Douluo: My Clone Is Groudon

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"Huh?"

Xiao Wu didn't understand what Gu La was saying and tilted her head, watching him earnestly explain as if trying to make her comprehend.

Shaking her head, she decided not to think about it anymore and focused on savoring the delicious energy cube.

"Mmm-hmm." She kept nodding in agreement.

Gu La: "..."

Forget it; he lost all motivation to continue explaining.

"If you don't have anything else to do, I'll continue my training. Don't get too close to me."

Gu La restored the gravitational field around him. Awakening psychic power had made his control over his soul power even more adept.

There were even signs of refined control over gravity manipulation. Over time, he believed he could gradually achieve his envisioned ability to disrupt an opponent's balance.

Xiao Wu wasn't driven away by Gu La's aloof attitude. Instead, it ignited her competitive spirit.

"Such slow movements—what can you possibly train for? Let's fight and let me show you my grappling techniques."

When it came to fighting, Xiao Wu was eager to try. Without waiting for Gu La's consent, she charged at him, her fist infused with soul power aimed directly at his chest.

Gu La raised his eyes and relaxed his suppression of gravity. Instantly, the gravitational field filled a ten-meter radius.

Xiao Wu's body suddenly felt heavier, and her running motion abruptly distorted. She nearly fell to her knees from the inertia.

Instinctively activating her waist-bending soul skill, she forcefully pushed off with her legs to barely maintain her balance.

"Gravity… domain?"

Xiao Wu felt a soul skill similar to her younger brother, Titan Ape, and blurted out.

Gu La raised an eyebrow: "It's not a domain-type soul skill, at most a semi-domain. But using this against a little girl like you is somewhat overkill."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Wu gritted her teeth in anger. "I'll make you eat dirt!"

She forcefully kicked off, intending to use the explosive force to close the distance to Gu La.

Silently, Gu La lifted the gravitational field. As Xiao Wu leaped into the air, he stepped back a few paces to increase the distance and then restored the gravity.

The distance between Gu La and Xiao Wu was precisely at the edge of the gravitational field.

As Xiao Wu's upper body entered the gravitational field, she cried out in surprise. Her head felt heavy, and she lost her balance, falling headfirst into the grass.

Gu La smiled faintly. "Do we need to continue?"

Xiao Wu propped herself up with her hands, lifting her head. Her black hair was covered in leaves and twigs, and her tender face flushed red with shame and anger.

"I don't believe your soul power can last much longer!"

With that, she stubbornly stood up. Dust stained her pink tights at the knee, and she hadn't reacted in time when kneeling, creating a thumb-sized hole that exposed her peach-colored knee.

Though strong enough as a soul master to avoid injury or bleeding, Xiao Wu's sense of shame was overwhelming—it felt worse than being injured.

Xiao Wu let out a cold, angry shout: "Eight-Step Throw!"

This self-created soul skill was probably taught to her by her mother.

Once locked onto an enemy, unless there was a significant difference in strength, it was hard to interrupt. It would rapidly throw the enemy eight times, causing terrifying damage.

Unable to approach Gu La, she grabbed a stone sculpture used for decoration at the garden entrance, fiercely swung it in the air, and hurled it toward Gu La.

Gu La frowned, realizing Xiao Wu had become overly aggressive.

If it were any other peer, even Tang San, accidentally getting grazed by the high-speed moving sculpture could result in severe injuries or death.

A thought flashed through Gu La's mind—he understood why Xiao Wu was angry but had no time to think. He struck a bodybuilding pose, energy flowing within him to enhance his strength and defense.

"Boosting offensive and defensive attributes by fifty percent isn't enough."

"Martial Soul Attachment!"

Gu La's physique expanded, surging with power. Red rocky armor bulged on the back of his hands as he raised them to catch the flying sculpture.

Xiao Wu stopped, panting heavily. Using the Eight-Step Throw at her current cultivation level was too strenuous, almost costing her all her strength.

But she still glared at Gu La with wide eyes. "This isn't over. I'll rest and then we'll fight again!"

How infuriating—to make her kneel on the ground.

"Sure, anytime."

Gu La gave a forced smile, not refusing.

He had completely forgotten to consider Xiao Wu's pride. In his eyes, Xiao Wu was a transformed spirit beast without many human concepts.

However, memories of the original story and reality differed. Xiao Wu was a living person with human emotions—shame, anger, coquettishness, and cuteness. She couldn't be treated like a pet at home.

Explaining it as an unintentional mistake wouldn't help now. It was better to wait until Xiao Wu cooled down before clearing things up.

"Do you need treatment? Tang San is a healing-type soul master—I can take you to him."

Gu La moved forward to help Xiao Wu up.

Xiao Wu shook off his hand: "No need. I can walk myself."

With that, she glared at Gu La and angrily walked away.

Gu La didn't indulge her bad temper. Decisively stepping back, he stood aside and watched her hobble away.

+15 points!

Seeing the system notification, Gu La contentedly turned his attention back and continued exercising.

After one hour of exercise, Gu La meditated to cultivate his soul power, followed by another hour of dedicated psychic training. Thus, the afternoon passed.

It looked extremely dull—and indeed, it was very dull.

"That's why I love cheating."

Using the points earned from defeating Xiao Wu, Gu La bought berries, made them into energy cubes, and ate them for dinner. Then, he sat cross-legged on the Blue Silver Grass.

He took out an accessory-like Ultra Ball, clicked the button to enlarge it to palm size, and retrieved the herbs he had bought at noon.

"Calm your mind and condense your mind. The Viridian Power is a gift from the Viridian Forest, a crystallization of nature. Though the paths may differ, they converge here—I should be able to connect with the natural will of Douluo Star."

With firm belief, a faint green glow emanated from Gu La, warm and comfortable, like a mother's embrace.

Gradually, the Viridian Power connected with the nearby Blue Silver Grass collective consciousness, using it as a bridge to establish initial contact with Douluo Star's natural consciousness.

The natural consciousness—or plane consciousness—was still in a very naive stage, originally sleeping and growing. Feeling a mysteriously familiar consciousness linking to it, it was momentarily confused.

Whose child is this? Why are they visiting?

However, after thoroughly scanning and searching Gu La, everything indicated that Gu La was a native human of Douluo Star.

Plane Consciousness: (∞)???

Is this... my child?

Is that possible? No, don't say nonsense... but... it does feel very familiar.

The plane consciousness couldn't understand the situation, its thoughts were in chaos, and it fell into a state of deadlock.

Unaware that he had truly connected with the plane consciousness, Gu La sensed some response.

He concentrated fully, maintaining a serene mind, wanting to strengthen this connection to save future communication steps.

Plane Consciousness: …

This child... is so enthusiastic.

Well, since I'm already awake.

From now on, this is my child.

As the plane consciousness vaguely formed this thought, invisible to mortals, Douluo Star's fortune surged incessantly.

The abnormal purple clouds above Tang San were also affected, releasing vast amounts of unstable fortune power. Fortune from all over Douluo Planet gathered into a vortex, flowing into Gu La's body.

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