Another Martial Soul Transformation-A Conceptual Divine Skill! The Lone Bamboo Pole Vault Became Real!

[Haha, it really is a father-and-son showdown between Tang San and Tang Hao.]

[Wonder what tricks the livestream has up its sleeve!]

[Who cares? As long as the livestream runs normally, I can slack off at work!]

[Now that Tang San and Tang Hao have both appeared, can the day Tang Hao and Gangzi face off onstage be far away?]

[Awesome, a custody battle? Now that sounds interesting.]

Unlike the people in the Ordinary Livestream Room, the viewers in the Elite Livestream Room were mostly shocked to hear Tang Hao's name.

Who with any strength or standing had not heard of Tang Hao?

The moment Bibi Dong heard Tang Hao's name, she began putting the pieces together.

If Tang San was Tang Hao's son... innate full soul power, twin martial souls... Blue Silver Grass, a hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor. Everything fit. Then, barring any surprises, Tang San's other martial soul was the Clear Sky Hammer.

Bibi Dong immediately sensed a threat. She absolutely could not allow a seedling like him to grow!

As for Tang Hao, she could not let him off either!

Bibi Dong had not forgotten her position. As Spirit Hall's current Pope, she had to publicly uphold the politically correct stance of "avenging the former Pope, Qian Xunji."

Even though she hated Qian Xunji to the marrow.

Tang Hao had severely injured Qian Xunji back then, indirectly helping her complete her revenge.

Yet she still had to do this.

Ever since she had succeeded to the papacy, Tang Hao had remained Spirit Hall's highest-priority wanted target. Branch halls across the continent, the Elder Hall, and assassin squads had searched relentlessly for him for over six years.

[Elite Livestream Room]

[Bibi Dong: Tang Hao of the Clear Sky Sect, Tang San. So that's how it is. This livestream has done me quite a favor.]

[Bibi Dong: Ghost Elder, arrest Tang San immediately. Better to seize the wrong person than let him escape!]

[Ghost Douluo: As you command, Your Holiness!]

[Tang San: ???]

[Xiao Wu: ???]

[Ma Hongjun: Huh? What happened?]

[Ning Fengzhi: So it really is Tang Hao of the Clear Sky Sect... Thinking about it carefully, the Clear Sky Sect sealed its mountain six years ago, Tang Hao disappeared six years ago, and Tang San is six years old. The timing does match.]

[Yu Xiaogang: Bibi Dong, you madwoman, what are you trying to do? I'm warning you, don't touch Tang San! He's my disciple!]

[Bibi Dong: Heh, what, if I arrest him, are you going to destroy Spirit Hall at any cost?]

[Yu Xiaogang: You!]

[Tang Hao: Bibi Dong, don't bother. I've already taken him away. Gui Mei alone can't stop me.]

[Countdown complete. Livestream closed!]

[Please look forward to tomorrow's livestream!]

Meanwhile.

Dorm Seven, Notting Academy.

Since Tang San had been staying with Grandmaster the whole time, Gu Xingzhou did not know when Tang Hao had taken him away.

Xiao Wu, meanwhile, had long since made up a flimsy excuse and left. The last time Ghost Douluo appeared, she had also anticipated his arrival, knowing someone would come to bring Gu Xingzhou money, then hidden herself somewhere.

This time, however, before leaving, Xiao Wu had agreed to go to Spirit City with him-but not now. She would go there herself once he had established a firm foothold in Spirit City.

Gu Xingzhou had naturally agreed. If Ghost Douluo appeared, they would not be able to conceal the fact that Xiao Wu was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.

So, for the moment, Gu Xingzhou was free of worries, light as a feather.

He contentedly tallied his gains from today's livestream.

[Current cumulative popularity of the Fanfiction Livestream: 435 million. Once it reaches 1 billion, you can upgrade the livestream again and unlock new features!]

[Your currently available popularity: 294 million!]

Thanks to that Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, he no longer needed to spend 100 million popularity to raise his soul power level to 20.

"Then let's transform my martial soul once more."

Gu Xingzhou made his decision immediately.

[Spend 100 million popularity to give your martial soul one random transformation?]

"Yes."

[Expenditure successful. Popularity -100 million!]

[Currently available popularity: 194 million!]

[Randomly selecting a martial soul transformation path...]

[Selection successful!]

[Your martial soul has transformed!]

[New ability: Soul Skill Replacement!]

[Effect: Any soul skill you witness can be collected and stored within the Joy Mask. By spending 1,000 joy points, you can strike a target with the mask and place the Joy Mask on them for one minute. The target's soul skills will be replaced with soul skills stored in the mask.]

[Replacing one soul skill costs 1,000 joy points. However, a first soul skill can only replace a first soul skill, a second soul skill can only replace a second soul skill, and so on.]

"Soul Skill Replacement?"

Brimming with delight, Gu Xingzhou began studying this new effect.

He only needed to see a soul skill once to store it in the mask.

So far, Gu Xingzhou had only seen Gangzi's Thunderous Luo Sanpao. He sank his consciousness into the Joy Mask.

Sure enough, he saw Gangzi's first soul skill, [Farts Like Thunder, Thunderous Luo Sanpao]!

"Hm? There are more?"

Gu Xingzhou was slightly surprised.

Listed within the Joy Mask were three more familiar soul skills...

[First soul skill: Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo Pole Vault]

[First soul skill: Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo Kill!]

[First soul skill: Tough Bamboo Temptation!]

"???"

"???"

"Huh??"

"Even this works??"

Gu Xingzhou froze. He had thought something like this ought to be impossible. There could not possibly be soul skills like these, yet...

There they were, plain as day.

"Isn't this just overflowing with joy?"

Gu Xingzhou was overjoyed. If this worked, then... whenever he wanted some heaven-defying soul skill in the future, wouldn't he just have to write it into a fanfiction script?

Not only could he use it on himself, but he could also use it on other people!

There did not seem to be any level restriction, either!

Then couldn't he make even a Titled Douluo like Bibi Dong have her first soul skill replaced with Thunderous Luo Sanpao, or something like an old granny's pole vault, right as she used it?

The mask only had to hit the enemy, and no particular spot was specified, giving him plenty of freedom. He could catch her off guard at any moment, pat Bibi Dong's bottom, and slap a Joy Mask on her in passing. Easy as could be.

For now, though, this ability seemed a little like chicken ribs-too little meat to savor, yet a shame to discard. The mask only stored first soul skills, so he could only replace a first soul skill. Against someone like Ghost Douluo, who had nine soul skills, disabling one still left eight stronger ones.

But that was only for now. After all, he could store any soul skill after seeing it once. Given a little time, he could stockpile a whole heap of them, whether powerful ones or useless skills made up for fanfiction. Then he could replace every soul skill.

As for powerful soul skills, he could replace his own with them.

That was not really necessary, though, because his Perfect Mask could perfectly replicate someone else's full-power soul skill attack.

He only needed to turn his opponent's soul skills into useless scraps, then activate Perfect Mask-a two-pronged assault.

Most importantly.

This new transformation path would allow him to conceal [Perfect Mask] from Bibi Dong and everyone else.

An ability like that worked best only when others knew nothing about it. If they knew, they would certainly take precautions against him.

But he still needed some ability to show outwardly.

Soul Skill Replacement solved that problem perfectly.

Just as Gu Xingzhou quietly transformed his martial soul, Ghost Douluo silently appeared beside him.

"Your Highness the Holy Son, I have come on Her Holiness the Pope's orders to escort you back to Spirit Hall."