Chapter 23: The Choice of the Second Ring is Life!!!

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Outside Tiandou City.

Du Bu Si, Chen Ming and Vina joined the main force.

There were originally ten people participating in this soul hunting, and now with Chen Ming and Du Bu Si, there are twelve people in total.

Among them, there are six soul rings that need to be obtained. Chen Ming and Vina both need to obtain the second ring. In addition to them, there are four others, one of whom needs the second ring, two who need the third ring, and one who needs the fourth ring.

In addition to Du Bu Si, the soul masters who accompanied Vina and the others in hunting souls were from the Tianhun royal family. One of them was a middle-aged man named Mo Feiyun, a level 69 Soul Emperor, who was the leader this time. The other four were all Soul Emperors.

It is completely sufficient to have a peak Soul Emperor leading the team and four Soul Emperors cooperating just to help five disciples with the highest thousand-year soul rings obtain soul rings.

And their destination was not the Star Forest, but the Sunset Forest.

In the Sunset Forest, there is no shortage of soul beasts of advanced age, and there are also quite a few soul beasts that are tens of thousands of years old, but there are still not as many as in the Star Dou Great Forest. It is also rare for soul beasts of advanced age to migrate to areas of lower age, as is often the case in the Star Dou Great Forest.

The Star Forest seems to be a vibrant competition platform where the fittest survive. The strong ones stay close to the core area, while the weak ones survive on the periphery. Even in the core area, there is no shortage of competition, and there will always be some losers in the competition who end up wandering outside or hunting outside.

The Sunset Forest is different. It is more like a country with strict order. Old soul beasts have their own territories and rarely invade each other.

Of course, rarely, not never.

"Due to the huge poisonous miasma in the core area of ​​Sunset Forest, it was divided into four areas, which also promoted the stability of the order in Sunset Forest."

Mo Feiyun explained to everyone the distribution of soul beasts in the Sunset Forest, and then looked at Du Bu Si.

"Senior, which area do you think we should search in?"

This time they have Du Bu Si accompanying them, so as long as they don't go deep into the poisonous miasma area, they can move freely.

"Just search in the nearest eastern area."

East of Sunset Forest.

Run rampant without restraint.

This is the posture of a team of twelve people.

In this Sunset Forest, it only took half a month to hunt souls in this way. It was only during the process of going deeper into the Sunset Forest that Vina and the other four soul masters found all the soul rings they needed.

"Senior, do we need to go deeper?" Mo Feiyun entered the ten thousand year soul beast area and felt inexplicably nervous.

This is the feeling brought by his own strength.

"Your mission has been completed. I suggest you take those children back first. The age of the spirit ring that Xiao Ming needs must be strictly controlled. We will be dealing with at least a dozen ten-thousand-year-old spirit beasts." Du Bu Si said.

Mo Feiyun weighed the pros and cons.

This is the key to the relationship between Princess Vina and this junior fellow apprentice.

This was what the Emperor of the Tianhun Empire said when he learned that Du Bu Si would bring Chen Ming to join the soul hunting team. He asked them to help Vina and Chen Ming establish a good relationship as much as possible.

But now things have changed.

It's just that the soul ring that Chen Ming needs is too old.

If there are too many people, we may not be able to take care of them all even if it is Du Bu Si.

If he really encounters a crazy and unreasonable ten thousand year soul beast, the first people he will protect will only be Chen Ming and Vina, and the others can only wish for good luck.

"Mo Tian, ​​you take the four of them back first. Her Highness the Princess and I will continue to accompany the Soul Hunter."

In the end, he could only grit his teeth and make this decision.

Du Bu Si was not dissatisfied with this.

Eight of the twelve people left, so he no longer needed to be distracted too much and could focus more on helping Chen Ming find a suitable spirit ring.

For the second soul ring, Chen Ming did not plan to look for an ice attribute soul ring. Although he had practiced ice and fire to refine his body, and had started with ice and fire to deeply cultivate the yin and yang attributes, Chen Ming was still unable to reconcile the completely opposite attributes.

After the fire attribute of the first soul ring, he had to lay the groundwork for the second soul ring.

As for how to balance ice and fire, Chen Ming thought of introducing a third party.

The so-called third party here needs to be in harmony with ice and fire at the same time, and be able to suppress ice and fire at the same time. This gives Chen Ming the opportunity to balance ice and fire, and provides him with time to find this balance point.

But, does such a property exist?

Unless you go through the five elements transformation.

However, the theory of the Five Elements in Douluo Continent is not very complete, and Chen Ming himself is not good at this aspect. In addition, the Five Elements involve at least two attributes, gold and earth, and the transformation of water and ice must be considered, which is too troublesome.

So, after thinking it over and over again, Chen Ming's final answer was to use a higher level of power.

Because ice and fire themselves are for tempering the body, and higher-level powers, such as time and space, life and death, creation and destruction can be used, but the most suitable being life attribute.

In addition, the Scarlet Phoenix Nirvana Lotus, Chen Ming's first soul ring, is related to life.

"For the second ring, I am looking for a spirit ring with life attributes that are related to both ice and fire, and then for the third spirit ring, I will get a spirit ring with ice attributes that is related to life attributes."

The positions of the three soul rings complete the balance of ice and fire, and can be used to realize the rotation of yin and yang later, which is not a loss at all.

However, there are very few soul beasts whose life attributes are compatible with both ice and fire, and they are a rare species in the entire continent.

It also has to match the years that Chen Ming has to absorb spirit rings, and it's not certain whether the target even exists.

Du Bu Si brought Chen Ming to the Sunset Forest because he had seen a Star Deer here that roughly met the requirements. This kind of soul beast draws the power of the stars and transforms it into vitality. At the same time, its own blood can mutate in multiple directions. From the existing records, there have been fire-attributed mutants and ice-attributed mutants of Star Deer.

"The Star Spirit Deer I saw back then was surrounded by three ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts. Plus, I was only a Soul Douluo at the time, so I didn't observe it carefully in order to avoid getting involved. Now I can only hope that the Star Spirit Deer is less than 20,000 years old."

Chen Ming nodded silently, his eyes scanning the surroundings, his mental power also spreading in all directions.

Among the many magical herbs in the Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire at the core of the Sunset Forest, there must be some that are simultaneously compatible with ice and fire attributes, and can suppress general ice and fire attributes.

But that place is Sea God's key focus area.

The four searched deep in the Sunset Forest for two months.

During this period, he faced ten thousand year old soul beasts as many as twenty times, and even faced seventy thousand year old soul beasts several times. Mo Feiyun finally couldn't hold on any longer.

After negotiating with Du Bu Si, he left with Vina.

Chen Ming and Du Bu Si continued to search in the Sunset Forest.

"Teacher, we have been circling this poisonous miasma. Didn't you notice anything unusual about this poisonous miasma area?"

Du Bu Si's eyes flashed.

He looked at Chen Ming and asked, "What's unusual?"

Looking at Du Bu Si's expression, Chen Ming knew that there was no way he hadn't noticed it, but he just couldn't believe it.

"This poisonous miasma looks just like it was set up by humans." Chen Ming said softly.

"Yes, it's just like a human arrangement." Du Bu Si sighed and said with a wry smile: "How many people can possibly achieve this?"

He is not stupid.

This Sunset Forest has had this poisonous miasma for thousands of years. As a frequent visitor to this poisonous miasma area, how could he not have discovered it? How could he not have found some clues?