Eight Years Old, Rank Twenty!

After the Dragon Source Fruit incident ended, Yu Tianlin could finally relax. He no longer had to undergo such intense training every day.

Of course, since he no longer had to do devilish training, what replaced it was returning to classes and studying knowledge.

Study? Study my ass!

Ahem. That said, what had to be learned still had to be learned.

Yu Tianlin returned to a regular life. Every morning, he went to the Sect Academy for classes, while the afternoons were his leisure time. Yu Tianlin usually sparred and exchanged pointers with the sect's disciples, or set himself some simple training tasks. Sometimes, he would also go to the sect's library to read books.

As for the evenings, Yu Tianlin went every day under his grandfather's guidance to the sect master's exclusive cultivation room, where he attracted thunder to strengthen his First Soul Ring and cultivated his Soul Power.

Amid these fulfilling days, one year and eight months passed.

Yu Tianlin had only just celebrated his eighth birthday a few days ago when he smoothly broke through to rank twenty.

Breaking through to rank twenty just past the age of eight directly broke the sect's record.

However, Yu Tianlin knew very well that if he had not taken the Dragon Source Fruit and raised his level by two ranks, the time it took him to break through to rank twenty would have been delayed by at least half a year.

After breaking through to rank twenty, he naturally had to go out and hunt a soul beast to obtain a soul ring. Only then would he officially earn the title of Soul Grandmaster.

For commoner soul masters, this hurdle could be called an impassable chasm, because ordinary intermediate Soul Master Academies did not help students obtain their Second Soul Ring. They could only rely on themselves for everything.

Who knew how many commoner soul masters had fallen at this step?

But for Yu Tianlin, this was not a problem at all.

When he had gone to obtain his First Soul Ring, a Soul King had accompanied him. Even when they unluckily encountered a ten-thousand-year Lightning Wing Dragon, they still managed to escape safely. If an ordinary commoner soul master had run into an accident like that, there would have been only one road left: death.

Now that Yu Tianlin was going to obtain his Second Soul Ring, his father, Yu Mingfeng, personally accompanied him.

During the four months when Yu Tianlin had undergone devilish training for the Dragon Source Fruit, Yu Mingfeng had successfully broken through by one rank. So now, he was a rank seventy-nine Soul Sage!

A rank seventy-nine Soul Sage with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul possessed extremely terrifying combat strength. Dealing with soul beasts below fifty thousand years old was no problem for him.

Commoner soul masters racked their brains and even risked nine deaths for a chance at survival, yet might still not find a soul ring with a suitable age and attribute. But Yu Tianlin, as a disciple of a great sect, could search for the soul ring most suited to him under the protection of a Soul Sage.

Reality was sometimes just that cruel.

Sometimes Yu Tianlin even thought, If I had only been a commoner after transmigrating, what would I have done? I'm afraid that when I awakened my Martial Soul, I might not even have had Soul Power.

Thinking of this, Yu Tianlin's sense of belonging toward the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect grew even deeper. He swore that he would absolutely not let Spirit Hall's Spirit Hunting Operation succeed!

And so, under Yu Mingfeng's lead, Yu Tianlin once again arrived at Thunderbolt Canyon.

Looking at the place at the canyon entrance where the Thunderous Hell Vine had once grown, Yu Tianlin's expression turned complicated.

Who would have thought that this Ten-Year Level Thunderous Hell Vine, which had always grown at the canyon entrance and which no one had paid any attention to, would actually bring him such a huge change?

During this period, Yu Tianlin had been using Attract Thunder to Temper Rings every night. As his level increased, the number of times he could attract thunder each night had also gradually grown.

From the initial one hundred times per night to the current one hundred and forty times per night, over this year and eight months, the age of Yu Tianlin's First Soul Ring had increased by around eight hundred years. Adding the previous two hundred and twenty years, his current First Soul Ring had officially reached the Thousand Year Level, its entire body turning purple.

Since his First Soul Ring was already at the Thousand Year Level, Yu Tianlin's Second Soul Ring naturally would no longer follow the normal limit of seven hundred and sixty-four years. He could absolutely attach a Thousand Year Level soul ring.

So before leaving the sect, Yu Yuanzhen examined Yu Tianlin's physical condition in detail and calculated the age of the soul ring he could currently withstand—one thousand eight hundred years.

Fine. Yu Tianlin had originally thought he could absorb a soul ring of around two thousand years, but he had not expected it to be only one thousand eight hundred years.

Under normal circumstances, the upper limit of a Third Soul Ring was one thousand seven hundred and sixty years, which happened to be about the same as Yu Tianlin's current endurance limit.

Thinking about it, that made sense. For soul masters with sufficiently good soul ring configurations, their First Soul Ring could reach four hundred years, and their Second Soul Ring could also be seven hundred years. Added together, that was one thousand one hundred years. Even then, the upper limit for their Third Soul Ring was only one thousand seven hundred and sixty years.

Now that the age limit of Yu Tianlin's Second Soul Ring could reach the three-ring standard of ordinary soul masters, it was already good enough.

One thousand eight hundred it was, then. Yu Tianlin did not have obsessive-compulsive disorder. It was not as if the age of a soul ring had to be a round number.

Yu Mingfeng and Yu Tianlin advanced like this toward the depths of Thunderbolt Canyon.

Unlike the first time he came here, Yu Tianlin encountered several thunder-and-lightning-attribute soul beasts along the way. However, based on the knowledge he had learned in the Sect Academy, he judged that they were only Ten-Year Level soul beasts.

When they encountered these soul beasts, Yu Mingfeng did not make a move. Instead, he chose to go around them.

As they bypassed these soul beasts, Yu Mingfeng explained to Yu Tianlin, "Tianlin, the reason our Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect chose its clan grounds there is not only because the environment is good and the Thunder Attribute energy is abundant, but also because it is close to Thunderbolt Canyon. Being close to Thunderbolt Canyon makes it more convenient for the sect's disciples to come here to hunt soul beasts and attach soul rings."

"However, Thunderbolt Canyon is relatively barren. It is not one of those enormous soul beast gathering grounds. On top of that, after so many years, generation after generation of sect disciples have come here to hunt soul beasts, so the soul beast resources here are already somewhat scarce."

Looking at those few Ten-Year Soul Beasts, Yu Mingfeng said, "That is why the sect established a rule: within Thunderbolt Canyon, aside from attaching the soul rings one needs, no one is allowed to slaughter soul beasts indiscriminately."

Yu Tianlin nodded in understanding. Soul beasts already cultivated much more slowly than human soul masters. If they were also slaughtered indiscriminately, it would not be long before soul masters had no rings left to use.

Seeing his son listen so seriously to his explanation, Yu Mingfeng revealed a gratified smile and said, "Your current First Soul Ring has reached the Thousand Year Level. It can condense ten Thunder Balls at once for a concentrated barrage, making it a large-area covering-type long-range attack. It just happens to be similar to the Second Soul Skill, Thunderbolt of Ten Thousand Jun, summarized by our sect, so it matches up."

"So as long as your Second Soul Skill is Thunderbolt Dragon Claw, it will perfectly correspond to the first two soul skills summarized by the sect."

"Thunderbolt Dragon Claw comes from the Swift Electric Dragon. In addition, your grandfather has judged the limit your body can withstand, so our target this time is a Swift Electric Dragon under one thousand eight hundred years old."

Thunderbolt Dragon Claw. It really was a powerful skill. Yu Tianlin had coveted it for a long time. Now he was about to obtain it himself, and it would even be a Thousand Year Level Thunderbolt Dragon Claw. Its power would definitely be much stronger than one around four hundred years old.