"Then will Da Ming and Er Ming be in danger after becoming ferocious beasts?"
After inwardly grumbling for a while about the ferocious beasts deep within the Lake of Life, Xiao Wu suddenly voiced this concern.
The danger she worried about did not come from those ferocious beasts deep within the Lake of Life, but from another crucial factor.
That was-heavenly tribulation!
Although she had never known that the ferocious beast rank existed, she knew that once a soul beast's cultivation approached two hundred thousand years, it had to survive a tribulation to keep living and further increase its cultivation and strength.
She had chosen Human Form Transformation precisely because she had no confidence in surviving the two-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation.
Likewise, that was why her mother had undergone Human Form Transformation.
After all, their original forms were Soft Bone Rabbits, a relatively frail kind of soul beast, rather than other soul beasts with tremendously powerful bloodlines and racial traits!
Although Da Ming and Er Ming were a Sky Azure Bull Python and a Titan Giant Ape respectively, both soul beasts with powerful bloodlines and a greater chance of surviving their tribulations and advancing, Xiao Wu still could not help worrying a little.
"Don't worry. Once I help them improve using the means granted by the god, their chances of surviving their tribulations will increase greatly too."
Ji Yang reassured her with certainty.
He truly was not worried about that.
First, Sky Azure Bull Pythons and Titan Giant Apes were both immensely powerful soul beasts, so surviving a two-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation would not be difficult;
second, his pills could further enhance their potential, making a mere two-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation even less of a concern.
Even if something really went wrong in the end, he could still refine the two of them into Soul Spirit Pills to save them.
As long as he absorbed the Soul Spirit Pills made from the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape and later became a god, they could be resurrected.
In fact, even without his becoming a god, the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape could be resurrected through other means.
The Soul Spirit Pills refined by his Eight Trigrams Alchemy Furnace martial soul were extremely special. As long as the soul master was willing to "unbind" from the soul spirit, and the soul spirit was also willing, the soul spirit could free itself from the soul master's body and turn back into a soul beast, achieving a true "resurrection."
After all, a Soul Spirit Pill was refined from the entirety of a soul beast, not merely its soul. Everything that made up the beast remained intact.
Once it transformed back into a soul beast, everything it had possessed before would return to its original state.
Most importantly, the soul spirit's cultivation age would not change at all when it returned to its soul beast form. It would remain exactly as it had been while it was a soul spirit.
Of course, if the soul spirit wished, it could also choose not to return to its soul beast form and instead become another soul master's new soul spirit.
In these respects, the soul spirits refined by the Eight Trigrams Alchemy Furnace martial soul were vastly superior to those created through Electrolux's Soul Spirit Method, as well as the soul spirits of the eras of Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King and Douluo IV.
This could truly be called a method that would achieve relative peace between humans and soul beasts, allow the Soul Beast Clan to endure, and enable soul spirits to be passed down from generation to generation.
It was only because Di Tian and the other ferocious beasts did not yet know Ji Yang possessed this ability that they had not welcomed him as an honored guest and treated him with the utmost respect.
The reason was simple!
Not only did this method promise a relatively easy way to further improve their strength, it also offered them a chance to avoid heavenly tribulations or preserve themselves and gain new life through them.
It was not hard to imagine just how much help Ji Yang could offer them.
Even an Auspicious Beast could not accomplish that.
"Is that so? Then I can stop worrying!"
Although Xiao Wu did not know exactly what Ji Yang meant by the means granted by the god, seeing how confident and certain he was immediately put her worries to rest.
"Then let's head back to the Star Dou Great Forest now!"
Xiao Wu spoke without hesitation.
With an initial solution to her own growth secured, and the prospect of further improving Da Ming's and Er Ming's strength, she could hardly wait to bring Ji Yang back to her home, the Star Dou Great Forest.
If Da Ming and Er Ming learned of Ji Yang's origins and abilities, they would surely be delighted too.
"Mm!"
Ji Yang nodded.
At that moment, his heart brimmed with secret delight.
See? Hadn't he won Xiao Wu over with ease?
Once they reached the Star Dou Great Forest, he would not have to worry about his safety or growth at all.
If the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape becoming ferocious beasts alerted Di Tian and the others deep within the Lake of Life, he might obtain even stronger support and never have to worry about his future circumstances again.
With that thought in mind, Ji Yang immediately left Nuoding City with Xiao Wu and headed toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
"Yaaawn-"
Meanwhile, Tang San, who had only recently arrived at his dormitory and defeated Wang Sheng to become the boss of Dorm Seven, suddenly let out an enormous yawn.
For some reason, he once again felt a wave of malice coming his way, along with a sense that he was about to lose something.
It left him utterly baffled.
Could Nuoding Academy be haunted?
Nuoding City was certainly no short distance from the Star Dou Great Forest; they were at least a thousand li apart.
Even by carriage, it would take seven or eight days to arrive.
Traveling the whole way on foot would take at least a month.
Although Ji Yang was not short of money and could afford the fastest carriage, as well as hire escorts to protect them along the way, he could not withstand the lively Xiao Wu's insistence on walking to the Star Dou Great Forest.
Mostly, she yearned for the human world and was deeply curious about it. She wanted to take this opportunity to see human society along the way and experience sights different from those in the Star Dou Great Forest.
Ji Yang could only agree.
It would be rather troublesome, but the journey might further deepen his bond with Xiao Wu.
"Xiao Wu, you haven't condensed your first soul ring yet, have you?"
After traveling for most of the day and finally checking into a hotel on the border between Fasinuo Province and the Balak Kingdom, Ji Yang asked Xiao Wu this question.
If he remembered correctly, Xiao Wu had only condensed her first soul ring after Tang San and Grandmaster went to the Soul Hunting Forest to hunt soul beasts.
Presumably, Xiao Wu had not condensed her first soul ring yet.
"Not yet! I only completed Human Form Transformation a little while ago, and I'm still stabilizing my condition. I need to absorb a certain amount of human aura before I can condense my soul ring."
Xiao Wu shook her head as she spoke.
"Perfect. Eat all of these first!"
Ji Yang took out several Whale Rubber Pills and Soul Body Pills.
He had refined the Whale Rubber Pills over the past few days using newly acquired whale rubber. Most were hundred-year Whale Rubber Pills.
As for the Soul Body Pills, they were one of the types of pills he had refined from blue silver grass.
Knowing that Xiao Wu would arrive in Nuoding City around this time, he had harvested all the remaining blue silver grass soul beasts around Nuoding Academy a few days earlier and refined every one of them into the corresponding pills.
Although he had eaten some, he still had plenty left.
He did not particularly mind giving Xiao Wu a few. He could consider them a reward for her.
If they made Xiao Wu stronger, he would be happy to see it.
That way, at least he would not have an extra burden at his side, and she could be of greater use.
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