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Birthday and Improvements
🕑 Added 2025-04-08 11:51:32 +0000 UTC--- Chapter 35 ---
Not long after Dao Academy was built and recruited new students, Han Yuan reached seven years old.
They celebrated his birthday by having a feast below the waterfall, even inviting the eight students, which shocked them when they realized Han Yuan was younger than Du Buzi, the youngest student in this batch.
That day, Du Buzi and others suspected Han Yuan was a reincarnation of god or something. Of course, this is far from the truth.
"Xiao Yuan, make a wish," said Han Yue, placing a birthday cake before Han Yuan.
Han Yuan blew the candles and closed his eyes, wishing for something that Han Yue and others would never know. "Done."
"What is your wish, Xiao Yuan?" asked Liu Erlong. She was dying to know more about this "monster" boy because he was too mysterious and rarely shared his secret.
Han Yuan smiled, "If I tell you, it won't be true."
"Hmm, what a bummer." Liu Erlong wasn't too disappointed. Even though they have become closer in the last few months, Han Yuan still put more distance between them than Han Yue.
However, that's what makes it interesting. Han Yuan is like an unsolvable puzzle. Fortunately, women really love puzzles, Liu Erlong included.
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[Opening the Owner's status page]
[Name: Han Yuan]
[Age: Seven years old]
[Talent: Eyes of Truth (True)]
[Martial Soul: Purple Silver Grass (3+), Clear Sky Ant King (+), Formless Clouds (Incomplete)]
[Physique: Dustless Physique, Thunder Life Spirit Body (50%)]
[Physical Strength: Spirit King (Level 59)]
[Mental Power: Spirit Sea Realm (3,000 points)]
[Spirit Rank: Level 35 (Spirit Elder)]
[Bound Artifact: Sky Poison Pearl (Divine/Incomplete)]
[Spirit Bone: A 8,100-year-old Fallen Finger Bone - External]
[Martial Technique: Four Basic Arts, Four Advanced Arts]
[Self-created Skill: Rasengan, Vanishing Rasengan (Advanced), Two-fold Spirit Burst, Chidori, Purple Silver Lightning Mode (Advanced), Purple Thunderbolt Wings (Advanced), Alpenrose Assault (Advanced), Thousand Eyes, Three-Pronged Lightning Blade (Entry)]
[Cultivation Technique: Insect Vibrato Breathing, Mental Palace Art, Earthly Nourishment Manual]
[Description: A monster in the making, three steps closer to the thunderous path of destiny]
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[Martial Soul: Purple Silver Grass (3+)]
[Spirit Ring: 5,000-year-old Thunderstruck Tree (1st), 8,100-year-old Fallen Lightning Bamboo (2nd), 16,000-year-old Skywart Tree (3rd)]
[Spirit Skill: Thunder-Wood Change (1st), Fallen Sacred Growth (2nd), Ancient Life Transformation (3rd)]
[Ancient Life Transformation: Transform the Purple Silver Grass into its ancient form, enhancing the spirit master and martial soul's attributes by 400% and birthing the ability to strip elemental power for an hour. In the ancient form, the spirit master has access to the most primitive power of nature]
[Note: The primitive power of nature is very rough and destructive and may lead to chaotic growth of nature in the surroundings if not used correctly]
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Strictly speaking, Han Yuan solely focused on repairing his foundation in many things because he had advanced way too fast since awakening his martial souls.
So besides the new self-created skill, Three-pronged Lightning Blade, Han Yuan trained the other self-created to advanced levels and didn't focus on anything else.
He also had an idea of replicating Wood Style with Purple Silver Grass but decided to wait until he reached the limit in Lightning Style. Of course, it doesn't mean he abandoned his spirit energy and mental power. He is improving steadily.
It was already an achievement he could reach level 35 from level 32 after absorbing his third spirit ring in Sunset Forest in half a year. After all, the Purple Silver Grass possessed multiple ultimate attributes, making his cultivation speed slower upon reaching Spirit Elder and last until Spirit Sage Realm.
There is nothing he could do about this. Pills made with Sky Poison Pearl and mimetic training grounds helped, obviously, but not by much. At most, Han Yuan can accelerate his cultivation speed like your average genius.
Sigh, cultivation is hard.
Han Yuan's current strength is enough to contend against most Spirit Emperors and some weak Spirit Sages with not-so-optimal spirit ring configurations.
Besides Han Yuan, Han Yue and Liu Erlong similarly improved, especially the female tyrannosaurus.
Han Yue reached the Spirit Elder Realm. Her spirit rank is level 34, one level away from Han Yuan. Her combat prowess is strong due to the firm foundation, allowing her to compete with some spirit king teachers in the academy, though barely winning,
Han Yue's single-burst killer move can kill the strong, evil spirit master of the Spirit King Realm with a strong defense-type martial soul. Han Yue is already more powerful than a "certain" Chicken Drumstick Douluo from this one feat alone.
On the other hand, Liu Erlong made a tremendous breakthrough in many things. Han Yuan used Sky Poison Pearl's purifications on her body and martial soul several times, cleansing her marrow, root bone, and qualifications.
Han Yuan helped Liu Erlong recover from her lost origin by prescribing her daily medicinal baths, a meticulous mix of whale glue, medicinal liquid, and the blood of powerful dragon-type spirit beasts.
Of course, all those things become useless if Liu Erlong couldn't absorb the beneficial properties of the medicinal bath, so Han Yuan made the "Dragon's Furnace Technique" for her.
It's a three-in-one "cultivation technique" tailor-made for Liu Erlong that cultivates body (qi and blood), spiritual power, and spirit energy, which means it's useless for anyone else.
Liu Erlong's martial soul has become purer, showing a sign of ultimate fire and strength due to the large amount of "golden bloodline" used in the medicinal bath.
Her mental power improved, but it's still beneath Han Yue.
Her spirit rank was 'naturally' raised from level 73 to level 77.
Not only that, but Liu Erlong can fight someone above her cultivation realm, which means people who just entered the Spirit Douluo Realm might not defeat this female tyrannosaurus.
According to Han Yuan's training record of Liu Erlong, it wouldn't be long until this once love-brained woman reached a half-step Spirit Douluo and hunted for her 8th spirit ring. If possible, Han Yuan wanted Liu Erlong's 8th spirit ring to be 100,000 years old.
Unfortunately, Han Yuan doesn't know any 100,000-year-old spirit beast on the Douluo Continent that matches the attributes and nature of Liu Erlong's martial soul.
It would be nice if Han Yuan could get his hand on some God-bestowed Spirit Ring, but Gods aren't very friendly with that damned Asura God around.
He wanted to create a technique to replicate a God-bestowed Spirit Ring but realized he didn't have divine energy (immortal qi), so he decided to give up.
He also tried to imitate the Spirit Soul Contract like Electrolux did 10,000 years into the future for Huo Yuhao, but his comprehension of "soul" and "energy body" is weak.
In the end, Han Yuan gave up and put this idea away, focusing on another aspect where Liu Erlong could improve herself as quickly as possible, which made him remember Spirit Core/Soul Core.
Learning about Spirit Core or Soul Core is easier than the God-bestowed Spirit Ring and Spirit Soul Contract.
After all, the Soul Core is the condensed crystallization of spirit power or other essences formed due to continuous pressure, cycle, and refinement of one's cultivation. Depending on the source from when a soul core is condensed, the possessor's potential is "permanently" amplified on the path of that source, and the affinity becomes more intimate to that source.
A soul core mainly functions as a storage collecting unit, allowing one to lessen the energy loss and recovery.
Simply put, the concept of soul core is similar to the "Golden Core" in most cultivation novels but much more inferior.
Nevertheless, Han Yuan underestimated how difficult it was to teach Liu Erlong about Soul Core/Spirit Core. It took him two months to get Liu Erlong started on theories and another two months for her to attempt her first comprehension.
Eventually, Liu Erlong formed her Spirit Core in her lower Dantian. While Spirit Core doesn't really increase her cultivation, it brings more beneficial effects later on as her spirit energy becomes much purer and compressed, allowing her to fight longer.
At the very least, there shouldn't be a problem for Liu Erlong to be Spirit Douluo. As for the second Spirit Core, Han Yuan will think of it when Liu Erlong reaches a half-step Title Douluo Realm.
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