Douluo: Ruo Tuo Save Me

The father and son unhurriedly arrived near the entrance to the Soul Hunting Forest.

This Soul Hunting Forest was a place where the Heaven Dou Empire raised spirit beasts in captivity.

It was very suitable for novice Spirit Masters to hunt spirit beasts and obtain Soul Rings.

Most of the spirit beasts inside were ten-year spirit beasts, with only a small number being hundred-year spirit beasts.

Thousand-Year Spirit Beasts were basically impossible to find.

Once a Thousand-Year Spirit Beast appeared, Spirit Hall's enforcement squad would join forces to eliminate it, reducing the risk of novice Spirit Masters being harmed.

Of course, entering the Soul Hunting Forest was not so simple.

One needed a warrant issued by Spirit Hall to enter.

This also indirectly demonstrated Spirit Hall's power.

The land belonged to the Heaven Dou Empire, and the captive spirit beasts belonged to the Heaven Dou Empire as well. Yet if one wanted to enter, one still needed a warrant from Spirit Hall.

Zhong Tian had brought Zhong Li to the Soul Hunting Forest so that Zhong Li could get used to the process of obtaining a Soul Ring.

He did not expect Zhong Li to obtain a good Soul Ring here.

Once Zhong Li had adapted to the environment, he would take him to try their luck on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.

To find a Soul Ring with a decent age and suitable attributes, without ten days to half a month, forget about it. And that was not even counting travel time...

That was why Gongsun Li had said that after Zhong Li obtained his Soul Ring, it would be about time for school to begin. There were still three months until the start of school!

"Baozi for sale! Baozi made with ten-year Pipi Pig meat!"

"Got a warrant! Team needs one more, looking for a support Spirit Master!"

"Wu Da Sesame Cake..."

Zhong Tian held Zhong Li's hand and said,

"Son, how does it feel? Isn't it strange? Why are people selling things in such a dangerous place? Why is it so lively?"

Zhong Li looked at the scene before him without finding it strange in the slightest. His heart was utterly calm.

"Dad, wherever Spirit Masters gather, an adaptive ecosystem forms. They provide assistance to Spirit Masters and earn considerable money in return. By universal rationality, Spirit Hall protects this place. There should not be any danger, right?"

Zhong Li's words left Zhong Tian stunned for three hundred years!

It seemed that having a son who was too smart really was not a good thing. He could not experience the joy of teaching his child at all.

After they got back, should he discuss having another child with his wife?

Zhong Li's words also caught the attention of a pair nearby, one adult and one child.

"What a clever child. He does not look much older than Xiaosan. Since he is here, he must be here to obtain a Soul Ring as well."

The adult and child were precisely master and disciple, Yu Xiaogang and Tang San. They had set out yesterday and only arrived today.

Yu Xiaogang had also been explaining some things to Tang San.

When Yu Xiaogang and Tang San looked over, Zhong Tian and Zhong Li sensed it as well.

Eight eyes met, and neither side spoke.

Zhong Li did not realize that the child among the pair was Tang San, the protagonist of Douluo 1.

Perhaps because they were both teaching children, Zhong Tian nodded to Yu Xiaogang before leading Zhong Li toward the entrance of the Soul Hunting Forest.

He took out a black iron plaque from his Storage Soul Tool. There was only a sword-shaped pattern on it. This was a Level 1 warrant issued by Spirit Hall.

(There are too many versions of the Heaven Dou Six Imperial Plates. The author will use the version of sword, hammer, dragon, crown, chrysanthemum, and ghost. The sword here is the holy sword condensed by the angel, not Chen Xin's Seven Kill Sword. Clear Sky Hammer, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, Star Crown, Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, Ghost.)

Zhong Tian handed it to the guard. After giving it a glance, the guard returned the warrant to Zhong Tian. He then called out to the guard nearest the gate,

"The warrant is valid. Open the gate!"

It was not that the guards were careless with their work. After all, no one truly dared to forge a warrant from Spirit Hall.

As for where this warrant had come from, Zhong Tian had to thank that Soul Elder for his generous contribution.

It was not as though he did not have higher-level Heaven Dou Six Imperial Plates. There was simply no need for them. They were only entering the Soul Hunting Forest.

His father, Zhong Daoxian—Zhong Li's grandfather—

Had taught him when Zhong Tian was young that one had to keep a low profile when out in the world. Keep an even lower profile. Do not provoke trouble recklessly, but do not fear trouble either!

How could a family that had endured for thousands of years and remained standing be compared to upstarts like the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect?!

The Zhong Family was a reclusive family with a legacy spanning more than five thousand years.

The family's inherited Martial Soul: Dragon Gallbladder Spear.

Spear Emerges Like a Dragon, courage fills the entire body! The Dragon Gallbladder Spear would also be accompanied by a Dragon Soul, which would undergo a second awakening once the Spirit Master reached Level 70!

This allowed Spirit Masters with the Dragon Gallbladder Spear Martial Soul to possess strength rivaling a Title Douluo after reaching the Soul Saint rank!

No one knew that the Zhong Family had once produced a Peerless Douluo. That ancestor had also been extraordinarily gifted and created his own divine position.

Yet he left behind only one sentence: "What a regret! You were not born when I was, yet when I was born, you were already in position..." Then, before he could even leave behind a Quasi God inheritance, he passed away on the spot. (Level 99 Title Douluo are further divided into pseudo-Demigod, Demigod, and Quasi God.)

There was only one of each divine position in the Divine Realm, yet this man had picked a fight with the Rank 2 Deity, the God of War, insisting on creating his own God of War divine position.

The God of War said: You said you wanted it, so I could have passed it on to you. But you cannot just snatch it! Could you not choose one that does not exist in the Divine Realm? If you had chosen something else, you might have succeeded.

Born at the wrong time. What a tragedy...

After Zhong Tian reached the Soul Saint rank, the Dragon Soul from his Martial Soul's second awakening was a Fire Dragon King possessing Extreme Fire.

(Of course, this Fire Dragon King was not the Fire Dragon King in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. It merely possessed Extreme Fire, and calling it a Fire Dragon would be somewhat disrespectful.)

Hundred-Year Soul Bone, the Story Tang San and Gu Zhu Had to Tell

Hundred-Year Soul Bone, the Story Tang San and Gu Zhu Had to Tell

After the father and son entered the Soul Hunting Forest, Yu Xiaogang and Tang San followed shortly afterward.

With a Soul Saint powerhouse like Zhong Tian present, would they not be able to slaughter everything in the Soul Hunting Forest?

Zhong Tian had brought Zhong Li to the Soul Hunting Forest so that Zhong Li could experience the atmosphere of hunting spirit beasts.

He also wanted to teach Zhong Li by word and example about the things that required attention during a spirit beast hunt.

Zhong Li was not particularly eager to obtain a Soul Ring. Since his Martial Soul Awakening, he had deeply sensed the power of Morax.

As a result, he did not care much about Soul Rings. Morax's power would gradually merge with him. As long as he lived long enough, he would be invincible beneath the heavens. (Dog head, Heavenly Principles. There is nothing wrong with saying invincible beneath the heavens when it comes to Morax, right?)

The two strolled through the Soul Hunting Forest as though leisurely traveling the mortal world.

As they walked, Zhong Tian's eyes suddenly lit up.

The Dragon Gallbladder Spear instantly appeared in his hand.

"Son, look. That is a Mandala Snake over four hundred years old. It is one of the stronger hundred-year spirit beasts! Too bad it is not wind-attributed, otherwise..."

At this point, Zhong Tian seemed to recall something and did not continue.

"Four hundred years? Aside from Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, which require one to withstand spiritual shock."

"For Soul Rings below ten thousand years, as long as one's body is strong enough, they can be absorbed."

"My son is innately Level 20, and his body is as strong as a Soul Elder's."

"If I really let my son absorb a four-hundred-year Soul Ring, the ancestors would crawl out of their graves and slap me twice!"

As for that Grandmaster's theory on the maximum age of Soul Rings a Spirit Master could absorb—

It was enough to just listen to it. Even his direct disciple, Tang San, had been repeatedly slapping him in the face.

Zhong Li looked in the direction indicated by the Dragon Gallbladder Spear and indeed saw a Mandala Snake coiled beneath a tree.

Its body was over four meters long, and its entire body was dark green.

"Dad, quickly, kill it. I feel that this spirit beast is not simple!"

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Hearing his son's words, Zhong Tian did not hesitate.

The Dragon Gallbladder Spear flew from his hand and struck the Mandala Snake's head with perfect accuracy.

It pinned it firmly to the ground. The entire process took no more than two seconds.

Before long, the Mandala Snake breathed its last. Yellow energy slowly emerged from its body, condensing into a yellow hundred-year Soul Ring.

Only then did Zhong Tian recall the Dragon Gallbladder Spear and say to Zhong Li beside him,

"Son, what was it about this spirit beast... Hmm?"

Before he could finish, he sensed that there were actually fluctuations of Soul Power inside the Mandala Snake's body!

He hurriedly used the Dragon Gallbladder Spear to pry open the Mandala Snake's corpse. The scales that had served as the Mandala Snake's defense were like paper before the Dragon Gallbladder Spear.

Sure enough, a dark green Soul Bone appeared before him.

He took out the Soul Bone and casually tossed it to Zhong Li. Zhong Tian threw back his head, looked at the sky, and burst into tears!

He had lived for thirty-eight years, and only when obtaining his seventh Soul Ring had he acquired a torso Soul Bone over sixty thousand years old. (The Family Inherited Soul Bone did not count.)

But today? He had merely brought his child out for a little training.

Zhong Li had somehow picked up a dragon-type Soul Bone that was at least ninety thousand years old.

The first spirit beast they encountered had been casually killed. And there was another one...

"My son Zhong Li has the potential of a God King!"

Zhong Tian did not know what a God King was. His thoughts were simple. God King, God King—the king among gods!

Just like the Dragon Soul accompanying his Martial Soul. It possessed Extreme Fire, so calling it a Fire Dragon was too much of an understatement. It should be called the king among Fire Dragons.

He did not ask Zhong Li why he knew that the spirit beast had a Soul Bone.

But he still said to Zhong Li,

"Son, you must remember this. You must never display this ability to sense Soul Bones in front of others."

"Other than your mother and me, who would not have designs on you because of this ability, I cannot even guarantee that your grandfather and maternal grandfather would be able to stay calm."

After receiving the Soul Bone, Zhong Li casually put it into his Storage Soul Tool.

It was a slightly incomplete hundred-year torso Soul Bone, but its quality was fairly good.

If a snake could produce limb Soul Bones, that would be quite strange instead. Right, Da Ming?

He also found it rather strange. By all rights, this four-hundred-year Mandala Snake should have been the one Tang San hunted.

But the Mandala Snake Tang San hunted did not have a Soul Bone.

As for why he could sense that this Mandala Snake had a Soul Bone, it seemed that the elemental power within his body had sensed it.

(The figure within the Sea of Consciousness: Yeah, yeah, exactly!)

"Understood, Dad. I will remember it."

Zhong Li did not refute Zhong Tian's words.

"Good. It is enough that you remember. Come on, let us continue looking around."

Before leaving, Zhong Tian released a burst of flame from the Dragon Gallbladder Spear at the Mandala Snake's corpse.

Only after destroying the evidence did he lead Zhong Li away.

"Any Spirit Master with some experience would know that the Mandala Snake had a Soul Bone after seeing its corpse. To avoid unnecessary trouble, destroying the evidence is the best choice."

Zhong Li listened as Zhong Tian shared his experience, occasionally nodding to show that he understood.

Not long after they left, Yu Xiaogang and Tang San arrived.

When they entered the Soul Hunting Forest, they had not chosen the same direction as Zhong Tian and Zhong Li. Yet as they walked, they somehow still ended up here.

Seeing the devastated scene, Yu Xiaogang hurriedly led Tang San back.

"Xiaosan, do you see? A great battle just took place here. One side possessed an extremely powerful fire attribute. Look at the ground..."

As a teacher, Yu Xiaogang was qualified.

He truly treated Tang San as his own son and imparted all his knowledge to Tang San without holding anything back.

Even while fleeing, he did not forget to pass on experience to Tang San.