Ding Songyan looked at Tang Du's remnant soul and asked helplessly:
"Why did you try to kill me?"
Though this had clearly stemmed from the counterfeit Yellow Millet Dream-Waking Block, he still had to ask. What if there really had been another motive?
Tang Du's remnant soul answered, trembling:
"I wanted that Dream-Waking Block. I still have hope of entering the Law Realm. If I could live an entire lifetime in a dream, it might help improve my temperament.
"And the thought of fighting someone to the death gets me especially excited."
So fond of fighting... Ding Songyan asked a few more questions about the details, confirming that this fellow was a fish he had hooked himself, not bait someone else had cast his way.
After a little thought, he began discussing martial techniques with Tang Du's remnant soul in considerable interest:
"Those two hammer strikes of yours, nearly at the Law Realm, must have drawn on pooled strength. Can you pool both the strength of comrades around you and your own strength from earlier?"
Studying the martial techniques of a hundred schools, using "Return All Things to One" and "Deriving Dao and De" to comprehend them fully, dismantle and recombine them, and establish his own Martial Arts Grand Model—this was one of the few paths where Ding Songyan felt he could surpass Ji Hanyi in approach, ideas, and practice.
He had already gained some understanding and grasp of Tang Du's "Accumulated Waters Divine Art" earlier, but he had only witnessed it briefly, and it had not been an experience that jolted his mind. Many details remained unclear.
Tang Du's remnant soul obediently answered Ding Songyan's questions.
According to him, once practitioners of the "Accumulated Waters Divine Art" reached the Dayan Realm, they gradually formed a certain connection with the