Douluo Continent: The Book of Witness and Peerless Tang Sect

The unexpected sacrifice of the ten-thousand-year-old white jade fire crystal tiger made Long You's journey to obtain his fourth soul ring exceptionally smooth. He left the camp at nine o'clock and returned before ten.

The watch continued, and the rest continued. Because his previous actions had disrupted the rest schedule of the entire team, Long You was also put on the duty roster for the third shift.

The timing is actually quite clever. If you've ever kept a puppy or kitten at home, you'll probably know that these puppies, just like human babies, will get hungry several times a night.

The adults responsible for their care need to get out of their warm beds and feed the cubs when they are released and crying. The third shift is supposed to start at 2 a.m., which is exactly when Xiao Muyang needs to be fed, so Longyou won't have to get up again.

The little tiger cub, Bai Muyang, was familiar with scents—no, it should be said that it had a remarkable ability to detect scents. After only one feeding and one bath, it had already become familiar with Long You's scent. Even when it was asleep, the little guy would immediately wake up and start crying loudly if Long You left its side.

With no other option, Long You carried Xiao Muyang to his bed and let the little guy curl up in his arms to rest.

In the pitch-black room, Long You released his martial soul, the deep, dark fourth spirit ring radiating an alluring attraction. However, due to the characteristics of his martial soul, Long You wasn't particularly curious about his fourth spirit ring. The reason he released it now was simply to conduct a thorough analysis of Xiao Muyang.

To be honest, Xiao Muyang's arrival was a truly unexpected and delightful surprise for Long You. Do you remember the Soul Spirit? Long You had always wanted to create one.

It's not a fake soul spirit created by Huo Yuhao using only a smattering of knowledge about the Undead Scourge, Mr. Electrolux.

It's said that such spirits can be created using only spirit beasts on the verge of death, but the number of such spirit beasts is ultimately limited. While there may be no more spirit beasts on the verge of death, there will always be spirit masters who crave powerful spirits.

Huo Yuhao's actions were merely a stopgap measure; they failed to fundamentally resolve the conflict between Soul Masters and Soul Beasts. Soul Beasts, in their struggle for survival, would ultimately launch a desperate counterattack against humanity, something Long You did not wish to see.

Having experienced things in his previous life, Long You strongly agrees with the idea that humans are merely a part of nature, and that the balance of nature requires a sufficiently rich diversity of species. Long You hopes that the future of the Douluo Continent world will be a world where humans and soul beasts, and soul beasts and soul masters, coexist harmoniously.

To realize this world vision, artificial spirits are a good method. True artificial spirits are not the kind that require consuming the life force of spirit beasts to create.

Creating a true artificial soul is Long You's wish, and he is willing to work towards it, actively making preparations. The arrival of Xiao Muyang perfectly fills a gap in Long You's preparations.

What is a spirit? Simply put, it's a spirit ring with a degree of intelligence. Therefore, to create a true artificial spirit, research into spirit rings is essential. And to research spirit rings, one must study spirit beasts.

With the Insight Glasses martial soul, Long You doesn't need to dissect soul beasts to obtain very detailed data. Shrek Academy's Beast Fighting Area also allows Long You to analyze a large number of soul beasts under ten thousand years old relatively safely.

However, don't forget that the soul beasts that Long You, or rather most soul masters, can come into contact with are all adult beasts. Human soul masters can only come into contact with very few cubs that have just left their mother's womb. There are practically no soul masters who have studied these soul beast cubs.

What was Long You's state before? He had basically analyzed all the ten-year, hundred-year, and thousand-year-old soul beasts in Shrek Academy's Beast Fighting Zone, but he had never analyzed any cubs. Now, things are different. Little Twilight Sun has arrived, and Long You's data chain is complete.

As for how to utilize this data and transform it into a spirit, the Book of Witness can help Long You. However, relying solely on the Book of Witness's witnessing and deduction would take far too long. Long You needs an accomplice, and that accomplice is the undead calamity from another realm—Electrax.

Judging by the time, the old man should be arriving soon. Long You needs to seize the opportunity to get close to him. If he could attract the old man to his side, that wouldn't be impossible.

Huo Yuhao has a massive vortex of spiritual energy created by the sacrifice of the ten-thousand-year-old soul beast, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, while Long You has the Illusion Pearl, capable of transporting people across realms. It remains to be seen where the old man will ultimately reside.

After glancing at Xiao Muyang's body data on the Martial Soul page of the Book of Witness, Long You's gaze lingered for a moment on one line of energy values.

He put away his martial spirit, intending to test the abilities of the White Jade Flame Crystal Tiger external soul bone, but the exhaustion spreading from the depths of his mind to his entire body made Long You abandon the idea. Feeling his skin moist and comfortable from the hot water, Long You pulled the blanket over himself and drifted off to sleep.

At two in the morning, Bai Muyang's alarm clock woke Long You up on time. After feeding the little guy and helping him relieve himself, Long You yawned widely and went to the second-floor duty room. Taking over Bei Bei's duties, Long You began to monitor the safety of the temporary camp by detecting feedback from the soul-guided device.

Perhaps because he had a small hand warmer that occasionally wiggled around, Long You was much happier completing his night watch this time than before.

As dawn broke, Long You, who had taken a nap after his night shift, reluctantly carried Xiao Muyang onto the roof of the temporary camp's metal prefabricated house and began cultivating the Purple Demon Eye.

Go back inside, eat two fragrant fried dough sticks, and drink a bowl of milk from a large milk jug—a quick and nutritious breakfast.

Long You didn't need to do the dishes; he was busy projecting maps and dispatching large stealth soul-guided unmanned reconnaissance aircraft to explore the way.

Shrek Academy's accumulated knowledge over thousands of years is no joke. The Star Dou Great Forest map that Long You obtained from Qian Duoduo is extremely detailed, and even the legendary central area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest is marked on this map.

After searching high and low on the map, Long You finally managed to match the map locations recorded on the pages of the Martial Soul Book in the Book of Witness with the large map.

This is no easy task. The Star Dou Great Forest is no smaller than a province in Longyou's previous life. On such a vast map, finding a point recorded on a map from a thousand years ago is incredibly difficult.

Fortunately, terrain that is difficult to compare with the naked eye is not impossible for the combat-aiding AI, Bourne. After He Caitou finished washing the dishes, Long You also determined the habitat of the soul beast "Flawless Light".