Third Soul Skill, Reflective Hammer

"Reflective Light!"

Lin Yan murmured to himself, his mind racing as he immediately realized how powerful this soul skill was.

Any assault-type martial soul was bound to possess elemental energy attacks.

Take the White Tiger Martial Soul, for example. It was a typical close-combat assault-type martial soul, yet it also possessed many long-range energy attack soul skills.

For instance, its second soul skill, White Tiger Light-Splitting Wave.

Its fourth soul skill, White Tiger Meteor Shower.

Its sixth soul skill, White Tiger Annihilation Strike.

All of these counted as energy attack soul skills, meaning their power could be reflected by Reflective Light.

Moreover, once reflected, the soul skill's power would increase to one hundred and fifty percent of its original strength.

Reflective Light appeared to be a defensive skill.

Yet it actually possessed formidable offensive power and could even be regarded as an attack skill that struck after the enemy made the first move.

This Earth-Spirit Black Tortoise was very intelligent. Seeing Lin Yuhuan flash over and rescue Lin Yan, it seemed to realize something was wrong. Its short, thick limbs moved rapidly, and its movements were unexpectedly nimble as it rushed toward the nearby river.

However, how could its speed and reactions compare to Lin Yuhuan's?

Lin Yuhuan, who had been prepared all along, reacted at once. She flashed forward and made a grasping motion through the air. A powerful surge of soul power burst forth, effortlessly dragging the Earth-Spirit Black Tortoise back.

"Judging from its size and the color of its shell, this Earth-Spirit Black Tortoise should have cultivated for between four and five thousand years. Whether in terms of attribute or age, it is perfectly suited to become your third Spirit Ring." Ignoring the Earth-Spirit Black Tortoise's struggles, Lin Yuhuan smiled.

"Then it's settled!" Lin Yan immediately nodded.

If he could obtain its godly Reflective Light skill, it would be equivalent to gaining a powerful soul skill that combined offense and defense.

With Lin Yuhuan's help, Lin Yan was finally able to kill this Earth-Spirit Black Tortoise.

Otherwise, with his cultivation, even if the Earth-Spirit Black Tortoise lay there and let him attack it for three days and three nights, he would have been unable to do anything to it.

As the Earth-Spirit Black Tortoise's breath faded away, a noble purple Spirit Ring floated above its corpse.

After taking only one look, Lin Yan immediately began absorbing it without hesitation.

As expected, the process of absorbing the Earth-Spirit Black Tortoise's Spirit Ring was extremely easy. In just one hour, he had completed the absorption.

Behind the Millennial Titan Giant Ape Spirit Ring on his pitch-black Black Demon Mace martial soul, another millennium-old purple Spirit Ring appeared, larger in diameter and darker in color.

At this point, Lin Yan possessed three Spirit Rings.

He had also officially become a genuine Soul Elder!

Huff—

Lin Yan opened his eyes and slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, unable to conceal the excitement in his gaze.

"How did it go?"

Seeing this, Lin Yuhuan, who had been standing guard nearby, immediately asked.

"Grandma, my third soul skill came from the Earth-Spirit Black Tortoise's innate Reflective Light ability. I've named it Reflective Hammer. As long as the opponent's cultivation does not exceed mine by more than one realm, I can reflect their energy attacks back at them with one hundred and fifty percent of their original power."

"If they exceed me by one realm but are within two realms, Reflective Hammer can nullify one attack for me, but it cannot reflect it. If the opponent exceeds me by more than two realms, then it will have no effect."

For example, Lin Yan was currently a Soul Elder. He could reflect any elemental attack from opponents at the Soul Elder realm or below with one hundred and fifty percent of its power.

If the opponent was a Soul Ancestor, Reflective Hammer could help Lin Yan negate one attack, but it could not reflect it.

And if the opponent was a Soul King, then Reflective Hammer's effects, whether for reflection or defense, would be greatly weakened.

"It is still quite a good soul skill." Lin Yuhuan smiled.

It might not seem all that astonishing right now.

But once Lin Yan reached the realm of a Titled Douluo in the future, if he directly reflected a Titled Douluo of the same rank's ninth soul skill back at them with one hundred and fifty percent of its power, who could withstand that?

For a third soul skill from a millennium-old Spirit Ring to achieve this much, it was already an exceptionally rare godly skill!

"Grandma, did this Earth-Spirit Black Tortoise produce a Spirit Bone?" Lin Yan lowered his head and looked at the Earth-Spirit Black Tortoise's corpse on the ground.

The fact that it possessed such a formidable soul skill was enough to show how powerful the Earth-Spirit Black Tortoise's bloodline was.

And soul beasts with such powerful bloodlines often had a greater chance of producing Spirit Bones.

"Silly boy, Spirit Bones do not appear so easily. The Titan Giant Ape producing an External Spirit Bone only means you were lucky. How could a Spirit Bone appear every time you hunt for a Spirit Ring?" Lin Yuhuan scolded him with a smile.

Hearing that, Lin Yan gave an embarrassed smile as well.

"Test your soul power now."

Lin Yuhuan handed Lin Yan a crystal ball for testing soul power.

Lin Yan accepted the crystal ball and pressed his palm against it. The number thirty-two immediately appeared within it.

"One Spirit Ring raised your soul power by two levels. Very good," Lin Yuhuan said.

"Mm." Lin Yan nodded with a smile.

Under normal circumstances, absorbing a third Spirit Ring that was seventeen hundred years old would raise a Soul Master's soul power by at most one level.

It was precisely because his Spirit Ring exceeded four thousand years that his soul power had risen by two levels. This extra level of soul power alone had saved him at least three months of arduous cultivation.

After successfully obtaining a satisfying third Spirit Ring, the grandmother and grandson pair, Lin Yuhuan and Lin Yan, returned the way they had come.

Once he left the Star Dou Great Forest, he could head to Shrek Academy to enroll.

A Soul Elder barely over ten years old, with an extreme Spirit Ring configuration of one yellow and two purple rings—there probably was not a genius like him even at Shrek Academy, right?

When the two retreated to the outer region, they suddenly heard the sounds of battle.

Curious, Lin Yan moved closer, intending to watch the excitement. Yet before he could make out the situation, a pinkish-white sphere of light radiating intense soul power fluctuations happened to fly straight at his face.

Lin Yan's gaze sharpened, and a black short-handled spiked mace immediately appeared in his hand.

After obtaining his third Spirit Ring, Lin Yan's Black Demon Mace martial soul had changed once more. It now weighed a thousand jin, while the strength it granted Lin Yan exceeded two hundred and fifty jin.

Lin Yuhuan, who had been about to act, also withdrew her hand in time and turned her gaze toward Lin Yan.

Soul power began circulating within Lin Yan's body, and his newly acquired third Spirit Ring blazed with light.

The next moment, a layer of black radiance resembling rippling water appeared over the surface of the Black Demon Mace.

"Reflective Hammer."

Lin Yan gripped the mace with both hands and swung it violently.

The mace smashed into the pinkish-white sphere of light, yet instead of shattering it, it sent it flying like a baseball. Moreover, its size actually increased during flight, and it emitted even stronger soul power fluctuations.

Boom—

A deafening explosion rang out. Once the smoke and dust dispersed, Lin Yan saw a pink fox that had been blasted bloody by the reflected sphere of light, its fluffy tail nearly torn off.

Lin Yan emerged with the mace held in one hand and resting on his shoulder, looking utterly imposing.

Without the vegetation on either side blocking his view, he finally saw the white fox's opponents: two humans, both women.

The older one looked to be around thirty. Her appearance was utterly ordinary, and her martial soul was a cleaver that did not appear remarkable in any way. One white and two yellow Spirit Rings showed that she was a Soul Elder.

The other was a very young girl, seemingly about the same age as Lin Yan.

She had long golden hair and golden eyes, with an exquisitely beautiful face like a porcelain doll sculpted from jade and snow. Most eye-catching were the pair of rabbit ears among her golden locks, which added an extra touch of cuteness to her.