[Douluo 3]
If one were to ask which body was most affected by Su Ming condensing the Elemental Control Martial Soul, it would undoubtedly be the Douluo 3 body.
At this moment, Su Ming from Douluo 3 had just returned to the Federation. Because the Douluo 2 body was condensing its third Martial Soul, he got off the ship, directly found a hotel to stay in, and began secluded cultivation.
At this moment, his spiritual power naturally released.
The space-time around him began to distort.
"This is a spiritual domain!"
Mu Ye, waiting not far away for Su Ming to finish his secluded cultivation, immediately evacuated the surrounding people upon seeing this.
He looked up at the sky, feeling his scalp tingle.
When a spiritual domain condenses, it generally relates to the domain's ability, and this ability is closely connected to the Spirit Master's personal experiences and cultivation direction.
Therefore, by observing the phenomena, one could sometimes deduce the general ability of the corresponding domain.
But at this moment, Mu Ye felt his scalp tingle because he saw too much from the phenomena in the sky.
There were infinite timelines, worlds upon worlds being destroyed.
"That's the Douluo Star? The Douluo Star was destroyed!"
"That's also the Douluo Star? It was devoured by the Abyss!"
"Here's another Douluo Star, exploding out of thin air!"
Scene after scene, countless timelines gathered together, from the macroscopic Douluo Star down to all living beings—all-encompassing.
At this moment, Mu Ye wondered if he was under an illusion.
"Could these all be images of the future? Xiao Ming previously obtained the Qilin clan's legacy on the Star Luo Continent, mastering the power of fate, then later dabbled in the path of destiny. Could these images be the future?"
"No, no, no."
"Xiao Ming also has the power borrowing Spirit Skill, able to borrow power from the past, and he uses it often. This skill is also one of his core abilities. So, Xiao Ming's spiritual domain likely involves the past and future."
"The parts where the Douluo Star is destroyed are the future? The myriad living beings are the past?"
Mu Ye felt his imagination was already vast enough for this era, trying his best to understand Su Ming's spiritual domain.
"Forget it, might as well wait for Xiao Ming to finish his breakthrough and ask him then. Thinking too much now is meaningless."
The condensation of the spiritual domain proceeded smoothly.
Su Ming opened his eyes, a flash of pleasant surprise within them.
"So that's it. The reason my spiritual domain never completely took form was that it still lacked a foundation."
The moment his Douluo 2 body condensed its third Martial Soul, his spiritual domain took shape.
"I have a foundation now, so my domain also has a foundation. Compared to its previous abilities, it has gained an additional effect—Retrieve. I can now retrieve things from the River of Time."
The corners of Su Ming's mouth unconsciously turned up.
Merely entering parallel worlds wasn't enough, was it?
Entering to experience could only increase experience and knowledge without tangible benefits. That wasn't sufficient.
"This should also be related to me frequently retrieving water from the river."
The new ability, in more detail, meant Su Ming could descend into parallel worlds and then retrieve things useful to himself from them.
Of course, the more he retrieved, the greater the ripples caused, as it was equivalent to permanently peeling off a part from a parallel world.
However, as long as he could reasonably suppress the river's fluctuations, even prevent the river from fluctuating at all, then retrieval could be easy.
"Currently, the methods I can think of: one, 'fishing in troubled waters'—alter the pace of the parallel world, causing its corresponding future to change, forming a wave to conceal the phenomenon of my retrieval, leaving the river with no time to attend to it."
"The other is equivalent exchange—I bring something to the parallel world to offset what I take away."
Su Ming felt this mechanism wasn't difficult. There were many things he could bring to a parallel world—suffering, calamities, heavenly tribulations, thunder tribulations. Even the Abyssal Sage King could be sent over if conditions were met.
Of course, he hadn't yet found the ability to bring things from the real future into a parallel world within his domain, but undoubtedly, this line of thought was feasible.
"If I can bring things out, I can bring things in."
The reason the spiritual domain didn't have the corresponding ability was simply that Su Ming hadn't tried it that way.
It's that saying again: the spiritual domain is a fusion of the Spirit Master's past experiences and soul characteristics, not omnipotent, just a foundation.
"How is it? Satisfied with your spiritual domain?"
Noticing Su Ming's spiritual fluctuations stabilizing, Mu Ye came to ask about the situation.
"Very good. Teacher, wait a moment," Su Ming said with a smile.
He directly entered a parallel world, this time still the Xu Yuan timeline.
Previously, to learn Heaven Refinement, he had overturned the strategy save files he was quite satisfied with. This time, he entered before changing Zhen Hua's situation, remolded the subsequent timeline, then entered at the Xu Yuan node to cultivate Xu Yuan.
Xu Yuan was undoubtedly an anomaly.
In the parallel world, he was destined to die. But due to Su Ming's cultivation, he could survive, even achieve Limit Douluo status, greatly influencing the future.
This was almost guaranteed to stir up small waves in the River of Time.
Different from previous strategies, Su Ming participated fully this time.
With skilled use of Millennium in an Instant and jumping between nodes, Su Ming remolded twenty years of a parallel world in just ten minutes.
Su Ming kept watching the River of Time. Once he saw waves appearing downstream, he immediately retrieved the Mu Ye he had found in the parallel world.
"What is this?"
Mu Ye, looking at the ball of light appearing in Su Ming's hand, couldn't help but show a flicker of desire in his eyes.
"Teacher, try fusing with it."
Su Ming was also surprised that the Mu Ye he retrieved appeared in this form.
This light sphere gave him a feeling similar to a soul origin.
Having some guesses in his heart, while Mu Ye tried to refine this origin, Su Ming went to reshape the timeline, then searched for the era when Mu Ye should have been born, only to find Mu Ye was gone.
"Has he become one?"
While Su Ming was astonished, a powerful spirit power fluctuation came from beside him.
Mu Ye had broken through.
He had long had a direction for breakthrough. Following Su Ming's suggestion, he had been integrating his spirit into his blade. Now, with the help of this soul origin, he finally succeeded and immediately broke through the level ninety-five bottleneck.
"Level ninety-five, level ninety-six..."
"Still rising. Teacher Mu Ye's foundation is really solid."
Su Ming stood guard beside Mu Ye, keeping watch.
"Returning to the mainland, I should also change my style a bit."
With the Douluo 2 Su Ming having a third Martial Soul, Su Ming now had a foundation in the future, allowing post-death rebirth. Combined with the Nirvana Flame comprehended by the Douluo 1 Su Ming, enabling almost lossless revival, Su Ming no longer had other worries.
The Douluo 1 body was gathering god inheritances. What the Douluo 3 body could naturally do was devour the Abyss.
"Hey, Teacher Zhang Tianyang, I want to go to the Abyss battlefield frontline."
Undoubtedly, Su Ming planned to represent the Spirit Transmission Pagoda at the Abyss battlefield.
"You want to go to the Abyss?" Zhang Tianyang was stunned.
He hurriedly said, "Don't rush. You're still young, you have time to improve. No need to go there so early."
"Teacher, I have my own pace," Su Ming said.
"Alright. But before going there, first cooperate with me to get a Spirit Transmission Envoy title at the Spirit Transmission Pagoda. That way, you'll have a high starting point when you go there."
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