Cauldron and Dragon Soul

"It really is Twin Martial Souls!"

"Chen Yuan, you've made a great contribution this time. The academy will consider raising your bonus for this semester."

Tsk, tsk. Just as expected of an iron rooster.

I brought you a Twin Martial Souls user, and not only are you giving me nothing good, you could at least pay me that bonus in advance, right?

There was nothing to be done. Yan Shaozhe was just that petty. Otherwise, despite having the Bright Phoenix Martial Soul, he would not still be stuck at Rank 95.

"Xiao Yuan, the two things that person over there released seem to have a special connection with you. Gulu."

"What?"

Setting aside his dissatisfaction with Yan Shaozhe for the moment, Chen Yuan calmed himself and sensed carefully. Sure enough, he felt an elusive connection between Xiao Xiao's two Martial Souls and his own.

This connection was extremely unstable, as though it could break at any moment.

"See? I didn't lie to you, did I? Gulu."

"All right, all right. I never thought Dali Gu was lying to me."

Within the Sea of Consciousness, Dali Gu stood with his hands on his hips, looking immensely pleased with himself. He was exceedingly proud that he had reminded Chen Yuan about this, clearly waiting to be praised.

"Dali Gu, you're amazing! If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have noticed such a faint connection at all. You helped me a lot. I'll buy you more tasty food later."

Chen Yuan was naturally never stingy with praise when it came to his own Little Dinosaur.

As for why his Martial Soul had formed this faint connection with Xiao Xiao's two Martial Souls, Chen Yuan had a few guesses of his own.

Xiao Xiao's Martial Souls were the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron and the Nine-Phoenix Flute.

Chen Yuan's Martial Soul was the Flame Gauntlet containing a Dragon Soul.

Clearly, it was not the Gauntlet, the vessel itself, that had formed a connection with Xiao Xiao, but the flames and the Dragon Soul.

A cauldron had originally been a cooking utensil before later becoming a sacrificial vessel, so it could barely be linked to fire.

Perhaps this Cauldron wanted to suppress the Dragon Soul within Chen Yuan's Martial Soul.

As for the Nine-Phoenix Flute, there was no need to explain it. It had definitely formed a connection with Chen Yuan's Dragon Soul.

In any case, he had never expected that he and Xiao Xiao would share even this slight connection.

Still, Chen Yuan was not too surprised. After all, if Martial Souls could be forced into nonsensical connections, they could still have some common ground.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong even had four Martial Soul Fusion Skills.

Eyes and butterflies, scorpions and butterflies—Chen Yuan had nothing to say about those combinations. Some butterflies had spiritual attributes, after all, so they could be linked to Spirit Eyes.

Scorpions and butterflies were both insects, so Chen Yuan would not nitpick that either.

But how could eyes and hammers, or scorpions and hammers, produce Martial Soul Fusion Skills?!

And they had started with a one-hundred-percent Martial Soul Fusion?

It was not as though there were no cases of people acquiring Martial Soul Fusion Skills later in life, but the odds were too low. A pair might not appear even once in several hundred years.

Thus, on Douluo Continent, few people thought about developing Martial Soul Fusion Skills after the fact.

For people like Chen Yuan and Xiao Xiao, who had even the slightest connection, cultivating together for a few years could potentially allow them to complete Soul Power fusion and then attempt a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Of course, there was also a strong possibility that this connection would disappear after they absorbed Soul Rings.

Even so, even if the connection was extremely weak, it was still something countless Soul Masters dreamed of.

Chen Yuan found it strange that his Martial Soul had connected with Xiao Xiao's, but when he thought of Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, as well as the Sun-Heavenly Zither displayed by Ao Rui and Mo Zihong in Douluo III, it no longer seemed so strange.

Chen Yuan decided to leave everything to the future. He could not bring himself to approach Xiao Xiao merely for a Martial Soul Fusion Skill that might never appear.

Xiao Xiao seemed to have noticed the faint stirring in her Martial Souls as well, but a Title Douluo was currently speaking with her.

"Xiao Xiao, in my capacity as the dean of Shrek Academy, I guarantee that from this moment onward, you are a Core Disciple of the Martial Soul Department."

"Once the Freshman Grand Tournament is over, we'll announce it publicly. Until then, you will still receive the treatment of a Core Disciple."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Xiao, who had yet to experience the dangers of society, was clearly trapped by the grand promises Yan Shaozhe had painted for her.

"Chen Yuan, since you were the one who brought Student Xiao Xiao here, remember to take her to the dormitory later."

"Also, since Student Xiao Xiao is already Rank 19, I'll have to trouble you to take her to the academy's Beast Fighting Arena to hunt a Soul Ring once she reaches Rank 20."

Yan Shaozhe handed Chen Yuan a special token. It was a Beast Fighting Arena token that could be exchanged for a Hundred-Year Soul Beast.

Shrek's Beast Fighting Arena even had Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, so producing a Hundred-Year Soul Beast was simplicity itself.

It could be considered a little benefit Xiao Xiao had gotten from Shrek Academy.

"Dean! These are the files for students above Rank 20 who registered on the first day. I'll hand them directly to you!"

After dropping a stack of files onto Yan Shaozhe's desk, Chen Yuan quickly slipped out of the office with Xiao Xiao. Xiao Xiao suppressed her excitement and thanked Chen Yuan.

"Thank you, Senior!"

"I was originally wondering whether I should add a Soul Ring to my second Martial Soul and advance to Soul Grandmaster."

"If you had really done that, your future would have been ruined."

"Huh?"

Although the advantages of Twin Martial Souls were now widely known, not many people knew the proper cultivation method.

Xiao Xiao seemed to truly know nothing about it, and Chen Yuan did not mind explaining a little more. He had already changed part of the plot anyway.

"Aside from Twin Martial Souls that share the same origin, if the two Martial Souls are cultivated at the same time, their Martial Soul Origins will clash."

"In the end, you'll explode and die."

"Your two Martial Souls have nothing to do with sharing the same origin. If you cultivate them recklessly, you'll definitely die."

Chen Yuan's words gave Xiao Xiao quite a fright, and she felt fortunate that she had not added a Soul Ring to the Nine-Phoenix Flute.

Recalling the sense of affinity she had felt from this handsome senior when they released their Martial Souls, Xiao Xiao's emotions, which had only just calmed down, surged once more.

"Senior, did you sense the connection between our Martial Souls just now?"

"I did."

"Then... could we have a Martial Soul Fusion Skill?"

Xiao Xiao's eyes were full of anticipation.

Chen Yuan had actually underestimated the status Martial Soul Fusion Skills held in the hearts of Soul Masters on Douluo Continent.

Among all the Soul Masters across the continent, there were definitely no more than two hundred people with Martial Soul Fusion Skills, and that was counting Soul Masters of every rank.

Among high-level Soul Masters, those who also possessed Martial Soul Fusion Skills could be counted on one hand.

That was only because Chen Yuan had read the novel before transmigrating and had seen the absurd combat power of the protagonists' group later in the story from a godlike perspective.

Those Martial Soul Fusion Skills from the early stages had basically gathered dust by the later stages.

That was what had created the current situation.

Chen Yuan did not care about Martial Soul Fusion Skills at all.

Xiao Xiao was eagerly anticipating the Martial Soul Fusion Skill that might appear in the future.

Moreover, since opposite-sex partners with Martial Soul Fusion Skills were usually married, Xiao Xiao looked at Chen Yuan with a touch of embarrassment in her eyes.

Chen Yuan could roughly guess Xiao Xiao's thoughts. Girls always had expectations for love.

"It's best not to expect too much. The connection between us is too weak. We would need to sense each other's aura for a long time before there would be any possibility."

"Besides, Junior Sister, you're still young. Don't abandon your own thoughts for the sake of a Martial Soul Fusion Skill that may never appear."

"Follow your heart instead of pursuing a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Only then can you find beautiful love."

"Come on, I'll take you to the dormitory," Chen Yuan said, then added another sentence, seemingly feeling that he had sounded too cold.

"We've only just met. Leave everything to the future."

"At the academy, if there's anything you can't handle, you can come find me in Dormitory 316. As long as it's within my ability, I'll do my best to help you."

Xiao Xiao looked at Chen Yuan's back ahead of her. Her heart raced, and she felt that he was so dazzling.