Sacred Soul Forest—300 Favorites Reached, Bonus Chapter!

With the previous experiment's success, this attempt went very smoothly.

He only needed to control the lightning at the same frequency to stimulate his entire body.

As he summoned his second martial soul again, electric arcs began wrapping around his body from his arms. He proceeded slowly this time as well, but the drain on his Spiritual Power and stamina was not significant.

As the lightning increased, his arms were gradually enveloped in a layer of blue lightning. Dense electric arcs coiled across its surface, making his arms look as though they had been clad in lightning armor.

"Hah! The first step is a success!"

Ling Yu looked at his arms, now completely wrapped in lightning. A faint current of air continuously swirled around them before being rapidly absorbed.

"Sure enough, combining breathing exercises with Lightning Armor Mode doubles the speed! The surrounding Soul Power is being rapidly absorbed by the flesh on my arms!"

Ling Yu carefully sensed the condition of his arms again, then finally took a deep breath. Next came his entire body!

A month later, on a mountain in Spirit City, at a corner halfway up the mountainside, a handsome black-haired, black-eyed youth sat cross-legged atop a massive, polished boulder, cultivating beneath the rising sun.

The youth looked quite strange at the moment. Two different-colored glows continuously flickered across his body, alternating between pale gold and blue.

Yet as white vapor emerged from his mouth and nose, the two lights seemed guided by something and gradually merged together.

When the two glows completely fused, an entirely new aura radiated from his body alongside a blue-gold light.

An hour later, Ling Yu finished his daily cultivation and stood up from the boulder.

For the past month, he had been using Lightning Release Armor Mode in his daily cultivation. His Soul Power was consumed to maintain the mode on one hand, while on the other, it was constantly absorbed and replenished by his body. His physical body had grown stronger as well.

Between the expenditure and replenishment, his Soul Power had continuously become purer, more compressed, and stronger.

Since Body Tempering had to be cultivated to perfection, he had spent this period eating Soul Beast meat—Soul Beast meat at least a thousand years old. Occasionally, he could even eat Soul Beast meat over ten thousand years old. It was immensely nourishing!

Combined with the medicinal baths supplied daily by Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan, the gravity mode in the training room, and the enhancement of his own Lightning Release Armor Mode—

The Body Tempering that should have taken a year to complete had reached perfection in just one month!

At this moment, his physical strength had reached three thousand kilograms!

What did that mean? Three thousand kilograms equaled three tons. In his previous life, he could have punched a large truck flying with one fist!

His physical qualities were comparable to a young Superman's!

According to his teacher's assessment and comparison, his physical condition was only slightly weaker than that of an ordinary four-ring beast martial soul Soul Ancestor.

It could be said that reaching such a level without obtaining a soul ring had allowed Ling Yu to make Spirit Hall history.

And today was the day he would obtain his soul ring. In another hour, his teacher—the Pope of Spirit Hall—would take him to Spirit Hall's exclusive Soul Beast forest, Sacred Soul Forest, to obtain his first soul ring!

The Soul Beasts there had all been captured from the outside world by generations of Spirit Hall elders. Some even possessed the bloodlines of phoenixes and true dragons!

Ling Yu sat quietly on the boulder, gazing at the sun on the horizon as his thoughts drifted.

Half an hour later, a fragrant breeze swept past him. Ling Yu inhaled the distinctive scent, and his heart seemed soothed, becoming as calm as still water.

He turned to look behind him. Sure enough, his beautiful teacher, the Pope of Spirit Hall, was standing there.

Since she was helping him hunt for a soul ring today, Bibi Dong was not wearing her Pope's robes. Instead, she had changed into a fitted purple outfit that fully accentuated her perfect figure—curved in all the right places. Based on Ling Yu's estimation of her chest, she was at least a D cup.

"What are you staring blankly at?"

Bibi Dong looked at his dazed expression, a playful smile appearing at the corner of her lips. "Well? Does your teacher look good today?"

"You look good!"

Ling Yu blurted it out without thinking. Only after coming back to his senses did he realize his lapse, and a faint blush immediately appeared on his face.

"Haha! I knew you'd say that!"

At that moment, the Pope was teasing her beloved disciple with a side of herself that outsiders would never see.

After a month of spending time together, she had discovered that this youth possessed unique insights no matter the subject. He had even helped her several times, and every suggestion he made was always refreshingly illuminating.

This had brought a trace of comfort to Bibi Dong's long-dead heart. The girlish side of her that had vanished in the past gradually began to emerge again. Often, she would ask herself why this was happening.

The only answer she could think of was that he resembled someone she knew very well.

Ling Yu had also noticed that his teacher's attitude toward him had gradually become more affectionate. Whenever she was with him, she was completely unlike the stern and imposing person she was before outsiders. Instead, she had a girlish playfulness and charm, along with the bearing and concern of an older sister.

The combination of those two contradictory temperaments gave her a beauty as bewitching as a demon's!

"Let's hurry and hunt for the soul ring. We should come back immediately after I absorb it, otherwise we'll have to camp outside overnight!"

Hearing his beautiful teacher tease him, Ling Yu hurriedly changed the subject. He did not want her to keep making fun of him.

For some reason, whenever they were together lately, she always liked joking with him.

Still, this was good. At the very least, Ling Yu could sense that the Evil God's evil aura was gradually having less influence on her.

Bibi Dong shot the handsome youth an alluring eye-roll, then took Ling Yu's hand and flew into the sky with him.

Sacred Soul Forest was located a hundred kilometers outside Spirit City. It was a forest surrounded by Spirit Hall soldiers, with five Soul Douluo stationed there as guards.

After all, the Soul Beasts here were not comparable to those found in ordinary Soul Hunting Forests outside. Many of the Soul Beasts here could not be found in the outside world at all and had even been deemed extinct.

Yet in Sacred Soul Forest, traces of them could very likely still be found.

That was why the secrecy and security measures here were exceptionally strict!

The two arrived outside Sacred Soul Forest in only a few dozen minutes. As the soldiers dropped to one knee in salute, they flew into the forest.

Behind them, only the five figures bowing deeply and countless soldiers kneeling on the ground remained.

"That should be the disciple Her Holiness the Pope recently accepted, right?" an elderly man with white hair and a burly build said softly.

"Looks like it. But I heard she accepted him a month ago. Why has he only come to obtain a soul ring now?" replied a thin, sparse-haired old man who looked like a bamboo pole.

"This is not something people like us should discuss. Just do your jobs properly!"

As the group continued their discussion, a middle-aged man with several scars across his face spoke in a deep voice. Strangely, upon hearing his words, the other four respectfully acknowledged him before returning to their respective posts.

Only the somewhat terrifying-looking man remained standing where he was, his body ramrod straight.

The remaining chapter will be posted tonight!

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