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The next day.
While Xiao Lin and Tang San were still manufacturing the Spirit Gathering Soul Tool, a hearty burst of loud laughter abruptly jolted the somewhat drowsy pair wide awake.
"Heng heng ha ha ha ha ha!"
Xiao Lin and Tang San had stayed up the entire night without a wink of sleep just to create this cultivation cheat. They had only just started feeling sleepy, planning to head to bed after finishing the final step.
But with this sudden, disruptive laughter, sleep was now completely out of the question. Walking out of the small cabin, Xiao Lin discovered that Xiao Wu and Tang Ni had also been awakened by the noise.
Dugu Bo, that idiot!
Xiao Lin didn't even need to think to know that Dugu Bo had arrived.
"Xiao Lin, my Soul Core has succeeded!"
Seeing Xiao Lin and the others coming out, Dugu Bo immediately let out a loud laugh and walked toward the two of them.
In the next second, Dugu Bo's soul power completely vented outward. Even though that terrifying soul power belonging to a Titled Douluo wasn't deliberately targeted at them, Xiao Lin and the rest still felt an immense sense of oppression.
At this moment, only Xiao Lin remained relatively calm and unfazed.
It's way weaker than Uncle Hao's strength, but still...
"Old man, did you get stronger again?"
Xiao Lin didn't show a single shred of respect to Dugu Bo for causing such a racket early in the morning and asked him directly.
Right now, Xiao Lin was highly curious.
Had Dugu Bo really succeeded in condensing his Soul Core? If so, what was his current soul power rank?
Hearing Xiao Lin's words, Dugu Bo didn't care about his attitude. Instead, he spoke with a trace of smugness.
"Xiao Lin, under your cultivation method, my Soul Core has successfully condensed into shape. I will never be troubled by the severe poison again. Furthermore, my soul power has reached Rank 93."
With a smile on his face, Dugu Bo retracted his soul power.
Then, shaping one hand into a claw, the soul power within his body gathered entirely into his palm.
This soul power didn't carry the usual green tint of Dugu Bo's original soul power; instead, it looked almost colorless. Gradually, this colorless soul power continued to take shape in his hand, eventually forming a high-speed rotating sphere of soul power about the size of a green date.
"It looks roughly like this."
Dugu Bo used the soul power sphere in his hand to demonstrate the appearance of the Soul Core inside his body.
Right now, he looked entirely relaxed and natural, even exuding a bit of high spirits.
"Young friend Xiao Lin, do you have any idea how happy I am right now?"
Dugu Bo muttered to himself, "I have already broken through the shackles of Rank 92. Now that I have a Soul Core, I feel like continuing my cultivation won't be an issue at all. Who knows, I might even be able to strive toward becoming a Super Douluo in this lifetime."
When mentioning a Super Douluo, Dugu Bo's expression turned cold. Once he became a Super Douluo, he would give that rotten chrysanthemum a piece of his mind.
"You're already satisfied with just a Super Douluo?"
Xiao Lin found it rather amusing that Dugu Bo's ambitions were actually this low.
"There's no comparing with monsters like you guys."
Dugu Bo shook his head, then plonked himself down on the surrounding patch of Blue Silver Grass. These patches of Blue Silver Grass had been cultivated by Tang San through generations of carefully selected seeds.
Only with these Blue Silver Grass patches absorbing the ice and fire spiritual energy to act as a filter could Tang San's progress keep pace with Xiao Lin and the others.
"Don't look at the fact that I'm only Rank 93 right now. My current strength can absolutely match a Rank 94 Average Titled Douluo."
When Dugu Bo said this, his face was filled with confidence.
Originally, as long as a Titled Douluo exercised a bit of caution, his poison wouldn't be too lethal to them. Therefore, although he was hailed as the Titled Douluo with the strongest crowd control, his damage output was so low that very few among the Titled Douluos held him in high regard.
But now, things were going to be different.
His toxic cultivation techniques had been purified and strengthened by the Soul Core, giving him a genuine lethal trump card against powerhouse Titled Douluos.
"Congratulations, Old Poison."
Hearing Dugu Bo's words, Tang San also offered his blessings.
As someone who was both a disciple and a friend to Dugu Bo, Tang San shared the closest relationship with him among everyone present.
Furthermore, after seeing the rough appearance of Dugu Bo's Soul Core, Tang San felt even more confident about the subsequent fabrication of the Spirit Gathering Soul Tool.
"I'm the one who should be thanking you guys. Alright, now that my strength has surged, let me take you all out of here."
Suddenly, Dugu Bo smiled, looking at Xiao Lin and the other three as he suggested that they leave the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
"Old Poison, what do you mean by this?"
Tang San was puzzled. Back then, it was Dugu Bo who had actively brought up how dangerous Heaven Dou City was.
"I now have the confidence to protect you in Heaven Dou City, so of course you don't need to keep hiding here anymore."
Dugu Bo was incredibly confident in his own strength.
Of course, the most important factor was that he had already met Tang Hao. With Tang Hao around, combined with his own newly boosted strength, what did he have to worry about?
Besides, he had also checked on things back in Heaven Dou City.
Lately, the undercurrents in the city weren't surging as intensely as before.
"Better safe than sorry. I'd still prefer to stay here and focus on my cultivation," Xiao Lin said, shaking his head.
He didn't have any particular desire to go outside. Cultivating out there couldn't compare to the rapid speed offered by the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
"Mm, your situation is rather unique, Xiao Lin. Staying here is fine too. However, Little San and the others no longer need to worry about going out." Dugu Bo nodded, then turned his gaze toward Tang San and the rest.
"Are you guys going out?"
"We can."
"Of course we're going out. But Brother Lin and I still need to obtain our fifth soul rings."
...
Seeing Tang San and the others state their stances, Dugu Bo nodded.
"With me around, I guarantee your absolute safety. It just so happens that I need to go look for Yan Yann in the next few days. It seems she's also about to obtain a soul ring. By the way, Xiao Lin, there shouldn't be any issues with my Soul Core, right?"
Only at the very end did Dugu Bo ask, a bit late to the realization.
"There is an issue. Your Soul Core seems too large; it's not condensed enough."
Xiao Lin shook his head, his face dead serious.
He had originally wanted to pull out a notebook to record the data after Dugu Bo condensed his Soul Core, but later on, Xiao Lin abandoned the idea.
"A normal Soul Core is supposed to be extremely small, existing within a soul master's Dantian. Although the Dantian can store a massive amount of soul power, it inherently lacks the concept of spatial dimensions, let alone possessing such a large physical space."
Xiao Lin himself wasn't entirely certain of the exact size of a Soul Core, but he could definitively state that it absolutely wasn't as large as a green date, like the one Dugu Bo had simulated for them.
As Xiao Lin's voice fell, Tang San, who was standing to the side, also fell into deep thought.
Others might not know how large a Dantian was, but how could he not know?
"But I can't compress it any further right now."
Hearing Xiao Lin's words, Dugu Bo also looked completely bewildered.
He was currently unable to compress his Soul Core, yet he could feel that he could smoothly cultivate and eventually break through to become a Super Douluo.
Now that Xiao Lin put it this way, didn't it imply that the rank of soul power was correlated with the condensed size of the Soul Core?
"There's nothing that can be done about that. Old man, your ninth soul ring isn't a hundred-thousand-year soul ring, so your potential is limited to just about this much," Xiao Lin said without mincing words.
"A hundred-thousand-year soul beast undergoes a Heavenly Tribulation after every ten thousand years. If they survive the tribulation, they can continue to cultivate for another ten thousand years."
"Although this Heavenly Tribulation is a disaster, it also grants a hundred-thousand-year soul beast a chance to peek into the secrets of heaven and alter their destiny against the natural order."
"That is exactly why a hundred-thousand-year soul ring is so precious. A perfectly fitting hundred-thousand-year soul ring is entirely capable of helping you become a Super Douluo, even without a Soul Core."
"The reason you can't compress it, old man, isn't because your mental strength is insufficient, nor is it because your soul power lacks the capacity to be compressed. It's because there simply isn't enough soul power within your body."
Hearing Xiao Lin's explanation, a look of sudden enlightenment dawned upon Dugu Bo.
Except, he had originally believed that he had hit his limit, which was why he hadn't cared much about the ranks beyond his current level. But now that he knew the method to progress, how could he willingly accept staying stagnant?
"Am I reduced to only relying on absorbing soul bones to become stronger?"
"Not necessarily."
Xiao Lin shook his head.
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