2,000-Year Ghost Face Terror Scorpion

As they entered the Star Dou Great Forest, dense trees blocked out the sunlight, making the surroundings dark and quiet.

Bibi Dong walked at the front. After they had gone some distance, she said to Ghost Douluo beside her,

"Ghost Elder, help Little Ling search for some Dark Soul Beasts first."

As she spoke, Bibi Dong looked at Luo Ling. "By the way, Little Ling, do you have any plans for your second Soul Ring?"

Luo Ling's Martial Soul was simply too unusual. Even Bibi Dong had no particularly good advice for him.

Luo Ling pondered for a moment. His First Soul Skill had come from a three-hundred-year Mandala Snake, but ever since his Second Martial Soul Awakening, he had felt something.

His Soul Skills were not affected by the species of Soul Beast.

Just like the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul inherited by Spirit Hall, whose Soul Skills were fixed.

He only needed to hunt Soul Beasts with matching attributes.

After pondering for a moment, Luo Ling decided to test it.

"Could I trouble Uncle Ghost to investigate the Dark Soul Beasts around us first?"

"Anything under two thousand years will do."

"Two thousand years?" Xie Yue and Yan spoke in unison.

"Little Ling! You're obtaining your second Soul Ring. Do you know the limit for a second Soul Ring is 764 years?" Xie Yue could not help reminding him.

"..." Luo Ling glanced at Xie Yue. He knew Xie Yue meant well, but he still felt rather helpless.

Just as he was about to explain, Hu Liena spoke first. "Brother! You don't know this, do you? Little Ling's Soul of Desire Martial Soul has a first Soul Ring of over nine hundred years!"

"What?" Xie Yue and Yan exclaimed in shock once again.

"The age of Soul Rings below ten thousand years depends on what one's physical constitution can absorb. Yu Xiaogang's Soul Ring age theory can only apply to most ordinary Soul Masters," Luo Ling explained.

Bibi Dong looked over as well. She knew Luo Ling had absorbed a nine-hundred-year Netherworld Bird Soul Ring, but she did not know why he had been able to exceed the limit.

"Yes, I read it in a book in the Library," Luo Ling explained calmly. "Soul Rings over ten thousand years carry the Spiritual Power impact of residual Soul Beast souls, so one must reach the Soul King level and possess powerful Spiritual Power before they can be safely absorbed."

"As for thousand-year and hundred-year Soul Rings, sufficient physical strength is all that is needed."

Yan and Xie Yue looked at each other, and regret soon appeared on both their faces.

Naturally, Luo Ling knew what they were thinking, so he added, "You'd better honestly follow the Soul Ring age theory. Not just anyone can exceed the limit."

"Although Yu Xiaogang's theory was copied, it is still the crystallization of knowledge recorded by Spirit Hall over so many years. It is the safest approach."

Xie Yue gave a bitter smile and shook his head. Although Luo Ling had put it tactfully, he still felt somewhat disappointed.

Luo Ling shrugged and turned to Ghost Douluo. "Then I'll have to trouble Uncle Ghost to help me find a Soul Beast."

Ghost Douluo nodded and slowly transformed into a black shadow before disappearing.

Half an hour later, Ghost Douluo reappeared.

"Five kilometers west, there is a Dark Demon Hound, around seventeen hundred years."

"Three kilometers east, there is a Dark Magic Tree, fifteen hundred years."

"Farther east, about ten kilometers away, there is a Netherworld Snake, two thousand years."

"Fifteen kilometers south, there is a Ghost Face Terror Scorpion, also two thousand years."

Luo Ling listened to Ghost Douluo's report and considered his options.

Dark Demon Hounds and Dark Magic Trees were both relatively common Soul Beasts. As for Netherworld Snakes and Ghost Face Terror Scorpions, they were much rarer.

Simply put, their bloodlines were of a higher grade.

"Little Ling, both the Netherworld Snake and the Ghost Face Terror Scorpion are two thousand years old. How about the Dark Magic Tree instead?"

Bibi Dong suggested, "Your Raven Shadow Puppet's First Soul Skill has strong control abilities. The Dark Magic Tree also has powerful control skills, which would further strengthen your control."

However, Luo Ling slowly shook his head.

The Raven Shadow Puppet's First Soul Skill, Darkness Weaving, was infinitely versatile. Even if the Dark Magic Tree gave him another control skill, it would be nothing more than something like binding, which was utterly useless.

He thought of Tang San from the original work.

Blue Silver Grass was itself a plant. Once one had mastered their Martial Soul, they could use binding, spiderwebs, cages, and all manner of abilities.

Yet Tang San had wasted three Soul Skills obtaining those abilities.

The little Toxin attribute he had gained was simply putting the cart before the horse.

Wildfires could never burn it all; when the spring breeze blew, it would grow again. That was the true strength of Blue Silver Grass.

"I choose the Ghost Face Terror Scorpion," Luo Ling said slowly.

He had seen information about this Soul Beast in the Library.

The Ghost Face Terror Scorpion was an extremely rare Soul Beast. Not only was it a Dark Soul Beast, but it also possessed terrifying Toxin.

Unlike ordinary Toxin, the Ghost Face Terror Scorpion's Toxin had powerful hallucinatory effects, more akin to an ability of the spiritual attribute.

Luo Ling greatly anticipated what would happen if his Martial Soul could also gain hallucinatory Toxin.

Bibi Dong did not stop Luo Ling. She knew that this disciple of hers had his own ideas.

Thus, she directly said to Ghost Douluo, "Ghost Elder, take us there."

The group quickly arrived at the Ghost Face Terror Scorpion's location.

Amid a pile of jagged rocks, within the gaps between pitch-black stones, they could see a massive scorpion.

Ghost Douluo controlled his Soul Power and directly blasted the rubble away, revealing the Ghost Face Terror Scorpion's full body.

It was covered in hard black armor, its enormous pincers gleaming with cold light, while its sharp tail stinger shone with a magnificent dark purple hue.

The Ghost Face Terror Scorpion's most distinctive feature was its chilling facial appearance.

Its head was covered by a thick black shell shaped like a skeletal ghost face, with malicious red light flickering within its eye sockets.

That was the origin of the Ghost Face Terror Scorpion's name.

As though it sensed the terror of the humans before it, the Ghost Face Terror Scorpion actually raised its pincers and began digging a hole in the ground, preparing to flee.

Naturally, Ghost Douluo would not give the scorpion a chance to escape.

The Fifth Soul Skill, Black Shadow Earthly Grasp, activated.

Countless jet-black claws rose from the ground and forcibly dragged the Ghost Face Terror Scorpion out.

Then the Second Soul Skill, Soul Devouring Claw, activated. His entire body transformed into a black shadow as darkness condensed in the air into pitch-black claws that struck down.

The power of darkness directly tore the Ghost Face Terror Scorpion in half.

The Ghost Face Terror Scorpion let out a miserable shriek, like the wail of a ghost.

Its scorpion tail twitched against the ground, while the other half of its body writhed frantically.

After several dozen seconds, the movement gradually stopped, and the Ghost Face Terror Scorpion had only its final breath remaining.

Luo Ling walked straight over, took a dagger from his Soul Tool, and viciously plunged it into the Ghost Face Terror Scorpion's eye socket.

Moments later, the Ghost Face Terror Scorpion let out its final cry of grief, and the red light in its eye socket vanished.

A purple Soul Ring floated up from its corpse.

Luo Ling sat down cross-legged and summoned his Raven Shadow Puppet Martial Soul.

Then, he directly guided the purple Soul Ring onto his body.

Luo Ling entered a meditative state and began absorbing the Soul Ring.

Bibi Dong and the others guarded Luo Ling in the middle. The Star Dou Great Forest was not like the Soul Hunting Forest; they had to remain vigilant at all times.

Second by second, time passed. This two-thousand-year Soul Ring did not place much pressure on Luo Ling, and gradually, the power within it was completely absorbed by him.

Half an hour later, Luo Ling opened his eyes, and a purple Soul Ring rose from beneath his feet.

He stood up in satisfaction. His Soul Power bottleneck had not broken through, and he remained at level twenty, but the Soul Power from the Ghost Face Terror Scorpion's Soul Ring had accumulated within him.

Once he absorbed another Soul Ring, it could be completely converted into his own Soul Power.

At the same time, the Ghost Face Terror Scorpion had confirmed Luo Ling's hypothesis: his Martial Soul Skills had little to do with the Soul Beast's own Soul Skills.