Tang Shan's Little Thoughts! Soul Beasts That Can Take Human Form Are the Version Answer?!

As the words fell, a deep yellow vortex of soul power with a diameter of ten meters suddenly erupted beneath Tang Shan's feet.

"This is my first soul skill, Gravity Dragon Might!" Tang Shan blinked playfully and continued, "Within my soul skill domain, all enemies will be suppressed by a gravitational force three times their own weight."

"An excellent control-type soul skill!" Ah Yin stepped forward, reached out to ruffle Tang Shan's hair, her tone filled with approval.

Lan Yu, standing to the side, raised an eyebrow with a hint of amusement in his voice: "Xiao Shan, is that all it does?"

"As expected, nothing can be hidden from Brother!" Tang Shan stuck out the tip of her tongue and leaped to Lan Yu's side.

She lifted her small face and continued, "In my gravity domain, the enemy's movement speed and attack speed are simultaneously reduced by thirty percent. If their mental strength is weaker than mine, they will also fall into a state of paralysis for one to two seconds!"

"Furthermore, soul masters with a weaker bloodline than mine will involuntarily show mental weakness toward me—though I prefer to call it submission!" Tang Shan looked up, leaning close to Lan Yu's ear, her tone carrying a hint of seduction.

Before she could finish, Tang Shan extended her fair, jade-like hand and lifted Lan Yu's chin: "Brother~ look into my eyes, and do not resist."

In Tang Shan's perception, Lan Yu's gaze gradually became unfocused and hazy, as if he were being hypnotized. The corners of her mouth curled up slightly, filled with triumph: "Brother is so obedient, hurry up and call me Sister!"

"Have you played enough?"

A cold, indifferent male voice suddenly resounded deep within Tang Shan's mind.

The next instant, Tang Shan's pupils constricted sharply.

In her eyes, Lan Yu's figure suddenly towered over her, his entire aura unleashed. His originally pitch-black pupils transformed into golden vertical slits, looking down at her from high above.

"Who is it that should be submitting to whom?"

Lan Yu's indifferent voice made Tang Shan's breathing ragged and her heart race. It was as if an instinct deep within her bloodline forced her legs to go weak and tremble; her eyes became completely dazed, and her body moved toward Lan Yu against her will.

No, Tang Shan, don't! You'll make a fool of yourself!

She gritted her teeth, bracing her consciousness, struggling not to sink into it.

"I... should submit to... Lan..."

Oh? The little girl is rebelling and dares to call her older brother by his full name.

Lan Yu looked at Tang Shan helplessly and chuckled: "What should you call me?"

Tang Shan's cherry lips parted slightly, her consciousness on the verge of slipping into a haze: "Mas..."

Before Lan Yu could hear it clearly, the excessive overdraw of soul power and mental strength caused Tang Shan's vision to go black, and she fainted on the spot.

"Xiao Shan?!"

Ah Yin exclaimed, stepping forward quickly to check on Tang Shan's condition.

From her perspective, Tang Shan had simply used her soul skill to lock eyes with Lan Yu, only to collapse in the blink of an eye.

After a moment of examination, Ah Yin breathed a sigh of relief. She looked up at the worried-looking Lan Yu and reassured him: "It's fine, she just overextended her soul power and mental strength."

Hearing this, Lan Yu carefully held Tang Shan in his arms.

Not long after, the young girl in his arms let out a soft, sweet moan and slowly opened her eyes.

"Mm... Brother?" Tang Shan stared straight at Lan Yu the moment she opened her eyes.

"Xiao Shan? How are you feeling?" Ah Yin asked softly.

"A little dizzy, I want to lie down for a while longer." Tang Shan raised a hand to cover her forehead, turned her head back to look at Lan Yu, and acted spoiled: "Can I? Brother~"

Lan Yu smiled helplessly, adjusted Tang Shan into a more comfortable position, and nodded toward Ah Yin.

Ah Yin shook her head, assuming the younger sister was just overly dependent on her brother. She sighed lightly and walked over to Xiao Wu, who was still condensing her soul ring, to act as her guardian.

"Brother, I..." Tang Shan blushed, stammering.

"Isn't that knowing how to call me brother? Why was it so hard to get you to say it just a moment ago?"

Lan Yu frowned slightly, his face full of confusion.

In his view, Tang Shan had just obtained her first soul skill and was simply too excited to resist testing it on him; everything just now was nothing more than a spur-of-the-moment prank.

"Ah? Call you brother? I thought you were asking me to..."

Tang Shan, who had been too shy to speak, let out a long sigh of relief upon hearing this.

"Hm? What did you think?"

"Nothing."

"What do you mean by 'nothing'?"

"Stop asking! Brother, don't you know that you shouldn't ask so many questions about a girl's business?"

Tang Shan, who had been using dizziness as an excuse, was no longer dizzy. She blushed, broke free from Lan Yu's embrace, and ran away in embarrassment.

She glanced back at the bewildered Lan Yu and secretly warned herself in her heart: Tang Shan, you were far too impatient! Wait until your soul power and mental strength completely surpass Brother's, then... hehehe!

However, at the thought of herself bowing in submission to Lan Yu, her heart rate nearly spiraled out of control, and a strange, tingling heat washed over her entire body.

As her emotions surged, Xiao Wu on the other side successfully completed her soul ring condensation.

"How many years is it?" Lan Yu stepped forward quickly and asked curiously.

"Seven hundred years!" Xiao Wu exclaimed, excited for the first time.

As expected, it was also a super-limit soul ring; even the condensation of a soul ring was influenced by one's physical constitution.

"Lan Yu, what... what are you doing?" Xiao Wu looked at Lan Yu's intense, unblinking gaze, her pretty face flushing slightly as she crossed her arms over her chest and pouted.

"What are you thinking about, you silly Er Baiwu?" Lan Yu said, speechless.

"Let me ask you, can you skip condensing a spirit ring and directly absorb the spirit ring of another spirit beast?"

"It's possible, but it's nowhere near as compatible as one you cultivate yourself," Xiao Wu replied truthfully.

Hearing this, Lan Yu fell into deep thought.

"Lan Yu, is there a problem?" Xiao Wu asked curiously.

"No problem, I'm just thinking that at the current rate of development, spirit beasts will eventually go extinct, and spirit masters will face a situation where there are no rings left to absorb."

"What will happen to the Douluo Continent then?"

At these words, Xiao Wu's eyes dimmed, and Tang Shan and Ah Yin also fell silent.

"Perhaps the solution lies with you." Lan Yu rubbed his temples, stepped forward, and looked at Xiao Wu with a complex expression.

"Me?"

It wasn't just Xiao Wu who was confused; Ah Yin and Tang Shan also looked at Lan Yu in bewilderment.

"That's right, it's you!"

"Or rather, not just you, but specifically transformed spirit beasts like you!"

"Both spirit beasts and spirit masters absorb spirit power to increase their cultivation."

"Spirit beasts are classified by age, while spirit masters are classified by rank."

"The difference is that when a spirit beast dies, it converts the energy within its body into a spirit ring, whereas a spirit master does not."

"So, can I assume that spirit beasts possess a special gene that allows them to store spirit power and condense it into a spirit ring upon death, but it has a flaw: the cultivation speed is too slow!"

"Spirit masters are the opposite; they can catch up to a spirit beast's ten thousand years of cultivation in just a few decades. This is the fundamental reason why spirit beasts will eventually go extinct!"

"Then... what should we do?" Xiao Wu stepped forward, took Lan Yu's hand, and asked anxiously.

"What if we transplanted the spirit beast's ability to store spirit power and condense spirit rings into the 'fast-cultivating' spirit masters?" Lan Yu smiled slightly and tapped Xiao Wu on the forehead.

"I call it the 'New Human'!" Lan Yu stood with his hands behind his back, looking up at the sky, his voice soft yet filled with unquestionable dominance.

This was the inspiration he had derived from the Dragon Duke's Everyone is a Dragon Gu-Refining Method found in the "Insect Records."

Since a Dragonman could possess both the wisdom of the human race and the physiological advantages of the dragon race, why couldn't his "New Human" possess both the cultivation speed of a spirit master and the spirit-ring-condensing ability of a spirit beast!

"Brother/Lan Yu, that's amazing!" Tang Shan/Xiao Wu blinked their large eyes, looking at Lan Yu with faces full of admiration.

"I haven't brought shame to the sect! My son is a genius who can change the world!" Ah Yin smiled, gently wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes, feeling gratified.