Douluo: I'm Invincible

Chapter 26: The Promotion Match Begins

When Nan Fusheng returned to the dormitory, he was exhausted, but he still managed to sit cross-legged and enter a meditative state.

> "My current cultivation speed has reached its limit. If I want to go further, I'll need to either enhance my physical fitness or strengthen the meridians."

Earlier, during the battle with Wu Changkong, Nan Fusheng had already recovered the "Time Bugs" from his three roommates. Then, during the match, he had used Steal and successfully parasitized Wu Changkong in secret.

> "Wu Changkong truly deserves to be called a Soul Emperor. His cultivation speed alone equals that of the eight people I parasitized before. And this circulation method… is it Xuantian Gong?"

After successfully parasitizing Wu Changkong, Nan Fusheng had been eager to test the cultivation speed of a Soul Emperor. To avoid being discovered, he had parasitized three Time Bugs at once to confuse Wu Changkong's senses during meditation—masking the reduction in his soul power flow.

> "It seems that even a six-ring Soul Emperor can't detect my parasitism. Wu Changkong likely isn't pretending to lure me into exposing myself."

Why was he so sure? Because people from the Tang Sect viewed their secret techniques as more valuable than their lives.

When Nan Fusheng parasitized Wu Changkong, he clearly sensed the operation of a Tang Sect cultivation method.

Given Wu Changkong's personality, there's no way he'd intentionally reveal a Tang Sect technique to Nan Fusheng—at least not before Nan Fusheng became an official disciple.

After reconsidering, Nan Fusheng withdrew two of his Time Bugs from senior students—it was inefficient to leave them there.

Nan Fusheng could absorb soul power both directly and indirectly from others, but he couldn't just absorb everything. His method wasn't some "star-absorbing" martial art. Due to his current meridian strength and body limitations, he could only sustain extreme-intensity cultivation under controlled absorption.

Unless, of course, he chose to directly drain the vitality and soul power of others—rather than merely absorbing what others generated during their own practice.

Currently, Nan Fusheng had three Time Bugs on Wu Changkong, three on senior students, and three reserved for use.

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From the next day, Tang Wulin was officially exempted from physical training. The reason was simple:

In Wu Changkong's view, Tang Wulin's physical ability far exceeded his peers. Regular training was useless for such a gifted individual. It was better to focus on improving his control over the Blue Silver Grass martial soul.

Nan Fusheng, whose physical fitness was also excellent, was also exempted from physical training and assigned to concentrate on spirit cultivation and martial soul research.

By the third day, the rest of Class 5 couldn't take the intensity anymore. They dropped one by one. From that day onward, the schedule returned to physical training in the morning and theory class in the afternoon.

The half-day physical regimen was a huge relief for everyone, and no one complained.

Then came the spiritual power test.

Tang Wulin, Nan Fusheng, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue were tested—and the results were shocking.

Xie Xie: 29 points – quite good among peers, close to the mid-level of the Spiritual Origin Realm.

Tang Wulin: 44 points – solidly within the mid-tier, and notably up from 38 in his last test.

Wu Changkong was somewhat surprised by these two, but then came Nan Fusheng and Gu Yue—and the results blew the others away.

Even though Nan Fusheng had deliberately hidden his spiritual power, the reading still showed 92, placing him at the peak of the Spiritual Origin Realm.

Gu Yue's result was even more shocking: 119—far beyond the Spiritual Origin Realm.

In fact, once spiritual power exceeded 100, it entered the next stage: the Spirit Connection Realm (Lingtong Realm).

The Spirit Connection Realm meant the user's mind and spirit had become one. At this level, one could begin to directly control spiritual power, carrying two yellow spirit souls or even one purple soul.

Wu Changkong then concluded: Gu Yue's martial soul, the Elementalist, was likely a rare spiritual martial soul—capable of communicating with elements through mental force and wielding them accordingly.

Spiritual-type soul masters were the rarest—and most sought after—in the current era. They were the most compatible with mechas, which made Wu Changkong value Nan Fusheng and Gu Yue even more.

Of course, the more highly valued they were, the more intense their training became. The cold and arrogant male god made no exceptions.

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In the days that followed, everyone trained hard and lived fully.

They cultivated and meditated six days a week. On the seventh day, they either trained in the dormitory or visited other dorms, where Nan Fusheng practiced dream manipulation.

Whenever Nan Fusheng found someone interesting, he'd parasitize them with a Time Bug and then visit their dreams at night. His primary targets were students in the intermediate division.

Time flew, and two months passed in the blink of an eye. Nan Fusheng's soul power had reached level 16, maintaining a steady progress of about one level per month.

Then one day, Wu Changkong summoned Tang Wulin, Nan Fusheng, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue to his office.

> "The first match of the promotion competition starts next week."

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In the two months of special training, everyone had changed dramatically.

Most importantly, under Wu Changkong's brutal training, the four of them had developed strong mutual understanding. Their coordination had improved, and they'd become genuine teammates.

Well—except for Xie Xie, who was often stared at by Gu Yue as though he were a "liability."

There was no doubt: Gu Yue was the strongest of the four.

Even Nan Fusheng had trouble against her. She could use the light element to blind his vision, the space element to teleport, and then bombard him with fireballs, ice cones, and wind blades. Against that onslaught, he couldn't even retaliate.

This multi-element operation could only be executed by someone like Gu Yue.

Even though Xie Xie gave it his all in training, he still couldn't catch up to Gu Yue.

But progress had been made:

Xie Xie had reached soul power level 19. One more level, and he could absorb his second soul ring and become a Great Soul Master.

Gu Yue's soul power reached level 17, gaining two levels.

Tang Wulin, through constant martial soul training and guided meditation, reached level 12.

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"Teacher, do you know who Class 4 will send to face us?" Xie Xie asked eagerly.

Wu Zhangkong replied coldly, "You're just Class 5. If you need intel to beat Class 4, are you even worthy to be my disciples? Your only task in the upcoming match—crush them. Understood?"

"Yes!" The four answered in unison.

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