Three Soul Skills

Just as one of them was nurturing his weapon and the other was silently observing, a wind suddenly appeared in the Weapon Graveyard.

A gentle, wispy whirlwind began to spread outwards from the crater where the two were, and a rusty, bloody stench gradually intensified.

Ling Yi and Zhang Lei had actually smelled this smell when they first entered the underground Weapon Graveyard, but it was more of a metallic rust smell from the broken weapons scattered all over the ground.

But this time it was different; there really was a bloody smell in the wind.

Ling Yi, who had been maintaining a state of "Maintain Profound Stillness" throughout, noticed that the bloody wind was converging towards the pit, towards Zhang Lei, and towards the battle halberd. Within Zhang Lei's body, the Soul Power in his meridians began to boil, and the blood in his veins also began to boil.

A surge of intense emotion, like a small Sun, appeared in Ling Yi's mind.

That was Zhang Lei's spiritual power, which ignited like fire.

Unfortunately, this state did not last long. When Zhang Lei's Soul Power was exhausted, the patterns on the purplish-black shaft of the battle halberd stopped glowing, the wind around him stopped blowing, and the omnipresent smell of blood also disappeared, as if it had never existed.

Another "First Soul Skill - Abundant Vitality" was unleashed, making Zhang Lei, whose body was feeling empty, feel much better. Ling Yi focused his mind on two things at once, processing everything he had just sensed while speaking to Zhang Lei:

"Brother Lei, it seems that your compatibility with Zhan Ge has reached over 80%. The aura of war in this ' Weapon Graveyard ' can already affect you through Zhan Ge—"

"Still a bit lacking~" Zhang Lei shook his head, gripped the center of the battle halberd's shaft with his right hand, and sighed, "Two years ago, when this battle halberd was first forged, because the shaft material came from the heartwood of the ' Iron Birch Tree,' which was consistent with the origin of my Soul Ring, the compatibility at that time was already over 50%..."

"According to what you said, Ah Yi, only when the degree of bonding reaches 99%, or even 100%, can there be hope of fusing it with my ' Hoe ' Martial Soul."

Otherwise, it would be like this now—"

As he spoke, Zhang Lei transferred the "Hoe" Martial Soul from his left hand back to his right. He held the "Hoe" Martial Soul upside down, with the blade facing upwards, close to the battle spear.

Like a phantom, or like ice and water merging, the "Hoe" Martial Soul was completely integrated into the battle spear!

Unfortunately, just as Zhang Lei pulled hard on the halberd with his right hand and swung it a few times in the air, his "Hoe" Martial Soul was kicked off the bed as if it had run over someone's hair, and was pitifully caught by Zhang Lei's left hand.

Seeing this, Ling Yi stepped forward, took the battle halberd from Zhang Lei's hand, and instead of using his Soul Power, he used his mental perception to sense the situation inside the battle halberd.

The long pole is fine, but unfortunately, the spearhead, although its hardness is no less than that of the hardest "Cold Heart Iron Essence" on the Douluo Continent, lacks a kind of spirituality, unlike the agility that the long pole possesses.

It is conceivable that when Soul Power is infused into it, there will inevitably be sluggishness in its operation.

At this point, Ling Yi can't offer Zhang Lei any help. He can only hone his skills little by little until he can refine the metal head of the battle halberd to be as intricate as the long shaft. Only then will he have a chance to achieve Ling Yi's initial vision— Artifact Refinement into the Soul!

Ling Yi had considered using top-tier materials like "Cold Heart Iron Essence" and "Deep Sea Sunken Silver Mother," similar to the heartwood of the "Iron Birch Tree," to forge a better quality halberd for Zhang Lei that would be more likely to generate spirituality.

However, not to mention the rarity of top-grade materials, even searching the entire Douluo Continent wouldn't guarantee finding them with such good fortune. Even in the City of Metal of Gengxin City, if anyone possessed these top-grade materials, Ling Yi couldn't afford the amount needed to forge a single halberd.

Even with the Tie Futu and the Lou Gao, Ling Yi couldn't accept such a precious material as a gift for nothing.

Ling Yi could accept robbing his enemies of their wealth, but he couldn't bring himself to take things from his loved ones without a clear conscience.

As for taking it now and giving back in the future?

Unfortunately, such words often turn into empty promises.

Who knows when the Tie Futu will pass away? Could there be an accident in the Lou Gao? And what about myself?

It could be said that Ling Yi's mentality is pretentious, but it is a set of values shaped by his past and present lives over several decades, and he does not want to change it at present.

Ling Yi reinserted the halberd into the center of the pit and led Zhang Lei out of the underground "Weapon Graveyard" and back to the "Yin-Yang Stone Platform".

At this moment, Zhang Mufeng and his two companions had just completed a stage of cultivation and were walking around on the stone platform, observing the black and white layout beneath their feet.

"Brother Yi ~ Brother Lei ~~" *3

Seeing Ling Yi and the other two step onto the stone platform, Zhang Mufeng and the other two hurriedly came forward to greet them.

"Hmm~"

Ling Yi nodded, his gaze sweeping over the three of them, and asked, "How are you? Are you settling in well with your cultivation here?"

"It's so easy to get used to!" Long Yin blurted out, beaming with joy. "I told you, Brother Yi, that cultivating here, hey! I feel like my brain suddenly came alive. Things like the flow of energy and the control of Soul Power that I couldn't grasp before, suddenly just clicked, and I got them all in no time!"

Long Yin's progress in learning "Beast Martial Soul: Xingyi Fist Style" has always lagged behind Zhang Mufeng and Qingqiu Xin.

Aside from the seventh move, "Violent Bear Crushes Stone," which he mastered better than Zhang Mufeng and Qingqiu Xin because his own Martial Soul was the "Snow Soul Bear," a bear-type Soul Beast, he didn't practice the other eight moves as well as the two of them.

Of course, although their boxing skills weren't as good as the two of them, in terms of actual combat power, Zhang Mufeng and Qingqiu Xin combined could only manage a draw with Long Yin.

Who can blame Long Yin for having a higher Soul Power Level, better Martial Soul quality, and a more significant boost from his Martial Soul type?

In March of the 2605th year of the Douluo Calendar, when Ling Yi first met these three friends, Long Yin was thirteen years old with a Soul Power Soul Power level of nineteen; Qingqiu Xin was eleven years old with a soul power level of seventeen; Zhang Mufeng was twelve years old with Soul Power level of fifteen.

At that time, Ling Yi was fourteen years old, and his Soul Power was level seventeen, the same as Qingqiu Xin's.

Now, almost two years have passed, and all four of them have obtained their second Soul Ring and become Grand Soul Master.

Ling Yi's Soul Power is level 24, Zhang Mufeng's Soul Power is level 22, Qingqiu Xin's Soul Power is level 23, Long Yin's Soul Power is level 24.

The fact that Ling Yi's Soul Power increased at a later pace was one of the many factors that won over Long Yin and Qingqiu Xin.

Zhang Mufeng, on the other hand, followed Ling Yi's arrangements almost 100% from the beginning. Even though he had the lowest Innate Soul Power aptitude among the three friends, his Soul Power improvement speed was not slow at all, but rather faster!

In particular, the six-hundred-year-old "Iron Birch Tree" Soul Ring still makes Qingqiu Xin and Long Yin sigh with emotion whenever they think about it.

Because they both knew that if they were in their shoes, they might not have accepted Brother Yi's advice so easily, and would have trusted their own father's arrangements more.

As a result, Long Yin's Second Soul Ring came from the "Snowfield White Wolf" of 460 years ago; Qingqiu Xin's Second Soul Ring came from the "Black-Backed Albatross" of 490 years ago.

The former granted Long Yin his Second Soul Skill, Ice Wolf Assault, while the latter granted Qingqiu Xin his Second Soul Skill, Thousand Feathers Flying Shot.

All things considered, these two Soul Skill are indeed quite useful in battle, but for some reason, the two of them always felt uneasy.

Especially when Zhang Mufeng unleashed his Second Soul Skill, the Refined Fine Steel Ruyi Staff, the dark "Mixed Iron Staff" Martial Soul transformed into a silvery appearance, instantly becoming a "pillar" as thick as a thigh and five meters long. He swung it with both hands clasped together. Although it only had the power of a single strike, even Long Yin, who was Power Attack System, could only temporarily avoid its sharp edge.

Seeing the excited expressions on the faces of Long Yin and the other two, Ling Yi revealed a kind smile, which made the four people, including Zhang Lei beside him, feel a sudden chill.

That smile... it looks so familiar!

All I heard was...

"That's good. Since the effect is so outstanding, then—" Ling Yi looked around at the four people on the stone platform and said with a smile, "Let's have a good fight!"

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