Chapter 157: Dugu Bo's Request
Hu Bai smiled. "Then, Sister Xue, you'll have to work harder. I'm about to break through to the seventy-seventh rank, and by then, my cultivation speed should be even faster."
Qian Renxue pursed her lips, clearly a bit disheartened. She was evidently a favored daughter of Heaven, but it seemed her talent was still somewhat lacking compared to this Little Monster, Hu Bai.
It's no wonder Qian Renxue had such thoughts—who goes out on a training trip and comes back with their soul power directly increased by more than ten ranks?
This is incredible!
According to Qian Daoliu's estimation for Qian Renxue, her first trial of the Angel God should allow her to reach close to a Soul Saint, based on her current rate of improvement.
If Qian Renxue worked a little harder, becoming a Soul Saint might even be within reach.
This kind of progress was already quite terrifying—nearly twenty ranks in a year!
But even so, it wasn't as astonishing as Hu Bai's improvement.
One must know that Hu Bai's God's Trial did not include any treasure lands that increased soul power cultivation speed.
However, Qian Daoliu was not overly worried about this. After all, the subsequent trials involved absorbing a complete set of Angel Soul Bones, and currently, Qian Renxue had only absorbed one skull.
As for Hu Bai, he already possessed six Soul Bones, and his rapid strength gains made these many Soul Bones indispensable!
- Three-Eyed Demon Fox External Soul Bone
- Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Right Palm Bone
- Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone
- Tianmeng Iceworm Wisdom Skull
- Snow Empress Torso Bone
- Ice Empress Right Arm Bone
For a nine-year-old child to possess so many Soul Bones was simply terrifying!
You wouldn't realize until you counted, and once you did, it was shocking!
After leaving Spirit Hall, Hu Bai met Dugu Bo not far away, who seemed to have been waiting there for a long time.
The moment he saw Hu Bai, Dugu Bo's expression softened considerably.
"Little Monster, you've finally returned. Oh, no, I should call you Your Highness Holy Son now."
"Is Your Highness Holy Son interested in visiting the Medicine Hall?" Dugu Bo asked with a smile.
Hu Bai rolled his eyes. "Senior Dugu Bo, you're teasing me. We're so familiar with each other, and you're still calling me Your Highness Holy Son. It makes me quite unaccustomed. Little Monster suits me quite well—hahaha."
Looking at the unchanged Hu Bai, Dugu Bo's smile widened.
Still the same as before.
Oh, no, he's become a little more handsome.
"It seems you gained a lot from your trip to the Extreme North."
Hu Bai nodded. "Let's go. It's been a long time since I visited the Medicine Hall. Have you refined any more medicinal pills? You're being so mysterious. It's a good opportunity for me to tell you about my experiences on the way. You should be interested, right?"
Dugu Bo nodded; he was indeed very curious.
The path to the Medicine Hall was not far. After the three single-attribute sects openly admitted to joining Spirit Hall that day, their clansmen no longer had to secretly work for Spirit Hall.
Three new halls appeared on the mountainside of Pope Mountain: Medicine Hall, Defense Hall, and Speed Hall.
On the way, after Hu Bai finished speaking, he then asked, "How have Sister Yanyan and Sister Lingling been during this time?"
Dugu Bo smiled. "I thought you had forgotten about them. Yanyan and Lingling are doing quite well, and they are cultivating very diligently."
"Yanyan broke through to the soul elder a month ago. I took her to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a seven-thousand-year-old sub-Dragon Soul Beast. Now she is a rank thirty-three Soul Elder!"
"Moreover, after she obtained her third soul ring, her Martial Soul form also changed. Her Martial Soul should no longer be called Jade Phosphor Serpent; it should be more accurately called Jade Phosphor Python. If she takes another step forward, she should be able to advance into a Jade Phosphor Dragon."
Hu Bai nodded. This evolution speed should be considered decent. In this world, it is actually quite difficult for snake-type Martial Souls to evolve into dragons.
Even Dugu Bo's Jade Phosphor Serpent only evolved after his strength became powerful.
And from its appearance, the Jade Phosphor Serpent is just a larger python.
Although it possesses true Dragon Bloodline, even Dugu Bo only evolved it into a python—a larger snake, the king among snakes.
It doesn't even qualify as a sub-Dragon.
A dragon, at the very least, has claws, but the Jade Phosphor Serpent has no claws or Dragon horns—a bit of a pity.
As for Dugu Yan's Martial Soul, with the help of immortal herbs and future absorption of various sub-Dragon soul rings, her growth in this area remains uncertain; luck will play a role in whether she can grow dragon horns and claws.
As for her cultivation, raising her from a Soul Grandmaster to a Soul Elder in just over a year is quite normal. After all, just one Soul Ascension Pill can improve her soul power by more than one rank.
"As for Lingling, because healing-type Martial Souls are relatively difficult to cultivate, she is currently only a Soul Grandmaster, but she is already rank twenty-eight."
"The best way for her to improve quickly is to keep using her Martial Soul. She often helps at her grandfather's medical clinic in the city. If a war with the Two Great Empires truly breaks out in the future, her progress should accelerate. But…"
Dugu Bo paused, looking seriously at Hu Bai.
"Little Monster, can you grant me a request?"
Hu Bai looked at Dugu Bo's serious expression and nodded. "Speak."
Dugu Bo: "In the future, if a war truly breaks out with the Two Great Empires, I hope Spirit Hall can do its best to preserve the common people and low-level Soul Masters, and not use them as cannon fodder."
"I know that casualties are inevitable once war begins, but the casualties among Spirit Hall's high-ranking members will almost certainly be zero. Those who die will be Soul Masters below rank forty, and civilians will also be affected once the fighting starts. This shouldn't be Spirit Hall's original intention, right?"
Hu Bai was silent for a moment, then said, "Old Monster, don't worry about this. As long as our Spirit Hall doesn't actively provoke war, the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire won't dare to start a conflict with us."
"Just give me a few more years, and I can complete my God's Trial. Moreover, my teacher and Sister Xue are already undergoing their own trials."
"As long as one of us becomes a god first, unifying the continent should be effortless, and the common people won't have to be cannon fodder."
Some time ago, Spirit Hall held a meeting attended by all the Titled Douluo powerhouses within the Hall, along with several Soul Douluo.
The Soul Douluo present included the Hall Masters of the three halls, branch hall masters of various major cities, and Hu Bai's parents, among others.
The main point was whether, in the event of war, to carry out decapitation strikes against the emperors of the Two Great Empires—causing their imperial families to fall into civil strife—and then dispatch all Spirit Hall powerhouses to sweep across the land.
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