Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, First Spirit Skill, Blue Silver Descent

"Flight!"

After confirming that the soul beast he would hunt was a Longevity Bamboo, Jiang Yu immediately used the flying ability of his soul bone.

Jiang Yu shot into the air and began searching through the dense bamboo forest.

Soon, in the center of the thick bamboo grove, a tall bamboo stalk with an entirely emerald-green body stood proudly.

"Found it. This should be the Longevity Bamboo's true body, right?!"

Having found his target, Jiang Yu immediately became wary and carefully approached it.

"Longevity Bamboo—each segment represents a hundred years of cultivation..."

As Jiang Yu drew closer, he carefully examined the Longevity Bamboo.

"One segment, two segments, three segments... nine segments, ten segments!"

"Damn it, why is it a ten-segment Longevity Bamboo?!"

Jiang Yu frowned.

For a soul beast like the Longevity Bamboo, each segment represented a hundred years of soul power.

The Longevity Bamboo before him had ten segments, which meant it was a thousand-year soul beast.

According to the so-called theory of the Master, the limit for a first soul ring was 423 years.

However, Jiang Yu scoffed at that limit.

In Jiang Yu's view, the limit of soul power depended on the strength of one's body and the quality of one's martial soul.

The stronger the body and the higher the quality of the martial soul, the higher the age of the soul ring one could absorb.

Jiang Yu's body had become incredibly resilient after being strengthened by the life force of the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone.

Jiang Yu's martial soul had also evolved from ordinary Blue Silver Grass into the Blue Silver Emperor.

Jiang Yu could completely break through this soul ring limit.

And he had indeed planned to find a soul ring that exceeded the limit.

However, his target had only been six or seven hundred years at most.

Now that a thousand-year soul ring had suddenly appeared, Jiang Yu felt somewhat uncertain.

Absorbing a thousand-year soul ring as his first soul ring was an extremely dangerous matter. One careless mistake could cause his body to explode and kill him.

But if he simply gave up this soul ring, Jiang Yu was unwilling to accept that as well.

"Damn it, I'm doing it. It's just a thousand-year soul ring, isn't it?!"

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Yu ultimately chose to absorb this thousand-year soul ring.

His body had been strengthened by the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone, and his martial soul had evolved from ordinary Blue Silver Grass into the Blue Silver Emperor.

More importantly, he possessed the soul skill Spring Wind Brings New Life. Absorbing a thousand-year soul ring was not impossible.

Having decided to absorb the thousand-year soul ring, Jiang Yu acted without the slightest hesitation.

He took five iron canisters, each the size of a human head, out of his backpack.

These were the crude grenades Jiang Yu had made.

At the end of the day, Jiang Yu was merely a soul master without a soul ring.

It was far too difficult for him to obtain a soul ring through his own strength.

These crude grenades were the secret weapons Jiang Yu had created.

As for how to make crude grenades, it was very simple.

One part saltpeter, two parts sulfur, three parts charcoal—add a little sugar, and you'd get a Tsar Bomba.

Carrying the crude grenades, Jiang Yu flew directly above the Longevity Bamboo's true body.

"This position should be about right!"

Then, without the slightest hesitation, Jiang Yu threw all five head-sized crude grenades from his arms down at once.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

A string of deafening explosions suddenly erupted.

All the crude grenades detonated in an instant. The powerful blast waves tore through everything, sending dirt and bamboo flying in every direction.

As for the massive Longevity Bamboo, it did not even have a chance to react before it was blasted full of holes. Countless cracks spread across its body, and finally, with a crack, it snapped in two.

At the center of the broken bamboo stalk, a bead emitting a faint white glow was exposed.

That was the Longevity Bamboo's core!

As long as the core was destroyed, it was equivalent to killing the Longevity Bamboo.

The Longevity Bamboo reacted swiftly as well. The moment its core was exposed, the surrounding bamboo began growing frantically. Countless emerald-green bamboo shoots burst from the ground, forming layer after layer of barriers as they tried to wrap up and hide the core again.

"Don't even think about it! Die!"

Seeing this, Jiang Yu immediately dove down. At the same time, he drew a sharp dagger from his waist and charged straight toward the white core.

Just as the bamboo grove was about to close in and completely cover the core, Jiang Yu rushed forward and viciously drove the dagger in his hand into Longevity Bamboo's core.

"Pfft!"

Longevity Bamboo's core exploded instantly, and all the wildly growing bamboo around it froze at once.

Then, a purple soul ring slowly emerged from the shattered core of Longevity Bamboo and hovered silently in midair.

"Whew... So this is a thousand-year soul ring!"

Jiang Yu took a deep breath as he looked at the purple soul ring before him.

"Next, I need to absorb this thousand-year soul ring!"

Jiang Yu rested for a moment, then immediately circulated his soul power and began drawing the purple soul ring toward himself.

The soul ring slowly descended and settled around Jiang Yu's body.

At once, a terrifying surge of soul power far beyond his imagination crashed into Jiang Yu's body like floodwaters bursting through a dam.

"Ugh!"

"Terrifying! Is this what thousand-year soul power feels like?!"

Jiang Yu let out a muffled groan, his body trembling violently beyond his control.

The thousand-year soul power rampaged through Jiang Yu's body.

Under the impact of the berserk soul power, the meridians inside Jiang Yu's body began to rupture inch by inch. His muscles tore, his bones groaned, and his body was on the verge of collapse.

"Damn it, am I going to give up just like this?!"

"No! I absolutely can't give up!"

"Spring Wind Brings New Life, activate!"

Jiang Yu roared inwardly and immediately activated the soul skill of the soul bone in his right leg.

In an instant, vast and boundless life force erupted from his right leg bone, rapidly spreading through his entire body and beginning to repair the damaged meridians and flesh within him.

But just as Jiang Yu's body was restored, the berserk soul power swept through it again, tearing apart his freshly healed meridians once more.

Yet immediately afterward, the powerful life force repaired them again.

Destruction, repair, destruction again, repair again...

This tug-of-war was playing out within Jiang Yu's body.

Within this cycle of agony, the violent energy of the thousand-year soul ring was gradually being digested and absorbed by Jiang Yu, bit by bit.

The entire process lasted a full two hours.

When the final trace of soul power had been completely absorbed, the purple soul ring finally stabilized and quietly circled around Jiang Yu's body.

Jiang Yu suddenly opened his eyes, a sharp gleam flashing through them.

"I did it! My first soul ring—I've absorbed it successfully!"

Jiang Yu rose excitedly. Feeling the surging soul power within his body, he could not help but summon his martial soul.

"First Soul Skill, Blue Silver Descent!"

With Jiang Yu's low shout, the purple soul ring around him suddenly lit up.

The ground began to shake violently as countless Blue Silver Grass shoots burst from the earth, growing and spreading madly at a visible speed. In the blink of an eye, they transformed into a massive forest of Blue Silver Grass over ten meters tall.

This was Jiang Yu's first soul skill. It could continuously summon wildly growing Blue Silver Grass to fight for him.

At the same time, Jiang Yu discovered in delight that after absorbing the soul ring, his soul power had actually surged all the way to level fourteen!