"Wishing Divine Lamp!"
"I wish for my Mysterious Heaven Skill to break through the first level immediately!"
Tang San squeezed his eyes shut, his heart full of anticipation as he made his wish.
In an instant, the Wishing Divine Lamp once again burst into dazzling golden light.
Then the light quickly faded, and the lamp returned to its original appearance.
Having seen Xiao Wu make her wish,
Tang San had thought his wish would also come true immediately.
But unfortunately, after waiting for quite a while, Tang San found that the Mysterious Heaven Skill's internal power within him had not changed at all.
Never mind a breakthrough-there wasn't even the slightest ripple!
Tang San froze, and a trace of disappointment appeared on his face.
Xu Nuo, standing beside him, noticed it.
Seeing this, he immediately cleared his throat and explained.
"Well... Tang San, a lot of the time, wishes made on my Wishing Divine Lamp don't come true immediately. That's perfectly normal!"
"But don't worry. Before long, your wish will definitely come true!"
Hearing this, Tang San felt somewhat helpless and disappointed. He handed the Wishing Divine Lamp back to Xu Nuo and shook his head.
"I hope so!"
With that, Tang San stayed no longer. He turned and headed back to Dorm Seven.
Xu Nuo watched Tang San walk away, feeling a little puzzled.
I wonder what Tang San wished for.
This time, I didn't obtain the Mysterious Heaven Skill or the Tang Sect Secret Arts, and I didn't obtain the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline either.
It seems Tang San's wish probably wasn't difficult to fulfill.
Could it have been to break through to the second level of the Mysterious Heaven Skill?
After withdrawing the Wishing Divine Lamp in his hand back into his body,
Xu Nuo continued out of Nuoding Academy and headed straight for the Spirit Hall Branch in Nuoding City.
Half an hour later.
Xu Nuo arrived in front of the Nuoding City Spirit Hall Branch.
When the two guards at the entrance saw Xu Nuo, they hurried forward with smiles all over their faces. They bowed and greeted him respectfully.
"Greetings, Young Master Xu Nuo!"
"Welcome back, Young Master Xu Nuo!"
A faint smile appeared on Xu Nuo's handsome young face, and he waved a hand.
"Big brothers, there's no need to stand on ceremony!"
With that, Xu Nuo walked into the Spirit Hall Branch.
After Xu Nuo entered the Spirit Hall Branch,
Golden Crocodile Douluo stopped concealing himself and immediately appeared at Xu Nuo's side.
Walking beside Xu Nuo,
Golden Crocodile Douluo was thrilled. He lowered his voice and leaned close to Xu Nuo's ear, speaking excitedly.
"Xiao Nuo, I have good news for you!"
"That little girl in the pink dress you just met in the work-study students' dormitory at Nuoding Academy is a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast!"
"Although, for some reason, her presence suddenly disappeared afterward."
"That might have something to do with the wish she made to you."
"After all, she's a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast. It would be perfectly natural for her to wish she could hide her presence!"
"But my eyes couldn't have been wrong!"
"Xiao Nuo, your Wishing Divine Lamp Martial Soul's senses were indeed right. There's a fortuitous opportunity for you here!"
Xu Nuo already understood, but in front of Golden Crocodile Douluo, he still put on a look of delighted surprise.
"Grandpa Golden Crocodile, then my luck is just too good!"
"Hehe! Your Martial Soul is the Wishing Divine Lamp, a fate-type Martial Soul!"
"You discovered this opportunity through your perception of fate."
"This wasn't luck. It was your own strength!"
Golden Crocodile Douluo chuckled as he spoke.
When he finished, Golden Crocodile Douluo shook his head, unable to suppress a little regret.
"But right now, you're still too weak."
"Even if you hunted down this Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast, you wouldn't be able to absorb her Soul Ring."
"Let's wait until you've cultivated for a few more decades!"
"If she's still at Nuoding Academy in the future, Grandpa will keep an eye on her personally."
"If Grandpa and you have to leave Nuoding Academy, I'll also go back to Spirit City and find someone to come keep a close watch on her!"
Xu Nuo nodded repeatedly, looking delighted.
"Then sorry for the trouble, Grandpa Golden Crocodile!"
After saying that, Xu Nuo seemed to remember something and hurriedly spoke.
"That's right! Grandpa Golden Crocodile, I have Innate Full Soul Power, so I should be able to absorb my first Soul Ring right away."
"Could you take me to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for my first Soul Ring?"
"Of course!"
Golden Crocodile Douluo smiled at once and patted Xu Nuo on the shoulder.
"Xiao Nuo, you have Innate Full Soul Power. Big Brother had planned to take you to hunt for your first Soul Ring long ago, but unfortunately, something unexpected happened!"
"But now, Xiao Nuo, since you want to hunt for your first Soul Ring,"
"Grandpa will take you there right away!"
Golden Crocodile Douluo had always acted swiftly and decisively. He immediately summoned Ma Xiunuo,
and told him to send someone to Nuoding Academy to request leave for Xu Nuo.
He was to say that Xu Nuo had Innate Full Soul Power, and that their Nuoding City Spirit Hall Branch planned to send someone to help him hunt for his first Soul Ring.
As for why he had gone to Ma Xiunuo,
aside from Ma Xiunuo being the hall master of the Nuoding City Spirit Hall Branch,
it was also because Xu Nuo did not want to reveal his identity.
Thus, Golden Crocodile Douluo had Ma Xiunuo tell Nuoding Academy
that Xu Nuo was his distant relative. After both of Xu Nuo's parents died, he had brought the boy to the Nuoding City Spirit Hall Branch to look after him.
"Yes! Honored Second Worship!"
Ma Xiunuo nodded respectfully and went to make the arrangements.
Afterward, Golden Crocodile Douluo took Xu Nuo straight out of the Spirit Hall Branch and headed for the Star Dou Great Forest.
Meanwhile, at Nuoding Academy.
That afternoon, Yu Xiaogang summoned Tang San to the teachers' dormitory.
After telling Tang San some basic facts about Soul Masters,
Yu Xiaogang made an arrangement with him.
They would set out early the next morning for the Soul Hunting Forest to hunt for Tang San's first Soul Ring.
By the time Tang San came out of Yu Xiaogang's dormitory,
it was already evening.
On the way back to Dorm Seven,
Tang San felt somewhat depressed.
After making his wish to Xu Nuo, his Mysterious Heaven Skill still hadn't broken through the first level.
But tomorrow, he would be going with his teacher to hunt for a Soul Ring.
If he successfully absorbed his first Soul Ring and broke through to become a Soul Master,
and then his Mysterious Heaven Skill broke through,
wouldn't he have given Xu Nuo the Sleeve Arrow for nothing?
Feeling depressed, Tang San was so restless that he no longer felt like returning to Dorm Seven.
He turned away, and before he knew it, he had walked to the mountain behind Nuoding Academy.
Moonlight flowed like water, and the surroundings were peaceful and quiet.
Only the croaking of frogs and chirping of crickets sounded from all around.
Before he knew it, Tang San gradually calmed down.
Along the way, Tang San spotted a large bluestone. He sat cross-legged on it and closed his eyes.
He prepared to try once more and see whether he could break through.
In the darkness, a rustling sound came from the ground.
A fist-sized stink bug emerged from a shadowy crack between the stones and crawled over.
"Damn it! I failed again!"
After another failed attempt at breaking through,
Tang San snapped his eyes open, his heart full of indignation. He leaped down from the bluestone, ready to leave and head back.
But as soon as his foot hit the ground, a sudden squish! sounded beneath it.
"What was that?!"
Tang San froze and looked down.
Specks of white light streamed out of a puddle of black mush and green fluid beneath his foot, rising and gathering into a white Soul Ring!
Just then,
for some reason, Tang San suddenly felt the Mysterious Heaven Skill go awry within him. His internal power rampaged through his meridians, and his face contorted in pain.
An illusory Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul involuntarily appeared before him.
The next moment, as though drawn to it, the white Soul Ring shot upward and grew larger in the air.
Then it dropped around Tang San!
A faint stream of Soul Power flowed out of the Soul Ring and into his body.
Tang San instinctively absorbed and refined it in an instant.
At once, the Mysterious Heaven Skill, which had been unable to break through, made an immediate breakthrough from the first level to the second.
But as Tang San looked at the white Soul Ring circling his body, he was dumbfounded.
In the darkness not far away,
a burly figure in a black robe also froze completely.
Tang Hao was dumbfounded too.