After Bei Bei obtained a Spirit Ring that perfectly matched his attributes, half the purpose of their trip had been accomplished. The remaining half was to help Lin Yan find a Spirit Ring.
An entire afternoon passed without any gains.
It was not that they had failed to find Soul Beasts with both strength and lightning attributes.
Rather, those Soul Beasts were too ordinary, with weak bloodlines and no particularly outstanding innate skills.
Hunting Spirit Rings from them would hardly result in any powerful Soul Skills.
With the mindset of choosing quality over quantity, they decided to keep looking.
So, they found a safe cave and made camp, planning to rest for the night before continuing their search the next day.
Bei Bei ate his rations and patted Lin Yan on the shoulder encouragingly. "Cousin, don't lose heart. We'll definitely find a Soul Beast suitable for you tomorrow."
"Mm!" Lin Yan nodded.
With his grandmother, a Titled Douluo, by his side, he was not particularly worried about the matter of his Spirit Ring.
After dinner, Lin Yan immediately began meditating, seizing every second to improve his strength.
His diligence immediately rubbed off on Bei Bei as well.
"Even a genius like my cousin, who has Innate Full Soul Power, works this hard. I can't slack off either!"
Bei Bei spoke seriously, then entered meditation as well.
After meditating for four hours, Bei Bei fell asleep from mental exhaustion.
Lin Yan, however, still did not interrupt his meditation.
The night passed quickly.
At first light, Lin Yan ended his meditation and walked outside the cave.
Zhang Lexuan, who was stationed at the cave entrance, seemed to notice the movement. She immediately turned to look at him, then asked in surprise, "Little Brother Lin Yan, did you meditate all night?"
"Mm."
Seeing the strange look on Zhang Lexuan's face, Lin Yan asked doubtfully, "Sister Lexuan, is there a problem?"
Zhang Lexuan said in amazement, "Meditation is extremely taxing on the mind. For a six-year-old child like you to keep meditating through an entire night is no easy feat. It may mean your spiritual power is innately stronger than ordinary people's."
"My spiritual power is stronger than ordinary people's?"
Lin Yan repeated inwardly. Could it be because I transmigrated?
Zhang Lexuan patted Lin Yan on the head and reminded him, "It's good to focus on improving your cultivation, but remember to rest as well. Balancing work and rest will yield better results, understand?"
"I understand!" Lin Yan nodded, committing her words to heart.
As they spoke, Lin Yuhuan returned from scouting. "Wake Bei Bei. There seem to be more Soul Beasts in that canyon over there. Let's go take a look."
"Alright!" Lin Yan immediately ran into the cave to wake Bei Bei.
After the group packed up, they continued their search.
It was not until noon that they finally found a Soul Beast that was fairly good, with attributes and cultivation age both highly suitable for Lin Yan.
This Soul Beast was clearly larger than Bei Bei's Razorclaw Thunder Dragon.
It was five meters long, with sharp protrusions covering its back. Blue patterns ran across them, faintly emitting fine arcs of electricity. Judging by its overall shape, it resembled a stegosaurus. Its most obvious difference was the pair of enormous bull horns growing from its head.
Lin Yan learned its name from Zhang Lexuan: the Horned Thunder Dragon.
It was an extremely powerful lightning-attributed draconic Soul Beast, no weaker than the Razorclaw Thunder Dragon.
Its cultivation age was the same as the Razorclaw Thunder Dragon's: four hundred years.
Lin Yuhuan used the same method again, and the four-hundred-year Horned Thunder Dragon immediately lost its ability to resist and was subdued.
Gritting his teeth, Lin Yan gripped a sharp blade and drove it through the wound Lin Yuhuan had torn open, piercing the Horned Thunder Dragon's head and ending its suffering.
Buzz—
Energy rippled, and a yellow Spirit Ring condensed into being.
Having watched Bei Bei absorb a Spirit Ring before, Lin Yan followed the same process. After listening to his grandmother's instructions, he immediately began absorbing it.
When Lin Yan cautiously drew the Horned Thunder Dragon's Spirit Ring toward his Martial Soul, he immediately felt a powerful surge of energy pour into his body.
"So this is the energy of a Spirit Ring?"
Lin Yan was about to follow Lin Yuhuan's prior instructions and guide the energy into refinement.
At that moment, something unexpected happened.
He suddenly sensed the power of his Second Martial Soul.
Then, the Spirit Ring energy, which had originally been violent and restless, instantly became docile.
It was as though a ferocious tiger had suddenly turned into a sheep.
The result was that the difficulty of Lin Yan fusing with the Spirit Ring was greatly reduced.
In the end, he took only fifteen minutes to complete the fusion.
Bei Bei, on the other hand, had taken a full hour and a half!
As expected, when Lin Yan opened his eyes and said he had successfully fused with the Spirit Ring, all three of them looked at him in shock.
"So fast? You really succeeded?" Lin Yuhuan asked in astonishment.
She was a Titled Douluo, and her composure was far beyond that of ordinary people.
Yet even so, when she learned that Lin Yan had successfully fused his first Spirit Ring in only fifteen minutes, the turmoil in her heart was difficult to calm.
"Mm!"
Lin Yan nodded and summoned his Black Demon Mace Martial Soul.
The Black Demon Mace did not change much after gaining its Spirit Ring. The only difference was that the hair-thin currents of electricity faintly visible on it seemed to have grown a little thicker.
Its weight had also increased, reaching one hundred and fifty jin in Lin Yan's hands. To his enemies, however, the Black Demon Mace weighed nearly six hundred jin.
Because Lin Yan was the Black Demon Mace's master, the Martial Soul's weight was reduced for him to only twenty-five percent of its actual weight.
Fortunately, that was the case. Otherwise, he would not have been able to lift it at all!
A yellow Spirit Ring encircled the Spiked Club.
This was undoubtedly the strongest proof that Lin Yan had succeeded.
Bei Bei walked over and patted Lin Yan on the shoulder with some envy. "Cousin, you're incredible. As expected of a genius with Innate Full Soul Power. You even absorb Spirit Rings faster than I do!"
"Not really!"
Lin Yan smiled and scratched his head.
Compared to the younger Bei Bei, who understood nothing yet, Zhang Lexuan and Lin Yuhuan had clearly noticed much more.
Zhang Lexuan said, "Your Excellency, the fact that he absorbed the Spirit Ring so quickly means this Spirit Ring was far below the limit Lin Yan can withstand. Could it be that his physique is innately different from ordinary people's, and four hundred years is not the limit of his first Spirit Ring?"
The Spirit Ring limit at each rank was not fixed.
A four-hundred-year first Spirit Ring was merely the normal standard.
If one possessed a powerful physique, it was possible to exceed that standard.
Lin Yuhuan stepped forward and squeezed Lin Yan's arm. After sensing it for a moment, she said strangely, "That's not right. This child's physical condition is not much different from Bei Bei's. There is no sign that his physique is innately superior to ordinary people's."
"Then why did he absorb the Spirit Ring so quickly?"
Listening to their conversation, Lin Yan decisively chose to play dumb.
While absorbing the Spirit Ring, he had sensed the power of his Second Martial Soul.
That Second Martial Soul which seemed to be Tathagata Buddha.
Could it be that it could assist him in absorbing Spirit Rings, allowing him to break through his rank limits and absorb higher-level Spirit Rings?
At that thought, Lin Yan's heart filled with excitement.
Spirit Rings were extremely important to Soul Masters. They did not merely provide a Soul Skill.
They also enhanced a Soul Master's Soul Power, attributes, and physique to a certain extent.
If every Spirit Ring at every rank could break through the limit and become stronger than other people's, then he would have won from the starting line!
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