The Soul Ring is the Key?

Huang Long's situation completely overturned everyone's understanding.

Whether it was Bo Saixi or the Seven Sacred Pillar Douluos, they had all endured the agony of the soul power impact from soul rings when absorbing them.

They had needed to continuously subdue that terrifying soul power before gradually absorbing it bit by bit.

Yet Huang Long's situation was completely different!

That soul power had been unbelievably docile, allowing him to subdue and absorb it so quickly!

But compared to that, everyone was clearly more eager to know what kind of soul skill the Deep Sea Azure Dragon's thousand-year soul ring had granted Huang Long.

Bo Saixi asked, "Huang Long, what is your first soul skill?"

Huang Long immediately replied, "Teacher, my first soul skill is called Dragon Flame. It is an area-of-effect skill."

As he spoke, he circulated the soul power within his body.

The instant that thousand-year soul ring lit up, he suddenly opened his mouth and spat out a crimson stream of dragon flame!

The moment the dragon flame erupted, even the air warped from the scorching heat.

The instant the crimson pillar of fire struck the ground, the sand and stones in that area melted directly, turning into a pool of dark red magma bubbling with heat.

Sea Ghost Douluo was the closest, and the heat wave forced him back several steps as sweat streamed down his forehead.

The other Sacred Pillar Douluos all sucked in sharp breaths at the sight.

"The temperature of this soul skill is far too high! It can actually melt sand and stone directly!"

Huang Long gave a light cough and exhaled a thick cloud of black smoke. Smiling, he said, "Teacher, seniors, this is my first soul skill."

"The moment Dragon Flame appears, its temperature rises above one thousand degrees, enough to melt refined iron in an instant."

"Of course, the temperature of this Dragon Flame will continue to rise as my level increases."

"It can continue to increase?"

At that moment, both Bo Saixi and the Seven Sacred Pillar Douluos were left dumbfounded.

Huang Long had only just absorbed his first soul ring, yet the temperature of his Dragon Flame had already reached one thousand degrees.

If he were to reach the rank of Titled Douluo, just how high would the temperature of this Dragon Flame become?

Wouldn't a single breath evaporate an entire ocean?

"Hiss—!"

Everyone stared at Huang Long in horror, as though they were looking at a monster.

But just then, Sea Dragon Douluo noticed something strange.

"No, the Deep Sea Azure Dragon is a sea soul beast with a pure strength attribute. How could it grant a fire-attribute soul skill?"

Only then did everyone realize it.

The attribute of a soul skill was directly influenced by the soul beast's own attributes.

A soul ring from a pure strength-attribute soul beast should grant a soul skill related to strength. No matter how one looked at it, it should not be an ability like Dragon Flame.

Even Bo Saixi, a level ninety-nine Ultimate Douluo, had never encountered such a situation.

Huang Long frowned slightly, clearly unsure of what was happening as well.

But he suddenly recalled the moment when he had been absorbing the soul ring.

When the soul ring had completely fused with his martial soul, it had seemed as though some kind of restraint within his martial soul had been unlocked.

Could it be related to that?

With that thought, he looked up at Sea Dragon Douluo and the others. "Senior Sea Dragon, could you help me find another soul ring?"

"It should be of a higher age, and it must have dragon bloodline. The purer the bloodline, the better."

Sea Dragon Douluo and the others exchanged glances at his words.

In the end, none of them moved. Instead, they all turned their eyes toward Bo Saixi.

Bo Saixi frowned slightly and pondered for a moment before finally nodding in agreement.

"Do as Huang Long says. Since his first soul ring was around thirteen hundred years, his second soul ring should be around five thousand years."

"Yes."

Sea Dragon Douluo respectfully bowed, gave Huang Long a strange look, then transformed into a blue dragon and flew out to sea.

After Sea Dragon left, Bo Saixi asked curiously, "Huang Long, did you discover something?"

Huang Long raised his small, serious face. "Teacher, I think the soul ring did not grant me the Deep Sea Azure Dragon's ability. It should be something from my own martial soul."

"But that is only a guess, so I need the next soul ring to test it."

Hearing this, Bo Saixi turned to exchange glances with Sea Spear Douluo and the others. Such a claim simply overturned the theoretical common sense of the soul master world.

But when they saw that Huang Long intended to use his second soul ring as an experiment, everyone instinctively wanted to object.

A soul master could possess at most nine soul rings, yet he wanted to use the slot for his second soul ring for an experiment. Wasn't that wasting his talent?

What if things were not as he imagined?

The second soul ring slot would be wasted.

Bo Saixi frowned deeply and asked, "How certain are you?"

"About... seventy to eighty percent?"

Huang Long paused, then raised his little face, filled with seriousness, and continued:

"Actually, Teacher and seniors, there's no need to worry. As long as it's a dragon-type sea soul beast with a sufficiently high bloodline, it's suitable for my martial soul."

"So even if my guess is wrong, the second soul ring won't be wasted."

After he finished speaking, Bo Saixi frowned and pondered for a moment before finally nodding in agreement.

Just then, Sea Dragon Douluo returned as well.

He tossed a pitch-black sea soul beast onto the ground and said, "High Priestess, I caught it."

"This is a Mystic Water Flood Dragon that's roughly 4,900 years old. Its bloodline concentration is even a little higher than that Deep Sea Azure Dragon from before."

"Although its strength attribute is inferior to the previous Deep Sea Azure Dragon's, it excels in water and wind attributes."

Bo Saixi nodded lightly and said to Huang Long, "Huang Long, if you think this soul beast is suitable, then do it."

"Alright!" Huang Long looked at the Mystic Water Flood Dragon and, without the slightest hesitation, directly ended its life and obtained its soul ring.

Before dying, that Mystic Water Flood Dragon had been just like the Deep Sea Azure Dragon.

It did not resist in the slightest, and there was not even a trace of resentment within its soul ring.

Thus, when Huang Long began absorbing the soul ring, it fused with his martial soul with remarkable ease.

The next second, that familiar sensation came again—and this time, it was even clearer than before!

He could even "hear" a low cracking sound coming from within his body, as though some seal that had been locked away for a long time had been forcibly torn open.

According to the information fed back by his martial soul, his second soul ring had finally been confirmed. It was called Geng Metal Dragon Claw.

As Huang Long sensed the information transmitted back by his martial soul, the speculation in his heart gradually became certain.

The first soul ring might have been a coincidence, but if the second soul ring was the same, then it could not be a coincidence.

Coupled with that feeling of power awakening just now, he became even more certain.

His martial soul might be different from those of other soul masters.

What other soul masters gained from absorbing soul rings were the soul beasts' own attribute abilities.

But when he absorbed soul rings, what awakened were the abilities inherent to the Yinglong martial soul itself, unrelated to the soul beasts.

Having figured everything out, Huang Long was delighted. Before he could even carefully examine those powers, his soul power surged like floodwaters breaching a dam and broke through the bottleneck at level twenty-six.

His soul power level soared all the way up before finally stabilizing firmly at level twenty-six.

Once his soul power had completely settled, Huang Long immediately opened his eyes.

"Teacher, seniors, I finally figured it out."

Hearing this, Bo Saixi and the Seven Sacred Pillar Douluo quickly gathered around him.

Huang Long did not hide anything and explained all of his deductions.

After hearing him out, Bo Saixi and the others fell into a strange silence.

Bo Saixi remained silent for a while before asking, "Then what is your second soul skill?"

"Teacher, my second soul skill is called Geng Metal Dragon Claw," Huang Long answered truthfully.