"Very good! I like how sensible you are!"
Seeing how sensible Xiao Wu was, Gu Chen looked at her with satisfaction.
But he was better off keeping his inner thoughts to himself.
"All right, step aside for now. I need to prepare for my Martial Soul Evolution!"
Gu Chen waved his hand, then took the Blue Silver Grass Soul Beasts out of the bamboo basket one by one without the slightest psychological burden.
"Brother Chen, I'll help you!"
Xiao Wu eagerly came over.
Her attitude had changed remarkably fast. Soul Beasts or no Soul Beasts, she had long since put them out of her mind.
Fellow kind? Don't make Sister Wu laugh! What the hell did her Soft Bone Rabbit clan have to do with Blue Silver Grass? They weren't close!
In her heart, she had already cut ties with Blue Silver Grass at the speed of light.
Then.
She helped out with a clear conscience.
Blue Silver Grass: "..."
Holy shit, how heartless!!!
The upgrade process went as usual.
First, he upgraded the "crabapple flower" from an ordinary herb to a ten-year medicinal herb, then from a ten-year medicinal herb to a hundred-year-old medicinal herb. The process consumed the remains of 11 Ten-Year Soul Beasts.
Next, he upgraded the Ten-Year Soul Beasts to Hundred-Year Soul Beasts. The pile of Blue Silver Grass in the bamboo basket shrank dramatically almost in an instant.
He consumed another 10 hundred-year Blue Silver Grass to upgrade the "crabapple flower."
As the golden light faded.
The Crabapple Spirit Flower, a thousand-year spirit herb, lay there.
"Good. Now all that's left is a Thousand-Year Soul Beast and a Thousand-Year Soul Ring."
Satisfied, Gu Chen first put the Crabapple Spirit Flower into a jade box, sealing away its medicinal fragrance, which made one's blood boil.
"So that's how you got your hundred-year-old medicinal herbs, Brother Chen!"
Xiao Wu was a little surprised.
Evolving an ordinary herb that was only a few years old into a thousand-year spirit herb using the remains of just 111 Ten-Year Soul Beasts was an incredible bargain.
With a method like that.
Couldn't he have as many Gold Soul Coins as he wanted?
Envy!
She was truly, intensely envious!
"I'm going to evolve a thousand-year Blue Silver Grass in a moment, so I need your help to take it down!"
Gu Chen glanced at her. This rabbit was honest, all right. Before she learned that he could help evolve her Martial Soul, she had called him by name, but now she called him brother every other word.
"No problem, Brother Chen. Leave it to me!"
Xiao Wu patted her chest to show it wouldn't be a problem.
Seeing this, Gu Chen pressed a dagger into her hand. This was his first time upgrading a Thousand-Year Soul Beast. Ordinary Hundred-Year Soul Beasts could already pose a considerable threat, but unfortunately, the one he was dealing with was Blue Silver Grass. He had already seen what hundred-year Blue Silver Grass could do. As for its strength, even a Soul Scholar with a little Soul Power could deal with it.
But the gap between a Hundred-Year Soul Beast and a Thousand-Year Soul Beast, even if it wasn't as vast as a heavenly chasm, was still considerable.
He had originally wanted to try fighting it himself.
If he couldn't beat it, there was no soil here, so even if he couldn't finish it off, he could simply wear it down over a few days until it died.
But now Xiao Wu was here.
A newly arrived beast of burden-it would be a waste not to use her.
A One-Ring Soul Master!
Against a thousand-year Blue Silver Grass, taking it down shouldn't be a problem... right?
"Thish ish bad! Brother Chen, this thing's a bit prickly!!!"
As it turned out, Thousand-Year Soul Beasts did have some tricks up their sleeves. With a lash of its pale blue leaves, the upgraded thousand-year Blue Silver Grass smashed the table and chairs. Its attack was quite powerful, but a Soul Scholar using Soul Power could easily do the same.
But.
How could a thousand-year Blue Silver Grass have only one leaf?
More than a dozen leaves lashed out at once. Let alone Gu Chen-even Xiao Wu could only rely on her flexibility to twist and dodge.
"Xiao Wu, keep it up! I believe you can do it!"
That was what Gu Chen said, but he himself retreated several steps. He was too weak, so he'd better not go forward and get mixed up in it.
He would leave the rest to Xiao Wu.
A long while later.
"Brother Chen, how about we retreat for now?"
After fighting for so long, Xiao Wu had been cutting at its leaves with the dagger in her hand while dodging its attacks, but it did little good. The thousand-year Blue Silver Grass regenerated quickly, returning to its original state in no time.
"Xiao Wu, hang on a little longer. Its attacks are already slowing down, which means it's running out of strength too. Wear it down a little more and we'll win!"
"You don't want to end up unable to evolve your Martial Soul, do you?"
As the owner of the Blue Silver General Martial Soul, he could clearly sense the Blue Silver Grass's condition. Its attacks might have looked fierce, but without roots in the soil, it was already doomed to be unable to draw energy from the soil to restore itself. As a result, both its attacks and the regeneration of its leaves were frantically consuming its Soul Power.
It was only because it was a thousand-year Blue Silver Grass that it had strong vitality and plenty of Soul Power.
Otherwise.
It would have given out long ago.
Hearing Gu Chen's words, Xiao Wu could only grit her teeth and keep fighting it. As the battle dragged on, it would have been no exaggeration to say the room was... in ruins!
But as time flew by.
The thousand-year Blue Silver Grass's attacks began to slow. Gu Chen, who had been watching it at every moment, seized the chance. He circulated his Soul Power and burst forward. While it was concentrating on dealing with Xiao Wu, he charged all the way to the Blue Silver Grass without encountering any resistance.
"Slash!!!"
He swiftly took two daggers from his Space Soul Tool and crossed them as he chopped down at the stem.
Pfft-!!!
Sap splattered.
The leaves of the thousand-year Blue Silver Grass, which had been attacking Xiao Wu wildly, froze for a moment. Then its body began to thrash frantically, and some of its leaves even tried to attack Gu Chen. Unfortunately for it, Gu Chen immediately slashed it twice more.
He was a Blue Silver Grass killer, after all, and had slain hundreds of Blue Silver Grass Soul Beasts. He had long since figured out how to kill Blue Silver Grass quickly.
The stem.
Once it was severed there, it was as though its Soul Power core had been destroyed. With its Soul Power output cut off, it lost the strength to strike back and would die before long.
"Xiao Wu, well done. I'll give you credit for that! When the time comes to evolve your Martial Soul, I'll spare no effort to help you!"
That was what Gu Chen said.
He'd fool her when he needed to. In any case, she didn't understand.
She might even thank him.
"Thank you, Brother Chen!"
Xiao Wu's eyes lit up. She felt that her efforts hadn't been in vain.
Hearing her thanks.
Gu Chen shook his head. She really was a silly rabbit. But wasn't it a little wrong of him to bully a fool like this?
How about buying Xiao Wu some melon seeds to make it up to her?
"All right, it's my turn to evolve my Martial Soul now!"
Gu Chen shook his head, casting aside his stray thoughts and focusing on what lay before him.
In that short time, the thousand-year Blue Silver Grass before him had more or less died. A Thousand-Year Soul Ring rose and hovered above its remains.
Seeing this.
Gu Chen took out the thousand-year spirit herb, the Crabapple Spirit Flower, placed it alongside the remains, and summoned his Martial Soul.
"Upgrade conditions met. Upgrade?"
"Upgrade!"
He answered decisively.
The remains of the thousand-year Blue Silver Grass!
The Thousand-Year Soul Ring of the thousand-year Blue Silver Grass!
And the thousand-year spirit herb, the Crabapple Spirit Flower.
All turned into golden light. The golden light poured into his Martial Soul, radiating brilliantly.
A moment later.
The golden light faded, and the Blue Silver General Martial Soul in his right hand had undergone an earth-shaking transformation. The most obvious change was its color: a clear blue, with a crystalline surface that was beginning to resemble sapphire.
But the real change wasn't on the outside. It was within.
As the Martial Soul's owner.
Gu Chen could clearly feel how powerful the evolved Martial Soul was. It was at least several times stronger than the Blue Silver General. When he circulated a little Soul Power, it also flowed several times faster.
Even his Soul Power, originally at level 4, had surged to level 8. Subtracting the one level he had gained through three months of arduous cultivation before enrolling, his aptitude had reached level 7 Innate Soul Power.
It had brought him across the threshold of genius.
This was-the Blue Silver King!!!