"Xiao San, is that all your third Soul Skill can do?"
"Of course not. The Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Ring didn't let me inherit the evil power or the potent toxins in its body, but it did give me a very good third Soul Skill. My Spiderweb Trap can create a large patch of Blue Silver webs beneath my feet, and once released, those webs become hidden. Ordinary people can't detect them at all. I can also sense every movement of anyone who enters my Soul Skill's range. Then I can activate it and bind them like a spider catching its prey. It can restrain multiple targets at once, too, so it's a pretty good crowd-control skill."
"That sounds pretty good. But your first Soul Skill was called Life Recovery, and you changed it to Blue Silver Life Restoration. Your second Soul Skill was originally called Light of Healing, but you changed that to Blue Silver Holy Light. Why not change this one too? Something like Blue Silver Forbidden Zone. Doesn't that sound better than Spiderweb Trap?"
Tang San's eyes immediately lit up at Li Ye's words. He had been struggling to come up with a name that suited his third Soul Skill, related to his Martial Soul, and sounded imposing. He hadn't expected Li Ye to voice exactly what he had been thinking.
Li Ye truly deserved to be called a master of naming. If someone else had named his third Soul Skill, the best they could have come up with would have been Blue Silver Trap. How could that compare to something as grand, impressive, and classy as Blue Silver Forbidden Zone?
Just look at Li Ye's own three Soul Skills: Endless Spear Intent, Wind-Seeking Cloud-Piercing, and Six Harmonies Dao Spear. Which of them wasn't classy?
Anyone else would probably have come up with something like Demonic Flame Spear Intent, Demon Spear Chasing the Wind, or Demon Spear Clones. Those sounded passable enough, but they didn't have enough swagger!
Hidden in the shadows, Tang Hao nodded in agreement after hearing the Soul Skill name Li Ye had come up with, looking rather as though he wanted Li Ye to rename his Soul Skills too.
But not everyone thought Li Ye's Soul Skill names sounded good. Xiao Wu and Yu Xiaogang, for instance, thought his names were too flashy.
Look how good theirs were. One had Waist Bow, Charm, and Teleportation-so practical, so descriptive. The other had "farts like thunder, Earth-Shattering Luo Sanpao" and "farts like mist, Sleep-Inducing Luo Sanpao." A little explosive.
Uh, how should one put it? They couldn't exactly be called bad names, only very descriptive and vivid. Anyone who heard them would immediately know what the Soul Skills were like.
After helping Tang San obtain his third Soul Ring, Li Ye and the other two returned to Nuoding Academy.
While continuing his cultivation, Li Ye often sought out Tang San to ask him about medicinal herbs.
Whenever Tang San asked why he wanted to know these things, Li Ye either said he wanted to find an herb that could help Yu Xiaogang break through or said he wanted to become a knowledgeable Soul Master.
In short, thanks to his relationship with Tang San, Li Ye learned all the medicinal properties of the immortal herbs he had obtained from Dugu Bo, as well as how to harvest and consume them.
As for the immortal-grade medicinal herbs he had harvested before, he had basically either cut them straight off at the roots or pulled them out, roots and all.
If he hadn't had the Wishful Hundred Treasure Purse Dugu Bo had given him to store those immortal herbs, their medicinal potency and vitality would have long since been completely lost.
The only thing giving Li Ye something of a headache was that Tang San kept suspecting he had a whole pile of immortal-grade medicinal herbs on him.
Tang San was good in every way, except he was far too good at deduction and solving cases. He left Li Ye with no secrets at all.
Tang San: I'm good at deduction and solving cases? Aren't you the one who keeps coming to ask me, "Suppose I came across a golden chrysanthemum with such-and-such characteristics. How should I harvest it and then consume it?" Then you ask, "Suppose I came across such-and-such," and so on. Even an idiot could guess you really found them. Otherwise, how would you know so much about them?
Li Ye: Ah, you know too much! I'm going to choke you unconscious and make you forget all of this!
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Time flashed past like a white steed slipping through a crack, and nearly a year and a half passed in the blink of an eye.
Although Li Ye had only just turned ten, he had already grown to 1.7 meters tall, and his features had become increasingly handsome and elegant. Though he didn't look like an immortal banished to the mortal world, his face was brimming with the soaring vitality of youth, making countless girls turn their heads.
Soul Masters on the Douluo Continent truly did come of age at twelve and reach their physical peak at twenty. At just ten years old, Li Ye's body was already largely developed, with all its functions fully in place. All he lacked was a suitable opportunity to lose his virginity.
Perhaps every man wished his little brother could be as mighty as possible, but Li Ye didn't.
That was only because his was already mighty enough. If it grew any mightier, he really wouldn't be able to find a suitable girlfriend.
As the ancient books said, a man received his ceremonial cap at twenty and became an adult. And Li Ye already had twenty at ten, so he could hardly be called anything but an adult.
After cultivating for so long, Li Ye had naturally broken through to rank forty. To improve his spiritual power, he had even refined the immortal-grade medicinal herb Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, raising his spiritual power from the Soul Emperor level to the Soul Douluo level.
As for his physical strength, although Li Ye had kept training, it remained stuck at the Soul Emperor level without advancing an inch. He didn't know whether it was because he had no Soul Bones or something else.
Still, having Soul Emperor-level physical strength at rank forty and being able to fight a Soul Emperor without relying on Soul Skills was pretty good.
"Grandpa Sword, it really isn't that I don't want to practice your Nine Heaven-Slaying Swords. With my current strength, I really can only get as far as the fourth form!"
"That won't do. You've already honed the third form of Spear Old Demon's damned Seven Desolate-Breaking Whatever to perfection, and you're about to start the fourth. Yet you've only just reached the fourth form of my Nine Heaven-Slaying Swords. How is that acceptable?"
"Your moves are so powerful, of course they take longer to practice. Can't you cut me some slack?"
"Exactly, exactly. Sword Old Ghost, Xiao Ye should just practice my Seven Desolate-Breaking Techniques. Keep those invincible Nine Heaven-Slaying Swords of yours for yourself."
"Spear Old Demon, don't flatter me. You think I don't know those little schemes of yours? You're still tens of thousands of years too early to fool me!"
"All right, all right, Grandpas, please stop arguing. I'll practice harder from now on, okay?"
"Mm, this child can be taught!" Sword Old Ghost and Spear Old Demon nodded at the same time and said with smiles.
Hearing that, Li Ye could only leave his spiritual space, pack some dry rations, water, and medicine, and head toward Star Dou Forest.
He truly had no answer for those two old children, Sword Old Ghost and Spear Old Demon. At their age, they still amused themselves with a little brat like him every day, coming up with different ways to make him work hard on his spear techniques and sword moves, as though terrified he might slack off.
If he hadn't been going to Star Dou Forest to hunt for his fourth Soul Ring this time, he would have had to miserably go back to practicing his spear and sword.
Fortunately, Li Ye had written ahead to ask Liu Erlong to come for this hunt for his fourth Soul Ring. Otherwise, obtaining a Soul Ring over twenty thousand years old on his own would have been rather difficult.
At the thought of seeing Liu Erlong soon, Li Ye's mood unconsciously improved.
After all, over the past two years, he and Liu Erlong had only met ten times in total. Every time, they had secretly arranged a meeting place, met in a hurry, gone shopping, shared a meal, and then spent the night resting in the same bed, sharing a pillow. And then there was no more.
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