Martial Soul Prototype and Combat Technique

"Wulin, did you go to a beauty salon yesterday?"

During class, Xie Xie's gaze kept drifting toward Tang Wulin, and a faint blush rose to his cheeks.

His already smooth, delicate skin had become even more translucent. Blood vessels lay evenly beneath the surface, as though one could see blood flowing through them. A faint fragrance of grass and leaves now clung to him as well, refreshing and intoxicating.

"No. I'm a guy—why would I go to a beauty salon?" Tang Wulin blinked, his clear, waterlike black eyes looking at Xie Xie.

"I went to cultivate at the Spirit Pagoda yesterday. I thought you knew that."

The pill Meng Xinghe had refined was remarkably effective. After Tang Wulin swallowed it, he felt as though he had been reborn. When he awoke from meditation, he was utterly refreshed, as if every pore in his body had relaxed and opened.

At that moment, he felt that he had mastered the highest realm of the legendary breathing technique—body breathing.

Although his soul power rank had not changed and remained Rank 21, the benefits this pill had brought him could not be reflected by his soul power rank alone.

Xie Xie smacked his lips.

He knew Tang Wulin had gone to the Spirit Pagoda, but he had not returned all night. Who knew what else he had been up to?

Still, Wulin really was getting prettier and prettier... Smack! Xie Xie gave himself a slap in his mind.

What am I thinking? I'm a guy, Wulin's a guy too. We're brothers. No gay stuff.

By the window in the back row, Meng Xinghe and Gu Yuena were, as usual, chatting instead of paying attention.

"After absorbing the Golden Dragon King bloodline essence, how is the condensation of your second martial soul progressing?"

As he spoke, Meng Xinghe used the pen in his hand to make a few minor revisions to the Battle Armor blueprint Gu Yuena had designed.

"As you said, the Golden Dragon King bloodline essence contained within the first seal was not as much as I expected."

Gu Yuena flipped through the notes on Battle Armor design that Meng Xinghe had given her and replied,

"After I absorbed all of that little bit of bloodline essence, my second martial soul only barely condensed into a prototype. To fully form it, I will need to absorb the Golden Dragon King bloodline essence contained in at least one more seal."

The power of the divine core had not been divided evenly among the eighteen seals. Instead, it was an inverted pyramid. The first seal contained the least bloodline essence, and each subsequent seal contained more than the last. The bloodline essence contained in the final two seals exceeded the combined total of the first sixteen seals.

Meng Xinghe had not explained this clearly before, so Gu Yuena had only learned of it yesterday.

The second martial soul she formed would not begin as the Golden Dragon King either. It would be a Golden Dragon carrying the Golden Dragon King's source bloodline. To evolve it into a Golden Dragon King martial soul, she would need to absorb all the bloodline essence contained in the first sixteen of the eighteen seals.

"However, although my second martial soul failed to fully condense, after absorbing the Golden Dragon King's bloodline essence, my physical strength improved greatly. Even my own bloodline has shown signs of evolving."

Gu Yuena's tone carried excitement she could not conceal.

The Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King were the Dragon God's two halves. Although the two of them combined were not the Dragon God in its complete form, they possessed a complete Dragon God bloodline.

No matter which of the two Dragon Kings devoured the other, the greatest benefit would not be obtaining the other's power, but evolving their own Dragon King bloodline into a Dragon God bloodline.

That way, their bloodline potential could rival the Dragon God's, and they could hope to reach the realm the Dragon God had attained in life.

Meng Xinghe had given Gu Yuena such a wonderful surprise. She was truly more than satisfied.

Once she absorbed all the power of the divine core and evolved her bloodline into a Dragon God bloodline, her minimum future achievement would be the peak of the God King realm, with a chance of breaking through into the realm of the Supreme God King.

By then, shattering the laws of heaven and earth established by the mastermind behind the scenes would be effortless. Not only that, the mastermind had better pray he could remain hidden forever. If she found him, she would show him the wrath of the dragon race! In the Dragon God's name, she would slay him and ease the hatred in her heart!

"I've finished revising the Battle Armor blueprint. Take a look and see whether there are any problems. If there aren't, then have it made according to this."

Meng Xinghe slid the revised Battle Armor blueprint across the desk to Gu Yuena.

Gu Yuena lowered her head to look. Meng Xinghe had marked every revised section, with annotations explaining where changes had been made and why. His handwriting was neat, and the details were thorough enough to make her nod repeatedly.

So this is the gap between me and the world's greatest mecha designer?

Gu Yuena did not find it embarrassing. If she had not been asleep for so long, then with her talent in mecha design, she might not have surpassed Meng Xinghe, but she certainly would not have been much weaker.

But as things stood, she was merely an ordinary Level 3 mecha designer with little accumulated experience. It was perfectly normal for her to be inferior to Meng Xinghe.

"What an exquisite design. Guide to One-Word Battle Armor Design never taught any of this."

"That's because One-Word Battle Armor is meant to be transitional," Meng Xinghe said. "Mecha designers generally do not make One-Word Battle Armor particularly exquisite or complicated, and books on the market that teach One-Word Battle Armor design naturally do not cover such refined designs."

"But we are making One-Word Battle Armor from spirit alloys. To accumulate experience, even ordinary One-Word Battle Armor meant for transitional use must be refined to the utmost."

"Mhm." Gu Yuena nodded and said,

"The blueprint has been revised very well. I have no objections. We'll manufacture it according to this. I'll give the simpler parts to Xiao Yan. She is a Level 3 mecha manufacturer, so this will be somewhat difficult for her, but with enough effort, she should be capable of handling it. Leave the rest to me."

After discussing the Battle Armor, Gu Yuena brought up the matter of her self-created combat technique.

Over the past week, she had practically turned into both a model worker and an obsessive grinder.

Honing her acting skills, designing Battle Armor, researching self-created combat techniques, and so on. Fortunately, she had the breathing technique for cultivation and did not need to deliberately set aside time to cultivate. Otherwise, she truly would not have been able to keep up.

"Xinghe, I tried out the idea you gave me during this period, and the results were very good. It's just that it requires a weapon like a saber or sword to display its greatest power. If I use the Silver Dragon Spear to perform it, its power decreases considerably."

The idea Meng Xinghe had given her was called—the Seven-Colored Essence Slash.

The principle behind this move was simple. By using her control over the power of creation and the seven elemental powers, she launched an energy slash.

The defining feature of this move was its gathering of essence. Through the power of creation, it absorbed the seven elemental powers and the essence of heaven and earth contained in the surrounding space, continuously increasing the power of the Seven-Colored Essence Slash. Before it struck its target, the Seven-Colored Essence Slash would continue absorbing the power of the surrounding space. Theoretically, there was no upper limit to its power.

A simple example:

Gu Yuena could use an insignificant amount of power to launch a Seven-Colored Essence Slash. At first, its power would not even be enough to break an egg.

If it failed to hit its target for a long time, the power of the Seven-Colored Essence Slash would continue increasing as time passed. At a certain point, its power would be enough to rival Gu Yuena's full-force strike—and it could continue growing stronger.