25. Emerald Demon Bird

There is an optimal age for the Soul Ring for every bottleneck that identifies the oldest possible Soul Ring that can be absorbed without significant risks. A Soul Master can naturally absorb younger Soul Rings, but the absorption of an older Soul Ring can result in heavy injuries or even death upon rejection.

Soul Masters can naturally absorb younger Soul Rings; however, there have been a rare few cases of Soul Masters successfully absorbing Soul Rings beyond the optimal age. In normal cases, this may result in heavy injuries or even death upon rejection, but with an exceptional physique, spiritual power, and willpower, the odds can become more favorable.

When choosing a Soul Ring, selecting a matching attribute Soul Ring is more important than the age of the Soul Ring. Just because a soul beast is 425 years old, you can't choose that as your Soul Ring. If your attributes don't match, an agility attack type Soul Master may get defensive soul skills, or a control Soul Master may get support-type buff soul skills. So, when choosing the soul beasts, attributes are important.

However, if you are going to choose a super soul beast as your Soul Ring, you don't have to worry about that, as they will always give you super powerful soul skills. Even if an attack Soul Master gets a super powerful support-type soul skill, so what? His fighting ability will only increase.

Xie Yue knows more than 20 super soul beasts. Even though he can choose any of them as his Soul Rings, he doesn't want to. He doesn't want to get buff skills, even though it will not decrease his fighting power. He wants to become an assassin... So he has already decided which super soul beasts to choose. He has carefully thought about them.

Even though he knows about super soul beasts, he can't possibly get his first Soul Ring from them, right? He is just a 6-year-old kid who has never read soul beast knowledge. (That's what others know about him.) So his first Soul Ring may not satisfy his needs. Sword Douluo will choose it for him. But for the future Soul Rings, he can choose the Soul Ring by himself and ask others to search for it.

Hearing the path Xie Yue had chosen, Sword Douluo accepted it after thinking about it. Some power attack Soul Masters have mobility equal to that of agility attack system. For example, the original Xie Yue. He is a power attack Soul Master, but he has the mobility of an agility Soul Master. So even though Xie Yue sounded like he was going to cultivate two paths, in a sense, he wants to become an agility attack type Soul Master. It's just that he also wants powerful attack soul skills. There is nothing wrong with it. It's not like he is choosing to cultivate support type and attack type. These two types can't be cultivated as they are not compatible with each other.

"Okay, then let's leave," Sword Douluo said as he left with them.

After a while, a carriage came near the Sunset Forest. The Sunset Forest is a forest extremely hidden, very close to Heaven Dou City, home to many monsters. In its core is also the location of Dugu Bo's medicinal garden and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Though it is a large forest, on the surface, it might not be much different from the Great Star Dou Forest, but if you looked carefully, the Great Star Dou Forest counted as a tropical rainforest, while here there were more northern trees and plants. The only part that was the same was that this forest was covered with blue silver grass.

"Let's go in." After getting down from the carriage, Sword Douluo picked them up by their hands and disappeared.

The next second, they appeared at the outer area of the Sunset Forest. They walked slowly between the trees. While walking, Sword Douluo also taught them some must-have knowledge about forest camping, traveling, etc. He brought them here not only to hunt but also to teach them. So they didn't rush to hunt soul beasts.

The next day, they met a suitable 390-year-old spiritual-type fox. After subduing it, Sword Douluo let Nana kill it with a dagger and taught her how to absorb it. After a while, Hu Liena also absorbed it successfully and reached the level 11 Soul Master. Her skill is also a charm-type soul skill. Foxes are mostly of charm type, so finding a fox soul beast isn't that hard with Title Douluo's spiritual power. They continued to travel in the outer area. But something unexpected happened...

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It was the second day of their walking. While walking, Xie Yue had always been silent and watched every soul beast carefully. Even though he doesn't know about other soul beasts' appearances, he knows about the appearances of some of the most powerful soul beasts since they were mentioned in the original books. Before dying, he also spent his time memorizing them carefully, since Douluos' First Era doesn't know much about super soul beasts. If he doesn't memorize them, he will miss them even if they are in front of him. But who could have thought that his painstaking efforts would bear fruit now?

Seeing the appearance of that thing, Xie Yue stopped in his tracks. His thoughts were running wildly; what can he do even if he saw that...? How to convince Sword Douluo to capture it? Even if Sword Douluo caught it for him, what reason would he give to get permission to absorb that spirit ring...? Sigh...

"Grandpa~ That bird looks very beautiful. Can you please catch it for me? I want to raise it," After thinking for a while, Xie Yue came up with a new nonsense.

He pointed toward the direction of a big tree. On that big tree stood a simple green bird. Nothing extraordinary. Only the mouth was red. It was only the size of two palms. But this simple-looking bird is the most ruthless bird even among all bird-type soul beasts. Its name is the Emerald Demon Bird.

The Emerald Demon Bird was one of the most ruthless bird-type soul beasts and was known as a fierce bird in the world of soul beasts. It was very fierce and liked to kill other soul beasts and eat their brains. Its growth depended upon sucking the brains of all living creatures. Any soul beast or human could be its target, although the Emerald Demon Bird was particularly fond of human brains.

Wherever the Emerald Demon Birds were present, all the living creatures were left with a hole in their heads without their brains. Fortunately, there were not a lot of them in the world. Human knowledge of the Emerald Demon Bird was limited; only some were recorded in ancient records.

It moves swift as lightning and is at the top of the list in terms of speed in the entire spirit beasts' world. It was a wind attribute soul beast. It was capable of achieving such high speed because of its wind-propelling power. Not only is the speed extremely fast, but the attack power is also super strong, specializing in attacking the heads of other creatures.

It is the nemesis of almost all flying soul beasts! Because the speed and attack power of its burst in an instant are terrible. In terms of long-distance flight, it is definitely not as good as the Azure Peng, but when it comes to short-distance flight, there are few flying soul beasts that can compare with it. It will look only the size of a palm at 100 years, but there is a fierce light in a pair of small emerald green eyes. At 100,000 years, its green silhouette has already turned translucent as if it were a jade carving. The bird in front of Xie Yue is only the size of two palms. That means it is only 200 years old. But Xie Yue really doesn't care.

"Hmm? I advise you, kid, don't think about raising soul beasts. It's better to buy some already tamed soul beasts." Sword Douluo knows wild soul beasts can't be raised, so he didn't want to catch it.

"Grandpa~ it is just a small bird; what can it do to me? I will lock it in an iron cage when we get home. That's fine, right?" Xie Yue asked sweetly.

Xie Yue also carefully watched the bird's movements. If it flies, Sword Douluo can naturally notice that bird's extraordinary character. But that damn bird is still sitting there as if nothing happened.

That little Emerald Demon Bird is not worried at all. In its eyes, they are just two little Soul Masters and one old man without any soul power. Sword Douluo restrained his aura when he entered the outer area. He only leaked it whenever it was necessary, so that bird doesn't know how powerful he is.