Snake Spear Douluo's Shock!

Having identified his target, Jiang Yu did not hesitate in the slightest and attacked immediately.

"Blue Silver Grass, Blue Silver Descent!"

With a low shout, Jiang Yu immediately summoned his martial soul.

The next moment, a deep, mysterious purple ring emerged beneath Jiang Yu's feet and slowly rose upward.

At the same time, countless blue-green vines and grasses burst from the ground around Jiang Yu, spreading frantically in every direction like a tide.

The entire area around Jiang Yu instantly became a sea of Blue Silver Grass.

Snake Spear Douluo, hidden within the canopy of a towering tree several hundred meters away, had originally looked perfectly at ease.

In his view, protecting a level-twenty young soul master while he hunted a soul ring was no more than a trivial task.

However, the moment he saw the purple soul ring rising beneath Jiang Yu's feet, his entire body froze.

"What?!"

"A thousand-year soul ring!? His first soul ring is a thousand-year soul ring!?"

Even with Snake Spear Douluo's composure as a Titled Douluo, he nearly cried out in shock.

He even rubbed his eyes hard, thinking he had seen things.

Yet no matter how Snake Spear Douluo looked at it, the purple color of Jiang Yu's first soul ring was crystal clear. There was no way he could be mistaken!

How was this possible?!

As a Titled Douluo of Spirit Hall, Snake Spear Douluo was intimately familiar with the theoretical knowledge surrounding soul rings.

There was a limit to the age of soul rings a soul master's body could endure. The maximum age for a first soul ring was four hundred and twenty-three years!

A thousand years was an age that only a Soul Elder—a soul master obtaining their third soul ring—could attempt to absorb!

Even he, the mighty Snake Spear Douluo, had only absorbed a soul ring of around three hundred and fifty years as his first ring back then, and he had already stood among the best of his generation.

It was not as though no geniuses in history had attempted to challenge this limit, but without exception, they had either exploded and died or had their meridians utterly shattered, becoming cripples.

Yet this youth named Jiang Yu before him had not only succeeded, but appeared completely unharmed!

Had the world gone mad? Or had he?

Stormy waves churned through Snake Spear Douluo's mind. For the first time, he doubted the ironclad laws of the soul master world.

Just as Snake Spear Douluo was plunged into immense shock, the battle below had already begun.

"Blue Silver Binding!"

With a thought from Jiang Yu, the endless Blue Silver Grass on the ground instantly transformed into tough vines that shot up from the earth, lunging toward the Adamantine Vine from all directions.

As a soul beast that had cultivated for nearly two thousand years, the Adamantine Vine naturally would not sit still and await its fate.

The instant it was bound, its dark-golden vines suddenly tensed, and a tremendous force erupted from within!

"Crack, crack..."

Amid a series of crisp snapping sounds, the Blue Silver Grass wrapped around the Adamantine Vine instantly broke apart.

"Worthy of a thousand-year soul beast famed for its toughness!"

Jiang Yu was not surprised that the Adamantine Vine had broken free of the Blue Silver Grass.

"However, this is only the beginning!"

"Blue Silver Spikes!"

Under Jiang Yu's control, the severed Blue Silver Grass not only did not retreat, but instead grew wildly once more and rapidly gathered together, forming countless spikes that gleamed with cold light.

For a moment, Blue Silver Spikes filled the sky, sweeping toward the Adamantine Vine in an overwhelming torrent!

This scene once again left the hidden Snake Spear Douluo utterly stunned.

"Th-This is a self-created soul skill!?"

Snake Spear Douluo's breathing stalled.

One soul ring could only grant one soul skill. That was common knowledge!

Yet within only a few minutes, Jiang Yu had unleashed three entirely different soul skills: "Blue Silver Descent," "Blue Silver Binding," and "Blue Silver Spikes."

The only explanation was that these soul skills had all been created by Jiang Yu himself.

How could Snake Spear Douluo not be shocked by this?!

After all, Snake Spear Douluo was a Titled Douluo who had devoted decades to the path of martial souls, and his understanding of his own martial soul had long reached extraordinary heights.

Yet even so, Snake Spear had failed to create a single soul skill that truly belonged to him.

The difficulty of creating one's own soul skill was no less than founding a sect!

It required an understanding of a martial soul's traits far beyond that of ordinary people, as well as boundless imagination.

But Jiang Yu, a teenage boy and a commoner orphan, had not only broken the age limit for a first soul ring, but had also created multiple soul skills?

Snake Spear Douluo even suspected that Jiang Yu might be some monster raised by a sect.

However, Snake Spear Douluo quickly dismissed that thought.

Because he had personally investigated Jiang Yu's background; there was absolutely no chance of an error.

Precisely because of this, Snake Spear Douluo was even more shocked.

A commoner orphan had actually accomplished all this. It was clear that Jiang Yu's talent was extraordinary.

At this moment, the battle between Jiang Yu and the Adamantine Vine had already reached its fiercest point.

Under Jiang Yu's control, countless strands of Blue Silver Grass turned into spikes and stabbed wildly at the Adamantine Vine, producing a series of clanging impacts.

But unfortunately, the Adamantine Vine's defense was simply astonishing.

Although Jiang Yu's Blue Silver Grass could transform in countless ways, breaking through the Adamantine Vine's defenses with purely physical attacks was clearly difficult.

After a fierce battle, Jiang Yu had expended a considerable amount of soul power, while the Adamantine Vine remained as lively as ever.

"Looks like dealing with the Adamantine Vine using Blue Silver Grass alone will be difficult..."

"I'll have to use some other means!"

While maintaining the Blue Silver Grass's assault, Jiang Yu pulled a small white porcelain bottle from his clothes.

During his spare time, he had used some common minerals and plants to refine and concoct "Iron-Dissolving Liquid" according to the poison manual section of the Tang Sect's secret arts.

Put simply, it was a highly corrosive acidic liquid.

It should have a remarkable effect against a plant-type soul beast with such high physical defense.

With that thought, Jiang Yu did not hesitate. Seizing an opening in the attack, he flicked his wrist and viciously hurled the little porcelain bottle at the Adamantine Vine!

Crack!

The porcelain bottle shattered against the hard vines, and the pungent liquid instantly splashed across the Adamantine Vine's metallic outer skin.

Sss—

A cloud of pungent white smoke suddenly rose, accompanied by the teeth-grating sound of corrosion.

The vines that even the Blue Silver Grass spikes had failed to pierce rapidly dissolved under the Iron-Dissolving Liquid, exposing the fragile tissue beneath.

The Adamantine Vine's massive body twisted and writhed violently, clearly suffering immense pain.

"Good chance... now!"

Seizing the moment, Jiang Yu gripped his dagger, kicked off with both feet, and shot forward like an arrow released from its bow.

The dagger in Jiang Yu's hand precisely pierced into the Adamantine Vine's roots, severing them completely.

With its roots cut off, the Adamantine Vine's violently struggling body suddenly stiffened before going limp, its life extinguished.

As the Adamantine Vine died completely, a deep purple soul ring slowly rose and hovered silently in the air.