Let Go of the Urge to Save Others, Respect Their Fates

Liu Erlong: "Group Leader, I want to find someone too!"

Amid all the talk about changing their group names, Liu Erlong joined in with something different.

"The person you're looking for is in Nuoding City too!"

Link held nothing back.

Liu Erlong had terminal love sickness, and Link had no intention of changing anyone else's fate.

Let go of the urge to save others, respect their fates.

How would this Douluo World develop in the future?

That, too, lay outside Link's concerns.

Beautiful women?

Once someone was powerful enough, what kind of beautiful woman couldn't he have?

This place was jokingly called the Continent of Romance, but Link had no intention whatsoever of doing as the locals did.

Whether it was Spirit Hall or the two great empires, they were all the same to Link.

Spirit Hall helped commoners' children awaken their Martial Souls, and he did indeed owe it a debt for that. But it was through this very method that Spirit Hall gathered vast numbers of Soul Masters, most of whom ultimately paid with their lives for Bibi Dong's ambitions.

It was not that Link felt no gratitude to Spirit Hall for awakening his Martial Soul, but that was not enough to bind him to Spirit Hall for good.

As for Qian Renxue?

Link would protect her for part of her journey as best he could, but if she still became a fool for love as she did in the plot and developed feelings for Tang San, then Link would waste no more energy on her.

Liu Erlong: "Group Leader, could you be more specific?"

Weak and Helpless Blue Silver Grass: "Grandmaster's name is so well known. Once you get there, you'll naturally find him!"

Weak and Helpless Blue Silver Grass: "All right, every group member gets only one free fortune-telling session. After that, if you want another reading, you'll need to offer something of equal value!"

None of the Chat Group System's Sign-In Rewards were actually trash. Even Meditation Acceleration Cards and Soul Ring Advancement Cards, which Link thought little of, could bring a considerable increase in strength as small gains accumulated.

Yanzi Who Restores the Family's Glory: "Group Leader, may I ask if there's any way to resolve a Martial Soul's inherent flaws?"

Yanzi Who Restores the Family's Glory: "I mean conventional methods, without using the divine items from this Chat Group's Sign-In!"

Weak and Helpless Blue Silver Grass: "Have your grandfather take a good, close look at his medicinal garden. The path to salvation lies within it."

Link naturally knew why Dugu Yan was asking this question, and he did not mind giving her a few pointers.

As for whether Dugu Bo could find a solution, that was not something Link needed to concern himself with.

For any ordinary Soul Master, the immortal herbs within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well were treasures one could only encounter by chance, never seek out at will.

With the Chat Group to fall back on, Link did not absolutely have to seize Dugu Bo's medicinal garden.

Of course, if Dugu Bo still had not discovered the marvelous uses of the many immortal herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well by the time Link raised his Soul Master rank, Link could only reluctantly go and collect the treasures inside.

After all, as their ancestors had long said, treasures born of heaven and earth belonged to the virtuous.

Heaven Dou Orphan: "Group Leader, can I succeed?"

Weak and Helpless Blue Silver Grass: "You put the cart before the horse, hesitate when you should act, and fail on the brink of success!"

Link gave a fairly direct answer to Qian Renxue's question, even touching on the reasons for her failure.

Putting the cart before the horse referred to Qian Renxue forgetting that strength reigned supreme in this world.

Hesitating when she should act referred to how, since Qian Renxue had already infiltrated successfully and become the crown prince, she should have eliminated everyone who could threaten her position, rather than leaving Xue Beng to play the wastrel. She could even have taken more forceful measures early on and disposed of Xue Ye outright.

After all, once Xue Ye died, Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, whom Qian Renxue was impersonating, would be the lawful successor.

Worried that those below her would refuse to submit?

With Spirit Hall backing her and a whole host of Titled Douluos helping her, who would dare refuse?

One could only say that Qian Renxue did not think like a qualified heir to the throne.

Little Bunny Who Must Save Mom: "Group Leader, what about me? Can I succeed?"

Weak and Helpless Blue Silver Grass: "Little Bunny, have you worked hard enough today?"

Could Xiao Wu save her mother?

Link did not know.

If it was only a matter of revenge, then in the original plot, Bibi Dong had died, her soul extinguished, so Xiao Wu should have succeeded.

But according to the rules of the Douluo World, Bibi Dong had absorbed Xiao Wu's Mother's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, so in theory, Xiao Wu's Mother's soul had not perished.

Even Xiao Wu could be resurrected after sacrificing herself to Tang San, so at least in theory, it was possible to resurrect Xiao Wu's Mother.

But no one knew how something theoretical would turn out in reality.

At this point, of the group's six members, only Ye Lingling had yet to use the one free fortune-telling opportunity Link offered.

Seeing the Chat Group fall quiet, Link stopped paying attention to the chat interface and fell into a deep sleep.

While Link slept, Liu Erlong had already rushed out of Heaven Dou City.

She was going to find her Xiaogang!

At the same time, in the suite on the top floor of Moonlight Pavilion, Tang Yuehua summoned Aode, gave him a few brief instructions, then had a carriage prepared and hurriedly set off for Nuoding City in Fasinuo Province.

Link knew nothing of any of this.

He slept for a short while, and when he woke, it was just past a quarter after midnight.

Sign-In!

His luck exploded once again!

A second Adaptive Soul Ring, along with a choice of one of three Soul Skill Stones!

"Beautiful!"

Link did not immediately absorb the second Adaptive Soul Ring. Instead, he checked the Soul Skills first.

At a glance, Link truly sucked in a breath of cold air. Were these things he could encounter at his current stage?

[One Sword Opens Heaven's Gate], [One Sword's Light Chills the Nineteen Provinces], [Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin]!

All three Soul Skills were sword-related.

In Link's plans, his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul would advance into the Blue Silver Emperor and follow the path of a life-type control Soul Master. But now, these three Soul Skill choices gave Link the feeling that his Blue Silver Grass's future direction of evolution might have to change.

Wait!

Link suddenly frowned. He seemed to have fallen into a mental trap.

The Chat Group System had not explicitly stated that this choice of one of three Soul Skill Stones was bound to this Adaptive Soul Ring.

In that case, he could simply save this opportunity to choose one of the three Soul Skill Stones.

The only result of doing so would be that the Blue Silver Grass's Second Soul Ring would have no Soul Skill attached.

But was that a problem?

The answer was naturally no!

Link had the Indestructible Vajra Divine Skill and the Great Dream Heart Sutra. His means of attack did not depend on this one Soul Ring's Soul Skill.

Such powerful Soul Skills needed to be paired with more powerful Soul Rings for their might to reach greater heights.

[One Sword Opens Heaven's Gate] was the ultimate move of a certain sword god in a certain novel, capable of slaying immortals in heaven from the realm of an earthly immortal.

[One Sword's Light Chills the Nineteen Provinces] was an area attack; wherever its sword light reached, everything was reduced to dust.

[Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin] was a sword-control method, a group attack skill with an accompanying sword-intent attack. It was a lock-on Soul Skill, meaning that under Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin, opponents could only withstand it head-on, with no way to dodge.

For a moment, Link even wanted to add the first Soul Ring directly to his Twelve-Winged Fallen Angel Martial Soul and then choose a Soul Skill. Whichever skill he chose, it would be ridiculously powerful.

But when he thought of how his Second Martial Soul might be able to have nothing but Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings from the start, Link ultimately restrained himself.

A person had to take the long view!