With Mu En's permission secured, Lu Yu returned to tidy up his room.
He made not only his own bed but the other bed as well, using a spare mattress.
His Martial Soul's special effect gave him a hundred percent chance of achieving Martial Soul Fusion with others, accelerating his cultivation.
Since his roommate had already been kicked out, he could save himself the trouble of renting a place outside and simply invite people in for dual cultivation.
But who should he invite to dual cultivate tonight?
The cultivation method from Xiao Xiao's family seemed fairly ordinary. He might as well teach her the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
Although someone had gutted the Mysterious Heaven Skill, stripping away its most important ability to improve innate Soul Power.
The gutted Mysterious Heaven Skill had, however, gained the ability to circulate on its own when the body reached its limits, allowing one to cultivate Soul Power while tempering the body.
He had set Xiao Xiao on the power attack system path, and this cultivation method was just right for tempering her body.
After making the beds, Lu Yu sat down on his bed and extended his right hand.
A small, archaic hammer appeared in his hand, and the Soul Power within him began flowing into the Clear Sky Hammer.
A peculiar attractive force began radiating from the Clear Sky Hammer. Then he summoned a strange piece of metal from his Storage Soul Tool.
The metal was extremely hard, difficult for even a Soul Elder to forge. He picked up the Clear Sky Hammer and struck it several times at fifty percent strength, and the hard metal actually began slowly deforming beneath the blows.
The Clear Sky Hammer came with two traits: first, attraction-the more Soul Power and strength he poured in, the stronger its pull; second, force-breaking-after the Clear Sky Hammer struck, it left behind a vibrating force that reduced the target's defenses.
"Those two traits alone are worth a Soul Skill. If I could stack other Soul Skills on top of them..."
"Although it's enough for now... I really can't stand missing a Soul Skill."
Losing even a little power was no different from carving a chunk of flesh out of Lu Yu.
"I have to find a way to get her to add a Soul Ring."
As for the issue of adding Soul Rings to a second Martial Soul, ordinary twin Martial Soul Masters needed to ensure they could reach Limit Douluo so they could attract the Divine Realm's attention.
She had two god-bestowed Martial Souls, practically guaranteeing her admission to the Divine Realm. A God's Trial could upgrade her rings or grant her Soul Power whenever it wanted, and dual cultivation would make the early stages more comfortable, too.
Judging by her Martial Soul, Tang San had arranged for her to become the Butterfly God. Why hadn't he arranged a First-Level God instead? Was the Divine Realm short on divine seats now?
Then Lu Yu would have to consider the Ice God's remains in the Far North, as well as the Angel God's remains, whose location was uncertain. As for the Rakshasa Godhood, he did not know whether someone had already inherited it over these ten thousand years.
There was no use thinking so much. Lu Yu summoned the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron as well.
Back in the Star Dou Great Forest, he had felt a repulsion between his Martial Souls when controlling the Spirit Eyes and Blue Silver Grass simultaneously.
Now, having summoned the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron and Clear Sky Hammer together, he could feel the two Martial Souls attracting each other, as though he could merge either one into the other at any moment.
Was it because both were stat-based tool Martial Souls?
Lu Yu placed the Clear Sky Hammer on the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron. The next second, the Clear Sky Hammer merged into the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, and archaic patterns appeared across the cauldron's surface.
At the same time, Lu Yu felt the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron grow heavier and harder. When he poured Soul Power into it, he could also feel the traits of attraction and force-breaking.
He raised both hands, and the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron floated into the air while simultaneously becoming three. He arranged the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldrons in a triangle around himself and began pouring in Soul Power. He felt an indescribable attractive force pinning him firmly at the center, while a vibrating force rampaged through his body.
Without the Gold of Life repairing him, he probably would have spat blood on the spot.
"It inherited the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron's remote control and splitting, along with the Clear Sky Hammer's attraction and force-breaking. Now it really is a super truck."
"If I added two more Soul Skills..."
The power was unimaginable.
"Master."
After a series of knocks, a sweet, soft voice rang out.
"Come in."
Huo Yutong opened the door and walked in.
"Tian Meng says he has something to discuss with you."
"That maggot? What could he possibly want? Let me guess-is he trying to hoodwink you into becoming a god?"
"Human, I'm an ice silkworm, not a maggot. And how is this hoodwinking? I'm a million-year Soul Beast! My sacrifice can give someone twin Martial Souls, and I have a brilliant plan that can get Yutong a Ferocious Beast's Soul Ring and Soul Bone."
As the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm spoke, he probed Lu Yu's mental fluctuations. He needed to confirm that Lu Yu would not covet Huo Yutong's opportunity. If he did, then he would have to consider taking precautions or fleeing.
"Oh, really?"
There was not a ripple in Lu Yu's heart. The Ferocious Beast Tian Meng mentioned had to be that Ice Empress. Back when he first obtained Tian Meng, he had naively believed in the Ice Empress's strength. Only after her sacrifice did he discover that he had been duped!
The four skills from her Soul Ring and Soul Bone were Ice Empress's Pincer, Ice Emperor's Protection, Eternal Frozen Domain, and Ice Emperor's Wrath.
Leaving Eternal Frozen Domain and Ice Emperor's Wrath aside, he could just use them as low-consumption ten-thousand-year Soul Skills.
But what were Ice Empress's Pincer and Ice Emperor's Protection supposed to be?
One summoned a pair of thunderous pincers, while the other only added defense, and the numbers were low.
Kids, did you know that the strength bonus from Ice Empress's Pincer was equal to Martial Soul Possession with a beast Martial Soul of the same level?
Ice Emperor's Protection gave a pure defense bonus without a single other mechanic, and the bonus was not even high.
Did they really think they were hundred-thousand-year Soul Skills? They felt worse than White Tiger Protection Barrier.
Speaking of the Ice Empress, Lu Yu thought of that absurd Snow Empress again. Her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone each granted only one skill, randomly drawing two from a pool of three attack skills. Did that live up to the difficulty of her 690,000 years of cultivation?
When the game first launched, the players had respectfully dubbed these two money pits, along with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who liked attaching four basic skills to people's Martial Souls, the Far North Three Maggots.
Not even a trace of greed? Strange, why is there even a little disdain? Do Ferocious Beasts have so little prestige now?
"Give me some reaction! That's a Ferocious Beast! Let me tell you, I'm planning to make a four-hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion into Huo Yutong's first Soul Ring. How about that? That's ultimate ice! Aren't you envious?"
"You mean ultimate ice, which halves cultivation speed after rank thirty? That's quite a prison sentence. If you're trying to make someone a god, why are you slamming on the brakes instead of raising her Soul Power level as fast as possible?"
For a moment, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was stunned by his own stupidity. After thinking for a long while, he finally squeezed out an excuse.
"I... Well, I know there are lots of Limit Douluos among humans, right? None of them became gods, so their quality must not have been high enough. A Limit Douluo with ultimate ice would definitely attract the Divine Realm's attention."
"You have a point."
Lu Yu nodded. Some gods in the Divine Realm really did like setting all sorts of conditions. The Food God, for instance, restricted candidates to food-system Soul Masters. With no rumors of anyone becoming a god in these ten thousand years, perhaps the problem really was simply that an ordinary Limit Douluo could not trigger a godhood inheritance.
He did not intend to stop Huo Yutong, either. First, Xiao Xiao leveled faster with her twin Martial Souls, and he could steal his second Soul Ring from her; second, the Ice God's inheritance really was restricted to ultimate ice.
Besides, he wanted to play with an ultimate Martial Soul, too.
"Then let's do as you say. When are you planning to leave for the Far North, and how confident are you that you can persuade the Ice Empress?"
"Rank twenty, I suppose. Once Yutong reaches rank twenty. As for my confidence, it's as great as my age. If all else fails, I can teleport away."
Lu Yu nodded. If it was rank twenty, Huo Yutong could reach it by this year's vacation with some hard work. It seemed he, too, would have to seize the time this year to improve his strength, preferably reaching rank thirty and pairing that cultivation with some powerful Martial Souls and Soul Skills.
Rank thirty is a bit of a rush. Better pop some pills. Mystic Water Pills alone won't be enough. I'll go find the rich lady and see if I can get some other pills.
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