I Pick Up Fragments on Douluo Continent Chapter 16

At first, it was a winding stream. In an instant, it became a small river, then finally a surging torrent. The scorching pain in his body had vanished, leaving only warm comfort.

At the same time, Lu Feng's Soul Power was rising madly.

Level eleven!

Level twelve!

Level thirteen!

Level thirteen and a half!

"Coo coo!"

A Night Kite with a body over three meters long leaped down from a tree branch and swooped straight at Lu Feng.

The next moment, Lu Feng abruptly opened his eyes. The Knuckle Duster Martial Soul instantly covered his hands, and he threw a punch straight at the Night Kite's head.

Bang!

The Night Kite's head burst like a watermelon, blood splattering everywhere and drenching Lu Feng from head to toe.

Picked up white attribute point Speed Fragment ×1

"Over two meters long, with a wingspan exceeding five meters. Three hundred years!"

Lu Feng casually glanced at the Night Kite's corpse, gathered Soul Power in his right hand, and shattered the soul ring with a slap.

Whoosh! Lu Feng sprang up and landed directly on the ground.

Under the faint moonlight, Lu Feng lowered his head and looked at his body.

His already sturdy frame seemed to have grown a little taller. The lines of his arm muscles were faintly visible, and his skin had gained an additional lustrous sheen.

Every movement carried a lightness brimming with power. Compared to before absorbing the soul ring, his physical constitution had improved by at least twice!

If he faced that five-hundred-year Greenwood Python again...

Uh, he still wouldn't be able to beat it.

"Level thirteen and a half?" Lu Feng sensed his Soul Power level and nodded in satisfaction.

That was a full two and a half levels higher than ordinary soul masters after absorbing a soul ring!

Of course, those two and a half levels of Soul Power had not all come from the Greenwood Python. Similar to Tang San's situation, Lu Feng's Mysterious Heaven Skill had already reached its bottleneck two months ago.

He simply did not want to attract attention, so he had waited until the holiday to hunt soul beasts.

Whoosh!

A black iron staff appeared in Lu Feng's hand.

The Black Iron Rod had evolved from Liu Long's staff Martial Soul. Lu Feng was used to wielding it, so he had kept it.

The Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record did not contain any weapon-related techniques, so Lu Feng had relied on memories from his previous life to create a set of the Dog Beating Staff Technique.

"Horizontal sweep!"

"Vertical chop!"

After the two moves, Lu Feng looked at the branch he had split in half and curled his lips into a faint smile.

As the saying went, staff techniques did not advocate meeting force with force. They emphasized skill and method, combining hardness and softness.

But then again, overwhelming strength could overcome ten thousand techniques!

The Greenwood Python itself was a strength-type soul beast and was highly compatible with a staff Martial Soul. The soul skill gained from the Black Iron Rod naturally enhanced strength.

Black Iron Rod's first soul skill: increased the soul master's strength by 20%, while greatly increasing the Martial Soul's toughness and resilience.

With a thought from Lu Feng, the iron staff Martial Soul vanished, and a blue-green blade of grass slowly grew from his palm.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Lu Feng waved his right hand. Within several dozen meters around him, Blue Silver Grass surged wildly like raging waves. As long as an enemy was on the ground within this range, there was no possibility of dodging.

Lu Feng pressed together his right index and middle fingers and pointed at a large tree.

"First soul skill: Blue Silver Entanglement!"

Dozens of dark-blue grass blades shot up from the undergrowth at once, spiraling upward and rapidly wrapping around the thick trunk.

Crack! The trunk snapped under the strangling force of the Blue Silver Grass and crashed heavily to the ground.

Late at night, Lu Feng stripped off his clothes and jumped into the pool.

"As expected of a five-hundred-year soul beast. Even Cannon Five, whose attributes are completely incompatible with it, could still rely on its immense strength to ram an enemy to death."

As he washed himself, Lu Feng sorted through the gains from this trip.

"No, it should be a matter of the soul beast's quality."

"The Mandala Snake Tang San absorbed was also more than four hundred years old, but compared to mine, his Blue Silver Grass... well, soft, short, and thin!"

Lu Feng scooped up lake water and washed his face, then stared thoughtfully at the pool beneath him.

"Dragon Transformation... Dragon Transformation..."

"There must be some great treasure at the bottom of this lake!"

Splash! Lu Feng plunged straight into the pool and swam toward the lakebed.

Thousand Year Cold Ice Spirit Liquid

The lake water was somewhat cold at night. Lu Feng had dived for over ten minutes, yet he still had not reached the bottom.

"According to the records, without a special opportunity, a Greenwood Python needs ten thousand years of cultivation before it can activate its bloodline. Yet this soul beast had less than a thousand years of cultivation and had already begun transforming into a dragon?"

"There must be a great secret at the bottom of this lake!"

Lu Feng continued exploring downward, gradually drawing closer to the lakebed.

After searching along the bottom of the lake for several minutes, Lu Feng finally discovered a cave entrance near the side of a cliff.

"Found it!"

The entrance was roughly four or five meters in diameter and seemed to extend into the cliff. From the outside, it was pitch-black, making it impossible to see what lay within.

Lu Feng did not rush into the cave. Instead, he first returned to the shore to recover his Soul Power.

With his current cultivation, he could only remain underwater for around half a shichen.

After packing his belongings, Lu Feng summoned Cannon Five.

"Five, this mission is very difficult! Are you confident?"

Lu Feng rubbed Cannon Five's big head and asked seriously.

"Luo luo!"

Cannon Five stomped its hind legs, making its plump rear sway from side to side.

"Go, Cannon Five!"

The moment Lu Feng finished speaking, Cannon Five jumped into the water with a splash.

Lu Feng waited quietly on the shore. As a Martial Soul with an independent life, Cannon Five shared a special connection with Lu Feng.

Before long, Lu Feng sensed Cannon Five entering the cave.

"Huh, there's actually a karst cavern inside the cliff?"

Soon, Cannon Five swam ashore and began exploring the cave.

Whew, there shouldn't be any danger. Lu Feng wiped the sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief.

Even after half his Soul Power had been consumed, Cannon Five had not encountered a single soul beast.

It seemed that cave was the Greenwood Python's lair. It had cleared out all the soul beasts in the entire pool. Otherwise, Cannon Five could not have proceeded so smoothly.

"Now then... hehe, I won't stand on ceremony!"

Lu Feng no longer hesitated. He tied the bundle to his body and jumped straight into the pool.

Lu Feng descended quickly. Following his connection with Cannon Five, he swiftly found the cave entrance. After passing through a U-shaped passage, he arrived in a karst cavern.

Puff!

Lu Feng took out an oil lamp and struck flint to ignite it with a spark.

He had prepared the lamp oil in advance as well. It was tung oil, which had excellent waterproof properties.

The moment the lamp was lit, the crystals inside the cavern reflected rays of many colors, instantly illuminating a small area.

The interior of the cave was extremely spacious. The ceiling was covered with stalactites of varying sizes. Some stalactites connected with stalagmites on the ground, forming many strange stone pillars arranged in uneven layers.

"Huh, this stalagmite?"

Lu Feng walked up to a rock, chipped off a small piece with his Firewood Chopper, and placed it in his right palm.

As Soul Power surged, the stone gradually softened. Like ice meeting flame, it actually began to melt slowly.

"White Spirit Jade!" Lu Feng exclaimed excitedly as he looked at the crystal-clear droplets in his palm.

White Spirit Jade was an exceptionally rare mineral. It formed when water containing special elements dripped continuously onto one spot and gradually accumulated over time.

If a soul master drank a cup of Spirit Jade Water before meditating, their cultivation speed could increase by at least ten percent!

"Good stuff!"

Lu Feng drew his Firewood Chopper, cut off the entire stalagmite, and carefully wrapped it in burlap.

Although Spirit Jade Water was only effective for soul masters below level twenty, this was all money!

Lu Feng packed up every strange stone and crystal he found as well.

He explored while collecting materials, and before long, he had filled a large bundle to the brim.

"Something's not right!"

Lu Feng sat by the shore and bit into a small piece of compressed biscuit.

He looked at the four or five bundles around him and frowned slightly. "Although these things are all precious and greatly beneficial to a soul master's cultivation, they definitely aren't the key to the Greenwood Python's Dragon Transformation!"

"There must be something else hidden in this cave!"

Holding up the oil lamp, Lu Feng continued exploring the surroundings.

After wandering for several minutes, Lu Feng suddenly felt a wave of cold air. It was not caused by the dampness in the cave, but by a sudden drop in temperature.

The cold struck his body, making Lu Feng instinctively hunch up, but his eyes suddenly lit up.

"There's a treasure!"

Lu Feng quickly ran in the direction the cold air was coming from. Before long, he found the source.

Before him was a small pool filled with ice-blue liquid. The surrounding stone walls were coated in thick ice. Mist drifted across the surface, giving off visible cold fog.

Looking at the liquid in the pool, Lu Feng could seemingly sense the immense energy contained within it.

At the edge of the pool, Lu Feng crouched down and extended one finger toward the liquid.

"Hiss! So cold!"

The instant his fingertip touched the surface, a piercing chill surged toward him and went straight to his brain.

Lu Feng quickly pulled back his finger. Looking closely, he saw that it was already covered in a thin layer of ice.

"This is...!"

"Hundred Year White Spirit Jade, Thousand Year Cold Ice Liquid!"

After White Spirit Jade was refined with Soul Power, it would turn into droplets. Once the droplets solidified, they would be refined again, repeating the process over and over. Eventually, the impurities in the Spirit Jade would be completely removed, leaving only pure energy. That was Cold Ice Spirit Liquid.

If White Spirit Jade was merely a treasure that assisted cultivation, then Cold Ice Spirit Liquid would drive every soul master mad!

Aside from increasing Soul Power and tempering the body, Cold Ice Spirit Liquid had another greatest use: cleansing the meridians and washing the marrow!

In Douluo Continent terms, that meant increasing a soul master's Innate Soul Power!

On Douluo Continent, a soul master's Innate Soul Power determined their cultivation speed and potential for growth.

It was commonly accepted that a soul master with innate level-one Soul Power would never be able to break through level thirty. To cultivate into a Title Douluo, one needed at least innate level-seven Soul Power.

If a soul master with innate level-three Soul Power had abundant resources, guidance from a renowned teacher, and worked hard enough to cultivate diligently for twenty years...

Then he could become the background prop for a famous soul master with innate level-nine Soul Power.