Douluo Continent: This Soul Master is Too Bizarre and Unpredictable

Perhaps for an ordinary eight-ring level Soul Hunting team, the Holy Light Dragon's powerful physique and sturdy dragon scales make it a veritable steel plate, and only high-age, powerful offensive Soul Skills can break through its defenses.

However, for Ice Phoenix Flame Shadow, whose strength is comparable to that of a nine-ringed warrior with the support of the battle armor, this Holy Light Dragon can only be considered an "elite monster" with decent defense and a slightly longer health bar. It is not easy to defeat, but it is still within the range of what to deal with.

After a long while, under the glow of the blazing ice flames, the Holy Light Dragon, frozen in solid ice, completely lost its life force. Countless golden light spots emanated from it, and a jet-black soul ring gradually materialized.

Seeing this, Ice Phoenix Flame Shadow stopped its attack. Then, with a flash of icy blue light, Ice Phoenix Flame Shadow disappeared, revealing the figures of Mu Yang and Shui Bing'er in its place.

"Go and add soul rings to advance your level."

Shui Yanyu, who had already put away her martial spirit, waved her hand.

"Um."

Nodding slightly, Mu Yang transformed his martial soul into the Ice and Fire Immortal Jade Ginseng and stepped forward to guide and refine the soul ring.

When he advanced to the fifth ring, the fifth spirit ring was nearly 50,000 years old. Logically speaking, a sixth spirit ring of around 60,000 years old would definitely not be worthy of him.

However, this is true for ordinary 60,000-year soul rings, but it does not include soul rings from powerful bloodline soul beasts like the Holy Light Dragon.

Although it's a bit lacking in years, the actual effect of this spirit ring is definitely no worse than an ordinary spirit ring that's 80,000 or 90,000 years old.

Of course, these are not the main points. The biggest reason is that Mu Yang recently tried to use his deduction talent to verify the feasibility of a secret technique.

In the eyes of ordinary soul masters, the year of their own soul ring cannot be changed; whatever year it was attached to remains the same until death.

In the eyes of a few Soul Masters, the age of a Soul Ring is not absolutely unchangeable. By passing the God's Trial, they have the opportunity to receive the reward of increasing the age of their Soul Ring.

In Mu Yang's eyes, there are other ways to increase the age of a soul ring than just passing the divine assessment and receiving the reward for increasing the age of the soul ring. For example, the most well-known method among transmigrators is to add points to Deep Blue!

Unfortunately, he doesn't have "Deep Blue," so the only thing he can be considered a cheat is his innate ability to deduce.

When in doubt, use deduction to solve the problem.

Some time ago, Mu Yang had a sudden burst of inspiration and couldn't help but wonder if it was possible to increase the age of a soul ring through some special secret method.

In the original novel, Tang San's fifth natal spirit ring, Blue Silver Grass, could automatically increase its age as his physique improved. In later generations, spirit masters could obtain energy by killing spirit beasts in the Spirit Ascension Platform to increase the age of their own spirit rings.

These two examples demonstrate that the rules of the Douluo Continent world do not restrict the ability of only divine power to upgrade the age of a Soul Master's Soul Rings.

As expected, after some tentative deductions, the feedback from his deduction talent told him that, theoretically, such a secret method to increase the age of a soul ring could exist in the world.

As for the time required to develop this secret method and its specific effects, well, that remains to be seen.

It wasn't that Mu Yang didn't want to find out, but there were priorities. The most important task at present was to deduce metal forging and battle armor manufacturing.

Deduction talent is not a cheat code like Deep Blue's. Just because he has deduced the secret method doesn't mean that his soul ring age will immediately reach 100,000 or even 1 million years. He still needs to invest an unknown amount of time to cultivate it.

Without a definite answer, Mu Yang naturally prioritized deducing things that could improve his strength as quickly as possible.

Time passed slowly, the sun set and the moon rose, and before we knew it, it was dawn.

Inside the forest, atop a towering tree, Shui Yanyu released her spiritual energy, remaining constantly vigilant and monitoring the movements within a kilometer radius.

A bonfire was lit under the tree, and Shui Bing'er idly poked at it with a branch, her gaze occasionally drifting to Mu Yang, who was sitting cross-legged beside the corpse of a pure white giant beast not far away, refining a soul ring.

Suddenly, the soul power emanating from Mu Yang surged dramatically. He had successfully refined the Holy Dragon Soul Ring of Light, breaking through the limitations of his soul power and advancing to the sixth-ring Soul Emperor.

Moreover, because the age of the soul rings far exceeded the usual optimal ratio limit, his soul power level reached level 62, Soul Emperor, as soon as he advanced.

"It's a pity that the two-word battle armor hasn't been released yet, otherwise, with Bing'er's current foundation, we would definitely be able to reach the pinnacle of the eighth ring level."

If I were to activate the Spirit Fusion Skill again at that time, even if Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo stood before me, disregarding the Polar Stillness Domain, I could still say: "A chrysanthemum, a little devil?"

Opening his eyes, Mu Yang glanced at the Icefire Jade Ginseng that appeared before him. Its body now bore a ring of blue patterns in addition to the five colors of red, orange, yellow, green, and cyan. He couldn't help but think to himself.

Well, we can't be complacent yet. There are quite a few powerful soul masters in the mainland world whose strength surpasses that of Chrysanthemum and Oni, and some can even kill Chrysanthemum and Oni in one move.

"Not bad, not bad, Mu Yang, your level has caught up with mine again. Quickly show me your sixth soul skill."

Seeing that Mu Yang had woken up, Shui Bing'er quickly stepped forward and said with a smile.

Nodding, Mu Yang's sixth soul ring shone brightly. He silently chanted a soul incantation, and as his soul power surged, a flash of blue light appeared, and a three-inch-long leafless blue ginseng suddenly materialized.

Here, have a taste~

Mu Yang handed the freshly made Soul Power Ginseng to Shui Bing'er.

Taking the blue ginseng, Shui Bing'er immediately put it in her mouth. She circulated her soul power, and the blue ginseng turned into a blue stream of light that disappeared into her stomach.

Instantly, the aura emanating from Shui Bing'er surged dramatically.

"Is this... ginseng to enhance one's strength?"

Smacking her lips, Shui Bing'er asked.

"Blue Jade Rising Dragon Ginseng: After consumption, all attributes are increased by 40%, the effect lasts for half an hour, and during the effect duration, one is immune to all negative status effects."

Mu Yang said with a smile.

Blue Jade Rising Dragon Ginseng has two effects: one is to enhance attributes, and the other is to grant immunity to negative status effects.

The amplification effect was within Mu Yang's expectations.

Dragon-type soul beasts are undoubtedly symbols of power, and it's normal for soul skills to have an amplification effect when they are equipped with the Holy Light Dragon Soul Ring.

However, the effect of immunity to negative states was somewhat beyond Mu Yang's expectations.

However, considering that the Holy Dragon of Light is associated with light and faintly exudes a holy aura, it seems normal for its soul skill to have the effect of immunity to negative status effects.

One thing is certain: all other external conditions being equal, and the type and age of the soul rings remaining unchanged, the more functions a soul skill has, the less effective each individual function will be compared to a soul skill with a single function.

It is foreseeable that if the effect of Blue Jade Rising Dragon Ginseng is only to amplify attributes, then the amplification ratio of all attributes will definitely not be less than 40%, and will definitely reach 50% or even more.

Of course, the effect of continuous immunity to negative status effects is also not bad. This effect seems to be the same as the third soul skill: Yellow Jade Detoxifying Ginseng, but in fact it is not.

The effect of Huangyu Detoxifying Ginseng is to relieve abnormal conditions, including poisoning, after consumption.

If a poison-type Soul Master attacks him with poison mist, the Yellow Jade Detoxifying Ginseng alone will be useless if he doesn't intend to kill the opponent directly.

After all, the poisonous fog is a continuous attack. Even if you take the Yellow Jade Detoxifying Ginseng to remove the toxins from your body, you will still be poisoned if you don't leave the area of ​​the poisonous fog in time.

In the heat of battle, there may not be a chance to frequently consume soul-power-enhancing foods.

But the Blue Jade Rising Dragon Ginseng is different. Its effect of warding off negative status effects is continuous. Taking one ginseng root provides a 30-minute duration of effect, during which time a second dose is unnecessary. (End of Chapter)