Douluo Continent: Steadily Growing Stronger in Shrek Academy

Chapter 48 The Sixth Soul Ring

Just like his previous trips to the Star Dou Great Forest, it took Lin Chen three to five days to get here.

Without much hesitation, after resting for a night, Lin Chen headed deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest.

To avoid unnecessary battles and killings, Lin Chen took out a soul tool called the Invisibility Veil and put it on. At the same time, he activated his Life Domain to assimilate his aura with the surrounding life energy.

The Invisibility Veil is a comprehensive soul tool that can conceal one's figure and consumes very little soul power. Even a level 10 soul master can use it for a day, and for Lin Chen, who is currently level 60, using it continuously for a month is no problem.

However, the invisibility veil cannot hide one's aura. When facing spirit beasts with strong spiritual power, especially spirit-type spirit beasts, it is very likely to expose one's location. Combining it with the life domain can have a complementary effect.

The place where Lin Chen was going to obtain the soul ring was teeming with powerful soul beasts, making the invisibility veil extremely useful to him. Although it was only a level two soul tool, Lin Chen considered it more practical than ordinary level four or five soul tools.

As he walked, Lin Chen carved small symbols on each tree.

Stability is the only word that has stayed with me for so many years!

If Lin Chen is usually unstable, it's only when he's accompanied by a strong person. If, in that situation, there's an unexpectedly powerful enemy, then Lin Chen would accept death without hesitation. Now that he's outnumbered and outmatched, he naturally needs to be more cautious.

After walking around nonchalantly for half a day, Lin Chen arrived at a relatively inner area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest, where there were many soul beasts that were twenty or thirty thousand years old.

"We need to go deeper; the age of the soul beasts here is still too young," Lin Chen thought to himself, and then headed deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest.

Despite possessing an invisibility veil and a life domain, Lin Chen strolled through the Star Dou Great Forest as if taking a leisurely walk.

The closer you get to the depths, the more life energy you have, and the more powerful the life realm becomes.

They walked for almost a day before Qian Renxue reminded Lin Chen to stop going deeper.

"Lin Chen, we can't go any deeper. If we go any further, we might encounter a 100,000-year-old soul beast."

Hearing Qian Renxue say this, Lin Chen became curious and asked, "Sister Renxue, what do you think of the Star Dou Great Forest?"

"Back then, I always thought that the overlords of the Star Dou Great Forest were the Titan Giant Ape and the Azure Bull Python, but after I became a god, I sensed a terrifying aura, an aura that seemed to be no weaker than mine."

"It seems that Gu Yuena has long since settled in the Lake of Life to recuperate," Lin Chen mused.

But he had no other thoughts. Putting aside the difference in race, with his insignificant Soul Emperor cultivation, he probably wouldn't be able to withstand even a glare from the Silver Dragon King.

It was already late at night. Lin Chen took out the supplies he had brought, set up a simple tent, and then went inside to rest.

The depths of the Star Dou Great Forest are fraught with danger. When hunting soul beasts here, one cannot sleep; at most, one can only close one's eyes to rest. Although Lin Chen has a soul tool and a life domain to rely on, no one knows what kind of soul beast he will encounter. Therefore, Lin Chen can only close his eyes to rest, while always maintaining his awareness of the outside world.

The night was peaceful. Although the sounds of fighting could be heard from time to time, Lin Chen sensed that no soul beasts approached the area where he was.

After searching for three or four days, Lin Chen still couldn't find a suitable soul beast. He finally understood why Yan Shaozhe and Cai Meier had brought Zhang Lexuan to obtain the ninth soul ring during their vacation. Finding a soul beast was indeed a time-consuming task!

Suddenly, a group of soul beasts appeared in Lin Chen's mental perception.

The conspicuous soul beast was significantly larger than the others.

"Sabertooth tiger?" Upon getting closer, Lin Chen recognized the soul beast by its appearance.

With a pair of long, sharp saber teeth that protrude and curve backward like two sharp daggers, long forelimbs, and a crouching posture with sharp ridges at the front and back, this physical characteristic undoubtedly identifies it as a saber-toothed tiger.

It's quite unbelievable that this saber-toothed tiger is fighting against a whole pack of tigers all by itself.

Most of the tiger-type spirit beasts in the tiger pack had a cultivation level of ten to twenty thousand years, but this saber-toothed tiger, which could fight a hundred men single-handedly, had a pair of saber teeth that were seventy centimeters long. Clearly, this saber-toothed tiger had a cultivation level of over seventy thousand years.

Lin Chen learned about saber-toothed tigers from books he read in the academy library. These spirit beasts are extremely rare. They grow distinctive saber teeth after a thousand years of cultivation. For every thousand years of cultivation they gain, their saber teeth grow one centimeter longer, and for every ten thousand years of cultivation they gain, their saber teeth grow ten centimeters longer. After reaching ten thousand years of cultivation, each saber-toothed tiger awakens different innate skills. Some are amplification skills used for close combat, while others are sonic skills used for ranged attacks.

A very small number of saber-toothed tigers can awaken area-of-effect skills, and those that do are all extremely powerful beings.

"That tiger pack must be controlled by someone or some soul beast to be so united. Living in groups is not a habit of tiger-type soul beasts." Looking at the almost endless tiger pack, Lin Chen pondered again.

Tigers are the kings of the forest, naturally warlike. When they encounter their own kind, it's like two kings appearing in the forest; they're bound to fight to the death. Therefore, all tiger-type spirit beasts are basically incompatible, constantly killing each other. Thus, Lin Chen had reason to suspect that the one controlling the tiger pack was also a tiger-type spirit beast.

"I wonder what skill this saber-toothed tiger has awakened? I hope it's an area-of-effect skill," Lin Chen muttered to himself.

If the saber-toothed tiger in front of him has awakened a group attack skill, then Lin Chen will most likely inherit its skill and gain a group attack skill after absorbing its spirit ring.

And this soul skill is none other than the Myriad Swords Return to One skill from the Sword Douluo ten thousand years ago!

The next instant, the saber-toothed tiger roared, and countless saber teeth appeared in the sky, raining down on the tiger pack opposite.

Where the saber teeth fell, countless tigers on the opposite side instantly died, blood flowed like a river, and the corpses of soul beasts covered the entire ground like a carpet, with one black soul ring after another floating in the air.

The saber-toothed tiger roared to the sky, seemingly declaring: it is the king of tigers!

Seeing this, Lin Chen instantly perked up; it was truly a case of what he wished for coming true!

The sixth spirit ring, that's it!

But the battle was not over yet. Gradually, one tiger head after another emerged from all directions, all of them with cultivation levels of 30,000 to 40,000 years, staring intently at the saber-toothed tiger.

In the distance, another tiger's roar rang out, and the surrounding tigers instantly pounced on the saber-toothed tiger, whose condition had declined.

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