Chapter 48: Douluo Continent: Simulating Douluo Dalu III, Specifically to Screw Over Tang San - Douluo Dalu: Simulation of Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King, Specializing in Screwing Over Tang San

That left him with only one option: refining the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's bead.

Looking at the pitch-black Dark Demon Evil God Tiger bead, which resembled a pellet of sheep dung, Gong Yu couldn't help frowning. "After I eat this thing, I hope it'll give me the abilities of time and space!"

If the benefits of this shortcut hadn't outweighed the drawbacks, Gong Yu would never have eaten it.

He gritted his teeth, stuffed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger bead into his mouth, and swallowed it in one gulp.

Then he circulated the Quanzhen Great Dao Song and began refining the sheep-dung-like bead.

As he circulated the cultivation technique, Gong Yu slowly absorbed the energy released by the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's bead. After completing a full circulation along the technique's route, it became his own Soul Power.

Time trickled by. As Gong Yu continued absorbing the bead's energy, his presence slowly swelled.

Before he knew it, it was six in the morning. Gong Yu slowly opened his eyes.

He checked his Soul Power, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face. "I'm stuck at the level-sixty bottleneck, but the Soul Power the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger bead gave me was definitely worth more than two levels. Once I get my Sixth Soul Ring, the rest should show itself."

"I wonder what abilities that bead gave me. Let's try them out."

As soon as he finished speaking, Gong Yu had a thought, and a wormhole appeared beside him.

"This is a wormhole. Could it be a dimensional portal?" Gong Yu was startled by its sudden appearance. The ability was a little like Cisco's vibration powers in The Flash, but he couldn't sense someone's location by touching an object as Cisco could.

"I wonder where this wormhole leads. Should I go in and take a look? But I'm afraid I won't be able to get back once I do." In the end, Gong Yu decided to go in and see.

First, he left a wisp of a spiritual imprint in the room to mark his way back. Otherwise, he would be in trouble if he couldn't find his bearings on the return trip.

He stepped into the wormhole, and the next instant, one appeared in Gong Lan's room, giving her a fright.

Gong Lan was taking her morning bath. She used to get up early every day to make breakfast for everyone, and by the time she was done, she would be covered in foul-smelling sweat. So she would take a bath, and over time, she had developed the habit of bathing in the morning.

Gong Yu suddenly stepped out of the wormhole. When he saw Gong Lan in the tub, he was immediately embarrassed too.

"Well... I was just trying out the new skill I got. I think I thought of you while I was using it, Lan'er, so... never mind, I won't explain. I just missed you."

He said no more. Things had already come to this, so Gong Yu swiftly stripped off all his clothes and climbed straight into the tub.

"I'll take a bath too." Gong Yu gave a wicked smile, making Gong Lan blush.

"Then you have to be quick, young master. We've already agreed to set off for the Star Dou Great Forest today. If we take too long, I'm afraid everyone will complain," Gong Lan said shyly.

"How long can a bath take? Why do you insist on saying 'be quick,' Lan'er?" Gong Yu asked, still smiling wickedly.

"You know perfectly well what I mean, young master, but you insist on asking. How awful!" Gong Lan pretended to be angry.

Ignoring Gong Yu, she then ducked beneath the water.

Seemingly feeling something, Gong Yu instantly sucked in a breath of cold air. Then he grinned and said, "All right, let's wash quickly!"

It was indeed quite quick. This time, they finished after only an hour, and by then the hazy sky had only just brightened fully.

After getting dressed, Gong Yu felt refreshed. With another thought, he opened a wormhole, stepped through it, and returned directly to his room.

"It seems the first ability the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger bead gave me is a spatial one: creating wormholes for spatial travel. I just don't know the maximum distance yet. I'll have to find time to test it."

"But there should be other abilities too. Let's try again."

As he murmured, several afterimages seemed to fan out from his figure in the next instant, then overlap again. He himself had reached the door, but nothing around him had changed.

"What kind of ability is this?" Gong Yu was puzzled, but then he seemed to recall something. "Wait. Walking from the bed to the door normally should have taken at least two seconds, but the second hand on that wall clock didn't move just now.

"I slowed time by two seconds. This is a time skill. I just don't know whether those two seconds of slowing are limited to my room or cover a large area."

Gong Yu didn't dare imagine slowing time across the entire Douluo Continent by two seconds. He wasn't capable of that, but he believed he could slow time throughout his room.

"Forget it, no point thinking about it. In any case, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger bead gave me the two abilities I wanted. As for the other abilities, I already possess them, so there's no need to test them."

Gong Yu's First Soul Ring had given him the lightning attribute, and the External Soul Bone he obtained afterward, the Wind and Thunder Wings, had given him the wind and lightning attributes. The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Soul Ring had given him the darkness attribute, so he had obtained all three long ago.

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger bead contained six attributes: evil, darkness, lightning, wind, time, and space. The Break Evil Dragon's will had directly neutralized the evil attribute, leaving only the attributes of time and space for Gong Yu.

After completely refining the bead, Gong Yu naturally obtained the attributes of time and space as well.

Chapter 118: Blue Silver Forest

About an hour later, warm sunlight flooded the land.

After breakfast, Gong Yu and the others hired several carriages and headed straight for the Star Dou Great Forest.

Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing were among them. Oscar needed his Fourth Soul Ring too, and since everyone was going, they naturally couldn't leave Zhu Zhuqing alone at the academy. They brought her along to practice teamwork.

Before setting off, Gong Yu received an envelope from the Dark Web containing the information he wanted.

The Dark Web was the information network Gong Yu had established back then, now renamed. By this point, it covered the major cities of both great empires and every kingdom and duchy.

The Dark Web's people also regularly organized operations to assassinate members of human trafficking organizations in various cities. Now, those who dealt in human trafficking lived in constant fear, terrified that assassins would come for them in their sleep one night.

Gong Yu boarded a carriage, sat down, and opened the envelope.

After reading its contents, Ling Yun smiled.

"You're smiling so sweetly, young master. Did something make you happy?" Gong Lan asked with a faint smile when she saw Gong Yu's expression.

The girls in the carriage grew curious as well.

"There is indeed something to be happy about," Gong Yu said with a smile. "On this trip to the Star Dou Great Forest, I expect we'll obtain the Soul Rings of two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts."

"Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts?" Gong Xue sprang to her feet in shock.

But Ling Yun pressed her back down and said, "Don't even think about a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring. You can't absorb one. Even if it were sacrificed to you, its Soul Power would probably have to be sealed. Besides, those two Soul Beasts aren't suitable for you. Sister Zi JI has already prepared a true dragon to sacrifice itself to you."

"A true dragon?" Gong Xue smiled sweetly. "A true dragon is good too. True dragon Soul Beasts are better than ordinary Soul Beasts."

Gong Yu nodded in agreement. "Indeed. Although that Hell Flame Dragon is only a little over fifty thousand years old, as a true dragon, it's no weaker than a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast."

Gong Xue's smile grew even brighter at Gong Yu's confirmation. "Hehe... Sister Zi JI is so good to me! I'll have to thank her properly later!"

"You'll thank her properly?" Gong Yu rolled his eyes at her and said irritably, "By 'thanking her properly,' you probably mean stealing my wine to give to her again. How can you have the nerve to call that thanking her?"

His words made everyone in the carriage laugh.

Gong Xue wanted to learn close combat from Zi JI, and she knew Zi JI liked the wine Gong Yu brewed. So she would occasionally steal some from Gong Yu to curry favor with Zi JI.

"Big brother, don't be so petty. What's yours is mine, isn't it? There's nothing wrong with me taking a little of my own stuff to thank Sister Zi JI." Gong Xue looked utterly unconcerned, as punchable as could be.

Ling Yun was truly angered by Gong Xue. He snorted. "Hmph... I'll have to give you a proper lesson later!"

After two days of travel, the carriages finally reached the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.

After everyone got out, Zi JI went on ahead to return to her clan and bring the Hell Flame Dragon back.

Gong Yu led the others toward the Blue Silver Forest.

When obtaining Soul Rings, they naturally had to start with the easiest one to get. Gong Lan's Soul Ring was right there waiting for her; there was no need to wait any longer. They could simply go and take it.

Gong Lan had completely refined the Blue Silver Emperor a few days earlier, so her bloodline had fully transformed into the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline.

After walking toward the Blue Silver Forest for about two hours, they finally reached their destination.

Gong Yu walked over to Gong Lan and said, "Lan'er, release your Blue Silver King Martial Soul and your Blue Silver Domain, then use your heart to sense it. With your current spiritual power, you should be able to feel it."

Gong Lan didn't give it much thought. She immediately closed her eyes, and her Martial Soul and domain emerged on their own. Her Martial Soul slowly appeared around her body as she gathered her spiritual power and sent it spreading outward.

Soon, she felt that the Blue Silver Grass around her seemed to be calling to her.

The great increase in her spiritual power made the sensation especially clear. She could even distinguish the emotions of each individual blade of Blue Silver Grass.

Her perception extended as her spiritual power gradually spread, and the presence of the Blue Silver Grass she sensed grew increasingly vast.

Gradually, she immersed herself in the sensation. Before long, she discovered that all the Blue Silver Grass seemed to feel a childlike affection for her, as though they were her children, excitedly pouring their hearts out to their mother.

It was an emotion Gong Lan had never felt before.

Gradually, she no longer needed to release much spiritual power. Every blade of Blue Silver Grass in the forest released faint spiritual fluctuations.

Although each individual blade of Blue Silver Grass was weak, the grass covering the ground linked together to form a substantial spiritual field that merged with the spiritual power she released.

Through them, the range Gong Lan could sense immediately increased many times over.

Every blade of Blue Silver Grass seemed to become Gong Lan's eyes and ears. She had been able to use spiritual power to investigate everything around her before, but she had never been able to extend her vision over such a vast area.

Just then, without warning, a voice suddenly rang out in Gong Lan's heart. "My emperor, great emperor, is it truly you? You have finally come to me. Thank the heavens!"

Gong Lan was shocked. A voice had appeared in her spiritual world. She and Gong Yu had encountered something like this in the Sunset Forest more than a year ago.

At that moment, however, Gong Yu, who stood beside her, had a faint smile on his face. His spiritual power had been active all along.

"Young master, should we still go this time?" Gong Lan was a little unsure. After the lesson they had learned last time, she was truly afraid. She felt it didn't matter if she died, but she couldn't let Gong Yu be hurt.

"Yes, of course. This is your opportunity. If you don't take it, Tang San will get it for nothing later, because he has the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline too," Gong Yu whispered in Gong Lan's ear.

Although mentioning Tang San made both Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing's expressions turn sour, he said it anyway.

After Gong Yu spoke, the voice calling to Gong Lan rang out again. "My emperor, would you please come to me?"

After hearing Gong Yu's words, Gong Lan made up her mind. "I understand. Then I'll go!"

Gong Yu nodded. "Don't worry. I'll stay by your side."

"You're going off on your own again?" Gong Xue, standing nearby, sounded a little unwilling this time. "No, I'm going too. I don't care about all that."

"Wait here. I'm just taking Lan'er to obtain a Soul Ring. It's her Innate Soul Ring, and it's extremely important. Nothing can be allowed to interfere, so you shouldn't come." Gong Yu gave everyone their instructions, paid no attention to whether they agreed, and took Gong Lan toward the source of the voice calling her.

Chapter 119: Taking the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Bead

Another month passed in the blink of an eye.

Gong Yu had already agreed with the others that he would take them to hunt Soul Beasts and obtain their Fifth Soul Rings the next day.

Oscar had also reached level forty three days earlier, just in time.

Gong Yu's own Soul Power had now reached level fifty-eight, only two levels short of sixty. He had compressed it to eighty percent.

"Soon. In two months at most, I'll be able to compress my Soul Power to one hundred percent. Then I can condense a Soul Core."

In his room, Gong Yu sat cross-legged on the bed, his mind entirely focused on compressing his Soul Power.

Ever since deciding to condense a Soul Core early, he had been continuously compressing his Soul Power. Once he compressed it to one hundred percent, his total Soul Power would equal that of an ordinary Titled Douluo, and he would be able to condense his First Soul Core.

About half an hour later, Gong Yu stopped cultivating. He checked his progress and found that his Soul Power compression had advanced another small step.

"We're going to the Star Dou Great Forest tomorrow, so I won't go play pai gow with Liu Erlong tonight. I'd better hurry and raise my Soul Power to level sixty. Once we reach the Star Dou Great Forest, I'll see if I can take care of the Sky Azure Bull Python and get another Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring."

For nearly a month, Gong Yu had gone to play a round of pai gow with Liu Erlong every night, unless her relatives were visiting and it was inconvenient for her to receive guests.

Since he won every night, he had already brought Liu Erlong completely to heel. She would probably accompany the group tomorrow as well.

Gong Yu put aside his other thoughts and took out the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger bead he had obtained back then from his storage space.

He was still two Soul Power levels short of level sixty. If he wanted to advance quickly, he had to take a shortcut. At present, he could think of only two methods: absorb the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger bead or absorb the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's Inner Core.

But absorbing the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's Inner Core was out of the question. Gong Yu intended to save it for Gong Xue, so that when she reached level seventy, she could absorb it as her Seventh Soul Ring and evolve her Martial Soul again.