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The group arrived inside a rocky cave.
It was completely deserted and provided shelter from the lightning outside, making it the perfect spot for Xiao Wu to condense her Soul Ring from within. Inside the cave, Tang San and Tang Ni stood guard at the entrance.
Xiao Lin stayed close to Xiao Wu to observe, his Fiery Golden Eyes locked tightly onto her.
When Xiao Wu's true identity was first revealed, Tang Ni had felt rather conflicted. She had always believed that soul beasts and Soul Masters were locked in an eternal, irreconcilable blood feud. Yet, seeing Tang Hao and the Blue Silver Empress, followed by Tang San and Xiao Wu, these two living examples showed her that other possibilities existed.
Even so, seeing Xiao Wu condense a Soul Ring from within still made her feel uneasy.
Under normal circumstances, when a soul beast took human form and condensed a Soul Ring from within, they required an absolutely secure environment. Otherwise, the best-case scenario was a total failure, while the worst-case scenario meant a mortal crisis.
By doing this, Xiao Wu was completely placing her life in the hands of Xiao Lin and the others. Tang Ni asked herself honestly—she could never trust someone that blindly. Even for someone like Xiao Lin, who brought immense fortune to soul beasts, she couldn't do it.
Standing next to Tang Ni, Tang San wasn't thinking about any of that. He was only worried that Xiao Wu might be scared, so he used his own life force to stimulate the growth of the surrounding Lightning Grass.
As the Lightning Grass absorbed the electrical charges in the air, the charge inside their cave naturally diminished, making it far less likely for lightning to strike their location.
Deep inside the cave.
Xiao Lin was closely watching Xiao Wu as she prepared to condense her Soul Ring.
After a short while, Xiao Wu finally seemed to relax her mind completely, beginning the process right before Xiao Lin's eyes. As a strand of pink soul power leaked from Xiao Wu's body, Xiao Lin instantly recognized it as her true, innate aura.
This was very likely the exact aura that Titled Douluo powerhouses could detect on her. However, this aura appeared incredibly faint. If Xiao Lin didn't possess his Fiery Golden Eyes, he would never have been able to spot this pink mist.
Within this aura, there was also a heavy trace of the immortal herb, the Yearning Heartbroken Red.
Xiao Lin felt a quiet sense of relief.
If Xiao Wu weren't actively condensing a Soul Ring, her aura would never leak out like this.
This meant that under normal circumstances, no one would ever be able to discover her true form. The only uncertainty was whether Bibi Dong, who possessed a God's inheritance, would be able to perceive it.
But soon, Xiao Lin had no time for stray thoughts.
Xiao Wu's process of condensing the Soul Ring had completely stolen his attention. From Xiao Lin's perspective, Xiao Wu sat cross-legged as the pink aura above her coalesced into the shape of a Soft Bone Rabbit.
This was Xiao Wu's true form, as well as her Martial Soul.
Suddenly, the Soft Bone Rabbit opened its eyes.
It blinked at the shocked Xiao Lin, covering its mouth as it giggled softly.
A moment later, the Soft Bone Rabbit began to condense her fifth Soul Ring.
In the original timeline, Xiao Wu's fifth soul skill was the Soft Bones Lock. If Xiao Lin hadn't intervened, that would have been the soul skill she originally intended to create. But now, the skill Xiao Wu wanted to condense was a clone similar to the Limbo technique.
Not only could this clone use all of Xiao Wu's soul skills, but it could also swap positions with her and take damage in her place. Furthermore, it would retain her lightning-enhancement and formation-sensing abilities as always.
With so many powerful traits combined, Xiao Lin had originally doubted whether Xiao Wu could pull it off. That was why he had agreed with her beforehand that as long as she could manifest a few of those abilities, she shouldn't force herself to get them all.
For instance, swapping positions could be omitted, or taking full damage could be scaled down to partial damage redirection. After all, the Soul Ring Xiao Wu was condensing this time was merely an ordinary thirty-thousand-year Soul Ring.
Expecting it to have so many heaven-defying effects was indeed pushing it.
Through Xiao Lin's gaze, he watched as a faint, gentle pink light initially radiated from Xiao Wu's body. But soon, the dim glow turned bright and blazing. The air around her began to warp, as if an invisible force was gathering.
Moments later, ribbons of multicolored light emerged from the void.
Like living creatures, they swirled and intertwined around Xiao Wu, finally forming a vortex of light right beside her. From Xiao Lin's perspective, these ribbons of light were perfectly clear—they were the purest form of energy in heaven and earth.
They were not inferior to chaotic energy in the slightest.
"This is an application of the laws of heaven and earth that a soul beast gains after sensing the Heavenly Tribulation. It truly is the purest form of energy."
Inside his sea of consciousness, the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings offered guidance to Xiao Lin.
Xiao Lin observed carefully, seeing that under the attraction of Xiao Wu's soul power and the precise control of her mental strength, these energies gradually converged into individual specks of light.
These specks of light were precisely part of the soul power formations Xiao Lin had once discussed with Tang San. Whether they were offensive formations, defensive formations, amplification formations, or even spirit-gathering formations...
Just like the 0s and 1s of a computer forming everything in the digital world, the 0s and 1s within soul power were the foundation of everything that made up a Soul Ring.
Finally, a beam of light shot out from between the brows of the Soft Bone Rabbit in mid-air, arranging and combining these specks of light. Slowly, the dots of light formed a binding ribbon of light.
Then, as the natural forces of the surroundings began to resonate, the Soul Ring gradually solidified and took shape. This Soul Ring seemed to have formed a contract with heaven and earth itself; it was a seamless, unified whole that could not be broken by any external force.
Gradually, a black Soul Ring successfully descended around Xiao Wu, and she opened her eyes.
A gaze filled with determination and joy flickered within her eyes.
"Brother Lin, I succeeded! Aren't I amazing?"
Xiao Wu's pretty face was brimming with smugness, her eyes radiating bright, proud intelligence.
"How do you feel? What does it feel like to condense a Soul Ring from within?"
Hearing Xiao Wu's words, Xiao Lin was instantly overjoyed and threw out a barrage of questions. "Did you perfectly obtain the exact Soul Ring you wanted?"
"Huh!?"
Xiao Wu blinked her intelligent eyes.
She had indeed paid attention during the process of condensing the Soul Ring this time, but she had absolutely no idea how to describe it.
"Xiao Lin, condensing a Soul Ring requires three conditions. Aside from sufficient soul power, it also requires the assistance of lineage power and the recognition of the laws of heaven and earth."
Inside his sea of consciousness, the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings understood what had happened and directly answered on Xiao Wu's behalf.
"I already know all that."
Xiao Lin felt utterly helpless.
Xiao Wu really was... sigh!
Fortunately, however, he had memorized the distribution of a large portion of those light specks. Xiao Lin felt that he could give it a try himself in the future. Striking while his memory was still fresh, Xiao Lin pulled out a pen and paper and began to record them down.
Although his observations this time weren't flawless, and the recorded distribution of the light specks might even contain errors, he might still be able to find some underlying patterns from a partial layout.
After all, didn't computer programming also use specific commands to represent certain meanings?
"Brother Lin, Xiao Wu, are you guys done?"
Hearing the sound of Xiao Wu's success, Tang San instantly turned into a loyal follower and rushed into the cave to ask.
"Third Brother, I did it!"
Xiao Wu clenched her fists, looking incredibly pleased with herself.
"A completely invisible clone! The clone can use my soul skills, share a portion of the damage for me, and we can even swap places with each other once."
Xiao Wu's clone wasn't entirely invisible; rather, anyone who hadn't trained their mental strength would be absolutely unable to perceive it. To put it simply, a Soul Douluo powerhouse would be able to make out the basic outline of the clone.
But even so, this move was a heaven-defying soul skill.
It was a completely overpowered soul skill.
Could a clone use a clone? Did the energy consumption for the clone's skills fall entirely on Xiao Wu? If there were more clones, could the damage Xiao Wu took be completely absorbed?
Although this move wasn't a percentage-scaling soul skill, it was not inferior to a hundred-thousand-year soul skill at all, and it was even comparable to certain divine skills. All it required was for Xiao Wu to have enough soul power, and for her main body to be sufficiently strong.
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