Too Old, Too Ugly

"The Goddess of Light Butterfly was a beast martial soul. It had relatively strong combat abilities in the early stages and could also fly.

The Sea God's Trident, meanwhile, was a tool martial soul. With every Soul Ring it absorbed, its weight increased by a certain amount. The older the absorbed Soul Ring, the greater the increase in weight."

In a sense, the Sea God's Trident worked much like the Clear Sky Hammer.

However, beyond its immense destructive power, the Sea God's Trident also possessed a degree of control ability, something the Clear Sky Hammer could not compare to.

Thus, the Sea God's Trident could be considered an upgraded replacement for the Clear Sky Hammer.

"Then let's add a Soul Ring to the Goddess of Light Butterfly first."

After giving it some simple thought, Bai Ran decided to add a Soul Ring to the Goddess of Light Butterfly first.

"You little brat, the Sea God's Trident is a control-oriented assault martial soul with an extremely powerful battlefield-control effect."

"No. Your white trident looks like a fish spear to anyone who doesn't know better."

A fish spear?

Once they entered Shrek Academy, he could spear fish while Huo Yuhao grilled them.

They would definitely grow bigger and stronger, creating new glories.

"Who are you calling a fish spear?"

As Tang Wutong spoke, she took out the silver-white Sea God's Trident, looking as though she were standing up for it.

"Now it looks even more like a fish spear."

After a round of horseplay, the two stopped fooling around.

Instead, they began considering what kind of Soul Ring they should acquire.

Since they had decided to obtain a Soul Ring for the Goddess of Light Butterfly,

they needed to focus on something compatible with the Goddess of Light Butterfly.

The first choice would naturally be beast-type Soul Beasts with the light attribute.

However, light was a rare attribute. It was not that there were no light-attributed Soul Beasts below a thousand years old, but they were practically impossible to find.

Besides, this was Sunset Forest. Whether in the number or variety of Soul Beasts, it was far inferior to the Great Star Dou Forest.

Their second option was Soul Beasts that could enhance strength or agility.

Although the Goddess of Light Butterfly's evolved Bright Dragon God Butterfly martial soul had received a considerable boost in strength, greatly improving its frontal combat ability,

the Goddess of Light Butterfly martial soul still leaned more toward agility and fighting through skillful tactics. If the Soul Ring was suitable, taking the Agility Attack Type path would not be a bad choice either.

If they truly could not find anything suitable, they could only settle for an eight-hundred-year butterfly-type Soul Beast.

Over the next three days, accompanied by Da Ming and Er Ming,

Tang Wutong and Bai Ran began selecting Soul Beasts.

"No, no. This one's too old."

"No, no. This one's too young."

"No, no. This one's too ugly."

Over those three days, Da Ming and Er Ming captured no fewer than a hundred Soul Beasts.

Whenever Bai Ran was satisfied, Tang Wutong was not.

Whenever Tang Wutong was satisfied, Bai Ran was somewhat dissatisfied.

"You don't even want a Thousand-Year Moonlit Moth, Little Seven. What exactly do you want?"

Bai Ran was genuinely very satisfied with the Thousand-Year Moonlit Moth, which possessed the light attribute.

Though absorbing a Thousand-Year Soul Ring as his first Soul Ring was extremely risky, he was a genius with a god-tier martial soul and Innate Soul Power at level twenty.

If he did not challenge his limits, what would make him any different from a salted fish?

Bai Ran had no intention of wasting his talent like Qian Renxue had back then.

"The Goddess of Light Butterfly is the most beautiful butterfly in the world. How could it absorb the Soul Ring of something as ugly as a moth? I disagree. I absolutely disagree!"

Clearly, Tang Wutong was still someone who cared about appearances.

"I think that three-hundred-year Holy Light Elk is quite good. Not only does it have the light attribute, but there's also a high chance of gaining a Soul Skill similar to purification."

"Three hundred years? Little Seven, I'm a genius with Innate Soul Power at level twenty, not one of those people with Innate Soul Power at level ten.

A three-hundred-year Soul Beast? Who are you looking down on?"

Soul Beasts like the Holy Light Elk were indeed quite good, and a Soul Skill like purification could be highly effective against Control-System Soul Masters.

After all, wasn't the reason Control-System Soul Masters were the strictest fathers of Strength-Attack Soul Masters that they could control them so thoroughly?

But once a Strength-Attack Soul Master possessed a Soul Skill similar to purification, the ones who should cry would be the Control-System Soul Masters.

Unfortunately, four hundred years was simply too low.

If he were a local native who knew nothing of what could be absorbed, that would have been one thing.

But Bai Ran was a transmigrator.

With Innate Soul Power at level twenty, if he still went and absorbed the Soul Ring of a three-hundred-year Soul Beast,

then what difference was there between transmigrating and not transmigrating?

Furthermore, Wang Dong in the original story had absorbed a Thousand-Year Soul Ring at level twenty.

Though that was because he had eaten Whale Glue like food since childhood.

Still, they were both at level twenty and possessed roughly similar martial souls.

Even if Bai Ran could not absorb a Thousand-Year Soul Ring, he at least had to absorb an eight-hundred-year Soul Ring.

"Actually, your Second Dad thinks that eight-hundred-year Mighty Brown Bear is quite good."

In Er Ming's view, boys should be stronger. That way, they could protect his Little Seven in the future.

A Soul Beast like the Mighty Brown Bear, which possessed immense strength, was an excellent choice.

However, the moment Er Ming said this, both Bai Ran and Tang Wutong rejected it at the same time.

"No."

"Me neither."