Lu Ran's voice was calm:
"My Martial Soul is extremely special. I don't grow stronger through killing, but through contracts. I don't need to absorb Soul Rings, and the Soul Beasts I contract with won't be harmed in any way. Their strength will grow along with my Soul Power."
He held out his hand, showing them the Jade Azure Bird. The Jade Azure Bird puffed out its chest proudly once more.
Chirp, chirp!
"Little Green was the second Soul Beast I contracted with. It was only two thousand years old back then, but now it's already surpassed twenty thousand. Of course, that's nowhere near its limit—or mine. It'll grow to fifty thousand years, seventy thousand, a hundred thousand... two hundred thousand..."
As the many Immortal Herbs stared in stunned disbelief,
Lu Ran held out his hand toward the ruby-red Infernal Delicate Apricot:
"You have the Fire Attribute, and I happen to need a companion with the Fire Attribute. What do you say?"
After he finished,
he said no more, waiting quietly for the Infernal Delicate Apricot's answer.
Silence fell over the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, too.
A terrifying silence.
After a long while,
the Infernal Delicate Apricot slowly spoke. "So what? Even if you become a Limit Douluo, your longest possible lifespan is only a thousand years. As a Soul Beast, I can live through who knows how many millennia."
Humans cultivated quickly, but died young.
Soul Beasts cultivated slowly, but lived long.
From the moment they came into being, these Immortal Herbs were destined to grow for hundreds of thousands of years. A human lifespan of at most a thousand years was no more than a fleeting instant to them.
Too brief and insignificant.
Lu Ran smiled and shook his head.
"No. As a human, I actually have