Forest Mammoth Soul Spirit

Just as the Forest Mammoth tried to control the Dragon of Ten Thousand Forests to attack Qian Gu Huang Yu, Qian Gu Huang Yu was nowhere to be seen.

The moment Qian Gu Dong Feng activated Spatial Displacement, Qian Gu Huang Yu had already moved far away from where she had been standing.

With the Dragon of Ten Thousand Forests unavailable and unwilling to sit around waiting for death, the Forest Mammoth erupted with powerful Soul Power. A layer of earthy yellow radiance began at its feet and gradually spread across its massive body.

The Forest Mammoth is a dual earth-and-wood attribute soul beast. This should be its life-saving divine skill, Blessing of Mountains and Rivers, right? Qian Gu Huang Yu thought to herself.

Blessing of Mountains and Rivers could unconditionally block one attack, so long as the opponent's attack did not exceed its own by twenty levels.

Though its effect was inferior to the Invincible Golden Body, which could ignore all attacks below god level for three seconds, it consumed far less Soul Power. That was why the Forest Mammoth could still use it in its current condition.

But how could Qian Gu Huang Yu possibly have failed to account for this situation?

After replacing the Dragon of Ten Thousand Forests, Qian Gu Dong Feng had been in free fall. Upon receiving Qian Gu Huang Yu's signal, his Soul Power surged as he activated his First and Second Soul Skills at once, diving downward at even greater speed.

Pitch-black Soul Power wrapped around Qian Gu Dong Feng's body, and his aura rapidly soared. At the same time, the originally silver-white Coiled Dragon Staff turned black.

Just as the earthy yellow radiance began to cover the Forest Mammoth's head, Qian Gu Dong Feng arrived.

He gripped one end of the Coiled Dragon Staff with both hands and arched his body backward. A terrifying black glow gathered around the staff, as though it were about to devour the Forest Mammoth whole.

Qian Gu Dong Feng's aura climbed to its peak, and then he swung the Coiled Dragon Staff down with explosive force!

"Boom!!"

The black glow around the Coiled Dragon Staff collided with the earthy yellow Soul Power that was about to envelop the Forest Mammoth, setting off violent Soul Power fluctuations. Yet after the clash, both shattered together!

As the earthy yellow Soul Power dispersed, Blessing of Mountains and Rivers failed to activate. However, the Forest Mammoth had no time to concern itself with the backlash from its failed Soul Skill.

There was no time to mourn the death of Blessing of Mountains and Rivers. Rushing onto the battlefield at once was—the Golden Thunder Dragon!

A piercing roar resounded through the entire forest. With Blessing of Mountains and Rivers shattered, the Forest Mammoth could only face the thunder's might on its own.

But how could the grievously weakened Forest Mammoth possibly withstand the power of the Golden Thunder Dragon with its physical body?

As the thunder that echoed through the forest gradually subsided, both the Forest Mammoth and the Dragon of Ten Thousand Forests, which had still been pursuing Qian Gu Huang Yu, vanished along with the Golden Thunder Dragon.

After the Forest Mammoth's body dissipated, no spiritual energy leaked out. This was a characteristic of Spirit Ascension Platform guardians.

Spirit Ascension Platform guardians were naturally exceptionally powerful soul beasts, so their energy sources generally were not pure spiritual energy, but were fused with soul bones.

However, this Forest Mammoth was somewhat unusual. After its death, neither spiritual energy nor a soul bone appeared. Instead, a miniature Forest Mammoth emerged and floated before Qian Gu Dong Feng.

Qian Gu Huang Yu landed beside Qian Gu Dong Feng. Looking at the tiny mammoth floating in the air, she could not quite make sense of the situation and asked, "Brother, is this a soul spirit?"

Qian Gu Dong Feng nodded and explained, "Normally, the source energy of Spirit Ascension Platform guardians is a soul bone. But the Forest Mammoth we encountered today may have been special. Its source energy actually turned out to be a soul spirit."

"Then did we come here for nothing?" As she spoke, Qian Gu Huang Yu pouted, her red eyes filled with grievance. Seeing his little sister display such a childlike side for once, Qian Gu Dong Feng could not help but laugh. "Not entirely. At least we can still take this soul spirit with us."

"This thing isn't of much use to me. Brother, I'll give it to you."

The reason they had been able to defeat the Spirit Ascension Platform guardian, the Forest Mammoth, so easily this time was not only because Qian Gu Huang Yu had used the Blazing Azure Wolf pack to wear it down and set fires, making it easier for her to form the thunder dragon. More importantly, Qian Gu Dong Feng had first moved away the Dragon of Ten Thousand Forests, then interrupted the activation of Blessing of Mountains and Rivers with a single strike, forcing the Forest Mammoth to take the Golden Thunder Dragon head-on.

That brought up Qian Gu Dong Feng's three Soul Skills. Whether it was due to the butterfly effect caused by Qian Gu Huang Yu or whether the original timeline had been the same, Qian Gu Dong Feng's first soul spirit was actually a Mysterious Nether Turtle!

That was right—the very same Mysterious Nether Turtle from Xu Sanshi's Mysterious Nether Turtle Armor Shield in Soul Land 2!

Naturally, the thousand-year Mysterious Nether Turtle soul spirit had also granted Qian Gu Dong Feng three Soul Skills strongly characteristic of the Mysterious Nether Turtle.

His First Soul Skill was a buff-type Soul Skill that nearly every assault-type Soul Master possessed, called Dragon Soul Transformation. Its effect was also the classic enhancement of defense, attack power, and the like.

His Third Soul Skill was the same Mysterious Nether Displacement used by Xu Sanshi—the Soul Skill Qian Gu Dong Feng had used earlier to exchange places with the Dragon of Ten Thousand Forests.

The most interesting one was his Second Soul Skill, Breath of Profound Water. It wrapped the Coiled Dragon Staff in black Soul Power. Although it only worked once, whoever it struck would be forcibly stunned for at least one second. If the opponent was using a Soul Skill, it would forcibly interrupt the skill's activation.

Qian Gu Dong Feng had relied on this move to forcibly interrupt Blessing of Mountains and Rivers.

Unlike Qian Gu Huang Yu's King Ghidorah and Qian Gu Qing Feng's Purgatory Halberd inherited from their mother, the Qian Gu Family had conducted extensive research into the Coiled Dragon Staff. They had long established a mature system for which soul spirits to pair with it and which Soul Skills to obtain.

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Although inherited martial souls made it easy for others to figure out what one's Soul Skills were, just as the Dai Family's Evil-Eyed White Tiger had unchanged Soul Skills even after Twenty Thousand Years.

With the guidance of those who came before, it was also easier to find one's own path. While one's ancestors could not tell someone exactly what suited them best, the family's thousands of years of experience could certainly tell them what did not suit them.

Taking Qian Gu Dong Feng as an example, the path he had chosen was to acquire only buff-type and utility-type Soul Skills before his Seventh Soul Ring, and no offensive Soul Skills.

After all, the true essence of the Coiled Dragon Staff was the Unyielding Staff Technique. Once one truly cultivated to the level of a Limit Douluo, the power of the first few offensive Soul Skills would likely not even compare to the first form of the Unyielding Staff Technique. Buff-type skills, however, enhanced by percentage, and could truly be used all the way to the level of Limit Douluo.

Qian Gu Dong Feng said nothing in response to Qian Gu Huang Yu's decision. The Forest Mammoth possessed dual earth-and-wood attributes, which had nothing to do with King Ghidorah, while his Coiled Dragon Staff had no specific attribute, so it could possibly absorb it.

Most importantly, he coveted the Dragon of Ten Thousand Forests, which was practically equivalent to summoning a clone, and Blessing of Mountains and Rivers, which could nullify one attack!

Although this Forest Mammoth only had four thousand Years of Cultivation, which was somewhat low for serving as his second soul spirit and providing the Years of Cultivation for his Fourth Soul Ring, that was no issue at all for Qian Gu Dong Feng, who had the Qian Gu Family behind him. If its Years of Cultivation were too low, they could simply pour spiritual energy into it!

The Spirit Pagoda had no shortage of spiritual energy!

(End of Chapter)