Feeling the power of his Blue Silver King Martial Soul, Gu Chen nearly turned into one of the four masters of maniacal laughter.
But he held it in.
"Is this what your Martial Soul looks like after evolving? It really is something special!"
Xiao Wu stared fixedly at Gu Chen's Blue Silver King Martial Soul. If the only difference between Blue Silver Grass and the Blue Silver General was that the latter's color was a little deeper, with nothing else to distinguish them,
then the Blue Silver King was entirely different. Its crystalline surface made the comparison like that between a sapphire and a painted stone.
Even she wasn't too foolish to see that.
"Don't be jealous. Since you've called me 'Brother,' whenever I have meat to eat, you'll have soup to drink!"
"As for that Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul of yours, I'll evolve it someday until even top-tier Soul Beasts like the Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python can only look up to you!"
Gu Chen fed Xiao Wu a pie in the sky.
"Through fire and water for you, Brother Chen!"
That pie in the sky stuffed Xiao Wu full. She also tossed the baffling mystery of why she got soup while Gu Chen ate meat to the back of her mind, then began giggling foolishly at him, who knew what she was imagining.
Afterward,
Gu Chen had someone from the Rose Hotel come over.
But when the manager saw what had become of the room, anger surged through him, and he immediately wanted to give Gu Chen's ancestors for eighteen generations a warm greeting. Then Gu Chen pulled out a card with a flourish and said, "I'll pay for all the damage to the room. Keep the rest as a tip."
The manager's anger vanished without a trace.
"This way, young master. Just leave this messy room to the staff. I'll take you to a new room to rest right away."
Originally, he really had wanted to curse Gu Chen out.
But there was no helping it.
Gu Chen had simply offered too much.
Replacing everything in the room would cost two hundred Gold Soul Coins at most, but Gu Chen had given him a thousand outright. With a monthly income of only thirty Gold Soul Coins, the manager simply couldn't bring himself to refuse.
His spine, which had been straight all his life, was finally bent by money.
But if he could do it again, he only wanted to say, "Please, young master, hit me harder!"
After changing rooms
and taking a bath, Gu Chen finally summoned his Martial Soul. His gaze fell on the Blue Silver King's upgrade panel.
[Item: Blue Silver King] [Description: high-grade Martial Soul, king among Blue Silver Grass, second only to one and above ten thousand] [Upgrade result: Blue Silver Emperor] [Description: top-tier Martial Soul, emperor among Blue Silver Grass, commands all kings, none dare disobey] [Upgrade requirements: 1 corpse of a ten-thousand-year life-type Soul Beast, 1 ten-thousand-year life-type Soul Ring, 1 ten-thousand-year life-type Soul Bone, 1 ten-thousand-year medicine king Begonia Flower King]
He had been dealing with other matters earlier and hadn't checked.
But now that he had,
he could only say he felt like dying.
There was no way around it!
There really was no way around it.
The ten-thousand-year medicine king Begonia Flower King was actually easy enough to handle. When he had upgraded the crabapple flower into the Crabapple Spirit Flower earlier, he had paid attention and seen that the next stage would be the Begonia Flower King if he continued upgrading it, so obtaining one through upgrades wouldn't be difficult.
Xiao Wu and he had been able to take down the thousand-year Blue Silver Grass together.
The upgrade requirement of a mere ten thousand-year life-type Soul Beast corpses was a piece of cake for him, easily handled.
But
the corpse and Soul Ring of a ten-thousand-year life-type Soul Beast meant he had to take down at least one Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. He and Xiao Wu had struggled to deal with even a thousand-year Blue Silver Grass, so taking down a ten-thousand-year Blue Silver Grass was asking rather too much of them.
But none of that was the most crucial part. The real problem was that ten-thousand-year life-type Soul Bone.
A Soul Bone!
It was a Soul Bone!
Obtaining a Soul Beast corpse or a Soul Ring was almost no trouble for him; the only difficulty was killing the living Soul Beast.
But Soul Bones dropped from Soul Beasts, and their drop rate was extremely low. The younger the Soul Beast, the lower the drop rate. Even for a ten-thousand-year Soul Bone, the drop rate was by no means that high.
That one upgrade requirement alone put a complete stop to any possibility of him upgrading his Blue Silver King Martial Soul into the Blue Silver Emperor in the near future.
"Forget it! I'll have to work for the remaining two levels of Soul Power myself."
He had originally wanted to rapidly raise his Soul Power Level by upgrading his Martial Soul, so he could reach level 10 as soon as possible and absorb a Soul Ring to become a Soul Master. Unfortunately, heaven did not grant his wish, and the upgrades could only go this far.
But how could a mere two levels of Soul Power stop him?
"I can't upgrade my Martial Soul now, but can't I still upgrade medicinal herbs? Once I get a dozen or twenty century-old herbs, I'll pop them and break through!"
They wanted him to obediently cultivate his Soul Power the hard way?
Impossible.
He wasn't such a hidebound fool. If he didn't use the cheat he already had, he'd be a stupid pig.
"But a high-grade Martial Soul is still too weak in the end. I have to upgrade it into the top-tier Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul as soon as possible. Once I have everything ready, I'll use my connection with Xiao Wu to contact Da Ming and Er Ming and have them lend me a hand."
Gu Chen thought to himself.
There was another very important reason he had exposed Xiao Wu's identity today: he was essentially certain Tang Hao wasn't here now. Though he didn't know exactly where Tang Hao had gone, he was one hundred percent certain the man wasn't in Nuoding City.
The reason was simple.
Tang San!
Before leaving the city, he had made a special trip to the patrol team and spent a little money to ask about Tang San and Yu Xiaogang. The result had shocked even him. He truly hadn't expected Yu Xiaogang to suffer such a vicious attack in prison.
On learning this,
he hadn't felt the slightest guilt. Instead, he had nearly laughed out loud.
Not only that,
he had also slipped them some money. He meant nothing else by it; he simply wanted the jailers to give Tang San and Yu Xiaogang a good, thorough reception. The act itself was also a test. Given how much Tang Hao valued Tang San, if he still stood by and did nothing, it could only mean he wasn't there.
After all, this was his precious son with Twin Martial Souls. Returning to the sect, taking revenge on Spirit Hall, and many other important matters all depended on Tang San. How could he possibly let anything truly happen to him?
Not to mention that Tang Hao was someone who protected his own.
If Tang Hao really were lurking in the shadows, he would surely step in to help.
But if he wasn't there,
then Tang San and Yu Xiaogang were in for a world of suffering.
As the facts proved,
Tang Hao really wasn't there, and Tang San and Yu Xiaogang really had suffered terribly. That made Gu Chen even more certain that Tang Hao wasn't in Nuoding City, and so he had exposed Xiao Wu's identity ahead of time to come clean with her sooner.
And this silly rabbit was also easy to fool. After a conversation, Xiao Wu had become utterly convinced of what he said.
Once he had fooled Da Ming and Er Ming into joining him as well,
when that time came,
with a hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape in one hand and a hundred-thousand-year Sky Azure Bull Python in the other, who could stand against him?
His future was truly bright!
With such thoughts,
he drifted off to sleep.
No matter what, tonight he had to have a sweet dream of ascending to godhood.
Meanwhile, in a secluded spot deep in the mountains,
beside a waterfall,
an entrance stood open, and at the end of the cave was a stone chamber.
In the middle was a small mound of earth.
On the mound
grew a stalk of Blue Silver Grass, translucent as sapphire and marked with golden patterns.
And beside this stalk of Blue Silver Grass stood a figure.
This person
was Tang Hao.
Holding a jar of wine, he gulped it down. When he finished, he began muttering to the Blue Silver Grass on the mound, as though he had gone mad with drink.
"Ah Yin, I'm the one who wronged you!"
"If not for me back then, how could you have ended up like this? I regret it now!"
"That damnable Spirit Hall not only made me lose you, but also caused my Clear Sky Sect grievous losses and got me expelled from the sect. How hateful!"
"But fortunately, our child has done us proud. He inherited the talents of both of us and is a genius with Twin Martial Souls. As long as he grows up, there's hope of avenging you and me, and the Clear Sky Sect too!"
"One day, I'll make Spirit Hall pay in blood..."
The voice in the stone chamber went on and on, just like the ceaseless howling of the wind.