Douluo Continent: Starting with controlling Ning Rongrong and establishing the Holy Cult

Not only does it have the effect of absorbing 60% of the speed attribute as he imagined, but it can also absorb an additional 6% of all attributes for plant-type Soul Masters.

More importantly, this is mitosis, which can summon a clone that can normally unleash soul skills, solving the problem of not being able to use Power Amplification and Beast Trapping simultaneously. Although the effect is only 60%, that's enough.

For example, when he was beating up Zhao Asi, he discovered that the Eight Spider Spears could receive a lot of bonuses.

In the initial state, when not eating anything, the damage is 5% of Zhao Asi's health.

After consuming the strength boost, the damage reached 8%.

After consuming the Strength Boost and Poison Attribute Boost, the damage reached 12.8%.

If you also receive the buff from the clone, the damage dealt will reach an astonishing 19.208%, nearly 20%!

In other words, after absorbing all the buffs, a level 33 Ning Rongrong only needs six sets of Eight Spider Lances attacks to defeat a weaker Soul Douluo. What if Ning Rongrong becomes a Soul Master or Soul King? Would she then be far from instantly killing a Soul Douluo?

Is this number reasonable?

"But we can't rule out the possibility that the game designers misdesigned the health system." Lu Ma quickly calmed down again. Zhao Asi's health doesn't represent all Contra games. In a game Lu Ma had played before, the health of early level 70 boss monsters was even less than that of late-game level 30 elite monsters.

After the Reversal Soul Skill ended, Lu Ma turned his attention to the remaining fourth Soul Skill.

The label there says "Please complete the relevant task".

As it happened, Lu Ma also wanted to see what the current task interface looked like. So he followed the instructions and opened the task panel.

The task panel is very simple, with only one page, and the tasks are listed intuitively on the page.

[Important] Disruption of the Third Saintess Ritual:

Please submit your submission at the Lake of Life in the Starry Sky Forest.

[Quest Reward: Fourth Soul Ring - Ten Thousand Years]

[Important] Exploring the Holy Spirit Cult:

[Waiting for the Holy Spirit Church meeting to begin]

[Task Rewards: None at present, will be added based on task completion progress]

[(General) Shrek Special Training:]

[Core Content: Obtaining Silver Battle Soul Badges]

[Tracking: Back to Shrek Academy.]

No reward.

[Note: The quest content will change upon breaking through to the Soul Master level.]

……

Another silence followed.

Lu Ma now roughly understands what Ning Rongrong's opportunity was: the Lake of Life, which could only be the Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena.

Although he didn't know how Ning Rongrong obtained this opportunity, nor why Gu Yuena was awake at this time, nor what conflict existed between her and the Holy Spirit Cult.

But that doesn't matter; all I need is to get the reward.

The task with the Holy Spirit Church isn't urgent, as it will take a week.

As for the Shrek mission at the very bottom, there are just too many flaws.

Not only are there no rewards, but what does it mean that the content of the breakthrough to Soul Master mission will be changed?

Lu Ma forced himself to calm down and then began to think about what becoming a Soul Master would actually affect.

After thinking it over, it all comes down to the Grand Arena.

Here, the Great Soul Arena is set up according to the members with the highest soul power. If Ning Rongrong breaks through to the Soul Master level, then the Shrek Seven Devils, the team that is about to be formed, will have to participate in the Soul Master level Soul Arena, since Shrek cannot find an eighth member to replace Ning Rongrong.

If the Shrek Seven Devils become a Soul Master level team, then they will no longer be able to engage in Soul Battles with the Berserker Team and the Royal Fighting Team.

Although Lu Ma felt it wouldn't matter if he didn't fight them, the game planners didn't seem to think so.

Or maybe we should just give up on this mission.

After some thought, Lu Ma finally decided to abandon the mission. Let's just change the content then.

After saving the game, he brought up the map and headed directly to the Star Dou Great Forest.

Chapter 51 Beforehand

Deep within the Starry Sky Forest, at the Lake of Life, lies the Silver Dragon King's Palace.

Gu Yuena paced back and forth beside the crystal coffin. Just now, she noticed that Ning Rongrong had broken through to level 40. Ning Rongrong was just a little short of condensing her fourth soul ring.

But at the crucial moment, she felt a force drawing away the power to condense the soul ring, bypassing the restriction of the fourth soul ring and allowing her soul power to continue to increase.

Without a doubt, this was the work of the Holy One.

So why would the Holy One do this...?

She didn't need to think about it, since Ning Rongrong was already on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest and was rushing to the Lake of Life at a rapid pace.

This clearly shows that the Holy God knows that I have a fourth spirit ring to take!

This was not within Gu Yuena's calculations. In her opinion, this fourth soul ring should have been obtained after Ning Rongrong painstakingly cultivated to level 40 and was then summoned here by her.

She hadn't taken into account that the Holy Spirit would return so early.

Alright. Ning Rongrong has already entered the palace.

After learning that Ning Rongrong was being controlled by the Holy God, she was at a loss.

Although she knew of the Holy Spirit, that didn't mean the Holy Spirit knew her. What if she impulsively ruined the Holy Spirit's plans?

Fortunately, the Holy God did not make things difficult for her.

Ning Rongrong simply walked in, asked her for the fourth spirit ring, and then gave it to her before leaving.

It was that simple; there wasn't even any conversation throughout the entire process.

Watching Ning Rongrong's departing figure, Gu Yuena breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, Lu Ma was also quite puzzled.

I thought there would be some kind of cutscene when I submitted the task, but there wasn't.

He asked for his fourth spirit ring, Gu Yuena gave it to him, and then Ning Rongrong left. It was all very calm; there wasn't even a single word exchanged.

"The development team is really lazy," Lu Ma complained. "But the effect of this fourth soul skill is quite interesting."

Fourth Soul Skill: Seven Treasures Suppression

[The phantom of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda crashes down, reducing the target's all attributes by 75% for 7.5 seconds, while also inflicting damage per second. The effect gradually increases, reaching its maximum after 30 seconds, reducing all attributes by 15% and inflicting more damage every 0.5 seconds.]

[Soul Ring Age Limit: 10000 years]

Lu Ma hadn't expected that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's non-reversal soul skill would possess offensive capabilities.

Of course, he didn't care about that little bit of attack power. How much offensive capability could the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda possibly have? In comparison, this reduction in all attributes seemed more useful, even though the numbers looked quite low.

By the way, Ning Rongrong has now reached level 43, and the base values ​​of her first three soul skills have increased to 75%, while the special effect of her second soul skill, which absorbs all attributes, has also become 7.5%.

Lu Ma returned to the Lake of Life and unlocked the Lake of Life teleportation point.

In the task list, only the Holy Spirit Cult task and Shrek Training remain.

Because Ning Rongrong broke through her limits, the Shrek Academy training mission changed.

The core content has become a string of question marks, and so has the reward.

The mission tracking remained unchanged, still showing a return to Shrek Academy.

Lu Ma opened the map, intending to teleport back to Shrek Academy. Right now, there really wasn't anything else to do.

Thinking about it, Lu Ma suddenly exclaimed, "Eh?"

On the map, Shrek Academy's teleportation point had turned gray. Clicking on it displayed the message, "The mission is at a critical juncture and cannot be directly teleported to this location."

Lu Ma clicked his tongue and teleported to Soto City.

Soto City, near the teleportation anchor point.

It was noon, and there were quite a few people coming and going. Fortunately, the Soto City teleportation point he was using was in a small alley, where hardly anyone usually came.

As the icon on the ground flashed, Ning Rongrong quickly appeared in this place. She looked around and realized that no one had seen her.

So he strode out, looked for a direction, and headed towards Shrek Academy.

-

Earlier, Shrek Academy.

Tang San was still in bed, clearly not awake, but his face was contorted with rage, as if he had seen something terrifying.

In his dream, he repeatedly experienced Xiao Wu being captured and how he absorbed the human-faced spider's soul ring to save her.

Every time Xiao Wu was captured, he was in immense pain, and every time he absorbed the human-faced demon spider, he felt as if he was about to explode and die.

The results were not the same in each of the many iterations.

For example, one possible outcome is that he actually exploded and died; another is that he absorbed a spirit ring and was killed by the Titan Giant Ape; and yet another...

It turned out to be a good result. He absorbed the spirit ring and grew eight strange bone spears. Just as he suppressed them, Xiao Wu appeared in front of him and said, "Welcome back."

However, Tang San still felt very uncomfortable when he saw this "happy ending".

Looking at his own reflection with the bone spear, he felt as if something had been stolen from him. After all, he knew he hadn't actually grown a bone spear.

But why, when the bone spear in the dream was so terrifying, and it was a good thing that he didn't have that thing, why... did he actually want to possess that bone spear?

If only the master were here, he could answer my questions.

Tang San was puzzled.

Just as he was feeling lost and struggling, he felt someone pat him on the shoulder.

He opened his eyes and saw a familiar face—it was Yu Xiaogang.

"Teacher?" Tang San was a little surprised. He pinched his cheek to make sure he wasn't dreaming, and then excitedly exclaimed, "Teacher, what brings you here?"

Yu Xiaogang adopted a kind expression and said gently, "I've come to see how my proudest student is doing. Xiao San, were you... having a nightmare just now?"

Tang San looked around to make sure Oscar wasn't there before speaking, "Um, teacher. I'd like to talk to you about something."