Tricking Him Out of the Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges

The students below the stage only felt that Yu Xiaogang had started bragging again.

If he was really that impressive, would he have ended up unable to break through level thirty?

Wang Chen said angrily, "You can absorb a hundred-year Soul Ring, so why can I only absorb a ten-year Soul Ring?"

"If you make me absorb a ten-year Soul Ring, you're trying to ruin me."

"A man like you, over forty years old and still unable to break through level thirty—what right do you have to flaunt the saying, 'There are no useless Martial Souls, only useless Soul Masters'?"

"As for your Ten Great Competitive Strengths of Martial Souls, its conclusions are riddled with errors and omissions. And you still treat it like some treasure?"

Yu Xiaogang froze in astonishment before his expression swiftly darkened. "What an arrogant, ignorant brat."

"You're an eight-year-old little runt, not even a Soul Master yet. What right do you have to question my Ten Core Competitive Strengths of Martial Souls?"

By the end, Yu Xiaogang was pointing at Wang Chen, his face twisted with rage.

Then, Yu Xiaogang's expression eased somewhat. "As long as you tell me the secret behind how you reached level six and a half within two years, I'll help you hunt a ten-year Solitary Bamboo Soul Ring."

"What do you say?"

Wang Chen was not angry. After all, he was not the one whose defenses had been breached.

Yu Xiaogang, on the other hand, looked like a clown.

The students below the stage looked at Yu Xiaogang with contempt.

Before this, Yu Xiaogang had never taught them a single class at Notting City Junior Soul Master Academy.

Yet when he heard that Wang Chen had only half a level of innate soul power but had reached level six and a half in just two years—

Only after failing to obtain Wang Chen's exclusive cultivation method did he set up this class.

This class had only one ultimate purpose: to obtain the secret behind Wang Chen reaching level six and a half within two years.

Even children like them knew that an exclusive cultivation method was personal and private. How could someone possibly let others know it?

Yet Yu Xiaogang acted as though it were only natural for others to tell him their secrets.

Wang Chen had gone from 0.5 innate soul power to level six and a half in just two years, an average increase of three levels per year. That was already comparable to the cultivation speed of someone with full innate soul power.

No matter which faction it was placed in, such a secret would be an absolute treasure.

However, what Yu Xiaogang did not know was that Wang Chen's rapid cultivation was related to his two Martial Souls. It was an ability unique to him.

Without his help, even if others learned it, its effects would be greatly diminished—almost useless.

Wang Chen had two Martial Souls. His first Martial Soul was an alchemy furnace.

Unlike support Martial Souls such as the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and the Nine-Star Begonia, the alchemy furnace could not grant Wang Chen heaven-defying support abilities.

After absorbing Soul Rings, the Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul would not produce Soul Skills. It would only strengthen the furnace's hardness and the intensity of the flames within it.

However, the alchemy furnace granted Wang Chen two abilities that could be called heaven-defying.

First, Wang Chen could refine herbs and other materials placed inside it into pills.

Second, it could reverse-analyze the components of pills, materials, and other items placed inside, allowing Wang Chen to deduce their effects and methods of refinement.

His second Martial Soul was the meridians throughout his body.

Wang Chen's meridian Martial Soul allowed him to sense every minute change within his meridians.

For example, when circulating soul power, he could tell whether his soul power increased faster or slower as it passed through a certain section of meridians.

Or, when circulating soul power, whether the soul power flowing through his meridians gained any special attributes.

Using the most common Blue Silver Grass in the Douluo world as raw material through his Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul, Wang Chen developed pills that could increase soul power after being swallowed.

However, these pills had side effects. One could only take one every seven days; taking more would have no effect and would instead accumulate pill toxins, affecting the speed of soul power cultivation.

Taking them directly was not as fast as simply buying some soul beast meat to eat.

Then, with the help of his meridian Martial Soul, he developed a cultivation method best suited for absorbing these pills.

Most importantly, when Wang Chen absorbed these pills in conjunction with his meridian Martial Soul, there were no side effects whatsoever.

This meant that Wang Chen's soul power could continue increasing without end.

That was why Wang Chen had been able to raise his soul power from half a level of innate soul power to level ten in just two years.

As for why others thought his soul power was only level six and a half, it was because Wang Chen had two dantians. He had transferred a considerable portion of his soul power into his second dantian.

In truth, Wang Chen's pill-absorbing cultivation method was completely tailored to his Martial Souls. Anyone without a meridian Martial Soul could not use it at all.

Wang Chen had revealed this secret in order to lure Yu Xiaogang into making a move, using a soul power growth method that no one but himself could use to obtain the Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges storage soul tool from Yu Xiaogang.

Wang Chen looked at Yu Xiaogang as if he were an idiot. "Are you stupid?"

"Or can a ten-year Solitary Bamboo attack me or something?"

"Even without you, I can still hunt Soul Rings."

"The secret method for rapidly increasing soul power is my secret. You want me to hand it over?"

"Fine, but..."

At that point, Wang Chen said in a deep voice, "You'll have to pay more."

Yu Xiaogang truly deserved to be someone people often mocked.

Upon hearing Wang Chen say he needed more payment, he automatically ignored Wang Chen calling him stupid earlier.

Yu Xiaogang asked sternly, "What do you want?"

What did Wang Chen want?

What he wanted most was naturally the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's secret techniques, especially the dragon transformation technique.

But given Yu Xiaogang's status within the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, he simply could not obtain them.

The most valuable thing Yu Xiaogang had seemed to be the storage soul tool he would later give Tang San—the Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges.

Wang Chen did not yet have a storage soul tool.

The Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges held no ordinary temptation for him.

Wang Chen swept his gaze over the students present and teased, "Do you really want me to say it here?"

"Come with me."

Wang Chen stood and followed Yu Xiaogang to the dormitory area in the back.

"What do you want? As long as I have it, I can give it to you."

Wang Chen looked at Yu Xiaogang's belt. "I happen to be lacking a storage soul tool."

Yu Xiaogang looked down at his storage belt, reluctance flashing through his eyes.

"This secret technique allowed someone like me, with innate soul power of only 0.5, to cultivate as fast as someone with full innate soul power. It might even let me break through to rank thirty before I turn eighteen."

Hearing that it could allow someone with innate soul power of 0.5 to reach rank thirty before eighteen, Yu Xiaogang became as excited as if he had been injected with adrenaline.

He tore the belt from his waist and held it out to Wang Chen. "You must swear upon your martial soul that there is not a single false word in what you say. Otherwise, may your Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul shatter and kill you. Then I will trade with you."

Wang Chen snatched the belt, raised three fingers, and said, "I, Wang Chen, swear here and now that the secret technique I am about to tell you is absolutely the reason I broke through to six and a half soul power within two years. If there is even half a false word, may my Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul shatter and kill me."

Since the secret technique he was about to reveal was real, he naturally had no fear of swearing such an oath.

After speaking, Wang Chen directly told Yu Xiaogang his method.

Once he had explained the secret technique, Wang Chen reminded him, "This method was developed based on my own martial soul and physical condition. I do not know whether it will work for others. If you want to create the secret technique best suited to yourself, you will have to figure it out on your own."

It was not that Wang Chen was being kind enough to deliberately remind Yu Xiaogang.

He was afraid that Yu Xiaogang would follow his method, find it completely ineffective, and then contact the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to intercept and kill him.

With that reminder, before Yu Xiaogang thoroughly researched the secret technique, he would assume the lack of results stemmed from the vast differences between his martial soul and physical condition and Wang Chen's.

It was not that the secret technique did not work; he simply needed further research to find one that worked for him.

With Yu Xiaogang's arrogant personality, he would never admit that he was inferior to Wang Chen without researching it for several years.

By then, Wang Chen would already have the means to protect himself.

At that point, he truly would not fear Yu Xiaogang.