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 captured Soul Beasts under a thousand years old from outside and released 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 curiously asked what Jiang Li meant when he said that obtaining Soul Rings depended on oneself.

After all, she currently existed only as a soul body. 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.

An angel phantom with six black wings suddenly appeared behind him.

"Is that... my Martial Soul?!" Qian Renxue exclaimed in astonishment.

She had never expected Jiang Li's Martial Soul to be capable of summoning her Dark Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.

After her surprise faded, Qian Renxue stared intently at the Dark Six-Winged Angel behind Jiang Li. "Could it be...?"

Jiang Li did not answer directly. Instead, he said to himself, "Martial Soul Possession!"

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

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

Jiang Li clenched his fist and carefully sensed the power in his body that came from Qian Renxue's Dark Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul. "So this is the strongest kind of Godly Martial Soul? It's so powerful!"

Although he had yet to obtain a Soul Ring, the boost in strength from Martial Soul Possession alone made his physical abilities no weaker than those of level 20 Beast Soul Masters.

Moreover, every attack carried a trace of dark attribute power with extremely strong corrosive properties.

Most terrifying of all, it came with a domain-type ability that could increase all his attributes by thirty percent while weakening all of his 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.

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

"Is this your Martial Soul's ability?" Qian Renxue asked, her face full of curiosity as she looked at Jiang Li.

"That's right. This is one of my Summoning Grimoire Martial Soul's abilities." Jiang Li nodded slightly, speaking with a 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, I can only borrow the portion of its strength corresponding to my own level."

"Such an outrageous ability is only one of its abilities?" Qian Renxue was speechless when she heard Jiang Li's words.

Her Dark Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul had evolved from the Divine-Level Martial Soul, Six-Winged Angel, possessed by the golden-haired Qian Renxue. In terms of Martial Soul quality, it was in no way inferior to the latter.

Yet the effect Jiang Li displayed with his current level 10 Soul Power seemed no different from what she herself could display at level 10 Soul Power.

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

Even Twin Martial Souls were nothing compared to that, were they?

After falling silent for a moment, Qian Renxue hurriedly asked, "If, after becoming a Title Douluo, you had multiple Title Douluo sign contracts with you and could freely switch between the powers of different Title Douluo Martial Souls, wouldn't you be invincible?"

"How could it be that simple?" Jiang Li rolled his eyes, sounding rather exasperated. "Do you think Title Douluo grow on trees?"

"Besides, my Martial Soul currently only has one contract slot, and you've already taken it."

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

"I see. Then that's still pretty good, isn't it?" Qian Renxue said.

Jiang Li nodded. Although the strength of his Summoning Grimoire depended somewhat on his contracted targets,

his first contracted target possessed level 99 Soul Power and was Qian Renxue, someone only one step away from becoming a god.

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

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

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

It could actually borrow the full power of her Divine-Level Martial Soul, the Dark Six-Winged Angel.

But this was not a bad thing for her. For some unknown reason, after her death, she had traveled back more than twenty years into the past and become attached 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 some thoughts 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 it from Qian Renxue. After all, the fact that she was attached to his Martial Soul was indisputable. Even if he did not tell her now, she would learn sooner or later.

Rather than conceal things from each other, he might as well make it clear to her directly and avoid creating unnecessary barriers between them.

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

Though one advantage over Yao Lao was that Qian Renxue was at least a beautiful woman with fair skin and long legs, so Jiang Li did not find the presence of this spirit behind him overly unsettling.

"Go into detail." Qian Renxue fixed her gaze on 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 acceptable!"

"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 below a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast have you seen that can communicate with humans?"

"As for Soul Beasts over a hundred thousand years old? There are not even enough of them for Title Douluo to hunt for their ninth Soul Rings. Where would I find so many Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts to contract with?"

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

Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts had always been things one could only encounter by chance on Douluo Continent, objects of Soul Masters' deepest desires.

They were far from commonplace. Even the universally acknowledged 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 Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts truly were.

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