The self-created soul skill Quickstep originally had a very simple effect: it merely increased the user's movement speed by a certain amount.
But now, with a rule-based effect embedded in it, the soul skill had become much more useful.
The rule-based effect allowed him to lock onto any target when he activated the soul skill!
Then his movement speed would always be 10% higher than the target's!
Looking at it that way, this soul skill was now incredibly powerful!
Whether fleeing for his life or giving chase, he only needed to lock onto his opponent-or even the fastest target around!
Wouldn't that mean no one could escape his pursuit, and no one could catch him?
Then there were the flying abilities of people like Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Bone Douluo Gu Rong!
If he locked onto them, he wouldn't gain the ability to fly, but he could run along the ground faster than they could fly?
What did that make him? Quicksilver? Or The Flash?
"The Golden Entry for Rule Addition is even more powerful than I imagined!"
"Still, raising my soul power level should remain my priority!"
"As for self-created soul skills, I'll learn them when I come across ones that suit me!"
"If I seriously slow down my soul power advancement just to learn self-created soul skills, that would be putting the cart before the horse!"
After studying for a little over a month, he had finally learned the self-created soul skill Quickstep.
Although he had confirmed his theory and discovered that Rule Addition also worked on self-created soul skills, Luofan hadn't lost himself in the excitement.
The same principle still held: raising his soul power level was the foundation of everything!
Obtaining more soul rings and unlocking more Golden Entries was his bedrock!
Deep down, Luofan even began looking forward to the possibility of someday rolling an entry that would let him awaken a second martial soul.
After all, the system that let him choose one of three Golden Entries had only said that he could select an entry every time he obtained a soul ring!
If he had a second martial soul, wouldn't the number of Golden Entries he could choose double?
"Luofan, what are you smiling about? Did you think of something that made you happy?"
His hopes for the future left Luofan unable to suppress the smile on his face, no matter how hard he tried. Seeing that strange smile, Yue Guan couldn't help asking.
He had spent a month barely mastering a self-created soul skill like Quickstep. Was that really worth being so happy about?
"Senior Yue Guan, I just thought of something that made me happy!" Luofan reined in his emotions and answered.
"Something that made you happy? What was it?" Yue Guan gave Luofan an inquisitive look.
My wife had a baby... Luofan opened his mouth, nearly responding with that meme.
Fortunately, he caught himself at the crucial moment and swallowed the half-sentence before it slipped out.
"I thought of someone who has several fairly useful self-created soul skills!" Luofan explained to Yue Guan.
Indeed, the person who had instinctively come to Luofan's mind was the protagonist of the Douluo World, Tang San!
Come to think of it, he had been in this world for so long, yet he still hadn't met its protagonist, Tang San!
Luofan suddenly felt that he ought to find an opportunity to meet Tang San!
If nothing else, he was very interested in the martial arts recorded in Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, such as Purple Demon Eye, Mysterious Jade Hand, and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track!
In the Douluo World, those martial arts could essentially be regarded as Tang San's self-created soul skills, couldn't they?
If he could obtain all of them, his overall strength would improve dramatically.
He couldn't waste time learning self-created soul skills he had little use for simply to pursue their so-called rule effects!
But Tang San's martial arts were all useful to Luofan!
Moreover, Luofan already had an idea of how to get Tang San under his thumb and obtain those martial arts from him.
He felt he could at least give it a try.
But make a special trip to Holy Soul Village?
Luofan couldn't be bothered. The same principle still applied: advancing his soul power came first.
He was level 36 now, so he could wait until he reached level 40.
When he went to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for his fourth soul ring, perhaps he could take a small detour and have a look around Nuoding City!
The days that followed were very comfortable for Luofan!
Cultivating his soul power remained his priority. In his spare time, he chatted about academy life with Ning Rongrong when she came to visit and told her fairy tales!
He also chatted with Yue Guan about rare flowers and plants!
And so, in the blink of an eye, roughly half a year passed!
Luofan was now over eight years old!
One day, Luofan sat cross-legged. With the effects of his soul rings continually increasing in age, combined with the boost his mental power gave his meditation, his soul power level successfully broke through to level 40!
Immediately after his breakthrough, Luofan sought out Qian Renxue and told her that he planned to go to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for a soul ring.
"So soon? Little brother, you've already reached level 40?"
When she heard that Luofan wanted to hunt for a soul ring, Qian Renxue stared at him in disbelief, clearly stunned by the speed of his soul power advancement!
When she first met Luofan, his soul power had only been at level 10!
Now, just over two years later, his soul power had risen by a full 30 levels?
Wasn't that talent far too terrifying?
"It's mainly because the ages of my three soul rings keep increasing, which has boosted my original cultivation speed!" Luofan said somewhat modestly.
Although all three of his soul rings were black ten thousand year soul rings, he knew their growth hadn't stopped there.
Luofan was well aware that over these past two years or so, his first soul ring had already surpassed twenty thousand years in age.
And his second and third rings were probably approaching twenty thousand years as well!
So it seemed perfectly reasonable that his soul power level had risen to level 40 along with them!
"Then let Chrysanthemum Douluo accompany you!" Qian Renxue nodded slightly. Hearing Luofan mention the continual growth in his soul rings' ages, she understood that his explanation made sense.
"That works!" Luofan nodded when Qian Renxue suggested having Chrysanthemum Douluo accompany him to the Star Dou Great Forest.
Over the past half a year or so, Qian Renxue had seen the relationship between Luofan and Yue Guan for herself. As such, she wasn't worried that Chrysanthemum Douluo would abduct Luofan and take him to that madwoman Bibi Dong again.
Having the level-95 Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan accompany him on a soul hunt-honestly, Luofan felt this was unquestionably the treatment reserved for Spirit Hall's Young Master.
Although Luofan had already considered making a trip to Nuoding City, he hadn't settled on the timing.
After thinking it over, he decided to hunt for his fourth soul ring first.
Then, on the way back to Heaven Dou City, he could consider visiting Tang San in Nuoding City and making his move to obtain those self-created soul skills!
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