Summoning Grimoire

Soul Hunting Forest.

It was a breeding ground and hunting ground for low-level Soul Beasts, jointly built by the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall.

Every so often, Soul Masters affiliated with Spirit Hall would capture Soul Beasts under a thousand years old from outside and release them into the forest, allowing Soul Masters below level 20 to obtain their first and second Soul Rings.

Its purpose was to cultivate outstanding Soul Master talent for the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall.

Not long ago, Qian Renxue had been curious about what Jiang Li meant when he said that obtaining Soul Rings depended on oneself.

After all, she existed only as a soul body now. Although she was attached to Jiang Li's Martial Soul, she could not actually do anything.

But Jiang Li soon showed her why he had said that.

"Dark Six-Winged Angel!"

Jiang Li unhurriedly opened the top page of his Summoning Grimoire Martial Soul, the one containing Qian Renxue's information.

A phantom of an angel with six black feathered wings appeared behind him.

"This is... my Martial Soul?!" Qian Renxue exclaimed in astonishment.

She had not expected Jiang Li's Martial Soul to be able to summon her Dark Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.

After her initial shock, Qian Renxue immediately fixed an intense gaze on the Dark Six-Winged Angel behind Jiang Li. "Could it be...?"

Jiang Li did not answer directly. Instead, he said calmly, "Spirit Avatar!"

Sure enough, just as Qian Renxue had anticipated, once Jiang Li's words fell, the Dark Six-Winged Angel behind him spread its six black wings before dissolving into specks of radiance that merged into Jiang Li's body.

Jiang Li immediately felt a powerful force surge forth from within him.

Jiang Li clenched his fist and carefully sensed the power within him that came from Qian Renxue's Dark Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul. "Is this the power of a top-tier Godly Martial Soul? It's so strong!"

Although he had yet to obtain a Soul Ring, the strength boost from Spirit Avatar alone had raised his physical condition to a level no weaker than that of level-20 Beast Soul Masters.

Furthermore, every attack carried a trace of dark-element power with extremely potent corrosive properties.

Most terrifying of all, it came with a domain-type skill that could increase all his attributes by thirty percent while reducing all of an enemy's attributes by ten percent.

Perhaps because his Soul Power level was too low, the domain could only affect an area within a three-meter radius around him.

Even so, it truly lived up to the name of the Six-Winged Angel Godly Martial Soul. It was absurdly powerful.

"So this is your Martial Soul's ability?" Qian Renxue looked at Jiang Li, her face full of curiosity.

"That's right. This is one of the abilities of my Summoning Grimoire Martial Soul." Jiang Li nodded slightly, speaking with a faint hint of pride.

"As long as something has signed a contract with me, I can freely borrow its power."

"If its level is lower than mine, I can borrow one hundred percent of its power. If its level is higher than mine, then I can only borrow the portion of its power equal to my own level."

"Such an outrageous ability is only one of its abilities?" Hearing Jiang Li's words, Qian Renxue clicked her tongue inwardly.

After all, her Dark Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul had evolved from the god-tier Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul of the blonde-haired Qian Renxue. In terms of Martial Soul quality, it was in no way inferior to the other's.

Yet the effect Jiang Li produced at level 10 Soul Power looked no different from what she herself could produce at level 10 Soul Power.

And Jiang Li could currently only use the power of her Martial Soul. If he signed contracts with other people in the future, would that not be equivalent to possessing multiple Martial Souls at once?

Even Twin Spirits were nothing compared to that, were they?

After a moment of silence, Qian Renxue hurriedly asked, "If, after becoming a Title Douluo, several Title Douluo signed contracts with you, and you could freely switch between the Martial Soul powers of different Title Douluo, wouldn't you be invincible?"

"How could it be that easy?" Jiang Li rolled his eyes, speechless. "Do you think Title Douluo grow on trees?"

"And right now, my Martial Soul only has one contract slot, which you've already taken."

"Perhaps I'll only gain additional slots to sign contracts with others after obtaining my first Soul Ring?"

"I see. Then that's still not bad, right?" Qian Renxue said.

Jiang Li nodded. Although the strength of his Summoning Grimoire depended somewhat on contracted beings, his first contracted being was Qian Renxue, who possessed level 99 Soul Power and stood only one step away from godhood.

Even if he could never sign contracts with anyone else in the future, Qian Renxue's god-tier Dark Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul alone would be enough for him to dominate everyone below the rank of Title Douluo.

"What are your Martial Soul's other abilities?" Qian Renxue blinked and asked curiously.

Although Martial Soul abilities on Douluo Continent came in all manner of strange forms, this was the first time she had seen a Martial Soul with abilities as unusual as Jiang Li's.

It could actually borrow the full power of her god-tier Dark Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.

But this was not a bad thing for her. For some unknown reason, after dying, she had traveled back more than twenty years into the past and attached herself to Jiang Li's Martial Soul.

She and Jiang Li now shared both glory and ruin. Naturally, the stronger Jiang Li became, the better.

Besides, she still harbored the thought of having Jiang Li take revenge on the other Qian Renxue once he became powerful in the future.

"Other than summoning, my Martial Soul has two more abilities. One is contracts, which complements summoning, and the other is space."

Jiang Li had no intention of hiding this from Qian Renxue. It was an indisputable fact that Qian Renxue was attached to his Martial Soul, so even if he did not tell her now, she would learn of it sooner or later.

Rather than conceal things from each other, he might as well lay it all out plainly and avoid creating unnecessary estrangement.

His relationship with Qian Renxue was now roughly like that between Yao Lao and Xiao Yan in Battle Through the Heavens.

Though one thing was better than with Yao Lao: at least Qian Renxue was a fair-skinned, beautiful, long-legged stunner, so her existence as the spirit behind his back did not make him feel too uncomfortable.

"Go into detail." Qian Renxue stared at Jiang Li.

"There's probably no need to explain the contract ability, right? As long as the other party willingly signs their name on my Martial Soul, I can unconditionally borrow their power."

Jiang Li said, "Both Soul Masters and Soul Beasts are possible!"

"Soul Beasts too?" Qian Renxue asked in confusion.

Jiang Li said helplessly, "They can, but it's not very useful. Other than a few special Soul Beasts, how many Soul Beasts under a hundred thousand years old have you seen that can communicate with humans?"

"As for Soul Beasts over a hundred thousand years old, there aren't even enough of them for Title Douluo to hunt for their ninth Soul Rings. Where would I find so many Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts to contract with?"

"That's true." Qian Renxue nodded in agreement.

Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts had always been extremely rare on Douluo Continent, things Soul Masters dreamed of obtaining.

They were far from ordinary. Even the universally accepted optimal Soul Ring configuration for Soul Masters on Douluo Continent was two yellow, two purple, and five black, rather than two yellow, two purple, four black, and one red.

That alone showed just how rare Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts truly were.

Qian Renxue continued asking, "Then what about your Martial Soul's final space ability?"