Under the cleansing of this cool energy.
Tang Tian did not feel any explosive increase in his total Soul Power.
But the quality of his Soul Power underwent a qualitative leap!
His originally gaseous Soul Power began to compress and condense.
It became denser and heavier, like flowing mercury.
The meridians within his body widened.
They took on a faint, lustrous blue tint and became extraordinarily resilient.
A layer of greasy, grayish-black impurities seeped out of his pores.
His sinews were reforged and his marrow cleansed!
He was reborn down to his very bones!
Tang Tian clenched his fists, feeling the changes in his body.
He had undergone a transformation at the very foundation of his talent!
He felt that his Soul Power cultivation speed had increased by who knew how much!
With every breath.
He felt filled with terrifying strength.
Strength was secondary; most importantly, there was his physique!
It had clearly grown much stronger.
By the faint light reflected in from the stone walls.
Tang Tian discovered, to his surprise.
That after expelling the impurities, his skin had become translucent and lustrous as jade.
A precious radiance faintly shone through it.
Tang Tian, whose talent points had originally all gone into his appearance.
Had actually broken through the upper limit of his good looks once again!
[Blue Silver Grass Little Blue (cupping her face)] [Wow! Master is so handsome! He's glowing!] [An unrivaled beauty for the ages!]
Even the ever-picky Little Iron Hammer refrained from her usual barbs for once.
[Little Iron Hammer (turning her face away)] [Hmph... not bad, I suppose. Just a tiny bit easier on the eyes than before.] [Barely worthy of being this young lady's wielder.]
Tang Tian smiled.
What mattered more to him was his body's foundation.
"My physical strength will never limit my cultivation again."
After all, although he and Tang San were brothers, their congenital malnutrition was an undeniable fact.
Tang San had the Mysterious Heaven Skill to compensate.
But he, Tang Tian, had nothing and had relied entirely on toughing it out.
At the same time, two new abilities were branded into his mind.
The first was [Flight]: with only a tiny expenditure of Soul Power, he could soar through the air using the power of his right leg bone.
The second was [Wildfire Cannot Burn It All Away; the Spring Breeze Brings It Back to Life]: an unending capacity for self-repair that allowed rapid regeneration as long as he did not die instantly.
Just then, a system notification sounded:
[Ding! Host detected to have acquired the ability "Wildfire Cannot Burn It All Away; the Spring Breeze Brings It Back to Life."] [This ability has been detected to overlap heavily with the host's innate talent, "Blue Silver Healing."] [Skill fusion and upgrade in progress...] [Fusion successful! Skill acquired: Blue Silver · Everlasting Life.] [Greatly increases self-healing speed and allows life energy to be efficiently converted into healing output.] [As long as you have a breath left, you cannot die!]
"Has this completely combined self-healing and healing others?"
Tang Tian was inwardly astonished.
"With healing output this powerful, I wonder how it compares to Nine Heart Begonia?"
Yet the surprises were not over.
Under the impact of the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone's immense energy.
And the gentle guidance of the kindred aura from his mother, Ah Yin.
The thin bottleneck holding Tang Tian at the peak of rank nine instantly shattered.
Shing-
His Soul Power broke through to rank ten!
But it did not stop.
A strange fluctuation surged out of Tang Tian's body.
It was the ultimate resonance between his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone.
Without hunting a single Soul Beast.
Motes of purple light gathered around him.
In the end, they actually condensed into a purple ring of light on their own!
His first Soul Ring was purple!
Thousand-year level!
A self-generated Soul Ring!
Tang Tian opened his eyes and looked at the purple Soul Ring pulsing around him, his pupils contracting slightly.
"A self-generated Soul Ring-that's usually a privilege reserved for transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts or those receiving god-bestowed Soul Rings."
"Is this because of the compatibility? Or because Mom is here guiding it?"
"It seems Mom's Soul Bone not only completed my bloodline, but also released far too much excess energy."
As he took in the information about his first Soul Skill.
A satisfied smile curved Tang Tian's lips.
He even had a feeling that this Soul Skill could improve further!
It was not limited to the thousand-year level!
[First Soul Skill: Blue Silver · Life Ruler] [Extreme life enhancement, greatly increasing the strength, resilience, and resistance of Blue Silver Grass.] [Grants the Martial Soul a devouring property, allowing it to devour the life force of plants or enemies to restore the user's Soul Power and stamina.]
"Not some flashy Entanglement, but the most fundamental enhancement of attributes and plundering."
Tang Tian was extremely satisfied with this.
"As long as my Blue Silver Grass is tough enough and strong enough."
"I can simulate moves like Entanglement, Prison Cage, and thrusting spikes entirely through my own control."
"Why waste a precious Soul Ring slot?"
"Now this is a true divine skill!"
Once his excitement subsided, Tang Tian instinctively wanted to call Little Blue and share his joy.
"Little Blue?"
His Sea of Consciousness was silent.
Although he could still use his Martial Soul's abilities.
The little one who was usually so clingy gave no response.
Tang Tian's heart tightened, and just as he was about to frown.
A gentle vine lightly patted his shoulder.
It was Ah Yin.
She conveyed a reassuring thought:
"Child, don't worry."
"That little one absorbed too much of the excess Soul Bone energy and is undergoing a profound evolution of life. It will probably take quite a while."
Hearing this, Tang Tian sighed in relief.
"So she's shut down for maintenance and an upgrade."
This was a good thing.
But he did not know how long it would take.
Yet while some rejoiced, others grieved.
From a corner of his Sea of Consciousness.
Came the sound of a certain hammer gnashing her teeth.
[Little Iron Hammer (extremely jealous)] [Aaah! Unfair! This is so unfair!] [Why does that lousy blade of grass get to evolve? I want to evolve too!] [I want to evolve into the Great Sumeru Hammer! I want to smash a hole in the sky with one blow!] [Stupid Tang Tian, you play favorites! I won't stand for it! I won't!] [I'm furious! I'm going dormant too! I'm running away from home too!]
Tang Tian automatically blocked out the noise in his mind.
He stood up and inspected the cave's arrangements one last time.
The lighting was good, the ventilation moderate, and the concealment perfect.
"Mom, I'm leaving."
Tang Tian looked at Ah Yin, his eyes filled with reluctance to part.
He wanted so much to take his mother away right now.
But he knew it was not time yet.
The outside world was complicated, and taking a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast seedling along was too dangerous.
"Wait for me."
Tang Tian silently swore in his heart:
Once I'm strong enough to claim the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest-that's the best place under heaven for plants to grow.
When that time comes, I'll definitely bring you there and let you regain human form as quickly as possible!
Before leaving.
Tang Tian activated his newly acquired [Blue Silver · Everlasting Life] ability, combining it with his first Soul Skill, [Blue Silver · Life Ruler].
An intensely concentrated surge of emerald-green life energy.
Flowed out through his hands.
Pouring endlessly into Ah Yin's body.
This was giving back.
Although Ah Yin desperately waved her leaves, trying to stop her son from expending his own Soul Power.
Tang Tian's gaze was resolute, and he gave her no chance to refuse.
"Mom, you gave me a Soul Bone. As your son, I have to leave you something."
"I'll recover this little bit of Soul Power after a night's sleep. You have to accept it!"
Under Tang Tian's insistence.
Ah Yin's blades of grass unfurled further.
Her golden markings also brightened somewhat, and her entire form looked radiant and full of life.
She felt so happy that she wanted to cry.
This was the happiest, most blissful day she had experienced in all these years.
After finishing all of this.
Tang Tian's face was slightly pale, but his smile was brilliant.
He took one long, deep look at that figure swaying in the breeze.
"Take care."
Then, steeling his heart, he turned away.
And disappeared into the cave's passage.
Leaving only that single Blue Silver Grass in the stone chamber.
She gazed for a long time in the direction he had left, gently waving her leaves.
As though waving goodbye.
And looking forward to their reunion.
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