Xiao Wu Hoped to Become a Disciple, Li Sen Broke Through

Elsewhere, Li Sen finished buying materials for physical training and went to the academy to find Tang San. His gaze turned strange when he saw Xiao Wu beside him.

A hundred-thousand-year soft bone rabbit in human form... She had only known Tang San for a day. Was she already planning to leave with them?

Li Sen narrowed his eyes.

To an ordinary soul master, both the soul ring of a transformed soul beast like Xiao Wu and the soul bone she was guaranteed to drop were priceless treasures.

But the blue silver grass he cultivated accumulated vitality. His training centered on his body's blood and vital energy, while the Eight Gates provided his combat strength.

Luo Sanpao needed new dragon bloodlines to evolve properly, and Li Sen planned to equip dragon soul bones.

This rabbit's soul ring and soul bone were like chicken ribs to Li Sen—too little meat to bother with, yet a pity to discard. Otherwise, he might have wanted to kill her and seize her bone.

Li Sen looked at Tang San and smiled. "Xiao San, why did you bring this little girl?"

Xiao Wu, who had been about to muster her courage and ask to become his disciple, shuddered.

Li Sen was clearly only a three-ring Soul Elder, yet she felt as though he could see right through her.

That feeling choked back her desire to ask him to take her as his disciple, draining her courage.

She instinctively hid behind Tang San and clutched the hem of his clothes.

Tang San stepped forward and explained, "Teacher, Yu Xiaogang was pestering Xiao Wu, so I stepped in and taught him a lesson."

"She saw how impressive the soul skills you planned for me were, so she wants to become your disciple too."

Afraid Li Sen would reject her outright, Tang San added, "Teacher, Xiao Wu also has innate full soul power. Her martial soul is the soft bone rabbit."

Li Sen froze for a moment. He truly had not expected Yu Xiaogang to pester Xiao Wu.

Even more unexpected was that Yu Xiaogang could not even beat Tang San. His soul power level might as well have been decoration.

Li Sen looked at Xiao Wu.

In the original story, this little rabbit claimed to bear a deep blood feud, yet she never took a master or worked hard at cultivation. Her head was filled with romance from beginning to end.

Unlike Tang San, who regarded his master as the heavens themselves, this rabbit was not human and had little sense of morality.

Taking such a disciple offered him no benefit, she did not appeal to him, and it would be a thankless waste of effort. He might as well forget it.

Considering that Xiao Wu might later sacrifice herself to Tang San, Li Sen did not drive her away. He said mildly, "You can come with us, but forget about becoming my disciple."

"My training is grueling. She looks delicate, unlike you, Little San. She wouldn't be able to endure it."

Tang San felt a little regretful. He looked at Xiao Wu and said, "Xiao Wu, Teacher won't take you as his disciple, but you can come along. Are you willing?"

Xiao Wu hesitated before saying, "Then I'll come with you."

Since I can't become his disciple, I'll rely on Tang San for revenge, she thought.

After all, Tang San had innate full soul power and could defeat a Soul Grandmaster while still a Soul Master.

Once he becomes a Titled Douluo, even if he can't fight a god, beating Spirit Hall's Supreme Pontiff should be no problem!

And since Li Sen seems able to see through me, I might as well not become his disciple. I'll just hide beside Tang San.

Tang San was delighted, and Xiao Wu breathed a sigh of relief.

Smiling, Li Sen took out several masks and put on a ferocious dragon mask himself.

"Xiao San, today your master will teach you your first lesson as a soul master.

"When you're out in the world, until your strength reaches its very pinnacle, you must hide your identity carefully, whether you have exceptional talent or some special trait others covet."

"Often, a man is innocent, but the jade he carries makes him guilty!"

"Next, I'll help you train your body to prepare for a thousand-year second soul ring. Once we reveal our soul rings, we can't stay anywhere for long."

Li Sen's expression was solemn as he spoke.

Over the years, he had ventured far and wide to earn money.

Ever since his thousand-year second soul ring had been exposed, Spirit Hall had been tracking him. They had nearly caught him once.

His fear that Spirit Hall's Bibi Dong might go mad and send a Titled Douluo straight after him was also why he had not touched Yu Xiaogang.

Tang San understood Li Sen's meaning and chose a pink rabbit mask.

Xiao Wu excitedly picked a mask carved with blue silver grass.

Li Sen led them out of Nuoding City to a cave surrounded by blue silver grass.

This was his secret base, Blue Silver World, near Xiaotian Village, a hundred li from Suotuo City.

Blue-green blue silver grass covered the surroundings. The cave entrance was two meters tall and one and a half meters wide, while the interior covered more than three hundred square meters.

Merely approaching it left Tang San feeling refreshed and clearheaded. His blue silver grass martial soul was cheering.

"Xiao San, weren't you curious why my second soul ring was a thousand-year one?"

"Today, I'll help you achieve the same!"

Li Sen took out a piece of hundred-year whale rubber. "This is called whale rubber. Refining it can strengthen your body."

Xiao Wu was bewildered. She only looked six years old; in reality, she had lived for tens of thousands of years and was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast in human form.

She did not know much about the human world, but she knew something about products from soul beasts.

The lakes in the Star Dou Great Forest also contained some sea soul beasts that could produce whale rubber.

She could not help saying, "Teacher Li Sen, isn't that an aphrodisiac?"

"Xiao San is only six. How can you give him something like that?"

Li Sen offered no explanation and simply looked at Tang San.

Tang San stepped forward at once, taking the whale rubber and preparing to consume it.

He said firmly, "Xiao Wu, Teacher would never hurt me!"

Li Sen smiled. This respect for one's master and his teachings was precisely what he had wanted when he took Tang San as his disciple.

Tang San's double standards in the original story were utterly hateful to outsiders, but to those on his side, they were nothing but satisfying.

Whether Tang San eventually became a god or obtained a divine position a dozen or so years later, Li Sen and his parents' safety would be assured.

Li Sen circulated his soul power to refine the hundred-year whale rubber. Wisps of black impurities turned to liquid and flowed out.

The whale rubber changed from black to golden yellow, releasing an unusual fragrance.

Li Sen handed it over. Without the slightest doubt, Tang San quickly took it, swallowed it, and circulated the Mysterious Heaven Skill.

In less than five minutes, Tang San's face flushed crimson.

Xiao Wu said anxiously, "Teacher Li Sen, Little San's face is all red! Is he going to explode?"

Li Sen smiled. "He won't explode."

"But I need to leave for a while. Keep an eye on Little San."

"There are medicinal herbs in this cave. Xiao San recognizes them all and knows how to use them. There's also ten thousand Gold Soul Coins. Use them to buy yourselves food."

"If Little San wants to forge iron, tell him he can go to a nearby village."

Xiao Wu nodded in a daze.

Questioning Li Sen for Tang San's sake earlier had already exhausted all her courage.

Li Sen glanced at Tang San, then turned and left.

Taking the child of destiny as his disciple seemed to have rewarded him as well. He had broken through his bottleneck to level forty and even obtained the location of a ten-thousand-year Violet Lightning Demon Dragon.

His innate soul power was low, and both his blue silver grass and Luo Sanpao were of poor quality, so his soul power increased slowly.

To ensure that Luo Sanpao could absorb a soul ring and evolve, he would first add another soul ring to his blue silver grass. Luo Sanpao's first soul ring had to start at ten thousand years.

His physical body could contend with a Battle Soul King and rivaled that of a Soul Saint. His absorption limit was around fifty thousand years.

Luo Sanpao was too weak and would inevitably face considerable pressure when absorbing a dragon soul ring with a powerful bloodline. Li Sen estimated his limit at around thirty thousand years, and it had to possess the lightning attribute.

Unable to obtain the information on dragon soul beasts held by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, Li Sen had searched for a year.

The stronger a dragon soul beast's bloodline, the fiercer its combat strength.

Li Sen had to risk his life and open all Eight Gates for his combat strength to rival a Soul Saint's. Otherwise, he could only fight an ordinary Soul Emperor.

To ensure he had enough strength left to absorb the soul ring, Li Sen first had to absorb his blue silver grass's fourth soul ring to strengthen his body and recovery ability.

Hunting a ten-thousand-year soul beast alone was difficult, so Li Sen simply called on his parents.

Half a month later, they successfully killed a thirty-thousand-year-old Fateflow Star Tree, making it his fourth soul ring.

Because Li Sen had hunted tree-type soul beasts for his Blue Silver Grass since its first soul ring, it had evolved into a Blue Silver Tree.

The soul skill Star Fate possessed two heaven-defying effects.

The first effect tripled his soul power recovery speed, vitality absorption speed, and vitality upon activation. His blue silver grass gained an energy-draining effect, and its toughness doubled.

The second effect gathered Star Power to heal his body and could repair hidden injuries.