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"If you want to pursue the control path, I suggest making your second martial soul control-oriented. The Nine-Phoenix Flute is better suited for control than the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron."

"Unless you seal off your own hearing, your control will be impossible to guard against in the future. But losing one of the five senses would be fatal, not to mention against high-level opponents—even low-level Soul Masters could exploit it."

"Besides, you have a uniquely advantageous ability—you can use both of your martial souls at the same time!"

"Just imagine it: the Nine-Phoenix Flute controls the entire field while you smash people with the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron."

In this era, the Spiritual Power system had only begun to take shape. There were nowhere near as many people with powerful Spiritual Power as there would be in the era of Douluo III.

Xiao Xiao seemed to see the scene Chen Yuan had described, and her face flushed slightly with excitement.

Chen Yuan was utterly baffled by the sight.

Why was she blushing like a teapot?!

"Alright! I'll listen to you, Senior!"

"Mm, you're teachable."

Chen Yuan was quite satisfied.

"By the way, what is your First Soul Skill?"

"My First Soul Skill is called Cauldron Tremor. It can not only injure enemies through vibrations, but also stun every enemy within one meter of the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron."

"Every enemy? Against people with higher cultivation, stronger physiques, and greater Spiritual Power, your First Soul Skill won't be very useful."

"Senior, can't you praise me a little? Don't hit me with that right away!"

"Can't help it. Your Soul Skill really isn't all that useful."

The specific effects of Soul Skills generally had to be kept secret. Since he had heard Xiao Xiao's Soul Skill, he naturally needed to tell her about his own.

"All four of my Soul Skills are percentage-based enhancement skills. Even after I become a Title Douluo, they'll still be extremely useful."

"But wouldn't that mean you have no offensive Soul Skills?"

"I have Self-Created Soul Skills."

At that moment, Xiao Xiao understood what it meant to be crushed by someone's talent.

After arriving at the Beast Pen, Xiao Xiao followed Chen Yuan through several twists and turns until they reached an underground area surrounded by metal gates.

Beyond those gates stood one Soul Beast after another.

Inside one of the gates, an elderly man with a face like a red date, a tall build, and an exceptionally conspicuous head of red hair was stroking a Soul Beast's head.

"Why are you here, kid?"

Gong Changlong knew who it was without even turning around.

He had sensed the scorching aura around Chen Yuan from far away.

As a Level 92 fire-type Title Douluo, it would have been a real problem if he had failed to notice Chen Yuan approaching.

Although Gong Changlong was only Level 92, his status within Shrek Academy was by no means low. As an expert in the field of Soul Beasts, his importance went without saying.

Chen Yuan had first met Gong Changlong during his Second Grade promotion exam.

Back then, when Chen Yuan summoned his martial soul, the Fire Dragon Soul attached to the Flame Gauntlet released a wave of pressure that scared every fire-type and dragon-type Soul Beast in the Beast Fighting Arena half to death.

From then on, Gong Changlong had forbidden Chen Yuan from fully releasing his martial soul in the Beast Fighting Arena.

When Chen Yuan handed over the token Yan Shaozhe had given him, Gong Changlong's expression instantly darkened.

"That damned Yan Shaozhe! He's got his eyes on my Soul Beasts again! How did he find out I had a ten-thousand-year fire-type Soul Beast?!"

"And you, brat! How did you break through so fast? Level 50 already?!"

"Instead of going to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Soul Beasts, why are you eyeing my treasures?! My treasure isn't old enough yet! Go hunt Soul Beasts properly!"

After smoothing down the hair that Gong Changlong's booming voice had blown into disarray, Chen Yuan realized that Gong Changlong had misunderstood.

"Elder Gong, not me. I'm only level 44. I might not even reach level 50 before the tournament begins. It's the new student behind me who needs her second Soul Ring."

"Hello, Elder Gong!"

Xiao Xiao awkwardly gave him a salute.

Only then did Gong Changlong turn his attention to Xiao Xiao.

He had noticed Xiao Xiao's presence earlier, but he had not taken the little girl seriously.

He examined Xiao Xiao carefully, then placed his broad palm on her shoulder and sensed her bone age and Soul Power.

"A new student? That can't be right. How could Yan Shaozhe possibly let a new student come to the Beast Fighting Arena to obtain a Soul Ring? He's always after something."

Sigh, Yan Shaozhe, just how deeply rooted was your petty reputation in everyone's hearts?

"Hmph. This little girl can probably withstand a Soul Ring between six hundred and over nine hundred years for her second ring. Absolutely no more than nine hundred and fifty years."

"What is your martial soul? What type of Soul Beast do you need?"

As long as they were not targeting Gong Changlong's treasured stock or those relatively difficult-to-tame thousand-year Soul Beasts, he was actually quite easy to talk to.

Xiao Xiao looked at Chen Yuan, indicating that she would follow his arrangements.

Seeing this, Gong Changlong's gaze shifted back and forth between the two of them.

"Her martial soul is the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron. She needs a metal- or earth-attribute Soul Beast. The Soul Skill it produces should preferably increase weight."

"A holy attribute would work too. A suppression-type skill would be best. The cauldron is a ritual vessel used for sacrifices, so absorbing a Soul Ring from a holy-attribute Soul Beast would also be good."

"Fuck! You think holy-attribute Soul Beasts grow like cabbages? I don't have any!"

"Get your asses to the Beast Fighting Arena and wait. I'll send the Soul Beast over, and you can kill it yourselves."

Hearing that, Chen Yuan led Xiao Xiao through a passage into the enormous Beast Fighting Arena.

Since Gong Changlong was personally selecting it, Chen Yuan had nothing to worry about. In the current Douluo Continent, aside from the Soul Beasts themselves, no one understood Soul Beasts more deeply than Gong Changlong.

A while later, the gate on one side of the central arena let out a piercing series of cracks, and a massive ant slowly crawled out.

A Black Gold Ant, a dual metal-and-earth attribute Soul Beast.

Seeing this, Chen Yuan leaped into the arena and released his martial soul. Four Soul Rings—yellow, purple, purple, and black—circled around him.

At the same level, Soul Beasts were stronger in battle than Soul Masters. This was especially true for a Soul Master like Xiao Xiao, who had yet to develop her own fighting style.

It was better for Chen Yuan to deal with this Soul Beast himself.

Xiao Xiao was completely stunned, staring blankly at the black Soul Ring in the arena.

She had also asked around for information about Chen Yuan today, and she had been dumbfounded at the time. A fourteen-year-old four-ring Soul Ancestor, the strongest in the Outer Court.

But she had not been able to learn about his Soul Ring configuration. Now that she saw it, she was utterly shocked.

This configuration was way too outrageous, wasn't it?

Even the first four Soul Rings of Sea God Tang San from ten thousand years ago had seemingly only been yellow, yellow, purple, and black, right?

Inside the arena, Chen Yuan loosened up his body. Then, he activated his First Soul Skill, Flame Pattern, and his aura rose noticeably.

The flames around his right fist burned even more fiercely, while the Dragon Soul in his left hand seemed to come alive and let out a roar at the Black Gold Ant.

First Soul Skill: Flame Pattern. All attributes increased by 30% for half an hour.

Combined with Chen Yuan's physique, which had been strengthened by four over-limit Soul Rings, this First Soul Skill was simply absurdly overpowered.

What a joke. If the Soul Skills they provided weren't overpowered, Chen Yuan would have to be brain-dead to absorb over-limit Soul Rings.

If he had not wanted to finish off this Black Gold Ant quickly, Chen Yuan would not even have needed to activate a Soul Skill.

Even if this Black Gold Ant's cultivation increased tenfold, it still would not compare to Chen Yuan's Fourth Soul Ring.

Sensing the terrifying Soul Power fluctuations from the human before it, the Black Gold Ant let out a series of squeaks. Its two antennae trembled constantly as it tried to intimidate him.

Chen Yuan's figure flashed and vanished from the Black Gold Ant's sight.

He was so fast that even Xiao Xiao, who was overlooking the entire arena from the viewing platform, failed to catch sight of him.

The Black Gold Ant sensed the threat of death and immediately fled backward, but the gate dropped at that moment, cutting off its retreat.

"Screech!"

The Black Gold Ant's entire body gleamed with a metallic sheen. Its pair of compound eyes stared fixedly at every corner of the arena, catching even the slightest disturbance.

Chen Yuan appeared above the Black Gold Ant and threw a punch. Its entire exoskeleton cracked and shattered, and its body was embedded in the ground, unable to move.

"Boom!"

The floor of the Beast Fighting Arena shattered, and the Black Gold Ant was on its last breath.

Chen Yuan turned around and called Xiao Xiao over to kill the Black Gold Ant.

"Xiao Yuan, why didn't you let me attack? That was so boring, Gulu."

Dali Gu, attached to the Dragon Soul in his left hand, grumbled in dissatisfaction.

"Next time. I'll definitely let you do it next time."

"Alright."

After withdrawing his martial soul, Chen Yuan let out a breath of relief and decided to buy Dali Gu more delicious food later.