Innate Domain

"Mystical Palm Technique? What a nice name. Xiao Huang, I want to learn this Mystical Palm Technique. Can you teach me?" Xiao Shan asked, gazing at Chen Huang with eager eyes. She simply felt that the Mystical Palm Technique seemed very suitable for her.

Chen Huang smiled and stroked Xiao Shan's hair. "Of course. But whether you can learn it, I can't guarantee."

"Oh, right, Xiao Shan. Come here again after dinner later," Chen Huang said, recalling her Blue Silver Grass. He had never had the chance before.

"What for?"

"Just treat it as practicing our Martial Soul Fusion Skill."

"Okay. I'll come over after I take a bath."

Chen Huang returned home, and dinner was served not long after.

He ate two large bowls of rice, his usual amount, then froze. Two large bowls were no small amount. Ordinary children would be full after two small bowls. But today, why did he still feel like he could not get full no matter how much he ate?

Could it be because of Life Return? Chen Huang wondered. Could this thing passively increase one's appetite too? Then again, looking at Garp's family, maybe it could.

Yang Jian later explained the two soul skills of the Maze Tree's Survival Skull to him in detail. At the same time, he reminded him not to rashly absorb a Spirit Bone. That impact would be extremely fatal to him at his current stage. A Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Bone should at least be absorbed only after he could handle a Spirit Ring close to a Hundred Thousand Years old.

Chen Huang secretly found that regrettable. In his opinion, the absorption soul skill of the Maze Tree's Survival Skull had an excellent effect, especially for him right now. But he could not use it. Still, having Life Return, a skill that could likewise be used to absorb nutrients, was not bad either.

Oh, right. Internal Force also seemed to help digestion and absorption. By circulating Internal Force to the stomach, he could strengthen its digestive and absorptive abilities. Internal Energy itself could be considered a process of refining essence into qi, so such an effect was perfectly normal. Eating more and eating better could also increase Internal Force.

He thought that this ability needed further study. To him, Life Return was a form of bodily control. It was also like the outline—the core principles—of an Internal Energy cultivation method. If one first understood the principles of Life Return, then practicing the Six Powers would yield twice the result with half the effort.

Since it was control over the body, then its ability to promote digestion and absorption should be similar to Internal Energy. One strengthened the stomach's digestive ability, while the other controlled the stomach and actively carried out digestion and absorption. Combining the two should raise the stomach's digestive capacity to 120%. Ordinary people probably only used a few dozen percent, simply waiting for their stomachs to digest on their own.

At that thought, he put down his chopsticks and stopped eating. There was only this much food cooked at home. Since they ate this amount every day, they naturally never made extra. Besides, eating more would naturally increase expenses. Now that he had earned some money, he at least no longer needed to worry about going hungry. But there was no need to act too shockingly at home.

If he ate too much, his parents would worry whether the family had enough money, then try to earn more and work themselves to the bone. He did not want to see that. The supplements he had eaten as a child had all been bought with his father's blood and sweat. If he left money for the family, they would not have to exhaust themselves every day. He would not bring pressure like that upon his parents.

As for filling his stomach, it seemed that while he was at home, he would have to eat extra meals outside.

After dinner, he went alone to the Back Mountain, caught a wild chicken in the woods, then scooped up two fish from the river. He ate roasted chicken and grilled fish on a slope of the Back Mountain while waiting for Xiao Shan.

Xiao Shan had to take a bath, so naturally she would come out later. Unlike us, who only needed to turn on the water heater whenever we wanted a bath. Hot water came out right away, making bathing convenient.

But the Douluo World was different. If one wanted a hot bath, the water naturally had to be heated. Otherwise, one could bathe in cold water. For a Soul Master, washing in cold water was no problem at all.

"Dad, I'm heading out," Xiao Shan said after bathing and changing into the simple little dress she usually wore.

"Why are you going out so late?" Tang Hao asked curiously.

"Hehe, to practice our Martial Soul Fusion Skill."

During dinner, Xiao Shan had already told her father, Tang Hao, about the Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Tang Hao looked calm on the surface, but inwardly, he was incredibly shocked.

"Blue Silver Grass and Weed can form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill too? Is it because they're both Weed?"

Blue Silver Grass! Weed! Best match!

The Martial Soul Fusion Skill between Xiao Shan and Chen Huang was actually rather ordinary. Among all Martial Soul Fusion Skills on the Douluo Continent, it might rank near the very bottom. Its main feature was that it did not even have a soul incantation, and it was a control-type skill with no power at all. Had a control-type Martial Soul Fusion Skill ever even appeared on the Douluo Continent?

Take the Golden Iron Triangle's Sun-Moon Radiance Golden Turn, for example. Just hearing that name made it sound powerful.

However, Chen Huang had not called Xiao Shan out to practice their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. They only needed to practice that thing a few times to get familiar with it.

The first time Xiao Shan released her Martial Soul in front of him, the Blue Silver Grass beneath her feet had grown wildly. But afterward, it had been completely normal and ordinary. This confirmed Chen Huang's suspicions: Xiao Shan definitely possessed an Innate Domain. She had merely released it unconsciously the first time.

"Xiao Shan, release your Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul," Chen Huang said.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Shan asked, holding the Blue Silver Grass in her hand.

Chen Huang did not answer. Instead, he first looked at the grass beneath their feet. Sure enough, there was not the slightest change. He slapped his forehead. He had forgotten that she had used Soul Power that time. What a pig brain.

"Do you remember the first time you injected Soul Power into your Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul?" Chen Huang asked.

"I remember. I injected Soul Power, and then the Blue Silver Grass on the ground grew longer," Xiao Shan said.

"Yes, that was it." Chen Huang was delighted. Looking at Xiao Shan, he continued, "Xiao Shan, can you make Blue Silver Grass grow wildly without releasing your Martial Soul?"

"How would I do that? Wasn't that the Martial Soul's effect?" Xiao Shan asked.

Chen Huang nodded and explained, "Maybe it was an effect of your Martial Soul, or maybe it was not. There are students at the academy with other plant-type Martial Souls. I observed their Martial Souls. Even after injecting Soul Power, nothing changed. That includes mine. But you are different. You can make Blue Silver Grass grow wildly."

Xiao Shan was completely confused. Was he saying that her Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul was very powerful?

"One possibility is that this ability of yours is indeed an effect of your Martial Soul. If so, it proves that your Martial Soul is not ordinary Blue Silver Grass. But we already knew that, so there is no need to say more."

"The other possibility is an answer I found in a book. Domains—a type of ability called a domain. Some people are born with domains, while others can comprehend them through later cultivation. At least one thing is certain: different domains possess different special abilities."

"For example, if it were a flame domain, perhaps it could strengthen flame abilities within its range while weakening water or ice abilities."

Everything above was made up by Chen Huang himself. How could a junior Soul Master Academy possibly have books like that? Everything he said was inferred from information he had read in the original novel, along with his own understanding and ideas. Even he could not guarantee whether it was right.

"Is it possible that your ability to make Blue Silver Grass grow wildly is an Innate Domain, one you simply have not realized or mastered yet?"

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