Striped Tiger Soul Skill

The first entry in the soul skill list read as follows:

Soul Skill Name: Blue Blood Boiling

Passive Effect: Blue Silver Grass absorbs the power of the Striped Tiger's beast blood, evolving into Blue Blood Grass. Its branches, leaves, and stems become thicker, roughly as thick as an arm; Blue Blood Grass possesses powerful binding force.

Active Soul Skill: The blood of Blue Blood Grass boils, causing it to grow wildly. Blue Blood Grass doubles in thickness, and its binding force increases by 100%.

The second entry:

Soul Skill Name: Tiger Puppet

Passive Effect: Blue Silver Grass imitates the form of a Striped Tiger and can weave Tiger Puppets. They possess the ability to fight independently. For every 5 levels of Soul Power gained, the number of puppets increases by 1.

Active Soul Skill: The Tiger Puppets' attack power, defense, and speed increase by 50%.

The third entry:

Soul Skill Name: Whip Strike

Passive Effect: Blue Silver Grass imitates a Striped Tiger's tail, forming a soul tool for Soul Masters to use: the Tiger Tail Whip. The stems of Blue Silver Grass become thicker and tougher, with thorns that cause paralysis.

Active Soul Skill: Several Tiger Tail Whips sprout from beneath the target's feet to bind them. The more the target struggles, the stronger the Tiger Tail Whips' binding force becomes.

The fourth entry:

Soul Skill Name: Bloodthirsty Thorns

Passive Effect: Blue Silver Grass absorbs the bloodthirsty ferocity of the Striped Tiger and evolves into Blood-Colored Thorn Grass. It possesses bloodsucking, Soul Power absorption, and paralysis traits.

Active Soul Skill: Deploy a ten-meter Blood-Colored Thorn domain. The Blood-Colored Thorn Grass continuously drains the enemy's life force and Soul Power to repair itself until the Blood-Colored Thorn domain loses its target. The range can grow, increasing by 1 meter for every level of Soul Power.

One soul skill after another surfaced in Ye Lan's mind. This information mainly described how different soul skills could cause Blue Silver Grass to evolve in different directions, along with their specific effects.

Some of these soul skills were strong, while others were weak, but Ye Lan did not need to distinguish between them himself. Every row and every soul skill was marked with a background color: white, blue, purple, red, and gold.

This color classification made things convenient for Ye Lan to review. Of course, he did not necessarily have to choose gold. Some red or purple soul skills below gold were instead more suited to Blue Silver Grass's evolutionary path.

Unfortunately, since this was a Striped Tiger soul ring, nearly all the soul skills were related to the Striped Tiger. They leaned toward offense and control, and there were even Divine Skills like Tiger Puppet.

However, none of these were the soul skills Ye Lan currently needed. What he needed were Divine Skills that could improve his martial soul and cultivation aptitude.

Although these selectable Striped Tiger soul skills could evolve Blue Silver Grass, they clearly could not improve its aptitude. They only enhanced Blue Silver Grass's combat power and Blue Silver Grass itself.

Though he had failed to find a soul skill he liked, Ye Lan was stunned by the power of his cheat—Skill Selection.

Ye Lan guessed that the gold and red soul skills in Skill Selection had most likely never appeared on Douluo Continent at all.

The odds of obtaining such soul skills through luck were likely one in ten billion, perhaps even lower.

Skill Selection truly deserved to be called the cheat bestowed by the goddess from the benefits division under the Earth Transmigration Space-Time Administration. It was absolutely worthy of Ye Lan sacrificing his life to save others in his previous life.

Skill Selection was like pinning the Goddess of Luck to the ground and rubbing her face in the dirt—he could directly choose soul skills without relying on luck.

Ye Lan silently gave the goddess from the benefits division a thumbs-up.

Closing off the stream of information in his mind, Ye Lan withdrew his hands from the soul ring.

Ye Lan stood and looked at Su Yuntao. "Uncle Tao, the Striped Tiger soul ring isn't suitable for my Blue Silver Grass, and its Soul Ring Year is a little too low. Let's head toward the center of the Soul Hunting Forest and look around. There are more plant-type soul beasts there."

Su Yuntao was puzzled. "Four hundred years is still too low? Xiao Lan, don't force yourself!"

"Yes. After all these years of training, I can probably withstand a six-hundred-year soul ring. It would be shocking if word got out, so Uncle Tao, don't tell anyone else. I don't want to be surrounded by a huge crowd." Ye Lan held back some information as he told Su Yuntao the Soul Ring Year he could absorb.

Su Yuntao stared at Ye Lan as though he were a monster. "Xiao Lan, you can absorb a soul ring with such a high Soul Ring Year? Besides, six-hundred-year soul beasts aren't easy to deal with! Don't worry, I'll keep it a secret for you, Xiao Lan."

"Uncle Tao, plant-type soul beasts are easy to deal with. I specifically brought tools for dealing with plant-type soul beasts," Ye Lan said with certainty.

"That's good, then. I'll hide the Striped Tiger's corpse first. If it doesn't take long for you to obtain a soul ring, we can come back and deal with the tiger's corpse afterward."

After Su Yuntao hid the Striped Tiger's corpse, he led Ye Lan toward the center of the Soul Hunting Forest.

At the center of the Soul Hunting Forest, the trees stood dozens of meters tall. Some of the Sky-scraping Trees were plant-type soul beasts in Camouflage, while others were simply enormous species of trees.

Ye Lan searched through the knowledge in his mind and identified several century-old plant soul beasts, such as the Magic Vine Tree, Ghost Vine, Mushroom Face Tree, Ghost Tree, and others.

But from the Skill Selection options within the Striped Tiger soul ring last time, Ye Lan had learned the rules of Skill Selection: it presented every possible soul skill that could result from combining a soul beast with Blue Silver Grass.

Therefore, Ye Lan had no interest in common offensive plant-type soul beasts.

This time, Ye Lan already had a clear target in mind.

After consulting the materials in the school library, Ye Lan had learned of a special plant-type soul beast: the Sun-Chasing Incineration Tree. This tree grew by chasing the sun and did not attack other soul beasts.

Every day, the leaves of the Sun-Chasing Incineration Tree pursued the sun, with its leaves always facing toward it. At night, its leaves would close tightly, only unfolding again when the sun rose in the east the next day.

It was the sun's most devout follower. When a Sun-Chasing Incineration Tree had chased the sun for a thousand years, the sunlight it absorbed would also reach its peak. That was when the Sun-Chasing Incineration Tree was at its most beautiful—and its most tragic.

The Sun-Chasing Incineration Tree would be burned to ashes by the fire of the sun.

Before the sun set, Ye Lan finally spotted an orange-colored tree, its leaves slowly closing.

Combining this with the written memories in his mind, Ye Lan confirmed that this orange tree was the Sun-Chasing Incineration Tree he had been seeking.

"Uncle Tao! We found it! The Sun-Chasing Incineration Tree, that strange plant that dies chasing the sun." Ye Lan's face was full of excitement.

"How old is this soul beast?" Su Yuntao also breathed a sigh of relief and asked with concern.

"The longer a Sun-Chasing Incineration Tree lives, the closer its color becomes to that of the sun. This one should be around six to seven hundred years old." Ye Lan looked at the beautiful Sun-Chasing Tree before him and spoke with certainty.

"Did you bring an axe? With a trunk that thick, it won't be easy to kill!" Su Yuntao asked skeptically.

"The Sun-Chasing Incineration Tree has no means of attacking on its own! But it can continuously heat its trunk through the Flame Core inside it. Most soul beasts won't provoke a Sun-Chasing Tree. Its trunk has a glass-like texture, but its temperature is extremely high. So the best way to deal with it is to exhaust the Flame Core within its body." After telling Su Yuntao this crucial information, Ye Lan began making preparations.