Luck (Please Collect!!!)

Observing those unsteady footsteps, Su Wen made a guess. Once the Flame Cloud Fox disappeared from sight, he went over and carefully sniffed around.

"The Flame Cloud Fox's mental fluctuations aren't normal either."

After learning to control his mental power, Su Wen seemed to have gained another sense out of thin air, and the range of information he could perceive had expanded as well.

The mental fluctuations of this Flame Cloud Fox were somewhat chaotic.

That was the key to Su Wen's discovery of the anomaly.

At the same time, he had only just mastered mental power and was not very familiar with this kind of perception, so he had not noticed it at first.

After going over and smelling the aura left behind by the Flame Cloud Fox, Su Wen was roughly certain of his guess.

There was another fox-type Soul Beast nearby, and it was skilled in the Mental Attribute.

Most likely, it was a female fox.

Su Wen figured that since the Flame Cloud Fox was male, the other one probably would not be male as well.

Following the Flame Cloud Fox's aura in the opposite direction, Su Wen soon found a cave.

"Fortunately, it isn't far."

Su Wen did not rashly enter the cave, because he sensed an extremely powerful mental fluctuation.

"It carries an alluring quality."

If not for Monkey Wine strengthening his mental power, along with the Wisdom effect from his Book Martial Soul keeping his mind clear, Su Wen would not have planned to continue.

He could already sense a mental fluctuation with an alluring quality at the cave entrance alone. What would happen if he faced it directly?

"First, I need to find a way to confirm its species."

Su Wen quietly left and returned to the Lucid Ape's cave. This time, he stole only half a kilogram of Monkey Wine.

Carrying the Monkey Wine, he returned to the Flame Cloud Fox's cave.

A rich aroma of wine drifted into the cave.

Su Wen hid far away and observed the cave entrance through the gaps between the trees.

Whoosh!

A figure appeared, moving with incredible speed.

"Illusion Spirit Fox!"

Based on its appearance, Su Wen quickly determined its species, and his heart leaped with excitement.

This is perfect!

Moreover, as the Illusion Spirit Fox cautiously swept its gaze around, Su Wen also saw its front.

"Three eyes!"

A Three-Eyed Illusion Spirit Fox!

An Illusion Spirit Fox that had undergone a mutation.

"An exceptional Mental Attribute Soul Beast."

At that moment, Su Wen could not help sighing at his own luck. He wanted a Mental Attribute Soul Ring for his Second Soul Ring, and first there had been Monkey Wine, followed by this mutated Three-Eyed Illusion Spirit Fox.

"It has the Mental Attribute as its main attribute. Although it isn't skilled in techniques such as Mental Impact, it excels at Illusion Construction!"

For Su Wen, this was simply the best auxiliary Soul Ring for developing the Visualization Method and making up for the limitations of a Mimicry Cultivation site.

"Moreover, this Illusion Spirit Fox mutated and grew three eyes. Its mental power might be even stronger, and it may possess offensive abilities."

Su Wen sensed the mental fluctuations of the Three-Eyed Illusion Spirit Fox and became somewhat puzzled again.

"It no longer has an alluring quality. Instead, it gives off a feeling that makes people sink into it."

He soon understood.

This Three-Eyed Illusion Spirit Fox excelled at illusions. Its mental fluctuations were good at guiding targets into sinking deeper, thereby pulling them into an Illusion Realm. It had merely been used for certain lewd activities before, which was why it carried an alluring quality.

Tsk tsk, they must have gone all out!

"Her mental fluctuations are also very intense. She should be able to launch a Mental Impact."

Hunting this Three-Eyed Illusion Spirit Fox would still be somewhat troublesome.

Su Wen was not in a hurry.

He could afford to wait!

"Anyway, I reserved a full three months to hunt Soul Beasts."

When Su Wen left New Moon Village, he had accumulated roughly half a year's worth of Original Soul Power, which amounted to about three levels of Soul Power.

That naturally was not enough. After adding the month he had spent on the road and the month he had already stayed in the forest, Su Wen had accumulated another level of Original Soul Power.

Part of this was thanks to his cultivation speed, and part was due to the effects of Monkey Wine. Even after he lost the support of Little Sweet Potato during the following month, his cultivation speed was not affected at all. Instead, it became slightly faster.

Aside from improving his mental power and cultivating Soul Power, Monkey Wine had also noticeably strengthened Su Wen's physique.

With the help of Internal Energy and External Energy, Su Wen fully digested everything. He felt that absorbing a Thousand Year Soul Ring would not be a problem.

And the cultivation level of this Three-Eyed Illusion Spirit Fox was astonishingly just over a thousand years!

That was why Su Wen felt that his luck was truly too good.

It had to be said that Su Wen really was patient.

After discovering the Three-Eyed Illusion Spirit Fox, he lurked for a full month.

"The Flame Cloud Fox has left. Now is when the Three-Eyed Illusion Spirit Fox is at its weakest."

Su Wen quietly slipped into the cave entrance. He took out a specially prepared knockout drug and used a separated Martial Soul Book Page to send it deep into the cave.

Su Wen had secretly administered this drug when the Flame Cloud Fox was still there, which was why the Flame Cloud Fox had limped away just now.

Of course, that was not the main point.

The main point was that there had been two other fox-type Soul Beasts before the Flame Cloud Fox.

After indulging for three consecutive days, this Three-Eyed Illusion Spirit Fox was absolutely weakened to its limit.

That was also why Su Wen had crouched in wait for a month.

It had truly been explosive.

He had waited and schemed for so long before making the Illusion Spirit Fox reach this state of heat—three consecutive days.

Now, after he put in another enormous dose of aphrodisiac, the Three-Eyed Illusion Spirit Fox completely fell under its effects.

Watching a two-legged fox walk toward her, she closed her three eyes. She did not want to move and quietly waited for him to enter.

Pfft.

The dagger pierced into her head.

"Tsk tsk, a Thousand-Year Soul Beast is nothing special." Su Wen put his hands on his hips and gloated for a moment.

Indeed, for a Thousand-Year Soul Beast with the Mental Attribute to be killed by a Soul Master who had not even obtained his Second Soul Ring was practically an unprecedented wonder.

Of course, the key was that Su Wen's preparations had been comprehensive.

As for why he had prepared such thorough methods in advance, that was naturally because Su Wen had thought everything through carefully.

"There's no helping it. The greatest difference between humans and Soul Beasts is that humans know how to use tools."

My strength is inferior to yours, so I'll just use tools.

Su Wen was not an idiot.

Hunting a Soul Beast alone was already dangerous enough. If he still insisted on clashing head-on, would that not be courting death?

"Quickly absorb the Soul Ring, then leave the Star Dou Great Forest. I haven't sent Old Jerry a reply for three months. He's probably starting to worry."

A faint Purple Soul Ring emerged above the corpse of the Three-Eyed Illusion Spirit Fox.

Su Wen sat down cross-legged and guided the Soul Ring onto himself.

It was the same familiar feeling and the same familiar process.

This time, Su Wen directly mobilized his Soul Power and Original Soul Power, causing the Soul Ring's power surging into his body to fuse into his Martial Soul Space. He then rapidly poured it into the Soul Ring Origin, consuming it in the process of transforming the Martial Soul.

Even so, the Soul Ring's power within his body still made Su Wen feel as if his Meridians were about to burst.

"As expected, the risk of absorbing a Soul Ring beyond one's level is too great."

Most people truly would not be able to control it.

Su Wen had already done his best to overestimate the difficulty of absorbing a Thousand Year Soul Ring, yet it was still this terrifying. That alone showed how difficult it was.

Grandmaster had probably summarized the Limit Age because the abrupt turning point came when the physical requirements for Soul Masters at each stage rose sharply with the age of the Soul Ring.

As time passed, the pain Su Wen had to endure gradually lessened. He finally had enough spare energy to use this Soul Ring absorption to open up his Sea of Consciousness.