"Fire Dragon" Soul Ring

It was already noon.

Chen Xing finally woke up under the healing effects of Photosynthesis and the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.

The moment he opened his eyes, a sharp pain shot through his entire body.

It hurt so badly that he bared his teeth and let out a strange cry.

"Damn..."

"That woman was way too ruthless."

Chen Xing had no doubt that Bibi Dong's punch had been intended to put him out of commission for ten days to half a month.

If not for the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, he would not have woken up even after another two days.

He forced himself onto his elbows and rolled over, lying facedown on the bed so the sunlight could reach his back.

Only then did Chen Xing finally catch his breath.

As usual, he opened the System Panel to inspect the Soul Ring attributes and see whether there were any Soul Rings suitable for becoming his Martial Soul.

Gui Mei had helped him fill the nine empty slots on the Preparation Bench two days ago, and now he had to check them one by one every morning.

If nothing unexpected happened, this would be his routine for the next four or five years.

Fortunately, the interface was fairly simple, and all the information was clear at a glance.

[Name: Chen Xing]

[Martial Soul: Purple Imperial Bamboo]

[Soul Power Level: Level 33]

[Soul Rings: Purple, Purple, Purple]

[First Soul Skill: Purple Imperial Sword Qi]

[Second Soul Skill: Purple Imperial Sword Domain]

[Third Soul Skill: Purple Imperial Sword Slash]

[Soul Bone: Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone]

[Talent Skill: Wild Growth]

[Talent Domain: Purple Imperial Bamboo Forest]

Below his personal information was a plus sign. When he tapped it, nine slots unfolded, each containing a black Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

Chen Xing casually tapped the first slot on the left, and the information inside expanded.

[12,000-Year Blue Silver Grass Soul Ring: Absorption grants skill—Life Tide]

"Speechless..."

The instant he saw Blue Silver Grass, Chen Xing could not even be bothered to check the skill's effects.

What Life Tide, Destruction Tide, whatever...

He had gone through all that trouble to find nine Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings just to awaken a Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul?

Wasn't Purple Imperial Bamboo ten thousand times better? Besides, among plant-type Martial Souls, there could only be one "Emperor."

If he really awakened a Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, he would never evolve it into the Blue Silver Emperor in his lifetime.

He opened the second one.

[11,300-Year Flame Rat Soul Ring]

The third one.

[10,200-Year Breeze Crane Soul Ring]

The fourth, the fifth...

Almost all of them were the most common Soul Beasts on Douluo Continent. Although Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings could transform the skills they granted, and every skill looked quite good, none of that was important. What Chen Xing cared about was the Martial Soul!

Without a powerful Second Martial Soul, relying on Purple Imperial Bamboo alone would make it difficult for him to stand at the peak of this continent, much less become a god.

So no matter how outstanding the skills in these Soul Rings were, they were nothing more than reflections in a mirror.

The further one progressed, the higher the requirements for Martial Soul quality became.

The reason Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were relatively rare on Douluo Continent was partly due to hunting by Soul Masters and conflict among Soul Beasts. But at its root, it was because many Soul Beasts had innate limits that destined them never to possess a hundred thousand years of cultivation.

Noon arrived.

The sunlight was blazing. It shone on the young man's back, leaving it faintly hot but pleasantly warm.

Yet the young man's face could not brighten no matter what.

He had more or less settled down in Spirit Hall now. As long as he did not deliberately provoke that woman Bibi Dong, there was probably not much to worry about in the future.

With Spirit Hall's abundant cultivation resources at his disposal, Chen Xing's future cultivation path could be said to be completely smooth.

Still, he felt as though something was missing...

"Sigh! I wonder when I'll randomly get a better Soul Ring."

Though he did not hold much hope, Chen Xing still intended to finish the process.

He gently tapped the eighth slot, and its information expanded.

[11,000-Year Fire Dragon Soul Ring]

"Huh?"

In an instant, Chen Xing ignored the pain wracking his body and sprang straight up from the bed.

"Fire Dragon!"

"Liu Erlong's Fire Dragon Martial Soul?"

As he remembered, the Fire Dragon Martial Soul had mutated from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul.

Or rather, it should have been an independent category of Martial Soul from the start.

Its quality could even rival the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon. In a sense, it could not truly be called a mutated Martial Soul.

A blazing light filled Chen Xing's purple eyes as he stared fixedly at the illusory screen floating in midair.

"Should I absorb it?"

"Fire Dragon!"

"A dragon-type Martial Soul!"

"In the future, I might even have a chance to evolve its fire attribute into Ultimate Fire!"

[11,000-Year Fire Dragon Soul Ring: Absorption grants skill—Sky-Soaring Flame]

[Activate the skill to summon magma from the ground within an area to attack, dealing wide-range fire-attribute damage]

It was an incredibly powerful skill.

It combined area coverage, elemental power, and attack strength, and it was instantaneous. As long as it was cast beneath an enemy's feet, there was no way to dodge it.

It could be called an unavoidable skill.

Chen Xing truly was tempted.

After all, no matter how these Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings were randomized, they would never produce Soul Beasts that did not exist on Douluo Continent.

A Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring could only produce Soul Beasts with ten thousand years of cultivation.

So beings like the Silver Dragon King and the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King could never appear.

On the other hand, Fire Dragons, Black Dragons, and the like were already among the most gifted Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

Given enough time, they would certainly break through to the hundred-thousand-year level.

That also meant Martial Souls like these absolutely had the potential to become gods.

At present, Chen Xing truly could not think of any Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast stronger than a Fire Dragon.

His heart pounded wildly, and heavy breathing echoed throughout the room.

"I didn't expect to roll a top-tier Martial Soul so quickly."

Amid his excitement, a question suddenly occurred to him.

If he absorbed the Fire Dragon Soul Ring, would it affect his Purple Imperial Bamboo?

If Martial Souls that shared the same body and the same meridians absorbed a Soul Ring for the Second Martial Soul, would its attributes affect the first Martial Soul?

He remembered that absorbing Soul Rings improved a Soul Master's physical constitution.

Take the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul, for example. If Dugu Bo had not constantly added poison-attribute Soul Rings to his Martial Soul, causing the poison within it to feed back into the Soul Master, how could he have ended up like this?

And it was said that Liu Erlong's fiery temper was caused by her Martial Soul.

There was no doubt that Martial Souls affected Soul Masters.

Following that line of thought, Twin Martial Souls might very well affect each other too.

Although Purple Imperial Bamboo was currently of very high quality, it was still a plant at its core. Plants feared fire, especially fire within his own meridians.

At that thought, Chen Xing began to struggle.

"Could that be a problem?"

"Can Immortal Herbs solve this problem?"

"Or should I just give up this Soul Ring..."

Without realizing it, he frowned again.

He had thought it would be wonderful news, but this Soul Ring just had to be fire-attribute...

As his thoughts wandered, he noticed that there was still one unopened slot on the screen.

While weighing the pros and cons of the Fire Dragon Soul Ring, Chen Xing unconsciously opened the ninth Soul Ring.

The information expanded, and azure-blue text came into view.

The worried young man instantly stood up when he saw that striking line of large text.

His eyes widened, and his jaw nearly hit the floor!

[14,700-Year Ice Heaven Snow Soul Soul Ring]