Su Mo's Biggest Gain

And during the days he spent cultivating at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well...

After successfully using the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to digest the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot he had consumed, Su Mo's cultivation rose tremendously, breaking through from level 21 Soul Grandmaster all the way to level 30.

However, this was not Su Mo's greatest gain from this journey.

His greatest gain from this trip to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was guiding Bibi Dong into changing the plot and claiming the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, which should originally have belonged to Tang San. As a result, he gained another Memory Addition Opportunity!

With this newly acquired Memory Addition Opportunity, as long as he devised the script properly, Su Mo could create another "reborn" Goddess.

This made Su Mo incredibly happy.

Still, Su Mo ultimately did not remain at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for long.

After digesting the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, Su Mo followed Bibi Dong to Sunset Forest, where they hunted down a Soul Devouring Beast with a cultivation nearing five thousand years.

After absorbing this Soul Devouring Beast, Su Mo successfully obtained the Third Soul Skill he wanted: Soul Devour!

As its name implied, Soul Devour allowed him to devour souls and absorb the Soul Power contained within them to increase his cultivation, even raising the age of his Soul Rings!

That was right! It was that overpowered!

Of course, the reason Soul Devour could produce such an effect was mainly because Su Mo's Death God Scythe Spirit was powerful enough.

The Death God Scythe Spirit was a Martial Soul Su Mo had designed at the utmost limit permitted by the system. It was a ceiling-level Super God King Level Spirit in Douluo, with potential enough to rival the Dragon God Spirit!

That was, if a Dragon God Spirit even existed in this world.

Yet before leaving, Su Mo could not help feeling some regret as he looked at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

During his cultivation there, the Death God Scythe Spirit had allowed Su Mo to sense two powerful souls beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

They should have been the remnant souls of the fallen Ice Fire Dragon King.

After all, according to the setting, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had formed precisely because the corpses of the Ice Fire Dragon King, who had fallen in ancient times, lay beneath it.

Unfortunately, Su Mo was still far too weak.

Even though his Second Soul Skill was Dominate Soul, a Soul Skill capable of subduing and controlling souls, Su Mo could not enslave the remnant souls of the Ice Fire Dragon King, beings that had once stood at the level of divine beasts.

He would likely have to wait until he reached the rank of Titled Douluo before returning to try and see whether he could subdue the remnant souls of the Ice Fire Dragon King, dormant within their corpses beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

After this trip to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, having achieved his goal, Su Mo returned to Spirit City with Bibi Dong.

Once back in Spirit City, Su Mo threw himself into arduous cultivation once more.

It could not be helped. His cheat ability was simply too unreliable, so Su Mo could only nurture Goddess Bibi Dong to protect and support him—but he was the protagonist!

If possible, Su Mo preferred to handle some matters himself.

There was no need to mention winning over all kinds of Goddesses—seizing the opportunities that should have belonged to Tang San, tormenting Yu Xiaogang, and even dealing with Tang Hao and Tang San later on!

These were all things Su Mo wanted to do in Bibi Dong's stead.

And all of them required sufficient strength.

So Su Mo had no choice but to work even harder!

In the blink of an eye, another two years passed.

Over those two years...

Because he had consumed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, Su Mo had directly broken through to level 35 after absorbing his Third Soul Ring.

Moreover, Su Mo had yet to fully absorb and digest the medicinal power of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot within his body.

Therefore, over these two years, through Su Mo's relentless hard training and the power of Soul Devour, he directly broke through to the Soul King rank!

One thing was worth mentioning during this period.

In order to obtain powerful souls that could rapidly increase his cultivation, Su Mo joined Spirit Hall's Enforcement Team not long after returning to Spirit City. He often went out to hunt Fallen Soul Masters and Evil Soul Masters causing trouble across the Douluo Continent.

This allowed Su Mo to earn the title of Cold-Faced God of Slaughter in the outside Soul Master World at an early age.

While Su Mo advanced at a breakneck pace, Bibi Dong did not fall behind either.

However, unlike Su Mo, Bibi Dong had no Soul Skill like Soul Devour to conceal the rapid increase in her cultivation, so she kept a relatively low profile.

Throughout these two years, Bibi Dong focused primarily on laying plans for the future, preparing to eliminate Qian Xunji and take control of Spirit Hall.

And when it came to plotting against Qian Xunji, the torment of Yu Xiaogang was naturally part of Bibi Dong's plans as well.

Over these two years, Yu Xiaogang gradually became immersed in the persona he had crafted for himself as a scholar of Martial Soul Theory.

With Bibi Dong's help, he discovered that his Martial Soul Theory had actually earned him some respect from ordinary Soul Masters in the Soul Master World.

Yu Xiaogang could not help having a sudden idea. Perhaps he could use research into Martial Soul Theory to prove himself and shed the label of worthless trash that had followed him all his life.

As a result, Yu Xiaogang became increasingly obsessed with researching Martial Soul Theory.

Unfortunately, only Yu Xiaogang himself and some ordinary Soul Masters in the Soul Master World believed in the Martial Soul Theory expert persona he had constructed.

Within Spirit Hall, however, Yu Xiaogang's reputation had long since become utterly rotten!

After all, even in the original story, without Bibi Dong fanning the flames, Yu Xiaogang's reputation had hardly been flattering.

When he had been close to Bibi Dong, the people of Spirit Hall had barely tolerated him and did not dare expose the true face of this hypocritical, shameless, fame-seeking scoundrel.

But after Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong separated, Spirit Hall directly turned Yu Xiaogang into the laughingstock of the Soul Master World!

Thus, with Bibi Dong fanning the flames, Yu Xiaogang suffered endlessly in Spirit City. Being surrounded and beaten was a daily occurrence; being humiliated and toyed with in all manner of ways was even more common!

Yet Bibi Dong deliberately pretended not to believe the "rumors" in Spirit City, claiming that she trusted only her Xiao Gang Gege, while their relationship continued to grow closer.

Having discovered that his chance to fulfill his dream was right before him, Yu Xiaogang was unwilling to give up no matter what!

As the saying went: Those who achieve great things did not fuss over trifles!

He, Yu Xiaogang, was still the Young Master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. No matter how much the people of Spirit Hall hated him, they would not truly kill him.

As long as he could use Bibi Dong to find a way in Spirit Hall to cast off the label of trash, he could undoubtedly return to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan in a blaze of glory.

What did a little humiliation matter?

To Yu Xiaogang, no amount of humiliation suffered in Spirit City could compare to the fury and heartbreak of being called trash in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan!

However, as Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang's relationship appeared increasingly intimate to outsiders, Qian Xunji finally could no longer endure it and sent someone to summon Bibi Dong.