Douluo's Demon Blade Thousand Blades and the Original Martial Soul

Chapter 6 Hunting for the First Soul Ring

Early the next morning, Lin Yizhang found Old Jack, gave him an excuse to leave the village and said he wouldn't be back for a while, and then left Holy Soul Village alone.

Lin Yizhang arrived at the entrance of the Soul Hunter Forest near Notting City. It was already noon, and the place was indeed as bustling as in the anime, like a shopping mall.

A six-year-old child alone in such a crowded place without an adult is bound to attract attention.

Lin Yizhang found a secluded spot and smudged himself to hide his handsome face. Then he deliberately moved closer to the adults passing by, keeping an eye on the situation near the door.

Since he didn't have a warrant, he couldn't enter the Soul Hunter Forest, so Lin Yizhang was looking for an opportunity to sneak in.

Soon, he saw a Soul Hunter team about to enter, so he quickly followed behind them, keeping a certain distance from the team members but not too far away, and successfully blended in.

Upon entering the forest, Lin Yizhang immediately chose a direction and headed deeper into the forest, avoiding people along the way and carefully bypassing spirit beasts.

Along the way, Lin Yizhang saw many people hunting soul beasts and saw white ten-year soul rings and yellow hundred-year soul rings, but those were all soul rings produced by soul beasts that were just over a hundred years old.

Lin Yizhang's goal was to hunt down a soul beast with a strong bloodline, but such beasts were rare in a small place like the Soul Hunting Forest. So, when he encountered a soul beast with a strong physique and an age of four or five hundred years, Lin Yizhang planned to hunt it down.

Although I haven't learned anything about soul beasts, I'm just hunting a soul beast that's less than a thousand years old. I don't need to know what the soul beast is called, nor do I need to know the exact age of its soul ring.

You can roughly judge based on the depth of the spirit ring's color; there's absolutely no need to be as precise as Master Yu Xiaogang, who goes down to the single digit.

Soul beasts' lifespans are already measured in hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands of years. To still study the difference between those few years is simply a waste of time.

Gradually, seeing that the appearance of century-old soul beasts became more and more frequent, Lin Yizhang stopped going deeper into the area and instead began searching horizontally.

There must be some thousand-year-old soul beasts in this Soul Hunting Forest, so I can't go too deep.

After searching for two hours without finding anything, Lin Yizhang found an open space to rest.

The soul beasts I encountered on the road were all of low quality and bloodline, and I looked down on them, so I avoided them.

Some spirit beasts noticed him and rushed at him without a word, wanting to eat him. Lin Yizhang simply made a Rasengan and threw it at them to stop them from coming, then quickly ran away.

Although his soul power was still plentiful, he hadn't eaten lunch and was still hungry. He was also a bit tired, so he had to consider retreating to the outer perimeter before dark to hunt a Soft Bone Rabbit for dinner and spend the night there.

Just as Lin Yizhang was planning to continue tomorrow, the roar of a soul beast came over.

Hearing the deep, tiger-roar-like sound, Lin Yizhang couldn't help but feel excited. It seemed to be a rather powerful soul beast, and he looked forward to the surprise it would bring him.

In this way, after hunting down the soul beast and absorbing its soul ring, he can leave the Soul Hunting Forest before nightfall.

Lin Yizhang quickly ran over to investigate the situation, found a secluded spot, and looked out from a distance. Sure enough, there were two soul beasts fighting.

One of them was a boar-like spirit beast covered in flames, three meters long and over two meters tall. It looked quite fierce, so let's call it the Flame Boar.

On the other side was a tiger-type spirit beast, about the same height and length as the fire pig, but it looked much more ferocious.

Judging from the soul power attacks they released during their battle, the soul power of the tiger-type soul beast was lighter in color than that of the fire boar, so the tiger-type soul beast should be younger than the fire boar.

Even so, the situation on the field was not that the fire boar had the advantage, but that the tiger-type soul beast had the advantage.

It seems that if the battle continues, the pig-like spirit beast will be defeated sooner or later.

As expected, the Flame Pig was soon killed as the battle continued.

However, the tiger-type soul beast was also in a rather sorry state. After all, the fire boar was older than it and had thicker skin and flesh. Killing the fire boar must have taken a lot of effort for it.

Two dogs fight, play off.

Just as the tiger-type spirit beast slowly walked over, intending to have a feast, Lin Yizhang decisively poked his head out and charged towards the tiger-type spirit beast.

As he charged, he simultaneously formed a Rasengan and threw it. After an explosion, the spirit beast was blasted back several meters.

Before the tiger-type soul beast could make a move, Lin Yizhang summoned the Demon Blade Thousand Blades, directly infused it with half of his own soul power, and unleashed the Thousand Blades Return to One technique, slashing towards it.

As the saying goes, strike while the iron is hot. With Lin Yizhang's attack, which gave the beast no chance to breathe, the tiger spirit beast was killed in one blow.

By launching a sneak attack, Lin Yizhang successfully killed the soul beast.

A yellow spirit ring floated up, its color slightly lighter than the spirit ring produced by the pig.

The Flame Pig should be over 800 years old, while this tiger-type soul beast should be 400 to 500 years old.

No other spirit beasts should come here for a while. Spirit beasts with an age of eight hundred years are considered the overlords of this forest. However, to prevent anyone from coming, Lin Yizhang led the unknown tiger-type spirit beast to a secluded spot not far away and began absorbing spirit rings.

As the spirit ring was drawn to his body, a massive warm current surged through his body, rushing towards his limbs and bones.

Lin Yizhang knew that it was quite dangerous when a spirit ring first entered the body, so he had made preparations in advance and no accidents occurred.

Half an hour passed, and the spirit ring gradually stabilized before finally disappearing.

Lin Yizhang opened his eyes, feeling the abundant power within his body, and couldn't help but smile. He should have level 12 soul power now.

Standing up, he discovered that his physique had changed significantly after absorbing the spirit ring. He had grown nearly ten centimeters taller, now exceeding 1.4 meters and approaching 1.5 meters. His body had become much stronger, and his clothes no longer fit him.

After experiencing his first Soul Skill, Lin Yizhang quickly smiled. It was an ideal Soul Skill: Vajra Transformation, which increases all attributes by 15%, and increases by 5% for each additional Soul Ring.

This soul skill is incredibly powerful; it's a rare percentage-based amplification soul skill with a significant amplification effect.

I glanced at the sky; I should be able to leave the forest before dusk.

Lin Yizhang summoned the Demon Blade Thousand Blades and quickly cut off the tiger skin of the soul beast, not even missing the tiger whip. As for the others, Lin Yizhang couldn't carry that many things, so he didn't bother with them anymore.

Sigh, if I had a storage soul tool, I would definitely have taken the entire soul beast along with that fire pig. What a waste now.

Lin Yizhang took the tiger skin and tiger whip and started walking out of the forest. With his strength by his side, he did not encounter any danger.

They successfully exited the Soul Hunter Forest, and it was already dusk.

Lin Yizhang found a shop. The shopkeeper couldn't tell at first glance that he was a six-year-old child; he looked more like an eight or nine-year-old. So the shopkeeper didn't look down on Lin Yizhang and sold him the tiger skin and tiger whip, earning 120 gold soul coins.

Items related to Soul Masters and Soul Beasts are never particularly cheap. The value of currency used by Soul Masters and ordinary people differs greatly, as if there is a chasm separating Soul Masters from ordinary people.

To Lin Yizhang's surprise, tiger whip and tiger skin sold for the same price, indicating that tiger whip was also very popular among the people of Douluo Continent.

(End of this chapter)