Golden Ghost Butterfly Thousand-Year Soul Ring (Second Update)

Golden Ghost Butterfly: Thousand-Year Soul Ring (Second Update)

Sunset Forest, Mixed Circle.

Dugu Bo led his granddaughter and Huo Yuhao through the woods, helping Huo Yuhao search for a suitable Second Soul Ring.

Spirit-type Soul Beasts were indeed rather rare, especially ones of an appropriate age. That narrowed the search considerably.

On the way, Dugu Bo asked plenty of personal questions.

Huo Yuhao did not particularly want to talk to him, but in light of his help, he could only give a few perfunctory answers.

Dugu Yan lowered her head and tugged at her grandfather's sleeve, reminding him to stop asking. It was embarrassing to be so nosy.

During a break.

Dugu Bo was remarkably versatile, and the rabbit meat he roasted gave off an enticing fragrance.

"Senior, you're quite the cook," Huo Yuhao praised as he ate.

"Yan'er's parents left when she was little. If I didn't know some cooking, how could I have raised her all these years?" Dugu Bo said.

"Unfortunately, I spoiled this girl too much. She's overbearing and willful, completely unreasonable," Dugu Bo said with a sigh.

"Grandfather!" Dugu Yan, who was eating roasted rabbit, was suddenly called out. Her tone was rather displeased.

Why are you telling an outsider all that?

Both parents dead...

Huo Yuhao lowered his head and gnawed silently on a rabbit leg.

He was not much better off himself. Although that bastard father of his was still alive, he might as well have been dead.

If Brother Sky Dream and Old Yi had not helped him back then, he would have died in the Star Dou Great Forest long ago.

Suddenly, Dugu Bo's gaze sharpened.

"A Spirit-type Soul Beast is approaching."

Huo Yuhao immediately rose to his feet and activated his Spiritual Eye, his gaze piercing through the countless obstructions of the forest.

In the woods roughly four hundred meters away, he saw a dazzling Golden Butterfly. Its wingspan stretched nearly half a meter, and it was fluttering its soft, black-edged wings, its eyes glimmering faintly red.

"A Golden Ghost Butterfly?" Even Huo Yuhao was startled.

"Senior Dugu, help me stop it!"

Huo Yuhao moved like the wind, charging straight into the forest.

"Leave it to me." Dugu Bo leaped into the air and sealed off the sky.

Seeing this, Dugu Yan worried that Huo Yuhao would not be able to handle it alone, so she immediately followed.

In a clearing in the woods.

The Golden Butterfly fluttered its wings among the trees. Sensing movement to one side, it turned its blood-red eyes toward it.

Huo Yuhao and Dugu Yan darted out from the forest.

A brilliant golden light suddenly erupted from the Golden Ghost Butterfly's brow. Wherever it passed, trees were pierced through as it shot straight at Huo Yuhao and Dugu Yan.

"Careful!" Dugu Yan flipped backward and leaped away as she shouted a warning.

Huo Yuhao used Ghostly Shadowing Steps to dodge to the side.

Where the golden light swept through, trees snapped and the ground was gouged into a trench, wisps of smoke rising from it. Its power was truly frightening.

Huo Yuhao landed on a tree trunk with the tip of his foot, then sprang forward. His Spiritual Eye opened, flashing with purple-gold radiance as patterns surfaced, and he shot directly toward the Golden Ghost Butterfly—

Seeing this, Dugu Yan could not help cursing him for being reckless.

Judging by the power of that golden light, that Golden Butterfly was clearly a Thousand-Year Soul Beast. He only had one ring, yet he dared charge at it?

Three Soul Rings—two yellow and one purple—appeared beneath her feet. She activated her Scarlet Scale Serpent martial soul, her legs merging into a Scarlet Scale Serpent's body. Her crimson hair billowed like flames as she slithered close to the ground after him.

At the heart of the forest.

While soaring through the air, Huo Yuhao locked his gaze on the Golden Ghost Butterfly in midair. His right hand curled into a claw, and sharp Tiger Claws extended from it.

Noticing Huo Yuhao pouncing toward it, the Golden Ghost Butterfly immediately beat its Golden Butterfly Wings, sending intersecting gusts of wind slashing toward him.

Purple Demon Eyes

Huo Yuhao immediately activated the eye technique, gathering Spiritual Power and launching it at the Golden Ghost Butterfly's consciousness. Sharp wind blades shot from his claw and collided with the gusts.

Dugu Yan arrived in time from behind. Her Third Soul Ring suddenly lit up, and she opened her mouth to spew scarlet flames that swept toward the Golden Ghost Butterfly.

The Golden Ghost Butterfly burst through the sea of fire, its wings scorched black and shedding fragments as it tried to flee into the sky.

Huo Yuhao seized the opportunity. His sharp claws tore through the air, directly severing half of one of its wings.

Watching from above as he sealed off the sky, Dugu Bo could not help admiring their excellent coordination.

The Golden Ghost Butterfly tilted as it fell, and brilliant golden specks of light began gathering at its brow again, aimed at Huo Yuhao from close range.

"Careful—" Dugu Yan wanted to stop it, but it was already too late.

The Golden Ghost Butterfly unleashed its ultimate move point-blank at Huo Yuhao. Dazzling golden light suddenly erupted and swallowed him whole.

Enduring that Mental Impact, Huo Yuhao drove the Tiger Claws on his right hand directly into the Golden Ghost Butterfly's brow.

Crack!

The Golden Ghost Butterfly's brow was pierced by the claws, and the skeletal ghost face shattered instantly.

Huo Yuhao landed quietly, his clothes already tattered as he panted lightly.

The Golden Ghost Butterfly fell into the dust. Purple energy surged from within its body and gathered above its head into a Purple Soul Ring.

Dugu Yan slithered forward.

"Are you all right?"

Huo Yuhao shook his head, breathing slightly hard.

For a body tempered by the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, this amount of damage was still bearable.

Dugu Bo descended from the sky at this moment.

Huo Yuhao took out an outer robe from the Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch and draped it over himself, then walked straight toward the fallen Golden Ghost Butterfly.

"Yuhao, that's a Thousand-Year Soul Beast," Dugu Bo reminded him.

The upper limit for a soul master's Second Soul Ring was roughly eight hundred years. Exceeding that limit would cause one's body to explode.

It was called a limit because those who had attempted to absorb rings beyond their years were already dead.

Otherwise, why were all Second Soul Rings on the continent Hundred-Year Soul Rings, without exception even among Titled Douluo?

After all, there had never been any shortage of rash people in this world.

"I know," Huo Yuhao said calmly.

"Hey." Dugu Yan could not help speaking up.

Huo Yuhao turned to look back at her.

"Spirit-type Soul Beasts may be hard to find, but there's no need to take this risk. Search a little longer, and you might find a suitable Hundred-Year Soul Beast," Dugu Yan reminded him.

The academy instructors had repeatedly warned them never to cross the line when absorbing Soul Rings. There were countless examples of greed leading to disaster.

"I know. Don't worry, I won't joke around with my own life." Huo Yuhao sat cross-legged before the Golden Ghost Butterfly.

"You—" Dugu Yan was so angry that she stamped her foot. She then tugged on her grandfather's sleeve, wanting him to persuade Huo Yuhao.

Yet Dugu Bo remained silent this time.

He knew a little about just how extraordinary Huo Yuhao was.

There was a teacher behind him who was suspected to be a Deity. After possessing him, that teacher could crush Dugu Bo.

What kind of concept was it for someone with such weak cultivation to overwhelm a Titled Douluo?

Precisely because there were so many unreasonable things about him, absorbing a Soul Ring beyond his level did not seem like such a major problem.

Thus, Dugu Yan was the only one worrying herself sick.

Huo Yuhao began adjusting the flow of his Soul Power.

Old Yi, can you help me conceal the color of my First Soul Ring?

Mm.

Only after receiving Old Yi's affirmative reply did Huo Yuhao activate his Soul Ring.

A yellow Soul Ring appeared beneath him, giving off powerful Soul Power fluctuations.

Then, Huo Yuhao began guiding the absorption of the Thousand-Year Soul Ring above the Golden Ghost Butterfly's head.

Dugu Yan was anxious, worried that he would explode from absorbing the Soul Ring.

Dugu Bo, however, remained calm. A question could not help arising in his heart.

Why was his Hundred-Year Soul Ring so large?