First Soul Skill

Lu Yi slowly walked up to the Mysterious Cang Armor Carp's head. Seeing the resentment and savagery in its eyes, he silently took out a loaded Three-Bow Bed Crossbow from Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night.

He had paid someone to make it for him back when he had not yet taken Master as his teacher, specifically for Soul Hunting.

He just had not expected that he would later become Master's disciple and gain such a powerful backer.

As he thought, Lu Yi took out a crossbow bolt as long as a spear from Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night and carefully placed it onto the Ballista. With a wave of his hand, a Water Bullet slammed heavily into the Ballista's Suspended Blade.

"Bzzzz~"

As the bowstring snapped back, the bolt on the Ballista shot out in an instant and viciously buried itself in the Mysterious Cang Armor Carp's head.

As the bolt pierced into it, the Mysterious Cang Armor Carp, which had been lying on the ground half-dead, suddenly arched its body. Its mouth opened and closed slowly a few times toward the sky before it crashed heavily back onto the ground. Streams of blood slowly ran down the bolt and onto the earth.

Lu Yi stood to the side and quietly watched the Mysterious Cang Armor Carp's final death throes. Only when the light in its eye gradually faded, leaving behind utter lifelessness, did a dark yellow Soul Ring slowly emerge from its body.

"Come out, Magikarp!"

Looking at the dark yellow Soul Ring, Lu Yi took a deep breath and summoned his Martial Soul, Magikarp.

Bang!

Looking at his Martial Soul, which was even larger than the Mysterious Cang Armor Carp, Lu Yi sat down cross-legged. Then, together with Magikarp, he entered meditation and drew the Soul Ring from the Mysterious Cang Armor Carp toward Magikarp.

"It'll be fine, Xiaogang. Look at Lu Yi's Martial Soul—it's even bigger than the Mysterious Cang Armor Carp. Absorbing a Mysterious Cang Armor Carp's Soul Ring definitely won't be a problem."

As the Soul Ring slowly drifted above Magikarp, Lu Yi entered a meditative state and began absorbing it. Only then did Flender speak to the worried Yu Xiaogang beside him.

"Mm!"

Hearing Flender's words, Yu Xiaogang merely nodded. His gaze never left Lu Yi for even a moment. He needed to make sure Flender interrupted the absorption the instant Lu Yi could no longer endure it.

Time passed second by second, and before they knew it, two hours had gone by.

Lu Yi had successfully absorbed the Soul Ring and awakened from his meditation.

After waking, Lu Yi looked at his hands. He truly had not expected absorbing a Soul Ring to be so easy. Seeing the unwillingness in the Mysterious Cang Armor Carp's eyes earlier, he had thought this Soul Ring would be difficult to absorb.

Yet unexpectedly, he had not felt the slightest difficulty throughout the entire process. Instead, it had felt exceptionally comfortable. He had even meditated for an extra half hour out of reluctance to let go of that pleasant feeling, only waking once it gradually faded.

"Hiss, the age was still a little too low. I should've gone for one over nine hundred and fifty years old!"

With a somewhat regretful sigh, Lu Yi stood up from the ground.

"How do you feel, Lu Yi?"

Seeing Lu Yi rise, Yu Xiaogang rushed over to him in a single stride and asked.

"Mm... very comfortable. I've never felt this comfortable before!"

Hearing Yu Xiaogang's question, Lu Yi thought carefully for a moment before answering with a serious expression. Honestly, across both his past and present lives, this was the first time he had experienced such a comfortable feeling.

"As long as there's no discomfort in your body. How about your first Soul Skill?"

Hearing that, Yu Xiaogang checked Lu Yi over from head to toe. Only after confirming that nothing was wrong with him did he ask again.

"Soul Skill!"

Only then did Lu Yi remember that after absorbing the Soul Ring, he had gained a first Soul Skill. He immediately began to sense it carefully.

"The Soul Skill is very powerful. First Soul Skill: Oath of Cang Lan. After activation, all of my attributes are increased by eighty percent, and my resistance to abnormal conditions rises accordingly. It lasts for thirty minutes. At the instant the Soul Skill is activated, a Water Wave Field spreads around my body. Its waves can disrupt the enemy's Soul Power, and my next attack carries a water-current shockwave."

After carefully sensing it, Lu Yi explained to Yu Xiaogang.

To be honest, this Soul Skill was far more awesome than Lu Yi, Master, and the others had expected. Although its amplification was a notch weaker than Dai Mubai's White Tiger Vajra Transformation, it came with a powerful instant control effect when used. It could also add a special effect to his next attack.

Overall, it was even slightly superior to the attribute-doubling boost of White Tiger Vajra Transformation.

"Very good. Very powerful. With this Soul Skill, even if you can't defeat an opponent in the future, you can still use the moment their Soul Power is disrupted by the waves to escape!"

Flender said with a smile.

In his view, a combat Soul Skill that could instantly disrupt the Soul Power inside an opponent's body was unquestionably a godly control-type ability. When fighting an enemy, activating this skill meant he could attack when advancing and defend when retreating. After all, it also came with an eighty-percent increase to all attributes.

"It truly is stronger than the Soul Skill we expected. The Mysterious Cang Armor Carp really deserves its reputation as a Soul Beast capable of standing against ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts despite only being a thousand years old!"

Yu Xiaogang said with delight after hearing Lu Yi's description. Although they had not encountered the Wave-Calling Azure Scale Fish they had originally planned to hunt, the Soul Skill provided by the Mysterious Cang Armor Carp, a Soul Beast of the same grade, was no worse.

Aside from this pleasantly surprising first Soul Skill, what made Lu Yi happiest was that after Magikarp absorbed its first Soul Ring, it had also given him two Pokémon Soul Skills.

One was Water Cannon, a skill that condensed a great volume of water before firing it out.

The other was Waterfall, a skill that drew a large amount of water around every part of his body before attacking the opponent. During the attack, it could directly drive the condensed water into the enemy's body, causing internal damage and cutting off the flow of their Soul Power. (A little second setting.)

In Lu Yi's eyes, neither of these skills was inferior to a hundred-year Soul Skill. They could even rival thousand-year Soul Skills.

There was no need to say much about Water Cannon. It was clearly a long-range attack skill. The more water it condensed, the greater its power. If Lu Yi could gather and fire the water of an entire small river, its might might even rival a ten-thousand-year Soul Skill.

Waterfall, meanwhile, was undeniably a godly close-combat control skill. Lu Yi's first Soul Skill only had an instant of control, yet it could already become a lifesaving trump card for him in the future.

After sharing the effects of his Soul Skills, Lu Yi asked Flender to cut up the Mysterious Cang Armor Carp and store it in Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night, intending to feed it to Magikarp after they returned.

Only then did he follow Yu Xiaogang onto the road back to the academy.

But as soon as they set off, Lu Yi noticed a problem. The clothes that had fit him perfectly before had now become tight.

Looking at how his original long pants had become cropped pants and his long robe had turned into tight-fitting clothing, Lu Yi remembered that absorbing a Soul Ring would further develop the body.

However, he had no conditions to change clothes in the Star Dou Great Forest. He could only make do as he continued onward, hoping to buy a properly fitting set of clothes once they reached the town.

Likewise, Lu Yi was curious about just how strong his physical condition, already far beyond that of others his age, had become after this growth.