Light Spirit

Light elemental spirits were a very unusual kind of soul beast.

Strictly speaking, light elemental spirits were actually much like the Snow Empress in essence. The difference was that the Snow Empress was a Heavenly Snow Woman born and nurtured by nature, and she was probably the only one on the entire Douluo Continent.

Light elemental spirits, however, could pair up and reproduce.

Perhaps it was this reproduction after birth that left their potential inferior to that of the one and only Heavenly Snow Woman.

Every gain came with a loss.

While their population could grow, that also meant their individual combat strength was destined never to reach the Snow Empress's level.

There were two kinds of light elemental spirits.

One was the male light elemental spirit, which relied primarily on sunlight, with moonlight as a supplement. Their combat prowess was formidable, and they opened fights with devastating offensive soul skills.

The other was the female light elemental spirit, which relied primarily on moonlight, with sunlight as a supplement. Their combat prowess was unremarkable, but they specialized in support and healing instead.

Generally speaking, once light elemental spirits chose a mate, they would never choose another. Even if their mate died, they would not start a new family.

As a result, although light elemental spirits could reproduce, their population never managed to grow much.

Mu En's sixth soul skill had come from a seventy-thousand-year-old male light elemental spirit. He had likewise recommended that Ye Qing choose a male light elemental spirit.

Calling himself a support-type Soul Master had only been a joke. Ye Qing was a textbook power attack system Soul Master, so how could he really absorb the soul ring of a female light elemental spirit geared toward support?

"Moreover, according to Mu En, there's a hundred-thousand-year-old light elemental spirit on Heavenly Dawn Peak. He originally wanted to obtain his seventh soul ring from it, but he never managed to find any trace of it and had no choice but to give up."

Ye Qing, however, did not care whether it was a hundred thousand years old or not. Something like that was far too remote for him.

Never mind whether it existed-even if it really did, Ye Feng, with his level ninety-four cultivation, might genuinely be no match for it...

It sounded absurd, but that was the truth. It was a spirit-type soul beast, after all, so its combat strength was bound to be outrageous. If they actually encountered it, Ye Qing might not even get his second soul ring before Ye Feng had to take him and flee with their tails between their legs.

What Ye Qing was pondering now was this.

Since light spirits exist, doesn't that mean there might be dark spirits too?

If dark spirits really exist, they'd be a pretty good soul ring option for me too!

Ye Feng had no idea what rebellious thoughts were sprouting in his grandson's mind. If he learned that his grandson actually wanted to find a dark spirit for his soul ring, he might well faint on the spot.

Grandfather and grandson began climbing Heavenly Dawn Peak.

Although light spirits were scarce, there was one advantage: the closer they got to the summit of Heavenly Dawn Peak, the better the effects of basking in its radiance became. Such spots were generally occupied by powerful light spirits.

Weaker light spirits could only live at lower elevations.

It was just like a pyramid.

This actually made finding a soul ring easier for Ye Qing.

But again, light spirits were simply too rare. Their unique forms also meant that finding them required a careful search, since there was no telling whether one was hiding in some crack in the rocks, leering at you.

Thus, grandfather and grandson climbed slowly, doing their best to search every spot where a light spirit might be lurking so that Ye Qing would not miss the most suitable soul ring.

A thorough sweep certainly had its benefits.

Before long, grandfather and grandson encountered their first light spirit.

It was clearly a male light spirit, and an extremely hot-tempered one at that. The moment they met, it attacked Ye Qing. Having undergone reflex training, Ye Qing instinctively activated Martial Soul Possession and cast Holy Radiance Protection on himself.

He even remembered to cast one on Ye Feng too.

This was where his earlier training proved its worth. Reflex training did not merely improve his reactions in combat; it also enabled a Soul Master to respond to unexpected situations in the fastest, most effective way possible.

Ye Qing had suffered untold misery during that period, all to develop keen reflexes.

Apart from when training ended at night and he could rest and meditate without being attacked, some asshole could pop out and take a swipe at him at any moment-even while he was eating.

It had reached the point where, several times during meditation, the slightest rustle of grass in the wind had triggered an instinctive defensive reaction.

Those symptoms had only gradually subsided later, until he could finally distinguish, with reasonable accuracy, which unexpected situations actually posed a threat to him.

Ye Feng, meanwhile, did not move at all. He simply watched Ye Qing's lightning-fast response with satisfaction.

Reflexes and combat instincts were indispensable skills for every outstanding Soul Master, for they were the most direct reflection of a Soul Master's combat proficiency.

Setting aside Zhou Yi's bizarre antics in the original story, the Shrek Inner Court really did provide excellent instruction. It was no wonder Shrek's team could run rampant over the opposition in practically every Soul Fighting Tournament.

Only after Holy Radiance Protection had blocked the beam of light did Ye Qing finally see what had attacked him.

Hmm...

Ye Qing's brows knitted slightly.

Familiar. Far too familiar.

That upright body resembling a winding spiral, the three pairs of light wings beside it that were as breathtaking as auroras, the strange ring of light beneath those wings, and those somewhat abstract orange eyes on its body.

"Holy crap, Puni?!" Ye Qing's eyes suddenly widened.

Aside from lacking the seven stones bearing sealing runes beneath its body, the only difference between this thing and Puni was that the original Puni looked a little more anime-styled, while this so-called light spirit leaned toward realism, right?

Seeing Ye Qing staring wide-eyed at the light spirit in "curiosity," Ye Feng nodded and said, "This is what we've chosen for your second soul ring: a light spirit. This one clearly isn't old enough, though."

"You can't determine a light spirit's age by its appearance, because those below a hundred thousand years old have essentially no differences in form or size. Powerful light spirits can freely choose to grow larger or smaller, so you can't distinguish them by size. You can only judge by the fluctuations of soul power coming from them."

"Judging by this light spirit's soul power fluctuations, it's five hundred years old at most. It isn't suitable for your soul ring."

Of course, no one had ever seen a hundred-thousand-year-old light spirit anyway...

Compared with this light spirit's age, its appearance interested Ye Qing far more, because it was just so cool!

It felt almost as though he were playing Seer, ready to whip out a capsule and capture a spirit at any moment.

"Grandpa, I want to try fighting it!" Ye Qing said eagerly, already beginning to gather soul power in his hands.

This is way too much fun!