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18: Second Soul Ring

Afternoon, Lonely Grass Village."Grandpa Tai, I'm back." Yang Yunhai shouted as he walked into the orphanage carrying bedding and gifts.

"Brother Xiaohai is back!" The children playing in the yard rushed up to him with shining eyes.

In just a few breaths, Yang Yunhai's hands were empty. Of course, the big bag of snacks he bought on the way back was also gone.

"Xiao Hai, why did you come back early?" The village chief who walked out of the house couldn't help but ask.

"My soul power has reached level 20, so I applied to the college for early graduation." Yang Yunhai said with a smile.

"Level 20?!" the village chief was shocked.

"Brother Xiaohai is so awesome!" the children said with admiration.

Keep a low profile…Yang Yunhai's expression remained unchanged.

After a while, we arrived at the village chief's office.

"Xiao Hai, what are your plans next?" The village chief, who had regained his composure, asked first.

"After I get the spirit ring, I plan to stay in the courtyard for a while and spend the New Year with you." Yang Yunhai replied: "After that, I want to go out into the world by myself, broaden my horizons, and then try my luck in the imperial capital Tiandou City."

"When the time comes, go watch the Continental Soul Master Competition. As for the rest, wait until the Soul Master Competition is over before watching."

Hearing this, the village chief nodded slightly, "Xiao Hai, you have always had your own ideas. Since you have already made your own plans, I won't say much. You just need to remember that this will always be your home, and you are always welcome to come back."

"Yeah." Yang Yunhai nodded seriously.

So, after tidying up the house and resting for a night, the next day Yang Yunhai set out for the Notting City Wuhun Hall branch.

"Can the Blue Silver Grass be cultivated so quickly?!" Mashunuo was undoubtedly surprised again.

"What's wrong with this world?!" Chang Gongdi also began to doubt his life.

After some chatting, Yang Yunhai successfully obtained the warrant, then hired a carriage in the city and set off for the Primary Soul Hunting Forest.

Because we set out at noon, we arrived in the evening of the next day.

This was exactly what Yang Yunhai wanted. After getting off the car, he took advantage of the night and walked straight past the guards into the forest.

Afterwards, I met Chang Gong Ao again.

"Xiao Hai, your cultivation speed is really fast." After hearing Yang Yunhai say that he came here to obtain spirit rings, Chang Gongao couldn't help but sigh.

Then he leaned forward and asked, "Xiao Hai, have you thought about it? What soul beast are you going to hunt with your second soul ring?"

"That blood-sucking thorn that has been cultivated for more than 950 years." Yang Yunhai blurted out.

"The toughness of the blood-sucking thorns is extremely high, which is a characteristic that my martial soul needs to continuously enhance. And if my martial soul can also inherit the sharp barbs growing on its epidermis, then my martial soul will have a certain degree of offensiveness and higher control stability."

The blood-sucking thorns are non-toxic, extremely tough, and covered with sharp barbs. They are extremely sharp. After touching the prey, they will quickly retract and then pierce the prey's skin with barbs, devouring the prey's energy, sucking tighter and tighter until the prey is cut and strangled to death.

It is known as the representative of the powerful types among vine-type soul beasts. Once you are tied up, there is basically no hope of pulling free.

However, because it is non-toxic, its body is red, and its barbs are relatively large, it is easy to identify, so it does not pose much threat to human soul masters who often travel in groups.

But for soul beasts, especially low-age soul beasts with average intelligence, they are life-devouring beings.

If the cultivation level is below ten thousand years, it is considered a beast dying when seeing one. If the cultivation level is above ten thousand years, people will take a detour when seeing one.

It has extremely high toughness, and it has thorns and the ability to devour. It's non-toxic, so it's non-toxic. Anyway, my martial spirit can't be poisonous. Yang Yunhai thought to himself.

Perhaps because his martial soul has the thunder attribute that can restrain poison, his martial soul absorption spirit ring seems unable to inherit the poison attribute.

The last time he absorbed the slightly poisonous Azure Ivy, he didn't inherit any of the poison.

Tie it up and hook it firmly, and let me suck it. The tighter it sucks, the better. This is why he chose to hunt the bloodthirsty thorns.

Of course, there is a more important consideration.

Although he had already thought of a plan to get in touch with the Blue Silver Emperor's body, the Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone, and the Yin-Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire, what if? What if he ate the Blue Silver Emperor's body and absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone, and still couldn't break through the level 30 bottleneck?

What if he fails to approach Dugu Yan again and can't enter the Yin-Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire?

To be on the safe side, he felt that he should leave a way out, and adding the devouring attribute to his martial soul was such a way.

If it really doesn't work, he can only rely on devouring the soul beast's cultivation to break through the bottleneck.

"The Bloodthirsty Thorn is indeed a terrifying plant-type soul beast." Chang Gongao nodded slightly, then changed the subject and said solemnly: "However, if your martial soul can inherit the ability of the Bloodthirsty Thorn to devour energy. Xiao Hai, I don't want you to use it to assist in cultivation, and I don't want you to use it to deal with human soul masters. Cultivation requires one step at a time, and remember not to rush for quick success."

"Also, if you really get it, you must report to the Spirit Hall as soon as you return."

"Otherwise, if you are discovered using it outside, you will most likely be identified as a fallen spirit master, and that would be troublesome. There was once a spirit master who was captured by our Spirit Hall's law enforcement team because he did not report in time, and he never appeared again."

Could it be that he was sent to the city of slaughter? Yang Yunhai guessed immediately.

"At present, the soul master community defines a fallen soul master as one who kills humans, or uses the devouring ability to devour soul rings, vitality, flesh and blood, martial souls, etc. for cultivation, including using the devouring ability to cause irreversible damage to the soul master's body. They are all classified as fallen soul masters." Chang Gongao began to popularize.

"The more controversial ones are soul power and mental power, because these two energies can recover on their own after a portion of them is absorbed."

"Since there are soul skills that can improve mental and soul power, such as the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect of the top three sects, their Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Tower martial spirit can do this. So some people in the soul master world have proposed that since it is possible to add, why can't it be subtracted?"

"In that case, why can't soul skills that can reduce the opponent's soul power and mental strength be tolerated?"

"So, at present, the soul master world has not defined the soul skills that can only devour the soul power and mental power of soul masters as soul skills exclusive to fallen soul masters."

If we were to characterize it, then the Spirit Hall's Pope Bibi Dong is also a fallen soul master... Yang Yunhai thought so in his heart.

Soul-Eating Spider King, do you still need to guess this name?

"However, too much is as bad as too little. If the soul power and mental power are drained, the person will die. Moreover, who can guarantee that this ability will not evolve? Therefore, soul masters with similar soul skills need to report to the Wuhun Hall and accept supervision." Chang Gongao continued.

No wonder Tang San in the original novel was fine with the external soul bone Eight Spider Lance. Just by looking at the appearance, you can tell that the thing came from the human-faced demon spider, and the human-faced demon spider has the ability to devour. All major forces know that Tang San also used this ability to suck out the poison from Hu Liena in the finals of the Soul Master Competition. That's not right! Tang San didn't report to the Spirit Hall! Damn, it's good to have a background. Yang Yunhai couldn't help but sigh.

Tang San also evolved the ability to devour gold threads? The Shrek Seven Devils all know the ability to devour life!

Oh, Tang San still has a divine test!

As expected, strength is the only criterion for measurement.

It seems that if I inherit the devouring ability, I have to comprehend it and practice it well, and control it to only devour soul power, I added in my heart.

The more I tied it, the tighter it got. There is still a long way to go. Thinking of this, I nodded slightly, "Uncle Ao, I understand."

A smile appeared on Chang Gongao's face: "Go to bed early tonight, we will set off early tomorrow morning."

"Yeah." Yang Yunhai nodded immediately.

The next day, in the afternoon, the two came behind a bush in the core area of ​​the Soul Hunting Forest.

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Looking ahead, a red thorn covered with thorns was quietly wrapped around a huge tree. The winding body climbed up the branch and then hung down to the ground, covering the area several meters below like a bead curtain.

From a distance, there were many soul beast corpses hanging on the densely packed barbs, and the soil on the ground was blood red, which was very creepy.

Chang Gongao on the side did not hesitate, drew his bow and pulled the arrow, and the purple soul ring under his feet lit up.

The next second, the arrow left the bowstring and turned into a thigh-thick cone-shaped stream of light that shot directly to the root of the giant tree. "Bang!" A loud explosion-like sound was heard, and wood chips flew.

Immediately, a stream of red liquid gushed out from the impact point, like a small fountain.

At the same time, the red thorns twisted and arched with a rustling sound.

But it only lasted less than 30 seconds, and the violent arching turned into slight shaking.

"It's okay." Chang Gongao's voice came.

"Yeah." Yang Yunhai nodded, picked up the spear, strode to the place where the red flow was gushing out, stabbed it hard, and then twisted it.

Soon, a yellow soul ring floated out.

Yang Yunhai then stopped, strode around to the side of the tree, spread out a blanket on the open space that was not stained with blood and sat down.

Summon the martial soul and start to attract and absorb.

"Hiss" a severe pain came quickly, the body trembled involuntarily, veins on the forehead bulged, and the teeth were clenched.

"Xiao Hai!" Chang Gongao clenched his fists, but there was nothing he could do and could only pray for Yang Yunhai in secret.

Time passes by little by little.

After several hours, Yang Yunhai's tightly closed eyes finally opened.

"Huh!" Chang Gongao secretly breathed a sigh of relief, loosened his clenched fists, strode forward with pride on his face.

"Xiao Hai, congratulations!" His tone was filled with admiration.

"I also have to thank Uncle Ao for helping with hunting and protecting the law." Yang Yunhai stood up and said with a smile.

"No big deal." Chang Gongao smiled cheerfully and then asked, "How is it?"

"The soul power improvement is similar to the last time, it has increased by more than one level. It will take some time to break through level 22." Yang Yunhai said as he summoned his martial soul and injected soul power into it.

In the blink of an eye, a blue-green vine covered with barbs appeared before his eyes.

"As for the soul skill, it is called absorption. It can absorb the soul power of the person it touches, including the soul power that is scattered in the air."

Fortunately, it's just soul power, I just need to report it. Chang Gongao's face relaxed slightly, and then he grinned.

"Nice soul skill! First use the vines to control it, then continue to absorb soul power, weakening the opponent while improving its own endurance. It can be said to be very practical."

After all, it's less than a thousand years old, and the inherited devouring ability is not too terrifying. Yang Yunhai also sighed secretly.

But it's enough for now.

As for the future, there are still many opportunities for evolution.

Thinking of this, he smiled and nodded, "Not bad, I'll report to the Spirit Hall for testing when I get to Notting City."

"Yes." Chang Gongao also nodded, "In that case, let's go back."

"Okay." Yang Yunhai nodded and took a step forward.

Near the early hours of the morning, the two returned to their base, had a simple meal, and went to sleep.

The next day, before dawn, Yang Yunhai said goodbye to Changgongao and started his return journey.

"The first soul skill is close to 500 years old, the second soul skill is over 950 years old, and what about the third soul ring?" Looking at the figure gradually going away, Chang Gong Ao was excited and whispered: "Xiao Hai, Uncle Ao believes that you can succeed."

"In the near future, your name will resound throughout the entire continent."

After the voice fell, he turned and went back to the camp.

(End of this chapter)