On the road from Heaven Dou City to the Star Dou Great Forest, Luofan did not let his cultivation stop!
Without hunting down a soul ring, his soul power level would remain stuck at level 40, unable to break through.
However, his soul power could keep accumulating, then be released all at once when he obtained a soul ring!
It was just that, without breaking through, cultivating soul power yielded less than it would after obtaining a soul ring.
On the journey to the Star Dou Great Forest, Luofan traveled with Yue Guan. Although their conversations mainly revolved around immortal herbs and spirit plants,
he would occasionally listen to Yue Guan discuss the many aspects of a soul master's cultivation, or even strange tales and anecdotes from across the continent.
As such, the journey was far from boring.
After seven or eight days, Luofan finally entered the Star Dou Great Forest!
After searching the forest for another few days, Luofan and Yue Guan successfully found a soul beast that suited him reasonably well.
It was a spatial Devourer Beast, whose main method of attack was eating!
Moreover, whatever it ate had absolutely no effect on its weight, because the Devourer Beast's stomach was a naturally formed extradimensional space.
That was why Luofan had set his sights on it!
As the saying went, time reigned supreme, and space ruled as king!
If he could encounter one of those exceedingly rare temporal soul beasts and add a time-based soul skill to his pagoda, that would certainly be ideal!
Without one, Luofan was still eager to settle for the next best thing-a spatial soul skill.
The Rock Mystic Tortoise and Xuanwu Beast had both added toughness to his martial soul!
The dark gold terrorclaw bear, meanwhile, had added an offensive effect!
Yue Guan struck, beating this roughly twenty-thousand-year-old Devourer Beast to within an inch of its life!
Again, all three of Luofan's soul rings had already grown automatically to twenty thousand years, so naturally, his physical constitution could withstand the pressure of a twenty-thousand-year soul ring!
As for the mental assault from a ten thousand year soul ring?
As far as Luofan was concerned, his Head Soul Bone primarily enhanced his mental power, and that soul bone was nearly a hundred and thirty thousand years old.
Withstanding the mental shock within a twenty-thousand-year soul ring would pose no problem!
Luofan delivered the finishing blow, crushing the twenty-thousand-year-old Devourer Beast to death with his first soul skill, Suppression. Sure enough, a black ten thousand year soul ring emerged.
Luofan sat cross-legged and began drawing the soul ring in to absorb it, while Yue Guan quietly stood guard beside him!
For an ordinary person's fourth soul ring, the absorption limit was only a few thousand years. Luofan had gone straight for twenty thousand, leaving Yue Guan marveling inwardly. He truly was an unparalleled genius!
In the future, Luofan's standing in the Spirit Hall might well rival that of Golden Crocodile Douluo and the others in the Worship Hall.
Thus, building a good relationship with him now, before he had fully matured, would bring Yue Guan tremendous benefits in the future.
So, all four of his soul rings were at the ten-thousand-year level?
Once this soul ring configuration was revealed, wouldn't it frighten everyone on the continent senseless?
Setting aside Yue Guan's amazement,
Luofan sat cross-legged, quietly absorbing his fourth soul ring.
As he absorbed the soul ring, Luofan could indeed clearly feel pressure bearing down on him!
However, the crushing pressure he had imagined never came!
There was pressure from the twenty-thousand-year soul ring, but it was not particularly great!
Along with it came the Devourer Beast's lingering soul, which assailed Luofan in defiance!
However, Luofan's current mental power had already reached the point where his Primordial Spirit could leave his body. Dealing with this Soul Shock was even easier for him.
And so, time ticked by, second after second!
After roughly ten minutes, Luofan finished absorbing the black ten thousand year soul ring, which settled around his Exquisite Pagoda!
Luofan opened his eyes, delight shining within them.
He raised his hand, and the Exquisite Pagoda martial soul hovered above his palm. At the same time, four pitch-black ten thousand year soul rings appeared around it!
Now, all four of his soul rings were around twenty thousand years old.
More importantly, all four soul rings were now increasing in age simultaneously!
Each gained one year every hour!
With four soul rings, their total age would increase by four years every hour. His returns were even greater now!
"Well, Luofan? What level is your soul power now?" Seeing Luofan successfully finish absorbing the ring, Yue Guan silently breathed a sigh of relief before asking expectantly!
"Senior Yue Guan, my soul power level is now 43. I gained three levels in one go!"
"Still, I feel like I missed out a little. My physical constitution might have allowed me to absorb a soul ring of around thirty thousand years!"
"If I'd done that, I might have reached level 44!" Luofan replied to Yue Guan's question.
Indeed, Luofan had still underestimated his own physical constitution!
After forcibly strengthening his body with octagonal mysterious ice grass and infernal delicate apricot, the age of the soul rings his body could withstand had surpassed the standard set by his original three twenty-thousand-year soul rings!
To be honest, Luofan did not care much about a soul ring's age. After all, it would keep growing on its own!
However, the greater the soul ring's age, the more soul power levels he would gain upon breaking through. That was what made Luofan feel it was a pity!
After all, Luofan's cultivation focused primarily on his soul power level!
What mattered most to Luofan was single-mindedly raising his soul power level to that of a Titled Douluo and obtaining ten Golden Entries first.
"Thirty-thousand-year-old soul beasts aren't difficult to find in the Star Dou Great Forest, but spatial ones aren't so easy to come by!"
After silently marveling at what a monster Luofan was, Yue Guan offered him some reassurance!
Those words made Luofan feel a little better!
Indeed, soul beasts with spatial attributes were exceedingly rare. Finding a twenty-thousand-year-old Devourer Beast was already incredibly lucky!
If he greedily insisted on finding a thirty-thousand-year-old spatial soul beast, he might search for another half month, or even a month or two, without encountering one!
"By the way, Luofan, what about your fourth soul skill? What is it?"
Then Yue Guan asked Luofan, brimming with curiosity and anticipation.
Leaving his first soul skill, Suppression, aside for the moment,
the shield from his second soul skill could negate any single attack. This rule-based effect had already been documented on the Spirit Hall's desks ever since Luofan first used it to block Chen Xin's flying sword attack.
As for his third soul skill, Overpowering Aura, its effect was even more terrifying!
Previously, under the effects of Overpowering Aura, Yue Guan, at level 95, had actually been no match for the level 92 Snake Lance Douluo. He had experienced that firsthand!
So, what about Luofan's fourth soul skill now?
Most importantly, all three of Luofan's previous soul skills possessed rule-based effects.
And any rule-based soul skill, when used well, could rival a divine skill!
Then what about his fourth soul skill? Surely it wouldn't be another skill with a rule-based effect?
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