Diary System—Chapter 107: I Don't Know Whether to Say Dugu Bo Is Lucky or Not, the Soul Core Prototype!
"Because in a month, I have to go to Gengxin City to visit the headquarters of the Blacksmith Association. If I come back after dealing with things, three months may be considered early," Dai Yichen smiled, his tone indifferent.
Dugu Bo sighed, as if he had thought of something, and frowned. "It seems that the Emperor of the Star Luo Empire treats you differently. He lets you go out after you have only awakened your martial soul for a year. Aren't you afraid of encountering danger along the way?" He had also heard about the competition system of the Star Luo Empire. It was simply too ruthless. Was Dai Yichen not concerned that his elder brother would secretly attack him during this trip? Or that he might target the little girl beside him? Without waiting for Dai Yichen to speak, Dugu Bo continued calmly, "When are you leaving? Tell me, and I will go with you."
After saying this, Dugu Bo felt it was a bit too intimate and added, "Don't get me wrong; I'm just afraid that you'll have an accident outside and that no one will be left to take care of my granddaughter. I also don't know when you'll come back this time, so I will accompany you. After you are done, I will take you directly to the Sunset Forest, which will save the time of going back and forth."
The Sunset Forest is near Heaven Dou City in the Heaven Dou Empire. The distance between Star Luo City and Heaven Dou City is equivalent to spanning two countries.
Initially, he had brought his granddaughter and Ye Lingling here, and the journey took about a month.
If Dai Yichen arranged it this way, including the time spent refining medicine, it would probably take almost a year for him to return to Star Luo City.
This is too long; he can't wait.
This is the reason he chose to stay in Heaven Dou City. Because the Sunset Forest is close to Heaven Dou City, he is determined to accompany Dugu Yan out of the Heaven Dou Empire.
If he becomes ill in the Star Luo Empire and can't hold on, he will essentially have no time to go to the Sunset Forest to use its environment to help suppress the toxins.
Just for his granddaughter's illusory "dream," he has put life and death aside.
Fortunately, his granddaughter's dream seems to be genuinely significant.
"Great! I couldn't ask for a Titled Douluo like Senior Dugu to protect me on the road." Dai Yichen chuckled. He knew that Dugu Bo had always been a bit sharp-tongued but kind-hearted.
He could wait for such a short time, and he hadn't even told Dugu Bo what the specific treatment plan was, yet Dugu Bo was willing to believe him.
It made him feel that things seemed a bit too smooth.
"Senior Dugu Bo, I don't think I have told you the treatment plan yet. Why do I get the feeling that you trust me too much? What if I were to lie to you?"
Dugu Bo glanced at Dugu Yan for a moment, then looked at Dai Yichen and sighed, "I can't help it. You are the first person who can see that Yanyan has a problem, so I'm choosing to trust you this once. As for the treatment plan, you'll tell me when the time comes, right?"
There was another sentence that Dugu Bo didn't say: the main reason he could speak so calmly was that his granddaughter seemed to show a little interest in Dai Yichen, whether in terms of strength or other aspects.
Even when facing the Emperor of the Star Luo Empire, he spoke in a cold tone. Except for his granddaughter, when had he ever been so calm?
Dai Yichen smiled silently. It felt comfortable to deal with intelligent people. Everything was self-evident.
There were still a few months left. It depended on whether he could obtain something useful from the system during this time, such as poison attribute skills or sub-ability locks.
If he didn't, he could only spend some points to buy them in the system mall. He noted that a seemingly ordinary poison attribute skill required one million points—which was more expensive than an external soul bone!
But this was normal. After all, this world is different, and skills are extremely precious to the soul masters inhabiting it.
As for Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Skill, tens of thousands of years have passed, and it remains the most powerful external weapon he possesses. Even an artifact cannot compare to the value of his Mysterious Heaven Skill.
Dai Yichen found it outrageous that a Taoist Mysterious Heaven Skill is still in use at Douluo Dalu 5. It was even more outrageous that Mysterious Heaven Skill awakened the ability to devour blood!
A sect that focuses on poison and hidden weapons employs Taoist techniques, which have mutated over time to possess the ability to devour blood. What kind of evil talent is that?
The endless life of the Mysterious Heaven Skill indeed aligns with Taoist principles, just like the Tai Chi Diagram contained within his Tai Chi, which also embodies the concept of endless life. However, it does not derive the capacity to devour another's blood.
If it could absorb another person's internal force to enhance itself like the Beiming Divine Art, there would be nothing to discuss, but when it comes to blood, nature is fundamentally different.
Moreover, after tens of thousands of years, it's perplexing that Tang San has not innovated upon the original teachings of the Mysterious Heaven Skill. It truly is a technique that is still being used until death.
Logically speaking, Tang San passed the Mysterious Heaven Skill to the Tang Sect, meaning all Tang Sect disciples could learn it. The Tang Sect should not have declined; after all, it is unique across the continent.
He hasn't seen any decent secret martial arts manuals in Shrek Academy or Sun Moon Academy after ten thousand years of development, while the Tang Sect not only possesses the Mysterious Heaven Skill but also the unique skills that complement it.
In the end, the Tang Sect declined to the extent that only Tang Ya remained as its leader (Thunderbolt Beibei joined later). Are those Tang Sect's unique skills merely for show?
Soul guidance devices, after ten thousand years, are indeed more powerful than hidden weapons, but it's unrealistic to virtually erase the Tang Sect.
Take Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, for example; with its extremely strong evasion ability, how many soul cannons could hit it?
Dai Yichen even suspected that the Mysterious Heaven Skill and the Tang Sect's unique skills passed down by Tang San might possess some flaws, which resulted in this situation.
Suddenly, Dai Yichen thought of another way to treat Dugu Bo: condensing the soul core!
The soul core itself is the soul power that has dispersed within the body of a soul master after reaching a certain strength, which is then highly compressed and purified. This purification process is akin to gradually compressing a vast nebula into a star, with the soul master guiding it to gather in the dantian.
Isn't Dugu Bo's inner elixir of the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor martial soul the same?
After all, there is truly no other soul master on the continent who can condense an inner elixir except Dugu Bo.
This inner elixir was not expelled from the mouth of the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor but was instead generated by Dugu Bo. This small inner elixir gathers half of Dugu Bo's strength.
Isn't this a bit in line with the concept of the soul core?
As if he had made a major discovery, Dai Yichen couldn't help but smile, which left Zhu Zhuqing and the others a little confused.
Dai Yichen thought: 'I truly don't know whether to say Dugu Bo is lucky or unlucky.'
He now understands why Dugu Bo was attacked by his martial soul if his guess is correct.
(End of this chapter)