Tang Hao said calmly, "The quality of this soul bone is quite good. Spirit Hall wasn't lying—it came from a soul beast with at least fifty thousand years of cultivation. If Bibi Dong didn't need it herself, she wouldn't have offered it as a reward. This soul bone was probably prepared for the female soul master among those three young ones in Spirit Hall. Of the three, she's the most outstanding."
"You mean Hu Liena? Isn't the leader of the Golden Generation Xie Yue?" Tang San looked at his father in surprise. Xie Yue's self-created soul skill, Full Moon, had left far too deep an impression on him. It was a pain carved into his bones and marrow. All Eight Spider Laces snapping at once had barely been enough to block it.
Tang Hao let out a cold laugh. "Of course not. What does Xie Yue's self-created skill amount to? You don't need to be that strong—if your martial soul were the Clear Sky Hammer and you'd reached level forty or above, a single strike would shatter it effortlessly. It's Hu Liena you should be watching. Her charm ability is extraordinarily powerful. On the surface, Xie Yue appears to be the dominant force in their Martial Soul Fusion Technique, but in reality, she's the one who truly makes it work. If she weren't using the Martial Soul Fusion Technique and instead fought with her own soul skills alone, she'd cause you tremendous trouble. I don't know how you trained your eye technique, but it just so happens to be the perfect counter to her. That's also why you can't see her real danger. Among the Shrek Seven Devils, without your counter to her, she alone could take down every one of the rest. Bibi Dong is grooming her to be the next Pope."
In his previous life, Tang San had been completely cut off from the outside world, devoting himself entirely to the study of Hidden Weapons—and that was precisely how he had achieved such extraordinary mastery in that field.
But it had also left his understanding of everything beyond his craft as blank as a fresh sheet of paper.
In this life, he had only lived fourteen years so far. How could his social experience possibly compare to Tang Hao's? Now, with his father's guidance, a sudden clarity seemed to flood his mind, and he nodded repeatedly.
"Begin. First, merge with it as one. With its help, your future cultivation will yield twice the results with half the effort. Your intellect already surpasses your peers, Great Master has been developing it further, and then there's your eye technique. All of these are things this skull can enhance. During the absorption process, focus your entire being on sensing the changes in its energy. Allow no wandering thoughts. I'll watch over you."
With a Titled Douluo standing guard, was there any need to worry about the outside world?
Tang San sat down right on the large rock beneath his feet, cradling the skull that shimmered with blue light in both hands, and slowly closed his eyes.
To Tang Hao's surprise, a faint ripple of spiritual energy emanated from Tang San's body.
The spiritual fluctuation was not strong, but it was unmistakably clear. It was worth noting that Tang Hao himself hadn't produced such a pronounced spiritual wave until after the age of twenty-five.
And back then, he had already been hailed as the most brilliant genius of the Clear Sky Clan—and the Clear Sky Clan was the foremost sect in the world. Yet his son before him had reached this level a full decade earlier.
Without Tang San's gaze upon him, Tang Hao no longer hid his inner world. The hard lines on his face softened visibly, and a faint smile emerged—much like the one that had appeared when he gazed at the cascading waterfall before.
As that thread of spiritual fluctuation slowly poured into the Wisdom Skull, the blue light upon it surged intensely, wrapping Tang San's entire body within it almost in an instant, radiating a luminous azure glow.
The reason soul bones were even more precious than soul rings was twofold. Beyond their extreme rarity, there was another crucial fact: there was no soul power requirement for absorbing a soul bone. Meaning, if fortune smiled upon you and you obtained one, you could absorb even a hundred-thousand-year soul bone when you had only a single level of soul power.
Therefore, even though Tang San was now absorbing a soul bone dropped by a soul beast with over fifty thousand years of cultivation, there would be absolutely no danger. It was far safer than when he had absorbed the Man-Faced Demon Spider's soul ring.
Beneath the cocoon of blue light, the first thing Tang San felt was a thread of cool, crisp soul power flowing into his consciousness. It was an energy wave that brought him deep comfort.
The refreshing sensation drilled straight in from between his brows, gradually stimulating his brain. Wherever it passed, his mind seemed to open up layer by layer.
That extraordinary feeling of clarity was a comfort Tang San had never experienced before.
In that moment, he found that many things he had never been able to figure out before suddenly fell into place.
What surprised Tang San even more was that under the influence of that cool current, his entire brain seemed to detach from his body. The spiritual force he could project outward had first appeared after he consumed the "Gaze-Through Autumn Begonia," but he had never known how to wield it.
Now, under the influence of this icy current, that previously formless spiritual force was growing at a breathtaking rate, and the bond between Tang San and it had suddenly become intimate—with just a thought, he could direct it effortlessly.
Truly worthy of being the Wisdom Skull of Spiritual Condensation. The spiritual force had condensed as never before, making Tang San's mind feel as though it had been fully unlocked. Without needing to open his eyes, he could already perceive everything around him with perfect clarity.
Wherever his spiritual force swept, everything within a hundred-meter radius lay exposed—nothing could hide. He could even see the gentle expression on his father's face. And the range his spiritual force could scan was expanding at a astonishing speed.