Horned Thunder Dragon and Powerful Spiritual Power

After Bei Bei obtained a Spirit Ring perfectly suited to his attributes, they had completed half the purpose of their journey. The remaining half was to help Lin Yan find a Spirit Ring.

An entire afternoon passed without any results.

It was not that they had failed to find Soul Beasts with both power 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 that it was better to go without than settle for something inferior, they decided to keep looking.

So they found a safe cave and set up camp, intending to rest for the night before continuing their search the next day.

While eating dried provisions, Bei Bei patted Lin Yan on the shoulder and encouraged him. "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, present, he was not particularly worried about the Spirit Ring.

After dinner, Lin Yan immediately began meditating, seizing every second to improve his strength.

His diligence immediately inspired Bei Bei as well.

"Even a genius with Innate Full Soul Power like my cousin works so 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, did not interrupt his meditation.

The night passed quickly.

As dawn began to break, Lin Yan ended his meditation and walked outside the cave.

Zhang Lexuan, standing at the entrance, seemed to notice the movement. She immediately turned to look at him and asked with some surprise, "Little Brother Lin Yan, did you meditate all night?"

"Mm."

Seeing the strange look on Zhang Lexuan's face, Lin Yan asked in confusion, "Sister Lexuan, is there a problem?"

Zhang Lexuan said in surprise, "Meditation is extremely draining. For a six-year-old child like you to persist through an entire night of meditation is no easy feat. It likely means your spiritual power is naturally stronger than ordinary people's."

"Spiritual power stronger than ordinary people's?"

Lin Yan repeated inwardly. Could it be because I'm a transmigrator?

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 bring better results, understand?"

"I understand!" Lin Yan nodded and committed her words to memory.

While the two were talking, Lin Yuhuan returned from scouting. "Wake Bei Bei. There seem to be more Soul Beasts in the canyon over there. Let's go take a look."

"Alright!" Lin Yan immediately ran into the cave to wake Bei Bei.

After making some preparations, the group continued their search.

It was not until noon that they finally discovered a fairly good Soul Beast whose attributes and age were highly suitable for Lin Yan.

This Soul Beast was clearly larger than Bei Bei's Razorclaw Thunder Dragon.

It was five meters long. Sharp protrusions covered its back, patterned with blue markings that faintly emitted fine arcs of electricity. Overall, 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 dragon-type Soul Beast, no weaker than the Razorclaw Thunder Dragon.

Like the Razorclaw Thunder Dragon, it was four hundred years old.

Lin Yuhuan used the same method as before, and the four-hundred-year Horned Thunder Dragon immediately lost its ability to resist and was subdued.

Gritting his teeth, Lin Yan held a sharp blade and thrust it into the Horned Thunder Dragon's head through the wound Lin Yuhuan had torn open, ending its suffering.

Buzz—

Energy rippled, and a yellow Spirit Ring condensed into existence.

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 guided the Horned Thunder Dragon's Spirit Ring to merge with his martial soul, he instantly felt a powerful energy flood 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 that had originally been violent and restless instantly became docile.

It was like a fierce tiger suddenly turning into a sheep.

The result was that the difficulty of Lin Yan's fusion with the Spirit Ring was greatly reduced.

In the end, he completed the fusion in only fifteen minutes.

Bei Bei had taken a full hour and a half!

Sure enough, when Lin Yan opened his eyes and announced that he had successfully fused the Spirit Ring, all three of them looked at him in shock.

"So quickly? You really succeeded?" Lin Yuhuan asked in astonishment.

She was a Titled Douluo, and her state of mind was beyond comparison to that of ordinary people.

Yet even so, upon learning that Lin Yan had successfully fused his first Spirit Ring in merely 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 appear to have changed much after gaining a Spirit Ring. Only the hair-thin electrical currents visible across it seemed to have grown slightly thicker.

Its weight had increased as well, reaching one hundred and fifty jin in Lin Yan's hands. To an enemy, however, the Black Demon Mace now weighed nearly six hundred jin.

Because Lin Yan was the Black Demon Mace's master, its weight was reduced for him to only twenty-five percent of its true weight.

Fortunately, that was the case. Otherwise, he would not have been able to lift it at all!

A yellow Spirit Ring rested around the mace.

This was undoubtedly the strongest proof that Lin Yan had succeeded.

Bei Bei walked over, patted Lin Yan on the shoulder enviously, and said, "Cousin, you're amazing. You really are a genius with Innate Full Soul Power. You even absorbed your Spirit Ring faster than I did!"

"Not at all!"

Lin Yan smiled and scratched his head.

Compared to Bei Bei, who was still young and understood nothing, Zhang Lexuan and Lin Yuhuan had clearly noticed far more.

Zhang Lexuan said, "Your Excellency, absorbing a Spirit Ring so quickly indicates that this Spirit Ring was far below the limit Lin Yan himself can endure. Could it be that his physique is naturally extraordinary, and four hundred years is not the limit for his first Spirit Ring?"

The limits of Spirit Rings for each level were not fixed.

A four-hundred-year first Spirit Ring was merely the normal standard.

With a strong physique, one could 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's no sign that his physique is naturally extraordinary."

"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 seemingly belonged to Tathagata Buddha.

Could it be that it could assist him in absorbing Spirit Rings, allowing him to break through the limits of each level and absorb Spirit Rings of higher ages?

At that thought, Lin Yan's heart surged 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 degree.

If every Spirit Ring at every level could break past the limit and become stronger than everyone else's, then he would have already won at the starting line!