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Two months later, in the Star Dou Forest—
Ah, the familiar Star Dou Forest. This time, four people had come to the Star Dou Forest: Li Luochen, Flender, Zhu Zhuqing, and Liu Lan'er.
After a month of effort, Li Luochen had successfully devised a cultivation template for Liu Lan'er. Of course, it was just a template—the specifics of her training would depend on her own efforts.
Cultivation had always been a personal journey. The general path should have focused on raw strength, but Li Luochen, being stubborn, chose to follow an attribute-based route instead. As a result, at just twenty-three years old, he had reached Level 97 as a Super Douluo.
Thus, the cultivation path was merely a blueprint; how it was executed depended on the individual.
However, the cultivation template Li Luochen gave Liu Lan'er was nothing like the one Yu Xiaogang had given Tang San—it was purely about self-improvement.
For soul rings, only the best would do—no compromises! Only someone with Li Luochen's current strength could afford such confidence. He no longer feared the rulers of the Star Dou Forest.
Even if Di Tian stood before him, he wouldn't be afraid!
Li Luochen was confident that he could defeat Di Tian with overwhelming power!
"All right, we've arrived at the mixed zone of the Star Dou Forest. This area is close to the core region, where high-level ten-thousand-year soul beasts gather. Even hundred-thousand-year soul beasts might reside here. You two must stay within three steps of me and the principal at all times."
Li Luochen spoke seriously. After all, he was responsible for their safety during this trip.
Although Flender had also come along, his soul power had reached Level 94 after three years of arduous cultivation, making him an extremely powerful ally Li Luochen could rely on.
As for Dugu Bo, the old man had been obsessively working on poisons. His plan was to create a deadly toxin combined with Snow Swan Kiss. Once he broke through to Level 98, he intended to consume the poison and Snow Swan Kiss to directly ascend to Limit Douluo status.
Dugu Bo wanted to strengthen the toxic attributes of his soul core. He believed there was still room to enhance his soul core, so he needed to study further.
After half a day of searching, Li Luochen's spiritual power locked onto an eleven-hundred-and-fifty-year-old Wind Azure Dragon. Coincidentally, Li Luochen's first soul ring had also been from a Wind Azure Dragon.
This Wind Azure Dragon had already surpassed a thousand years of cultivation, its wings fully developed, allowing it to fly at considerable speed. Li Luochen's first soul skill had been an amplification ability, so he assumed the Wind Azure Dragon's soul ring would provide significant boosts.
Li Luochen felt this Wind Azure Dragon was highly suitable for Liu Lan'er. Moreover, it possessed a trace of true dragon bloodline—not much, but enough to make it noteworthy.
Among wind-attribute dragon-type soul beasts, those with true dragon bloodlines were exceedingly rare.
The dragon-type soul beasts with the strongest true dragon bloodlines were fire-attribute dragons, water-attribute dragons, dark-attribute dragons, and light-attribute dragons.
Perhaps it was because the Wind Dragon King among the ancient nine dragon kings had been too low-key—or perhaps the nature of wind dragons wasn't conducive to strong bloodlines—so wind-attribute dragon-type soul beasts generally had weaker bloodlines.
Li Luochen set his sights on this Wind Azure Dragon. With a single step, he teleported beside it and delivered a punch at one-thousandth of its full power, knocking the beast unconscious.
He was careful not to pulverize it with a single blow.
Li Luochen then carried the massive Wind Azure Dragon back and placed it in front of Liu Lan'er for her to absorb.
Liu Lan'er's eyes sparkled with excitement. She was finally beginning her formal cultivation—she was thrilled!
Shortly after Liu Lan'er awakened her martial soul, Li Luochen had taken the time to pass on the complete version of the Limitless Universe cultivation technique to her, ensuring her cultivation speed would increase significantly.
When Li Luochen broke through to Soul Conqueror, he had already shared his cultivation techniques with those he trusted most: Flender, Liu Erlong, Zhao Wuji, Qin Ming, Mo Yu, Shao Xin, Lu Qibin, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and others.
These were the people Li Luochen trusted the most.
Now, this little girl could also rapidly increase her soul power.
As for the other team members, such as Yu Tianxin and Yang Wu, Li Luochen planned to teach them the Xuantian Gong.
The analysis of the Xuantian Gong was nearly complete. Fortunately, although Tang San's handwriting was atrocious, resembling chicken scratches, Li Luochen could barely decipher the ancient characters. Even when he couldn't recognize certain words, he could infer their meaning from the context.
The only issue was that Tang San's handwriting was truly abysmal, looking like it had been scrawled by a dog.
Li Luochen was baffled. Tang San's hands were capable of crafting intricate hidden weapons—how could his handwriting be so terrible?
Moreover, after studying the Xuantian Gong, Li Luochen was puzzled. It was clearly a health-cultivating technique, and Tang San had even claimed it was the highest Daoist internal cultivation method.
But the Tang Sect wasn't a Daoist sect—it was a notorious organization of assassins. Why would they practice a health-cultivating technique?
Shouldn't they focus on stealth-based or poison-based cultivation methods? That would align better with the essence of assassination. Li Luochen couldn't understand it.
However, one thing was certain: the Xuantian Gong was much faster than meditation techniques—a major discovery for Li Luochen. Even after removing some elements, the cultivation speed remained rapid, though it no longer produced the endless regenerative effect.
Li Luochen planned to handle the Xuantian Baolu (Treasure Record) appropriately by revising the Xuantian Gong and disseminating it across the continent via the Spirit Hall, allowing everyone to cultivate it.
He wondered how Tang San, the loyal servant of his sect, would react if he found out. Would he be furious?
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Meanwhile
Liu Lanye had begun absorbing the soul ring. A purple soul ring spun around her body.
Flender's heart nearly leapt out of his chest—he hadn't expected Li Luochen to let Lan'er absorb a thousand-year soul ring!
Flender was so angry he almost struck Li Luochen. What was this boy thinking?
The problem was that Lan'er herself had agreed, leaving Flender powerless. Liu Erlong was even angrier, forbidding Flender from sleeping in their bed for an entire week.
This was truly torment for him.
Li Luochen's spiritual power continuously enveloped Liu Lan'er, keeping her physical condition under his control. The difficulty of absorbing the soul ring wasn't too great for her.
However, the age of the thousand-year soul ring was exceptionally high, and the amount of soul power it contained was immense.
Lan'er needed to carefully organize the soul ring and assimilate its soul power for her own use!
A thousand-year first soul ring was an existence that shattered conventional understanding. Once Lan'er was discovered, Li Luochen knew he'd likely be summoned to the Pope's Hall for tea again.
Bibi Dong, though a formidable fighter, was also a scholar with an insatiable thirst for knowledge. Being summoned for tea was inevitable.
Seeing that Lan'er was fine, Li Luochen turned to Flender and said,
"Principal, Lan'er will be fine. You can handle things here alone. I'll take Zhu Zhuqing to hunt for a soul. Once Lan'er finishes absorbing, bring her back to the academy."
"All right! Be safe, you two."
Flender watched his daughter and saw no signs of danger, so he relaxed.
Li Luochen wrapped his arm around Zhu Zhuqing's waist and left. This time, he planned to help Zhu Zhuqing find a Netherworld Spirit Cat with a cultivation age between eighty thousand and ninety-nine thousand years.
Li Luochen personally believed that for Beast Soul Masters obtaining their seventh soul ring, a divine-bestowed soul ring would be the most compatible—but such rings weren't easy to obtain.
The best approach was to absorb a soul beast identical to one's martial soul, as this would maximize the amplification of the Spirit True Body.
However, most Beast Soul Masters rarely encountered soul beasts identical to their martial souls.
Li Luochen wasn't sure if there were any high-cultivation Netherworld Spirit Cats in the Star Dou Forest—it was just a gamble.
If they couldn't find one, alternatives included Ghost Leopards, Shadow Tigers, or Dark Panthers.
The Netherworld Spirit Cat was purely a matter of luck.
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At a Cave in the Star Dou Forest
A massive Netherworld Spirit Cat crawled out of its nest and headed in a particular direction.
And coincidentally, its destination was precisely where Li Luochen was located.
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