In Douluo Continent, Tang San raids my base right from the start.

Chapter 32 Toothpicks scoop out the big vat, nothing happens.

"Therefore, my next task is to use the limited number of imprinting attempts each day to acquire as many practical skills as possible from the thousand-year-old soul beasts. Furthermore, in choosing soul rings, I need to focus on maximizing my mental strength. After all, only with strong enough mental strength can I imprint more skills. This will make it easier to comprehend and learn these skills in the future."

"In addition, mental strength is also linked to perception ability, which is beneficial for gaining an advantage in actual combat."

"As for improving bloodline and physical body, cultivation techniques and Xiaobai consuming rare and precious herbs to nourish themselves are sufficient."

"At least, that's how it was in the early stages."

Thinking about this, Zhu Wu inexplicably felt that his life had suddenly found direction.

He smiled and continued organizing what he had learned.

Besides the Imprinting skill, Xiaobai also inherited another talent ability from the Silver Beast: Bloodlust.

This is a rather peculiar talent ability. Its effect is to draw upon the body's internal energy and blood to enhance personal attributes, with the strength of the enhancement depending on the degree to which the energy and blood are drawn. Simple activation will significantly improve the sense of smell, especially the sense of smell for blood, and provide a slight overall boost to basic attributes. However, deep activation, or even burning of energy and blood, will drastically increase personal attributes, essentially a desperate measure.

Of course, if Xiaobai were to use this technique outside his body, it would burn not his blood and qi but his soul power, which would greatly accelerate the rate at which his soul power would be consumed.

"Luckily, I threw out enough explosives at once, and they hit a vital part of the body."

If the Silver Beast found an opportunity to use this move to escape, he felt he might not be able to catch up. And if he didn't have the Soul Bone skill of flight that the Silver Beast couldn't replicate, he felt he was very likely to be caught and killed on the spot.

Ah Yin's soul bone is really useful!

"My soul power increased by 2 levels, so-so." He muttered to himself, patted his butt, and stood up.

He turned around, kicked, and the Silver Beast's corpse was sent flying and rolling away.

"No soul bone, looks like I'm really unlucky!" He shook his head and raised his hand to summon Little White.

"As expected, absorbing the essence of the sun and moon and taking drugs to evolve is the right path." Looking at the little white beast in his palm, which hadn't changed much, Zhu Wu sighed inwardly. The quality of the thousand-year silver beast soul ring was indeed high, and it greatly improved the strength of the physical body.

However, it's not very effective at improving bloodline.

It was truly like trying to scoop a large vat with a toothpick; nothing came of it.

"Little White, possess me!" he said immediately, his voice turning serious.

The scales between his eyebrows shimmered with seven-colored light, and the chubby little white body instantly merged into his palm.

The next second, Zhu Wu felt his muscles writhing, stretching, and hardening. His vision blurred with a scarlet haze, his fingers tensed involuntarily, and a foreign object emerged from beside his ear.

I can clearly feel my strength increasing throughout my body!

Soon, the change subsided, and Zhu Wu was shocked.

"This power is at least twice as strong as my original body! It's incredible!"

He lowered his head and raised his hand; it was a palm covered in scales, and at the tip grew not fingernails, but beast claws. He reached out and touched the side of his ear; it was hard. Sharp horns had grown from the sides of his ears, and when he flicked them with his fingertips, they felt hard and unyielding.

Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that her hair had turned white and grown longer.

A quick glance down revealed that his shoes were ripped, clearly indicating that he had grown considerably.

"Is this the difference between a heavy-armored warrior and a squishy mage?" At this moment, he truly understood.

The next moment, with a thought, his whole body flashed with white light, instantly transforming into beast form—a four-meter-long, two-meter-tall silver armored giant wolf.

"Wow, my strength has increased by another 3%!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Zhu Wu immediately started running, leaping and bounding with incredible speed, covering several hundred meters in the blink of an eye.

It leaped up on its hind legs and slapped a tree half a meter in diameter to the side, smashing it to pieces on the spot.

"Bang bang bang!" It charged straight ahead, scraping off large patches of bark from giant trees wherever it went, its scales remaining as solid as a rock.

"This strength is probably no less than that of a high-level strength-type soul beast of the same age, and its speed is top-tier among agility-type soul beasts. Crucially, the defensive power provided by its scales is also high. It's too strong; it's practically a five-sided warrior with almost no weaknesses. Could it be a hybrid with dragon blood?" Besides dragons, he couldn't think of any other bloodline that could give this Silver Elf Beast such strength and defense, even though it was clearly a spirit-attribute agility-type soul beast.

"Great, from now on, I should be able to roam freely outside this area where the thousand-year-old soul beasts live."

"It's time to find a new opponent." The crimson beast's eyes flashed, and it quickly ran into the depths.

Then, then I ran out of mana.

Zhu Wu had to end his passionate experience and find a place to sit down and recover.

Two quarters of an hour later, the mana bar was full. Zhu Wu didn't possess the body and transform into a Silver Elite Beast again, but instead used his soul bone's flight skill to travel with Xiao Bai, who had transformed into a small bird. It has to be said that as expected of a 100,000-year-old soul bone, its hardware was fully upgraded and its energy consumption was low, allowing him to fly for a long time.

"Azure Wind Wolf!"

Soon, the first thousand-year-old soul beast that he admired came into view, and it was alone.

Zhu Wu landed quickly and engaged the Azure Wind Wolf in battle with his bare hands.

He has studied wolves, these spirit beasts, quite a bit, and has a wealth of combat experience; he can fight them even without being possessed.

Before long, seeing that it was no match for the enemy, the Azure Wind Wolf howled to the sky, calling for its companions and activating its skill. A faint azure light emanated from its body, and its fur fluttered and rose. It suddenly raised its right foot, azure light gathering at the tip of its claw, and with a fierce swing, a sharp wind blade burst forth.

"Chirp chirp." A loud chirp came from above Zhu Wu's head, indicating that the skill had been copied.

Zhu Wu believes that the more basic a skill is, the more valuable it is to develop and the easier it is to understand.

"Farewell!" With a quick step, he leaped into the air and ran away with Little White.

"." The Azure Wind Wolf stood there, somewhat confused as to why the human in front of it, who could clearly overpower it, did not strike the old wolf hard.

Zhu Wu didn't turn back, continuing to search for soul beasts to challenge and hone his skills, while also completing his daily imprinting task.

"The Three-Tailed Fox has the skills Foxfire, Fox Tail Needle, and Sleeping Mist. The Three-Eyed Demon Fox is also a fox; I can try imprinting it. The Lightning Rabbit has the teleportation skill; I must get it. It's actually the Roaring Roar! The Roaring Roar skill is incredibly powerful."

"Little White, transform into a Silver Elite Beast and try going up there first!"

"Thank goodness I didn't go myself! They were so quick, making the prints and running away, it was so exciting!"

If you encounter someone you can fight, fight them; if you encounter someone you're likely to get killed or someone you don't know, send in the novice first, then run away after imprinting the skill. Zhu Wu resolutely adheres to this code of conduct.

Time flies, and three months have passed in the blink of an eye.

"It has somewhat delayed my cultivation," Zhu Wu sighed inwardly as he sat cross-legged among the branches of a towering tree.

Taking three months to advance one level was indeed a bit slow in his opinion. If he focused on cultivation, it would definitely be faster.

However, there's nothing we can do about it.

Searching for soul beasts in the complex and perilous Star Dou Great Forest is undoubtedly time-consuming and exhausting. After battling a soul beast, the first thing to do is to recover soul power and maintain one's condition to avoid being unable to resist attacks from surrounding soul beasts, especially flying ones. In addition, one must remain vigilant about the approaching soul beasts while practicing techniques morning and evening.

All of these things will inevitably delay your cultivation.

Of course, he didn't regret it, because what he gained was far more than just a simple increase in soul power.

Mental Impact, from the Three-Eyed Demon Ape. Hypnosis and Illusion Weaving, from the Illusion Fox. Although he only managed to imprint three mental-type soul skills, and each one caused him considerable trouble, he was already quite satisfied. After all, mental-attribute soul beasts were rare. Encountering two in three months made him wonder if his luck had turned around. As for the other soul skills, there were many—dozens in total.

Fire breath, fireball, earth spikes, hardened earth armor, wind ball, dark fog, and binding are mostly basic skills.

In fact, the vast majority of soul beasts possess very few innate abilities; they mostly rely on basic utilization of their own attributes and fight purely on instinct. This is understandable, just like humans—not everyone is born with good talents; geniuses are always a tiny minority, and the vast majority are ordinary people. The same applies to soul beasts; those with superior bloodlines are extremely rare.

Furthermore, since it takes ten thousand years of cultivation to acquire intelligence, the probability of low-level soul beasts possessing high-quality skills is even lower.

Therefore, he went to the back purely to cultivate his mental strength in order to complete the imprinting task. Why cultivate mental strength? Because he discovered that when using imprinting skills in his Silver Beast-possessed form, his mental strength would be rapidly depleted as the imprinted skill information flooded into his mind, leading to mental fatigue. After recuperating, his mental strength would increase slightly.

It wasn't obvious once or twice, but over time, and after a while, he noticed it.

It is true that reading can enlighten one's mind!

Furthermore, congratulations! He learned the Mental Impact skill. It's essentially about compressing and releasing mental energy through willpower; the principle is quite simple. After imprinting this skill, he understood it after practicing it continuously for a period of time while in Martial Soul Possession mode.

As for hypnosis, illusion weaving, seduction, etc., I still don't quite understand them and need to further comprehend them.

"Take it slow." Shaking her head, she looked up at the sky. "Time flies so fast; I'm another year older."

"After training by fighting spirit beasts one-on-one for so long, I don't know how my close combat ability compares to Tang San's. Anyway, let's put this down for now."

"It's about time for a change of pace. From now on, I'll focus my training on comprehending the beast form."

"Perhaps, learning soul beast skills by comprehending human form through beast form is a better approach."

"Next, let me try to become a real soul beast." With that thought, he slowly stood up, jumped straight to the ground, and then turned to look at his shoulder.

"Little White, possess me!"

A flash of light appeared, and the Silver Beast's robust body appeared in place, suddenly raising its head.

"Roar!" A ferocious roar suddenly echoed through the dense forest.

Meanwhile, on the other side, in Holy Soul Village.

"Clang, clang, clang." The rhythmic knocking sound came from the leftmost of the three mud-brick houses.

(End of this chapter)