"Huh?"
Xiao Wu was confused and didn't understand.
She tilted her head, looking at Gula's earnest explanation, as if he wanted her to understand.
Shaking her head, she simply gave up and focused on enjoying the delicious energy cube.
"Mmm-hmm." She kept nodding in agreement.
Gula: "..."
Forget it, I've lost the motivation to continue.
"If there's nothing else, I'll continue cultivating.
Don't get too close to me."
Gula restored the surrounding gravity field and awakened his spiritual power, making him more adept at controlling the soul power within his body.
Even his gravity control showed signs of refinement.
He believed that as time went on, he would be able to gradually complete the operation he envisioned to disrupt the enemy's balance.
Xiao Wu wasn't driven away by Gula's cold attitude; instead, it aroused her competitive spirit.
"What can you cultivate with such slow movements?
Let's have a fight, and I'll show you my gentle techniques."
Speaking of fighting, Xiao Wu was eager to try.
Then, without waiting for Gula's agreement, she rushed towards Gula, her fist imbued with soul power, striking towards his chest.
Gula looked up, relaxing his suppression of gravity, and the gravity field immediately filled a ten-meter radius.
Xiao Wu felt a sudden heaviness, her running motion abruptly distorted, and she almost fell to her knees due to inertia.
Instinctively activating her waist bow soul skill, she used her waist and pushed off with her hind legs to barely regain her balance.
"Gravity... domain?"
Xiao Wu sensed a soul skill similar to her second brother, the Titan Giant Ape, and blurted out.
Gula raised an eyebrow: "It's not exactly a domain soul skill, at most a half-domain. But dealing with a little girl like you is a waste of its power."
Hearing this, Xiao Wu gritted her teeth in anger, "Watch me beat you to a pulp!"
She suddenly pushed off, trying to use the explosive force to get closer to Gula.
Gula silently dispelled the gravity field, and as Xiao Wu took off, he took a few steps back to create distance, restoring gravity.
The distance between Gula and Xiao Wu was precisely at the edge of the gravity field.
Xiao Wu's upper body entered the field, and with a cry of pain, she lost her balance and tumbled headfirst into the grass.
Gula smiled. "Still want to fight?"
Xiao Wu braced herself with her hands on the ground, lifting her head.
Her black hair was covered in grass and twigs, and her fair face was flushed with shame and anger.
"I don't believe your soul power can last long!"
she said, stubbornly standing up.
Her pink pantyhose was stained with dust at the knees, and when she knelt, she hadn't had time to react, resulting in a thumb-sized gash that exposed her peach-pink knees.
Soul masters are physically strong, so she wasn't injured or bleeding, but Xiao Wu felt an overwhelming sense of shame, worse than if she had been injured.
Xiao Wu let out a cold, angry shout.
"Eight-Stage Throw!"
This was Xiao Wu's self-created soul skill, probably taught to her by her mother.
Once it locked onto an enemy, unless there was a significant power imbalance, it was difficult to interrupt, rapidly slamming the enemy and causing eight terrifying blows.
Unable to get close to Gula, she grabbed a decorative stone sculpture from the garden entrance, swung it around in mid-air, and hurled it at Gula.
Gula frowned, realizing Xiao Wu was out of her mind.
Any other person her age, even Tang San, would be seriously injured, if not killed, if accidentally grazed by the high-speed sculpture.
A thought flashed through Gula's mind, and he understood the reason for Xiao Wu's anger.
Without time to think, he assumed a bodybuilding stance, energy flowing through his body, strengthening his power and defense.
"A 50% increase in attack and defense isn't enough."
"Martial Soul Possession!"
Gula's body swelled, power surging, red rock armor forming on the backs of his hands.
He raised both hands, catching the flying sculpture head-on.
Xiao Wu stopped, panting. Her current cultivation level made using the Eight-Stage Throw too difficult; she was almost exhausted.
But she still glared at Gula, "This isn't over yet! Let me rest, then we'll continue!"
It was infuriating; he'd made her kneel on the ground.
"Sure, you're welcome anytime,"
Gula said with an awkward smile, not refusing.
He'd completely forgotten to consider Xiao Wu's pride.
After all, in his eyes, Xiao Wu was a spirit beast in human form, lacking many human concepts.
But the original story's memories and reality were different.
Xiao Wu was a living person, with human emotions, feeling shame and anger, able to act cute and charming—not a pet.
Explaining that it was unintentional was useless now; it was better to wait until Xiao Wu calmed down before talking to her.
"Do you need treatment?
Xiao San is a healing-type spirit master; I'll take you to him,"
Gula said, stepping forward to help Xiao Wu up.
Xiao Wu shook off his hand: "I don't need you, I can walk by myself."
With that, she glared at Gula and stormed off.
Gula, not one to tolerate her bad habits, decisively stepped back and watched her limp away.
Points +15!
Satisfied with the system notification, Gula withdrew his gaze and continued his physical training.
After an hour of training, Gula meditated to cultivate his soul power, then focused on meditating on his superpowers for another hour.
The afternoon passed just like that.
It seemed incredibly tedious, and indeed it was.
"That's why I like using cheat codes."
Gula used the points from defeating Xiao Wu to buy tree fruits, crafted them into energy cubes, and filled his stomach with them for dinner before sitting cross-legged on the blue-silver grass.
He took out a high-grade ball, which resembled a pendant, clicked a button to enlarge it to the size of his normal palm, and retrieved the medicinal herbs he had bought at noon.
"Concentrate and calm your mind.
The power of Everlasting is a gift from the Everlasting Forest, a crystallization of nature.
Different paths lead to the same destination; on Douluo Star, I will surely be able to communicate with the will of nature."
With firm conviction, a soft green light emanated from Gula's body, warm and comfortable, like a mother's embrace.
Gradually, the power of the Everlasting Stone connected with the nearby Blue Silver Grass's general consciousness, using it as a bridge to make initial contact with the natural consciousness of Douluo Star.
The natural consciousness, or rather, the plane's consciousness, was still in a very nascent stage, still dormant and growing.
Sensing a strangely close consciousness linking with itself, it was momentarily bewildered.
Whose child is this, wandering around like this?
But as the plane's consciousness thoroughly scanned and searched Gula,everything showed that Gula was indeed a native human of Douluo Star.
Plane Consciousness: (∞) ? ? ?
She is… its own child?
Is that true? She isn't, don't talk nonsense, but… it does feel very close.
The plane's consciousness couldn't understand the current situation, its thoughts were chaotic, and it crashed.
Gula didn't know that it had truly connected with the plane's consciousness and sensed some kind of response.
It focused intently, keeping its mind clear, wanting to strengthen this connection to save itself from tedious communication steps in the future.
Plane Consciousness: ()
This child… is so enthusiastic.
Oh well, he's already awake.
From now on, he's her child.
As this thought vaguely arose in the consciousness of the plane, the fortune of Douluo Star, a realm invisible to mortals, surged ceaselessly.
The abnormal fortune cloud above Tang San was also affected, dispersing a large amount of unstable fortune power, which, along with the fortune flying in from all over Douluo Star, converged into a vortex and flowed into Gula's body.
(End of this chapter)