After taking Wang Xian'er back to her room, Su Yuan instructed Luo Shan and the others to assign enough guards to protect it and keep anyone from disturbing her inside.
This transformation was crucial. It was the pivotal moment when Wang Xian'er would lay the foundation for becoming a Limit Douluo.
Even the Imperial Family needed to be informed. Mo Yunxing would have to notify them that Wang Xian'er had gained some insights and needed to enter seclusion for a while.
Once everything had been arranged, Su Yuan rubbed his stomach and began eating dinner in his own room.
While eating, he remembered a rather important issue.
Wait... in the Douluo II version, wasn't having a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring a hard requirement for becoming a Limit Douluo? Su Yuan belatedly realized.
But Wang Xian'er's soul rings...
Were the standard two yellow, two purple, and five black. She had no Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring!
Doesn't that mean she'll have to stop at Level 98?
Su Yuan felt a headache coming on.
Forget it. What's done is done. I'll eat first. Whatever problems there are can wait until Wang Xian'er finishes her transformation.
With Wang Xian'er in a deep sleep, Su Yuan became the highest authority in the entire Wang residence.
And with the example of how a small intervention from him had helped Wang Xian'er enter deep seclusion, poised for a major leap in cultivation, everyone in the residence-from Soul Douluo powerhouses to maids and servants with no cultivation at all-submitted to him wholeheartedly and held him in the utmost respect.
The most obvious examples were Luo Shan and Mo Yunxing.
Previously, their respect for Su Yuan had largely stemmed from Wang Xian'er. Now, however, Su Yuan had won them over to a considerable extent, and they were genuinely willing to follow his orders.
Su Yuan could clearly feel all these changes.
Though he was getting a little carried away, he was indeed secretly delighted.
The thrill of crushing people stronger than himself through an advantage from an entirely higher dimension was difficult to put into words. It could only be understood, not explained.
Still, he merely enjoyed that secret delight and had no intention of doing anything because of it.
These background extras who had never even appeared in the original story could not drop the keywords that mattered most to Su Yuan, and nothing else interested him.
In the days that followed, Su Yuan maintained the relaxed lifestyle he had enjoyed during his first two days at the Wang residence.
In the morning, he rose and enjoyed breakfast with beautiful maids attending to him.
After loosening up a little, he received alternating instruction from the two Soul Douluo powerhouses, Luo Shan and Mo Yunxing, rapidly turning his existing soul power level into genuine, formidable combat strength.
Luo Shan taught him head-on combat, showing him how to put every ounce of his strength to work in battle and squeeze twelve tenths of effectiveness out of ten tenths of combat power.
Mo Yunxing taught him evasive combat, showing him how to properly use his speed, avoid attacks he did not need to take, and find an enemy's openings in the flash of lightning and strike of flint.
Two powerhouses, two different fighting styles, yet both poured out everything they knew, teaching through words and demonstrations without holding anything back.
This was one of the hidden benefits of winning them over. Otherwise, getting them to teach him the prized skills they kept at the bottom of their trunks would not have been so easy.
After a morning of combat lessons and lunch, Su Yuan meditated for two hours, cultivating his soul power while digesting the combat knowledge he had learned that day.
In the afternoon, he went to the library on the second floor of the main hall to read, ending his afternoon studies when dinnertime arrived at dusk.
After dinner, he cultivated his soul power for four hours, then dragged his exhausted yet satisfied body into a sound, baby-like sleep, getting a full eight hours of rest.
Even Luo Shan and Mo Yunxing remarked on his healthy body and disciplined routine.
Since arriving in Star Luo City, he had only spent some time exploring the city and buying daily necessities on the first day, when Wang Xian'er had brought him back and accompanied him.
Apart from that, Su Yuan had not even stepped outside the gates of the Wang residence.
He was already used to this kind of life anyway.
Back at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, he had spent years holed up cultivating on his own. Now that his surroundings were better and he had people to chat with and relieve his boredom, Su Yuan's terminal case of cultivation shut-in syndrome had become even harder to cure.
He lived this way for a full two and a half months.
Over the course of one Kun month, the sparring sessions with two Soul Douluo powerhouses not only transformed Su Yuan from someone with useless gym-built muscles into an emotionless killer versed in all kinds of combat techniques, but the top-grade nutritional support supplied by the Wang residence also allowed him to break through four levels in succession, reaching level twenty-nine.
Of those twenty-nine levels, only half a level had come from his own cultivation.
As for the other three and a half levels...
One level came from the steady effects of the [Never Bully a Poor Young Man] trait.
Two and a half levels came from the various precious ingredients he had eaten and the two Mystic Water Pills he had taken.
Since Wang Xian'er was in a deep sleep, Luo Shan and the others did not dare arrange medicinal meals or baths for Su Yuan on their own. They could only improve the quality of the ingredients and give him better food.
The same applied to medicines. They had to wait until Wang Xian'er emerged from seclusion to personally pave the way for Su Yuan. If they took matters into their own hands, they might disrupt her plans.
Mystic Water Pills, however, came with no such concerns.
These mild pills increased innate soul power and cleansed impurities from the body. No matter how many someone took, their body would never develop resistance.
At most, as their talent improved and the impurities in their body were cleared away, subsequent pills would become less effective than the first few.
It was like washing a car. The dirtier the car, the more grime would come off. Even a clean car could still be washed the same way; there would simply be less grime to wash away.
For those with the very best talent, Mystic Water Pills mainly nourished their meridians and cleared grime and impurities from their bodies. Their effect on improving talent was negligible.
So the sooner someone took them, the sooner they enjoyed the benefits.
Given Wang Xian'er's standing, she never lacked such pills. She could easily supply Su Yuan with one a month to take just for fun.
After swallowing two Mystic Water Pills, Su Yuan had most of the impurities accumulated through years of "hardship" washed clean from his body. His meridians were nourished and replenished too, leaving him refreshed from head to toe.
When it came to innate soul power, however, the increase the Mystic Water Pills could give him was limited.
The better someone's talent, the worse the effects of taking Mystic Water Pills. Su Yuan was something of an exception. Although his life had once been better than Huo Yuhao's, it had only been better by so much, and his body contained plenty of impurities. The two Mystic Water Pills had just barely helped raise his innate soul power by about one level.
It had reached innate level eight.
But according to Luo Shan, any further Mystic Water Pills he took would have little noticeable effect. They would only cleanse impurities, making it difficult to improve his talent any further.
For that, he would need more precious treasures of heaven and earth.
With the help of Mystic Water Pills, precious ingredients providing nutritional support, and Luo Shan and Mo Yunxing taking turns putting him through the wringer every day, it would have been difficult for Su Yuan's soul power level to rise slowly even if he wanted it to.
At this rate, even though the breakthrough from level twenty-nine to level thirty was a minor bottleneck and would make cultivation more difficult, Su Yuan was confident he could break through within two months.
By then, he would be a three-ring Soul Elder before he was even eleven and a half!
And on the day after Su Yuan reached level twenty-nine, Wang Xian'er, who had remained completely still for two and a half months, finally showed signs of activity.
She was finally about to emerge from seclusion!
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