Second Soul Ring

At noon the next day.

The carriage had only just entered the market outside the Soul Hunting Forest when all kinds of shouted sales pitches reached their ears.

Li Chen headed straight toward a five-person Soul Hunting Team. His reason was simple: he had heard them say they had a Hunting Permit.

"Hello, I heard you say you have a Hunting Permit. How much would you charge to help me hunt a Soul Beast?"

The other man looked him over first. There was no scene of him looking down on Li Chen for being a child; he simply quoted a price. "Ten Gold Soul Coins. If you want a Soul Beast with a high age, that'll cost extra."

"I only need to kill a Ten-Year Soul Beast. Any kind will do. Could you make it cheaper?"

The thin-faced young man thought for a moment. "Five Gold Soul Coins at the very least. You should know a Hunting Permit isn't easy to get. Our costs are pretty high."

"Big brother, I only have two Gold Soul Coins. How about this? I can wait until you recruit another person, then we can all go in together."

The thin-faced young man did not answer immediately. Instead, he discussed it with a burly man behind him, who then stepped forward and said, "You only want a Ten-Year Soul Ring, and any Soul Beast will do?"

"That's right."

Seeing Li Chen, the burly man felt a fondness for talent stir in him and wanted to recruit him.

"Little brother, reaching level 10 and needing a Soul Ring at your age means your talent must be good. There's no need to squander it. We can help you kill a Hundred-Year Soul Beast for free, on the condition that you join our Soul Hunting Group after you graduate. How about it?"

"Sorry, I only want to kill any Ten-Year Soul Beast this time."

"Ah, what a pity." The burly man sighed regretfully. "Then wait here with us until we find one more person, and we'll set out."

Since they had a Hunting Permit, they only waited half an hour before finding another person, a woman nearing twenty.

Then the burly man led them to the main entrance. After showing the Hunting Permit, they entered the Soul Hunting Forest.

They encountered a Ten-Year Mottled Cat almost as soon as they entered. The burly man immediately activated Martial Soul Possession. Three Soul Rings-yellow, yellow, and purple-appeared, and he crippled the cat in an instant before bringing him back.

"Little brother, are you sure you want this Ten-Year Soul Ring? As long as..."

"Thank you for your kindness, Brother Zhao, but any Ten-Year Soul Ring will do."

"All right." The burly man, Zhao Kuo, tossed the Mottled Cat and a dagger in front of him. "Just kill him, and you'll be able to absorb his Soul Ring. We'll stand guard for you, so absorb it without worry."

"Thank you." Li Chen picked up the dagger and stabbed the Mottled Cat in the neck. After he ended the cat's life, a white Soul Ring appeared.

He immediately summoned his Martial Soul and began absorbing it.

However, summoning his Martial Soul also revealed his Soul Ring. The thin-faced man came over to Zhao Kuo and said:

"Boss, this kid looks only seven or eight, but he's already about to become a Soul Grandmaster. Even the legendary innate full soul power couldn't make him that fast. He must have a secret. Should we..."

Although he did not finish, everyone on the team knew what he meant.

As the team leader, Zhao Kuo only shook his head. "This kid has already ruined himself by messing around. He can pretty much forget about reaching level 30 in this lifetime. There's no need."

Since they were still on the outskirts of the Soul Hunting Forest, there was practically no danger. Li Chen soon finished absorbing his second Soul Ring.

He set out the Command Block. Now he could enter a second command.

In the command input field, he quickly entered: /XP99999L Li Chen (grant Li Chen 99,999 levels' worth of experience)

[Error: the current player's maximum configurable value is 2]

Can it only raise my level by two directly?

If the increase was permanent, he could keep using it to raise his level. But if it only temporarily raised him by two levels, like creative mode, it would be a complete waste of a command.

If it raised him by ten levels or more, he could directly obtain his next Soul Ring. A two-level increase would probably only let him jump straight from level 98 to level 100 and become a god.

It might also cap him at level 99, retaining only the overflow experience.

Li Chen had no choice but to clear the entire command and enter a new one: /give Li Chen command_block 2 (give Li Chen two Command Blocks)

[Error: the Command Block is absolutely unique and cannot be granted]

Li Chen could only change the command again to: kill @p (remove the nearest entity)

[Error: the player is always the nearest target]

"..."

Since he already had creative mode, many other commands offered no practical benefit to him, or only had a one-time effect.

For example, changing the time or weather, or giving himself a permanent buff. Whether a single use took effect temporarily or not, it would not actually be much use to him.

But he soon thought of another potentially useful command: /data get, which read and displayed NBT data.

Wouldn't having that be the same as having an all-purpose encyclopedia? After entering it into the Command Block, he ran into a dilemma, because the rest required him to choose between reading block entity data or entity data.

He wanted both, so he stopped typing and simply selected confirm. Something unexpected happened.

The Command Block did not report an error. It even automatically completed part of the command with code he could not understand, which did not exist in the original version.

"Little brother, how did it go? What Soul Skill did you get?" Seeing that Li Chen had finished absorbing his Soul Ring, Zhao Kuo asked him.

"Well, Brother Zhao, as you saw, my Martial Soul is just a pretty useless block. The Soul Skill just makes the block harder when I bring it out."

That was what he said aloud, but at the same time, he used his second Soul Skill on Zhao Kuo.

[Name]: Zhao Kuo

[Age]: 43

[Level]: 34 (innate soul power: level 4)

[Martial Soul]: Broad Saber

[Soul Rings]: yellow (315 years, Heavy Slash), yellow (650 years, Whirlwind Slash), purple (1,050 years, Blade-Aura Slash)

[Life Status]: normal (99.7%)

[Soul Power Status]: abundant (99.9%)

[Weaknesses]: lingering injury in the right leg, joint damage in the left arm...

The information returned by the Command Block even clearly scanned what color underwear the man was wearing that day and where his birthmarks were. It probably knew everything about him better than he did himself.

As for the Soul Power cost, it was infinitesimal.

"All right, little brother, now that you've got your Soul Ring, will you come along while we hunt and leave with us afterward, or head out yourself? We're not far from the gate, and there are practically no Soul Beasts along the way."

"Thank you, Brother Zhao. Since we're not far from the gate, I can leave on my own first." Li Chen had no intention of joining them on their hunt. His goal was accomplished, so there was no need to linger.

A Soul Hunting Forest where beasts were raised in captivity like this was unlikely to contain any treasures, so there was no need to waste more time here.

After renting another carriage, their party prepared to head back. The main thing was that he had loaded the Teleportation Stele, but unfortunately, he still could not craft it himself.

He was missing the key material, a Teleportation Stone, and making a Teleportation Stone required an ender pearl, amethyst shards, and emeralds.