The Unconscious Girl

Moreover, his Third Soul Skill could grow stronger along with him.

Jiang Wu froze for a moment.

He naturally knew about Teleportation. Both his sister and Xiao Wu had it as their Third Soul Skill, but their range was only about five meters.

His Instant Beast Flash had forty times that range and came with a lightning attribute, and it would improve as his strength grew.

With a thought, he circulated his Soul Power, and his figure abruptly vanished from where he stood.

Jiang Nannan's pupils contracted.

Jiang Wu appeared beside a large tree twenty paces away, without any warning.

Immediately afterward, Jiang Wu raised his right leg, channeled Soul Power into it, and kicked the tree.

A bolt of purple lightning burst from the edge of his leg, crackling as it struck the trunk.

With a boom, the lightning hit the bucket-thick tree, blasting its bark apart and snapping the trunk in two. The upper half crashed down, its broken end charred black.

Jiang Nannan opened her mouth.

Wang Dong'er opened her mouth too.

The two exchanged a glance and saw the same expression in each other's eyes.

"...Xiao Wu," Jiang Nannan said, drawing a deep breath, "what's your Third Soul Skill called?"

"Instant Beast Flash." Jiang Wu lowered his leg, feeling how much Soul Power he had consumed. "It teleports me two hundred meters and comes with lightning-attribute leg techniques."

Jiang Nannan fell silent for a moment.

Her own Third Soul Skill was also Teleportation, but its range was only five meters, and it had no attack attribute.

They both had Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Souls and had both absorbed Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Rings. Why was the difference so enormous?

Her own Third Soul Skill was also Teleportation, with a range of five meters and no attack attribute.

She had always thought the Soul Skill was useful. In practical combat classes at Shrek Academy, she had used the suddenness of Teleportation to defeat quite a few opponents with more Soul Power than her.

But the sight before her made her start questioning life itself.

"Xiao Wu," Jiang Nannan said, turning to Jiang Wu with a serious expression, "tell me honestly, are your Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul and mine not the same breed?"

Jiang Wu lowered his leg and brushed the dust off his trouser leg. "Sis, they're the same breed. Mine might have mutated."

"Mutated?" Jiang Nannan narrowed her eyes.

"Yeah. When it awakened, the deacon said my Martial Soul was a little higher in quality than an ordinary Soft Bone Rabbit." Jiang Wu lied without changing his expression.

Wang Dong'er chimed in from the side. "Sister Nannan, Xiao Wu's Soul Skills have always been ridiculous. His First Soul Skill hits harder than other people's Third Soul Skills, his Second Soul Skill is a spiritual-type control skill, and his Third Soul Skill combines Teleportation with lightning. I'm used to it by now."

Jiang Nannan glanced at Wang Dong'er, then at Jiang Wu, and finally sighed. "All right. You haven't been quite normal since you were little anyway."

Jiang Wu said, "...Sis, that doesn't sound like a compliment."

"It wasn't." Jiang Nannan patted his shoulder. "Let's go. You've got your Soul Ring, so it's time to find a light-attribute Soul Beast for Dong'er."

The three headed deeper into the forest.

After a few steps, Jiang Wu and the others fell silent.

The three of them had spotted an unconscious Soul Beast not far away. From what they could tell, it was a 2,500-year-old light-attribute sub-dragon Soul Beast.

Jiang Wu: "..."

Jiang Nannan: "..."

Wang Dong'er: "..."

Wang Dong'er stared at the unconscious light-attribute sub-dragon Soul Beast for three full breaths, then abruptly turned to Jiang Wu.

"Xiao Wu."

"Hmm?"

"Have you secretly been raising some kind of luck Soul Beast?"

Jiang Wu looked back at her expressionlessly. "Do I look like I have?"

"You do." Wang Dong'er nodded seriously and counted on her fingers. "These past two years, you've picked up pills when you went out and heavenly materials and earthly treasures while shopping, and now you've come into the forest and a Soul Beast has fainted right in front of you. Who'd believe you if you said you weren't raising a luck Soul Beast?"

Jiang Wu couldn't be bothered to explain and walked straight toward the light-attribute sub-dragon.

The sub-dragon wasn't particularly large. Pale golden scales covered its body, a pair of translucent light wings grew from its back, and a thumb-sized light crystal sat on its forehead.

It lay on its side with its light wings drooping slightly. Its breathing was steady; it really had passed out.

Jiang Nannan crouched down and examined it, then stood up and said, "About 2,500 years old, a light-attribute sub-dragon. Its bloodline isn't particularly pure, but the Soul Ring's quality is good enough. Dong'er, it's suitable."

Wang Dong'er walked over to the sub-dragon and looked down at it. After a moment's hesitation, she asked, "How did it pass out?"

"I don't know." Jiang Nannan shook her head. "But all sorts of strange things happen in the Star Dou Great Forest. Don't think about it."

Wang Dong'er took a deep breath and nodded, then took an exquisite shortsword from her Storage Soul Tool.

She crouched down, pressed the shortsword against the sub-dragon's heart, closed her eyes, and thrust.

The sub-dragon's body twitched once, then it went completely still. A purple Soul Ring slowly rose from its body.

"Sit cross-legged and draw in the Soul Ring." Jiang Nannan took two steps back.

Wang Dong'er sat down as instructed, closed her eyes, and circulated her Soul Power.

Jiang Wu and Jiang Nannan stood on either side of her, guarding her.

About half an hour later, the fluctuations of Soul Power around Wang Dong'er surged. A purple Soul Ring took shape beneath her feet, shining alongside her original two Soul Rings.

Three rings.

Wang Dong'er opened her eyes and jumped to her feet. She stretched her arms and legs, her pinkish-blue eyes sparkling. "I did it! My Third Soul Skill is Butterfly God Slash, a ranged skill."

Jiang Nannan nodded. "Not bad."

Wang Dong'er proudly bobbed her head, then turned to Jiang Wu. "Xiao Wu, we both have three rings now. You're level thirty-one, and I'm level thirty-two. Want to have a match and test ourselves?"

Jiang Wu glanced at her. "Are you sure?"

He was a little puzzled, wondering why a 2,500-year-old Soul Ring had only raised Wang Dong'er two levels.

Wang Dong'er recalled being pinned to a bed a few years ago, and the corner of her mouth twitched. "...On second thought, forget it."

Jiang Nannan laughed from the side.

The three headed toward the outskirts of the forest. None of them had expected to obtain their Third Soul Rings so smoothly.

The three had expected it would most likely take a long time to find suitable ones, and nothing could go wrong in the meantime.

"Huh? There's someone over there." Wang Dong'er had noticed a person lying on the ground in the distance.

Jiang Wu and Jiang Nannan looked in the direction Wang Dong'er was facing and saw a person lying on the ground.

The three walked over and discovered it was a girl.

She looked to be eleven or twelve years old.

She had a well-proportioned figure, wore a simple set of clean gray cloth clothes, and carried a small bundle on her back.

She had long black hair and was very pretty.

Jiang Wu looked at the girl, feeling somewhat baffled.

Where's Huo Yuhao?

Who is this girl?

"She's fine. She just passed out," Jiang Wu said to Jiang Nannan and Wang Dong'er as he crouched down to check the girl's condition.

Looking at the unconscious girl, Jiang Wu had a vague sense of foreboding.

Wang Dong'er asked curiously, "Why did he enter the Star Dou Great Forest alone?"

Jiang Nannan glanced around and noticed the corpse of a ten-year-old Wind Baboon. "Probably for a Soul Ring. This person really has some nerve."