Development Plans, Preparing the Holy Dragon Soul Core!

Upon hearing this, Long Wushang failed to notice the deeper meaning in Ye Xishui's words. Or rather, that possibility had never even crossed his mind.

"To be honest."

Long Wushang opened his eyes and looked at the familiar mountain peak overhead. With a serious expression, he said, "I noticed her the moment she joined the Holy Spirit Cult."

"Although there are issues with her martial soul, her potential is quite good. If properly developed, she can definitely become my right-hand woman in the future."

"If it's convenient, transfer her to my side."

"As it happens, I have something here that suits her very well."

At those words, Ye Xishui's hand suddenly stopped. She lowered her head to look at Long Wushang, and a trace of complicated emotion flashed through her eyes.

Clearly, she did not like that answer very much.

She had thought Long Wushang was merely somewhat interested in that girl. She had not expected him to genuinely intend to develop and cultivate her.

Yet in the end, Ye Xishui did not say anything more. After all, this was her son. If it was something Long Wushang wanted to do, what could she possibly refuse?

"Alright." After a moment, Ye Xishui gently patted Long Wushang's face.

"It's getting late. You should go back first."

"I still have experiments to deal with here."

Though she did not rebuke him verbally, the slightly cold tone in her voice had already revealed her little mood.

Long Wushang, who knew his mother well, naturally noticed that something was wrong.

Stay any longer? Absolutely not.

Otherwise, his mother would probably soon be more than merely unhappy.

He hurriedly got to his feet. "Alright, then I won't disturb Mother's important work."

"Wushang takes his leave!"

With that, Long Wushang did not linger for even a moment. He swiftly slipped away from the laboratory.

Watching his fleeing figure, Ye Xishui was first stunned, then could not help laughing.

"That brat..."

Within the Dragon Tomb.

Long Wushang returned to the familiar skeletal altar.

This place had once carried him through countless sessions of cultivation and transformation. It was also an important starting point on the path that had truly led him toward becoming strong.

His return from the Icefire Yin Yang Well did not mean everything was over. On the contrary, everything had only just begun.

Whether it was the immortal herbs he had absorbed earlier or the soul bones he had fused, the tremendous energy contained within them had not been completely digested by his body.

The remaining medicinal power and soul bone energy still lay hidden within every part of his body, waiting for him to refine them bit by bit.

Thus, after returning to the Dragon Tomb, Long Wushang did not hurry to leave. Instead, he chose to enter secluded cultivation here in peace.

The lingering aura left behind by countless dragon corpses made this undoubtedly the most suitable place for him, whose main martial soul was the Dark Sacred Dragon, to consolidate his strength.

Not only him—Tang Ya and Long Xiaoyao did the same, entering secluded cultivation to further stabilize their strength.

Sitting cross-legged atop the skeletal altar, Long Wushang felt the surging fluctuations of Soul Power within his body and silently assessed his current strength.

His cultivation had already reached Rank 68, the realm of a Soul Emperor.

Of course, his true combat strength could not be measured by the standards of an ordinary Soul Emperor.

After being tempered by numerous immortal herbs, fusing with Dragon King-level soul bones, and undergoing the continual transformation of the Dark Sacred Dragon bloodline, his physical qualities and Soul Power quality had now surpassed even those of many ordinary Soul Douluo.

By his estimation, if he erupted with his full strength and relied on his many trump cards, his combat power should already be close to that of an ordinary eight-ringed Soul Douluo.

Once he completely refined the remaining medicinal power within his body, cultivated in seclusion for some time, and broke through Rank 70 to truly become a Soul Sage, he would begin preparing to complete the final Greed Divine Trial.

He would begin preparing to complete the final Greed Divine Trial.

At the same time, he would use the tremendous power contained within the dragon bones and the dragon pills of the Water and Fire Dragon Kings to officially condense his first Soul Core—the Holy Dragon Soul Core.

For Soul Masters, a Soul Core was an important symbol of entering the realm of superpowerhouses and stepping into the ranks of Titled Douluo.

However, for true geniuses, they had to complete the condensation of their first Soul Core at the Soul Sage realm. Only then could they go farther on the road ahead.

Long Wushang was actually quite confident about his Holy Dragon Soul Core.

With his control over the Dark Sacred Dragon martial soul and the vast amount of dragon resources he possessed, he had every chance of condensing a special Soul Core at the Rank 70 Soul Sage stage, one capable of storing and transforming dragon power.

As for what would happen after Rank 90...

Once he completed the final divine trial and truly fused the seven original sins, condensing the Original Sin Soul Core then might be the safest choice.

After all, the power of original sin was far too special and involved power at the level of deities. Condensing it rashly could easily lead to accidents.

After carefully considering the matter, Long Wushang realized that there were not many ways for him to continue increasing his strength in the short term.

Other than continuing to absorb those precious immortal herbs and fully excavating the hidden power within his body, only soul bones remained.

Aside from External Soul Bones, Soul Masters possessed a total of six soul bone slots.

With Long Wushang's current strength, the soul bone configuration on his body had already far surpassed that of the vast majority of Titled Douluo.

His sixth soul ring came from a hundred-thousand-year Demonic Sea King Flood Dragon.

To find that soul beast, Long Xiaoyao had spent a great deal of time searching the Endless Sea. Only in the end did he successfully kill it and help Long Wushang obtain that precious hundred-thousand-year soul ring.

The right leg soul bone left behind by that Demonic Sea King Flood Dragon had also now fused into Long Wushang's body.

Together with the Water and Fire Dragon Kings' Divine Bone fused into both his arms, he had now fused three soul bones that were each at least a hundred thousand years old.

Only three slots remained: the head soul bone, torso soul bone, and left leg soul bone.

As for the head soul bone, Long Wushang had long since set his sights on a target.

That being who had always lived near him—one could even call it his neighbor—the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler.

The Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler was one of the soul beasts with the strongest spiritual power on all of Douluo Star.

In terms of spiritual attributes, no soul beast could compare with it.

Even Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, with its million years of cultivation, was likely unable to stand on equal footing with it in the domain of spiritual power or in combat strength.

Its strength was second only to Di Tian, the Beast God of the Star Dou Great Forest.

If he could obtain the soul ring and soul bone of the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler before Rank 90, his spiritual power would undoubtedly undergo an unprecedented, enormous transformation.

By then, whether it was controlling the power of original sin or completing the fusion of the seven original sins, everything would become much easier.

More importantly...

The Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler was originally supposed to be Huo Yuhao's opportunity.

According to the original trajectory of fate, Huo Yuhao would use the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler's power to bring his spiritual attribute to an entirely new level.

But now that Long Wushang existed, this opportunity naturally would no longer fall into Huo Yuhao's hands.

Seizing the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler in advance would not only strengthen Long Wushang himself, but also cause Huo Yuhao to lose an extremely important future trump card.