First Soul Skill and Third Soul Skill

After hearing Chen Ming's description of his soul skills, Du Busi fell into deep thought.

In the snowy field, the only sound was the three master and disciples' footsteps crunching through the snow.

In the Soul Master World, there were methods to amplify soul power, but such amplification merely increased either the power or the quantity of soul power. There had never been a temporary increase to a soul master's rank.

The effects of the two were completely different.

One was purely an effect; the other provided firsthand experience.

If this amplification ignored the bottlenecks at every tenth rank, then even if it could not unlock soul rings, it would still allow a level forty-nine soul master to experience the mysteries of level fifty soul power circulation, a level sixty-nine Soul Emperor to sense the circulation of a Soul Sage's soul power, and a level eighty-nine Soul Douluo to experience what it felt like to be a Titled Douluo.

Sometimes, the despair brought by a bottleneck was not simply a matter of insufficient talent, but also the confusion of being unable to see the road ahead.

With a chance to experience it firsthand, the talent requirements for breaking through a bottleneck would be greatly reduced.

That was the heaven-defying aspect of Chen Ming's soul skill.

Yet what Du Busi did not know was that this heaven-defying aspect was useless to Chen Ming instead.

That was right. Chen Ming already possessed the experience of eight lifetimes and was thoroughly familiar with the sensations of cultivation, so he did not need such an experience. In fact, the reason this direct amplification of soul power rank could exist was likely because he already possessed that experience.

Thus, the seemingly excessive effect was merely the result of reversing the order of Causality.

"Xiao Ming, your ice and fire attributes have yet to achieve balance. Can these Ice Fire Three Profound Transformations truly be realized?" Du Busi asked.

"They can," Chen Ming answered simply.

His first soul ring had not granted him Extreme Fire, but now that he possessed Extreme Ice and had completed the fusion of ice and fire, could Extreme Fire still be far away?

This Ice Phoenix soul ring had brought him even more changes than he had anticipated.

The fusion of his first and third soul rings made them inseparable, which also made his two soul skills somewhat difficult to distinguish. For instance, he could now also use Ice Lotus Blessing.

Naturally, the highest-tier ability was Golden Lotus Blessing, which fused the powers of ice and fire.

This was, in fact, the combined use of his first and third soul skills.

Likewise, using Ice Fire Three Profound Transformations also counted as using his first and third soul skills simultaneously.

To distinguish them, he separated these two abilities and assigned them to two soul rings: his first soul skill became Golden Lotus Hegemony Body, while his third soul skill was named Ice Fire Three Profound Transformations.

Of course, these were only their final forms. He would need to master Extreme Fire, achieve a balance between ice and fire, harmonize the ages of the two soul rings, and truly attain the dual heavens of ice and fire.

With thirty-fifth-level soul power, the next time he obtained a soul ring should be—

Chen Ming's expression stiffened.

Did extreme attributes reduce cultivation speed?

"No. If extreme attributes slow down cultivation, then I'll find a way to make up for it."

He turned back and reminded Du Busi.

"Teacher, are we still going to capture an Extreme Ice soul beast and bring it back?"

Du Busi frowned, unable to understand at first why they needed to capture an Extreme Ice soul beast.

Very quickly, he recalled what he had said back in Sunset Forest.

"Xiao Ming, now that you have Extreme Ice, wouldn't capturing another soul beast with the Extreme Ice attribute just be asking for trouble?" Du Busi laughed as he scolded him.

"On our way back, we'll go see what treasures are hidden within that poisonous miasma."

One month later, Sunset Forest.

Outside the poisonous miasma.

Chen Ming released his soul power and unleashed the power of Extreme Ice. A Lotus Phantom formed from Extreme Ice enveloped the three of them.

The three ventured deep into the poisonous miasma. The moment the surrounding rainbow-colored mist touched the lotus, it dissolved completely.

The surrounding miasma contained a mixture of numerous toxins, among which the rainbow-colored poison was the most toxic. Yet it was precisely this rainbow-colored toxin that dissolved first.

Du Busi was greatly astonished by the sight.

"The Azure Phosphor Seven Absolute Flower is known as the most corrosive poison of all. It even possesses powerful neurotoxicity, and not even flames can restrain it. I never expected the Azure Phosphor Seven Absolute Flower to dissolve upon encountering Extreme Ice. It seems that frost restrains the Azure Phosphor Seven Absolute Flower."

As Du Busi spoke, Long Aotian curiously gave it a try. He barely converted a small portion of his soul power into ice-attribute soul power, turning it into a stream of cold air that shot beyond Chen Ming's Extreme Ice lotus.

Sure enough, even cold air that was not Extreme Ice could disperse much of the rainbow-colored poisonous mist.

Du Busi was overjoyed at the sight.

For someone cultivating Poison Cultivation like him, figuring out how to counter a deadly poison was no different from undergoing a transformation in cultivation.

With this information, he could use the Azure Phosphor Seven Absolute Flower's toxins here to temper his body more deeply in the future. Even if something went wrong, he could use the power of frost to purge the toxins.

"Come on. Let's head toward the area with a higher concentration of poison."

The three master and disciples continued onward and finally arrived at the core of the poisonous miasma.

What greeted their eyes was a small mountain of emerald-green poison.

The poison mountain consisted of densely packed emerald-green plants, which merged together with the rainbow-colored poisonous mist.

"Is this the Azure Phosphor Seven Absolute Flower?" Du Busi sucked in a sharp breath.

Even he, who had studied the Azure Phosphor Seven Absolute Flower, doubted his own eyes at that moment.

At a glance, what he saw was not a single Azure Phosphor Seven Absolute Flower—a rare poisonous plant scarcely found anywhere on the continent—but Azure Phosphor Seven Absolute Flowers carpeting the mountainside like weeds!

"The Azure Phosphor Seven Absolute Flower has poor reproductive ability and extremely demanding environmental requirements. Yet an entire mountain is blooming with them here!"

"With so many Azure Phosphor Seven Absolute Flowers, I think a large portion of them have already evolved into soul beasts. The ones whose leaves have taken on a nine-fingered shape are already Azure Scale Nine Absolute Flowers."

Du Busi sucked in a sharp breath.

Given the Azure Phosphor Seven Absolute Flower's grade, once it evolved into an Azure Scale Nine Absolute Flower and became a soul beast, it would basically be at the ten-thousand-year level.

With hundreds or even thousands of Azure Scale Nine Absolute Flowers spread across the mountain, if they simultaneously unleashed their Azure Phosphor Poison Clouds, not even an ordinary Titled Douluo—any Super Douluo—would inevitably perish here.

As for whether an Ultimate Douluo could withstand the poison-cloud attacks of these Azure Scale Nine Absolute Flowers, even Du Busi could not say for certain.

But there was one thing he could be sure of.

Without some special means, even if an Ultimate Douluo could resist their poison, they would not be able to endure the pressure of hundreds or thousands of Azure Scale Nine Absolute Flowers while continuing to excavate the treasures here.

At that moment, as the three entered this area, the Azure Scale Nine Absolute Flowers released dense poison clouds like an army. The clouds surged down like colorful waves.

Chen Ming's expression turned grave. He activated Extreme Ice, tripling the size of the Lotus Phantom enveloping the three of them.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle~

The poison clouds melted away the instant they touched the Lotus Phantom. The three gritted their teeth and pressed forward through the clouds toward the small mountain.

"I just saw it—the inside of this mountain is hollow. The poison clouds aren't solid. There should be a valley below. These Azure Scale Nine Absolute Flowers are guarding a valley!"

Du Busi led the way toward the valley.

He compressed his Soul Power into cannonballs and blasted apart the Azure Scale Nine Absolute Flowers, clearing a path.

In truth, once Chen Ming drew close and the aura of Extreme Ice spread out, those Azure Scale Nine Absolute Flowers began to retreat. After noticing this, Du Busi stopped wasting effort.

A Dragon King Legend Fanfiction

Under a plan spanning ten thousand years, heaven and earth were no more than a chessboard upon which a God King placed his pieces.

The claws of the abyss tore open their restraints, coveting this fertile land unprotected by gods.

The seeds sown by demons were about to bloom into the most evil of flowers.

Beneath the dusk, the silver dragon split in two, standing atop mountain peaks and coldly gazing upon the human world.

With the plane on the verge of collapse, would humanity unite or descend into infighting? Their choice was imminent.

With lightning as his guide, the youth would play an elegy for the gods!

PS: Multiple heroines, slower pacing. Enter at your own discretion if that is not to your liking!