Thousand-Year Starlight Tree and Ten-Thousand-Year Thunderclap Hellvine

In the night sky, brilliant stars flickered endlessly, like a magnificent and sweeping painting.

Before them stood a Starlight Tree over five meters in diameter and more than a hundred meters tall.

Its dense canopy glimmered with silver-blue light like the stars themselves, drawing in the starlight scattered across the heavens and gathering it into a dazzling curtain of light like a celestial canopy.

It was incomparably beautiful and spectacular!

Even Ye Yu could not help but marvel, his eyes shining with wonder.

Unfortunately, that still could not change the Starlight Tree's fate.

After Dugu Bo severely wounded the Starlight Tree with his Third Spirit Skill: Corrosive Black Witch Snake and First Spirit Skill: Jade Phosphorous Poison Fire—

Ye Yu delivered the final blow and killed it.

Beside the fallen remains of the Starlight Tree, whose trunk had been eaten full of pits by the Corrosive Black Witch Snake and nearly burned to charcoal by the Jade Phosphorous Poison Fire—

Ye Yu sat cross-legged, summoned his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine martial soul, closed his eyes once more, and began cultivating the Inner Elixir Method.

As the Inner Elixir Method circulated his Soul Power—

A deep-purple Spirit Ring condensed above the Starlight Tree's remains was instantly drawn over and settled around Ye Yu.

In an instant, a vast surge of Soul Power flooded into Ye Yu's body, raging wildly through his meridians and flesh like a mighty river.

Ye Yu once again felt the intense pain coursing through his meridians and body. It was both unbearably swollen and aching, as though he were being torn apart.

But after fusing with the Blue Silver Emperor's Right Leg Bone—

And being strengthened by the life force released from it—

Not only had Ye Yu's physical constitution improved tremendously, but his recovery ability had also increased considerably.

Afterward, he underwent Ice Fire Body Tempering.

Combined with the enhancement to his recovery ability from absorbing the Undying Grass—

The immense and surging Soul Power released by the Starlight Tree's Spirit Ring had become nothing but tempering for his body!

Several hours later—

Ye Yu successfully absorbed the Starlight Tree's Spirit Ring.

After absorbing the Starlight Tree's Spirit Ring, the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine changed again.

Its vines became even thicker, growing from the width of an infant's wrist to thicker than an adult's wrist!

Its crystalline silver-blue color, like blue crystal, also became deeper and more resplendent, approaching starlight blue.

Furthermore, besides the golden threads, specks of starlight now appeared within the vines and leaves.

Ye Yu named the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine's newly gained Second Spirit Skill: Starlight Absorption!

After activating the spirit skill, the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine could absorb sunlight, moonlight, and starlight, converting them into Soul Power and life force to enhance the martial soul's growth and recovery speed.

At the same time, it could feed the absorbed Soul Power back into Ye Yu's body.

This accelerated Ye Yu's Soul Power recovery.

After absorbing the Starlight Tree—

Ye Yu tested his Soul Power again, and his cultivation had directly reached level thirty!

Dugu Bo found this acceptable.

After all, after Dugu Yan consumed the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, her cultivation had risen directly from level twenty-one to level thirty-five.

It was perfectly normal for Ye Yu to rise from level ten to level thirty.

After absorbing the seven-thousand-year Starlight Tree—

For his third Spirit Ring's target Spirit Beast—

This time, Ye Yu set his sights directly on one that was ten thousand years old!

However, in the inner region of the Star Dou Great Forest—

Even after several days of searching, Ye Yu failed to find a Plant Spirit Beast that perfectly met his requirements in both cultivation age and attribute.

Then one day—

As they passed by a canyon—

Ye Yu saw that while the surrounding sky was cloudless for miles—

A mass of rolling black clouds hung above the canyon, filled with flashes of lightning and rumbling thunder. Bolts of lightning continuously struck down into the canyon below.

This was very strange!

"Grandpa, let's go take a look!"

This peculiar sight made Ye Yu narrow his eyes slightly as he thought of a certain powerful Spirit Beast.

After entering the canyon with Dugu Bo—

As the rolling clouds overhead slowly dispersed—

Beneath the clouds—

On a cliff face shimmering with strange silver light—

Ye Yu saw a dark-purple vine covered in arcs and flashes of electricity, clinging to the cliff wall. Its dark-purple leaves swayed gently in the wind.

It really was a Thunderclap Netherworld Vine!

When he saw the Thunderclap Netherworld Vine growing on the cliff face, Ye Yu could not help feeling thrilled.

The Thunderclap Netherworld Vine was one of the most supreme existences among Plant Spirit Beasts!

When it first sprouted, it resembled a bamboo shoot and consisted of only a short section.

It could develop only during rain and thunderstorms.

And only after being struck by lightning could its cultivation improve!

Because lightning was unimaginably terrifying and powerful—

The Thunderclap Netherworld Vine could easily be reduced to charcoal by a powerful lightning strike if it was not careful.

Yet it possessed an extraordinarily terrifying vitality. As long as it was not completely reduced to charcoal, it could be reborn and grow even stronger and more luxuriantly.

From this, it was clear—

That although the Thunderclap Netherworld Vine's primary attribute was lightning, it also possessed a powerful life attribute!

Therefore, it was exceptionally suitable as the third Spirit Ring for his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine.

And if he could absorb the Thunderclap Netherworld Vine's Spirit Ring and gain the lightning attribute—

It would also increase the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine's resistance to poison, as well as negative attributes such as darkness and evil!

After carefully observing the Thunderclap Netherworld Vine's thickness and length—

Ye Yu determined that it was a Thunderclap Netherworld Vine just over ten thousand years old, approximately ten thousand five hundred years in cultivation!

It was an excellent fit!

"Grandpa! I'll choose it as the target Spirit Beast for my third Spirit Ring!"

Ye Yu pointed at the Thunderclap Netherworld Vine on the cliff face, speaking with excitement and exhilaration.

The Thunderclap Netherworld Vine was even rarer than the Undying Grass and the Starlight Tree. It could be called the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear or Titan Giant Ape among Plant Spirit Beasts!

To encounter a Thunderclap Netherworld Vine that happened to be around ten thousand years old was truly fortunate!

However, upon learning that Ye Yu had chosen a Thunderclap Netherworld Vine with ten thousand years of cultivation, Dugu Bo could not help feeling a headache coming on.

As one of the highest-tier Plant Spirit Beasts, even at only ten thousand years old, the Thunderclap Netherworld Vine possessed strength comparable to an ordinary Spirit Beast of seventy or eighty thousand years.

Moreover, its lightning attribute strongly countered him as the Poison Douluo.

But there was no choice!

Since his grandson-in-law had chosen this Thunderclap Netherworld Vine—

As his grandfather, even if he had to risk his old life, he would help his grandson-in-law obtain it as his third Spirit Ring!

"Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, possess me!"

With a solemn expression, Dugu Bo shouted and summoned the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor to possess him.

He immediately opened with his ultimate move, activating his Eighth Spirit Skill: Time Freeze, immobilizing the Thunderclap Netherworld Vine.

Then, with a shout of "Shatter!", he severely wounded the Thunderclap Netherworld Vine.

Afterward, he used the deadly poison of his Fourth Spirit Skill: Jade Phosphorous Maze to wear the Thunderclap Netherworld Vine down until it had only its final breath remaining.

Only then did Dugu Bo let Ye Yu go over and deliver the final blow.

After Ye Yu circulated his Soul Power, leaped onto the cliff face, severed the Thunderclap Netherworld Vine with a sharp dagger, and smashed it to pulp with a stone—

Countless black motes finally scattered from the Thunderclap Netherworld Vine's "corpse," gathering above it into a black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.