Du Busi: My Disciple Has the Potential to Become a God

Lin Ran and Huo Yun'er soon returned together.

The three sat around the table. Du Busi said, "From now on, after you finish reading every noon, come here for a medicinal bath. Then eat these special ingredients. In about six years, it should be enough."

Six years?

Lin Ran did the math. The medicinal ingredients required for the baths alone would cost hundreds of thousands of Gold Soul Coins, not to mention those precious ingredients.

He could not help but sigh. "Training in the Body Sect really burns through money."

Du Busi said, "Your situation is special. Your physical condition and martial soul are both excellent, which is why it's like this. Others can't possibly use this many medicinal ingredients; at most, they can keep it up for one or two years."

"Drug resistance is also a talent. When this old man trained like this back then, I lasted less than three years before my body reached its limit."

With something to compare himself against, Lin Ran gained a clearer understanding of his own talent.

After lunch, Du Busi brought Lin Ran to the training grounds halfway up the mountain for his afternoon training.

Du Busi said with ill intent, "Kid, the medicinal bath and meal at noon are only preparations for the afternoon training. The real hell-level training comes in the afternoon. Are you ready?"

Lin Ran sensed that something was wrong.

Du Busi chuckled. "Our Body Sect has plenty of training methods for tempering the body and honing Bloodline Power. With your martial soul, these methods all suit you quite well. How about this—you pick one. Anyway, you'll have to undergo all of them eventually."

"Deep-sea training: battle Sea Soul Beasts and experience the oppression of life-and-death crises under extreme pressure..."

"Barehanded rock climbing: scale ten-thousand-zhang cliffs without using Soul Power. One careless mistake, and you'll fall off the cliff. Even if you don't die, you'll be severely injured..."

"Waterfall training: temper your body and gain control over it under the impact of powerful currents. One careless mistake will likewise end in severe injury..."

Looking at these training methods, Lin Ran's head began to ache. He could already imagine just how dire his future life would be—

Why did every single form of training involve a life-and-death crisis?

Du Busi comforted him, "It's fine. What you're seeing are the final trials. Only when we confirm that you have a chance of undergoing a Body Martial Soul Second Awakening will the final trials begin, and they'll continue until your martial soul awakens for a second time. Ordinary training won't reach that level."

Only then did Lin Ran breathe a sigh of relief, before hearing Du Busi continue, "In normal times, we'll do our best to ensure the disciples' safety."

So whether the disciples got hurt was none of their concern, huh?

Lin Ran's mouth twitched.

After an entire afternoon of hellish training, Du Busi carried the utterly exhausted Lin Ran back home, followed by another medicinal bath.

However, this medicinal bath was quite different from the one at noon. It was rather gentle. According to Du Busi, this bath was mainly meant to nourish his body, relieve fatigue, and repair physical damage.

After the medicinal bath, Du Busi said, "I won't assign any training tasks tonight. Once you return, you can cultivate Soul Power or practice that cultivation method of yours. From now on, this will be your daily schedule. Remember that."

Lin Ran nodded weakly.

He was truly exhausted.

After returning, he wrote down the first level of the Marrow Cleansing Scripture before entering meditation.

After a full day of intense training, he found that his cultivation speed had increased considerably. He naturally broke through to Rank 14.

Early the next morning, he delivered the cultivation method to Du Busi.

As Du Busi read through it, his brows initially furrowed tightly, then gradually relaxed. His entire being became utterly engrossed.

"It can be done like this?"

"It can actually be done this way?"

"Bloodline Power can actually be combined with Soul Power like this?"

"Bloodline Power actually has such uses?"

Listening to Du Busi, who had already sunk into his own world, Lin Ran shook his head and headed to the library alone.

At noon, when he arrived at Du Busi's courtyard, Du Busi was sitting upright in the yard, his posture perfectly straight and his expression solemn.

"Teacher? Are we starting the medicinal bath?"

"Wait a moment first." Du Busi shook his head.

Lin Ran waited quietly. Du Busi said with a serious expression, "Xiao Ran, this old man must thank you. Thanks to your cultivation method, this old man has come to understand the true nature of Bloodline Power. I once considered myself the person who understood Bloodline Power best in this world, but now I realize I was merely looking at the sky from the bottom of a well."

"Before, this old man believed I was only one step away from becoming a Limit Douluo. Only after obtaining your cultivation method did I realize just how far behind I truly was."

Lin Ran said, "It's good as long as it helps you, Teacher."

Du Busi said, "I am now confident in condensing a second Soul Core of Bloodline Power. Next, I will enter seclusion for a time and break through to the limit. I've already arranged your training for this period. The Great Elder will take over and teach you in my place."

"Teacher, you're about to break through?" Lin Ran was surprised. He had not expected the first level of the Marrow Cleansing Scripture to grant Du Busi such insight and break through his bottleneck.

Then he was delighted. If Du Busi broke through to become a Limit Douluo, wouldn't Lin Ran's backing become even stronger?

Sure enough, it was not only himself who needed to train so desperately. His teacher, as well as those elders and disciples within the sect, needed to start pushing themselves too!

He was already training desperately. If those people did not do the same, he would not feel right about it.

Lin Ran looked at Du Busi with the gaze of someone hoping his teacher would become a dragon and earnestly urged, "Teacher, you must train properly and make sure you break through! Your disciple's future still depends on you."

Du Busi: "..."

It felt strange somehow, but he couldn't tell what was strange about it.

"Alright, go soak in the medicinal bath!" Du Busi said irritably.

Lin Ran took two steps, hesitated for a moment, then turned back. "Teacher, could I ask the sect to do something for me?"

Du Busi frowned. "What is it? You're already this old man's disciple, yet you're still being so polite with me?"

Lin Ran said, "Could you capture a Bloodline Bat that's over eight hundred years old and bring it back for me to kill?"

His soul ring advance task still hadn't been completed. Du Busi was about to enter seclusion, so this was the time to learn how to mobilize the masses.

"It can be done." Du Busi frowned in confusion. "But why do you want to kill a Bloodline Bat? And have one captured and brought back just for you to kill?"

Lin Ran gave the excuse he had prepared long ago.

"Teacher, aren't you curious where I got the Marrow Cleansing Scripture from?"

Du Busi said unhappily, "You already gave me the egg to eat. Must I ask you where the chicken that laid it is too? Is that the kind of person your teacher is?"

Lin Ran said, "Actually, I inherited the legacy of a deity. This cultivation method was taught to me by her. She gives me certain trials, and once I complete them, she rewards me."

He would definitely need to advance more things from the system in the future. Rather than come up with excuses every time, he might as well pin everything on this unknown deity.

"You're saying you inherited a deity's legacy?" Du Busi was startled, his expression dazed. "My disciple actually has the potential to become a god?"

Then he thought of it—who else could possibly pass down such a miraculous cultivation method to his disciple but a deity?

"So my disciple truly has the potential to become a god!"

This time, he was certain.

He looked at Lin Ran with burning eyes.

Who would have thought that he, Du Busi, would one day raise a disciple who could become a god?

He considered himself far superior to Yu Xiao Gang, the so-called theoretical master from ten thousand years ago.

And his disciple—he was no worse than Tang San, and his talent far surpassed the likes of Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun. If they could become gods, why couldn't his disciple?

That was exactly it!

Lin Ran: "..." That was not something he could say. There was karma involved.

"Teacher, I merely inherited the legacy. Whether I can become a god still depends on whether I can pass the trials."

Du Busi had never lacked confidence. He chuckled. "It's fine. I believe you have the potential to become a god!"

"This old man has long found Shrek unpleasant. They compare themselves to gods all day long, bragging about that nonsensical Shrek Glory."

"But it's alright. In the future, people across the continent will find our Body Sect unpleasant too!"

Lin Ran: "..."

So Teacher wanted to raise a god just so the Body Sect would become hated by everyone on the continent?

Was there a possibility that, outside the Heaven Dou Empire, the Body Sect was already hated by everyone?

The Douluo Continent's number one shit-stirrer—that was the Body Sect from the Original Work!