Beginning the Hunt for Subsequent Soul Rings

"I'm sorry, I can't take you, Yan Yan."

Before Dugu Yan could finish speaking, You Chen interrupted her with a regretful expression.

"Then, can I see my senior brother?"

Dugu Yan was somewhat dejected, then her pretty face flushed slightly, and she asked shyly.

You Chen sighed softly, then suddenly turned to look at the corner. "You Xing, what are you still hiding there for? Didn't you see your junior sister calling you?"

From a dark corner, the cold-faced You Xing slowly makes his entrance.

"Yan Yan, instead of focusing on your cultivation, what are you doing causing trouble here?" You Xing said coldly.

"Ooh~"

Despite being scolded by You Xing, Dugu Yan blushed and shivered.

You Xing: "..."

You Chen couldn't help but recall Ignis, and his lips twitched. Damn it, you're trying to pull this trick on me too, huh?

At least Ignis was willing to actually get involved, but you, Dugu Yan, are even more outrageous, you're just using words to get what you want!?

You Chen said that sometimes, he really doesn't understand women.

He was disguised as You Xing back then, and he ruthlessly trampled Dugu Yan's beautiful face into the dirt, thoroughly humiliating her. A normal person would have stayed far away from the You Xing, avoiding him like the plague, right? How could this have caused Dugu Yan to awaken such a special talent by such a coincidence? What the hell is going on?! The original story didn't mention Dugu Yan having this talent, did it? It shouldn't have!

Although he had previously boasted that he wouldn't refuse any tempting offers, but...

Damn it, if I just do it, I won't be able to explain it to my good younger brother, Dugu Bo.

Although he initially intended to use Dugu Bo as a tool, Dugu Bo is now working incredibly hard for him. As a result, while Dugu Bo is fighting for him outside, Dugu Bo is sleeping with the granddaughter he was entrusted to take good care of at the base...

You Chen could already imagine the resentful expression on Dugu Bo's face when he saw him after that.

Furthermore, the generational hierarchy is completely messed up. Dugu Yan calls Dugu Bo" Grandpa," while Dugu Bo calls Dugu Yan" Sister-in-law"? Are they treating each other differently? It's a bit like a chaotic display of filial piety.

You Chen vaguely sensed the presence of his conscience, which seemed to be aching slightly.

This precedent must not be set.

Dugu Yan blushed, but said defiantly, "You Xing, have you been avoiding me lately? You'd better explain yourself."

Unlike when she was facing You Chen, she called You Xing by his name directly in front of him.

You Xing coldly said, "Yan Yan, I hope you can put away those irrelevant thoughts. I You Xing, am obsessed with the Great Dao, and women... will only affect my cultivation speed!"

He turned and left, coldly snorting, "A so-called genius like you doesn't even have the right to see me!"

"Waaah!"

Dugu Yan collapsed onto the ground in a duck-like pose, her face flushed as she made strange noises.

She shouted at You Xing's retreating figure, seemingly both angry and ashamed, "You Xing, you better remember this! I will definitely catch up with you! I will prove to you that I, Dugu Yan, am definitely not some trash or weakling! When that time comes, I'll see if you'll still say the same thing as today! I'm not your niece! I'm your peer, your equal! Remember that!"

If her legs didn't tremble from time to time, her words might have been quite persuasive, and it's not impossible that they would have become a source of amusement among her competitors in the future.

Unfortunately, there are no "what ifs," so in You Chen's view, this guy was clearly taking the opportunity to satisfy his own special fetish.

This is utterly despicable!

How could Dugu Bo have raised such a granddaughter?

They must be punished severely.

"Lord of the Alliance."

While the skit was unfolding over there, Ni Nuo had already returned very quickly and was giving an intelligence report.

"Oh, go ahead, I'm listening."

You Chen calmly responded to Ni Nuo, letting her continue her explanation.

After a while, You Chen nodded slowly, glanced at Dugu Yan's slightly unsteady departing figure, and said to Ni Nuo, "During my absence, you will be mainly responsible for supervising Dugu Yan's cultivation. Hmm, it's time to raise her cultivation intensity by one level. Tell her I will check when I return."

As an elder, You Chen still wanted to fulfill his duty and properly nurture Dugu Yan, so as not to let down his younger brother Dugu.

"Yes, ma'am."

Ni Nuo bowed and nodded, but looking at the staggering Dugu Yan, a trace of sympathy welled up in her heart. She was very clear about the intensity of the Serpent Head Lord's granddaughter's usual cultivation.

'Thankfully, I'm an envoy system; I don't need to work so hard. That's great.'

Although she usually works like a corporate slave, waiting for You Chen's orders 24/7, Ni Nuo finds happiness in comparison.

After obtaining the information provided by Ni Nuo, You Chen finally embarked on his journey to hunt for subsequent Soul Ring.

His first goal was to obtain the fourth Soul Ring of his Second Incarnation.

First, acquire the fourth Soul Ring of the Second Incarnation to directly break through to level 80. Then, acquire the Eighth Soul Ring Soul Ring the First Incarnation to break through to Soul Douluo. After that, complete the fifth and sixth spirit rings of the Second Incarnation. With these four Soul Rings, the Soul Power Level will definitely reach level 90.

Six months is enough time for You Chen to figure out his goal for Soul Ring.

The reason he chose this route is also closely related to the targets he hunts.

First, we must consider a key point: the Second Incarnation is almost the main combat state for You Chen afterward. In contrast, the Soul Ring on the First Incarnation are the Soul Ring that are destined to be abandoned later.

Therefore, the Soul Ring on First Incarnation should naturally be chosen to be able to transform themselves and directly convert into Self-Created Soul Skill Soul Skill.

The Second Incarnation's Soul Ring can select those Soul Beasts that were never chosen in the past in order to Martial Soul Evolution, to be as compatible as possible with the Martial Soul Origin attributes and to enhance the Martial Soul Origin power, and that can produce powerful Soul Skill.

Alternatively, you can directly choose Soul Beast with a higher age limit and greater attribute enhancement.

Either choose skills that are difficult to master and can only be used through Soul Ring, or choose high attributes.

Based on the above requirements, the first two Soul Rings in You Chen's hunting order were obtained in the Star Dou Great Forest, while the subsequent Soul Ring were to be hunted in the ocean.

The difference between the Soul Beast of the Star Dou Great Forest and the Soul Beast of the ocean lies in the fact that the Soul Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest are more diverse and can produce a wide variety of Soul Ring skills, while the ocean has abundant Soul Beast resources and, on the basis of a larger number of Soul Beast, there are more Ferocious Beast.

Of course, in reality, the core forbidden zone of the Star Dou Great Forest is also rich in Ferocious Beast resources.

However, compared to the scattered nature of the ocean Soul Beast, the Ferocious Beast in the Lake of Life are gathered under Di Tian's command and are relatively very united.

If you hunt one of them, you will almost certainly provoke a counterattack from the other Ferocious Beast.

Especially the leader of the Ferocious Beast, the Golden Eyed Black Dragon King Di Tian, at this stage, with the addition of the Golden Dragon Claw, his strength has probably reached the quasi-god level of the third stage of Limit Douluo.

Even if You Chen breaks through to the Titled Douluo level, he is unlikely to be a match for Di Tian.

More importantly, at the bottom of the Lake of Life lies a First-Level God who is recovering and sleeping.

If not necessary, You Chen naturally hoped that these Ferocious Beasts would quietly slumber and absorb the Ice Silkworm, just like in the original Douluo 1.

Furthermore, considering You Chen's ambition and stance, it's not impossible that he might one day unite with these hundreds of thousands of low-intelligence Soul Beast who are even worse than Douluo people who haven't received nine years of compulsory education, or rather... take advantage of them.

The fourth Soul Ring of the Second Incarnation has a maximum lifespan of around 100,000 years. Without considering the strength of the attribute amplification or the self-absorption into one's own, the purpose is, of course, to obtain the kind of skill that You Chen believes is basically impossible to master with the compatibility and attribute power he controls with his Stardust Dragon Martial Soul, but which is extremely powerful and useful.

A skill that has appeared countless times in the original work— Invincible Golden Body!

To be precise, it is the existence of its variants.

Based on the type of Soul Beast, you can guess what kind of Soul Ring and Soul Skill it will produce before you even hunt it.

With the vast knowledge You Chen had gained from reading countless books in the Spirit Hall, including records of countless ancestors absorbing Soul Ring, he was naturally very familiar with which Soul Beast could produce which powerful Soul Skill.

His target Soul Beast is called the Emperor Golden Lion Beast.

This is a Soul Beast with a bloodline strength even greater than that of the Wind Conquest Dragon, possessing a certain degree of Golden Bloodline.

The Emperor Golden Lion Beast is actually the king among ordinary Lion Beasts!

In this era, no Emperor Auspicious Beast have appeared, and Soul Beast have no cultivation buffs or luck enhancements. In the land areas of the Douluo Continent, Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast are extremely rare.

Even in the Spirit Hall's Worship Hall, very few people possess Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast is indeed powerful, but for the Worship Hall, Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast is like Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for the Body Sect ten thousand years later—an existence that can be easily hunted.

The reason there aren't many Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring is because they are rare. Even if the Spirit Hall had Soul Master capable of handling Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and even if they had the hunting ability, they still wouldn't be able to find many targets.

Otherwise, Bibi Dong would definitely not have only given her Second Martial Soul a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

She didn't care about issues like overhunting Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and causing Soul Beast riot.

The Wind Conquest Dragon that You Chen found earlier was basically one of the highest-level Soul Beast that was relatively easy to find on the surface.

For ordinary Soul Master, Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast is nothing but a legend.

However, even with a cultivation level of 80,000 to 90,000 years, Soul Beast of Wind Conquest Dragon's caliber could still be found if one put in the effort, even without the Spirit Hall's control over Soul Beast intelligence.

Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast are rare. Besides the issues of cultivation speed and breaking through bottlenecks, the biggest problem is the heavenly tribulation.

Whether or not the Emperor Auspicious Beast provides a boost to one's fortune, the intensity of the heavenly tribulation will naturally differ.

Therefore, a large number of Soul Beast capable of breaking through 100,000 years of cultivation are also afraid of the Heavenly Tribulation. They either deliberately do not increase their cultivation level, but progress at the slowest rate of one year per year, or they think about making more preparations and accumulating more foundation to increase their chances of surviving the Heavenly Tribulation, and are not in a hurry to break through.

And this Emperor Golden Lion Beast is one of them.

The stronger the bloodline, the stronger the heavenly tribulation. Even with its Golden Bloodline, the Emperor Golden Lion Beast dared not be careless. Staying at the 90,000-year level for as long as possible was only natural.

But this gave You Chen an opportunity.

The Emperor Golden Lion Beast, with its 90,000 years of cultivation, was indeed stronger than the previous Wind Conquest Dragon, but it was still only at the level of an ordinary Titled Douluo.

Only after breaking through 100,000 years can one, like Da Ming Er Ming, rely on a powerful bloodline to possess the combat power of Super Douluo within 100,000 years.

Ordinary Titled Douluo have become easy targets for You Chen, who has now spent half a year recuperating.

The Emperor Golden Lion Beast is Soul Beast with metal as its primary attribute, so it can be said that it has little compatibility with the Stardust Dragon Martial Soul's attributes.

However, at this level of cultivation and bloodline, the compatibility is low, which means the enhancement of the Martial Soul Origin power is weaker, but the Soul Ring amplification and Soul Ring Soul Skill will not be significantly reduced.

Because they all share a common trait that ensures a high degree of compatibility—they possess strong vitality.

You Chen will definitely use Soul Ring Year Card to increase the Soul Ring of this Emperor Golden Lion Beast to 100,000 years.

With the addition of several more Soul Ring, each around 100,000 years old, You Chen's Martial Soul Origin power increased significantly.

Although it is still not as good as the previous progress, You Chen does not pursue a qualitative change in his Martial Soul with these few Soul Ring. As long as there is a certain quantitative change, enough for him to feel the change in his Martial Soul, that will be enough.

These are all accumulations and attempts made in order to take another step forward in the future.

Therefore, compatibility is secondary; You Chen values is the Soul Skill of the Emperor Golden Lion Beast.

Unlike before, when he pursued a promising future and improved his Martial Soul Origin, now he's focused on increasing his strength.

What is strength?

Those simple attack skills were not entirely useless to You Chen, but they were better than nothing.

You Chen values skills with strong mechanics or those with good functionality.

An invincible skill is undoubtedly a powerful skill mechanism.

Records in the Spirit Hall show that several different Soul Master obtained Soul Ring from the Emperor Golden Lion Beast and subsequently gained a similar Invincible Golden Body.

Compared to the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit's Invincible Golden Body, using the Emperor Golden Lion Beast's Soul Ring, and further aided by Self-Created Soul Skill, with You Chen's current Spirit Domain Realm mental strength, it's practically impossible for him to make a mistake.

You Chen flew at high speed, heading straight into the mixed zone inside the Star Dou Great Forest. His astonishing speed made most flying Soul Beast feel as if a hurricane had blown by, and they had no way of noticing that a Soul Master had flown by.

After entering the internal mixing zone, near the core area, You Chen quickly descended.

Rustling~

After the first few rustling sounds of leaves and branches, You Chen completely lost his voice and merged into the forest.

Unlike the special environment of the Calamity Mountain Range, in the Star Dou Great Forest, once You Chen used the Aura Concealment Art, he disappeared without a trace, and probably only Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast at a relatively close distance could detect anything amiss.

Even if it's Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, if You Chen doesn't reveal his hostility and trigger their instinctive senses, they won't be able to detect You Chen presence.

Having experienced the Calamity Mountain Range before, You Chen now felt as comfortable as if he were back in his own backyard when searching for targets and hunting opportunities in the Star Dou Great Forest.

As we all know, the outermost area is larger, and the total area of the core area is less than one-fifth of the outermost area. With the addition of You Chen's current mental search range, it only took You Chen an hour to find the trace of the Emperor Golden Lion Beast.

Even in the core area, the Emperor Golden Lion Beast can still be considered a local overlord. When You Chen discovered its whereabouts, he saw it slap a huge black bull away with a golden paw.

The Da Hei's aura was no weaker than that of an ordinary 50,000-year-old Soul Beast. Most importantly, it was enormous, a full half the size of the Emperor Golden Lion Beast. Yet, it was like a little child, slapped away by a golden lion that was much smaller than it, smashing through numerous plants before finally stopping.

However, You Chen was not at all surprised to see this scene.

The most distinctive feature of this Emperor Golden Lion Beast is that, compared to the agility of its feline counterparts, it is even more domineering in terms of strength.

Although it cannot match the Titan Giant Ape of the same level in terms of pure strength, it has the advantage of speed and is not afraid of the Titan Giant Ape of the same level at all.

Its only weakness is its defense, but that's only relative to its strength and speed; compared to those near-top-tier Soul Beast, it's hardly a disadvantage.

Furthermore, the Titan Giant Ape possesses Gravity Domain, and the Emperor Golden Lion Beast also has Emperor Golden Body.

In its Emperor Golden Body state, the Emperor Golden Lion Beast not only gains temporary invincibility, but also enjoys a power boost that lasts slightly longer than the invincibility duration.

In this state, even the Titan Giant Ape would have to temporarily avoid the Emperor Golden Lion Beast's attacks.

But... all of these are meaningless to You Chen.

The reason he hasn't made a move yet, and is still waiting, is simply to find an opportunity for the Emperor Golden Lion Beast to stay as far away from the Lake of Life area as possible.

You Chen wasn't sure whether this guy, who didn't appear in the original story, had been subdued by Da Ming Er Ming.

If they were in a brother-sister relationship, and the younger brother had been beaten up, the older brother would come along, which would give You Chen a headache.

After all, Da Ming Er Ming are both top-tier Soul Beast, possessing combat power at the Super Douluo level even at the 100,000-year stage.

If they get too close and catch you while you're absorbing the Soul Ring, the scene would be a bit too much.

Therefore, You Chen needs to pull the Emperor Golden Lion Beast as far away as possible before quickly defeating it and absorbing its Soul Ring.

This time, unlike a few years ago, You Chen didn't need to create a clone in Notting City and run between the two places.

While he waited patiently, only a few days passed before he found his opportunity.

Just as the Emperor Golden Lion Beast finished its foraging trip and was about to return from the boundary between the internal mixed zone and the core zone, You Chen made his move.

Unlike his attacks on other Titled Douluo such as Dugu Bo, the Porcupinefish Douluo, and the Snake Lance Douluo, You Chen's primary objective was to kill the Emperor Golden Lion Beast. He showed no mercy and delivered a fatal blow the moment he struck.

First, it used the Air Compression of the Archaeopteryx Soul Bone for enhancement, just as the Emperor Golden Lion Beast sensed the abnormal airflow and became alert—

The extremely compressed Stardust Power bursts forth instantly at the Shooting Sonic!

In just a moment, it erased the head of the Emperor Golden Lion Beast.

Thump...

This top-tier Soul Beast, whose strength surpassed even Dugu Bo, the Porcupinefish Douluo, and the Snake Lance Douluo, was instantly killed before it could even unleash its invincible life-saving skill.

Without giving it much thought, You Chen flashed and six Starlight Avatar appeared. He then flew straight towards the Soul Ring, which was black with a hint of blood red, and began to absorb it.

After half a year of cultivation, the Starlight Avatar has acquired a bit of Stardust Power. In terms of strength based on the age of the Soul Ring, it has far surpassed the original ten-thousand-year Soul Ring Soul Skill, and is gradually approaching the Stardust Phantom You Chen has only been able to use in his Spirit Realm Burst state, which can completely Simulation the power of the original body.

These six incarnations now each possess combat power at the threshold of Soul Douluo, capable of holding off even ordinary Titled Douluo for a period of time.

Just as You Chen was absorbing the Soul Ring of the Emperor Golden Lion Beast...

The intense fluctuations in Soul Power and the disappearance of the Emperor Golden Lion Beast's aura quickly attracted the attention of many Soul Beasts in the core area.

The Da Ming Er Ming, located on the outskirts of the Lake of Life, are no exception.

"An unfamiliar aura, and... that Emperor Golden Lion Beast is dead?"

With his superior mental strength Er Ming Da Ming grasped the situation and used his mental power to order several Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast acting as sentinels to investigate.

Er Ming quickly followed suit, but unlike Da Ming, who looked rather serious, Er Ming said with an indifferent expression, "Brother, that stubborn lion has always refused to submit to us brothers, so what if it's dead?"

With Di Tian and his group of Ferocious Beast out of the way, Da Ming Er Ming, two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts with the strength of Ferocious Beast, are now the undisputed rulers of the Star Dou Great Forest.

In addition, given Xiao Wu's child-leader personality, even if it's just to please Xiao Wu who likes riding beasts, they will try to gather all the powerful Soul Beast in the core area under their command.

The Emperor Golden Lion Beast was naturally no exception.

However, this Emperor Golden Lion Beast possessed the arrogance of a top-tier Soul Beast, believing its potential to be no less than that of the Da Ming Er Ming, and thus refused to submit.

Da Ming has a relatively mild personality, while Er Ming is more irritable.

Da Ming did not force the Emperor Golden Lion Beast to submit, but Er Ming would often go to the Emperor Golden Lion Beast's door to beat it up and vent his anger, whether there was a reason or not.

This is why the Emperor Golden Lion Beast was able to easily escape to an area far away from the two, giving You Chen an easy opportunity.

It really didn't want to run into that simpleton Er Ming.

"Er Ming."

Upon hearing this, the Sky Azure Bull Python Da Ming Daming rebuked, "Since we have acknowledged the position of ruler of this Star Dou Great Forest, we cannot simply enjoy the respect that comes with this status from other Soul Beast. We also bear the responsibility of protecting them from being wantonly hunted by human Soul Master! Even if the Emperor Golden Lion Beast does not recognize us as its leaders, we still cannot sit idly by. Otherwise, what will the other Soul Beast think?"

Er Ming sniffed and snorted, "Fine, you stay here and I'll go check the situation, right? I'll go."

After saying that, without waiting for Da Ming's response, he took earth-shaking steps and ran towards the direction from which the aura was coming from.

"Why."

Da Ming sighed softly and moved slightly away from the Lake of Life, while using his mental energy to survey the surroundings so that he could provide remote assistance to Er Ming at any time.

Before long, he received a message from the sentries. His bull-like eyes gleamed deeply. "So, it really is a human Soul Master? To be able to unleash such a powerful attack in an instant, directly killing the Emperor Golden Lion Beast, is definitely Titled Douluo among human Soul Master. If he is Titled Douluo, why would he hunt down the Emperor Golden Lion Beast?"

Da Ming couldn't quite understand it.

The aura of the Emperor Golden Lion Beast was instantly severed from its peak and reduced to nothing.

In other words, it was instantly defeated.

This eliminates the possibility of being weakened by that Titled Douluo and then handed over to someone else to finish off.

Although making such a judgment based solely on changes in aura is somewhat hasty, if the Emperor Golden Lion Beast had not been killed immediately, it would have inevitably chosen to unleash its powerful invincible skill. Therefore, Da Ming believed that this guess was most likely the truth.