Energy Conversion

Bai Xiao did not know how long his consciousness had been lost in the darkness.

He was like a cell in Blue Star's ocean.

Drifting, rising, sinking, and falling still with the current in that darkness.

Gradually, he developed thoughts of his own.

He could feel his consciousness clearly.

He asked himself, "Who am I? Where did I come from? Where did I think I was going?"

Untiringly, he questioned himself again and again, over and over.

It was as though some feeling guided him in the dark—like a chick pecking through its eggshell, like a drowning animal desperately struggling to break the surface.

His consciousness kept breaking free from chaos, lunging again and again toward the "surface."

Gradually, he could feel his "hand" breaking through the surface and reaching the air.

Like a drowning man desperately gasping for air, like someone dying of thirst greedily gulping down water.

A stream of information flooded into his consciousness. "I am Bai Xiao, a university student from Blue Star."

"I transmigrated to Douluo Continent, and here, I am also Bai Xiao!"

Bai Xiao understood who he was!

Then Bai Xiao sensed his body. A warm current surged through his limbs, and a familiar sensation emerged. Like someone who had just awakened from sleep, Bai Xiao opened his eyes.

He saw a verdant forest and blanked out for a moment.

Only then did he remember that he had been absorbing a four-thousand-year Soul Ring. Looks like I succeeded!

Bai Xiao controlled his limbs and pulled himself out of the flesh. The moment he rose from the apparatus, he heard a familiar voice.

"Hey, kid, did sleeping make you stupid?"

Seeing Bai Xiao sitting there contemplating life, Dugu Bo could not help mocking him.

"Absorbing a Soul Ring beyond my level this time dealt a huge blow to my consciousness. I nearly became a vegetable!" Bai Xiao said with a bitter smile.

"Hey, that's all? There'll be plenty more things like this in the future. Just be more careful next time!" Dugu Bo's heart was incomparably tough now, all thanks to Bai Xiao's training.

Bai Xiao: "..."

That's because you're not the one who nearly became a vegetable. If I became one, Dugu Yan would have to take care of me for the rest of my life! Bai Xiao grumbled inwardly.

"Stop spacing out. Hurry up and tell me, what's your second soul skill?" Dugu Bo urged.

Bai Xiao stopped letting his thoughts run wild and began sensing his Cell Martial Soul. A dragon-shaped Martial Soul phantom appeared, followed by one yellow and one purple Soul Ring.

Bai Xiao felt that his control over the Cell Martial Soul had become smoother, allowing him to control it with even greater finesse.

Did a thousand-year Soul Ring really improve me this much? Bai Xiao asked himself inwardly.

"Dear grandson-in-law, you haven't really gone stupid, have you? It's fine, just say it. Grandpa won't despise you!"

Dugu Bo saw Bai Xiao staring blankly ever since waking up and began wondering whether his grandson-in-law had truly become stupid.

When Bai Xiao saw the look in Dugu Bo's eyes—the kind of concern one showed a fool—the veins on his forehead bulged. Bear with it! Bear with it! You can't beat him yet. If you attack, he'll pin you to the ground and grind you into the dirt! Bai Xiao fiercely warned himself.

After Dugu Bo's interruption, Bai Xiao stopped dwelling on the matter and used his Martial Soul to sense the information conveyed by the Soul Ring.

Seeing the huge smile on Bai Xiao's face, Dugu Bo could not help wanting to ask what his soul skill was.

Bai Xiao discovered that his second soul skill was "Energy Conversion."

It could instantly alter the proportion of soul power within Bai Xiao's cells, increasing the cells' utilization rate and absorption rate of soul power.

In other words, Bai Xiao could use this soul skill during ordinary cultivation to speed up his training.

He could also increase the proportion of soul power in his body during battle, thereby reducing damage from certain energy-type soul skills and gaining finer control over soul power in combat.

Bai Xiao explained to Dugu Bo, "My soul skill is called 'Energy Conversion.' It transforms a portion of the cells into an energy-form existence, increasing my body's resistance to energy soul skills and my control over soul power."

"Tch, that's all it does?"

Dugu Bo had finally found an opportunity to knock Bai Xiao down a peg and could not resist a round of mockery.

Bai Xiao did not continue explaining. The reason he had smiled upon seeing this soul skill was because its truly terrifying aspect lay in using it together with his first soul skill.

Under the amplification of his second soul skill, the Devouring effect of his first soul skill would not merely gain a massive increase in pulling power.

With the second soul skill receiving an endless supply of soul power from the first, the proportion of soul power within his cells would rise to an entirely new level.

If Bai Xiao encountered an opponent whose energy soul skill was not too powerful, he could use Devouring while in his Energy Conversion state to absorb all the incoming soul power, strengthen his Energy Conversion state, and teach the other party how to behave with his fists.

Bai Xiao looked at Dugu Bo and could not help smiling, though no one knew what crooked scheme he was plotting in his heart.