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"It's still early. Let's go somewhere else first," Du Busi's voice rang out.

Qin Ze looked up at him, a little puzzled.

Du Busi said, "You have Innate Full Soul Power, so you can obtain your first soul ring right away. Let's make a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest first. Speaking of which, your body's strength is strange too. It's completely beyond what someone your age should have."

Obtain a soul ring! Qin Ze's eyes lit up, but when Du Busi mentioned that his physical strength was high, he was a little unclear about it.

"Senior, about how many years can my first soul ring be?" Qin Ze asked, somewhat excited.

Du Busi thought for a moment and said, "Probably between six hundred and eight hundred fifty years."

When he grabbed Qin Ze's shoulder, he had also sensed Qin Ze's physical strength, so he could naturally infer what Soul Ring Age Qin Ze would be able to obtain for his first soul ring.

"That high!" Qin Ze had not expected it. His own estimate had been roughly four hundred to five hundred years.

Du Busi said, "After ten thousand years of development, the current optimal age can no longer be compared with Ten Thousand Years Ago. Of course, even so, there are still very few whose first soul ring reaches this level. My first soul ring was only six hundred years, so that's why I was surprised by your physical strength."

Qin Ze nodded. He guessed it was because of his identity as a transmigrator, giving him a stronger body by nature.

"It's just..." Qin Ze was a little confused and said, "Senior, why are you willing to help me?"

Qin Ze asked himself and felt that he and Du Busi had only shared a single fish's worth of acquaintance. They could hardly be called familiar, and there was no need for the other party to help him like this.

Hearing this, Du Busi smiled instead. "That day when we ate fish, I sensed an extremely special aura from you. That aura was very much like the Power of Luck, similar to the Auspicious Beast I encountered in the Star Dou Great Forest back then. If I help you, perhaps that mysterious power will feed back to me as well."

Qin Ze froze. He had not expected Du Busi's reason for helping him to be this.

The Power of Luck? Why hadn't he felt it?

As a Level 98 Super Douluo, Du Busi was naturally extremely fast. It took only half a day for the two of them to arrive at the outer edge of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Flying through the air, Qin Ze could see an ancient forest in the distance, one whose borders could not be seen.

Ancient, silent, cool.

Too many words were still not enough to describe this forest, which had formed who knew how many years ago.

It was like a giant, quietly sprawled across the earth just like that.

"So this is the Star Dou Great Forest!" Qin Ze stared at it with shock in his eyes. Back when he read the novel, the scene shown through words ultimately did not have the same impact as this real, solid sight displayed before his eyes.

"The Star Dou Great Forest is divided into the safe zone, outer zone, mixed zone, core zone, and central zone. The soul beasts of the age you need are probably in the safe zone and outer zone," Du Busi explained. Even after flying for half a day, his expression was calm, without the slightest hint of fatigue.

After saying this, Du Busi brought Qin Ze down to the ground. The surroundings were not exactly quiet; the cries of insects could be heard everywhere.

"Summon your martial soul and let me take a look," Du Busi said. He needed to consider what kind of soul beast Qin Ze should choose for his first soul ring.

However, Qin Ze gave an awkward smile and said, "Senior, I can't summon my martial soul."

"What?" Du Busi was taken aback.

Qin Ze explained, "My martial soul is called Demon Armor, but for some reason, the total amount of soul power in my body doesn't seem to support me summoning it."

A strange look appeared in Du Busi's eyes.

Seeing this, Qin Ze hurriedly said, "But the blade attached to my martial soul can be summoned."

As he spoke, Qin Ze opened his right hand. Blue soul power spread out from his palm, and very soon, a strangely shaped blade appeared in Qin Ze's hand.

The front end of the blade was curved, and the sharp part of the blade looked as if it had been forged from some peculiar crystal, filled with a sense of beauty.

Du Busi glanced at the blade and said, "Your martial soul is even more wondrous than my Body Martial Soul. Your martial soul is similar to armor, but it also comes with a blade. Looks like we have to find you a soul beast that combines offense and defense."

"I'll follow your arrangements, Senior," Qin Ze said.

"Let's go. Follow me." Du Busi began striding into the depths of the forest.

Qin Ze quickly followed.

The moment they entered, a cold aura immediately struck Qin Ze's face. The surroundings were covered in spiderwebs, and some animals' severed limbs had fallen into the soil. Sunlight was blocked by the thick leaves, and the ground was covered with low clusters of plants.

Qin Ze walked cautiously. After only about ten minutes, he saw large groups of soul beasts.

Some crawling on the ground, some flying through the air, and some launching sneak attacks from the trees.

As they walked, Du Busi said, "There are countless types of soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest. It can be called number one on land, second only to the ocean. After you go to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect this time, you must study knowledge of soul beasts and medicinal herbs. That way, when you encounter them in the future, you will have a way to handle them."

"Understood!" Qin Ze nodded.

Rustle!

Suddenly, just as the two were talking, a noisy sound came from a thicket twenty meters away.

Qin Ze did not panic. He gripped the blade in his hand. Although he had a big shot behind him, someone else was still someone else in the end.

"A thousand-year Mandala Snake!" Du Busi did not even glance at the thicket before speaking directly.

"Mandala Snake?" Qin Ze's thoughts stirred. He remembered that during the Peerless Tang Sect era, Tang Ya's third soul ring came from a Mandala Snake.

Inside the thicket, the sound disappeared. Du Busi still walked forward calmly, but Qin Ze did not lower his guard.

He felt that Du Busi was testing him. This was the Star Dou Great Forest, after all, a world belonging to soul beasts. If he relied entirely on the other party and acted calm, Du Busi would definitely look down on him.

Gripping the blade, Qin Ze stayed within three meters of Du Busi the whole time, but his gaze constantly watched the thickets around them.

Snake-type soul beasts were very fond of sneak attacks. In other words, they were what people often called old sixths.

Qin Ze did not believe that this Mandala Snake had left. After all, Du Busi had not released his own aura to drive away soul beasts, which meant that this snake was probably still watching them from the shadows.

Half a minute later, the two arrived in an even darker area. The trees here were crowded together, and within the dense woods, killing intent seemed to lurk everywhere.

Whoosh!

Just as the two stepped into a thicket covered in spiderwebs, a black shadow shot out like lightning. At the same time, a dense, sweet-smelling gas also rushed toward the two along with the black shadow.

Qin Ze grew a little more tense inside, but he was not afraid. This black shadow seemed to know that he was the weakest and attacked specifically toward him. Qin Ze hurriedly raised the blade to block in front of himself while holding his breath. He knew that the gas of a Mandala Snake was poisonous.

"Not bad!" A faint smile appeared at the corner of Du Busi's mouth, and he felt a measure of appreciation for Qin Ze's reaction. In an instant, he made his move. Du Busi's speed was pushed to the extreme. His arm reached out, afterimages swept past, and in the blink of an eye, he had grabbed the black shadow and held it in his hand.

Qin Ze came back to his senses and looked at Du Busi's hand.

"Hiss!"

A pink snake fully three meters long had been viciously gripped by the tail in Du Busi's hand. At this moment, perhaps because its attack had been interrupted, this Mandala Snake was still hissing nonstop, and with a turn of its head, it still intended to bite Du Busi.

Du Busi smiled disdainfully and applied a little force with his hand. Immediately, the Mandala Snake let out a painful wail. It felt as if its tail was about to be crushed into mush.

"Be careful of the flower-like protrusion on this snake's head. It can shoot out a blood arrow from there," Du Busi explained to Qin Ze.

No sooner had he finished speaking than the Mandala Snake cooperated perfectly with Du Busi's words and burst open the protrusion on its own head.

With a "whoosh," a pink blood arrow shot out, aimed straight at Du Busi's brow.

However, before the blood arrow could approach Du Busi, it was swallowed by a strange dark-green soul power.

"Do you have some concept of soul beasts now?" Du Busi swung his arm around. The thousand-year-level Mandala Snake in his hand was like an extended spicy strip, played with casually by him.

Gulp!

Qin Ze swallowed. "I do."

"Go!" Du Busi glanced at the Mandala Snake he had been swinging around like a spicy strip, then flung it away. It flew who knew how far before finally disappearing from the area.

Guess why the Demon Armor can't be summoned directly. As for the blade's appearance, everyone can take a look at Kai's initial weapon in Honor of Kings.

Also, some readers said the plot is developing too slowly. Actually, I can write a fast-paced plot, but it's very easy for it to collapse. For example, with the rise of Soul Power Level, in my last book, the levels were all skipped straight over, and in the end it collapsed, and then there was no then.

For this book, I'll take my time writing the plot, including character arcs, storylines, and plot descriptions.