Douluo Continent: Tang San has already taken off, and I'm only just arriving.

Chapter 5 Jade Bird

"Alright, Grandpa will have someone make preparations, and I'll take you and Vivian to hunt souls tomorrow!"

Salas smiled sullenly; he was truly blinded by the wonderful future his grandson had woven for him.

Then a look of worry appeared on his face: "Xiao Chuan, it has been confirmed that whale glue can widen the meridians, enhance the physique, and replenish the source, but the fact that enhancing the physique can increase the time for absorbing spirit rings has not been verified yet. Should we absorb the first spirit ring conservatively?"

Salas's plan was to find a test subject to try absorbing an ultra-aged soul ring, and then hunt a soul ring for his grandson after he succeeded.

However, he didn't say this out loud. Children should have the beauty and innocence of childhood. With him protecting them, he would let his grandson experience the other side of humanity, identity, and social class later.

Chen Yichuan did not answer, but looked at Vivian.

"Teacher, this is the theory that Xiaochuan and I compiled from the information of our Spirit Temple. I have also personally experienced and put it into practice. My fourth spirit ring has already exceeded the theoretical limit of 800 years."

As Vivian spoke, she took out a thick thesis from her storage soul tool.

This paper was proposed by Chen Yichuan and summarized by Vivian after reviewing relevant materials.

After taking the paper and reviewing it, Salas's expression kept changing.

Shocked, conflicted, and relieved.

This paper lists the comparison between commoner soul masters and powerful soul masters, the gradual increase in the age of soul rings of soul masters a thousand years ago to recent years, the difference between top-level martial souls and ordinary martial souls when absorbing soul rings, physique, meridian strength, willpower, martial soul homology and restraint... nothing is too big or small.

Even a simple glance is enough to determine its feasibility.

After a long silence, Salas put away the paper and then looked solemnly at Chen Yichuan and Vivian: "You two, how many things are you hiding from me?"

He never imagined that these two little ones could do something so amazing right under his nose.

"Not much left, not much left..."

Chen Yichuan smiled and winked at Vivian, who immediately understood.

"Teacher, wasn't this just to give you a surprise?"

Vivian stepped forward and acted coquettishly, while Chen Yichuan looked at his grandfather with innocent eyes.

With his forces caught in a pincer movement, Salas finally stopped pressing the issue.

Even so, Salas still conducted pressure tests on them to confirm that their physical strength exceeded that of other Soul Masters of the same realm before agreeing to let them absorb the super-limit Soul Rings.

Early the next morning, Salas led the two to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt souls.

“Xiao Chuan, your grandfather originally reserved a 400-year-old Azure Vine for you, but now that your body can withstand stronger conditions, 400 years is obviously not suitable. How many years do you want to obtain as your first spirit ring?”

While on his journey, Salas asked Chen Yichuan about his plans, as he also wanted to see just how intelligent his grandson really was.

"The spirit ring I want might be a bit hard to find, let's try to find Sister Vivi's first!"

Chen Yichuan was still preoccupied with the Thunderous Hell Vine. Although he had located a few places through the records of the Spirit Hall, he still couldn't be sure whether the Thunderous Hell Vine actually existed there.

Vivian's martial soul is the Flash Falcon, a speed-type soul master that is in no way inferior to the Swift.

The difference between the two is that the Min clan is more fertile and has more family martial soul inheritances. The Flash Falcon is very rare, but it has an attack power that the Sharp-tailed Swift does not possess.

In addition, the Flash Falcon excels at bursts of speed, while the Swift is better at sustained flight.

The soul beast that Chen Yichuan chose for him was a ten-thousand-year-old jade bird.

This is a soul beast with special evolutionary characteristics. When it cultivates to the level of 100,000 years, its body will be completely jadeified, forming a jade of extremely high quality. Similar to the Thunderous Hell Vine, the Jade Bird also has a tendency to self-destruct. This characteristic makes its survival and evolution process full of risks.

Although these spirit beasts are hard to find, the Spirit Hall is a large and powerful organization with a wide network of personnel, so they can quickly find information by spending money.

Soon, they arrived at the place where the Jade Birds lived.

"Four jade birds, each over 10,000 years old: one 40,000 years old, one 22,000 years old, one 18,000 years old, and one 12,000 years old. Weiwei, which one do you want?"

Salas looked at the flock of jade birds in the distance. Naturally, he wouldn't bring Chen Yichuan and the others closer. Such a flock of soul beasts would be difficult to escape even for someone with his own strength if he were surrounded, let alone with two other people.

If he hadn't taken whale gelatin, Salas would naturally have chosen the one that was twelve thousand years old, but now he was unsure.

Vivian didn't speak, but looked at Chen Yichuan.

In this respect, she trusted her younger brother, whom she had raised herself, implicitly.

When she went to choose the fourth ring, Chen Yichuan recommended a very rare soul beast, the Lightning Falcon. She tried to absorb it with a try-it-and-see attitude and obtained an extremely powerful soul skill.

Continuous teleportation, or three-stage teleportation.

Although he no longer attacked, he was still able to hold his own against Soul Masters twenty levels higher. "That one is eighteen thousand years old!"

Chen Yichuan made the decision for Vivian.

Vivian's first three spirit rings were all stuck at the so-called limit of age, and the fourth ring was even beyond the limit. It can be said that she had no room for error in absorbing spirit rings and improving her physical fitness. With the continuous accumulation, her physical fitness was already comparable to that of a powerful attack-type spirit master of the same realm. Now that she has consumed whale glue, the fifth ring of 18,000 years is still possible.

What's more, there's also Salas, a semi-healer, providing support from the sidelines.

Once the target was identified, Salas quickly took action.

Two hours later, Salas returned with the 18,000-year-old jade bird, looking quite disheveled.

After finding a quiet and safe place, he began to let Vivian absorb the nutrients.

"Sister Weiwei, this Jade Bird and your Flash Falcon are quite compatible. If you absorb it, you are very likely to obtain a Jade Transformation Soul Skill, or you may obtain a ranged Light Blade Soul Skill. You might even obtain both."

Just as Vivian killed the Jade Bird and was about to absorb its soul ring, Chen Yichuan spoke up.

His actions were certainly not without purpose.

Based on the fan fiction I read in my previous life, and combined with various studies after arriving in this world, one thing can be confirmed: during the process of absorbing a martial soul, mental suggestion and desire can influence the soul skills one acquires.

With the same martial spirit and the same soul beast, why are those powerful families and forces able to obtain fixed soul skills, while ordinary soul masters receive soul skills that are full of uncertainty?

To this end, he also reviewed the records of soul skills of the registered personnel of the Spirit Hall.

Most Soul Masters will check relevant information before hunting Souls, so when hunting Souls, they will subconsciously gravitate towards the Soul Skills obtained by their predecessors and sages in the information. As for those Soul Masters who do not check the information or hunt Souls randomly, the Soul Skills they obtain are full of uncertainty.

As for a soul beast acquiring two soul skills, the rules of the world are set in stone, so don't even think about it for less than 100,000 years. However, if one harbors the idea of ​​having both soul skills during the process of absorbing a soul ring, and if the martial soul and soul beast are compatible, one will more or less inherit some characteristics other than soul skills.

Thus, the foundation for creating one's own soul skills is laid on top of the original characteristics.

Absorbing the 18,000-year-old Jade Bird, Vivian's fifth soul ring, was quite difficult. It took her a full day and night to absorb it.

Fortunately, nothing unexpected happened.

"Sister Weiwei, what kind of soul skill did you acquire?"

Upon seeing Vivian wake up, Chen Yichuan hurriedly asked her questions to verify his guess.

Because they were as close as siblings, he didn't care that soul skills were a secret of a soul master.

"I named this soul skill Jade Transformation. Once Jade Transformation is activated, my body will be in the state of jade, increasing my physical strength by 300% and my speed by 100%."

"Besides that, I have a strange feeling that this jadeification seems to be controllable, allowing it to gather in a certain part of the body, but I can't do that yet."

Vivian was very satisfied with her soul skill.

"Not bad soul skill."

Salas commented from the side.

"Well, it's only so-so."

"When we have the chance to enter the Spirit Hall's library, let's see if they have collected the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's Dragon Transformation Secret Technique. If we can learn from it, perhaps Sister Weiwei's spirit skill can become even more powerful."

As Chen Yichuan spoke, he took out a notebook from his storage soul tool and wrote it down.

In retrospect, his previous conjecture was entirely plausible.

Sister Weiwei's soul skill is not bad, after all, it is a percentage-based amplification soul skill, but it did not meet her expectations, that is, the amplification does not have growth potential.

It would be great if this soul skill could be enhanced with each advancement in cultivation level.

However, Chen Yichuan also knew that things were never perfect.

The three rested for a while before continuing their search.

They went to the several locations that Chen Yichuan had identified beforehand and searched them repeatedly, but still couldn't find any trace of the Thunderous Hell Vine.

Is there only one left?

As Chen Yichuan murmured softly, he stared at the last spot on the map.

Thunder Canyon.

That area belongs to the territory under the jurisdiction of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex family.

(End of this chapter)