Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 15 The ribbon shows signs of weaving

After using his first soul skill, Su Yuntao's movements became much more agile and faster than before. In addition, his soul power at the level of a Great Soul Master added to his ferocity.

It leaped up like a hungry wolf pouncing on its prey, and in the blink of an eye, it was under the canopy of a thousand banyan trees.

Raise your hand.

It swung a claw at the banyan silkworm.

"laugh!"

However, as expected of the guardian of the Thousand Banyan Trees, the Banyan Silkworm reacted with astonishing speed. In an instant, it spit out a silk thread that wrapped around Su Yuntao's arm. The silk thread continued to fork, spreading and wrapping along his arm and body. It was also sticky, making it difficult to break free.

"This really isn't some spider disguised as a silkworm? These threads are much more powerful than silk." Su Yuntao noticed the sticky threads spreading along his arm and up his body. Startled, he quickly used his second soul skill.

Su Yuntao's second spirit ring was planned by Tang San.

Logically speaking, for a Soul Master whose Martial Soul is a wolf, the best choice of Soul Beast is also a wolf, the same as their own Martial Soul, which will likely enhance their bloodline power.

However, the spirit beast Tang San chose for him was not a wolf, nor even a canine, but a feline.

Fear of cats!

First of all, the Lone Wolf Martial Soul is not a real wolf; it exists somewhere between matter and energy. In Tang San's vision, it is part of the human body's extraordinary organs.

Adding a soul ring and gaining a soul skill is simply adding a skill to a blank skill slot.

It's just that there's a compatibility factor between the soul rings produced by different soul beasts and the martial soul.

Otherwise, those Soul Masters with Weapon Martial Souls would have to find artifacts and antiques to obtain Soul Rings.

Admittedly, hunting spirit beasts of the same species as or closely related to beast spirits can enhance bloodline power, which is a good choice from the perspective of continuing and expanding the family.

However, it should be noted that ordinary Soul Masters like Su Yuntao cannot do that.

Large and small families with powerful beast spirits can do that because they can eliminate most other unstable factors and protect the growth of their descendants. However, Su Yuntao is just a commoner. Even if he joins the Spirit Hall, he will not be valued by the higher-ups of the Spirit Hall because of his own talent. It is impossible for the Spirit Hall to deliberately help him hunt wolf-type spirit beasts with powerful bloodlines for the sake of a spirit master or a great spirit master.

Building a family from scratch is the hardest step.

For the first generation of a family, ordinary people from humble backgrounds, the first thing they need to consider is not the inheritance of bloodlines or the evolution of martial spirits, but power.

If he wanted to establish his own family and build a legacy, he could only become strong first, and then, after one or two generations of accumulation, establish a small family. Only from the third generation onwards could he slowly experiment with which wolf-type spirit beasts were most suitable for his Lone Wolf Martial Soul.

This process will take at least a century.

Su Yuntao could wait a hundred years, but he was the "first generation," so he didn't have many choices. Born into a commoner family, he could only temporarily set aside the factor of enhancing his bloodline when choosing soul rings, mainly to obtain powerful attack capabilities, so that his martial soul would become stronger and his special attack would increase.

This is both to protect oneself and to have the power to fight crime and even depraved individuals when enforcing the law.

As mentioned before, although Su Yuntao's job is relatively easy, in addition to helping people in the villages near Notting City awaken their martial souls, he also needs to take shifts with the patrol team.

During patrols, some troubles are inevitable.

This requires strength, not bloodline.

For a martial soul with a weak bloodline, a slight increase in bloodline strength will not significantly improve its combat power.

For a beast spirit like Lone Wolf, which isn't particularly powerful, the improvement to its bloodline is limited unless it finds a high-level wolf spirit beast, and is far less effective than a powerful attack spirit skill.

Given Su Yuntao's environment and social class, the choice he made was simply a matter of cost-effectiveness.

The most famous thing about the Fear Cat, a type of spirit beast, is its pair of claws, which are about ten centimeters long. Even a hundred-times-forged steel blade can be cut by its sharp claws.

After Su Yuntao obtained the Fear Cat's Soul Ring, his physical attributes increased only slightly, but his waist flexibility improved by more than one level.

Sisi is the most qualified to speak on this matter.

cough!

Getting back to the main point, besides increasing Su Yuntao's agility, the Fear Cat Soul Ring more importantly gave him an extra pair of claws.

Wolverine Claws!

When using this second soul skill, the wolf claws on Su Yuntao's ten fingers disappeared, and his hands clenched into fists. Apart from his thumbs, three sharp blades resembling peculiar daggers emerged from between the remaining four fingers.

Its sharpness is such that it can easily cut through armor that can withstand a full-force attack from a level 30 Soul Master. If it were to be used on flesh and blood, it could be said that even a Soul King could have his defenses breached by these claws, unless he is a defensive Soul Master—although a Soul King wouldn't just stand there dumbly.

Moreover, Su Yuntao can also use this soul skill to concentrate all his soul power into his six wolf claws and shoot them out as energy blades with an attack range of more than 20 meters. The power weakens as the distance increases.

If it's within ten meters, even if a Soul Master is hit, their chances of survival are slim... This excludes Soul Masters with powerful Martial Souls.

However, if Su Yuntao uses his full strength, he will exhaust all his soul power with this move.

If this move fails to kill the enemy, then he will be the one to be killed.

But Su Yuntao was very happy, because he never thought that his second soul ring would have such a powerful and lethal soul skill, and the attack method was really cool, much more dashing than his first soul skill: Hungry Wolf Pouncing.

However, because this move consumes a lot of soul power, Su Yuntao basically doesn't use it. He relies on the Wolverine Claw to improve his combat power. After all, with such a pair of Wolverine Claws that can cut through iron like mud, its armor-piercing ability is increased by at least five times.

At this moment, Su Yuntao used his Wolverine Claw to cut the silkworm's threads, landed back on the ground, and brushed the silk off his body.

"It's really sticky."

"Sizzle!"

He turned around and called out to Sisi.

"First Soul Skill: Entanglement!"

Sisi naturally knew Su Yuntao's thoughts, and immediately released her martial soul, using her first soul skill.

In an instant, the white ribbon in her hand moved like a python, wrapping around the banyan silkworm in the tree canopy. In just a moment, the slow-moving banyan silkworm was caught in the trap, bound, and twisting incessantly.

"We succeeded!"

One pull.

One pull.

The silkworm fell to the ground and stopped moving.

"The banyan silkworm might be playing dead," Tang San reminded him.

"Watch this!" Su Yuntao leaped up and jumped in front of Rongcan. His Vajra Claw pierced Rongcan's body and pinned it to the ground.

Now, whether it's feigning death or not, it can no longer break free.

"Sisi, hurry up, this insect is quite strong." Su Yuntao used one hand to pin down the banyan silkworm with a steel claw, and the other hand to hold down its violently struggling body, and shouted back to Sisi.

Sisi immediately ran over, took out the short knife she carried with her, and stabbed it into the head of the banyan silkworm, cutting off the entire black part of its head.

Then, a yellow spirit ring appeared.

"Phew~"

Sisi breathed a sigh of relief, sheathed her short sword, and began to adjust her state.

Absorbing a spirit ring is a challenge for a spirit master, and it must be done in the best possible condition to increase the success rate.

After adjusting her state, Sisi released her martial soul and used her soul power to guide the soul ring, causing it to be attached to her ribbon martial soul.

Just as the spirit ring was attached to her martial soul, Sisi's body trembled slightly, and her face turned pale at a visible speed. Su Yuntao, Matthew, and Tang San couldn't help but feel a pang of worry for her.

This made Tang San feel somewhat guilty.

In his opinion, an adult's physique should be able to withstand a hundred-year soul ring, let alone the second one.

But now, Sisi is absorbing a four-hundred-year-old soul ring, and before that, she had hardly consumed any energy, yet the way she is showing up is that she is under immense pressure.

Is it because the Banyan Silkworm and the Ribbon Martial Soul are incompatible?

That's impossible.

Otherwise, the weapon spirit would not be compatible with any spirit beast.

Then there's only one reason left: for ordinary commoner soul masters, even with a second soul ring, enduring a lifespan of around four hundred years is still quite difficult.

"That's true. Ordinary commoner soul masters are different from those from large and small families. They didn't have medicinal baths in their childhood, and their martial souls were weak. They were often bullied by noble students when they were in junior academies. They probably had a lot of hidden injuries back then. Their physique is naturally incomparable to that of the children of large families, or those with powerful martial souls or those whose martial souls have mutated in a better direction."

Tang San frowned, and immediately understood why most commoner soul masters' first soul ring was white.

It wasn't just because the teachers at the junior academy helped with the hunting to save time; more importantly, most commoner soul masters couldn't match the physical abilities of those from powerful families.

Absorbing their first spirit ring for a hundred years could pose a life-threatening danger to them!

Ten minutes later, Sisi's complexion regained its rosy hue, indicating that she had pulled through.

This relieved Su Yuntao, who thanked Tang San: "Little San, thanks to you, otherwise Sisi would have missed out on such a suitable 400-year soul ring."

Tang San shook his head: "I should be the one apologizing. For Sisi, this spirit ring almost caused her to fail to absorb it. I didn't expect that a four-hundred-year spirit ring would put so much pressure on Sister Sisi..."

"There's no need to blame yourself." Matthew patted Tang San's head and said with a smile, "Absorbing a spirit ring is inherently risky. Every year, many spirit masters fail to absorb a spirit ring and thus lose the opportunity to become spirit masters... Sisi's situation is already considered good."

Matthew said it was indeed true.

Each time a Soul Master absorbs a Soul Ring, it is not only a breakthrough in cultivation bottlenecks, but also a challenge to themselves.

Without enough willpower, there's no chance to continue.

The consequences of failing to absorb the essence are, at best, a decrease in soul power, making further breakthroughs impossible; at worst, death from body explosion.

For Soul Masters, cultivation is not always smooth sailing.

Half an hour later, Sisi finally finished absorbing the nutrients, opened her eyes, and looked delighted.

"Sisi, you succeeded! What is your second soul skill? Tell me quickly!" Upon seeing this, Su Yuntao understood that Sisi must have obtained a soul skill that was very suitable for her, and he was happy about it.

"My second spirit ring makes my spirit even more resilient." Sisi released her spirit. The ribbon seemed no different from before, but Tang San, with the vision of the Purple Demon Eye, was the first to notice the difference in the ribbon.

If the ribbon before was just a white strip of cloth that looked very smooth, then now, the surface of its spirit has traces of weaving.

In short, before absorbing the Banyan Silkworm Soul Ring, the silk ribbon was just a smooth strip of cloth without any marks, but now, with details, it's like a work of art created by a master weaver.

(End of this chapter)