The Glazed Green Lotus's Second Ability

"Too slow."

Jiang Chen commented as he dodged.

"Cut the crap!"

Xiao Wu gritted her teeth as she landed. With a light tap of her toes, she sprang up again. This time, she had learned her lesson and circled behind Jiang Chen to attack.

At the same time, Tang San flicked both hands, sending several pebbles whistling through the air toward Jiang Chen's face.

Without even turning around, Jiang Chen reached back and precisely caught Xiao Wu by the ankle. With a casual sweep of his other hand, he slapped the pebbles away with several sharp pops.

"Let me go!"

After struggling fruitlessly for a few moments, Xiao Wu simply used his grip as leverage to flip herself around, her other leg viciously kicking toward the back of Jiang Chen's head.

With a flick of his wrist, Jiang Chen sent Xiao Wu spinning twice through the air like a top. She staggered several steps upon landing and nearly fell over.

"Xiao Wu!" Tang San hurriedly lashed out several strands of Blue Silver Grass to pull her steady.

"I'm fine."

Xiao Wu shook her numb ankle, pushed off the ground, and launched another attack.

For the next half hour, the empty clearing rang continuously with booming collisions.

"I'm done, I'm done fighting!"

Xiao Wu plopped down on the ground, half of her pink braid already coming undone as she waved her hand while gasping for breath.

"Big Sister Xiao Wu is exhausted... You're like you're made of iron."

Tang San stopped as well, wiping the sweat from his forehead with a helpless bitter smile.

This feeling was far too despairing.

They had fought for half an hour, taking turns attacking, yet neither of them had managed to break through Brother Chen's defenses.

The only time he had even moved was to catch Xiao Wu after she had been flung away.

"Already giving up?"

Jiang Chen withdrew the golden light around him and reached out to pull Xiao Wu up from the ground.

"Tch!"

Xiao Wu muttered as she took Jiang Chen's hand and stood up, then mischievously gave him a shove.

Yet he still did not budge in the slightest.

Looking at the exhausted pair, Jiang Chen raised his head to glance at the sky. "Stop lying around. It's time to head to Sunset Forest and obtain your Soul Rings."

"But our Soul Power..."

Tang San and Xiao Wu had exhausted all the Soul Power in their bodies during the fight. It would take at least two hours to recover.

"It's fine. I'll solve the Soul Power issue for you."

Jiang Chen grinned. Green light bloomed in his palm, and a transparent Green Lotus whose lotus heart shimmered with seven-colored radiance slowly appeared.

"Wow, what a beautiful lotus!"

It was Xiao Wu's first time seeing Jiang Chen's Martial Soul, and she curiously leaned closer to inspect it.

After all, she was a girl. She truly had little resistance to beautiful things.

Tang San was not as excited as Xiao Wu, since he had seen Jiang Chen's Martial Soul several times before.

But when he noticed the seven-colored radiance in the lotus heart, his pupils contracted.

That golden radiance in the lotus heart was exactly the same color as the light that had covered Brother Chen earlier.

Could it be...

A guess flashed through Tang San's mind, but he quickly rejected it.

Impossible. If each color represented an ability, then once Brother Chen gained Soul Rings later on, wouldn't he have sixteen abilities?

How could such a heaven-defying Martial Soul exist in this world?

Just then, the Glazed Green Lotus in Jiang Chen's palm blossomed with a jade-green glow that gradually spread across the entire lotus.

In an instant, aside from its lotus heart, the entire Glazed Green Lotus turned from transparent to jade green.

Then, a gentle green halo rippled outward like waves, swiftly enveloping Tang San and Xiao Wu.

"Huh?"

Xiao Wu felt a warm force wrap around her body. The fatigue in her body rapidly faded, while her Soul Power recovered just as quickly.

Tang San was similarly invigorated. The Mysterious Heaven Skill began circulating on its own, and the Soul Power that had originally needed two hours to recover returned to seventy or eighty percent in merely a dozen breaths.

In less than a minute, not only had Tang San and Xiao Wu completely recovered their Soul Power, but even their physical fatigue had been thoroughly wiped away.

When the jade-green light faded, the two of them looked at Jiang Chen with lingering desire.

"What kind of looks are those?"

Holding the Glazed Green Lotus, Jiang Chen subconsciously took a step back.

This was the ability the Glazed Green Lotus had awakened after his Soul Power reached level twenty.

Just as he had previously guessed, green represented healing, and it provided comprehensive recovery.

It could not achieve effects like regenerating flesh from bare bones, but restoring Soul Power and vitality was no problem.

"Brother Chen, this ability of yours... is a little too heaven-defying." Tang San vaguely felt as though he was becoming addicted.

This rate of Soul Power recovery was more than ten times faster than meditating to cultivate.

He felt that even the legendary Nine Star Begonia, said to possess the strongest recovery ability, could not compare to Jiang Chen's Glazed Green Lotus in terms of overall recovery.

"No way, you really are a Support-type Soul Master!?" Xiao Wu hugged her rabbit ears, her face filled with disbelief.

"I told you already. You were the one who didn't believe me." Jiang Chen smiled.

"But..." Xiao Wu was left speechless.

All these years, she had been completely crushed by a Support-type Soul Master!?

Was that even reasonable!?

"I never expected Brother Chen to be a Support-type Soul Master either." Tang San echoed from the side.

Forget Xiao Wu—even Tang San was seeing Brother Chen's support abilities for the first time.

"Hey, just how many abilities does your Martial Soul have?"

Xiao Wu leaned closer and asked curiously, "When you fight, you shine with golden light. When you recover, you turn all green. Don't tell me each color represents an ability?"

"What do you think?"

Jiang Chen did not answer. He turned and walked toward the academy gates.

"Tch, stingy." Xiao Wu pouted and jogged after him.

Tang San chuckled softly and quickly followed as well.

Since the three of them were still students, they did not have the qualifications to enter Soul Hunting Forest on their own. They needed to go to the Spirit Hall Branch to apply for permits.

Fortunately, all three were level twenty, so the review process was extremely quick. In less than half an hour, they obtained permits to leave the city.

When the three left Notting City and entered Soul Hunting Forest, it was still early.

Jiang Chen walked at the front with his hands tucked into his sleeves, Tang San followed closely behind, while Xiao Wu brought up the rear and curiously looked around.

"Brother Chen, according to Master's theory, the limit for our second Soul Rings is seven hundred and sixty-four years."

Tang San looked at Jiang Chen ahead of him and asked, "But our constitutions are special. We should be able to withstand Soul Rings with higher year counts, right?"

Over the years, he and Jiang Chen had studied all of Master's useful findings, gaining a basic understanding of Soul Masters.

According to Master's theory, the limit for a second Soul Ring was seven hundred and sixty-four years.

However, those theories did not apply to them. The specifics still needed to be judged based on their physical strength.

"Theory is theory. People are alive."

Jiang Chen stopped and looked back at Tang San. "Tang San, your Blue Silver Grass mainly follows the path of life. It would be best to find a Thousand-Year soul beast with powerful vitality. Only then can you maximize the toughness of your Blue Silver Grass."

Compared with adding poison or anything else to the grass, for Tang San, who possessed the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, the ultimate path of life was what suited him best.

"A thousand years?!" Xiao Wu's eyes widened. "Wouldn't that make him explode?"

"You think Tang San is like you?" Jiang Chen knocked her on the forehead. "The cultivation method he practices is special. His body is much stronger than you imagine."

Tang San nodded. "I think it's worth trying."

After years of being pushed to his limits by Jiang Chen, he had already cultivated the Mysterious Heaven Skill to the peak of the second level. His physical constitution was sufficient to withstand the impact of a Thousand-Year Soul Ring.