Branch Store Plan

Chen Huang took a long while to adapt to the power of the Spirit Bone. He could feel his physical fitness and Soul Power both improving slightly. His Soul Power seemed to have reached level nineteen.

Good thing he had not absorbed that Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Bone before. Otherwise, he might not be speaking as a living person right now. Well, he just wondered whether he could still chat in the group after dying.

A delighted expression appeared on his face as bright yellow currents crackled along his right arm. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's lightning seemed to be blue, though. Otherwise, why would it be called Blue Lightning?

The current flowed across his right arm, and everywhere it passed felt numb. Then he exerted himself and increased his Soul Power output, causing the current's intensity to surge.

Only then did Chen Huang feel a slight stinging pain. Now it was finally having the effect of tempering his body with lightning. Ordinary shocks did not hurt or itch at all. Was his electrical resistance different or something?

After it continued for a while, Xiao Shan and Tang Hao looked at him as if he were an idiot.

Crackle, crackle, crackle.

"Xiao Huang, stop already! If you keep shocking yourself, your hand is going to be cooked!" Xiao Shan said.

Only then did Chen Huang stop. Now that he felt it, his hand really was nearly cooked. Something had to be wrong. He could not train like this. This was not lightning tempering his body—it was clearly heavenly fire forging it.

He then used his first Soul Skill, and the injuries on his right arm quickly healed.

Xiao Shan added, "You don't have to tell me. Your Spirit Bone has a lightning attribute, right?"

Chen Huang smiled awkwardly. "It does have a lightning attribute. I just seem to be using it a little wrong."

They did not linger in the Star Dou Great Forest. Tang Hao took them and flew straight out of the forest, returning to the courtyard in Nuoding City.

Having such a training ground was quite nice. Chen Huang and Xiao Shan had both just gained a considerable increase in strength, so they could spar properly and familiarize themselves with their current power.

But there was no rush, really. They could take it slowly in the future. Even if they did nothing serious every day and only ate, drank, played, and trained, it would be fine. After all, they had money now.

The two of them had already decided not to attend intermediate or advanced Soul Master Academies.

Most of the Soul Beast knowledge Chen Huang had learned concerned Hundred Year and Thousand Year beasts. There was very little information on rare Soul Beasts. He needed that material and knowledge to recharge himself, but did he not have Shadow Clones? He could just send his clones in the future. With Transformation Technique, they could even turn into students at those schools. They would not do anything else, just sneak into the libraries to study. Would it not be far too troublesome for him to attend those academies himself?

Chen Huang honestly could not remember the last time he had read a book himself. It was always his Shadow Clones doing the reading; he had not touched a book at all.

Their preliminary plan was to expand Little Grass Dessert Shop into other provinces and other small kingdoms. The Balak Kingdom was the next destination they had chosen.

The Balak Kingdom was much hotter than the Heaven Dou Empire, making it suitable for selling shaved ice. Besides that, they could sell popsicles too. They had lacked the means before and had not been particular about such things, but what could they not make now?

First, it was to open a branch store. Second, it was to travel.

Reading ten thousand books was not as good as traveling ten thousand miles, and traveling ten thousand miles was not as good as meeting countless people.

Traveling was important. Tang Hao strongly supported it as well. Yet he was the one most troubled by it.

His wife, Ah Yin, had left behind a grass seed back then. It had now grown again into a Blue Silver Emperor with relatively little cultivation. She was his wife. Although she had become like this, he could not simply abandon her.

He had always hoped that one day Ah Yin would turn back, embrace him, and then see her daughter.

This mattered more to him than Xiao Huang and Xiao Shan going out to travel. He truly did not know what to do. Was he supposed to keep flying back and forth along two routes afterward?

Hunting a Spirit Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest was different. He could go and return quickly. In the original story, he would probably have ultimately chosen to protect Tang San. But now, he was still torn.

He took the time to return to the cave behind the waterfall on the Back Mountain of Sacred Soul Village.

Only after several years could one see that the Blue Silver Emperor had grown quite a bit. But if he waited for her to recover naturally, Tang Hao probably would not live long enough even if he lived three to five hundred years.

"Ah Yin, I... Xiao Shan is going traveling. I can't stop worrying about her," Tang Hao said.

He had already made his choice. He chose to take care of the child.

Before he could finish, Ah Yin knew what he wanted to say. A leaf rested atop Tang Hao's hand.

An emotion traveled over through the leaf.

She was Xiao Shan's mother. Though she had never even seen Xiao Shan once, her feelings for Xiao Shan were the same as Tang Hao's. Xiao Shan was their shared hope. In any case, she was already like this, and things could not get any worse. As long as Xiao Shan was well, that was enough.

She still could not convey too many thoughts or emotions. Back then, Qian Xunji had led people to find them, and that had been the beginning of their misfortune.

Nothing could happen to Xiao Shan.

Xiao Shan looked remarkably like Ah Yin. Whenever Tang Hao took her out, he worried that someone might recognize her. After all, Tang Hao was a wanted man. Ah Yin had been by his side before, and Spirit Hall surely had records and portraits of them.

In Sacred Soul Village, he could be unconcerned about it. But once he went outside, he wore a cloak and hood—basically, he had the look of a middle-aged man in black who could not show his face.

"Alright. I will definitely protect Xiao Shan. I'll come back to see you every few days," Tang Hao said.

He had already planned it out. When the time came, he would not travel together with Xiao Shan and the others. He would say it was to train them and that he would only protect them from the shadows. He would follow from far away, making it less likely for anyone to recognize him.

A few days later, Chen Huang gradually received the red packets sent by the group members. They contained the things they had previously promised verbally to exchange with him.

Zhang Sanfeng had been quite generous with the Martial Arts Manuals he sent: the Nine Yin Manual, Nine Yang Divine Skill, and One Yang Finger. There was nothing else, since the rest was basically not anything valuable. These few manuals, however, were all extremely precious.

Several years ago, Chen Huang had asked Zhang Sanfeng for Internal Energy suitable for girls. Zhang Sanfeng had readily agreed and put considerable effort into searching throughout his world. In the end, though, he had not found any particularly suitable cultivation method.

There were plenty of Internal Energy techniques suitable for girls in worlds of the Jin style, but high-grade ones were hard to find. Lesser Formless Skill, the Eight Desolations and Six Harmonies Only I Reign Supreme Skill, the Nine Yin Manual, the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra—none of them were easy to obtain.

Zhang Sanfeng had not deceived him. He had plainly explained that if he could not find anything suitable, it was better not to give anything at all. The meditation method used by the Clear Sky Sect that Xiao Shan was currently cultivating was not bad either. Her cultivation speed was quite good, so there was no need to change it.

The Nine Yin Manual was rather good, though. He could teach it to Xiao Shan in the future.

These Internal Energy methods were filled from beginning to end with all kinds of technical terms. To an outsider, they were obscure and difficult to understand. Was Mei Chaofeng, Huang Laoxie's disciple, stupid? Probably not. Yet she had taken the phrase "destroy the enemy leader" and literally used her claws to destroy quite a few people's brains. That was her Nine Yin White Bone Claw.

So they would see in the future. There was no need to learn something merely because it seemed powerful. What suited oneself was best.

Xiao Fugui had sent all of the Eight Great Cuisines, Hong Family Cuisine, and the Manchu Han Imperial Feast. They were all handwritten copies, with his own annotations added.

Looking at those cookbooks, Chen Huang laughed aloud. There was far too much delicious food in the Douluo World. It seemed he would have good meals to look forward to.

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