One Year Later

As time passed, a year quickly went by. Jerry was now nearly fourteen years old. Over the past year, he had cultivated Heart Separation Control to the Five Orifice Heart of Dispersion. Because Jerry's Spiritual Power was very strong, he progressed quickly! During this time, Jerry recalled the Fist Technique Cultivation Manual. It described methods of exerting force with one's fists, simple moves, and footwork. Though he had not yet developed a true Self-Created Soul Skill, it still helped Jerry greatly and vastly improved his close-combat ability!

Several Attribute Plants in Jerry's vegetable patch had also been propagated by cuttings, producing a large batch.

These Attribute Plants were all incredibly powerful. Even the weakest now had a Ten Thousand Years cultivation, while the Electric Light Grass had even been cultivated by Jerry to Twenty Thousand Years!

He could have absorbed a Soul Ring long ago, but Jerry had unexpectedly developed feelings for the Electric Light Grass while cultivating it. Since he constantly communicated with it, the Electric Light Grass quickly learned human language. Once it reached Ten Thousand Years, it could even convey its thoughts to Jerry through consciousness! At first, Jerry had only chatted with the Electric Light Grass for fun, but after talking for so long, they developed a bond. He could not bear to absorb it! That was why he still had not absorbed his Fourth Soul Ring!

Today, Xiao Wu broke through Level 40 and condensed another Soul Ring—directly a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring! Xiao Wu showed off for a long time, flashing her Soul Ring in front of Jerry whenever she had the chance!

"Grass Grass, Xiao Wu is showing off in front of me again! Sigh, I need to hurry and cultivate another Ten Thousand Year Electric Light Grass!"

"Jerry, I'm sorry. I've held you back! Seeing how many children you cultivated for me makes me very happy. I've decided to sacrifice myself to you. Don't worry. When I broke through Twenty Thousand Years, I learned that as long as it isn't a soul sacrifice and I only sacrifice my Soul Ring, I'll leave behind a seed. You just need to plant me again!" With that, Grass Grass immediately began the sacrifice!

"No, Grass Grass, don't do this! I'll be able to cultivate another Ten Thousand Year plant very soon! Stop, stop..." Jerry shouted loudly!

Once a sacrifice began, it could not be stopped. That was the rule of this world; perhaps only gods could change it! The commotion of the sacrifice drew Da Ming, Er Ming, and Xiao Wu over. The Electric Light Grass had sacrificed itself willingly, and seeing how heartbroken Jerry was, they did not know how to comfort him!

Because of the sacrifice, Jerry absorbed the Soul Ring with ease. His Soul Power then began to show itself, rising directly to Level 48. This showed just how much Soul Power Jerry had absorbed before! For an ordinary person, breaking through to Level 41 was already very good, while reaching Level 43 would make one a genius. Yet Jerry had risen eight levels at once!

The Twenty-Thousand-Year Fourth Soul Ring greatly strengthened Jerry's body. At last, his Soul Skill was an offensive one: it fired a bolt of lightning at an enemy, and anyone struck would also be paralyzed! Jerry directly named it Lightning Flash! The breakthrough in level did not increase Jerry's Spiritual Power. At that moment, Jerry grew envious of Tang San's Purple Demon Eye. It could cultivate not only eye techniques, but Spiritual Power as well!

Seeing Grass Grass, who had accompanied him for a year, turn into a seed, Jerry swore that he would definitely grow it again! He then planted the seed in a flowerpot and carefully tended to it!

This year, the Ten Thousand Year Region underwent earth-shaking changes. From the Ten Thousand Year Region to the Core Region, not a single Ordinary Plant could be found. Even the trees that had grown there before had all become at least Thousand Year Soul Beasts! Furthermore, every region had cultivated many Ten Thousand Year Attribute Plants, and the Soul Power Concentration in the air had increased about fivefold. After the Soul Power Concentration in the Ten Thousand Year Region increased, it spread into the Thousand Year Region and the outer areas. Over the past year, many Hundred-Year Soul Beasts broke through to become Thousand Year Soul Beasts, many Thousand Year Soul Beasts broke through to Ten Thousand Years, and the Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts also gained many additional years of cultivation! The entire forest became even more terrifying. This year, some Soul Masters who were not afraid of death had barely entered the Ten Thousand Year Region before being surrounded and killed by Soul Beasts. It truly became a place where one could enter but never leave. Why were intruders discovered so quickly? Because Thousand Year Plant Type Soul Beasts had already developed faint consciousnesses. They were everywhere, passing information among themselves, so intruders were discovered the moment they entered!

Jerry's plan for the next year was to vigorously increase the cultivation years of the Plant Soul Beasts in the Ten Thousand Year Region, while extending that cultivation into the Thousand Year Soul Beast Region. Thousand Year Soul Beasts were too unintelligent, so Jerry could only have Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts help cultivate the plants in the Thousand Year Region!