Chapter 148: The Third Test of the Elemental God, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger!
"Hu Bai, are you going back directly now, or are you going to fully add the soul rings for your second Martial Soul here?" the Snow Empress asked.
Hu Bai pondered for a moment, then shook his head: "Let's leave it at that for now. With the sacrifices from both of you, I don't care much for lower-year soul rings. Although the Extreme North should have quite a few Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts."
For example, in the Ice Empress's tribe, there must be Hundred-thousand-Year Ice Jade Scorpions. But this would inevitably lead to a large-scale disappearance of high-Bloodline Soul Beasts in the Extreme North—like draining the pond to catch all the fish.
"I'm already very satisfied to have received sacrifices from both of you; I can't be too greedy. Besides, I should receive a god-bestowed soul ring in my future God Examinations, so there's no rush for this now."
Listening to Hu Bai's words, both the Ice Empress and the Snow Empress breathed a sigh of relief.
Just as Hu Bai said, his second Martial Soul still needed seven soul rings of hundred-thousand years or more. But does the Extreme North have seven Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts?
Perhaps, but once these seven Soul Beasts sacrificed themselves, the luck of the Extreme North would also drastically decline and never recover.
This was one of the reasons Hu Bai was unwilling to continue acquiring soul rings.
When acquiring soul rings, one couldn't just keep exploiting one place; that wasn't conducive to future development.
[Elemental God's Second God Examination completed. Obtained 10% Elemental Affinity and one god-bestowed soul ring.]
[Elemental God's Third Examination: Elevate your strength to the Soul Saint level and obtain the seventh soul ring. Designated Soul Beast: Dark Demon Evil God Tiger! Time limit: one year.]
When Hu Bai saw this test, he was slightly stunned. It actually designated the seventh soul ring for him. It seemed the God Realm also knew of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's existence.
This third examination was quite interesting.
However, this was exactly to his liking.
Hu Bai immediately recalled information about the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger: a cultivation of over sixty thousand years, strength comparable to a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast, capable of standing undefeated even against Da Ming or Er Ming alone.
It required the combined Domain of Da Ming and Er Ming to suppress the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Life-and-Death Arena.
The strongest existence among Soul Beasts below Hundred-thousand Years in the Star Dou Great Forest!
It possessed six attributes: evil, time, space, lightning, wind, and its intelligence was extremely high—no less than that of a human.
Most importantly!
After the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was killed, an evil god orb would appear. This evil god orb contained an opportunity to achieve God.
In his impression, Zhou Weiqing, the protagonist of Heavenly Jewel Change, seemed to have achieved a first-level God as the God of Devastation after acquiring and refining this orb into his natal orb.
After the core of the God Realm in the Douluo God Realm merged with other God Realm cores to form the Great God Circle, he became one of the God Kings governing the Great God Circle and also served as the head of the Mechanics Department at Shrek Academy.
There's a question: if he takes this evil god orb, can Zhou Weiqing still achieve God?
What does that matter to him?
Zhou Weiqing is a Son of Luck, after all; even without this evil god orb, he would surely be able to achieve Godhood!
Zhou Weiqing: For me, for me!
But his relatives are not Sons of Luck, so he has more things to consider!
He probably won't need this evil god orb, but his big brother can!
It just so happened that the God Position of Space—originally suitable for Xie Yue—was taken by him, and the God of Slaughter was under the Asura God, which wasn't very suitable.
But with this evil god orb, Xie Yue could begin his path to God!
The God of Destruction—this God Position—probably doesn't exist in the God Realm yet, so Xie Yue can just create one himself!
The God of Destruction, by name, is also related to slaughter, and the evil god orb should contain the six attributes of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, which also suits Xie Yue quite well!
Hu Bai: Big brother, oh big brother, don't say your little brother didn't think of you. Look, I'm finding you an opportunity to achieve Godhood. Whether you can seize it or not is up to you!
As long as Xie Yue can resist the temptation within the evil god orb, achieving Godhood shouldn't be a big problem. This is a God Position with God King potential!
"You two, please guard me. I'll absorb this god-bestowed spirit ring first," Hu Bai said calmly.
"Ice Empress, Snow Empress, you two have worked hard. Please rest for now."
The Ice Empress and the Snow Empress exchanged glances, nodded, and transformed into a mass of energy, falling into a deep sleep.
Both the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress had just expended too much of their Origin, so they indeed needed rest to recover.
The Snow Empress's resting is obvious. Although the Ice Empress was protected by a trace of the Ice God's Divine Power—making her similar to the Snow Empress—it still took a considerable toll on her.
Moreover, the Ice Empress's current form could not be considered a Spirit Soul. Like the Tianmeng Iceworm, she belonged to the intelligent soul ring category, only able to bestow one soul ring upon Hu Bai.
While absorbing the god-bestowed soul ring, Hu Bai was also pondering whether he could, based on his experience, create a new method for Spirit Soul contracts.
But very quickly, he rejected this idea. He wasn't Electrolux; he didn't have that much knowledge. How could he possibly create a Spirit Soul contract method out of thin air?
Just because he had Tianmeng, the Ice Empress, and the Snow Empress?
But in this form, even if he asked the three of them to explain it, they probably couldn't, could they?
Moreover, unless the Spirit Soul contract was very complete, it would, like in later generations, be the beginning of the extinction of Soul Beasts.
Once the Spirit Soul contract was passed down, the balance of power between Soul Masters and Soul Beasts would be completely lost.
Although this period would be measured in tens of thousands or even twenty thousand years, it was still not advisable.
Is there no better way?
This damn World!
Hu Bai inwardly complained. He hadn't seen cultivators in other cultivation worlds directly hunting the Yao Race to extinction!
Why was it so fragile in this Xuanhuan sewer that was Douluo?
Soul Masters still had to rely on hunting Soul Beasts to obtain soul rings to increase their levels. To acquire skills, couldn't they, like in the Immortal Realm, create Cultivation Technique Jade Slips or Soul Skill Jade Slips for suitable Soul Masters to learn from?
Hmm?
Wait!
Jade Slip!
Hu Bai suddenly realized something!
Yes, why couldn't the Bloodline Power of Soul Beasts be sealed in a Jade Slip in an alternative way, then absorbed by Soul Masters to form a ring?
Hu Bai suddenly found a preliminary, vague research direction. Although this idea was somewhat fantastical, and his current strength couldn't support him in doing such a thing, perhaps there would be an opportunity in the future?
Soul rings are formed by the condensation of the core Origin within a Soul Beast after its death.
And to engrave this Origin onto a Jade Slip for Legacy would probably not be easy!
After all, losing part of their core Origin would severely weaken Soul Beasts in the short term—or even long term—and they might even need to fall into a deep sleep, just like the Ice Empress and the Snow Empress.
Generally speaking, intelligent Soul Beasts would never agree, let alone lower-level Soul Beasts!
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