Golden Iron Triangle

Indeed, for most Soul Masters, no matter what kind of Soul Ring they absorbed, the Seventh Soul Skill they ultimately gained would only be a Martial Soul Avatar.

But Su Mo knew otherwise.

If certain tool Martial Soul Masters absorbed the Soul Rings of specific Soul Beasts, the Seventh Soul Skill they gained would not merely be an ordinary Weapon Soul Avatar, but would become a Spirit Avatar!

This was a unique Martial Soul Avatar that possessed both the characteristics of a tool Martial Soul's Weapon Soul Avatar and a beast Martial Soul's Martial Soul Avatar.

For example, Snake Lance Douluo from the original story had this special kind of Spirit Avatar. The power displayed by this Martial Soul Avatar was extremely formidable.

In any case, Su Mo was rather envious.

As for how one could obtain a Spirit Avatar, Su Mo had researched the matter in Spirit Hall for a long time and eventually identified several patterns.

That was, as long as the Soul Beast providing a tool Martial Soul Master's Seventh Soul Ring possessed certain body parts with traits similar to the Master's tool Martial Soul, there was a chance of obtaining a Spirit Avatar.

For instance, Snake Lance Douluo's Martial Soul was the Twelve-Foot Serpent Spear.

Because the two heads of the Two-Headed Snake Soul Beast looked much like the tip of a serpent spear, the Snake Lance Martial Soul could gain a Spirit Avatar after absorbing a Two-Headed Snake's Soul Ring.

And according to the pattern Su Mo had summarized, if a Soul Master with a Long Spear Martial Soul absorbed the Soul Ring of a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger as their Seventh Soul Ring—

Since the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's scorpion tail resembled a long spear, that Long Spear Soul Master would be very likely to gain the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger Spirit Avatar.

The same applied to Su Mo's Death God Scythe Spirit.

The twin blades of Mantis Soul Beasts were very similar in shape to the scythe of Su Mo's Death God Scythe Spirit.

Therefore, according to Su Mo's deduction, if he absorbed a Mantis Soul Beast's Soul Ring as his Seventh Soul Ring, then his Seventh Soul Skill would likely allow him to obtain a Weapon Soul Avatar as well.

And now, Su Mo wanted to find a Mantis Soul Beast with the highest possible cultivation within the Star Dou Great Forest.

Within the vast, dense primeval forest, ancient trees towered into the sky.

The luxuriant canopies atop the towering trees spread like umbrellas, their dense leaves interwoven and overlapping. Even the noonday sun struggled to pierce through them, casting only patches of mottled shadows across the ground.

At that moment, Su Mo was rapidly leaping across the towering trees with Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo Gui Mei. Their bodies appeared incomparably light, and they moved so fast that ordinary people could barely see anything more than afterimages.

While traveling, the three constantly swept their gazes around, trying to see whether any Mantis Soul Beasts dwelled within the forest.

It had to be said that the Star Dou Great Forest truly lived up to its reputation as the forest with the greatest number and variety of Soul Beasts on Douluo Continent!

Although Mantis Soul Beasts were comparatively rare among insect-type Soul Beasts.

The three still encountered quite a few along the way.

There were the most common Blade Mantises, as well as rarer Phantom Mantises, Gale Ghost Blade Mantises, Thunderous Purple Jade Mantises, Blazing Blast Blade Mantises, and more.

Unfortunately, none of these Mantis Soul Beasts had cultivation levels that met Su Mo's requirements. The strongest was only around thirty thousand years old.

But the Mantis Soul Beast Su Mo wanted to hunt needed to have a cultivation of at least fifty thousand years!

In order to find a Mantis Soul Beast with a cultivation of over fifty thousand years, Su Mo, Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan, and Ghost Douluo Gui Mei tirelessly searched the inner regions of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Yet even after searching continuously for three days, they still had not found a Mantis Soul Beast with over fifty thousand years of cultivation.

Even so, Su Mo did not give up.

Since the original story had featured the three Thousand Jun Ant Emperors, whose cultivation was close to a hundred thousand years, in the Star Dou Great Forest, there had to be Mantis Soul Beasts with similar cultivation levels there as well.

If they could not find one in the inner regions, they would head closer to the core area. They would find one eventually!

As Su Mo continued searching with Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo Gui Mei, the three unexpectedly spotted a particularly unusual mountain in the distance.

The mountain was streaked with red and black. There were very few trees on it, and nearly everywhere was covered by exposed black rock, clusters of crimson shrubs, and grass.

Around the entire mountain, the closer one got to it, the fewer trees there were, while the farther away one went, the lusher the forest became.

It looked very much like a Dead Volcano!

Su Mo was not surprised to discover a Dead Volcano within the Star Dou Great Forest.

After all, the Star Dou Great Forest on Douluo Continent could be said to stretch across the entire continent. Even if its area did not make up one-fifth of Douluo Continent, it certainly exceeded one-seventh.

With so much of the entire Douluo Continent under its expanse, was it not perfectly normal for it to contain a greater variety of terrain?

"Xiao Mo, that looks like a Dead Volcano. Should we go take a look?"

When Yue Guan saw the Dead Volcano in the distance, he immediately pointed at it and asked.

"Of course! Special terrain like that often supports high-cultivation Soul Beasts with corresponding attributes. We might find the Blazing Blast Blade Mantis over fifty thousand years old that I need there."

Su Mo looked at the distant Dead Volcano, his expression unchanged. He nodded and replied.

"Let's go!"

With that, Su Mo immediately took the lead and shot toward the distant Dead Volcano, with Yue Guan and Gui Mei quickly following behind him.

The three moved swiftly, reaching the foot of the Dead Volcano in only a few minutes.

From afar, the Dead Volcano had not seemed particularly large. But once they arrived at its foot, they discovered that it was anything but small.

It stood over ten thousand meters tall. Looking up from the base, the trees growing atop the Dead Volcano were lush and dense, so numerous that they could practically be considered a forest.

After arriving at the foot of the Dead Volcano, the three raced up the steep slope toward its summit, passing countless crimson trees, shrubs, and patches of grass.

Along the way, Su Mo saw many fire-attributed Soul Beasts. There were the most common Fire Lizards found in volcanic regions, as well as Crimson Flame Snakes, Fire Foxes, Blazing Flame Leopards, Magma Plated Rhinos, Spiral Horn Fire Pattern Goats, and other Soul Beasts.

Some had low cultivation levels of only ten or a hundred years, but there were also quite a few that had cultivated for several thousand years. Judging by their numbers, Su Mo felt that the leaders of these Soul Beast groups had definitely reached ten-thousand-year cultivation and were likely not weak at all.

Just as Su Mo and the other two were about to reach the summit of the Dead Volcano.

A golden pillar of light suddenly shot into the sky from the forest at the peak. At the same time, a violent fluctuation of Soul Power erupted, accompanied by an earth-shaking dragon roar.

Under the astonished gazes of Su Mo and the others.

At the top of the golden pillar, a massive Golden Dragon with wings on its back, golden scales covering its entire body, and overwhelming dragon might suddenly appeared in the sky. It roared and fired an enormous golden beam down below.

"What is that?"

Seeing the Golden Dragon appear at the mountaintop, the three were stunned. They immediately accelerated, quickly arriving at the summit of the Dead Volcano.

And after reaching the summit.

Within the lush crimson forest atop the Dead Volcano, they saw a gigantic Crimson Giant Lizard darting through the woods at a speed entirely disproportionate to its size, constantly dodging while occasionally roaring and hissing.

Not far from the giant lizard, two men and a woman stood in a triangular formation, enveloped within a pillar of golden light.

Above their heads, the enormous Golden Dragon continuously roared and bellowed through the air. It repeatedly swung its claws and tail at the giant lizard, occasionally unleashing golden beams that instantly destroyed swathes of trees and ground with terrifying force.

"Those are... Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender?"

Arriving near the battlefield where the Golden Dragon and the enormous Crimson Giant Lizard were fighting, Su Mo froze slightly when he saw the three people in formation and recognized one of them.