Hunting the First Soul Ring

Life became very regular: mornings were for cleaning and attending classes, afternoons for free time spent in the library reading copied books to find suitable soul rings, and evenings dedicated to diligent cultivation.

Su Ming didn't attend the arranged fight with the older students, choosing instead to cultivate diligently in the dormitory. After the fight, Tang San and the others brought back the injured Wang Sheng.

After treating Wang Sheng, Su Ming took the opportunity to inquire about Tang San's first soul skill. Once he confirmed it was Entanglement, he returned to his bed to read.

Su Ming sat on his bed, flipping through the copied materials. After several days of perusal, he found the soul beast data collected by the Martial Soul Hall and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to be quite comprehensive.

For example, in the Star Dou Great Forest, there were common Gale Wolves, Diamond Bears, and Wind Tigers.

Among the rarer soul beasts, he found Man Faced Demon Spiders and Wind Splitting Falcons.

Even rarer soul beasts, unobtainable by ordinary forces, were listed further on, including the Golden Earth Dragon, Fear Demon Dragon, Cyclops, and even the Jade Bird.

The Sunset Forest also had corresponding rare soul beasts, such as the Life Vine and Medusa Queen.

The extreme north even had records of the Ice Scorpion, Titan Snow Demon, and Ice Field Bear, three super soul beasts possessing the bloodline of the Ice God.

The records of the three great soul beasts of the extreme north were documented by the Martial Soul Hall. It was no wonder they were a great force, considering they had gods thousands of years ago.

After a general overview, Su Ming determined his first soul ring and the target he would hunt.

Without a teacher's help or hiring others, the easiest rare soul beasts to hunt would be the Gale Wolf, then the Wind Tiger, and the best would be the Wind Splitting Falcon.

With his target set, he needed to cultivate diligently and absorb the soul ring as soon as possible.

Time passed quickly, and a year went by.

During this year, to accelerate his cultivation, Su Ming would deplete his soul power completely before starting to cultivate.

The consumed soul power was converted into Creation Qi. His soul power, nearing level 9, could generate a wisp of Creation Qi daily when injected into the Creation Furnace.

He had also experimented with creating divine positions by consuming Creation Qi.

He transmitted his thoughts to the Creation Furnace, and it was possible, requiring only one hundred thousand strands of Creation Power. (Ten wisps make a strand, ten strands make a thread, ten threads make a wisp, and one wisp equals one thousand strands.)

Looking at the enormous number, Su Ming knew it was not achievable at his current level. He decided to settle for a more attainable goal: using the golden finger, the Creation Furnace, to create a cultivation method for martial soul evolution suitable for all martial souls.

Transmitting his thoughts to the Creation Furnace, the result indicated it would only require one wisp, or one thousand strands. To gather these thousand strands, he recalled the Whale Rubber consumed by Huo Yuhao ten thousand years later, whose effects had not yet been discovered.

Currently, only nobles treated it as an aphrodisiac. After inquiring at the pharmacy, he learned that although the price was relatively cheap now, Su Ming had no money to buy it.

To earn money and to obtain the martial soul evolution cultivation method, Su Ming spent the next five months injecting his soul power into the Creation Furnace daily to create a wisp, and then cultivating diligently.

After five months of effort, he successfully reached level ten. After taking leave from the dean, he went to the Martial Soul Hall to obtain his token and happened to encounter Su Yuntao.

After receiving the token, Su Ming traveled alone to the Soul Hunting Forest.

Since he could fly, he encountered no danger along the way and quickly reached the hunting town. He observed the hunting teams in the town for two days.

He found a hunting team of three led by a Soul Elder. This hunting team had a relatively good reputation.

Su Ming approached the captain and, with his persuasive tongue, introduced himself as an auxiliary soul master capable of healing. He proposed that if they helped him hunt his first soul ring, he would assist the team for three months afterward with his auxiliary abilities.

The captain agreed. With the team's help, he hunted a Wind Splitting Falcon over 300 years old within half a month, which he used as his first soul ring.

After absorbing the soul ring, Su Ming felt the soul skill. As expected, the effect was the same as he had anticipated: he could control it freely, increasing his own attributes by 10% when used, and also increasing others' attributes by 10%.

Su Ming had a sudden idea and used the Creation Qi from the Creation Furnace to strengthen his soul ring skill. He used ten strands to enhance the soul ring's age.

It increased by 500 years, making his first soul ring over 800 years old. The amplification became 20%, and he could freely control whether to grant 10% or 20% to others.

The price was as agreed upon when obtaining the soul ring: he would assist the team in hunting for three months, with half of his commission deducted as compensation for the others.

Since Su Ming also needed soul beast corpses to generate Creation Qi, he agreed.

Initially, their team operated normally. However, one time, while hunting a soul beast for a client, they encountered a three-thousand-year-old soul beast as they were returning after absorbing the soul ring.

Su Ming reacted quickly, summoning his martial soul and casting a cloud skill on the other four, allowing them to fly away. The five of them flew away at such speed that they easily outran the pursuing soul beast.

The client had already absorbed the soul ring, and the five of them flew back to the town. Upon returning, the client was very satisfied and helped spread the word.

People in the town who were about to reach the required level to hunt soul beasts learned that their team had someone with a group flight soul skill. Their orders increased, and with the added safety of being able to escape if they couldn't win, their commissions poured in.

During these three months, after receiving his share of Gold Soul Coins, Su Ming bought Whale Rubber. Combined with the soul beast corpses, by the end of the three months, Su Ming had accumulated over 1200 strands.

On the night before he left, Su Ming used these thousand strands of Creation Qi. The Creation Furnace produced a diagram and a piece of information.

The diagram showed clouds with lightning, wind, rain, and dense fog.

A message indicated that when a martial soul had flaws, the holder could visualize a superior martial soul in their mind to suppress the flaws, achieve slow evolution, and enhance their bloodline.

This evolution method was suitable for all martial souls, whether they were artifact, plant, food, soul beast, or even body-type martial souls.

Plant-type martial souls could imagine their ultimate evolutionary form in their minds.

The same applied to beast-type martial souls.

From then on, all that was needed was daily cultivation and imagining their martial soul transforming into the desired form.

After reading the information, Su Ming immediately realized that this visualization method could theoretically be used to evolve any martial soul.

Su Ming immediately began to try it. He cultivated for a night, but the next day, he felt no change in his martial soul.

He then realized that it was likely due to insufficient visualization time; prolonged visualization was necessary for changes to occur.

He packed up and flew towards Nuoding City.

Because Su Ming had hunted a soul beast, the first soul ring he obtained significantly increased his speed compared to when he arrived.

What originally took half a day to fly from Nuoding City to the Soul Hunting Forest using his martial soul now only took two hours with the amplification from his first soul skill.

He returned to Nuoding City.