Gu Chaosheng: I'm Ready to Go All In

Gu Chaosheng and Luo Yuhang exchanged another look, then nodded in unison.

"There shouldn't be any problem," Gu Chaosheng said first.

"Qi's martial soul can suppress the Golden Dragon, so suppressing a three-thousand-year Rainbow Dragon should be no trouble at all."

"It's just..." His tone shifted, and his brow furrowed slightly.

"This Rainbow Dragon is, after all, a three-thousand-year Soul Spirit. It definitely isn't on the same level as one that has only just reached a thousand years. Qi, although your Mental Power has reached the Spirit Connection Realm, dragon-type Soul Beasts are inherently far stronger than ordinary Soul Beasts. The energy contained within a three-thousand-year Rainbow Dragon is probably already close to that of an ordinary Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit. So..."

His tone carried obvious concern.

Qi Ji was only six years old. His body and meridians were still developing. If anything went wrong during the fusion process, it would be no laughing matter.

Before he could finish, Luo Yuhang reached out and patted his shoulder, cutting him off. "Come here. I need to tell you something."

With that, the two Titled Douluos tacitly moved to a corner and began speaking in hushed voices.

From afar, Qi Ji watched Gu Chaosheng's expression shift from confusion to shock, from shock to complexity, and finally into a dazed look that seemed to say, "Something like this actually exists in this world?"

Obviously, Luo Yuhang had told him Qi Ji's true Mental Power value.

Qi Ji could not be bothered to care what the two adults were muttering about behind his back. Luo Yuhang knew where to draw the line; he knew perfectly well what he should and should not say.

He turned to look at Tang Wuling, who was meditating as she absorbed her Soul Spirit.

With nothing else to do, Qi Ji could not help seriously considering a question—Tang God King's son had become a daughter. The consequences of that were probably far from trivial.

After all, Tang San was an old-fashioned chauvinist to the bone.

When it came to a daughter, he could shatter her very soul into pieces and scatter them everywhere; but when it came to a son, he was willing to part with any good thing. He had passed the Dragon King bloodline down to his grandson, and on top of that, he had forcefully manufactured the divine position of the God of Destruction for his son.

And now, although the Golden Dragon King was still sealed within Tang Wuling's body, perhaps... Tang Wuling did not have Tang San's Trident of Poseidon inside her.

Without that divine artifact to serve as a beacon, Tang San might not even be able to sense Douluo Continent. The return of those people from the God Realm might be delayed indefinitely.

Qi Ji felt that this was not an unreasonable possibility.

The butterfly effect was the kind of thing that could neither be clearly explained nor fully understood.

Still, this matter had both advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage was that Tang God King's ten-thousand-year plan might be thrown into disarray. The disadvantage was that the Abyssal Sage King was still out there.

A second-level god with a divine artifact could barely cosplay as a first-level god. Without Tang God King's power backing him up, Tang Hao, who had seized the Plane Master's body, might not necessarily be able to defeat him.

As for the upside... naturally, Qi Ji would have a chance to turn Douluo Continent into his own backyard.

No one knew the potential of his martial soul better than he did—the Dragon God Crown Prince was the true crown prince bloodline of the Dragon Clan.

If he went to Dragon Valley and gathered more resources, then considering that Heaven Dragon Star had raised so many first-level gods through Dragon Valley in Douluo IV, if he gathered a little more for himself, becoming a pseudo-God King should not be a problem, even if he could not reach God King status, right?

The only potentially troublesome issue was his identity.

His martial soul was indeed the Dragon God Crown Prince, but would the Dragon Clan truly acknowledge him as one of their own?

After all, that old bastard Dragon God was still alive—though he had been lying around in Dragon Valley pretending to be depressed and dead.

But if his identity were truly confirmed, perhaps that old bastard Dragon God would spring back to life in minutes. Then there really would be nothing to fear.

After all, even a dead Supreme God King was still a Supreme God King! It would be easy enough for the Dragon God to revive.

Just as Qi Ji was thinking this, Tang Wuling slowly opened her eyes.

Absorbing a Soul Spirit was much easier than absorbing a Soul Ring, and Tang Wuling's Golden Dragon exerted powerful bloodline suppression over the Titan Python. The entire process had encountered virtually no resistance.

"Qi Ji, I broke through to level eleven!" The first thing Tang Wuling did after opening her eyes was happily announce the news to Qi Ji, her little face flushed with excitement.

The advantage of the Soul Spirit system was that the fusion process was gentler. The disadvantage... was that it did not provide the explosive increase in Soul Power and physical strength that came with absorbing a Soul Ring.

But Tang Wuling clearly did not care about that. She only knew that she was now a real Soul Master.

"Mhm, Wuling, congratulations." Qi Ji smiled and clapped his hands. "Omedetou."

"By the way, Qi Ji," Tang Wuling tilted her head as another question occurred to her, "what Soul Spirit should I choose for my second martial soul?"

In the era of The Legend of the Dragon King, those with Twin Martial Souls did not need to wait until level ninety before cultivating their second martial soul. They could develop both simultaneously.

However, that placed even greater demands on Mental Power... so Tang Wuling's second Soul Spirit had also been put on the agenda.

"Hmm... a Soft Bone Rabbit," Qi Ji said after giving it some thought.

"The Golden Dragon is enough when it comes to raw power. The Soft Bone Rabbit should focus more on utility. Using a Soul Spirit from its own race will also make it easier to obtain the Soft Bone Rabbit's signature skills—Teleportation, Invincible Golden Body, Intangibility. Those are the true core of the Soft Bone Rabbit."

For the Golden Dragon, raw power was the reason it ruled supreme.

If one punch could not solve a problem, then use two. If two still were not enough, activate Invincible Golden Body and throw another punch.

The Soft Bone Rabbit's utility skills would perfectly compensate for the Golden Dragon's lack of agility.

"That makes sense," Tang Wuling nodded, her sparkling eyes fixed on Qi Ji. "Qi Ji, I'll just listen to you. You're so smart!"

She paused, then asked in a slightly boastful tone, "Oh, right, Qi Ji, do you want to know what my first soul skill is?"

Before Qi Ji could answer, Gu Chaosheng and Luo Yuhang, who had gone aside for their private discussion, returned.

"You really are a freak!"

The moment Gu Chaosheng returned, he could not help blurting out that sigh. His expression was incredibly complicated—there was amazement, helplessness, and a trace of dazed disbelief, as though he had finally seen something beyond anything he had imagined in his lifetime.

Clearly, Luo Yuhang had already told Gu Chaosheng Qi Ji's true Mental Power value. The two Titled Douluos had conducted a simple exchange of information in private.

"What's wrong, Uncle Gu?" Qi Ji vaguely sensed something and looked up to ask.

"Nothing..." Gu Chaosheng waved his hand, his tone returning to its usual steadiness.

"I'll handle the Rainbow Dragon Soul Spirit. But a Soul Spirit of this level definitely cannot be found in Eastsea City. It seems we'll have to make a trip to Spirit Pagoda headquarters."

"Spirit Pagoda headquarters? The one in Shrek City?" Qi Ji asked.

"That's right... Our Eastsea City Spirit Pagoda may be one of the Eighteen Heavenly Pearls, but that designation was only assigned in response to the Federation's call to divide the regions. We are nowhere near the level of some Spirit Pagodas in the interior. Higher-level Soul Spirit resources are all in their hands. With my authority, I can arrange to have one transferred here, but I'll still need to make a trip there. After all, this is an Unyielding Soul Spirit."

"Then sorry for the trouble, Uncle Gu." Qi Ji bowed.

"Ah... it's nothing. After all, from now on, we're family." Gu Chaosheng said it casually.

Just now... he and Luo Yuhang had discussed many things, such as how he regarded Tang Wuling as the inheritor of his legacy. And given the Rank-Ten Love Gu, Tang Wuling's future might end up bound to Qi Ji's.

And at that moment, he had to make a choice: stand firmly with the Spirit Pagoda, or choose Tang Wuling.

Gu Chaosheng struggled with the decision for less than three seconds before reaching his conclusion.

What was a job compared to his own successor?