Second Soul Ring

"Master's wife, I understand. For my Second Soul Ring, I'll choose a thousand-year slime!"

Thinking of this, Xu Yang felt completely refreshed and replied to Madam Ning with a smile.

"That's more like it! Young people should do whatever comes to mind. What's the point of worrying about every little thing?" Madam Ning smiled and nodded. She had felt more than once that Xu Yang was far too mature to be like a child. This was how he should be!

She gently stroked Xu Yang's head and said, "Go find Haiyan! Have him take you to hunt for your soul ring. Leave Rongrong to me for the next few days!"

"Then I'll be going first, Master's wife!"

Xu Yang stood, bowed to Madam Ning, then went out to look for Ning Haiyan.

At the Sun Flower Sea, Xu Yang came here once again. Not only this time—next time would probably be here too.

Xu Yang and Ning Haiyan stood on a tree branch, watching the tens of thousands of sunflowers below drawing in Sun Power to cultivate. Occasionally, they could see some creatures moving slowly beneath the flowers, using the sunflowers' ability to assist their own cultivation.

The two of them looked around several times, but they did not see any trace of slimes.

"Uncle Ning, what do we do?! Same as last time?" Xu Yang turned his head and asked.

"Mm! That's all we can do. But if the slime has split too many times, even I won't be able to find the one with the core origin!" Ning Haiyan said helplessly.

Slimes could continuously split, and the individuals they split off had an aura identical to the main body's. Even a Soul Saint would find it very difficult to tell them apart. Only Spirit Masters above Soul Douluo could directly see through their essence and locate the slime's true body.

And because of the splitting, the method of judging a slime's age by its size also lost its usefulness. It could only be determined by the strength of its soul power, and those who possessed this kind of ability were all Soul Saints or higher without exception.

Ning Haiyan made a little preparation, pushed off hard with his feet, and in a flash arrived above the Sun Flower Sea. His martial soul, the Blazing Flame Blade, instantly appeared in his hand. Seven soul rings—yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black—rose from beneath his feet, and the aura unique to a Soul Saint erupted in an instant.

"Seventh Soul Skill—Blazing Flame True Body!"

To be safe, Ning Haiyan directly activated his Martial Soul Avatar. In an instant, a massive phantom appeared behind him, gripping a huge Blazing Flame Blade about twenty meters long, raging flames burning across its body.

His aura rose again. Invisible soul power began to surge, sweeping outward in all directions with Ning Haiyan at the center, blowing the sunflowers until they swayed ceaselessly.

The huge Sun Flower King at the center of the flower sea shrank back again and burrowed into the ground, preparing to run at any moment.

Within the flower sea, many Spirit Beasts that had been using the sunflowers to cultivate scattered and fled under this aura. Among them were the Mutated Fire Light Slimes Xu Yang needed, as well as Light Sacred Beetles. There were truly quite a few of them.

The Light Sacred Beetles were easy enough. Their age could be judged from the depth of the color on their bodies and the length of the horn on their heads. But with these dozens of Mutated Fire Light Slimes, there was simply no way to judge their ages. Who could know how many of them were only split-off bodies from the true body?

Just as Xu Yang was thinking of a countermeasure, Ning Haiyan had already moved.

"Sixth Soul Skill—Blade of Three Thousand!"

Ning Haiyan swung the Blazing Flame Blade in his hand, and three thousand flaming blade shadows emerged, striking every single slime with precision. Using soft force, they sent them all flying and dropped them not far in front of Xu Yang.

After landing, the slimes began splitting madly. But they had barely split off many when countless blade shadows descended from the sky again, pinning all of them in place.

The landing points of these blade shadows were perfect. Each blade only injured the slimes and made them lose the ability to move, without killing them. Moreover, every one of these blade shadows burned with crimson flames. The flames continued burning, preventing the slimes from splitting.

Immediately afterward, Ning Haiyan slowly landed in front of Xu Yang, stepping on his seven soul rings. His violent aura made the Spirit Beasts in the distance run even faster, and rumbling sounds rang out without end.

Ning Haiyan's eyes seemed to burn with flames as he continuously scanned the slimes pinned around them. Suddenly, he swung the Blazing Flame Blade in his hand, and the sixth black soul ring flashed. Aside from the ones at the front left, the rear right, and one slime near Xu Yang that remained pinned, all the other blade shadows vanished.

At once, the slimes on the ground instantly turned into streaks of afterimages and scattered in all directions, leaving behind only trails made of mucus.

"Young master, these two have identical auras, so they should be the same one. Judging by the strength of their soul power, they should be around sixteen hundred years old. As for the slightly smaller one at your feet, it's twelve hundred years old. Weigh it yourself and see which one you want to absorb."

Ning Haiyan pointed at the remaining three slimes and introduced them.

"According to the test Sword Grandfather gave my body strength the day before yesterday, my current strength should be able to absorb an eighteen-hundred-year Spirit Beast. Let the twelve-hundred-year one go. I'll absorb the sixteen-hundred-year one."

That was right. Nowadays, Xu Yang's way of addressing Sword Bone had also changed from the original Elder to "Grandfather." The relationship between the three of them had grown much closer. As for his body strength, it was because of the small body-tempering technique Bone Douluo had created, combined with the Sun Soul Power that was constantly transforming inside Xu Yang's body.

This type of soul power was Extreme Yang Extreme Strength, fierce and domineering, and was most suitable for tempering the body. Coupled with the miraculous effects of Eastern Purple Qi, he had been able to temper his body to such a level in just over a year, reaching a point that surpassed an ordinary Soul Elder.

This body strength was the confidence he had to absorb a sixteen-hundred-year slime.

Hearing this, Ning Haiyan released the slime pinned in front of Xu Yang, allowing it to flee. With another swing of his blade, the other two slimes arrived in front of Xu Yang.

A Tang Blade suddenly appeared in Xu Yang's hand. "Swish!" "Swish!" With two slashes, he split the two slimes before him in half. In any case, he did not know which one was the true body, so he simply cut them both down.

After the two slashes, a pale purple soul ring appeared above the one on the left and began to pulse slowly. It was truly beautiful.

Afterward, Xu Yang sat cross-legged on the ground and began using his will to draw the soul ring over. The soul ring settled over Xu Yang's martial soul. The Sun Martial Soul, which had originally been only the size of a basketball, instantly grew more than three times larger. The golden flames upon it also grew more intense, rising from the original ten centimeters to twenty centimeters. From time to time, Fire Snakes even began swimming across the surface of the sun.

As the soul ring entered his body, vast soul power began battering Xu Yang's internal organs. Scorching, tyrannical soul power rampaged through his meridians, making him feel extremely uncomfortable.

"As expected of a fire-light dual-attribute mutated slime. Its soul power really is overbearing. Unfortunately, compared to my Sun Soul Power, it's still far inferior!"

The moment Xu Yang sensed the vast soul power inside his body, he knew he had this under control. Even if a thousand-year soul ring was already a qualitative change compared to a hundred-year soul ring, it was still far from reaching his limit. Not to mention, this soul power was rootless duckweed. It simply could not pose any threat.