Second Soul Skill: Thousand Transformations

"Such quick reactions, such tenacious vitality. That strike only broke one vine."

Li Han activated his Divine Sense, locking onto the Chameleon Vine amid the smoke and dust, and immediately discerned its current condition.

Though one vine had been severed, its main body was unharmed.

Then, the Chameleon Vine burst out of the smoke, opened its snake-like mouth, and bit at Li Han!

"So fast! It wasn't much slower than the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent!"

Li Han was startled, but his Smoke-Drifting Steps did not slow in the slightest.

His figure darted and shifted rapidly, narrowly avoiding the Chameleon Vine's charge.

But in the next instant, several vines sprouted from the Chameleon Vine's body and lashed directly at Li Han.

Li Han dodged repeatedly. After landing on a nearby tree, he pushed off with both legs and swiftly retreated.

The moment he left, that tree was snapped in half by a vine.

"That thing packs quite a punch. If it hit me, it'd probably break my waist."

Li Han sucked in a cold breath and grew even more serious.

A thousand-year soul beast was indeed not easy to deal with.

Although it was only a soul beast of a little over a thousand years and weaker than the two-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider, it was still comparable to a top-tier assault-type Soul Elder. Ordinary Soul Elders stood no chance against it.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The vines attacked again, tearing through the air.

"I can't keep dodging like this. I have to cut off all its vines before I can get close!"

With that thought, cyan light flashed in Li Han's eyes. He extended both hands as cyan Soul Power gathered in his palms.

Azure Origin Sword Ray!

In the next moment, a cyan crescent-shaped sword ray nearly two meters long shot from Li Han's palm and slashed toward the incoming vines.

Rip!

The cyan sword ray sliced through the vines as easily as cutting tofu, severing every one of them!

"Screech!"

The Chameleon Vine cried out again, its body becoming increasingly restless.

At that moment, Li Han used the Smoke-Drifting Steps again. With a gesture of his right hand, the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo appeared.

"First Soul Skill! As-You-Will! Grow!"

The Heavenly Thunder Bamboo instantly lengthened, white arcs of lightning winding around it.

This time, with no vines left to use, the Chameleon Vine could only evade.

But Li Han was extremely fast, and his Divine Sense had completely locked onto it, allowing him to predict its movements.

Whoosh!

The lengthened Heavenly Thunder Bamboo struck the Chameleon Vine head-on, knocking it into the pond.

The next second, white lightning flashed, and the entire small pond was engulfed in electric light.

The Chameleon Vine struggled frantically in the pond, sending water splashing everywhere.

But before long, the smell of burning drifted out.

When Li Han looked again, the Chameleon Vine had been charred black by the white lightning.

Its once-abundant life force had vanished completely, and a purple Soul Ring emerged.

Li Han's face lit up at the sight.

"Success! It really is a thousand-year Soul Ring!"

Feeling the dense energy emanating from the Soul Ring, Li Han did not immediately absorb it. Instead, he released his Divine Sense, covering a radius of one hundred meters.

After confirming once more that no one was nearby, he walked over to the two Soul Grandmasters who had died miserably, removed the money pouches from their waists, and placed them in his Storage Bag.

Then he took out a Golden Light Talisman and slapped it onto himself.

In the next moment, golden light formed a protective barrier that covered his entire body.

"Without outside attacks, the Golden Light Talisman can last for two hours.

That should be enough time for me to absorb the Soul Ring."

Thinking this, Li Han touched the Soul Ring with his right hand, drew it into his body, and leaped straight into the pond.

His Divine Sense had just scanned the area. The pond was not deep, only around ten meters, and there were no powerful soul beasts within it. With the Golden Light Talisman protecting him, jumping in posed no danger.

After reaching the bottom of the pond, Li Han immediately sat cross-legged and began absorbing the Soul Ring's power.

The pond returned to calm once more.

Only the corpses of the Chameleon Vine and the two Soul Grandmasters lay quietly nearby.

No one knew that beneath the pond, there was another Soul Master absorbing a Soul Ring.

Time passed second by second, and Li Han had already absorbed more than half of the Soul Ring's power.

His strength rose rapidly along with it.

The limit for a second Soul Ring was 764 years. Li Han's Soul Ring was over 1,800 years old, far beyond that limit.

But for Li Han, who had reached the fourth level of the Elephant Armor Skill and cultivated the Azure Essence Sword Art, it was not beyond his ability to endure.

It was worth mentioning that after the Elephant Armor Skill entered the fourth level, cultivation truly became extremely difficult, and the pain he suffered during training increased severalfold.

The first time Li Han entered the fourth level, the pain throughout his body made him tremble uncontrollably.

Fortunately, he possessed many pills, and the circulation of pure Soul Power within his body reduced much of that pain.

Otherwise, Li Han would likely have given up cultivating the Elephant Armor Skill long ago.

Sure enough, all body cultivators were freaks. This kind of pain was far beyond what ordinary people could endure.

"Even the Elephant Armor Skill, a body-tempering martial art cultivated by mortals, is this painful. I wonder how exaggerated the Wisdom King Art and Heaven-Supporting Demon Art cultivated by immortals must be."

Li Han had sighed inwardly at the time, yet he yearned for them even more.

He wondered when he would be able to obtain those two body-tempering techniques.

Back to the matter at hand.

Li Han circulated the Azure Essence Sword Art at full force, and the thousand-year Soul Ring gradually calmed down.

The next moment, the thousand-year Soul Ring attached itself to the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo.

Absorption successful!

The Azure Essence Sword Art successfully entered the third level!

Li Han's aura instantly grew stronger, and he directly broke through to level 25!

The Heavenly Thunder Bamboo also changed.

The originally twenty-centimeter Heavenly Thunder Bamboo grew to thirty centimeters, and the white lightning arcs around it turned blue.

The Heavenly Thunder Bamboo's age had surpassed two thousand years. The Evil-Warding Divine Thunder evolved into blue lightning, and its power increased greatly.

At the same time, two additional Heavenly Thunder Bamboo Leaves appeared on the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo, bringing the total to three.

Faint lightning patterns appeared on them, and their lightning power became even more concentrated.

Li Han only felt that he had become several times stronger again.

Then a stream of information surfaced in his mind. It was the introduction to his second Soul Skill.

"Second Soul Skill: Thousand Transformations!

A disguise skill.

It can transform the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo into any form and can also disguise the color of Soul Rings."

After receiving this information, Li Han's heart stirred, and he immediately summoned the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo.

The next moment, a magical sight appeared!

The Heavenly Thunder Bamboo flashed with cyan light and turned into a longsword.

Upon closer inspection, it was precisely the appearance of the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords!

It was 1.1 meters long, lush green all over, with bamboo patterns on the blade and blue lightning arcs coiling around it.

"It really works!"

Li Han was delighted and immediately grasped the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords.

Strictly speaking, it was not actually the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords. Li Han had merely forced the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo to transform into the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords using his second Soul Skill.

It did not possess the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords' other functions, but the blue lightning arcs on it could still be used.

"Although I haven't yet reached the cultivation level needed to forge the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords, this will at least let me satisfy my craving to wield a sword. The Blinking Sword Technique will also feel much smoother to use.

And that's not all."

With a thought from Li Han, the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords flashed with cyan light and became a black arrow. Then it flashed cyan again and became a golden spear.

The color of the Soul Rings on the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo changed accordingly.

They had originally been one yellow and one purple. Now they became two yellow, then one white and one yellow.

"With this second Soul Skill, I can transform whatever weapon I want.

It will be much more convenient to conceal my identity in the future.

It seems I can use Han Li as an alternate identity when traveling through the world of Soul Masters."