I Behold Chaos and Plant a Green Lotus [Please Keep Reading!!]

Liu Yanchi reached out and ran his fingers over the surface patterns of the Dragon Blood Scarlet Scale Bamboo, his expression unreadable.

He did not know whether Lu Lin was lucky or unlucky.

The mutated Flame Spirit Bamboo that had been bathed in dragon blood was undoubtedly suited to Lu Lin's Martial Soul.

But the problem was that it was a little too suitable.

Judging from its towering, tree-like size, this Dragon Blood Scarlet Scale Bamboo was already more than six hundred years old—far beyond the limit of what Lu Lin could currently absorb as a Soul Ring.

"Are you sure you want to absorb it as your First Soul Ring?"

Liu Yanchi turned to look at Lu Lin, sounding somewhat helpless.

"Teacher Liu, I'm sure."

Lu Lin, dressed in thin green clothes, nodded with a resolute expression.

To be honest, Lu Lin had never imagined that his First Soul Ring would come from such an odd bamboo.

But after wandering around Sunset Forest for several days, apart from this bamboo, Lu Lin could not seem to find a Soul Beast more suitable than this thing.

Granted, there were plenty of fire-attribute Plant System Soul Beasts in Sunset Forest, and common fire-attribute Soul Beasts were hardly lacking either.

Picking out a Soul Beast around four or five hundred years old and hunting it for its Soul Ring would have been simple and easy.

But this bamboo had mutated after being bathed in dragon blood.

It was truly exceedingly rare.

Even across the entire Douluo Continent, it was probably one of a kind.

Since they had already found it, Lu Lin was unwilling to let it slip away no matter what.

Seeing Lu Lin persist, Liu Yanchi nodded and did not continue trying to persuade him.

He respected Lu Lin's choice.

What kind of Soul Skill will this giant bamboo bring me?

A flicker of anticipation passed through Lu Lin's eyes.

Then, he took a coldly gleaming short blade from his waist and stabbed it into the bamboo.

Splaash—

A large amount of Crimson Gold Sap immediately flowed from where Lu Lin had stabbed it, thick as blood and scorching like magma.

The bamboo trembled slightly.

From the top of its massive stalk, a condensed Crimson Fire Serpent erupted and swept toward Lu Lin.

Feeling the overwhelming heat wave rushing at him, Lu Lin did not move in the slightest.

Liu Yanchi, however, remained calm.

With a light stomp of his foot, crackling electric light flashed as two Yellow Soul Rings and two purple Soul Rings pulsed around his body.

At the same time, the phantom of a long purple snake appeared behind him. This was his Martial Soul—the Thunder Nether Snake.

Martial Soul Possession!!

Liu Yanchi shouted inwardly.

Liu Yanchi's aura changed, instantly turning cold and sinister. Like a snake, like a flood dragon, faint blue arcs of light danced within his eyes, mysterious beyond compare.

It sounded like a lengthy sequence, but in truth, it all happened in an instant.

The second Yellow Soul Ring on Liu Yanchi's body lit up.

Second Soul Skill, Mystic Thunder Devouring Light Wave.

A blue-purple wave of light burst from his mouth and collided head-on with the fire serpent. In an instant, the heavens and earth seemed to shatter.

Ignoring everything else, Lu Lin steadied himself, pressed one hand against the hilt of the short blade, and with a forceful push, drove the entire blade into the bamboo.

Dragon Blood Scarlet Scale Bamboo VS Lu Lin.

Lu Lin won!

But Liu Yanchi got the MVP!!

Soon, a strange ring-shaped yellow energy emerged from the Scarlet Scale Bamboo.

"Teacher Liu, I'm going to begin absorbing the Soul Ring!"

Liu Yanchi nodded lightly.

Lu Lin put away his short blade, then sat down cross-legged, circulating his Soul Power and adjusting his condition.

Strictly speaking, he had no condition to recover—hunting this Soul Beast had merely cost him a little effort to chop down a bamboo stalk.

A few breaths later.

Lu Lin opened his eyes and raised his right hand. A jade-green lotus slowly emerged.

The green lotus had three petals in total, exquisite and translucent, warm and lustrous. The tip of each petal was covered in faint fiery-red patterns, signifying the fire attribute it possessed.

The Yellow Soul Ring's energy was drawn by the martial soul and shot straight into Lu Lin's body.

Liu Yanchi quietly stood guard beside Lu Lin, preventing any Soul Beasts that might suddenly appear from interfering with his absorption of the soul ring.

At the same time, a trace of concern inevitably appeared in his eyes.

Since one of his incarnations had already absorbed a soul ring once, Lu Lin himself was not particularly nervous.

The soul ring energy formed from the Dragon Blood Scarlet Scale Bamboo rampaged through Lu Lin's body, causing a slight pain that made him let out a muffled groan.

However, compared to the refinement he had endured through the Body Sect's secret techniques, this bit of pain was utterly insignificant—nothing more than an itch.

Moreover, a hundred-year soul ring did not cause any spiritual shock. Lu Lin only needed to consider two issues.

Physical strength, and the limits of his willpower.

His main body's physical condition might have been somewhat lacking, but in terms of willpower, Lu Lin was absolutely qualified.

With all these factors combined, Lu Lin's absorption of the soul ring proceeded exceptionally smoothly.

Yet, just when it seemed nothing unexpected would happen, the unexpected happened.

Lu Lin had already immersed himself in the process and was nearly finished absorbing the soul ring when his mind suddenly trembled. With a slight shift in thought, his vision was forcibly drawn into his Spirit Sea.

Before his eyes lay a vast, boundless Chaos Space, gray and murky, permeated by Primordial Qi.

Within the Chaos Space, chaos surged endlessly.

At its center, an enormous green lotus beyond imagination floated silently.

The green lotus was rooted in the void. Its stalk was as thick as a divine pillar supporting the heavens, interwoven with Dao Patterns that were profound and unfathomable.

The gigantic lotus rose in layer upon layer, its countless petals intricate beyond measure. Primordial Qi coiled around it, while faint phantoms of revolving stars, and the birth and destruction of earth, water, fire, and wind drifted across its surface. It encompassed all phenomena of heaven and earth, as well as the ultimate truths of the Great Dao.

Compared to this immense green lotus that seemed capable of blotting out the sky, his Pure Fire Green Lotus Martial Soul was as tiny as a speck of dust.

At the sight, Lu Lin was rarely left utterly dumbfounded!

"What the hell is that?"

"The legendary Chaos Green Lotus?"

Knowing this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Lu Lin had no time to think further and was just about to carefully visualize the Creation Green Lotus.

But in an instant, the vast Chaos Space and the Creation Green Lotus within it vanished without a trace.

As though everything he had just seen had been nothing but an illusion.

Lu Lin frowned slightly.

He did not believe that the earth-shaking sight from before had merely been an illusion.

What he could not understand was why he had suddenly visualized the legendary Creation Green Lotus.

Given the level of Douluo Continent, it should not have been able to withstand even a trace of the Creation Green Lotus's aura. Even the Douluo God Realm could not.

They were simply not things on the same level.

If it had been Shrouding the Heavens or Perfect World, Lu Lin could still have understood it, but the Douluo Plane...

Well, it was pretty good too.

After pondering it for a while, Lu Lin could only attribute it to his status as a transmigrator.

But no matter how much his martial soul evolved, it could never evolve to that level.

Lu Lin knew this clearly.

Lu Lin vaguely felt that he might never have another chance to see that Chaos Green Lotus again.

Lu Lin inwardly lamented the pity of it.

Then he proceeded with the final stages of absorbing the soul ring.

A short while later, Lu Lin opened his eyes, and a Yellow Soul Ring slowly emerged around his body.

His Soul Power Level also naturally rose to level 11.

"Success."

Seeing Lu Lin successfully absorb a soul ring beyond his level without incident, the tension in Liu Yanchi's heart finally eased.

Liu Yanchi remained completely unaware of everything Lu Lin had just experienced.

"Mm-hm, thank you for your help, Teacher."

Lu Lin rose to his feet and raised his right hand. Above it, the Pure Fire Green Lotus Martial Soul floated quietly, seemingly no different from before.

But only Lu Lin knew that his martial soul had already been tainted by a trace of Chaos Qi.

For Lu Lin, the greatest gain from this journey was not obtaining his First Soul Ring, but visualizing the Creation Green Lotus rooted within chaos.

Lu Lin walked over to Liu Yanchi and said, "Teacher Liu, my first soul skill is called Blazing Lotus Domain. It's an area-of-effect enhancement soul skill. Its specific effect is roughly a ten percent increase in a soul master's attack power."

As Lu Lin spoke, the Yellow Soul Ring around him lit up, and the green lotus martial soul in his hand changed color.

In the blink of an eye, the green lotus in Lu Lin's hand had transformed into a blazing crimson lotus.

Its appearance actually bore some resemblance to the dragon scale patterns on the Dragon Blood Scarlet Scale Bamboo from earlier.

Then Lu Lin used a Soul Skill.

A red ring of light appeared beneath his feet, spreading outward like ripples with him at its center, covering everything within a five-meter radius.

A group enhancement Soul Skill?

Liu Yanchi watched Lu Lin use his Soul Skill, lost in thought.

As far as he knew, limited by their innate conditions, Soul Masters with the Green Lotus Martial Soul rarely became battle-type Soul Masters.

It would not be bad if Lu Lin became an auxiliary-type Soul Master in the future.

As Liu Yanchi pondered this, his expression suddenly changed.

No, how could this brat Lu Lin's Soul Skill enhance even him?!

He was a four-ring Soul Ancestor.

Meanwhile, Lu Lin had only just obtained his first soul ring. At most, he was merely a level 10 or 11 Soul Master.

A Soul Master of that level might not even be able to defeat a Wind Baboon with forty or fifty years of cultivation.

Was this even reasonable??