Blue Silver Vine Ring-Passive Income Triggered!

"Now that we've decided to hunt this Soul Beast, should we make our move?"

As Jiang Nannan spoke, she took out two high-concentration alcohol bottles. They had originally been meant for disinfection, but now they were finally useful.

On the other side, Tang Ya also took a large pile of fire oil bombs from her storage Soul Tool.

"I never thought these fire oil bombs, which I hardly even liked using anymore, would actually come in handy at a time like this!"

"When we get back, you have to fry me lots of chicken to repay me properly."

As Tang Ya spoke, she placed two fire oil bombs into Su Mu's hands.

After all, a Soul Beast had to be personally killed by the one absorbing its Soul Ring, delivering the final blow for the absorption to succeed.

But fire oil bombs were different. Once they stuck to something, they would keep burning, making it easy to misjudge.

That would make it impossible to determine who had actually killed the Soul Beast in the end.

So throughout this hunt, Su Mu could only do it himself.

Su Mu looked at the pitch-black fire oil bomb in his hand. It was wrapped in a brittle outer shell.

Once smashed, the white phosphorus inside would react rapidly with the air, generating intense heat and igniting the flammable material within.

As the air spread and liquid flowed out, the burning area and range would intensify as well.

He weighed the fire oil bomb in his hand, sensing that inexplicable familiarity rising from the depths of his soul.

It seemed that throwing skills could also improve through constant practice.

He grabbed a fire oil bomb and hurled it at the Cuscuta Rabbit circling overhead.

The fire oil bomb struck. Its soft shell shattered, releasing a puff of white smoke like gunpowder, followed by a thick smell of saltpeter and sulfur.

The Cuscuta Rabbit atop the Lone Bamboo Forest began to tremble violently.

But Su Mu did not stop. He took the next fire oil bomb Tang Ya handed him and threw it over as well.

Its speed, force, and accuracy were all greater than the previous one's.

Amid the blazing fire oil, tiny vines continuously snapped off from the Cuscuta Rabbit, trying to survive on their own.

Yet before they could crawl very far, the blazing flames and thick oil burning on them reduced them to ash.

Meanwhile, Tang Ya and Bei Bei drew water from the nearby river to put out the flames spreading elsewhere.

Jiang Nannan stayed where she was to protect Su Mu as he continued throwing fire oil bombs.

Incendiary bomb, thrown!

Su Mu grinned as he continued throwing them without stopping.

Before long, even the Lone Bamboo wrapped up in the treetops was burning away, revealing one white Soul Ring after another.

That roughly three-hundred-year-old Cuscuta Rabbit ultimately failed to escape before it burned itself to death.

Su Mu's incendiary bombs had sealed off nearly every route of retreat it had.

Not long after, the entire bamboo forest had burned to ashes.

Tang Ya and Bei Bei approached, both looking exhausted.

Su Mu stepped forward and waited for a while. From the mass of burning gray liquid, a yellow Soul Ring slowly rose.

Everyone let out a sigh of relief. Its cultivation had not changed much.

"Some Cuscuta Rabbits may have escaped, but most of their cultivation has now become Soul Rings."

"So what should I do?"

Su Mu only knew that absorbing a Soul Ring required sitting cross-legged.

He had to guide Soul Power and draw the Soul Ring into his body.

But that was just something written in novels!

For the actual process, he still needed a professional to teach him. Blindly trusting himself might bring unnecessary trouble.

"Well, Bei Bei knows that best."

Tang Ya was afraid of saying something wrong, so she did not dare explain the method directly.

Instead, she pushed the responsibility onto the person who seemed the most steady and knowledgeable.

Bei Bei looked Su Mu up and down, his fingers involuntarily rubbing against Su Mu's body.

Though he was still young, Su Mu's body was fairly sturdy.

He then looked at the three-hundred-year Soul Ring and lowered his head in thought for a moment.

He said, "For the normal Soul Ring absorption process, you only need to release your Martial Soul."

"Find a position that feels comfortable to you, then try using your Martial Soul and Soul Power to make contact with that Soul Ring."

"The Soul Ring will then actively enter your body. That was the insight I gained when I absorbed my first Soul Ring."

"And try to find the most comfortable position possible. That can greatly prevent your focus from scattering while you absorb the Soul Ring."

"But I don't recommend lying down or resting on your side. Keep your center of gravity upright. That will strengthen your self-awareness."

As Bei Bei spoke, Su Mu nodded.

"No wonder people usually sit cross-legged. That posture meets nearly half the requirements."

Saying that, he sat down cross-legged in imitation and released the tuft of Blue Silver Grass in his right hand.

Mixed with Soul Power, it reached toward the yellow Soul Ring not far from him.

As his Soul Power connected with the Soul Ring, energy continuously flowed out from the yellow ring and gathered into the Blue Silver Grass in Su Mu's hand.

The whole process was astonishingly fast. Before long, the yellow Soul Ring floated up and down above the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, entering the later stage of absorption.

Bei Bei let out a breath at the sight, and Jiang Nannan and Tang Ya did the same.

After all, as people who had absorbed Soul Rings before, they knew very clearly.

Once it reached this stage, there would basically be no more problems or unexpected changes.

The first step was the most dangerous part of absorbing a Soul Ring. If one failed to withstand the Soul Ring's violent power in the first wave, it could immediately trigger a rampage of Soul Power within the body.

The violent energy inside the Soul Ring would then strike the meridians, ultimately damaging the Martial Soul beyond easy repair—or causing the person to explode and die on the spot.

Generally speaking, once Soul Ring absorption reached this step, it meant the Soul Ring had already been successfully absorbed.

The energy within it was continuously nourishing the meridians and breaking through the Soul Power Level limit.

Half an hour later, Su Mu slowly opened his eyes.

The Blue Silver Grass in his hand had also grown steadily stronger after absorbing the Soul Ring. What had originally been Blue Silver Grass with only two or three shoots now had more than ten branches, resembling a clump of grass.

The Martial Soul as a whole had strengthened enormously, and its veins and leaves had become thicker and sharper.

Golden patterns flowed through its leaf veins, slowly releasing a powerful aura of life.

Su Mu watched this scene and sensed the information surging into his mind.

It felt like a memory that had been there since birth.

But beneath Su Mu's Martial Soul Book of Ultimate Rules, he could clearly sense the power of rules contained within it.

Kill Soul Beasts! Obtain Soul Rings and break through level limits.

This was a rule of heaven and earth. Unless one stood among the supreme powerhouses above the world, no one could change it!

"Blue Silver Vine Ring!"

The name of the soul skill surfaced in his mind, followed immediately by its description.

Blue Silver Vine Ring—Release Blue Silver Grass to wrap around the target, granting a vine ring that continuously restores life force.

Its duration could be freely set. During that time, it would continuously absorb the wearer's Soul Power and convert it into life force to restore health.

The total amount restored varied according to the total amount of Soul Power supplied! Before the connection was severed, it could actively restore the target's vitality.

Su Mu looked at the information. His first Soul Ring stirred, and the Blue Silver Grass in his palm continuously bent into the shape of a pale-blue bracelet before slipping around Jiang Nannan's arm.

As he activated his Soul Power, Jiang Nannan let out a soft moan.

This time, Su Mu converted one-third of all his Soul Power into life force and poured it into Jiang Nannan's body.

Not even the slightest bit of the strength he had accumulated over the years was left behind.

The life force was like a vast ocean, repairing the injuries and deficiencies Jiang Nannan had suffered over the years from cultivating her Martial Soul and working part-time jobs.

It also made up for the losses her body had suffered over the past few years due to a lack of nutritious food.

This ability, put another way, could be called repairing one's talent...

As the Soul Ring absorption ended, the belated Hextech System popped up another panel!

[Detected that the host's cultivation has broken through to Level 14!]

[Hextech Augment "Passive Income" triggered!]

[You have gained one additional breakthrough!]

[Your Soul Power Level has reached Level 15!]