Sword and Bone Condense Soul Cores, Ning Rongrong Gets Jealous

"I... broke through!"

Dugu Bo abruptly rose to his feet and turned to look at Gu En in the corner. Beyond reverence, his eyes now held an almost fanatical loyalty.

"Young Master, Dugu Bo could die ten thousand times and still never repay your great kindness!"

Watching Dugu Bo kneeling on the floor, Gu En finally let go of the tension in his heart.

He smiled inwardly in satisfaction.

Looks like that rabbit, Xiao Wu, has been behaving herself.

The emerald radiance in the secret chamber gradually faded, yet Dugu Bo's excitement remained difficult to calm.

Gu En did not let him revel in the joy of his breakthrough for long.

He pulled over a chair and sat down, then pointed at the stone bed across from him.

"Senior Dugu, don't rush to celebrate."

"Sit down and tell me every detail of the soul power collapse when you condensed your Soul Core just now—the pressure your meridians endured, as well as the trajectory of your poison power's rotation. Leave nothing out."

Dugu Bo immediately composed himself and sat down respectfully.

He knew that the Young Master was testing him, but also perfecting this peerless secret art.

"Young Master, while this secret art is heaven-defying, human meridians are ultimately not as tough as those of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast."

Dugu Bo closed his eyes and carefully recalled the life-or-death process he had just undergone before speaking in a deep voice.

"At the instant my soul power spun at high speed and collapsed toward the center, it felt as though my dantian was about to be torn apart."

"If I hadn't already possessed a Poison Pellet in my body to serve as a buffer and forcibly stabilize the center of the collapse, my dantian would have exploded the second before the Soul Core took shape."

"A buffer..."

Gu En nodded thoughtfully, a sharp glint flickering in his eyes.

What Xiao Wu had given him was indeed the original soul beast method of condensation—simple and brutal.

Soul beasts had powerful physiques and could directly withstand the collapse of soul power.

Humans could not.

Something similar to a "fulcrum" or "formation eye" had to be established within the dantian to guide that violent rotational force.

For the next three full hours, Gu En and Dugu Bo, one young and one old, engaged in deep discussion and deduction within the secret chamber.

As a grandmaster who had studied inner pellets and poison theory for decades, Dugu Bo offered many valuable suggestions regarding the limits of what human meridians could withstand.

Meanwhile, drawing on the rotational theories of physics from his previous life and the fine control techniques of Heart Dividing Control, Gu En made sweeping improvements to the Soul Core condensation route.

In the end, the Modified Soul Core Condensation, designed exclusively for top human experts, was born from Gu En's hands.

The next day.

At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's highest-level sect master's secret chamber.

Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Bone Douluo Gu Rong looked at the parchment scroll in their hands, its ink still wet. Both their hands trembled uncontrollably.

"Compress all the immense soul power of Rank 97 into a single solid core?"

"Make soul power endlessly replenish itself, as though it formed a world of its own?"

Chen Xin sucked in a sharp breath.

Stormy waves churned within those normally tranquil eyes.

"En'er, this... where did you obtain such a method capable of seizing the creation of heaven and earth?"

"Grandpa Sword, don't ask about its origin. In any case, it is absolutely safe."

Gu En spoke with a smile.

"Senior Dugu has already tested it with his Poison Pellet. Not only did he successfully condense one, he even used it to break through to Rank 93."

"You two are already peak Rank 97 Douluos with deep foundations. If you can condense Soul Cores, your strength will definitely undergo a true qualitative transformation."

Gu Rong swallowed.

Without another word, Gu Rong immediately sat down cross-legged.

"Old bastard, stop dawdling!"

"If this really works, then our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect will truly be able to swagger across the continent from now on!"

Chen Xin also took a deep breath, suppressing the shock in his heart as he sat facing Gu Rong.

The two peak Rank 97 Douluos began condensing their Soul Cores at the same time.

This time, with Gu En's improved Soul Power Fulcrum guidance method, along with physiques and meridians far stronger than Dugu Bo's, the process was dangerous but unexpectedly smooth.

A day and a night later.

"Clang—!"

An incomparably clear sword cry rang out from within Chen Xin's body.

Yet strangely, this sword intent did not soar into the heavens and tear through the clouds as it had before. Instead, it was firmly locked within Chen Xin's body.

His entire person resembled a peerless divine weapon hidden within an ancient sword sheath.

Its edge was restrained, yet merely looking at him made one's eyes sting.

Within his dantian, a Soul Core of pure azure, seemingly formed by a miniature Seven Killings Sword spinning in a circle, slowly rotated.

On the other side.

The space around Gu Rong's body had actually entered a bizarre state of "stillness."

There were no spatial cracks, nor were there any violent turbulent currents.

All spatial power was perfectly absorbed, expelled, and controlled by the dark-golden Soul Core within his dantian.

The two peak Douluos opened their eyes at the same time and smiled at each other.

"Old Bone, how do you feel?"

Chen Xin clenched his fist, sensing the vast soul power within him that seemed impossible to exhaust.

"Better than ever!"

Gu Rong could not help bursting into laughter, his gaunt face filled with wild arrogance.

"Right now, even if Spirit Hall's Rank 98 Golden Crocodile Douluo stood before me, I feel like I could use inexhaustible spatial power to wear him to death!"

Chen Xin nodded proudly as well.

"With the endless recovery provided by this Soul Core, I can even unleash God-Demon Twin Slashes ten times in succession without exhausting my strength."

"As long as no Rank 99 Ultimate Douluo appears, who in this world can stand against the two of us?"

Watching the two spirited elders, Gu En smiled in satisfaction.

With two Rank 97 Super Douluos who had condensed Soul Cores holding the fort, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's foundation had completely surpassed any period described in the original work.

After dealing with the elders' affairs, Gu En left the council hall alone.

He walked along the quiet corridor toward the underground prison where Xiao Wu was being held.

The Soul Core method had been verified without error.

He needed to give that "obedient" little rabbit a bit of sweetness, while also extracting more secret intelligence about the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Just as Gu En rounded the corner into the underground corridor, a small head quietly poked out from behind a thick white marble pillar.

Ning Rongrong wore a light pink knee-length dress and held a plate of freshly made delicate pastries.

As she watched Gu En's figure gradually disappear through the underground entrance, an undisguised trace of resentment and bitterness flashed through her bright, watery eyes.

"Brother Gu En... went to see that girl again."

Ning Rongrong bit her lower lip, her fingers unconsciously twisting the corner of her skirt. Her heart felt as though hundreds of ants were crawling over it.

Of course, she knew Xiao Wu's true identity.

Gu En had not hidden it from her. He had clearly told her that Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft-Boned Rabbit in human form, an important "resource" raised by the sect.

"Rong Rong, wake up!"