Primordial Jade Cutter, Soul Ring Selection

"Finally, enough!"

Looking at the diary, which was already full and even seemed to be overflowing a little, Gan Lin felt somewhat excited.

Although the rewards had all been weakened so they could be used normally on the Douluo Continent, the people who could receive copies of the diary were anything but ordinary. Whatever they offered, even if it was Mora, was bound to be good.

Come to think of it, it was fortunate that his diary rewarded him by letting him choose treasures rather than through a lottery. Otherwise, if some fellow tipped him a huge amount of Mora, his chances of drawing anything else from the prize pool would drop considerably. It might even... be nothing but Mora.

Then he would draw one Mora, only to draw another Mora next time. He wouldn't even have a place to cry.

When Gan Lin opened the diary's selection pool, he froze for a moment.

"Uh, what's going on? Wasn't I only supposed to be able to choose one treasure each time the tips filled the charge? How come now..."

Looking at the multitude of items before him, Gan Lin learned that he could choose three treasures.

So "everything comes in threes" really was true, huh? Not long ago, he had just chosen three treasures from the Heaven Dou Empire's treasury.

Now he was choosing from the diary's tip rewards again. This feeling... honestly, it was pretty great.

Still, Gan Lin had a bit of a guess.

The diary probably hadn't malfunctioned, so someone must have suddenly given him a massive tip.

As for who on the Teyvat continent would go that far for him, did it even need saying? Gan Lin could have figured it out with his toes. It had to be his sister Ganyu.

As for why Sister Ganyu hadn't tipped him before...

There were only two possibilities...

First, Sister Ganyu doubted his identity. Knowing that others on the Teyvat continent might learn what was in the diary, he naturally couldn't reveal the little secrets that only he and Sister Ganyu knew.

Second, the Lord of Geo had other considerations.

Gan Lin leaned toward the second possibility.

That old man, the Lord of Geo... Now that Gan Lin had exposed his daily life, he wondered whether Sister Ganyu's rose-tinted view would shatter and her worldview collapse, just like Barbara's.

"Let's see what good stuff there is..."

"A wine cup used by the Anemo Archon...

A teacup used by the Geo Archon...

A fine wine favored by the Anemo Archon...

A fishing rod used by the Geo Archon..."

"..."

Looking at the first few items, Gan Lin would have suspected that the drunkard Barbatos was messing with him if some of them hadn't belonged to the Lord of Geo too.

But could the diary really count these things as treasures?

To him, they might not be entirely worthless, but they were at least completely useless.

Of course, perhaps the divine presence lingering on them could produce some kind of wondrous chemical reaction with the rules of the Douluo Continent.

But none of that was certain. If they really did turn out to be useless, he would have wasted a chance to choose a treasure. At this early stage, time was the one thing he could least afford to waste.

So he had better play it safe.

After picking through the options, Gan Lin finally chose the three items best suited to him at his current stage.

"Diary, for the first one, I choose the Primordial Jade Cutter."

[Confirmed: Primordial Jade Cutter.]

The next moment, a green sword fell into Gan Lin's outstretched hands.

The sword was a ceremonial jade blade in the traditional Liyue style. A personal sword polished by the Geo Archon Morax himself, it had originally been a ceremonial gift of peace, carved from a piece of green jade called Jade Cutter. Morax had intended to give it to an old friend among the gods as a token of their continued peace.

In the old days, the two could drink and talk merrily together, kindred spirits who could set aside their hatred and share a drink. But the cruel fate of the Archon War could not be reversed, and they ultimately became enemies.

The gift was never delivered. The jade sword that had once carried their friendship became the weapon that slew that old friend.

[Jade Cutter possesses the soul and tenderness of clear water and can naturally wash away the old grudges lingering upon it.]

[But who can soothe the pain of a weapon of slaughter fashioned from a body of beautiful jade?]

Setting its history aside, it was already perfectly clear who had tipped him this sword, given that it was Rex Lapis's personal weapon.

So the moment Gan Lin saw it, he claimed it without hesitation.

Although the diary might have drained much of the sword's power, on the Douluo Continent, it would be a Super Divine Artifact at the very least.

And like the Blackcliff Warbow, the Primordial Jade Cutter gave Gan Lin an even more outrageous boost.

[When the wielder is uninjured, attack power increases by 1000%.]

The simple, unadorned beauty of numbers. As long as he remained uninjured, his attack power would instantly increase tenfold.

He didn't even need to wait until later. He was already invincible among those of the same rank.

He had the Primordial Jade Cutter for close combat and the Blackcliff Warbow for ranged combat.

Both weapons were also beyond the usual standards...

For his second and third items, Gan Lin chose things of the same type.

[Confirmed: Juvenile Jade.]

[Confirmed: Basalt Pillar.]

That was right: drops from a Primo Geovishap and Gimel, the Geo Hypostasis, on the Teyvat continent.

Gan Lin wanted to test a guess of his.

Soul Rings on the Douluo Continent were essentially drops from Soul Beasts.

And the diary would adapt items from the Teyvat continent to suit the Douluo Continent, so...

Would the Juvenile Jade and Basalt Pillar, which were also drops, turn into Soul Rings after arriving on the Douluo Continent?

If they could, he would have hit the jackpot.

If not, he still wouldn't have wasted them.

After all, the Juvenile Jade and Basalt Pillar were Geo treasures in their own right. Even if they couldn't become Soul Rings, simply keeping them nearby would surely benefit his cultivation.

Gan Lin first took out the Juvenile Jade and cupped it carefully in his hands.

Sure enough, he felt a pull coming from the Juvenile Jade.

That pull was much like the one described in books: the attraction a Soul Master felt upon encountering a Soul Ring after reaching a Soul Power bottleneck at a multiple of ten levels.

Sure enough!

Sure enough, it could become a Soul Ring. He just didn't know how many years old it would be.

His Vision was Geo, and the attributes of both monsters suited him well. No matter how old the Soul Rings they became were, they would surely be better than those of most Soul Beasts on the Douluo Continent.

His only concern now was that their ages might be too high for him to absorb them.

Just then, another piece of information came from the diary.

When Gan Lin saw it, the smile on his face grew even more pronounced.

The Soul Rings he obtained through the Juvenile Jade and Basalt Pillar were essentially formed by extracting their energy and converting it into Soul Rings.

So, if he felt he couldn't withstand any more, he could stop at any time. That way, he would be certain to obtain a Soul Ring of the optimal age for him.

Of course, if that were all, wouldn't they be just like God-Given Soul Rings?

Of course, there was more to it than that. The Juvenile Jade and Basalt Pillar were even more overpowered than one might imagine.