Immortal Herb Opportunity

Since the evolution of Blaziken follows the rules of the Pokemon World, its Mega Evolution must also require the assistance of a Blazikenite.

Currently, there is no known way to obtain a Blazikenite, so Ye Chen wants to focus his efforts on increasing his Soul Power Level and attaching Soul Rings.

With the benefit of combat experience feedback, he can rapidly increase his Soul Power simply by continuously fighting; as for attaching Soul Rings...

He is currently at Soul Power Level 54 and can continue to attach a fourth and fifth Soul Ring to his Blaziken Martial Soul.

However, since his third Soul Ring already has an eight-thousand-year limit, his fourth Soul Ring must surely be at least ten thousand years, right?

After careful consideration, Ye Chen feels he should not rush to absorb the fourth and fifth Soul Rings.

According to the original descriptions, a Soul Ring exceeding a ten-thousand-year limit requires sufficient physical strength and mental power to be absorbed safely.

To absorb a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring as his fourth ring, he would have to bear the risk of soul shock.

Therefore, he must not be impatient; he must first ensure that his physical strength and mental power are sufficiently outstanding.

He is not worried about his physical strength, but what concerns Ye Chen is his mental power.

According to the original descriptions, consuming immortal herbs that benefit the eyes and brain actually helps improve mental power.

Having read the Herb Transcript no fewer than ten times over the past two years, Ye Chen has long since made a plan regarding the consumption of immortal herbs.

Regrettably, these immortal herb opportunities are currently occupied by Dugu Bo, and to obtain them, he would inevitably have to deal with the Poison Douluo. Once he angers this sinister and ruthless man, he would certainly be left without a place to be buried.

Therefore, he cannot rush to obtain the immortal herbs, and without them to improve his mental power, he cannot rush to absorb the fourth Soul Ring for advancement either.

Coming back to his senses, Ye Chen has made his decision: he wants to first grind for experience and level up in the Sunset Forest. This way, while fighting Soul Beasts, he can both increase his Soul Power Level and test the current strength of his Blaziken.

The Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well is hidden in the Core Zone of the Sunset Forest.

He will wait until he is certain that Blaziken's strength is sufficient to contend with ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts before entering the Core Zone. If there is truly no way to befriend Dugu Bo, he will find an opportunity to sneak into the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to steal the immortal herbs.

"Let's go, Blaziken, let's go find a few Soul Beasts to practice with." After speaking, Ye Chen ran toward the entrance of the Sunset Forest.

Blaziken followed closely behind.

Just like that, one man and one chicken began their life of grinding for experience in the Sunset Forest.

Time flies like an arrow. A month passed quietly.

During this month, Ye Chen and Blaziken wandered through the Mixed Zone of the Sunset Forest, constantly searching for Soul Beasts of different types and cultivation levels to fight.

Once, they encountered a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast that had run from the Core Zone to the Mixed Zone to forage. The Soul Beast was a blue Poison Toad capable of walking upright like a human, and its strength was extremely formidable.

If they had encountered this Poison Toad Soul Beast during the Combusken stage, the outcome would surely have been death.

Fortunately, after Combusken evolved into Blaziken, its strength saw an unprecedented surge, and it easily defeated this ten-thousand-year-old Poison Toad Soul Beast.

Because of this, after dozens of combat experience feedback sessions, Ye Chen's Soul Power finally increased from level 54 to level 55.

Confirming that Blaziken possessed the strength to battle a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast, Ye Chen decided to enter the Core Zone to find stronger Soul Beasts to fight.

After wandering around the Core Zone for half a day, he unexpectedly discovered that not all Soul Beasts living in the Core Zone of the Sunset Forest start at ten-thousand-year cultivation.

Some Soul Beasts have only a few thousand years of cultivation; however, these Soul Beasts all possess powerful bloodlines, being either high-grade or top-grade Soul Beasts.

On the eleventh day of searching for Soul Beasts to fight in the Core Zone of the Sunset Forest, Ye Chen encountered that Braixen with mental and fire attributes from before.

Because this Soul Beast was too cautious, it would disappear without a trace almost as soon as they met, and he could not even sense its aura, making it too difficult to use it for grinding levels.

In addition to Soul Beasts, many Soul Master teams also frequent the Core Zone.

These Soul Master teams are generally divided into two types. Judging by their attire, teams wearing uniform clothing are likely from a family, sect, or Soul Master Academy organized to hunt Soul Beasts.

As for the teams with non-uniform clothing, they are likely temporarily assembled or mercenary groups with rich soul-hunting experience.

When Ye Chen went to Heaven Dou City to sell a Soul Bone a month ago, he had tidied up his appearance.

Now he does not look like a wild man from the mountains, but rather a handsome sixteen-year-old youth with an excellent temperament.

Therefore, when he encountered Soul Master teams, he was not looked down upon because of his attire.

Some Soul Master teams asked why he was lingering in the Core Zone of the Sunset Forest alone.

Ye Chen's answer was that he had no money to hire help to hunt Soul Beasts and could only take risks alone.

None of the Soul Master teams doubted this answer, and Ye Chen learned from one team that the reason so many Soul Master teams had suddenly appeared in the Core Zone of the Sunset Forest recently was that the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament, held every five years, was about to begin.

In order to achieve good results in the Elite Tournament, students from various Soul Master Academies were all pushing to break through the level 30 or 40 bottlenecks and needed Soul Rings to advance.

Because of this, not only the Sunset Forest but other Soul Beast habitats would also be flooded with large groups of Soul Masters.

With a Soul Ring configuration of one yellow and two purples, yet lacking the strength to protect himself, Ye Chen did not dare to reveal his Soul Rings in front of others easily.

Seeing that he ran into Soul Master teams every few days, he simply headed toward the depths of the Core Zone of the Sunset Forest, specifically looking for places with fewer people to fight Soul Beasts.

Traveling straight ahead, Ye Chen arrived in a forest thick with poisonous mist. This place is frequented by poison-attribute Soul Beasts; the Poison Toad Soul Beast he encountered earlier was from a group in this area.

In addition to the Poison Toad Soul Beast group, this forest thick with poisonous mist is also home to scorpion-type Soul Beasts like the Poison Scorpion King and the Pink Lady, as well as spider and snake-type Soul Beasts like the Man Faced Demon Spider and the Datura Snake.

It is evident that this Poison Mist Forest is practically a hotbed for poison-attribute Soul Beasts.

Precisely because of this, unless they are poison-type Soul Masters in need of poison-attribute Soul Rings, no one is willing to set foot here.

Not to mention the traces of Soul Master teams, there is not even a hint of human presence here. Finding Soul Beasts to fight here means he does not have to worry about his Soul Ring configuration being discovered.

Standing at the entrance of the Poison Mist Forest, Ye Chen suddenly felt a wave of dizziness. He immediately took a bottle of potion from his Tri-Color Bracelet and drank it. As the detoxifying effect of the potion took hold, the dizziness disappeared.

Putting the empty bottle back into his Tri-Color Bracelet, Ye Chen stared at the entrance of the Poison Mist Forest fifty meters ahead. The gloomy and eerie feeling made him shudder, and he could not help but think of turning back.

"Blaziken, can your flames suppress the toxins here?" Ye Chen asked Blaziken beside him.