Tang San Got Angry

Besides Teleportation, he had also thought of flight.

The Flight Skill would be useful until one became a Titled Douluo. After all, many Soul Masters could neither fly nor use Anti-Air Skills, so being able to fly would provide a great advantage in battle.

Even after reaching the level of a Titled Douluo, there was still a huge difference in speed between having a Flight Skill and not having one.

However, those were matters for the future. He was only Level 20 now, so it was too early to think about the next stage.

Over the next few days, Hu Jiu and Sister Xiao Wu encountered no trouble. After four days, they returned to the academy.

Hu Jiu had barely gotten back before Tang San hurried over.

He arrived with a face full of anger.

"Haha, Little San, long time no see!" Hu Jiu greeted him awkwardly.

"Hmph! You're something else! You left without saying a word. Do you know how worried I was?" Tang San still wore a cold expression as he looked at Hu Jiu with deep dissatisfaction.

He had never expected Hu Jiu to be so bold as to go Hunt Soul Ring alone. Oh, it seemed he had not gone alone—Sister Xiao Wu had gone with him.

But was Sister Xiao Wu as strong as him? Could she fight as well as him?

In Tang San's view, without his protection, Hu Jiu should not have gone out at all.

"Haha, I was just in a hurry to leave! I'll definitely tell you beforehand next time." Hu Jiu laughed it off.

"You got a Soul Ring?" Tang San sounded a little resentful. He already knew without asking. With Hu Jiu's personality, how could he possibly have returned without achieving his goal?

"Yeah. The skill is Seventy-Two Transformations. Once cultivated to the highest realm, it can do anything. It's a Divine Skill!" Hu Jiu looked exhilarated, as if he had stumbled upon an enormous bargain.

"Just tell me—was it a Ten-Year Soul Ring or not? And how effective is the skill right now?" Tang San looked at him quietly, waiting for an answer.

"Um! Little San, actually, that isn't important right now, is it? We need to look ahead instead of focusing only on what's in front of us." Hu Jiu's smile stiffened, and he abruptly changed the subject. "Little San, I have a new idea. Help me think it over..."

Although Tang San clearly knew Hu Jiu was changing the subject, he also understood the importance of stopping at the right point, so his tone calmed. "What idea?"

"You should know the effect of Metamon's Transformation Skill. It's indeed rather weak in the early stages, but it isn't useless. I think I can apply the Transformation ability to my muscles and make them stronger. Wouldn't that improve my strength?"

Hu Jiu gazed at Tang San, hoping he would approve of his idea. This thought had flashed into his mind just now. If Tang San had not come, he might already have begun testing it.

"Give it a try. I think your idea is feasible."

Tang San knew that strange and unusual ideas occasionally popped into Hu Jiu's head, but every time he heard one, he was still astonished.

Many times, Tang San had been stunned by Hu Jiu's wild imagination.

"Great, then I'll study it!" Hu Jiu grinned, finally letting out a sigh of relief. It seemed he had passed this hurdle.

It was not that he was afraid of Tang San. Mainly, Tang San had no ill intentions toward him. The reason he was so furious was that he cared about Hu Jiu and feared Hu Jiu's choice of Soul Ring would affect his future development.

Hu Jiu understood all of that.

However, there were some considerations he could not tell Tang San, which had led to the current situation.

After Tang San left, Hu Jiu lay on the bed and began experimenting with his Transformation Skill.

He started with his skin. Under the monitoring of his astonishing five senses, increasing his skin's density was not difficult.

A faint red glow flowed across his skin, and he faintly felt a tightness spreading through it.

He raised his arm and looked at his now-taut skin. Hu Jiu instantly grew confident.

So what if it was a trash Soul Ring? There were only trash Soul Masters, never trash Soul Rings.

"Right, I can alter my nerves too. If I make them larger and stronger, my body's reaction speed should improve as well. But I can't experiment recklessly with my nerves. I have to take it slowly."

Next, Hu Jiu began trying other changes. Anything present in his body, he attempted to strengthen through Transformation.

Fortunately, his Transformation Skill was still very weak. Otherwise, something would have gone wrong long ago.

Through his experiments, he also discovered many ways to use the Transformation Skill.

For example, strengthening his skin and increasing its density could indirectly improve his resistance to blows.

Changing the muscles in his calves could make him run faster.

Altering the nervous system in his hands could increase his hand speed.

After just one night of experimentation, he had developed multiple applications for the Transformation Skill.

The next day, after learning that Hu Jiu had returned, Xiao Chenyu and the others, who had been waiting impatiently, came running to his door with eager looks.

They waved Gold Soul Coins in their hands and begged to buy his Accelerated Cultivation Carrots.

Only those who had experienced the effects of Hu Jiu's Martial Soul could understand how incredible his skill truly was.

It felt as if they had activated an accelerator. During cultivation, they could enjoy the sensation of their Soul Power increasing at incredible speed.

Cultivation was no longer arduous. Instead, they could enjoy the pleasure of training.

Over the past six months, because they had constantly eaten Hu Jiu's Carrots, each of them had made significant progress.

Among them, Liu Long and Ling Feng had each advanced four levels, becoming Level 15 Soul Masters. Xiao Chenyu was even more impressive, advancing five levels in one go and becoming a Level 16 Soul Master.

They had never imagined they could improve so quickly.

They would graduate in a few months. Supposedly, several intermediate Soul Master Academies had already contacted them in advance, promising to admit them for free.

They had never enjoyed such treatment before.

So toward the person responsible for all of this, they were even more enthusiastic than ever.

"Ninth Brother, you're back! Was everything safe along the way? If we'd known you would be gone for so long, we would have gone with you. We've missed you all this time." Xiao Chenyu fawned over Hu Jiu, showing not the slightest bit of the bearing expected from a City Lord's son.

"Hehe, I think you missed my Carrots, didn't you? Didn't I prepare plenty for you before I left? How did you finish them so quickly?"

Hu Jiu smiled as he welcomed them. These people were his money trees. So far, he had earned at least several hundred, perhaps even over a thousand, Gold Soul Coins from the three of them. Even though he spent money rather freely, he still had more than five hundred Gold Soul Coins left.

He felt that once he had a little more money, he would buy a Storage Soul Tool. He was extremely envious of Tang San's Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night.

However, Storage Soul Tools were somewhat expensive. He had already asked around, and even the one with the smallest space cost more than ten thousand Gold Soul Coins. The money he had earned so far was not even enough to cover the change.

"Ninth Brother, you know we're about to graduate. To get into a better academy later, we've extended our cultivation time. We used to cultivate for about an hour a day, but now we spend at least five or six hours. Your Carrots simply aren't enough!"

Liu Long sounded a little resentful. It was not that they had wanted to work so hard. Mainly, their Soul Power had improved too quickly recently, giving their families hope. Their families felt they could still be salvaged and insisted on making them increase their daily cultivation time.

"Haha, that's more like it. Look at me—I spend every day studying and cultivating. In less than a year, I broke through and became a Soul Grandmaster. In my opinion, you really should work harder. Once your cultivation is higher, setting everything else aside, becoming noble lords at the very least shouldn't be a problem." Hu Jiu encouraged them.

Working hard was a good thing. The harder they worked, the more Gold Soul Coins he could earn!

Had Hu Jiu worked hard?

Xiao Chenyu and the other two looked at one another. They seemed to have seen him doing nothing but playing around with Sister Xiao Wu every day, until the entire Nuoding City had been explored by the two of them.