Star Dou Great Forest.
Flickering shadows, remnants of light.
Streaks of white light constantly darted through the trees, leaving long trails in their wake.
Suddenly, all the white light vanished.
A young man in white robes and black hair appeared where the light had been.
"Finally, I've done it."
Yun Chuan, after a long period of experimentation, had finally figured out the most appropriate speed his body could currently handle. Although it couldn't compare to true light speed, his current speed was a world of difference from what it used to be.
"I didn't expect the soul ring of the soul beast to be so helpful to me. I wonder if other soul beasts can also bring me benefits?" Yun Chuan thought, considering he'd gained the ability of light speed just from absorbing the Aurora Bird's soul ring and soul bone. Would absorbing soul beasts of different attributes grant him similar abilities?
Especially those soul beasts related to time and space attributes. If he could suddenly comprehend their powers, he wondered how powerful he would become.
Thinking of this,
Yun Chuan couldn't help himself. He was eager to start searching the Star Dou Great Forest for soul beasts of other attributes to verify his guess.
He transformed into a streak of white light and began to traverse the forest.
Soon, a soul beast appeared in his sight.
It was an Earth Dragon Rhinoceros, with a body of earthen yellow, resembling a rhinoceros, and covered in scales like a dragon. It was roughly ten meters long and five meters high, a massive creature!
Anyone who saw this soul beast could tell from its appearance that it was a tough, thick-skinned soul beast with extremely high defense.
And this soul beast was indeed as it appeared, a prime example of thick skin and tough flesh. It was said to have dragon lineage and possessed abilities related to the earth. A stomp of its thick legs could cause the surrounding ground to roll or crack, making it difficult to stand. Furthermore, as long as it stood on the ground, it could slightly utilize the power of the earth, significantly enhancing its defense and strength. It was a very tricky soul beast.
Yun Chuan naturally recognized the creature as an Earth Dragon Rhinoceros. He judged from its size that it was only around ten thousand years old. Even at that age, a power-type, strong-attack Soul Saint would find it impossible to hunt such a soul beast, known for its strength and defense.
"Earth attribute abilities, huh…"
Yun Chuan's eyes gleamed slightly. He decided to make this soul beast his second target. Normally, the best way to deal with a creature with thick skin and strong defense like this would be to use a Thunder Lance, bypassing its defenses and electrocuting it directly.
However, Yun Chuan, who had just acquired Light Speed, didn't plan to do that. He wanted to try out a move he'd been planning for a while.
That move was—Light Speed Kick!
The next moment.
A flash of white light.
"BOOM!!!"
The Earth Dragon Rhinoceros, which had been leisurely strolling through the forest, suddenly went flying. It was as if an invisible cannonball had slammed directly into its massive body.
But in reality, it was just too fast to see.
A flash of white light. Yun Chuan reappeared at the spot. He looked at the massive rhinoceros, which had been sent flying and dragged along the ground for over thirty meters, leaving a long furrow in its wake. A large hole was torn in its side, and its bones were nearly shattered.
One kick.
Just one kick.
The Earth Dragon Rhinoceros hadn't even had a chance to react before it was sent to the afterlife.
Having tested the power of Light Speed Kick for the first time, Yun Chuan nodded in satisfaction. Then, he looked at the black ten-thousand-year soul ring that was slowly rising in the distance. He raised his right hand, and a five-colored light shone from his palm. With a forceful inhale, the black soul ring quickly floated over. It was sucked into his body through his palm.
Yun Chuan immediately sat down cross-legged and looked inward. He found that the five elements within his body were constantly emitting a five-colored light, grinding down that black ten-thousand-year soul ring… and soon, it was devoured and absorbed!
This time, after absorbing the spirit ring, Yun Chuan found that the Earth Dragon Rhinoceros didn't help him as much as the previous ten-thousand-year Aurora Bird had. It wasn't that there were no gains, but the gains were very limited. The acquired ability was practically useless.
"Earth Tremor?"
Yun Chuan opened his eyes and stood up. He then lifted his foot and lightly stomped on the ground!
"Rumble…..."
Within a hundred meters around him, the ground began to shake and tremble with his stomp, as if a small earthquake had occurred.
Yun Chuan hadn't used his physical strength in this stomp, but purely the ability from the Earth Dragon Rhinoceros. But that was all there was to it.
"It seems that the lower the age of the spirit beast's spirit ring I absorb, the worse the abilities I gain. Isn't this similar to how a Spirit Master gains spirit skills by absorbing spirit rings?" He was surprised, yet felt it was only natural. After all, you couldn't expect a ten-thousand-year spirit beast to be the same as a hundred-thousand-year spirit beast.
"In that case, if I want to gain an ability similar to light speed, then it's best to absorb those hundred-thousand-year spirit beasts, especially those with purer attributes."
"But hundred-thousand-year spirit beasts are rare, and killing one means one less… This is troublesome," he frowned and murmured.
Like the Aurora Bird he absorbed before, it was a pure light-attribute soul beast. They were incredibly rare, especially a 100,000-year soul beast. He estimated there was only one on the entire continent. He had only encountered it by chance, it was a stroke of incredible luck.
Yun Chuan scratched his head, suddenly wondering if he couldn't make up for the lack of quality with quantity? By absorbing a large number of low-level soul rings of the same attribute, could he trigger a qualitative change through quantitative change?
But soon, after some thought, he abandoned this idea.
"Forget it, it probably won't be that easy."
After all, this wasn't a math problem. Yun Chuan guessed that if he really absorbed a large number of low-level soul rings of the same attribute, he would probably only get a bunch of useless abilities. It definitely wouldn't be like he imagined, where many low-level soul skills would merge to form a high-level soul skill. It wasn't that simple to trigger a qualitative change through quantitative change.
"It seems that taking shortcuts isn't so easy. I should just focus on developing self-created soul skills." Yun Chuan shook his head and decided to leave. After all, low-year soul rings were useless to him, and the soul skills he gained were purely useless. High-year soul rings were too rare and couldn't be encountered easily.
Moreover, the Light Speed ability he had obtained was enough for him to develop and apply for a long time. He understood the principle of "too much to chew". After he thoroughly mastered the Light Speed ability, he would think about obtaining abilities of other attributes.
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