Just as Zhu Zhuqing entered Shrek Academy, Su Cheng had already left the Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
In the past year, his cultivation had progressed extremely rapidly.
Even though Su Cheng's martial soul bloodline had almost no room for improvement, and the Nirvana Scripture's effect on his martial soul was more about transforming its essence, the technique itself had the effect of improving cultivation efficiency.
Furthermore, although Su Cheng couldn't conveniently use the powerful herbs of the immortal herbs due to their excessive effects on his body, he could still use the other herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to concoct various auxiliary potions.
Coupled with the two levels of soul power gained from absorbing the fourth soul ring across time limits, he had now reached the forty-fourth level of the Soul Master realm.
Deep within the mountains on the edge of the Heaven Dou Empire.
Looking at the huge waterfall cascading down a cliff hundreds of meters high in the distance, a smile appeared in Su Cheng's eyes.
He had already discovered this location during the first simulation, so finding it now was naturally easy.
This was the burial place of the 100,000-year-old Blue Silver Emperor's soul bone.
Actually, absorbing the Blue Silver Emperor's 100,000-year-old soul bone wasn't difficult.
Moreover, the earlier this soul bone was used, the better its effects; not only did it greatly improve his physical attributes, but the wood-attribute soul skills were also very suitable for Su Cheng.
However, he couldn't be sure if Tang Hao would be guarding the body here, so he dared not take the risk.
This place was definitely Tang Hao's Achilles' heel. Let alone taking the soul bone here, even getting close and being discovered would likely mean certain death.
Furthermore, his cultivation was advancing too quickly; whether entering school or going to the Spirit Hall to have his soul power tested, he would inevitably be probed, and having a soul bone would certainly be discovered.
The allure of this thing was indescribable.
Only now, with Tang San going to Shrek Academy, could he be certain that Tang Hao wasn't here, so he dared to come and take it.
As he approached, the roaring sound grew louder and louder, gradually becoming deafening. The air also became more humid, several degrees lower than the outside temperature.
Finally, Su Cheng stopped beside a pool of water.
The pool was crystal clear, tranquil and deep. A waterfall about twenty meters wide, like a jade ribbon, cascaded down the mountainside, splashing countless droplets onto the pool.
Su Cheng looked up.
The cliff wasn't particularly high, but the waterfall had made it extremely slippery, making it difficult to stand.
His Martial Soul, the Longevity Sword, appeared in his hand, and his Soul Rings lit up.
First Soul Skill: Great Virtue Carries All Things.
Activating the Soul Skill, the Longevity Sword in his hand instantly became slightly heavier. At the same time, a warm sensation emanated from beneath his feet.
Although this earth-attribute Soul Ring provided a significant stat boost, Su Cheng believed its passive effect was truly valuable.
Whenever he used this Soul Skill, as long as he stood on the ground, he felt as if he were one with the earth, like a child of the land.
Swinging his sword, he used the slightly protruding rock face for leverage, leaping forward and quickly reaching the center of the waterfall.
He pressed his hand against the rock wall behind the waterfall, and the seemingly seamless rock instantly caved in, revealing a doorway.
With a swift movement, Su Cheng slipped inside.
The cave was extremely humid, about three meters high and two meters wide, extending inwards into complete darkness.
However, in Su Cheng's enhanced eyes, everything was as bright as day.
He quickly reached the innermost part of the cave, finally entering a stone chamber of only about ten square meters. Sunlight streamed in through a hole in the ceiling.
The chamber was empty, but directly below the hole, a small mound of earth rose, and a young Blue Silver Emperor seedling with blue leaves and golden veins swayed gently.
Su Cheng ignored the seedling and slapped the rock wall beside him.
With a "clink," a black lead box fell from the ceiling and landed in his hand.
Su Cheng opened the box and glanced inside. A gentle yet powerful aura immediately poured out, revealing a blue-gold right leg bone shimmering with starlight.
"Not bad, not bad."
Even with Su Cheng's current state of mind, he couldn't help but feel a surge of joy.
Although he had known for a long time that the Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone was hidden here, he wasn't entirely confident he could obtain this precious and perfectly suited 100,000-year-old soul bone until he saw it with his own eyes.
After all, the Douluo Continent world had undergone many changes.
The thread of fate had shifted dramatically due to the simulator's influence.
Who knew if this would affect Tang Hao, causing him to choose to give this soul bone to Tang San ahead of schedule?
Only now did he secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
However, this was clearly not a good place to absorb a soul bone. The energy contained within a 100,000-year-old soul bone was too vast; to fully utilize it would require considerable effort.
With a flick of his wrist, he closed the lead box again and placed it into his storage soul tool.
After everything was completed, Su Cheng turned to look at the Blue Silver Emperor sapling.
"Huh?"
He suddenly noticed something amiss.
Su Cheng had originally planned to take the Blue Silver Emperor seedling away and hide it, or even destroy it.
After all, although it wasn't a sentient, ten-thousand-year-old soul beast, who knew if it might retain past instincts and memories if it were resurrected later?
He didn't want to leave any future trouble.
However, upon closer inspection, Su Cheng sensed a problem.
Although he wasn't using his external soul bone to observe the Blue Silver Emperor seedling, the penetrating effect of his eyes and his powerful intuition allowed him to sense a strange fluctuation emanating from it.
After thinking for a moment, Su Cheng began to channel his spiritual power into the True Sight Eye, his external soul bone on his forehead.
As golden light flickered between his brows, his vision instantly underwent a dramatic transformation.
The scene before Su Cheng's eyes was no longer the original objects in the stone chamber; different energies and information fluctuations filled his eyes.
And the most prominent presence was the area where the Blue Silver Emperor seedling stood.
As he further channeled his spiritual energy and focused his gaze, the once vibrant and colorful world before his eyes suddenly turned black and white.
Only the Blue Silver Emperor seedling, which he was now focusing on, revealed a deeper level of change.
Unlike when Su Cheng observed his first spirit ring, what he saw now was not an indistinct phantom, but a real, existing figure!
To his astonishment, he saw a beautiful woman with her long, slender legs curled up, her arms wrapped around her knees, her delicate body curled up, floating silently.
A long, blue-gold dress covered her entire body, with golden ribbons fluttering around the hem, her noble and elegant demeanor highlighting her otherworldly beauty. Although the woman's eyes were closed, in a near-death slumber, her radiant beauty was still undeniable.
"Is this the soul of the Blue Silver Emperor? Or something else?"
Su Cheng didn't observe for long before quickly withdrawing his gaze.
His current mental strength wasn't enough to sustain his True Sight for too long, and this place wasn't entirely safe; he needed to conserve his power.
After a moment's thought, Su Cheng abandoned his initial plan to destroy the evidence.
He took a wooden box from his soul tool and quickly transplanted the Blue Silver Emperor into it.
In his view, the Blue Silver Emperor and its soul were excellent material for observing soul beasts and soul rings.
As he left, he took out a bottle of highly corrosive potion and threw it into the stone chamber.
A surge of soul power instantly shattered the bottle, and the corrosive liquid rapidly evaporated, spreading outwards.
Before long, the scene here would undergo a dramatic transformation.
No one would be able to discern what had happened.
Inside Su Cheng's wooden hut at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
He retrieved the lead box containing the 100,000-year-old soul bone from his soul tool.
At this moment, Dugu Bo was at the academy with his granddaughter.
Since the poison in his body had been removed, he had rarely returned to this place.
Now, this precious earthly paradise had practically become Su Cheng's personal stronghold.
Su Cheng calmed his mind, took out the blue-gold right leg bone, and attached it to his right leg.
"Buzz—"
Accompanied by a slight buzzing sound, Su Cheng clearly felt his right leg involuntarily tremble slightly. Immediately afterward, a cool aura quietly seeped into his leg from all directions.
The crystalline blue soul bone also disappeared, transforming into countless streams of blue-gold energy that permeated around his right leg.
A cool, comfortable feeling filled his entire body, his martial soul, the Longevity Sword, automatically appeared, and his Five Elements Domain spontaneously expanded.
At the same time, the soul power within Su Cheng's body was slowly increasing, becoming increasingly pure in the process.
"Truly worthy of being a top-tier wood-attribute soul bone."
He closed his eyes, entering a state of inner vision, quietly observing the changes within his body.
Immediately afterward, the gentle fluctuations gradually spread, and his entire body began a further transformation.
Unlike the physical enhancements brought about by attaching soul rings and taking potions in the past, the feeling of this enhancement was not so obvious.
Whether it was the resilience of his meridians, the strength of his bones, or even his muscle fibers, there was no leapfrog improvement, but rather a subtle adjustment.
However, this change was by no means weak; Su Cheng could feel that it was fundamentally enhancing his physical potential.
This greatly surprised him.
Su Cheng's research on the human body was very thorough. Strengthening the body's components such as meridians, bones, and flesh was not difficult, but changing their structure was almost impossible. A change in one part affects the whole body; this was simply beyond the scope of human power alone.
The last time he experienced a similar enhancement was because of the reward during the first simulation settlement.
Subsequently, the Nirvana Sutra within his body suddenly began to operate spontaneously.
"This is...?"
Su Cheng's eyes suddenly opened; the soul power circulation route of the Nirvana Sutra was now beginning to show subtle changes!
The previous Nirvana Sutra was merely a cultivation technique he derived from his research on the human body, martial spirit, and bloodline—the culmination of his accumulated knowledge.
But this change now seemed more like an instinct.
All living beings possess an instinct for evolution, constantly striving to become more perfect and adaptable to their environment.
However, this process typically takes tens or hundreds of thousands of years to complete.
But now, he seemed to be accelerating this process a thousandfold.
Su Cheng was certain that if he cultivated according to the fully perfected Nirvana Sutra, his martial spirit strength would reach a level comparable to Qian Renxue's in a short time.
"How is this possible?!"
A 100,000-year-old soul bone was certainly powerful, but Su Cheng didn't believe all 100,000-year-old soul bones could produce similar effects.
Again, this was no ordinary realm.
"Is it because it's a soul bone produced by a plant-based soul beast? Or is it because of the special significance represented by the Blue Silver Emperor itself, the only one among thousands of Blue Silver Grasses representing a miracle? Or perhaps, because of its natural compatibility with my own five elements?"
But now was clearly not the best time to ponder these questions.
After a moment's thought, he temporarily set the matter aside and closed his eyes again.
The changes brought about by the 100,000-year-old soul bone were not drastic, but rather subtly altered his body.
Three days later, Su Cheng finally completed the complete transformation and absorption of the 100,000-year-old soul bone.
As everything came to an end, he reopened his eyes.
"Blue Silver Emperor..."
Feeling his current body, his gaze involuntarily shifted to the outside, looking at the Blue Silver Emperor sapling he had casually placed there.
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I won't be posting any more long chapters of 10,000 words.
The previous chapter wasn't split because I didn't want to divide the situation at Shrek Academy into two chapters.
As for those who say it repeats the original text, you can go back and read the previous chapter. Apart from the academy settings mentioned by Dai Mubai, everything else is described from Zhu Zhuqing's perspective. How much content does that take up
? Whether it's observing the academy, her different temperament compared to the original work, changes in her demeanor and way of dealing with people, or even the subsequent impact, shouldn't the reasons be clearly explained?
All of this content must be connected to reality to be truly intuitive. Furthermore, a novel isn't a character sketch; without interactions between characters, how can you feel her changes?
The situation at Shrek Academy is impossible to omit.
How many people read the original text while simultaneously reading fanfiction?
Should I just gloss over the problems of this academy? The preceding content has already been greatly simplified. The original novel alone devoted nearly 100,000 words to Tang San's enrollment; I reread the relevant sections of the original several times just for this part.
The first third is Zhu Zhuqing's perception of the academy, the second third is her mindset and strategies towards Dai Mubai, and there's also her inner monologue—the setting-related content adds up to less than 2,000 words.
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