After they had traveled for a while, a small tuft of blue fur blew straight into Yun Tian's face.
Yun Tian picked up the tuft of blue fur and rubbed it between his fingers, a trace of delighted surprise appearing on his face.
"The information was true. Extreme Cold Swift Wolves really do roam here."
After Yun Tian jumped off Sang Biao's back, a spear appeared in his hand, while his first hundred-year soul ring slowly emerged beneath his feet.
The spear in Yun Tian's hand was completely different from a year ago.
After a full year of nourishment from Yun Tian's soul power, the rust on the spear's surface had vanished.
From time to time, a golden gleam flowed through the engraved grooves along its shaft.
Its tip had also become sharper, though he had not tested it.
Still, Yun Tian guessed that as long as it was not a defensive soul beast, piercing the abdomen of a soul beast around fifteen hundred years old was within its capabilities.
After he summoned his spear and walked for a while longer, Sang Biao, who had been scouting ahead, suddenly stopped.
Sang Biao lowered his head, his nose twitching slightly, then abruptly raised his head and turned to look at Yun Tian behind him.
Yun Tian lowered his body and concealed his presence, then moved in front of Sang Biao. Carefully parting a narrow gap in the grass with his hand, he leaned forward and peered through it.
What met his eyes was a blue-furred wolf soul beast with a small, lean body, well-developed leg muscles, and an overall slender build.
Wolves were pack animals, but Extreme Cold Swift Wolves were an exception.
They were indeed very fast, but their attack power was weak, so every Extreme Cold Swift Wolf was driven out of its pack when it crossed the thousand-year threshold.
Only after wandering outside for a time could they return to their pack, the purpose being to hone their attack power.
Regardless, this behavior made things very comfortable for Yun Tian.
If he had to face an entire wolf pack, he really would have had no way to deal with it. Facing just one Extreme Cold Swift Wolf, however, was much simpler.
"First soul skill, Cold Abyss Armor Transformation!"
Yun Tian burst out of the grass, a layer of blue armor appearing over his body.
The Extreme Cold Swift Wolf, which had been lying asleep, snapped its eyes open and instantly arched its body, but just as it prepared to move away-
A chill suddenly enveloped its limbs, then abruptly transformed into ice crystals, pinning it firmly in place.
At the same time, Yun Tian had already reached a spot three meters away from the Extreme Cold Swift Wolf.
A layer of cold energy enveloped the spear in Yun Tian's hand before it shot from his grip toward the Extreme Cold Swift Wolf's head, where its defenses were weakest.
Meanwhile, Ice Spikes silently appeared above the Extreme Cold Swift Wolf and fell toward its head as well.
Sensing mortal danger, the Extreme Cold Swift Wolf surged with soul power and strained its limbs, forcibly breaking the ice crystals restraining them.
Then, relying on its speed, it swiftly left its original position.
But despite its speed, the attacks Yun Tian and Sang Biao launched still struck its back.
"Awooo!"
A whimper of pain escaped the Extreme Cold Swift Wolf's mouth.
A large patch of cold energy spread across its back, constantly eating away at its flesh.
When the cold seeped into its body through the pores on its back, the Extreme Cold Swift Wolf shuddered.
Cold energy kept spilling out from within, continually forming harder ice crystals.
They completely immobilized the Extreme Cold Swift Wolf's body, leaving only its fragile head exposed.
After more than a dozen spear thrusts, the eleven-hundred-year-old Extreme Cold Swift Wolf finally stopped breathing.
At the same time, a purple thousand-year soul ring slowly appeared above the Extreme Cold Swift Wolf's corpse.
Yun Tian put away his spear, sat cross-legged on the spot, and slowly drew the thousand-year soul ring toward himself.
Roughly two and a half hours later, a powerful surge of soul power erupted from Yun Tian's body.
Only then was the absorption of the thousand-year soul ring complete.
Yun Tian slowly stood and assessed his current soul power.
Rank twenty-four-far beyond his expectations.
"Not bad. It looks like the soul power Sang Biao accumulated inside me through cultivation over the past month, along with the power in that thousand-year Extreme Cold Swift Wolf's soul ring, pushed me straight to rank twenty-four."
After assessing his soul power, Yun Tian eagerly began studying his second soul skill.
"Second soul skill, Dark Cold."
As his second soul ring lit up, a faint dark-blue glow enveloped Yun Tian's body.
Yun Tian tried moving around and discovered, to his surprise, that his punching speed had reached ten punches per second.
Previously, his limit had been only six punches per second.
"Dark Cold. After activation, all aspects of my speed increase by two hundred percent, including movement speed, attack speed, and soul power recovery speed!"
Feeling the changes brought by the soul skill, Yun Tian suddenly found it a little unreal.
This soul skill...
Was far too powerful.
"Quick, Sang Biao, try forming an Ice Spike now!"
Yun Tian crouched down and spoke to Sang Biao.
"Woof, woof, woof!"
"All right, I know. Once you're done forming it, I'll give you beef jerky."
Only after getting what he wanted did Sang Biao move aside in satisfaction.
The next instant, an Ice Spike appeared above Sang Biao's head, identical to those that had attacked the Extreme Cold Swift Wolf's head earlier.
"Less than a second." Yun Tian drew in a deep breath of cold air.
Previously, Sang Biao needed one and a half seconds to form an Ice Spike, but now, with the second soul skill active, it took only about half a second.
When he became a Titled Douluo in the future, would that formation time be approximately zero seconds?
And it was not just the Ice Spike's formation time, but also his soul power recovery speed.
Titled Douluo possessed enormous amounts of soul power, and even their own recovery speed was astonishing.
Yet faced with such vast reserves of soul power, they still needed to spend a great deal of time recovering.
Unless their team included a top-tier support-type soul master with a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, or someone like Oscar.
Now that he had this second soul skill, it could also be said, in a roundabout way, that he filled the roles of both a Battle Soul Master and a support-type soul master.
He could imagine activating his second soul skill while fighting an enemy in the future.
His attack speed and soul power recovery speed would both far surpass his opponent's.
At the same rank, this was practically an insurmountable mountain.
Withdrawing his soul rings, Yun Tian glanced at the Extreme Cold Swift Wolf's corpse on the ground.
"No soul bone. Oh well, those can only be stumbled upon, not sought out. Still, this whole body is good stuff."
The energy contained in the flesh of a thousand-year soul beast, even one that was already dead...
Was nothing ordinary livestock and poultry like pigs, cattle, sheep, or chickens could compare to.
"I'll take it back and make it into jerky for Sang Biao later."
After storing the Extreme Cold Swift Wolf's corpse in the Storage Soul Tool on his wrist, Yun Tian finally headed toward the exit of Sunset Forest, thoroughly satisfied.
Meanwhile, in Nuoding City, inside Spirit Hall's dungeon.
"Big brother, I'm done. Your turn."
After speaking, the burly man glanced at Yu Xiaogang on the floor.
His face was filled with a lingering desire for more.
"Not bad, not bad. A soul master really is a soul master. They're just different from ordinary people."
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