First Soul Skill: Thorn Strangler, the Perfect Harmony of the Jade Brightness Skill and Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill!

"Awake?"

The moment Bai Ge opened his eyes, a familiar and concerned voice reached his ears. It was Grandmaster.

Suddenly exposed to the bright sunlight, Bai Ge felt his eyes sting. He raised an arm to shield himself from the direct rays overhead, and at that moment, Grandmaster handed him a waterskin filled with fresh water.

"Here, have some water."

"Thank you, Teacher."

At Grandmaster's words, Bai Ge immediately realized he was rather thirsty. After thanking him, he took the waterskin and drank deeply.

"How was it? Did you succeed?"

Once Bai Ge had finished drinking, Grandmaster could not help asking, suppressing his excitement.

"Don't worry, Teacher. I succeeded!"

Bai Ge smiled and held out his right hand.

With a thought from Bai Ge, several Black-Purple Vines swiftly grew from his right hand. They twisted and spread in every direction as though alive, soon drooping to the ground.

"Poison thorns and blood patterns... Excellent! Bai Ge, your Cloud-Soaring Vine Martial Soul really did successfully inherit the poison thorns and blood-sucking ability of the Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine. My hypothesis was correct!"

Seeing that the evolved Cloud-Soaring Vine on Bai Ge's right hand was indeed covered in poison thorns, with blood patterns that carried blood appearing within the vines, Grandmaster said excitedly.

According to his hypothesis, when a Soul Master absorbed a Spirit Ring, their Martial Soul would only inherit the strengths of the absorbed Spirit Beast that complemented itself. Since the Cloud-Soaring Vine surpassed the Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine in every other aspect, it could only inherit the latter's blood-sucking and poison-thorn abilities. It seemed he had been right!

"Bai Ge, let's see what your First Soul Skill is and how powerful it is..."

Looking at the Cloud-Soaring Vine in Bai Ge's hand, which had become incomparably vicious in appearance, Grandmaster showed not the slightest fear. Instead, his eyes were filled with excitement.

"Teacher, my First Soul Skill is Thorn Strangler. Its method of attack is the same as the Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine's. I can designate a target and have the Cloud-Soaring Vine attack it. The Cloud-Soaring Vine will rapidly spread toward the target like the Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine does when hunting, then launch a strangling attack. While Binding the prey, the Cloud-Soaring Vine will inject toxins into the target through its poison thorns and take the opportunity to suck blood. As for its power..."

As Bai Ge explained, he looked toward a small tree nearby, about as thick as an adult's wrist.

"Teacher, look!"

Bai Ge turned and aimed his right hand at the small tree.

As Bai Ge fixed his target, a mass of Black-Purple Vines covered entirely in thorns shot toward the small tree like venomous snakes. Upon reaching it, the transformed Cloud-Soaring Vine instantly wrapped around it, then suddenly tightened with all its strength and unleashed a strangling attack!

"Crack!"

As the Cloud-Soaring Vine launched its strangling attack, a clear "crack!" sounded from the direction of the small tree.

When Bai Ge recalled the Cloud-Soaring Vine, the small tree, its trunk already mangled and broken into two sections, fell to the ground. At the spots where the Cloud-Soaring Vine had wrapped around it, countless chilling thorn-shaped wounds were clearly visible. They had been caused by the Cloud-Soaring Vine's poison thorns.

"Hiss~"

Seeing the scene before him, Grandmaster could not help drawing in a sharp breath.

The power of that strangling attack far exceeded that of the Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine Bai Ge had absorbed.

When the Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine hunted, it merely wrapped around its prey before using the poison thorns on its body to inject Paralysis and Hallucinogenic Toxins into it. These toxins could quickly paralyze the prey's body and make it feel not pain but pleasure while its blood was being sucked away. It was precisely because of these toxins that the Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine could successfully drain its prey's Fresh Blood.

Otherwise, if it only possessed strangling ability, its prey would inevitably struggle desperately before dying. In that case, the Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine would not be able to suck much blood.

"With such powerful strangling ability, you could already snap an ordinary person's bones. The Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine you absorbed did not possess such an ability. Did the Cloud-Soaring Vine enhance this strangling ability?"

Looking at the Cloud-Soaring Vine that had retracted into Bai Ge's right hand, Grandmaster could not help asking.

"I'm not sure about that, but I really can control the Cloud-Soaring Vine to unleash a strangling attack of this level."

Bai Ge Shook His Head at Grandmaster's question, indicating that he did not know very clearly either.

But in truth, Bai Ge knew exactly where this level of strangling power came from. According to the information he had received after absorbing the Spirit Ring, the power of Thorn Strangler was made up of two aspects: one was the strength possessed by the Martial Soul itself, and the other was Bai Ge's own strength.

Added together, they formed the maximum power Thorn Strangler could achieve!

After absorbing the Spirit Ring of the Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine, the Cloud-Soaring Vine had Evolved. Its initial diameter had increased from only one and a half fingers thick to nearly three fingers thick.

Of course, that was only its initial diameter. If he wished, Bai Ge could make it thicker or thinner. Making it thicker would intensify Soul Power consumption, while making it thinner would not.

With a diameter of three fingers' thickness, Bai Ge could already use the Cloud-Soaring Vine to bind prey and suffocate it by tightening around it. But snapping every bone in a prey's body, like he had broken that small tree just now, was still impossible.

But fortunately, when Bai Ge woke up today, he was delighted to discover that his Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill had Break Through the first level and reached the second.

The direct result was that Bai Ge's strength had increased by 100 Jin. Combined with his original strength, Bai Ge now possessed more strength than a strong, healthy adult man.

And it was precisely because Bai Ge's Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill had broken through to the second level that the power of his Thorn Strangler could so easily reach the point of snapping an ordinary person's bones.

Bai Ge was also somewhat puzzled as to why he had broken through to the second level of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill in a single night.

But after carefully thinking back, Bai Ge found the reason.

Last night, while he had been absorbing the Spirit Ring's power, he seemed to have activated both the Jade Brightness Skill and the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill at the same time.

He had transformed the power continuously pouring from the Spirit Ring into the Jade Brightness Skill's True Qi. But because he had not yet finished absorbing the Spirit Ring, although the Jade Brightness Skill's True Qi was increasing, it could not fully merge together.

The True Qi that could not merge into the original Jade Brightness Skill's True Qi had probably been transformed by the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill into Qi and Blood, which strengthened his physique.

Perhaps it was precisely because most of the Spirit Ring's power had been used by the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill, transformed into Qi and Blood to strengthen his body, that he had been able to break through to the second level so quickly.

After thinking it over carefully, Bai Ge realized that this was the only possible explanation.

At this thought, Bai Ge could not help growing excited. If that was truly the case, then did that not prove he could absorb the power of Spirit Rings more perfectly than others?

With the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill, every time he absorbed a Spirit Ring, could he not absorb Spirit Rings whose age exceeded even the maximum theoretical limit?

Others might not be able to withstand the power of a Spirit Ring, but as long as Bai Ge's body could endure it, he could absorb Spirit Rings of any age!

At that thought, Bai Ge felt as though he had found a path uniquely his own.

And then there was the Jade Brightness Skill. Unlike ordinary cultivation methods, the Jade Brightness Skill could automatically replenish True Qi while circulating. In other words, as long as Bai Ge kept it running, he could automatically absorb the surrounding Spiritual Energy without needing to sit cross-legged and meditate specifically for cultivation.

If he could link the Jade Brightness Skill with the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill, allowing the True Qi gained by the Jade Brightness Skill to continuously transform into Qi and Blood for cultivating the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill, wouldn't that mean he was cultivating both techniques every moment of every day?

"Looks like even with the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill, I still can't neglect the Jade Brightness Skill!"

Bai Ge could not help thinking.

The Jade Brightness Skill cultivated True Qi, which, in this world, was Soul Power to a certain extent. Although the rules of Douluo Continent meant that the Jade Brightness Skill would encounter bottlenecks at every stage, the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill cultivated the body, so it had no such concern.

Even if Bai Ge had reached a bottleneck now, he could simply transform his True Qi into Qi and Blood instead of letting it go to waste. It was practically a steal!