As long as Heaven and Earth did not die, the person would remain unharmed.

He practiced for half a shichen.

Whether he had achieved abstinence from grain or not, the thunderous rumbling in his stomach was painfully real.

He was hungry.

"To achieve this, I'd need to change how my body acquired energy, alter the fundamental logic of cellular energy exchange, and fill my cells with primordial qi of Heaven and Earth, right?"

The human body had limits.

So... I won't be human anymore! (flips table and roars)

Yet even if he wanted to stop being human, it was not so simple.

"Slowly, then."

He did not leave the Soul Hunting Forest to build a shelter elsewhere. He would wait here for his injuries to heal, then directly add a Spirit Ring to his Blue Silver Grass. Otherwise, the next time he came in, he would have to apply for a Soul Hunting Warrant and have his Soul Power tested again, wasting time. Moreover, his actual level did not match his apparent one. Unless the tester was like the Blind God King, they would definitely take notice.

"It's about time. They should all be there."

He stood, stretched his limbs, concealed his shelter properly, then meditated and sent his consciousness into the space.

He placed the crack-covered Glazed Pagoda, filled with surging flames, in the center of the round table. The four others admired it as though it were a work of art, praising it without end.

An Lan: "Divine light, splendid and magnificent. No ordinary object."

Tang Yin: "Awesome!"

Yu Tianrui: "Well done!"

Ning Yulin: "Woohoo!"

A Problem

Naturally, Ning Yulin was the happiest. After all, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda was the Martial Soul he specialized in. Now that Zhou Xuefeng's experiment had succeeded, he only needed to follow the same method.

Noticing that the Glazed Pagoda had not fully recovered, he asked in confusion.

"What caused that?"

Zhou Xuefeng spread his hands. How would he know? An Lan answered.

"Perhaps a fire-attribute Spirit Ring conflicts with its restorative nature? Or perhaps the Spirit Ring's energy was insufficient. That isn't important. What matters is that the Martial Soul's nature changed successfully. But I have another question. You all know what the advantage of having multiple Martial Souls is..."

By relying on a greater number of high-level Spirit Rings, one could rapidly raise one's Soul Power Level in the later stages. Compared to a single-Martial-Soul soul master, cultivation would be much faster. Master Yu and Tang Hao's advice to Tang San had been correct, provided they ignored the Blue Silver Emperor's true nature.

"If we each choose suitable Spirit Rings and then share those abilities again, overwriting our original Martial Souls without Spirit Rings, will the advantage of raising our strength through multiple Spirit Rings still remain? Our Soul Power Levels cannot stack. In terms of endurance, we're only equivalent to five people."

"We can only verify that after I obtain a Spirit Ring and share it with you again!"

After the excitement faded, Ning Yulin regained his composure, his expression calm.

"If not, then we'll have no choice but to each focus on our own main Martial Soul, leaving the other four Martial Souls for high-age Spirit Rings later on. Aside from my Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, there isn't much need to experiment with your Spirit Ring choices. No matter how you choose, they won't be too bad."

The Martial Soul foundation was there. Unless someone did what Buddha Tang had done and gave Blue Silver Grass a Spirit Ring with conflicting attributes, choosing according to its basic attributes would not cause any major problems.

He asked An Lan in return.

"What about you? Have you decided? Will you continue hiding, pretending to cultivate at the normal pace of someone with Innate Level Two Spirit Power and lie low for a few years? Or will you deny everything and pretend to know nothing, hunting souls together with everyone else?"

Spirit Hall was filled with factions. Though Qian Xunji still held power, the peace was only superficial.

Under such circumstances, revealing talent without any backing could lead to uncertain consequences. Everyone wanted the opportunity to seize talent and present it to Bibi Dong for merit. If one faction lost the struggle and then decided to eliminate An Lan in retaliation, only to discover that the boy could not be killed and had secrets on him, they might capture him and slice him apart!

How would they deal with that?

Even if he truly made it before Qian Xunji, after Bibi Dong took the throne, would she find him an eyesore and look for a chance to dispose of him? That woman's madness was impossible to fathom. In public, Yu Xiaogang had embarrassed Spirit Hall and spoken extremely rudely, yet she had still stood up for him and declared that he was an elder of Spirit Hall, without considering her own position at all.

"I probed around and investigated the cultivation efficiency of some soul masters with Innate Level Two Spirit Power. Even among those who worked diligently, the fastest still took nearly four years to obtain their first Spirit Ring. Yu Xiaogang said that before the age of twenty was the golden period for a soul master's cultivation. Is wasting four years for nothing really worth it?"

Setting aside Master Yu's character and theories, some of his words still made sense.

Everyone fell silent.

A full four years. If everything went smoothly, they might gain two Spirit Rings during that time.

"Actually, I have an idea I want to test."

Zhou Xuefeng scratched his head.

"When I read novels in my previous life, I wondered about this. Spirit Ring absorption age depends on a soul master's physique and spiritual power. So if we wait until we're eighteen, when our bodies have fully matured, before absorbing Spirit Rings, could we reach the limit below ten thousand years? Something like 9,999 years."

It was a good idea. What they lacked was time.

"Though it's worth testing, we don't have the time. It's currently February of Douluo Calendar 2629. In a little over two years, Tang San will be born. According to you, if we all wait until eighteen to obtain our first Spirit Ring, we'll need to wait twelve years. Tang San will already have grown into... Eh, actually, that's about right. When we're eighteen, Tang San should only be nine."

Tang Yin calculated the timeline. He had initially thought they might not make it in time, but after adding and subtracting, he realized they were not in such a rush.

"Hey." Yu Tianrui complained, "Even though we rarely passed math after university, you still needed this long for such simple addition and subtraction? Did that hammer really mess up your brain?"

Once upon a time, he had gotten angry at a math textbook, and then... that was all. What he could not understand, he simply could not understand.

An Lan looked toward Ning Yulin, who had not said a word, his eyes asking for an answer.

Ning Yulin suddenly spoke a name.

"Qian Renxue."

They all thought alike. Under non-extreme circumstances, their general lines of thought were basically the same. What he meant was that as long as they grew close to Qian Renxue and attached themselves to the Worship Hall, they would not need to worry about Spirit Hall's other factions at all.

At present, Qian Renxue had not yet lost her mind and gone to the Heaven Dou Empire for some inexplicable infiltration mission. This was the perfect chance to build a relationship.

Whether it was her beauty or her background, she was a thigh that reached the heavens.

An Lan shook his head.

It was not that he did not want to grow closer to Qian Renxue. Rather, after living in Spirit City for so long, he had never seen Qian Renxue or even heard the slightest rumor about her. As long as that father and son were not fools, they would certainly have completely blocked all information about Qian Renxue.

She was a genius with an Innate Level 20 God-Given Martial Soul, the hope of fulfilling the Qian Family's long-cherished wish across several generations.

"We can find someone to test the matter of absorbing Spirit Rings at eighteen later. With Whale Rubber, we don't need to worry about physique. Qian Renxue is more important! Whether we covet her beauty or her background, if we ultimately fail to prevent Buddha Tang from becoming a god, her existence will be our hope for turning things around."

Among the original three gods, only Qian Renxue becoming the Angel God was more suitable from the five of their perspectives. She would not bring too much upheaval to the continent. At worst, Spirit Hall would simply continue for another ten thousand years. As for the Rakshasa God, just imagine it—the slaughter she caused certainly would not be little. All to "create" a world where she could be with the Xiao Gang she loved, or a world where Xiao Gang could be with the person he loved.

There was no need to describe what kind of situation Buddha Tang, with two gods in one body, would create.

"While Qian Xunji is still around, reveal your talent as soon as possible. Only with status will you have a chance to come into contact with Qian Renxue."

Ning Yulin offered his suggestion.

If An Lan truly were secretly captured and dealt with by someone from a faction, then the other four could avenge him later.

"Fine."

After thinking for a moment, An Lan nodded. Taking a little risk was taking a little risk. A person could get hit by an egg falling from the sky while walking down the road; this was nothing.

"Tell me, can we set up an ambush during the event two years from now? If we can eliminate Tang San early, won't we be able to rest easy? Let Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue deal with the matter between mother and daughter themselves."

Zhou Xuefeng proposed an idea.

This...

The four silently considered it. In two years, if everything went smoothly, they would at most be Soul Elders. They wanted to ambush Tang Hao?

Were they tired of living?

Impossible

With one wrong move, if Tang Hao wiped them all out in one go, all five would die.

Then there would be no point talking about anything.

"Not advisable! When Tang San's soul has just entered the body of the Blue Silver Emperor's son, that is probably when Asura's attention will be at its highest. We cannot take such a risk."

Tang Yin's expression darkened, and he strongly opposed it. Yet Zhou Xuefeng still refused to give up.