Yu Xiaogang: Gu Xingzhou, would you take me as your master?

The Myriad-Aspect Illusion Beast's Soul Ring slowly sank into his body.

The Joy Mask appeared on Gu Xingzhou's face. Countless streams of brilliant color flowed across the fox mask's surface, its patterns spreading outward layer by layer.

The raging, boundless source Soul Power of a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast surged through every limb and bone!

Gu Xingzhou's Soul Power soared, climbing all the way from a level-ten Soul Scholar.

But when his Soul Power reached the barrier at level twenty, it still came to a halt.

Even with a reward from the livestream room, he needed to absorb a second Soul Ring before he could keep leveling up.

Originally, Gu Xingzhou would have needed to spend ninety million popularity to rise from level ten to level twenty. Now that he had drawn a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, he had saved an enormous amount of popularity outright!

[Your Martial Soul, "Joy Mask," has absorbed the source Soul Ring of a ten-thousand-year Myriad-Aspect Illusion Beast!]

[Current status: One-Ring Soul Master, Soul Power level 20]

[Current joy points: 10000/10000]

[First soul skill unlocked: Perfect Mask!]

[Select one target and consume joy points according to the target's strength to perfectly disguise yourself with the target's appearance, physique, aura, expressions, and mannerisms. You can also perfectly replicate the disguised target's first soul skill and unleash that skill exactly as it is, with power equivalent to an all-out strike at the target's cultivation level.]

[Whether the target is an ordinary person or a Titled Douluo, an appearance-only disguise costs a flat 100 joy points for one minute. Duration can be continuously stacked until joy points run out, but those whose Soul Power far exceeds your own can see through it.]

[Adding an aura disguise makes it impossible for any being to see through!]

[Costs a flat 1000 joy points per minute, regardless of cultivation level!]

[Replicating Soul Skills requires an additional expenditure.]

[Replicating an all-out strike with a Soul Master's first soul skill costs 500 joy points!]

[Replicating an all-out strike with a Soul Grandmaster's first soul skill costs 1000 joy points!]

[Replicating an all-out strike with a Soul Elder's first soul skill costs 3000 joy points!]

[Replicating an all-out strike with a Soul Ancestor's first soul skill costs 5000 joy points each!]

[Replicating an all-out strike with a Soul King's first soul skill costs 10000 joy points.]

[At your current cultivation level, the highest you can replicate is an all-out strike with a Soul King's first soul skill.]

"Perfect Mask?"

Gu Xingzhou was thrilled.

This was an absolute lifesaving treasure!

As long as he had enough joy points, he could transform into countless forms. Even a Titled Douluo would have trouble catching him!

By spending just a thousand points, he could fool even a Titled Douluo standing right in front of him!

One minute might not seem like much, but used wisely, it was more than enough. That minute would give him enough time to escape in disguise to somewhere without a Titled Douluo.

And this disguise was not just for saving his life. It could also let him pull the strings entirely from behind the scenes.

As for replicating Soul Skills, that was another unquestionably lifesaving divine skill. He was only a level-nineteen Soul Master now, yet he could already replicate a level-fifty Soul King's first soul skill, with exactly the same power.

That was already heaven-defying.

And this was only limited by his Soul Master cultivation level. If he kept growing stronger and undergoing transformations, he might eventually replicate a Titled Douluo's first soul skill, or even all their Soul Skills.

By then, the mask would be able to hold even more laughter.

While Gu Xingzhou absorbed his Soul Ring, the Elite Livestream Room buzzed with discussion.

[Dugu Bo: A ten-thousand-year first soul ring, the source of a Myriad-Aspect Illusion Beast... Even I have never heard of such a Soul Beast.]

[Dugu Bo: @Gu Xingzhou, boy, what are your Martial Soul and first soul skill?]

[Dugu Bo: It's fine if you don't tell us. You won't be able to hide them for long anyway. Even Tang San's twin Martial Souls have been exposed. Though we don't know what his second martial soul is, I reckon the livestream room deliberately left it out because it thinks it can get some entertainment out of it. Still, it's only a matter of time.]

[Tang San: ...]

[Ning Rongrong: Gu Xingzhou, isn't your luck a little too ridiculous? Everyone on the Douluo Continent is green with envy now!]

[Ning Rongrong: Why not come visit our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect? Let some of your luck rub off on me!]

[Xiao Wu: Haha, Gu Xingzhou, everyone in the Ordinary Livestream Room is saying you're already number one among the Douluo Continent's new generation! You can watch my back from now on!]

[Dai Mubai: @Gu Xingzhou, congratulations, congratulations!]

[Ma Hongjun: I'm so jealous! I wonder if I'll ever get my hands on a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring in this lifetime!]

[Oscar: All of a sudden, I feel like having fan edits made of me on the livestream really isn't such a big deal. When can I star in an episode?]

[Oscar: That whole Peace Sign thing... It's not like I can't do it! I'll just throw caution to the wind!]

[Dai Mubai: Exactly. Social suicide is nothing worth mentioning compared to this Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring!]

[Flender: Now I truly believe this livestream room can turn someone straight into a god.]

[Liu Erlong: Yes, anything is possible.]

[Xue Beng: Consider this a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo warning.]

[Ning Rongrong: Haha, you just had to bring up the one sore spot! Everyone's spirits are soaring right now!]

[Tang San: ...]

The Elite Livestream Room seemed filled with laughter and good cheer, but the major sects and factions were all watching and waiting.

By all rights, they should have been fighting like mad over a genius like Gu Xingzhou, extending every sort of olive branch.

Yet none of them dared make a rash move now.

The reason was undoubtedly Bibi Dong. As Pope, she represented Spirit Hall. If not for those skits Gu Xingzhou had performed with her, they would have had no qualms. Recruiting a genius was perfectly reasonable.

But now, Gu Xingzhou could be said to have offended Bibi Dong beyond all forgiveness. He had even used the Thirteen Needles of Gangmen. This was one hot potato!

If Bibi Dong flew into a murderous rage out of humiliation and swore to kill Gu Xingzhou, wouldn't extending an olive branch at a time like this be openly declaring that they would oppose Spirit Hall and protect him?

A genius was all well and good, but he still needed the opportunity to grow. Having offended Bibi Dong, if she refused to rest until he was dead, how many people could keep him safe?

And this was no ordinary offense, either...

So everyone was watching and waiting. Even if they extended an olive branch, they ought not say so openly in the livestream room. They should contact him privately.

Ning Fengzhi, however, had asked Ning Rongrong to invite him over as a guest.

He was glad his daughter was fairly active in the Elite Livestream Room. That meant no one could find fault with her testing the waters with such a remark at a time like this, and it would not amount to offending Bibi Dong.

If not for Bibi Dong, Ning Fengzhi would have been itching to marry his daughter to Gu Xingzhou. Whether in looks or talent, the more he looked at the boy, the more he liked him! He was more than worthy of his daughter!

Yet just as everyone harbored their own hidden schemes, someone entirely unexpected was the first to extend an olive branch to Gu Xingzhou.

In the Elite Livestream Room.

[Yu Xiaogang: @Gu Xingzhou, would you take me as your master?]

[Ning Rongrong: ???]

[Tang San: ???]

[Liu Erlong: ???]

[Ma Hongjun: Huh???]

[Flender: Wait, Gangzi, are you serious???]

[Dugu Bo: Heh, as expected of someone who could say he would destroy Spirit Hall at any cost.]

[Xue Beng: That really is just like you, Gangzi...]