Soul Land V: Rebirth of Tang San

When his body could become strengthened by integrating the Bloodline Brand, Tang San wondered if that meant he could possess bear-like strength, leopard-like speed, horse-like stamina, and so on. All of these were direct enhancements to his physical condition.

While pondering this, Tang San began fusing the last Skill Mark. This was the most critical one for him because it was the fifth, exceeding his rank. If successful, it meant that there was no limit to his ability to fuse skills as long as he could separate them. Of course, the more skills he could integrate, the better, as it would provide an all-around enhancement to himself. Even if he reached the limit in the future, he could replace the existing Marks when better skills became available.

With the Heavy Armor Technique and Eagle Eye Technique clearly enhancing his body, Tang San was somewhat hopeful that his judgment was wrong and that he could integrate the Spirit Rhinoceros Deer Beast's Spirit Rhinoceros Heart Eye. This Heart Eye seemed to enhance perceptual power, a truly rare and valuable ability, perhaps even more precious than those that directly increase combat power.

But, true to his reputation as a First-Generation God King, Tang San's prediction was accurate.

When he tried to merge the Spirit Rhinoceros Heart Eye into his Mystic Sky Technique, the Mystic Sky Technique's vortex felt a sense of fullness. The four inside Marks each glowed with their light, and as the Heart Eye's luminescence began to merge, he immediately felt a strong rejection force trying to push it out of the circle.

Indeed, as he had guessed, each rank could only integrate with one additional skill. It wasn't an unlimited fusion of Marks.

Tang San felt little disappointment. Certainty was what truly mattered to him, which was why he absorbed three different powers to experiment. Having confirmed his judgment, he could now make informed choices about his future cultivation and advancement.

It was no matter if it didn't work. He had to take it slow. Nourishing the Spirit Rhinoceros Deer Beast's Heart Eye ability was just a waste of some of the Mystic Sky Technique's power, slightly slowing his progression. He would decide later which to keep and which to replace.

Just as he was about to give up on integrating the Spirit Rhinoceros Heart Eye, suddenly, Tang San felt a tremor from one of the four Marks within the vortex of Mysterious Heaven Skill Energy. Immediately after, a suction force emerged from that Mark.

The initially rejected Spirit Rhinoceros Heart Eye paused, then was swiftly caught by the Mark emitting the suction force and began to merge into it slowly.

What was this…?

Tang San instantly became tense, not with anxiety but with excited anticipation.

He didn't interfere with the change but focused his mind into its most concentrated state, silently observing the interaction between the two Marks.

The Mark emitting the suction force was the White-headed Falcon Demon's Eagle Eye Skill, which had just settled within him.

At this moment, the Eagle Eye exerted a suction force that seemed to engulf the Spirit Rhinoceros Heart Eye, as if it intended to devour it.

However, this act of devouring was clearly challenging. The Spirit Rhinoceros Heart Eye struggled fiercely, seemingly unwilling to be devoured by the Eagle Eye. But the Eagle Eye's resolve to devour was steadfast, and at the same time, Tang San immediately felt a substantial consumption of his Mystic Sky Technique's power.

The Eagle Eye was interesting. It was absorbing his Mysterious Heaven Skill Energy to help devour the Spirit Rhinoceros Heart Eye. It seemed that in terms of hierarchy, the bloodline level of the Spirit Rhinoceros Deer Beast was higher than that of the White-headed Falcon Demon, which is why the Falcon Demon's Bloodline Brand needed the power of the Mystic Sky Technique to assist.

What was crucial, could they fuse?

No fusion had occurred with the more powerful Wind Blade, and neither Leopard Flash nor Heavy Armor Technique showed any changes. Only the Eagle Eye.

Eagle Eye to Heart Eye, does this mean that Bloodline Brands can devour each other under certain homologous conditions? Was this some kind of mutation or hybridization?

Tang San couldn't help harboring some unusual thoughts, but he didn't try to intervene in this fusion and devouring process. He simply observed in silence, letting the Eagle Eye absorb as much Mysterious Heaven Skill Energy as it needed.

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Tang San was quietly urging his Mysterious Heaven Method, recovering his expended energy.

Not to mention, the Eagle Eye Technique consumed a considerable amount. With Tang San's Fourth Rank Mysterious Heaven Method, a third of his cultivation power was exhausted in just a short while. But he also discovered that a third of the Spirit Rhinoceros Heart Eye Bloodline Brand had been drawn into the Eagle Eye Mark.

The Eagle Eye Mark itself had become noticeably brighter. The level didn't seem to have increased, but it was definitely brighter.

The original color of the Spirit Rhinoceros Heart Eye was somewhat green, while the Eagle Eye was a white Bloodline Brand. Now, as the two merged, the Eagle Eye Mark visibly turned aquamarine, and the color was deepening, becoming similar to the Wind Blade Mark, only even brighter.

Interesting, this was truly interesting.

The speed of devouring increased with the strength of the Eagle Eye Mark itself, and when Tang San's Mystic Sky Technique's power had almost depleted over two-thirds, the Spirit Rhinoceros Heart Eye Mark finally disappeared completely, melding with the Eagle Eye, turning into an aqua green Mark, with a faint stream of white qi appearing on its surface.

This was clearly not as simple as devouring, the Eagle Eye Technique didn't just enhance itself, it definitely also gained some of the functions of the Spirit Rhinoceros Heart Eye. Otherwise, the color of the Mark would have remained white, rather than undergoing such a mutation.

Tang San was silently restoring his energy from the Mysterious Heaven Method, while reflecting on his gains from tonight.

Tonight was definitely a night of substantial gains! The most important was that he clarified the upper limit of his Skill Marks, as well as the Skills' devouring evolution, especially the latter.

Tang San was a First-Generation God King reborn, and although this world was entirely new and unfamiliar to him, as long as he could find some of its threads, he would be able to progressively sense the true essence of this world and then utilize his own abilities to leverage these for self-improvement.

Compared with acquiring new Skills and some progress with the Mysterious Heaven Method, it was most critical to understand the relationship between the Bloodline Brands and his own Mysterious Heaven Skill.

With this discovery, he now also had a direction for future enhancements. Moreover, the Skills that were already branded were not unchangeable; they could be peeled off at the cost of sacrificing the level of the Bloodline Brand itself.

In this world, he was the only one cultivating the Mysterious Heaven Method, so his abilities could be considered unique. With his current weakness, he would not yet be targeted by the planar power of this realm. Would he be in the future? That was a question that only needed to be considered once he broke through to God Rank.

Two Skills became four, with one of them being a fusion of two different Bloodline Brands. Undoubtedly, Tang San's power had greatly increased.

There was no conversation throughout the night. The small inn had peacefully reached dawn.

No Flash Leopard or Monster from the Wind Wolf Tribe had come looking, which meant that everything that happened yesterday had been smoothly settled. As for what the situation was after the collision competition, that was not something Wang Yanfeng, Guigui, or Tang San needed to concern themselves with.

At the break of dawn, just as the sky began to brighten, Tang San awoke from his meditation. It was his daily Cultivation habit.

Pushing open the window, he gazed intently at the first glimmer of daybreak on the horizon. The Mysterious Heaven Method was operated, and the purple qi brought by the rising sun every morning was the best opportunity for him to cultivate his Purple Demon Eyes.

A faint hint of purple appeared in his eyes, and suddenly, Tang San's pupils contracted. To his surprise, his vision seemed to have magnified, as if the horizon had been drawn closer in that instant.

And at that moment, a touch of purple qi emerged in the distance, signifying the arrival of the purple dawn.

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