Tang Hao shook his head, feeling that this guess was too exaggerated.
"It shouldn't be. He is just a child, how could he have such great capability? I must be overthinking it."
Tang Hao pondered whether to continue searching for Xiao Wu and Ah Yin.
In some unknown cave, Lu Yuan laid out his mat, sat cross-legged on it with his eyes closed, and blue light washed over his body before gradually sinking into him.
Phew, I'm finally done absorbing it.
After escaping from the back mountain of Holy Soul Village, Lu Yuan struck while the iron was hot and found a place to absorb the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.
Although absorbing a soul bone did not place demands on a soul master's soul power-for instance, in the original timeline, Tang San absorbed his mother's soul bone back during his Soul Ancestor period.
Yet Lu Yuan was still just a soul master after all, and absorbing a soul bone from a hundred-thousand-year soul beast was still far too difficult for him.
Lu Yuan spent several dozen times longer than Tang San did, nearly managing to absorb this Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.
Fortunately, the results were also brilliant.
The amount of soul power contained within a hundred-thousand-year soul bone was immense, enough to directly raise the soul power of a powerhouse who had just entered the Titled Douluo realm by one rank. Applied to Lu Yuan, it directly boosted his soul power to rank 20, making him a quasi-Soul Grandmaster.
Lu Yuan clenched his fists, his soul power brimming and his sense of strength complete.
He could sense that the growth effect on his soul power brought by this Hundred-Thousand-Year Right Leg Bone stopped at nothing short of rank 20, with plenty of surplus remaining.
Aside from that, Lu Yuan also gained two new soul skills, one of which was the flight mentioned earlier.
The other was called "Wildfires cannot burn it out, the spring breeze blows it back to life."
The name was very long, and the effect was also extremely powerful, almost reaching the level of bringing the dead back to life and growing flesh on bones.
As long as Lu Yuan still had a breath left, this soul skill could pull him back from the brink of death.
I've reached rank 20, time to look for a new soul ring.
At this moment, a trace of hesitation flickered in Lu Yuan's gaze. He opened the cloth bag beside him, where the Blue Silver Emperor lay inside listlessly, her branches and leaves drooping with zero spirit.
Lu Yuan picked up the Blue Silver Emperor, pondering whether to kill her to use as his second soul ring.
The benefits were naturally obvious. The soul beast quality of the Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin was extremely high, and the quality of the soul ring and soul skills produced would both be better than average soul rings.
However, the Blue Silver Emperor in Lu Yuan's hands right now was only a little over a thousand years in age. Absorbing it would certainly pose no problem, but it was still far too low compared to Lu Yuan's first soul ring of over two thousand years.
Moreover, the thought that she had once transformed into human form and was an intelligent being similar to humans made Lu Yuan somewhat hesitant and undecided.
At this moment, Lu Yuan recalled Ah Yin's ending in the original timeline, where she was arranged by Tang San to be parasitized onto the Golden Tree of Douluo Planet, and then became the Life Core of Douluo Planet, ascending beautifully to become a First-Level God.
A fierce glint surfaced in Lu Yuan's eyes, and with force in his palm, he crushed the Blue Silver Emperor in his hands.
As the Blue Silver Emperor's luster dimmed and her branches and leaves withered into silence, a purple soul ring emerged.
Lu Yuan once again closed his eyes to sit cross-legged, summoned Meowmeow, and began attaching its second soul ring.
Thousand-year soul rings were all of the same tier with little gap between them, and Lu Yuan was unwilling to waste too much effort searching for soul rings and soul beasts of several millennia during the golden hours of cultivation.
Lu Yuan knew that with his current mental power, it was utterly impossible to absorb a ten-thousand-year soul ring or withstand the mental shocks within it.
He calculated in his heart that when he had time, he must make a trip to scavenge the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well inside the Sunset Forest.
Meanwhile, Meowmeow could absorb its second set of soul rings in the Fighting Cool Cat form, giving it a chance to reselect.
What was more, the soul ring formed by the Blue Silver Emperor was already an exceptionally good choice for Lu Yuan.
Several hours later, Lu Yuan snapped his eyes open, a flash of green light in them.
Beneath Meowmeow's paws, two rings of purple soul rings had already appeared, signifying that Lu Yuan had truly become a Soul Grandmaster.
An eight-year-old Soul Grandmaster at that-saying this out loud would probably drop the jaws of countless people.
Even a genius with Innate Full Soul Power like Bibi Dong had a progression that was somewhat slower compared to Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan spread his palms, green soul power emerging around his palms as he sensed his current soul power.
Am I already at rank 28 soul power now?
The hundred-thousand-year soul bone and the Blue Silver Emperor soul ring-which exceeded the thousand-year upper limit of a second soul ring for ordinary people-caused Lu Yuan's soul power to suddenly surge to the threshold of a Soul Elder.
Even then, this was under the condition that the soul power within the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone had not been fully released.
Of course, it was also related to Lu Yuan's low soul power level and extremely low baseline.
In Lu Yuan's estimation, as long as he continued to absorb the remaining soul power within the soul bone, it would not take more than a month or so for him to cultivate into a true rank 30 Soul Elder.
Lu Yuan clenched his fist, beginning to use his second soul skill to test how effective it was.
He looked at Meowmeow and shouted out loud, "Meowmeow, use Photosynthesis!"
"Meow!" (Okay Master, meow!)
Meowmeow raised its paws, and green light intermingled with peach red emerged from its entire body. In front of Meowmeow, the pattern of a Photosynthesis Mark faintly appeared.
"Meow." (Master, Meowmeow can feel its soul power recovering rapidly, meow. The energy consumed just now from releasing soul skills has been replenished, meow.)
After the Photosynthesis Mark came to the Douluo Continent, it could naturally continuously restore soul power for the holder.
Moreover, Meowmeow and Lu Yuan could not only cast it on themselves, but could also attach it to other soul masters and soul beasts, allowing their soul power to be continuously restored as well.
Not only that, after the Photosynthesis Mark changed into this world, its duration was also extremely long, and it could almost be regarded as a permanent effect in a battle.
It could even be stacked for use; the more Photosynthesis Marks there were, the faster the soul power recovery speed would become, ultimately reaching a terrifying height.
Whatever ultra-high-power soul skills or Martial Soul Fusion Skills there were could all be cast casually.
This was an extremely terrifying support skill.
Lu Yuan looked happily at Meowmeow, scooped it up in his arms, and spun around in the air to celebrate. After the boy and cat shared their joy, they calmed down once more.
"All right, Meowmeow."
Lu Yuan put Meowmeow down, disposed of the Blue Silver Emperor's corpse, and looked out at the sunny world outside the cave.
"Now it's time to go to a new region for trials. Let's set off for Spirit City!"
Spirit City,
This was one of the three major main cities of the Douluo Continent, and the only ones that could compare to it were the capitals of the two great empires of Heaven Dou and Star Luo-Heaven Dou City and Star Luo City.
Unlike the other two cities, Spirit City was the headquarters of Spirit Hall, the head of the three major powers on the continent, and was directly ruled by it, thus holding soul masters in extreme reverence.
The personnel coming and going inside and outside the city were also mostly soul masters, and they held a loyal faith toward Spirit City and the Angel God.
Lu Yuan walked amidst the shoulder-to-shoulder crowds, submerged within them. On the stalls lining the streets, everything being sold was a dazzling array of items related to soul masters.
This Spirit City truly is a paradise for soul masters. No wonder it is the holy land that countless soul masters on the Douluo Continent dream of.
Lu Yuan felt a wave of emotion in his heart, following the directions within the city until he finally found the location of the Spirit Hall Academy where he was supposed to report.