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15: The First Soul Ring

A few hours later.Yang Yunhai followed Chang Gongao to a low valley.

"Huahua." Even before you get close, you can faintly hear the sound of flowing water.

"It's the green one." Chang Gongao raised his chin slightly forward and summoned his martial spirit while speaking.

The next second, his eyes suddenly became sharp, he raised his longbow, and his soul power surged around him. In the blink of an eye, a long arrow condensed on the pulled bowstring.

"Swoosh" the fingertips loosen and the arrow is like a meteor.

Then, he raised his hand and put it down in one go. In just one breath, the seven stars shot out in a row, like a torrential rain shooting forward.

"Puff, puff, puff." The roots sank into the roots of the green vines a hundred steps away.

The sound of trembling branches and leaves continued to be heard, the soil on the ground flew, and the vines twisted and surged out.

Oh my god, all the vine-type soul beasts are such perverts! Looking at the vines that kept sticking out from the soil, Yang Yunhai felt his scalp tingling.

The scene immediately emerged in my mind of a person walking on the road and being tied up and dragged away by vines that suddenly sprouted out.

It was the first time he saw the soul beast Azure Ivy's attack method and he felt that he had learned a lot.

For the sake of safety, I secretly made a vow that when I encounter a plant-type soul beast in the future, I will consume it from a distance and never engage in close combat.

Plant soul beasts may have well-developed root systems and long vines, but few of their bodies can move independently, which is their biggest weakness.

In addition, plant soul beasts are basically weak to lightning, which is also an advantage for him.

The same goes for fighting against spirit masters. For personal safety, it is better to be a skilled fighter... Thinking of Tang San's many methods, he added in his heart.

While thinking, Chang Gongao put down his martial spirit and said confidently: "Xiao Hai, it's okay, go over."

As the captain of the patrol team, no one is more familiar with the weaknesses of the soul beasts in this soul hunting forest than him, and no one has more hunting experience than him.

"Okay, thank you Uncle Ao." Yang Yunhai came back to his senses immediately. Looking around, the vines were only trembling on the ground, and occasionally twisting and arching seemed extremely weak. Although the hundred-year-old plant-type soul beast has evolved hunting instincts, it is still far from becoming a truly intelligent creature. Normally, it will take at least ten thousand years of cultivation to become a true intelligent creature.

This is also the reason why soul shock will only be encountered when absorbing a ten thousand year soul ring.

Therefore, there is no possibility that the Azure Ivy in front of us is pretending to be dead, and all its actions are out of instinct.

While thinking, he strode closer with a spear in hand.

Originally, Changgong Ao had prepared a bow for him, but since he had never practiced it before, he chose to carry a standard spear.

He was quite accurate in javelin throwing.

Ta-ta-ta, with quick steps, when he was about six meters away, Yang Yunhai raised his spear and threw it out.

With a "puff" sound, the tip of the gun hit the root of the wound.

"Rustle." The vines on the ground trembled weakly, and then there was silence, and a yellow soul ring floated out.

"It's really accurate!" Chang Gongao sighed. Yang Yunhai had said before that he had practiced shooting, but he didn't quite believe it.

Why would someone who plays with blue silver grass practice spears?

While thinking, Yang Yunhai had already sat cross-legged and summoned his martial soul to pull the soul ring.

Seeing this, Chang Gongao's originally calm heart couldn't help but hang in the air, and his expression began to change.

The tiger's eyes slightly opened and stared straight at Yang Yunhai, appearing a little nervous.

Being pulled, the soul ring floated to the top of Yang Yunhai's head at an extremely fast speed. Then, it quickly shrank to the size of a golden bracelet, and fell straight down to the blue silver grass martial soul in front of his abdomen.

The next moment, Yang Yunhai's body suddenly shook violently.

Seeing this, Chang Gongao clenched his fists almost instantly, and murmured: "The soul ring energy is beginning to enter the body, Xiao Hai, you have to hold on!"

On the other side, Yang Yunhai felt the first sensation of burning heat. The vast energy rushed into his body like hot magma, part of it scattered into his limbs and bones, and part of it flowed into his meridians, running wildly in his meridians like a wild horse.

The pain was severe, and I felt as if my meridians were about to melt and burst at any moment.

Absorbing spirit rings of higher levels is not as easy as I imagined. Yang Yunhai gritted his teeth and persisted, sighing inwardly.

Attracting lightning to strengthen the body sounds awesome, but in fact it is not as effective as imagined. The number of rainy days in Notting City is about 60-80 days a year, which is similar to the number of rainy days in the south of the previous life. And he can only withstand two lightning bolts each time he attracts lightning, and it takes about 4 days to relieve it. So he can only attract lightning 20 times a year at most, a total of 40 lightning bolts.

In two and a half years, there were less than 100 questions in total.

This does not include the rainy days that were unexpectedly missed.

Although absorbing thunder energy in a state of cultivation is more efficient than passive absorption, based on his intuitive feeling, it just feels like that.

After all, he was born into an ordinary civilian family, and his parents' martial spirits were probably not martial spirits with thunder attributes.

Therefore, he had long guessed that the thunder attribute of his martial soul should have been brought over by his soul after he was killed by lightning in his previous life, and it could be considered an acquired addition.

In other words, his physical body did not inherit the bloodline of a thunder-attributed martial soul like the Thundering Hell Vine from his parents.

However, his martial soul has the attribute of thunder because of the lightning in his soul.

Therefore, his martial soul and body are not perfectly matched, and are even somewhat incompatible. Perhaps this is the reason why his martial soul's innate soul power is extremely low.

However, his body does not have the corresponding thunder bloodline, which means that his body has a very low affinity to the thunder element, and his body's innate thunder resistance is also low. In addition, the awakened blue silver herb is inherently weak.

Therefore, it can attract lightning, but the amount of energy it can absorb each time is pitifully small. And each time it ends, the body will have sequelae and it will take a long time to recover.

Hey, bloodline really determines the bottom line. He has been fighting against thunder and lightning from scratch in the past few years.

As for why he hadn't been struck to death after practicing for so long, it was because he also had lightning energy in his body, which was equivalent to a human conductor. So when lightning struck, it went straight through and then led to the ground. The current that actually stayed in his body was very small and not strong enough to kill a person.

In this way, the effects of improving one's cultivation and strengthening the body are naturally limited.

Besides, the number of times one gets struck by lightning in a year is relatively small nowadays.

In the original novel, the Shrek Seven Devils at least had Yu Xiaogang to help them prepare the medicinal bath, but now he was just a commoner, with no money and no formula. Even the village chief's family with multiple soul masters couldn't afford this thing, let alone him?

There is no technique!

As for soul bones, forget it.

After all, I am just an ordinary kid who has only practiced for two and a half years. Yang Yunhai sighed.

If it were other civilian children who didn't have the means of attracting lightning to help temper their bodies, even if they worked hard to exercise and train their bodies, it would be uncertain whether they could eventually withstand the so-called optimal age spirit ring!

What's more, he absorbed spirit rings of higher levels.

It is not easy for a human to practice from scratch for two and a half years to pry open the cultivation of a soul beast that has been practicing for more than 400 years.

And yet he wanted to live a few more decades beyond this, which seems outrageous when I think about it now.

However, if I can successfully absorb it this time, my physical foundation will not be as weak as before. In this way, even if the soul power will become more and more difficult to practice as the cultivation level increases. With this first soul ring as a foundation, it will be easier than before, right?

Thinking of this, hope burst out in my heart.

I have endured the pain of lightning for so long, why should I be afraid of the energy of this less than 500-year-old soul ring being infused into my body?

He immediately endured the pain and accelerated the circulation of soul power in his body.

Time passed little by little, and I didn't know how much time had passed.

"Hmm?" He felt his consciousness suddenly brighten, and inexplicably, Yang Yunhai seemed to see himself immersed in a sea of ​​fire.

In the center of the sea of ​​fire, a tender blue silver grass was swaying with the flames, looking very agile.

"Internal vision!?" Yang Yunhai suddenly remembered the description in the original novel when Tang San absorbed his first soul ring.

Tang San also mastered the ability to look within himself when he absorbed his first spirit ring.

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Could it be that this is the ability that all soul masters who successfully obtain their first soul ring can obtain? He couldn't help but think.

Looking again, under the scorching flames, the blue silver grass began to change. The originally slender branches and leaves began to lengthen and thicken, and the dense fibers inside could be vaguely seen through the smooth surface. The light blue color of the whole body began to deepen and turn into cyan.

The only thing that hasn't changed is the pale lines on the skin, which are still extremely clear, but are thinner and longer than before.

Time passed by second by second, and the heat in my body seemed to be gradually fading away.

Soon, a quarter of an hour passed.

The heat flow completely disappeared, leaving only the warm feeling and indescribable comfort.

"Success!" Yang Yunhai couldn't suppress his joy, and then slowly opened his eyes.

"Success!" Not far away, Chang Gong Ao was excited, strode forward, and said with a smile:

"Xiao Hai, congratulations! Uncle Ao knew that you would succeed! Haha, you almost scared me to death just now, your skin was stretched and cracked."

"Then I'm really lucky. It was indeed painful during the absorption process." Yang Yunhai stood up with a smile and then bowed deeply.

"Uncle Ao, thank you. If you hadn't helped me hunt and protected me, I wouldn't have been able to obtain this spirit ring."

"Haha, no big deal!" Chang Gongao continued to smile and asked hurriedly, "How is it? How much has your soul power increased? What soul skills did you get?"

"It's a little over level 11, and it should be not far from breaking through to level 12." Yang Yunhai said with a smile.

He is not like Tang San who has Xuantian Gong. He also accumulated a lot of internal force before his martial soul awakened. After absorbing the soul ring, he directly soared to level 13. He has almost no excessive soul power accumulation, and his soul rings have not jumped many levels over the years. He is very satisfied with this improvement.

"As for soul skills," Yang Yunhai said, raising his right hand and summoning his martial soul. He activated his soul power and flicked it lightly.

The next second, the branches and leaves of the blue silver grass grew and stretched at an extremely fast speed, as if there were no limits, and turned into a blue vine, rushing straight towards a towering tree 60 meters away. Then, with a puff, it touched the tree trunk and climbed up like a thin snake.

After a few breaths, the dense vines had covered the tree trunk to a height of more than ten meters.

"It's so long, just like the real ivy." Chang Gongao was surprised.

Yang Yunhai nodded, "My first soul skill is called stretching. As long as the soul power is enough, there is no limit to the length."

"Because the martial soul is blue silver grass, the soul ring obtained comes from the Azure Ivy, and it is quite old, so the soul power consumption is very small. In addition, the toughness is very good."

After saying this, he clenched his five fingers, grabbed the vine and pulled hard.

"Crack!" The bark cracked inch by inch, and even the strong trunk dented a few inches.

Entanglement, do I need to rely on soul skills to display it? Isn't this a characteristic of all vine-like plant-type soul beasts? Isn't my martial soul inherited this? If Tang San was here, he would really want to say this now.

Obviously, blue silver grass is a plant, and Azure Ivy is also a plant, and the fit is perfect.

Therefore, when he absorbed the soul ring this time, his martial soul almost perfectly inherited the excellent characteristics of the Azure Ivy.

Azure ivy is known for its toughness and ductility and is used for tying and hunting.

After absorbing the soul ring, the toughness is directly inherited by the martial soul, and the ductility needs to be reflected by plant growth, and the martial soul needs to consume soul power to actively accelerate growth. Therefore, the ductility characteristics of the Azure Ivy have become an actively performed soul skill, and there is no length limit.

As for entanglement and binding, vines will circumvent obstacles and climb up during their growth. As soul beasts, it has evolved into an instinctive hunting method, deeply imprinted in the genetic genes, and has become no different from a characteristic.

Therefore, his martial spirit was inherited passively.

Tang San, on the other hand, has a plant-type martial spirit that absorbs an animal-type snake spirit ring. Snakes are long, tough, and poisonous, and they rely on their bodies to wrap around their enemies to poison them. Therefore, after the spirit ring is combined with the Blue Silver Grass martial spirit, a similar active spirit skill is produced. In addition, because the spirit ring comes from animals, animals do not have a high degree of extension, so the initial release distance of Tang San's first spirit skill is only 50 meters.

Simply put, Tang San's martial soul inherited animal characteristics, while he inherited plant characteristics.

As a plant, his martial spirit could easily inherit all the excellent characteristics of the Azure Ivy, including entanglement. But Tang San couldn't, snake fangs, snake scales, these were exclusively for animal spirits, and had nothing in common, it was impossible to think about it.

Animals are animals and plants are plants; they are not the same species.

Of course, the above are all his guesses, and also his intuitive feelings after obtaining his first soul skill.

"What a powerful force! It seems that not only your martial spirit's resilience has increased, but your physical strength has also increased a lot." Chang Gongao couldn't help but sigh.

"After all, it's a spirit ring that was absorbed beyond one's level." Yang Yunhai said with a smile.

"Haha, that's right." Chang Gongao laughed, then looked up at the sky and continued, "It's still some time before evening. If we hurry, we should be able to get back to the base in the evening, so we don't need to stay here overnight. Let's go, we should go back."

"Okay." Yang Yunhai nodded and followed Chang Gongao.

Time passed little by little, until late at night, the two finally returned to the base.

After a good meal and drink, everyone went to sleep.

The next morning, Yang Yunhai said goodbye to Chang Gongao, left the forest and rushed to the post station to retrieve the little yellow horse.

Ride on and start the journey back.