《SOUL LAND: DOULUO DALU THE GAME》CHAPTER 17
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Sunlight peering through the open window, warmly embraced my face. I slowly opened my eyes while rubbing it. I was clearly not in my bedroom, no infact I wasn't even on earth but somewhere else on an unknown planet, on an unknown continent which the natives called duoluo continent. Yes, I had reincarnated into the world of douluo dalu, into the body of the protagonist, Tang San.
While sitting up, I checked out my surroundings, it was surprisingly tidy. I had to be cautious, I didn't knew how Tang Hao would react. Since I couldn't figure out what to do, I waited for him to react first, before deciding.
Tang Hao sensing my "deliberately" weak attempt to sit up, rushed at once. His eyes were watery, from my concern. He had greatly changed from the cutscene Tang Hao. His once disheveled hair were now properly cleaned. His once hidden beauty once again emerged. But it formed a clear contrast with his robe filled with patches. It seemed that the thought of losing his only son had greatly impacted him. Atleast he would now be more controllable and reasonable to deal with.
"Little San"... he said with a strong yet gentle voice. I couldn't help but look directly into his eyes. My feets trembled as I saw his eyes, deep inside it was full of love towards a certain someone, and he wanted to take care of him. Even though I managed to hide my expression, my heart was pounding heavily. I hadn't seen it anywhere, it was my first time experiencing this kind of pure and deep love. Perhaps due to the life and death situation, the love Tang Hao and Ah Yin fostered couldn't be compared to the love seen between the people of Earth.
"are you..." before he could even complete his question, I asked, "Dad, what happened? I remember... I.. I recall mom!? I actually don't remember much. Dad, what happened? " As, I couldn't answer if he had asked me what happened? So, Instead I asked him first.
"Sigh. You were unconscious for a whole month. We found you near the foot of the hill in the morning. But then, when you gained consciousness, you started screaming and hallucinating. Seeing your pained expression, I had to make you sleep, but you fell into coma for a month."
I had to make up some good excuse for this. Since I had already used the word, "mother" I went along with it and told him that it was perhaps related to my martial soul - blue silver grass. Without much hinting , he understood it was related to my blood. He was clearly puzzled, perhaps he thought it was due to me being a hybrid between a human and a soul plant. He
asked me not to stay up any longer and rest.
For the next two months, I practiced my six martial arts from the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record along with blacksmith. Surprisingly, Tang Hao took the initiative to teach me. But it was painful. My task was to forge a fifty square centimeter block of pig iron into fist size. This was such an impossible task, if I were to Hammer it in normal way, but Tang Hao taught me the Skill of Random Hammering. Continuously hammering made my whole arm sore. But I preserved!
My whole day went either blacksmithing or practicing the Tang Sect techniques. Since I used Purple Demon Eye every day, it had made significant progress compared to before. My eyesight was already capable of clearly seeing the minute motion of a mosquito flapping its wings within ten meters. I had already mastered Controlling Crane Catching Dragon and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track with the help of main protagonist memories. But, whether it was Mysterious Heaven Skill or Mysterious Jade Hand, they showed no sign of improvement. I needed my first soul ring before the threshold was broken.
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With the force leveraging method Tang Hao taught me, I was capable of more than twenty four hammer swings, every swing with flawless precision due to Purple Demon Eye, including control of force due to Controlling Crane Catching Dragon.
At once, entering the door, lightly touching my wrist, my heart fluttered, my face showed a trace of a satisfied smile; on my wrist was attached the first work I did since arriving in this world, and every step was completed by me on my own.
This was a spring loaded dart concealed in my sleeve. This concealed dart was the most ordinary kind of hidden weapon in Tang Sect. The key to manufacturing the concealed dart depends on the power of the mechanism as well as the degree of ingenuity of the design. This manufactured sleeve dart was even equipped with a safety device, so that no accidental injury could be possible.
One set of sleeve darts had three arrows made to fit in a sleeve. The material for the sleeve dart was exactly the fist sized chunk of pig iron I had hammered for nearly two months.
When I first held the fist sized chunk of completely forged pig iron, I was shocked to discover that the pig iron which originally contained impurities had now transformed into a chunk of iron mother, genuine iron mother.
This was unbelievable. Even on Earth, no such technology was available. This sleeve dart on my wrist was made from that chunk of iron mother. To completely manufacture the sleeve dart, including three ten centimetres small arrows inside, I had used all the iron mother I had.
Ordinary sleeve darts had a range of fifteen metres or so, but the sleeve dart made by me could maintain an effective attack range of over thirty metres.
Effective attack range, is exactly the range where the weapon is fully able to kill or wound.
The sleeve darts, even though only three, were made extremely ingeniously. On each sleeve dart were three blood grooves. If not for the size being too small, I would have added arrowheads barbs to these dart arrows. The tail had four tiny fletchings that could cause the sleeve dart to fly extremely smoothly. The tapered arrowhead was spiral rifled, so that when the sleeve dart was launched it possessed even greater piercing power.
Tang Hao was greatly surprised by the maturity I displayed. I asked him such various and unique doubts, that a 6 year old never would have asked. Whenever we ended up spending time, I always tried to emotionally get connected to him. I tried all I could to enter his heart, but no matter what, even when he was full drunken, he would never spill anything about Ah Yin or Clear Sky tribe.
Finally, two months had passed, I was a little disheartened that I didn't get to know more about blacksmithing but a part of me was secretly glad that I didn't need to blacksmith anymore.
Sure enough, in the morning he had secretly gone to meet Old Jack.
“Little San, where on earth did you go this early in the morning?” Tang Hao coolly asked when he returned.
I replied, “For the past two months, I have been going out at the morning for exercising at the hill.”
“Oh. But your injury...”
"It's now ok, dad"
Tang Hao did not try to dig deeper, and coolly said,“Today you won’t practice forging again. Get your things ready, tomorrow old Jack will take you to Nuoding city.”
“Nuoding city? Why?” I asked innocently, even though I knew it. It would be awkward if I didn't ask.
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Tang Hao gave me a look, and said, “Do you not want to study soul master abilities? Old Jack can take you to Nuoding city’s primary soul master academy to become a working student. There you can study whatever you want.”
Hearing this I smiled internally, but still asked in a confusing tone, “Dad, what changed your mind?”
Tang Hao returned with a question, “Do you still want to go or not?”
I rebutted,“But if I leave, nobody will make you food.”
Tang Hao coldly said, “Do I still need you to look after me? You just leave. This is your chosen path. Every year Holy Spirit village has a quota of one, do not waste it. I have handed over the forging methods to you, so you can look for work as an apprentice in a smithy in town. It should be enough to cover tuition and food expenses.”
Even though Tang Hao’s words were very indifferent, I could sense the warmth behind his words. For who knows how many times I tried opening his heart, but everytime he refused to openly talk to me. For the past two months, even though Tang Hao always reacted to me in a manner that certainly never changed, but he was certainly being influenced, even if a little; now the tall wide ashen man before his eyes already gave him an increasingly paternal feeling. This was the effect of continuous accumulation. At first, it seemed that the small actions of getting closer didn’t do much, but being continuously subjected to it, it slowly started changing Tang Hao. It was so small that even Tang Hao, himself didn't notice.
I, of course wanted to go study the lore of soul masters, but at this moment I made an expression which was reluctant to part with his father.
Tang Hao said,“Letting you go to Nuoding comes with a condition. If you agree you may go.”
“Is it related to my martial soul? ” I spoke without the slightest hesitation.
Tang Hao’s brows wrinkled slightly,"That's right" he said.
"Let me guess, it's about the status of Twin Martial Soul. Out of 8 children, only I awakened Twin Martial Soul, it should be very hard to find someone with Twin Martial Soul. You want me to hide my identity and only use single martial soul. Am I right?" Summoning both of my martial souls, I asked Tang Hao as I "deduced" this information.
Tang Hao was slightly panicked, hearing this. To think his son would have such high intelligence at an age of 6!
"I have always felt that the hammer spirit is always powerful than the blue silver grass spirit. I guess you would want me to hide my hammer spirit as a trump card and wish that I would continue cultivating my blue silver grass. But why?"
Tang Hao was naturally taken aback. His son saw right through his thoughts before he could even tell him anything. He'd never seen such a monster.
The barrier that prevented me from entering his heart was naturally Ah Yin. Evwn though I knew, I couldn't say anything that would arouse suspicion towards me. But what if he himself told me about it? Even if it was just a mention, I naturally would have more leeway. The way I answered him, surely he would be more than just surprised. And in this state if I were to ask a "why?" then chances were he would say what was buried deep inside his heart.
But this man was too tight lipped. He controlled himself to not say anything.
"You will know when the time comes. And you're right from now on no matter how you cultivate your soul power, you must not let your hammer spirit absorb any spirit ring, so much so that you cannot let another person see it appear. Do not let other people know that you have twin spirits. The blue silver grass spirit you can use as you please, cultivating, exerting whatever soul is also no problem. With twin martial soul, both martial soul do not need to rely on soul rings to promote soul power to be able to cultivate. Provided you have one martial soul that possesses a soul ring, the soul power promotion bottleneck will disappear.”
"Little San, promise me, you will always use the hammer to protect the blue silver grass. Only if you encounter a life threatening situation should you use the hammer. Otherwise, do not use that hammer.”
I spoke with ease, "Dad, I promise you. Even if you hadn’t told me this, I was planning on hiding atleast one of my martial souls."
“Good, let’s eat.” Tang Hao said.
After supper, Tang Hao left without a word to go out drinking, as if nothing was different from the routine. He told me not to make noise and disturb his sleep when he went out for his morning exercise the next morning.
Early morning, I sat atop a large rock on the summit of the hill. I was holding tree leaves, with my eyes having a purple lustre. Not knowing why but Purple Demon Eye had advanced very rapidly; the leaf in his hand, even if it was the smallest lines, he could distinctly observe them. This proved that my Purple Demon Eye had already begun to enter the realm of the detailed. While Mysterious Heaven Skill had nine levels, Purple Demon Eye only had four levels, survey, detailed, mustard seed and boundless.
Mysterious Heaven skill welling forth, suddenly I poured the inner qi into the tree leaves, the soft leaves immediately became perfectly straight. As my index and middle finger jerked slightly, and the tree leaves spun out, splitting the air as they flew forth.
But after just one metre, they were unable to maintain their rotating state when they stopped being perfectly straight. As it left my finger, Mysterious Heaven skill’s inner qi strength effect naturally vanished.
The day of partition had arrived, Tang Hao was sleeping peacefully. Since he didn't wanted to see his son depart, and since I didn't want to waste my time here, him sleeping was beneficial to both of us. But I couldn't outright leave, I had to maintain my image that I have been building up from the past two months. The rice congee was already ready, I just left with a well worded emotional message. This, was the only thing which could remind him of, me constantly taking care of him.
Old Jack had came to escort me towards Nuoding city. I was finally starting my life as a soul master! That's also where I would meet her. Nuoding city, here I come.
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