You Can't Curse Tang God King for Being Unhuman While Doing Worse Than Him (New Year's Bonus Chapter)

Killing a soul beast by mistake and wasting resources was certainly painful, but the surprise of obtaining a soul bone still made the corners of his lips curl up uncontrollably.

That perfectly described Xiao Changfeng's current mood.

The six-thousand-year Evil Spirit Orca Right Leg Bone was of excellent quality—complete and flawless, with a diamond-like fineness and smoothness. It was entirely transparent, and dark-red liquid seemed to flow endlessly within it.

It radiated a hazy glow that rushed toward the face, leaving one refreshed. That was the soul power of extremely pure Water Element. At the same time, it was devouring Heaven and Earth Origin Power. From the leg bone down to the foot, its shape did not resemble a human foot at all, but rather an orca's tail.

With the outstanding perception of a Super Douluo, Xiao Changfeng was certain that this soul bone contained an intimidating, murderous kingly aura. This meant that at least one of the Evil Spirit Orca's parents had been a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. Its bloodline was pure and powerful.

Of the six major soul-bone locations in the human body, the Right Leg Bone ranked last in importance. However, at this level, the corresponding location no longer mattered much. It was already a supreme treasure beneath a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.

Realizing the value of this soul bone, Xiao Changfeng's lips curved slightly upward. He brought it before Xu Tianxi and introduced it with a smile:

"Tian Xi, this soul bone is of exceptional quality. The racial talents of the Evil Spirit Orca clan are also extraordinarily powerful. Their Soul Skills are either powerful control abilities or tyrannical attacks, and every one of them is an excellent choice."

"I'm certain that fusing with this soul bone will raise your physical qualities to another level. It will greatly benefit the origin of your Ultimate Water and increase your Soul Power to a certain extent. It will be enough to match your talent. Would you like to try fusing with it?"

Xu Tianxi stared at the soul bone without blinking for a while, and his Adam's apple moved involuntarily.

After coming into such close contact with a soul bone, he finally understood why countless soul masters were so obsessed with them. Just by approaching it, Xu Tianxi could feel the Soul Power within his body circulating faster, while his heartbeat became unusually strong and clear.

The Evil Spirit Orca clan was blessed with extraordinary talents, and the benefits of absorbing its soul bone were obvious. If he absorbed it, he would no longer fear genius soul masters at the Soul Ancestor level. He might even be able to fight a Soul King head-on for a while.

But!

Its years were still a little too low. Without a hundred thousand years, it wasn't suitable!

Reason overcame his emotional self. Xu Tianxi forcefully shifted his gaze away and shook his head. "Senior Martial Uncle, I think there's no need to rush."

"There may be a more suitable soul bone in the future. It would be better to keep this treasure for a while longer."

"Oh? It seems this little fellow has lofty standards. You don't even value a supreme treasure like this?"

With his vast experience, Xiao Changfeng saw through Xu Tianxi's general thoughts at a glance.

This junior nephew's desire for a soul bone was no less than that of any other soul master, yet he had refused it at a time like this.

There was only one reason: he believed he would obtain something better in the future!

Xu Tianxi smiled awkwardly, then straightened his expression and pointed at the soul bone. His voice was sonorous and forceful.

"It's not that my standards are too high. It's that your abilities, Senior Martial Uncle, and Grandmaster's abilities are simply too great. With both of you taking action, capturing Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts should be effortless."

"If I didn't have elders as towering as divine mountains standing before me, how would Tian Xi dare to indulge in such fantasies? I would have already absorbed this supreme treasure with great joy."

In other words: It's not that I'm greedy. It's that you're too powerful, Big Shot. I have confidence in your strength. Grandmaster is a habitual poacher of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, and he's extremely experienced at it.

Hearing this, Xiao Changfeng was overjoyed, and the smug curve of his lips rose again.

This child really knew how to speak. He was truly likable, and he had excellent judgment as well.

He was a dignified Level 96 Super Douluo. To a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, encountering him was no different from encountering a living Yama. Escaping with its life was impossible.

Besides, Xu Tianxi would not begin absorbing Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings until at least his Seventh Ring. Cultivating an Ultimate Martial Soul was also slow. By then, he might already be a Level Ninety-Seven Super Douluo. At that time, killing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast would be as easy as slaughtering chickens and dogs. He might even dare to provoke a Ferocious Beast.

"Good! Since that's the case, Senior Martial Uncle will wait for the day you can absorb a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring! Senior Martial Uncle will definitely equip both of your Martial Souls with enough Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings!"

Having made up his mind, Xiao Changfeng put away the soul bone and patted Xu Tianxi heavily on the shoulder, his face filled with anticipation.

"Twin Martial Souls have always been synonymous with peerless geniuses. If I could equip you with a complete set of Six Soul Bone, all exceeding one hundred thousand years, just how powerful would that be? Even Senior Martial Uncle can hardly imagine it. Hahaha..."

Xu Tianxi said nothing. He merely smiled, clasped his hands in salute, and then sat cross-legged in midair, using his Spiritual Power to sense the world within and without as he meditated and cultivated.

Xiao Changfeng's words seemed like warm currents flowing into his chest. He felt as comfortable as if he were soaking in a hot spring during winter.

At a time like this, anything he said would seem affected. Preparing to repay him in the future was what truly mattered.

Although Tang God King had behaved inhumanely, he had indeed given the Original Seven Devils many benefits. Without Tang San, among the Original Seven Devils, perhaps only Oscar could have cultivated to the Titled Douluo level. The others would either have been held back by flaws in their Martial Souls or killed before they could mature. Becoming gods would have been even more impossible.

Among the Divine Positions of the Six Monsters, Oscar and Ning Rongrong had been sought out by the God of Food and the Nine Colors Goddess. Xiao Wu was the Asura Scabbard, whose sole duty was to receive the sword back into its scabbard.

As for the three of Dai, Zhu, and Ma becoming gods, Tang San likely had a hand in it to some extent. Otherwise, the God of Destruction would not have been dissatisfied with Tang San because of it.

Tang God King had certainly done this to cultivate the strength of his own faction. However, one judged actions by their results, not intentions. He had indeed provided benefits—he simply had not given them all. His own cousin and his brother's wife had no value to him, so he had not helped them.

If he had wanted to help, arranging a Third-Class Deity or even a Divine Official would have allowed her to gain Eternal Life and remain together with Ma Hongjun. No matter what, the other God Kings could not have refused to give Tang San, the newly appointed enforcer, some face.

With two Divine Positions, he could bring more people to the God Realm. Could he really not allow the New Asura God to bring a family member? Was he looking down on the Asura Divine Sword?

Though his entire clan was so poor that even their cookware rang hollow, Granduncle Bai He had still given Tang San the Peerless Ginseng King he had treasured for years, helping Tang San win over his old brother Yang Wudi. He had even unintentionally helped Xiao Wu recover. Bai He had only one thing to say: this was infuriating!

All that wholehearted assistance had been thrown into the water!

Here, one should also sympathize with the unlucky Dugu grandfather and granddaughter, who had likewise suffered because they had no value, as well as the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, which was unworthy of its reputation.

Regardless, he could not curse Tang God King for behaving inhumanely while doing things even worse than Tang God King. That would be far too humiliating. As a dignified transmigrator, how could he afford to lose face like that?

If he wanted to repay Xiao Changfeng in the future, he would at least have to find a supreme-grade soul bone. He should also reserve that Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well in advance.

Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire Phoenix could purify itself into Ultimate Fire after consuming Blazing Glue. Naturally, Xiao Changfeng's Ice Crystal Phoenix could also cultivate into Ultimate Ice.

As for the Divine Position...

"The Titan Snow Demon King claimed to possess the Ice God Bloodline. I wonder whether the Ice God is in the God Realm. But even if not, it has to be Ma Hongjun's Phoenix Divine Position. In any case, there's no fun in him staying alone in the God Realm. He buries himself in a volcano all day long. He might as well give up his Divine Position and become a drifter in the universe..."

His thoughts spread beyond the heavens, and Xu Tianxi began plotting for a Divine Position.

In his plans for the future, condensing faith and creating his own Divine Position was a path he had to take. However, the faith of Douluo Planet's living beings was limited. The Sea God had taken a thousand years to walk this path. It would already be difficult enough for him to succeed, so helping Xiao Changfeng was beyond his abilities.

If he wanted to become a god first and use that to bring others to godhood later, then he could only seize one. Ma Hongjun's Phoenix Divine Position was his fallback. Although he did not quite understand why the Phoenix Divine Position was merely a Second-Class Deity, there was nothing he could do about it. After entering the God Realm in the future, he could study it slowly.

In short, Xu Tianxi had not possessed any great abilities throughout his cultivation. He was merely skilled at overwhelming firepower and persuading others with reason!

The physical kind of reason!

Time passed unconsciously like flowing water, and night arrived. The moon Xu Tianxi had longed for most appeared suddenly, its moonlight bright as a length of silk.

And it was a full moon.

Sensing the appearance of his target, the crescent-moon mark between Xu Tianxi's brows immediately began flashing with excited radiance. Unable to wait, it released an attractive force and began collecting the Moonlight Radiance.

Unlike the slow, gradual absorption of the past, Xu Tianxi's speed was now much faster. A moon-white vortex formed from fused Soul Power and Spiritual Power emerged from between his brows, actively swallowing the moonlight inward.

The moonlight within several square meters around Xu Tianxi was quickly absorbed completely. Strands of moonlight gathered into visible rays and surged toward the mark between his brows.

As the Illusory Moon Mystic Eyes activated, the moon halo behind Xu Tianxi's head, which had previously been only the size of an egg, rapidly expanded at an astonishing speed. Countless indistinct threads of Spiritual Power sketched out a Moon Wheel within half an hour.

Blue and black light flashed alternately within the Moon Wheel, accompanied by the sound of thunder and rain.

Several traces of astonishment appeared in Xiao Changfeng's eyes, and his heart trembled.

To facilitate Xu Tianxi's cultivation, he had specially built him a platform and purchased equipment, creating the most suitable simulated cultivation environment for him. Yet Xu Tianxi's current speed was more than three times faster than it had been on the platform.

"Tian Xi's Spiritual Power has already surpassed that of many Soul Kings and is approaching the Soul Emperor level. It seems absorbing that soul ring brought endless benefits. Even his speed of devouring moonlight has doubled. Could he have inherited even the Deep Sea Silver Demonic Whale's talent for swallowing water like a Long Whale?"

Before long, an aged yet vigorous figure walked up to Xiao Changfeng. His eyes shone brightly as he respectfully saluted him.

Xiao Changfeng turned his gaze toward Yue Lao and smiled as he took out the three-thousand-year Evil Spirit Orca Head Bone. "It's good that you succeeded. Absorb this one as well."

Yue Lao was shocked. His hands flung out afterimages as he stammered incoherently, "Ice Phoenix Crown, how could this old servant possibly be worthy of absorbing such a soul bone? Please, please don't waste such a supreme treasure on this old servant. Even if, even if Young Master can't use it, it could, it could..."

Upon seeing the soul bone, he had thought of Xu Tianxi first. But after thinking it over, he realized that Ice Phoenix Crown must have already made arrangements, and Young Master probably could not use it.

In his desperation, he also thought of having the soul bone made into a top-grade Soul Tool and passed down through the generations. Yet his mind went blank, and he could not bring himself to say it.

He could not make something like that!

Looking at the straightforward old man who was almost adorably earnest, Xiao Changfeng was secretly satisfied. He raised a hand to stop Yue Lao from continuing, his deep, tranquil eyes utterly calm.

"Giving you this soul bone was not my idea. It was Tian Xi's."

The complicated emotions on Yue Lao's face abruptly froze, and tears immediately welled up in his sunken eye sockets.

He gazed gratefully at Xu Tianxi, who was meditating with the intense focus of an ancient monk in deep concentration, and Yue Lao began to sob softly.

"This old servant thanks Young Master, and thanks Ice Phoenix Crown!"

"Mm."

Xiao Changfeng nodded lightly, a smile touching the corners of his lips. His gaze turned exceptionally gentle as he looked at Xu Tianxi.

"The situation on the continent will change soon. I have a premonition that Tian Xi will become the person who influences the continent, and we will be able to witness it all and welcome a better future. Having such a successor is a great comfort to me."

PS: As we bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, I wish all my Esteemed Readers a happy New Year and success in everything! May blessings never come singly—today, they arrive together; may disasters never come alone—last night, they came one after another!