A Solo Challenge Against the Giant Force Ape

"Me?"

Lin Yan looked at his grandmother in astonishment.

"Mm."

Lin Yuhuan nodded and asked him, "Are you scared?"

Lin Yan narrowed his eyes, took a deep breath, then said seriously, "Of course not. I'll do it!"

He had merely been surprised just now.

After two years of grueling training, he was no longer the rookie who had just awakened his Martial Soul and would be frightened at the sight of a Soul Beast.

Now, not only had his Soul Power reached level twenty, but his physical strength had also soared through two years of continuous training. He no longer struggled even to lift his own Martial Soul as he once had. Through sparring with the old butler, he had also accumulated a certain amount of experience and skill.

Lin Yuhuan's suggestion was perfect.

He had long wanted to find an opportunity to test his true strength.

This three-hundred-year Giant Force Ape was the perfect opponent!

"Be careful!" Lin Yuhuan reminded him.

"Mm, I know, Grandma!"

Lin Yan replied, his gaze immediately turning serious and focused.

He turned toward the Giant Force Ape. The next moment, he broke into a charge with great strides.

This scene made Ning Tian and Wu Feng cry out in alarm.

Lin Yuhuan had perfectly concealed her aura, so the Giant Force Ape had not fled.

No matter their level, Soul Beasts displayed intense aggression when facing humans, a foreign race.

This Giant Force Ape was no exception.

Seeing Lin Yan charge at it, it let out a roar and swung its enormous fist as it met him head-on.

In the blink of an eye, they were less than ten meters apart.

At that moment, Lin Yan pushed off with both legs and leaped into the air. Relying on his exceptional physical strength, he actually jumped six meters off the ground.

"Ha!"

Lin Yan shouted as he summoned his Martial Soul!

A flash of black light appeared, and the heavy Black Demon Mace materialized in Lin Yan's hands.

Lin Yan gripped the Spiked Club with both hands. The six-hundred-pound club came crashing down from the air with tremendous force. At the same time, his sole Century Spirit Ring suddenly lit up.

Boom—

Thunder exploded.

As he descended, the hair-thin purple arcs of electricity on the Spiked Club surged in power, directly transforming into thumb-thick purple-black lightning.

A sharp, piercing aura suddenly burst forth from the club's conical spikes.

Thunder Awakening.

Seventy percent lightning Attribute Amplification, along with a certain degree of armor-piercing effect.

Facing Lin Yan's descending strike, the simple-minded, unintelligent Giant Force Ape fearlessly threw a punch to meet it.

Bang!

The two collided violently.

Empowered by the armor-piercing effect, the conical spikes on the Spiked Club easily tore through the Giant Force Ape's tough fur and punched several bloody holes into its fist.

Just as the Giant Force Ape let out a pained roar, purple-black lightning from the Spiked Club surged through its wounds and into its body.

An even more agonized roar rang out as the Giant Force Ape's body convulsed violently as though electrocuted.

Lin Yan landed. Taking advantage of the enemy's paralyzed body, he swung with all his strength and smashed the Spiked Club into its chest, sending it flying five or six meters away. Several gruesome bloody holes also appeared in its chest.

No blood flowed from the wounds. Instead, they had been scorched pitch-black by the purple-black lightning released from the Spiked Club.

"Brother Lin Yan is amazing!"

In the distance, Ning Tian clapped her fair little hands excitedly as she watched Lin Yan wield his Spiked Club and batter the Giant Force Ape until it could not fight back. Her expression was filled with delight.

As Wu Feng watched the fierce and domineering Lin Yan, several traces of shock and admiration appeared in her red eyes.

Lin Yuhuan and the old butler were also extremely surprised at that moment.

"My Lady, the young master's Martial Soul is very powerful!" the old butler exclaimed.

"Mm." Lin Yuhuan nodded in agreement.

The Black Demon Mace had always been a top-tier assault-type tool Martial Soul focused on strength, just like the Clear Sky Hammer.

Because of its mutation, Lin Yan's Black Demon Mace Martial Soul also possessed formidable lightning power. Combined together, they were like a tiger with wings. In close-range clashes against opponents of the same level, Lin Yan's Martial Soul was almost invincible.

The Giant Force Ape was being beaten down for precisely this reason.

If it had been an ordinary Grand Soul Master without a second Spirit Ring facing a three-hundred-year Giant Force Ape, let alone defeating it so overwhelmingly, whether they could beat it at all would have been uncertain!

A moment later, the battlefield returned to silence.

Lin Yan let out a heavy breath. Looking at the Giant Force Ape lying motionless on the ground, already taking more breaths out than in, the corners of his mouth lifted slightly. He then slung the Spiked Club over his shoulder with a domineering air and turned to walk back.

Ning Tian happily ran over to greet him, her eyes sparkling with little stars. "Brother Lin Yan, you're amazing!"

Having defeated a three-hundred-year Soul Beast for the first time, Lin Yan's heart was also filled with excitement and exhilaration.

Looking at Ning Tian's worshipful expression, Lin Yan happily reached out and patted her head. "Easy, easy. This guy really couldn't take a beating. I hadn't even used any real strength before I knocked him down!"

As he spoke, Lin Yan looked at Wu Feng. "Little Sister Wu Feng, am I impressive?"

If he wanted to straighten out Wu Feng's preferences, he first had to establish an idol of the opposite sex whom she could admire.

To save her, Lin Yan had decided to sacrifice himself and become the idol Wu Feng admired!

Wu Feng blinked, then nodded quickly. "You are."

Lin Yan said, "Remember this. Assault-type Soul Masters should be like I was just now. You have to fight with momentum, with peerless dominance. That's what an assault-type Soul Master should be!"

"I'll remember that!" Wu Feng nodded earnestly.

Beside them, Lin Yuhuan walked over as she looked at the smug Lin Yan and warned him, "Lin Yan, although you defeated a three-hundred-year Giant Force Ape, don't become arrogant or complacent. Remember, there are always greater people beyond people and higher heavens beyond heaven. No matter what enemy you face, you must never underestimate them or act carelessly. Do you understand?"

"Grandma, I understand!"

Lin Yan hurriedly nodded.

The group gathered beside the severely injured Giant Force Ape.

Under Lin Yan's guidance, Ning Tian hesitated for quite a while before finally using a level-one soul tool dagger to kill the Giant Force Ape.

A yellow Spirit Ring appeared above the Giant Force Ape's corpse, radiating dense waves of Soul Power.

Only after Lin Yuhuan gave her repeated instructions did Ning Tian begin absorbing the Spirit Ring.

"Seven Treasures turn forth with glazed light!"

With the summoning chant, a dazzling, crystalline, radiant pagoda appeared in Ning Tian's arms.

"So this is the Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda?"

Lin Yan studied it carefully, curious.

To be fair, the Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda really did look beautiful. It truly deserved its reputation as the most beautiful tool Martial Soul.

When the Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda Martial Soul appeared, the yellow Spirit Ring above the Giant Force Ape's corpse suddenly moved onto the Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda.

The absorption began!

Perhaps because her physique was not particularly strong, Ning Tian took longer to absorb her first Spirit Ring than Bei Bei had.

Bei Bei had taken an hour and a half, while Ning Tian needed a full two hours before she succeeded.

When Ning Tian opened her eyes, Lin Yan immediately asked, "Little Sister Ning Tian, is your first Soul Skill a strength enhancement?"

"Mm!"

Ning Tian nodded and once again recited the chant to summon the Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda.

With an additional Spirit Ring, the light emitted by the Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda seemed to have grown somewhat stronger.

"Seven Treasures have renown, first: Strength!"

The pagoda lit up along with the Spirit Ring. Then, a bright yellow light floated out and landed on Lin Yan.

Hmm?

Lin Yan examined the effect carefully, then frowned. "My strength increased by around twenty percent. Why is that so little?"

He was not very satisfied with this enhancement, because his Thunder Awakening already provided seventy percent lightning Attribute Amplification. As the continent's number one support-type tool Martial Soul, why did the Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda's enhancement amount to so little?

Lin Yuhuan said, "Twenty percent is correct. The Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda's enhancement effects depend heavily on the Soul Master's realm. Every time it gains another Spirit Ring, the enhancement effect of all its Soul Skills increases by ten percent. It is twenty percent now, and once she reaches the Soul Sage realm, it will be eighty percent."

"Oh, so that's how it is!"

Lin Yan suddenly understood.

Thinking back carefully, that did seem to be how it worked in the original story. He simply had not remembered it in his haste!