Soul Power = Impurity Bubbles in Water, Gangzi: Impossible! Absolutely Impossible!

Inside the stone house.

Qian Renxue looked furious, utterly unwilling to accept it, and even turned her head away.

Shi Yan shook his head helplessly.

"I only asked you to call me big brother. Is it that hard?"

Although you transmigrated from the Douluo Continent and might be older than me,

Now that you've become a child,

Can't you learn to be one?

To become a true expert,

An unyielding backbone alone won't do. Knowing when to bend and when to stand tall is important too!

Since Qian Renxue was so proud and stubborn that she wouldn't even call him big brother,

Shi Yan, who had never been the sort to press his warm face against someone's cold backside, said no more. He simply closed his eyes and continued cultivating cross-legged on the stone bed.

Before he knew it, a night had passed.

As the golden crow rose in the east, golden morning clouds spread across the Great Wilderness.

A new day had begun!

"Good morning, everyone!"

After getting up, Shi Yan stretched and walked out of the stone house with a smile. Once he had washed up, he prepared to do his morning training.

Compared with Shi Yan's ease,

The other children were having a miserable time.

After yesterday's medicinal bath,

To help the children absorb its medicinal effects,

A group of them had been forced to carry huge rocks and shoulder bronze cauldrons to train their bodies early in the morning.

Meanwhile, the village chief, Shi Yunfeng, took a purple-gold hammer and smashed some of the Dragon-Horned Elephant's dragon horns, the Pixiu's claw bones, and the Two-Headed Fire Rhino's horns left over from yesterday, grinding them into powder.

He then mixed in some of the remaining Ferocious Beast true blood and added it all to the beast milk Little One drank every day.

"Yiyah! Yiyah!"

"It smells so good!"

Little One stood beside him, his big, dark eyes full of longing on his porcelain-doll face. Drool spilled traitorously from the corner of his mouth.

"All right, all right!"

"It's almost ready!"

Chuckling, Shi Yunfeng took out more medicinal herbs and continued adding them.

Before long, the beast milk in the pot had turned into a paste.

"Here!"

As soon as Little One took the pot, he devoured its contents, drinking with relish, his little face full of satisfaction.

"It's so good!"

But after he finished drinking,

Because the beast milk had been mixed with too many medicinal herbs, as well as precious bones and true blood from mixed-blood Primordial Remnants, its medicinal power was too strong.

As soon as Little One finished drinking, it went straight to his head. His little face flushed bright red, and his eyes turned as red as a white rabbit's. Yiyah-ing, he ran around wildly, charging into everything in his path.

He turned into a little terror, making mischief all over the village.

For a time, Stone Village was in utter chaos, with chickens flying and dogs leaping.

"This Little One..."

Nearby, Shi Yan stood with his arms folded and a smile on his handsome face, watching the future Desolate Heaven Emperor turn into a little terror and charge around Stone Village.

Unfortunately, he had no way to record images at the moment.

Otherwise, if he could record it,

It would surely be fun to show Little One when he grew up!

After watching the commotion for a while,

Shi Yan turned back home, took out the beast meat he had been given the night before, and prepared to cook a pot of beast meat soup and grill some beast meat skewers.

When Shi Yan finished cooking and brought a large pot of fragrant beast meat soup and a bundle of grilled beast meat skewers to the table,

Qian Renxue's delicate, noble face flushed slightly, and her fair hand tightened around the hem of her clothes. She had finally realized that she was still sheltering under someone else's roof.

In this dangerous Great Wilderness, she should be endlessly grateful that someone had taken her in.

She had asked him to help guide her cultivation.

All he had asked was that she call him big brother. He had already been very kind!

"Um... I'm really sorry about last night."

"I shouldn't have spoken to you like that."

Qian Renxue bit her lower lip with her pearly teeth and spoke apologetically.

"Actually, the fact that you're willing to teach me cultivation proves you're already very kind."

"It was only a matter of calling you big brother. I shouldn't have reacted so strongly."

"It's all right! Actually, I only said it offhand at the time."

Shi Yan hadn't expected Qian Renxue to apologize. He didn't pursue the matter, merely smiling as he picked up an earthenware bowl and first ladled her a bowl of beast meat soup.

"Here, let's eat first!"

"Then, Brother Shi Yan, can you teach me cultivation?"

Since she had already apologized, Qian Renxue had prepared herself. Forcing down her embarrassment, she called out to Shi Yan.

Shi Yan was taken aback for a moment, then a smile appeared on his handsome little face.

"Sure!"

"I'll teach you after we eat!"

After they finished eating,

Qian Renxue eagerly helped clear away the bowls and chopsticks and wash the earthenware pot.

Once everything was cleaned up,

Shi Yan smiled and said to Qian Renxue,

"Xue'er, sit cross-legged on the bed and try to mobilize your essence blood again."

"I'll see what you need to improve!"

"Okay!"

Qian Renxue nodded earnestly, climbed onto the bed, and sat cross-legged. She closed her beautiful eyes tightly and tried once more to mobilize the essence blood in her body.

Because her Martial Soul, the Six-Winged Angel, also possessed a Mental Attribute,

Qian Renxue's mental power was fairly strong, so she should have found it easier to control the essence blood in her body.

Yet for some reason, Qian Renxue couldn't mobilize it no matter what she did.

As Qian Renxue tried to mobilize her essence blood,

Shi Yan came up behind her and pressed his palm against her back. Closing his eyes tightly, he began sensing the state of her body.

Soon, Shi Yan opened his eyes, understanding where the problem lay.

"Brother Shi Yan, how is it?"

"What do I need to do to mobilize the essence blood in my body?"

After failing again, Qian Renxue opened her beautiful eyes and asked expectantly.

Shi Yan touched his smooth chin with his right hand and, after pondering for a moment, said,

"Xue'er, when you tried to mobilize your essence blood just now, I noticed there seemed to be another force in your body..."

At those words, Qian Renxue's heart tightened.

She knew the force he meant was probably the Soul Power in her body.

"That force flows slowly through your meridians."

"If the quality of the Bloodline Power we drive with essence blood is like lead and mercury,"

"Then the quality of this force of yours is like air."

Shi Yan spoke slowly, a strange look in his eyes.

"To cultivate, you should normally condense the waterlike blood in your body into essence blood and make it roll like thunder, thereby refining Bone Text and bringing forth Divine Radiance."

"But that force is blocking it, like many impurity bubbles in water, and it hinders your control over it."

"That's why, no matter how hard you try, you can't mobilize the essence blood in your body."

Hearing this, Qian Renxue was stunned.

She had never imagined that the Soul Power she had worked so hard to cultivate had actually become an impurity in her body,

Hindering her from cultivating in this world's cultivation system.

On the Douluo Continent.

When they heard what Shi Yan had said in the heavenly screen's images,

Countless people were stunned as well, hardly able to believe their ears.

"The Soul Power that we commoners dream of possessing so we can become Soul Masters is actually like an impurity in water compared with the power of the cultivation system in the heavenly screen's world?!"

Countless commoners said these words in voices that were almost moans, filled with despair.

They felt as though the hope and support of their entire lives had become a joke.

Countless Soul Masters, too, fell utterly silent, shaken, angry, and sorrowful.

"Why?!

"Why is it that empires have already been established and such a flourishing civilization has developed on our Douluo Continent,

"Yet our cultivation system is still inferior to that of a world that might still be in a savage age, with no nations at all, only primitive tribes struggling to survive?!"

"How could this happen?!"

Some Soul Masters, their eyes red and breathing like enraged bulls, roared at the sky in fury.

They simply refused to accept this tragic reality!

Inside the imperial palace in Heaven Dou Imperial City.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

Seeing this, Yu Xiaogang clenched his fists, his eyes scarlet and his breath coming like an enraged bull's, and roared furiously at the sky.