Dou Luo: This Tang San is Different

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For the past eight years, Tang San's life had been remarkably peaceful. 

His routine consisted of research, teaching, and publishing theories on martial spirits. Additionally, he focused on organizing the energy circulation pathways of the **Golden Core Ring**, **Heart Core Ring**, and **Soul Core Ring**. 

In particular, his work on energy pathways had yielded impressive results. Over the years, he identified: 

- **362 energy circulation pathways** for converting qi and blood into soul power, 

- **273 pathways** for transforming soul power into spiritual energy, and 

- **108 pathways** for dispersing spiritual energy throughout the body to stimulate the physical form, thereby generating qi and blood. 

Using these findings, Tang San selected pathways that best suited his martial spirit, tailoring them to integrate seamlessly with his **Genesis Destruction Sutra**, **Jade Bone Divine Flesh Technique**, and **Cosmic Meditation Method**. While these pathways were simpler compared to the advanced cultivation methods, they served as fundamental tools to accelerate progress. 

Given the limitations of the human body—blood vessels, meridians, and nerves being finite—relying on the Golden Core Ring, Heart Core Ring, and Soul Core Ring to manage excess energy circulation and transformation was the best way to align with the principles of nature and the heavens. 

Currently, Tang San's rings housed numerous pathways: 

- The **Golden Core Ring** contained **300 circulation pathways**, 

- The **Heart Core Ring** housed **200 pathways**, 

- The **Soul Core Ring**, surprisingly, had **365 pathways**. 

The question arose: why did Tang San's research on spiritual-to-qi conversion pathways result in only 108 pathways, while his Soul Core Ring held 365? The answer lay in the **Zhou Tian Starry Sky Array**'s formation patterns, recorded from Xu Xing. These patterns, representing a type of energy circulation, were connected to spiritual energy. Tang San modified them slightly, allowing spiritual energy to mimic countless stars, spreading throughout his body to stimulate qi and blood. However, since these patterns didn't originate from soul master soul ring techniques, they weren't counted among the 108 pathways. 

Despite the added pathways, Tang San's soul power level hadn't surpassed Rank 99. However, the increased efficiency of converting and cycling between vitality, spirit, and soul had accelerated the growth of his physical form and primal spirit exponentially. His soul power, meanwhile, underwent constant compression, seemingly on the verge of a qualitative transformation. 

In these eight years, a spatial channel connecting the Starry Sky World and the Divine Realm had been established. The influx of celestial spiritual energy allowed soul power to convert into any elemental energy and vice versa. 

This meant Tang San could transform any soul technique released by other soul masters—whether offensive, defensive, healing, or even consumable—into pure, neutral soul power upon contact. This soul power would then disperse harmlessly, returning to nature. 

> **"Dao begets One, One begets Two, Two begets Three, Three begets all things."** 

Tang San released a wisp of soul power. As his finger moved slightly, the soul power transformed into red flames, then into a white stream of water, followed by a whirlwind, lightning, frost, and other elemental energies, before finally returning to its original form. The display was mysterious and profound. 

**"For a soul master, soul power is the original 'Dao,' the fundamental 'One.' With this 'One,' they can release soul techniques using martial spirits and soul rings."** 

**"My soul power, however, can already transform into all things, and it can also reduce others' techniques back to their fundamental soul power—back to the original 'One,' the primal 'Dao.'** 

**"To return to the source, for all things to merge into One."** 

**"The former represents creation, while the latter signifies destruction… Austin Griffin, perhaps this is the true essence of destruction—to unify all things, not merely to indulge in destructive desires."** 

As Tang San's martial spirit, Austin Griffin naturally sensed the uniqueness of Tang San's soul power. Scoffing, he muttered: **"What do you mean by 'destructive desires'? My original intentions were the same as yours. It's just that the Eternal Lord, that bastard, abandoned me, so I wanted to teach him a lesson… Yes, that's it. The Eternal Lord was just an idiot who thought I wasn't pure enough and split me apart."** 

The Eternal Lord, now fully merged with Tang San's Blue Silver Emperor, retorted: **"Hey, don't twist the facts. The Eternal Lord has long been dead. Although I inherited all of his memories, I'm a completely different being. Don't mix us up."** 

**"Tch!"**

The two voices—Austin Griffin and the Eternal Lord—argued incessantly in Tang San's mind, forcing him to block them both out. Turning his attention to Gu Yuena, who stood gracefully nearby, he addressed her. She had been assisting with the experiments and had grown into a strikingly beautiful figure, her maturity evident. 

**"The experiment is over,"** Tang San said, **"For now, this is the extent of what I can achieve with my soul power."** 

Over the past eight years, Gu Yuena's cultivation speed had been nothing short of miraculous. She had advanced directly to the Titled Douluo level with a speed that made even cheating seem fair in comparison. Using the foundational trio of techniques from the **Xuantian Record**—**Xuantian Gong**, **Mysterious Jade Hands**, and **Purple Demon Eyes**—she developed her own unique cultivation method: **The Silver Dragon's Three Tides Technique**. 

According to Gu Yuena, the technique harnessed the resonance between elemental tides and her essence, energy, and spirit. This resonance allowed her to draw upon the energy of the heavens and earth across the Douluo Continent and unleash elemental power in such overwhelming quantities that it could extinguish over 80% of life across an entire plane. 

Ironically, Tang San once proposed to Zhu Zhuqing a theoretical method to channel the energy of the continent's heavens and earth using one's own soul power. Yet, it was Gu Yuena who ultimately achieved this feat first, outpacing everyone else. 

Of course, it wasn't entirely accurate to describe Gu Yuena's achievement as "coming from behind," considering her inherent potential. For her, cultivating soul power was akin to transferring wealth from the Heaven Dou Commerce Guild to a new account at the Spirit Hall's global bank. 

In other words, it wasn't cultivation—it was investment. 

**"I must admit, your soul power is far beyond the realm of divine power,"** Gu Yuena remarked, her tone laced with awe. 

Tang San's soul power had evolved into something that resembled the primordial chaos energy said to exist at the birth of the universe. However, chaos energy was far less malleable, while Tang San's soul power could be manipulated with incredible precision. If its quality were to increase further, it might truly become the most fundamental form of energy in existence. 

**One transforms into many, and many return to one—what an extraordinary concept!** 

Gu Yuena had experienced this firsthand during their experiment. She had even ingested a wisp of Tang San's soul power. The sensation was indescribable. It far surpassed the so-called celestial spiritual energy in both potency and purity. 

That single strand of soul power felt like the warmest essence in the world, flowing through every fiber of her being. When it reached her central dantian, it erupted like the universe's primordial Big Bang, scattering into countless star-like fragments. These fragments collided, attracted, and repelled one another, before finally merging back into her body. 

The sensations were overwhelming: 

- **A sense of unparalleled wonder.** 

- **A blissful satisfaction beyond words.** 

- **An intensity that left her breathless.** 

- **A profound tranquility that soothed her soul.** 

The experience was utterly intoxicating. 

Gu Yuena knew that if she could regularly consume Tang San's soul power—especially after he surpassed Rank 100—healing her injuries would be a trivial matter. In fact, she might no longer need to devour the other half of the Dragon God, the Golden Dragon King. With Tang San's help, she could not only reclaim the Dragon God's position but potentially surpass it altogether. 

(End of Chapter)