Douluo: My Clone Is Groudon

Nuoding Academy, Garden

The morning mist had yet to dissipate, and the dew on the Blue Silver Grass refracted a faint golden light.

Tang San knelt on one knee beside a ginkgo tree, his fingertips pressing into the damp soil. Five strands of Blue Silver Grass snaked out from between his fingers, their leaves shimmering with a pale golden glow.

"The forty-second attempt."

He murmured softly, his soul power oscillating at a specific frequency. Ten meters ahead, three wooden stakes were suddenly entangled by vines—but this wasn't a simple binding. The Blue Silver Grass tightened in a spiral pattern, carving circular grooves into the surface of each stake with every rotation.

This was the sharp-edged enhancement granted by fusing with the Mantis Orchid soul ring. Under Tang San's meticulous control, it could unleash the power equivalent to a hundred-year soul skill.

From the southeast came a rustling sound. Xiao Wu sat cross-legged on a patch of ground covered in ginkgo leaves, her pink ribbon fluttering gently with her breath.

Before her floated thirty-six fan-shaped leaves, each supported by a pink aura of soul power. Xiao Wu's forehead glistened with sweat as she carefully moved toward the other side of the garden.

Suddenly, black mist rose under the sunlight as Zhu Zhuqing appeared. Her sharp claws caught up to a fleeing ladybug. With a slight bend of her slender jade-like fingers, her claws sliced through like divine blades, severing the insect's wings and curved shell.

The gust of wind from Zhu Zhuqing's sprint scattered Xiao Wu's ginkgo leaves, which drifted onto her sleeves and hair, adding an adorable touch to her already charming face.

"Just missed it again."

Xiao Wu pouted as she cleaned up the leaves. Perhaps it was the morning sun or the fresh air, but her usual irritable mood had calmed. After glaring at Zhu Zhuqing briefly, she continued gathering the leaves, controlling them with her soul power.

Once she finished clearing the area around one tree, she eagerly sought out Zhu Zhuqing to cause trouble, occasionally launching surprise attacks to increase the difficulty of her special training.

[+1 Point, +1 Point, +1 Point…]

Gu La listened to the system notifications, finding them the most melodious sounds he had ever heard. The special training fully utilized the strengths of the three participants and allowed them to interact with one another, greatly increasing their training efficiency—and accelerating his point accumulation.

If things went as expected, by the end of the month, he would be able to exchange points for items for all three of them.

Of course, even after obtaining the items, Gu La wouldn't give it to them immediately. He planned to wait until they reached a bottleneck in their strength or needed a boost in combat power before handing over the gear.

After all, most items didn't have unique effects—it simply provided numerical boosts. It didn't matter when they received it.

Lost in thought, Gu La's body was enveloped in a faint golden-yellow glow—the result of compressing his gravity field to its limit.

The energy consumption of the gravity field matched exactly what Gu La could recover at his current level. While the gravity field would be considered torturous for other soul masters, for Gu La, it was just part of his daily training.

His body had long since adapted to the extreme gravity. His muscles no longer tensed involuntarily but vibrated actively, accelerating his conditioning. Sweat slid down his forehead, dripping onto the ground beneath his feet.

Gu La's breathing was steady and powerful. Each breath felt like a struggle against the overwhelming gravity, and every contraction of his muscles continuously strengthened his physical capabilities.

Now, he only needed to train for fifteen minutes to achieve what previously took him an hour.

This was closely tied to the external soul bone, Magma Heart Armor.

The hundred-thousand-year Magma Heart Armor protected Gu La's entire body and could shift between liquid, semi-solid, and solid states. In its normal state, the armor mixed with his blood inside his body. The heart, now fused with the Red Orb, pulsed steadily, sending the blood infused with the external soul bone throughout his body.

Since Gu La couldn't directly control every muscle, he indirectly manipulated muscle contractions by sensing and controlling the soul bone, achieving rapid and efficient training.

In just a few days, Gu La's Aura had significantly improved. The realm where he could shatter rocks with his bare hands and withstand soul skills without relying on soul power was no longer far off.

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Two more months passed. When Gu La sent someone to deliver his new paper and retrieve the royalties, he received an unexpected surprise.

"Dragon Transformation Secret Technique."

Gu La looked at the scroll in his hand and remarked, "As expected of the Spirit Hall—they truly forced the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect to hand over their ancestral secret technique. Who knows how much coercion was involved?"

Tang San paused his training and frowned. "The Spirit Hall is so domineering. Just because of an article, they resorted to extortion to take someone else's sect inheritance. They don't deserve to be called the strongest force in the world."

"It's perfectly normal."

Gu La, knowing Tang San's deep ties to sect loyalty, stated bluntly, "The Dragon Transformation Secret Technique can only be learned by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon family. Clearly, the Spirit Hall wants me to decipher it."

"What do you think? Do you want to learn it?"

Tang San was stunned. "One of the upper three sects' ultimate techniques… can it really be deciphered?"

Gu La nodded.

The Divine Pokémon Breeder Master Techniques included methods for nurturing eighteen different types of Pokémon, including dragon-type Pokémon. 

In the Pokémon world, research into bloodlines—aided by advanced instruments—had delved deeply into genetic factors. There were even specialized existences like the Dragon Tamer clans, who mastered dragon powers, conducting advanced studies on dragon bloodlines. 

Gu La only needed to use the Dragon Transformation Secret Technique as a template, adapting the knowledge in his mind slightly to create a universal version of a bloodline-stimulating technique.

Tang San hesitated for a moment. He wanted to reject it outright, given that his teacher, Yu Xiaogang, was from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon family, and he had to consider his teacher's feelings.

But then he thought about it being one of the upper three sects' inheritance techniques. No matter what, he couldn't bring himself to refuse.

He let out a bitter smile. "It seems I'm just an ordinary person after all. Faced with such an inheritance, honestly, of course I'd want to learn it to strengthen myself."

Under Gu La's straightforwardness, Tang San's hypocrisy was laughable—there was no room for double standards here.

The more Tang San faced his inner self, the more he would naturally become accustomed to embracing his true identity, shedding pretenses and masks, and gradually becoming a normal person.

"That's right," Gu La said. "If anyone in the world had the chance, who wouldn't want to become superior? This secret technique wasn't something we asked for—it was handed to us by the Spirit Hall. If we don't learn it, it'd be a waste."

As he spoke, Gu La multitasked, carefully reading through the Dragon Transformation Secret Technique.

"Using the violent power of lightning to stimulate the equally volatile dragon bloodline, temporarily manifesting it, using soul power to control and activate the bloodline, with soul rings acting as a buffer to handle the pressure. Ultimately, it simulates characteristics similar to the martial soul True Body."

Gu La pondered thoughtfully, "This is somewhat like my envisioned method of activating the essence of a martial soul. However, it lacks control over spiritual power, making it just an ordinary bloodline technique."

Comforted by Gu La's words, Tang San felt better but also found the situation absurd. He had read through the secret technique as well, and it seemed quite powerful.

Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing also gathered curiously, but after studying it, even Super Douluos found themselves unable to make sense of the Dragon Transformation Secret Technique—let alone the two girls.

Gu La turned to Xiao Wu. "Do you have anything to say?"

He telepathically transmitted to Xiao Wu, "For instance, how does a spirit beast sense its own bloodline?"

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