Chapter 178: Chapter 177: Su Ming: A Tri-Spirit Fusion Skill? No, That’s Not It!
Bibi Dong wasn't entirely wrong in her guess—Su Ming indeed harbored such ambitions. He sought to leverage the Spirit Hall's influence to elevate the lives of commoners.
His goal wasn't for everyone to awaken a spirit with innate power but to give each person more opportunities and strive for relative fairness.
As for absolute fairness, that was impossible—nothing in this world was truly equal.
Relying on a sect like the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to achieve such goals was out of the question. After all, sects were fundamentally aristocratic institutions. While Ning Fengzhi didn't look down on commoners and even provided occasional aid, his contributions were no more than a drop in the ocean.
If commoners began to rise in large numbers, the first to feel the impact would be the empire, followed by the sects.
Thus, Ning Fengzhi would never support Su Ming's plan, even for Ning Rongrong's sake. While his sect didn't exclude commoners, it only accepted those with exceptional talent.
As for the other two sects? There was no need to even consider them.
[The final result was naturally that Tang San was badly beaten by Xiao Wu's Exploding Eight Stage Drop. Blood covered his body, though it seems Xiao Wu showed some restraint, not shattering all of his bones—at most, a few fractures.]
[The last kick, however, landed squarely on Tang San's back. Unexpectedly, this triggered an outburst from his Eight Spider Lances. This must've been the spark.]
[At the time, everyone noticed Tang San's Eight Spider Lances were out of control and quickly retreated out of their attack range. But guess who was unlucky? Hahaha!]
[Yu Xiaogang, whether by bad luck or fate, happened to be the closest to Tang San. Concerned for Tang San's injuries, he bore the brunt of it!]
Reading up to this point, Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong speculated: Could it be that Yu Xiaogang was hurt by the Eight Spider Lances? Did he get poisoned?
[Yu Xiaogang's strength is pitiful—only at rank 29. His martial soul is unique, but he mismatched his two spirit rings, resulting in negligible enhancements. Moreover, he hadn't used his martial soul for years, so his reflexes were terrible.]
[He was directly struck by Tang San's out-of-control Eight Spider Lances and lost that. Truly horrifying—both the two-centimeter thing and the wound turned purple. Thankfully, Xiao Wu, Rongrong, and Zhuqing hadn't approached; otherwise, it would've been too much for their eyes.]
[I regret not capturing Yu Xiaogang's miserable state on camera back then. But thinking about it now, why would I even want to? It was disgusting and an eyesore!]
The women all breathed a sigh of relief that Su Ming hadn't taken any photos. Otherwise, they'd have been caught in a dilemma. Would they look or not?
Looking would be inappropriate and gross, but skipping it might affect the system's rewards. After all, they'd been diligently reading the diary daily, and missing a segment might have repercussions.
At this moment, the diary system chimed in:
[Ding! No need to worry. For such unsightly content, the system will automatically block it!]
The sudden prompt from the system earned collective praise.
[To be honest, the root of it all is Yu Xiaogang's own incompetence. His so-called Luo Sanpao martial soul is actually the juvenile form of a top-tier spirit, the Golden Sacred Dragon.]
[I've always believed that Yu Xiaogang couldn't handle such a powerful martial soul, which is why his innate spirit power was only half a rank at awakening.]
[Half a rank isn't bad for such a strong martial soul. With proper spirit ring configuration, he could've accelerated his cultivation by triggering its evolution, breaking through the limitation of his low innate power.]
[But even if Yu Xiaogang couldn't recognize Luo Sanpao as the juvenile form of a Golden Sacred Dragon, he should've at least realized that it had dragon blood. After all, he's from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan!]
[The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's martial soul has unique requirements for spirit rings—they must come from sub-dragon species. But I'm certain that Yu Xiaogang's two rings weren't from sub-dragon beasts. Otherwise, how could his martial soul only fart?]
[If both of his rings were sub-dragon spirit rings, his cultivation wouldn't have stopped at rank 29. To awaken the Golden Sacred Dragon's bloodline, he needed dragon-type spirit rings—preferably with high bloodline purity.]
[It's such a pity. A top-tier martial soul was wasted on Yu Xiaogang. If the Golden Sacred Dragon had sentience, it would've felt utterly humiliated to be reduced to a farting failure.]
[I have a theory regarding the Golden Iron Triangle's famed Tri-Spirit Fusion Skill.]
[Their fusion skill creates the Golden Sacred Dragon—coincidentally, a martial soul tied to Yu Xiaogang's Luo Sanpao. It was Yu Xiaogang himself who developed the technique.]
[He used Luo Sanpao as the base and was so proud of their unique three-person fusion skill, which was unmatched on the continent. Everyone else only managed two-person fusion skills.]
[But did he ever question why it worked? Their three martial souls weren't particularly related, nor did their attributes complement each other. Isn't that suspicious?]
[I'm more inclined to believe that Liu Erlong's Fire Dragon and Flender's Owl martial souls provided Luo Sanpao with enough energy to temporarily evolve into the Golden Sacred Dragon.]
The women fell into deep thought after reading Su Ming's analysis, especially Liu Erlong, who had been part of the Golden Iron Triangle.
Upon reflection, Su Ming's reasoning seemed plausible. Martial soul compatibility and complementary attributes were crucial for fusion skills.
Her Fire Dragon and Flender's Owl didn't have much in common with Luo Sanpao. Back then, she'd found it odd but hadn't thought deeply about it.
Now that she considered it, their fusion skill seemed less like a merging of martial souls and more like Luo Sanpao undergoing a rapid evolution into the Golden Sacred Dragon.
Luo Sanpao's head became the dragon's head, her Fire Dragon formed the body, and Flender's Owl contributed spirit energy.
Liu Erlong couldn't understand all the intricacies, but Su Ming's analysis made a lot of sense.