Chapter 115: Leaving the Star Dou Core Area, Advancing to Soul Emperor!
Star Dou Forest Core Area.
After selecting three suitable soul bones from Gu Yue Na, Lin Yu bid her farewell and prepared to leave Star Dou Forest, heading back to the northwest border of the Tiandou Empire to continue improving his strength.
However, before leaving, Lin Yu still planned to stay in Star Dou Forest for a few more days.
On one hand, he wanted to fuse the three soul bones he had just obtained and use the opportunity from the previous live stream reward to select a new soul ring.
On the other hand, he planned to add the sixth soul ring to his Chaos Qinglian Martial Soul and advance to the Soul Emperor realm.
After refusing Gu Yue Na's offer to have Bi Ji and Zi Ji accompany and protect him, Lin Yu left the core area alone.
Deep within the inner area of Star Dou Forest, far from the core area, Lin Yu found a cave to enter, intending to absorb the remaining thousand-year soul ring from Hu Yan Zhen.
Previously, his physical strength hadn't been sufficient to absorb a soul ring over 50,000 years old, one that had already reached 70,000 or 80,000 years.
But now, with the fusion of the three soul bones he received from Gu Yue Na, his physical strength would definitely be strong enough!
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"Ah! Let's begin!"
In the cave, after preparing everything, Lin Yu took a deep breath and took out the three soul bones.
These three soul bones were: the External Soul Bone, Three-Eyed Golden Lion Vertical Pupil; the External Soul Bone, Dark Golden Terror Claw Bear's Right Paw Bone; and the Phantom Beast's Left Leg Bone.
After taking out the three soul bones, Lin Yu first decided to fuse the External Soul Bone, Three-Eyed Golden Lion Vertical Pupil.
This External Soul Bone, from the Emperor Beast of the previous generation in Star Dou Forest, might just allow him to gain a fate-related soul skill, as Lin Yu had hoped.
Unlike soul rings, the fusion of soul bones and external soul bones took much less time.
After placing the External Soul Bone, Three-Eyed Golden Lion Vertical Pupil, on his forehead, Lin Yu infused his soul power into it. The external soul bone immediately transformed into a warm flow and fused into Lin Yu's forehead bone, forming a golden-red vertical pupil that was embedded in his forehead.
According to the feedback from the External Soul Bone, Three-Eyed Golden Lion Vertical Pupil, it came with two soul skills.
The first soul skill, which Lin Yu named Fate's Eye, allowed him to glimpse into a person's fate, gathering some information about them. The amount and detail of the information he could acquire depended on the target being observed.
The second soul skill, Fate Interference, allowed him to interfere with the target's fate, increasing their fortune for a period of time or causing them to fall into a trough. The degree of interference also depended on the strength of the target.
In general, the weaker the target compared to Lin Yu, the higher his level of interference.
After fusing the External Soul Bone, Three-Eyed Golden Lion Vertical Pupil, Lin Yu went on to fuse the External Soul Bone, Dark Golden Terror Claw Bear's Right Paw Bone, and the Phantom Beast's Left Leg Bone.
Both of these soul bones were over one hundred thousand years old, and they also brought two soul skills to Lin Yu.
The first soul skill from the External Soul Bone, Dark Golden Terror Claw Bear, was Dark Golden Claw and Mountain-shattering Strength.
The former allowed Lin Yu's right hand to transform into the Dark Golden Claw form, from which five sharp claws as deadly as the Dark Golden Terror Claw Bear's could emerge, capable of tearing through anything.
The second soul skill, Mountain-shattering Strength, was straightforward— a power-enhancing soul skill.
According to the feedback, it could increase strength by four times.
However, after trying it out, Lin Yu found that the effect wasn't as strong as expected. The strength only increased by just over one time.
Lin Yu speculated that this was due to his physical strength being too strong and his soul power being too weak.
Although enhancement-type soul skills increase power based on a percentage, it wasn't like a game, so energy conservation still applied!
For example, a Soul Master-level support-type soul master with a first soul skill enhancing strength by 15%.
But if this soul skill was used by a Title Douluo-level strong person, even if they exhausted all their soul power, they still couldn't boost a Title Douluo's strength by 15%!
On the other hand, the soul skills from the Phantom Beast's Left Leg Bone were much better.
Just as Lin Yu expected, the Phantom Beast, a space-type soul beast skilled in concealment, brought him two soul skills: Teleportation and Breath Concealment.
The first one, while consuming a lot of energy, allowed Lin Yu to teleport freely, with the distance determining the soul power consumed.
If the distance was short, it could be used for small-scale teleportation in combat, and the consumption was still considerable. With the recovery speed of the Eternal Life Art, Lin Yu could use it for a long time.
The second soul skill, Breath Concealment, was a support-type soul skill and consumed less energy.
However, whether it could block the perception of Lin Yu's Golden Dragon bloodline by other soul beasts was still uncertain.
Since Lin Yu had left the Star Dou Forest Core Area, he couldn't test it yet.
Speaking of which, Lin Yu couldn't help but feel a little regretful.
Since his current form was a Golden Dragon transformed after 100,000 years, he should be able to produce his own soul rings.
He could have asked Gu Yue Na to help summon powerful soul beasts from the Star Dou Forest to offer sacrifices to him.
Otherwise, he would have been able to attach all his soul rings and see how strong he would become after absorbing and refining the soul power transformed by the system.
Lin Yu felt that he would definitely not reach Title Douluo. If he was lucky, he might become a Soul Douluo, but if unlucky, he might only reach Soul Saint, or even fall short.
After all, the soul power stripped by the system wasn't that much.
Even though there were beings like Qian Daoliu, Posey, Di Tian, and the Sea Devil Whale King, the most that could be stripped was just two levels of soul power. How much could that really do!
After fusing the three soul bones.
Since both regular soul bones and external soul bones were condensed from the essence of soul beasts, when they were fused into the body, they enhanced the soul master's cultivation and physical strength.
Therefore, the fusion of the three soul bones greatly enhanced Lin Yu's physical strength.
Now, Lin Yu could finally absorb the thousand-year soul ring from Hu Yan Zhen!
Next, Lin Yu summoned the Chaos Qinglian Martial Soul and absorbed the thousand-year soul ring from Hu Yan Zhen.
The sixth soul skill he received was actually the God-slaying Spear!
After activating the sixth soul skill, when Lin Yu saw the God-slaying Spear made from the lotus stem split from the Chaos Qinglian Martial Soul, emanating an intense and fierce murderous aura, he couldn't help but feel excited.
Finally, he had obtained a weapon-type soul skill!
Originally, he had thought that after absorbing this soul ring, he would get the Wutu Xinghuang Flag!
After all, the soul rings added to the Diamond Mammoth Martial Soul should come from soul beasts with strong defensive powers!
But this time, Lin Yu was wrong.
The soul rings that had been added to Hu Yan Zhen's Martial Soul before were indeed related to strength enhancement and defense.
But since this was the eighth soul ring, wouldn't it add an attack-type soul skill?
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