Bibi Dong's Scheme, Three Years

After hunting his first Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest, Su Mo naturally prepared to return to Spirit Hall with Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei.

Along the way, after two extended periods of contact, Bibi Dong had smoothly befriended Yue Guan and Gui Mei with the superb social skills she had possessed as Pope in her past life.

Now, if Bibi Dong asked Yue Guan and Gui Mei for help, as long as it was not an especially difficult problem, they would certainly not hesitate to lend a hand.

But that was only natural.

As Spirit Hall's Saintess, and the peerlessly gifted possessor of Innate Full Soul Power and Twin Martial Souls, Bibi Dong's future was virtually limitless.

Becoming a Titled Douluo in the future was a certainty!

Under such circumstances, if Bibi Dong wished to befriend anyone in Spirit Hall, even a Titled Douluo-level offering from the Worship Hall would choose to accept.

Of course, Su Mo had also played no small part in this.

After successfully befriending Yue Guan and Gui Mei,

Bibi Dong quietly began putting her plans into motion. First, she subtly revealed that she too liked flowers and plants, then began discussing them with Yue Guan.

Finally, by deliberately steering the conversation, Bibi Dong eventually led Yue Guan to discuss the highest-grade plants that theoretically existed in this world—Immortal Spiritual Herbs!

That's right!

Bibi Dong had continuously sought opportunities to befriend Yue Guan and Gui Mei not merely because they had been her subordinates in her past life and she was familiar with them.

More importantly, she wanted to obtain knowledge about Immortal Herbs from Yue Guan—ideally, a compendium he might possess that recorded the various Immortal Herbs!

Before Bibi Dong's "rebirth,"

because Tang San had continued to threaten her in the later years, Bibi Dong had naturally sent people to investigate Tang San's life and thoroughly understand his rise.

She learned that during his time in Heaven Dou Imperial City, Tang San had obtained the legendary Immortal Herbs from Dugu Bo's Herb Garden.

That was why Ning Rongrong's Martial Soul had evolved from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and why the Shrek Team had gained the strength to win the Pan-continental Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament!

At the time, Bibi Dong had naturally craved the Immortal Herbs in Tang San's possession. Later, she had also sent people to Sunset Forest and found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

But unfortunately, Tang San had already stripped the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well bare of every herb, including the Immortal Spiritual Herbs, so Bibi Dong naturally obtained nothing.

But now that she, Bibi Dong, had been reborn,

she naturally would not let the various Immortal Herbs in Dugu Bo's Herb Garden slip away again!

According to the information she had gathered,

not only could some of these Immortal Herbs cause Martial Soul Evolution, but even those that could not could still raise a Soul Master's cultivation by a full seven or eight levels at the Soul Elder realm!

But unfortunately, because she had been the Pope at the time,

she had not paid much attention to the matter of Immortal Spiritual Herbs and had instead handed it all over to Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan. As a result, she did not know much about them.

Otherwise, she would not now need to pry information out of Yue Guan and seek an opportunity to obtain a compendium he might possess that recorded Immortal Herbs.

But perhaps her luck was good!

On the journey back from the Star Dou Great Forest, Bibi Dong had merely brought up Immortal Spiritual Herbs while deliberately discussing flowers and plants with Yue Guan.

Yue Guan immediately seemed to have opened the floodgates. With boundless enthusiasm and yearning, he began introducing to Bibi Dong just how beautiful, elegant, and mysterious these legendary Immortal Spiritual Herbs were!

To find out where Yue Guan's knowledge of Immortal Spiritual Herbs came from, Bibi Dong pretended to doubt whether they were real.

This immediately angered Yue Guan somewhat, and he declared that all of it was absolutely true!

After all, these things were recorded in his family's inherited Immortal Herb Compendium, and his Martial Soul, the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, was itself an Immortal Spiritual Herb!

After confirming from Yue Guan that he truly possessed a compendium recording Immortal Spiritual Herbs,

Bibi Dong immediately struck while the iron was hot and expressed her desire to look through Yue Guan's Immortal Herb Compendium, to understand the charm of these Immortal Spiritual Herbs that existed only in legend.

In response, Yue Guan generously said that once they returned, he would lend the Immortal Herb Compendium to Bibi Dong.

Bibi Dong had achieved her goal that easily!

But although she had obtained the Immortal Herb Compendium from Yue Guan,

with only Soul King-level strength at present, it would not be so easy for Bibi Dong to obtain Immortal Spiritual Herbs from Dugu Bo!

Perhaps Bibi Dong could easily achieve her goal by relying on Spirit Hall's power.

But in that case, Bibi Dong would certainly only get a sip of the broth—one Immortal Spiritual Herb.

Yet what Bibi Dong wanted was control over all the Immortal Spiritual Herbs!

To achieve that goal, Bibi Dong still needed to make long-term plans!

Ever since Su Mo had hunted his first Soul Ring,

three years had passed in the blink of an eye.

Over those three years, Su Mo had studied at Spirit City's Junior Soul Master Academy while diligently cultivating. Whenever he had free time, he would also go with Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang to read at the Spirit City Central Library.

After three years of diligent cultivation, Su Mo's cultivation had finally broken through from an eleventh-level Soul Master to a twenty-first-level Soul Grandmaster!

But Su Mo was somewhat frustrated by this.

Because breaking through to Soul Grandmaster was not solely the result of his diligent cultivation. Spirit Hall's various resources had also been indispensable.

For example, Su Mo ate Soul Power Food made by Food System Soul Masters every day, cultivated in the Martial Soul Simulation Training Field, and could take a Superior Medicinal Herb every so often, such as Hundred-Year Ginseng or Hundred-Year Lingzhi.

With Spirit Hall's various resources supporting him, Su Mo had only reached level twenty-one after three years—his cultivation had increased by just nine levels.

Yet Su Mo remembered that Tang San, without any resource support whatsoever, had raised his Soul Power by nearly fifteen levels in six years. That rate of improvement might even surpass his own!

Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Skill was merely a cultivation method from a martial arts world. How could it possibly be this absurdly powerful?

Su Mo felt helpless.

Since the system was so unreliable, Su Mo could only figure out a solution himself.

But after much thought, Su Mo could only identify two things that could currently help him speed up his cultivation: Spirit Bones and Immortal Spiritual Herbs.

However, obtaining Spirit Bones by killing Soul Beasts and hoping they dropped one depended far too much on luck, and Su Mo clearly was not lucky enough.

At least when hunting Soul Rings, Su Mo had killed Soul Beasts twice without obtaining a single Spirit Bone.

And given Su Mo's current status in Spirit Hall, it was almost impossible to expect Spirit Hall to reward him with a Spirit Bone.

But Su Mo felt that Immortal Spiritual Herbs offered an opportunity.

Because according to his plot setup, Bibi Dong knew of the existence of Immortal Spiritual Herbs.

And given Bibi Dong's personality, since she knew about Immortal Spiritual Herbs, whether for herself or for him, Bibi Dong would certainly find a way to acquire them.

But speaking of Bibi Dong, Yu Xiaogang had to be mentioned.

In truth, over these three years, Yu Xiaogang had been tormented terribly by Bibi Dong!