Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 85 Light Feather's First Soul Ring Pre-selection

Another year passed, and Tang San was eight years old. He bid farewell to Old Jack with Xiao Wu and Guang Ling.

Guangling also spent that year at Old Jack's house, becoming Old Jack's granddaughter. Old Jack even gave Tang San a thumbs up at first.

After returning to Notting City, Guangling asked her teacher for leave and prepared to hunt spirit beasts with Tang San and Xiao Wu to obtain her first spirit ring.

During the holiday, Guangling also worked hard to cultivate, and finally, at the age of seven, he reached level ten in soul power.

"During these days, you've learned a lot about martial spirit cultivation from me, and you've also read a lot of information about spirit beasts. Do you know which spirit beast you should choose for your first spirit ring and what skill you should acquire?"

Tang San wanted to test Guang Ling's knowledge. If possible, Tang San was willing to give her a great gift that could accelerate her soul power cultivation, which would be equivalent to truly entering the "true lineage".

"Third Brother, my martial soul is a bow, a weapon martial soul. If it were someone else, they would definitely choose a soul skill that would give them offensive power as their first soul ring."

After a semester of study, Guangling has become much more cheerful and her voice has become louder. "But every time a martial soul absorbs a soul ring, it is an evolution of the martial soul. This is true for beast martial souls, and it should be true for weapon martial souls as well."

"I hope my martial spirit can evolve."

"But weapon spirits are different from beast spirits. You can find the corresponding spirit beast to learn about a beast spirit, but you can't do that with weapon spirits. It's harder to find the right direction. Most people strengthen their weapon spirits based on the characteristics of various objects."

"For example, when it comes to swords and knives, choose those that are sharp."

"But in reality, if you only look for soul skills that are specifically designed for attack, it is difficult to greatly enhance your martial soul... Third Brother, you said that this is because most people are commoner soul masters, and attack ability is the priority. But I have you, Third Brother, and my safety can be guaranteed during my time at Notting Academy, so I don't need to choose attack-type soul skills immediately."

Tang San nodded.

The fact that Guangling was able to include all the advantages of being a teacher proves that she is good at thinking and has potential.

"So, do you want to strengthen the Martial Soul Bow first?"

"That's right."

Guangling took out a document from the storage wristband on her right hand, handed it to Tang San, and slowly said, "My first spirit ring choice: Iron Fang Fish."

Despite having "fish" in its name, the iron-toothed fish is not actually a fish. It only resembles a fish in size and does not live in rivers or oceans, but rather in the desert.

This kind of spirit beast can swim in the sea of ​​sand like a fish, hence the name "fish". It feeds on plant roots and insects in the desert, and also devours metal minerals hidden underground in the sea of ​​sand, condensing a pair of iron teeth that can crush metal.

Legend has it that the Irontooth Fish is a dragon species, but it gave up the opportunity to transform into a dragon, sacrificing a powerful future in exchange for the continuation of its race.

The Irontooth Fish are extremely numerous, the strongest in their group, and only live for a thousand years.

Ten-thousand-year-old Iron-Toothed Fish will not appear, because the Iron-Toothed Fish of a thousand years old have heavy bodies due to their mouths filled with iron teeth made of countless metal minerals, making it difficult for them to be as agile as they were in the hundred-year or ten-year period.

Therefore, once it reaches the thousand-year level, the Irontooth Fish no longer forages on its own, but instead begins to expend its cultivation energy to lay eggs.

This is a soul beast that reproduces asexually.

Soul masters who hunt such soul beasts, if they possess a beast-type martial soul, will generally acquire a set of excellent teeth after the martial soul is attached to their body. These teeth are called "Iron Teeth," which can bite through metal and stone. Most soul masters with beast-type martial souls will not choose such soul beasts because their attack methods are too unseemly, and most of them will not be able to become Soul Saints.

Why mention the Soul Saint?

Because after a Beast Soul Master breaks through to the Soul Saint level, they can unleash their Martial Soul True Form. Most Beast Soul True Forms are in the form of Soul Beasts, and their size is directly proportional to the amount and quality of their own Soul Power.

If the Iron Fang Bite skill is used in the Martial Soul True Form state, its power will be much greater.

According to a case in a book titled "Records of Battles Between True Spirit Forms" in the Martial Spirit Branch Hall of Notting City, a Soul Master whose Martial Spirit was a leopard actually broke through the True Spirit Form of a Diamond Mammoth Soul Master who was also a Soul Saint when he used his True Spirit Form.

When a weapon spirit master hunts an Iron Fang Fish, the spirit skills they acquire evolve according to their respective weapon spirits, resulting in a wide variety of skills. However, it is certain that these spirits all acquire metallic properties, becoming harder.

According to Tang San's guess, the essence of this Iron-Toothed Fish should be its ability to digest metal minerals and inject them into its iron teeth, rather than the iron teeth on its surface.

If Guangling chooses the Iron Fang Fish's spirit ring, there is a chance to obtain this ability, but after all, a spirit is not a real thing and cannot incorporate real metal into it.

If Tang San had thoroughly studied the patterns within the soul tool, it might be possible, but now, even if Guang Ling obtains the Iron Fang Fish's essential abilities, the effect might not be that significant.

In other words, the future is promising.

"Have you made up your mind? Choose Irontooth Fish?" Tang San closed the document, handed it back to Guang Ling, and confirmed it one last time.

"Hmm." Guangling nodded vigorously. "The only suitable soul beast I can find to strengthen my iron bow is this Iron Fang Fish. Other soul beasts with metal properties are all over a thousand or ten thousand years old, which is very dangerous. Moreover, I feel that my first soul ring cannot withstand a thousand years. To be on the safe side, choosing a hundred years old will be enough."

"Alright, most of the thousand-year-old Iron Fang Fish hide deep underground in the desert, so my Blue Silver Grass might not be effective in the desert." Tang San rubbed his chin, thinking that Guang Ling's analysis was acceptable, and that the first soul skill did not necessarily need to be the kind with extremely strong attack power to qualify as a "true disciple".

The only problem is that this soul hunt might take a bit longer, since the Iron Fang Fish only exists in the Infinite Desert, which is quite far from Notting City.

Just getting there would take about a month.

However, Tang San decided to go because his third spirit ring, the Sun and Moon Grass, also grows in the oasis of the Infinite Desert... Perhaps he could ask Notting Academy and the Spirit Hall for a six-month leave, and he could also cultivate on the road and strive to reach level 30.

Since we have a Soul Saint like Ling Yuan as a bodyguard, we might as well use her.

Upon learning of this, Ling Yuan immediately objected: "The desert isn't good for a girl's skin. Can't we go to the regular Soul Hunting Forest?"

"At the very least, the Star Dou Great Forest will do. The outer areas are relatively safe, and there are many different kinds of soul beasts there."

Tang San shook his head: "There are many kinds of soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, but some special soul beasts can only live in specific environments. I also need to obtain my third soul ring in the Infinite Desert."

Ling Yuan was surprised: "You've broken through to level 30?"

"No, but during my vacation back in Holy Soul Village, I wasn't idle either. My soul power increased by one level again, reaching level twenty-seven. For the remaining three levels, if I don't do anything else and focus solely on cultivating my soul power for the next six months, I should be able to break through to level thirty." Tang San calculated his soul power breakthrough speed and said this.

(End of this chapter)