Chapter 26: There Isn't Even Martial Soul Resonance—And You Call This a Martial Soul Fusion Skill?!
[After the three fuse together, what is it that gets summoned?]
[It's the Golden Holy Dragon!]
[But here's the problem—Luo Sanpao was originally the juvenile form of the Golden Holy Dragon to begin with!]
[After the three combine, no new form is created, and no new abilities are born.]
[They merely forcefully inject Liu Erlong's and Flender's soul power into Luo Sanpao, allowing it to temporarily break free from its "energy deficiency" and manifest its true body!]
[What kind of fusion is that supposed to be?]
[And the evidence is crystal clear.]
[In the original story, the three of them once fought against Dugu Bo.]
[And who is Dugu Bo? He's the one publicly acknowledged as the "weakest Titled Douluo," with soul power at only rank ninety-one, ranking dead last in single-combat capability.]
Dugu Yan: ???
[At that time, Flender and Liu Erlong were both high-level Soul Saints, while Yu Xiaogang was only a Soul Grandmaster.]
[Logically speaking, a fusion of three people's martial souls—stacking a total of sixteen soul rings—should have resulted in a qualitative leap, utterly crushing Dugu Bo.]
[Just look at the Peerless Dragon and Serpent: one Soul Douluo plus one Soul Emperor was enough to exchange several blows with a rank 96 Chrysanthemum Douluo.]
[But what was the result?]
[The Golden Holy Dragon struggled enormously against Dugu Bo. In the end, it barely managed to hold its ground—and was even at a disadvantage, with its weakness easily seized!]
[Three people combined, yet unable to defeat even the weakest Titled Douluo?]
[The "gold content" of this is so low it's downright outrageous!]
[If it were truly the perfectly fused Golden Holy Dragon—the complete form of a super-level martial soul—then forget Dugu Bo. Even a Titled Douluo below rank ninety-five would likely be pinned to the ground and ruthlessly crushed!]
[In addition to that, there's an even more obvious piece of evidence proving that the so-called three-in-one martial soul fusion skill of Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flander isn't a martial soul fusion skill at all—but merely a combination technique!]
[The conditions for the birth of a martial soul fusion skill are extremely bizarre and impossible to define clearly. However, those who possess fusion compatibility will definitely experience mutual martial soul reactions once they come within a certain distance of each other.]
[In the original story, when Zhu Zhuqing went to Shrek Academy to find Dai Mubai, the two had never met before.]
[Yet Dai Mubai knew Zhu Zhuqing had come for him—purely through the throbbing of his martial soul!]
[Because in this world, apart from Zhu Zhuqing, there was no second person who could resonate with his martial soul.]
[But what about Yu Xiaogang's trio?]
[When Shrek Academy, led by Qin Ming, sought to join the Heaven Dou Royal Academy, only to be rejected by Xue Beng and obstructed by Dugu Bo,]
[They instead joined Blue Tyrant Academy—an academy founded by Liu Erlong.]
[At that time, after being led to the back mountain of Blue Tyrant Academy by a teacher,]
[Liu Erlong had her back turned to Yu Xiaogang and the others, watering flowers. If Flender hadn't spoken up, she likely wouldn't even have known that Yu Xiaogang and Flender had arrived!]
[This alone proves that there was absolutely no martial soul resonance between the three of them—and that their so-called three-in-one martial soul fusion skill was never a martial soul fusion skill to begin with.]-
Boom!
Blue Tyrant Academy, back mountain garden.
"Martial soul… resonance…"
Liu Erlong muttered to herself, her face pale as paper, desperately recalling the times she, Xiaogang, and Flander had unleashed the three-in-one martial soul fusion skill Golden Holy Dragon.
Back when they traveled the continent, they were unknown at first. It was only after Yu Xiaogang researched a way to combine their three martial souls—producing the so-called Golden Holy Dragon—that the name "Golden Iron Triangle" came into existence.
At that time, she had no idea that Luo Sanpao carried the Golden Holy Dragon bloodline.
So even though the three-in-one martial soul fusion skill was executed through Luo Sanpao as the medium, she never thought too deeply about it.
After all, before knowing the truth, the three of their martial souls really did seem to fuse together, producing a tremendous change!
A pig, a fire dragon, and an owl—merged into a Golden Holy Dragon!
Wasn't that the same process as the Dai Clan and Zhu Clan's White Tiger and Hell Spirit Cat merging into the Hell White Tiger?
But now that she thought about it, there really was a difference.
The Dai and Zhu clans possessed martial soul resonance—but she, Xiaogang, and Flander did not.
This clearly failed to meet the conditions for a true martial soul fusion skill.
"So the Golden Iron Triangle we were so proud of… was actually nothing more than a combination technique?"
Liu Erlong closed her eyes in pain.
However, just a few seconds later, she suddenly opened them again, a trace of stubbornness flashing in her gaze.
"No!"
"Even if it isn't a true martial soul fusion skill, even if there's no martial soul resonance, this is still something Xiaogang researched and created!"
"To allow three completely different martial souls to combine and produce power comparable to a Titled Douluo—this alone proves his intelligence!"
"Lin Yuan's diary may make some sense, but he doesn't understand Xiaogang's painstaking efforts!"
That's right.
This was Liu Erlong.
A woman who wouldn't turn back even after crashing into the southern wall—a textbook case of terminal 'love-brain.'
Even with the bloody truth laid bare before her, she would still instinctively find excuses for that man.
And now that she knew Yu Xiaogang's martial soul was the juvenile Golden Holy Dragon, then according to what Lin Yuan's diary said, if she fed Luo Sanpao dragon-type soul beast meat with similar bloodlines, wouldn't that help his cultivation to some extent?
Although Lin Yuan had said in the diary that unless one found heaven-defying heavenly treasures, relying solely on ordinary soul beast meat wouldn't have much effect—
How would she know without trying?!
Coincidentally, she didn't have much to do at the academy daily. She might as well head to the nearby Sunset Forest and see if there were any dragon-type soul beasts capable of nurturing light-based bloodlines.
If none existed, then she'd have no choice but to go to the Star Dou Great Forest.
Why not look for soul beasts with golden holy dragon bloodlines?
Because Liu Erlong had absolutely no idea what kind of soul beasts even possessed such bloodlines.
At this moment, a terrifying aura erupted from Liu Erlong's body.
It was the murderous aura belonging to the Slaughter Horn!
For Yu Xiaogang, she was willing to be foolish one more time.
Only this time, her goal was no longer blind waiting—
But raising a pig!
At the same time.
Heaven Dou City, Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
As the empire's highest-ranking soul master academy, it was nestled among mountains and rivers, with a serene environment. Anyone who studied here was either rich or noble.
Inside a spacious, brightly lit classroom.
Two stunningly beautiful girls sat together, yet their minds were clearly not on the dull theoretical lecture being delivered by the teacher on the podium.
Because floating before them were two black diaries—visible only to them.
The girl on the left had short emerald-green hair, with equally rare emerald-green eyes, her entire body exuding an eerie, wild charm.
It was Dugu Yan.
The girl on the right wore black robes, her temperament cold and aloof like an icy snow lotus. Only a pair of pale blue eyes was visible, radiating an unapproachable sense of distance.
The inheritor of the Nine Heart Begonia martial soul—Ye Lingling.
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