Come to think of it, this White Tiger did not entirely meet Chen Yumo's requirements.
Although it possessed the metal attribute as well, it had dual light and metal attributes. The metal attribute made up slightly less than the light attribute, so its proper scientific name would more appropriately be Bright White Tiger.
By racial classification, it even had some connection to the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was a special mutation caused when the God of Evil descended upon a Bright White Tiger. Meanwhile, the Bright White Tiger here possessed a pure light attribute and could be called a Holy Bright Tiger, placing it on the same level as Mu En's Holy Bright Dragon.
The Bright White Tiger Chen Yumo had hunted this time was a lower-ranking kin of the Holy Bright Tiger.
Much like the difference between the Dragon Clan's True Dragon Species and Subdragon Species.
Yet that still could not conceal its strength.
With merely seventeen hundred years of cultivation, it had been able to solo-kill a Wind Tiger that was nearly ten thousand years old. If that Wind Tiger had not been so underhanded and cut off its little bell before dying, it could even have been considered an unharmed solo kill.
Even if Chen Yumo kept searching, he would not find a Spirit Beast more suitable for his second Spirit Ring than this Bright White Tiger.
If the two tigers had not fought each other and both suffered severe injuries, allowing Chen Yumo to profit from their losses, he would only have been able to flee if he encountered either one alone.
No, against a vicious beast like the Wind Tiger that excelled in speed, he would hardly even have had a chance to run.
With luck this absurdly good, there was truly no need to continue searching. He simply could not find a more suitable second Spirit Ring.
The efforts of the past eighteen days had all accumulated into an explosion of luck on this single day. Perhaps this was what people meant by the prize pool still building up.
In any case, Chen Yumo was extremely satisfied.
He stored the two Spirit Rings and the corpses of both tigers in his Portable Space. Keeping both Detection and Simulation fully active, Chen Yumo swiftly left the area.
Having obtained such an outstanding Spirit Ring, Chen Yumo only wanted to leave as soon as possible.
As for exploring deeper into Meteor Forest to see whether he could find some Extraterrestrial Meteor Iron?
Next time for sure. Next time for sure...
After an unbelievable haul, Chen Yumo did not stop for even a moment as he left the Star Luo Empire and traveled day and night back to Nuoding City.
Chen Yumo had been gone for nearly a month and a half this time.
Xiao Chenyu vaguely guessed that Chen Yumo might have gone to obtain his second Spirit Ring, but he did not ask.
The last time, Tang San's threat had compelled him to ask Chen Yumo about Martial Soul Evolution, and that had already embarrassed him greatly. This time, Xiao Chenyu had resolved not to pry into Chen Yumo's secrets again.
If Tang San and Xiao Wu appeared to Xiao Chenyu like a young master and young lady from a wealthy family coming to a small place like Nuoding City to experience life,
then Chen Yumo was a grassroots genius turned protagonist, rising against all odds, killing anyone who stood in his way and crushing any Buddha who blocked his path, destined to become a powerhouse in the end.
Thus, not only did he refrain from investigating Chen Yumo's whereabouts, but after noticing that Chen Yumo had disappeared, he even took the initiative to cover for him. He said Chen Yumo had left Nuoding Academy because his family needed his help and would pay him handsomely.
Though he enjoyed bullying others and forming cliques at Nuoding Academy, he was not fundamentally an idiot.
Small fry had their own rules for survival. He was undoubtedly a man of talent.
Mainly because he knew how to read the times.
Chen Yumo did not know about this at first. He only learned later that Xiao Chenyu had actually covered for him.
Because Chen Yumo was still puzzled at the time.
Logically speaking, he had beaten Gangzi several times, and he had successfully evolved his Martial Soul right under Gangzi's nose, turning him into a complete joke. There was no way Gangzi would not pay attention to his movements.
After being gone for a month and a half, anyone would assume he had gone to obtain a Spirit Ring, right?
Was Gangzi not curious that Chen Yumo had only recently broken through to one ring, yet was already going to obtain his second Spirit Ring? Was that the cultivation speed Innate Level One was supposed to have?
Yet Chen Yumo discovered that neither Tang San nor Yu Xiaogang had come to cause him trouble.
It was as though he had never left Nuoding Academy at all.
He still did not know that Xiao Lao Da had stepped up again. He thought Gangzi and Sanzi were cooking up some scheme, so for the first few days after returning to Nuoding City, he remained rather suspicious and on edge.
After another two or three days passed without him discovering any moves from the master and disciple pair, he finally relaxed for real.
"A seventeen-hundred-year Spirit Ring, and one from such a powerful Spirit Beast as a Bright White Tiger. To be safe, I definitely can't skimp on Whale Rubber."
Chen Yumo did not hesitate. He decisively took out a piece of Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber, melted it down, and consumed it.
He then spent another month training to digest the medicinal potency of the Whale Rubber. Only after clearly sensing that his physical fitness had improved by a large margin did he choose an auspicious time in the dead of night, release the Spirit Ring from his Portable Space, and begin absorbing it.
Looking at the purple Spirit Ring floating before him, Chen Yumo spread open his palm, and a silkworm cocoon appeared in it.
During the last Metamorphosis, Chen Yumo's cocoon had been dark brown. When it broke open, icy blue light had shone through the cracks in the cocoon.
But this time, throughout the period from level eleven to level nineteen, Chen Yumo had fed the Ice Silkworm a great deal of Sword Bamboo. At level twenty, the cocoon formed from metal-attribute energy had turned a platinum white with a metallic sheen across its entire surface, and its weight was no different from real metal.
It even felt slightly heavier in his hand.
The Cocooning soul skill truly suited Chen Yumo's path perfectly. It was also his greatest source of confidence in being able to walk the path of the Nine Transformations of the Divine Silkworm.
"Come on. One more Metamorphosis!"
Chen Yumo raised his hand and guided the Spirit Ring down onto the cocoon, beginning to absorb the Spirit Ring and break through to Soul Grandmaster.
Whether he could truly complete all nine transformations, the first Metamorphosis was merely the foundation. The second Metamorphosis was the true life-or-death turning point.
The first transformation had only allowed him to retain the Cocooning ability and improve his Martial Soul's potential.
Only the second Metamorphosis could determine whether he would be able to transform into other forms after breaking out of the cocoon.
Chen Yumo was a little uneasy.
But all he could do was continuously refine the Spirit Ring's energy and firmly believe in his Martial Soul, believing that it could definitely accomplish this.
A Martial Soul was part of a Spirit Master, equivalent to another self. If one could not even believe in one's Martial Soul, then what else in this world was worth believing in?
As the Spirit Ring's energy continuously poured in, the cocoon trembled slightly, and its platinum sheen grew several degrees brighter. Chen Yumo could even sense sharp metal-attribute power brewing within the cocoon.
The process was somewhat painful.
The defining traits of the metal attribute were toughness and sharpness. Toughness made it extremely difficult to move, while sharpness caused intense stabbing pain throughout Chen Yumo's entire body every moment it circulated within him.
If he had not felt no injuries anywhere on his body, Chen Yumo would have thought he was already suffering the backlash of failure.
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