In the darkness, Zhang Peng stood on the branch of a Ancient Tree tree, watching the back of Lu Ren disappear into the dense forest.
His cloudy old eyes flashed with complex emotions, including surprise, admiration, and a trace of greed that had not yet been completely extinguished.
"So strong physical strength, so fast----"
Zhang Peng whispered to himself in a low voice, his voice hoarse.
"This person Soul Power's aura is only Level 50, but the speed and physical explosive power displayed by Just now are not at the level that Soul King should be. Soul Saint may not be able to reach the top speed he just had. If this kid grows up in the future, he will definitely be a top figure in the mainland."
He paused and suddenly shook his head.
"Although he has the ability to control blood----but this should be his Martial Soul."
"Blood Manipulation is weird, but it is the same as Holy Attribute Martial Soul has nothing to do with it, Holy Attribute is the light that purifies and restrains everything Evil, and Blood Manipulation is more inclined to evil, in a sense Said, it's even weirder than our Evil Soul Master's methods. It seems that Zhongli Wu's suspicion is unnecessary. This guy looks even more like Evil Soul Master than us----"
He had already come to a conclusion in his mind, and the mission of this trip was considered completed at this point.
Now you can return to Holy Spirit Cult to report to Zhongli Wu. Lu Ren is not the owner of Holy Attribute Martial Soul, and it is not worth Holy Spirit Cult's big fight.
But----
"That kid's blood - it's really special." Zhang Peng touched his chin, his eyes still staying in the direction where Lu Ren disappeared, "Soul Power transforms into real blood and can freely control its shape and hardness. I have lived for so many years, but I have never seen this ability."
Driven by curiosity, he decided to stay a little longer.
Although he did not intend to take action against Lu Ren, taking a few more looks and studying more would not violate his promise to Mu En.
"Let's keep a closer look. Even if we can't suck his blood, just seeing how far this ability can be developed can be considered a gain in perspective."
Zhang Peng's figure merged into the shadows again and followed him quietly.
The bonfire in the camp is still burning.
When Lu Ren carried the three-meter-long Golden Toad Soul Beast into the camp, everyone thought they were dreaming.
The first person to react was Ji Juechen. He opened his eyes, looked at the giant toad on Lu Ren's shoulder, and then looked at the nonchalant expression on Lu Ren's face. He was silent for a breath, and then closed his eyes again.
This guy.
--
Even if he goes out to take a pee, he can pick up his head Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and come back. Is there anything else that he can't do?
"Xiao Hongchen, come out."
Lu Ren took off Golden Toad Soul Beast from his shoulders and threw it on the ground.
Thousands of kilograms of weight hit the ground, making an extremely dull noise that woke everyone up.
But Lu Ren didn't even breathe randomly, patting the dust on his shoulders as if throwing a bag of potatoes.
The zipper of the tent was suddenly opened, and Xiao Hongchen poked his head out of the tent. "What are you doing? It's so late at night----"
His voice stopped suddenly.
Because he saw the golden giant toad at Lu Ren's feet that was still twitching slightly.
Then he rubbed his eyes and looked again.
It's still there, it's not an illusion.
"This, this is----Golden Toad Soul Beast?!"
Xiao Hongchen rushed out of the tent in one stride, without even having time to put on his shoes. He squatted barefoot in front of the giant toad, his eyes widened and his voice changed.
"It's actually more than 10,000 years old! About 12,000 years old!"
"How is this possible? How could Soul Beast of this level appear on the edge of the Jingyang Mountain Range? How did you catch it?"
He raised his head and stared at Lu Ren with a look that looked at Monster.
Lu Ren recalled the process just now, and the corner of his mouth twitched.
He accelerated with Projection Sorcery, and then Golden Toad Soul Beast was run over like a speed bump in front of his super high speed.
This----you can't tell the truth.
"I sensed it with Spiritual Power, and then I went to capture it.
Lu Ren lied without changing his expression and his tone was very flat.
Xiao Hongchen stood there blankly, his lips trembling several times, but he could not utter a complete sentence.
Then he took a step back and bowed deeply to Lu Ren.
His back was bent at ninety degrees, and his posture was unprecedentedly respectful.
"Thank you!"
Xiao Hongchen straightened up, and for the first time in his always arrogant eyes, he showed sincere gratitude to Lu Ren.
Because when Lu Ren helped him find Soul Ring, he never thought about getting anything in return!
This silent kindness touched him more than any exchange of conditions.
"It doesn't have to be so formal." Lu Ren waved his hand, with a rare hint of discomfort on his face, "Isn't this the purpose of our coming out?"
Xiao Hongchen didn't say any more disgusting words. He just nodded heavily, then turned around and ended the life of this Golden Toad Soul Beast with Soul Tool.
A circle of deep black Soul Ring slowly rose from above the corpse, emitting Youyou's light in the night sky.
Immediately afterwards, he sat down cross-legged and began to absorb Soul Ring.
Others were also alerted by the movement here and got out of their tents one after another.
They saw that Xiao Hongchen had begun to absorb Soul Ring, and then looked at the huge Golden Toad Soul Beast corpse on the ground. They were stunned at first, and then nodded secretly in unison.
This speed is too fast. I have gained something on the first night and the process has been accelerated a lot.
Meng Hongchen walked up to Lu Ren: "Have you met any Soul Ring that suits you along the way?"
"Am I suitable for Soul Ring?" Lu Ren thought for a while and shook his head.
Of course he remembers what Soul Beast is in the Jingyang Mountain Range. Here is a Silver Moon Wolf King that is tens of thousands of years old. The quality is quite good, but it is only good.
At the level of 20,000 to 30,000 years, it is not even as good as his fourth Soul Ring.
The fourth Soul Ring of Lu Ren is Fifty-Thousand-Year. If Fifth Soul Ring is not as old as the fourth Soul Ring, that is not progress, it is regression.
Soul Ring, which Fifty-Thousand-Year doesn't have, is offered to him as Binding Vow, and he is not willing to take it, just to occupy his position.
"Soul Ring, which meets my requirements----it's not that easy to find."
Lu Ren answered casually and his eyes fell on the body of Golden Toad Soul Beast.
He knelt down and began to examine the body carefully.
The onlookers were a little confused. Soul Beast was already dead, so why should we check?
Could it be that he wanted to see if this Soul Beast had any special value?
This is not impossible. The 10,000-year-old Soul Beast corpse can indeed be sold for a lot of money.
Then Lu Ren's movements stopped. He pressed his hand on Golden Toad Soul Beast's left leg, and felt an extremely subtle Soul Power fluctuation on his fingertips.
The fluctuations were extremely faint and secret. If he hadn't been carrying Cursed Energy and his perception of energy was far beyond ordinary Soul Master, it would have been impossible to detect it.
He tightened his five fingers, embedded them deeply into Golden Toad Soul Beast's muscle tissue, and then pulled hard.
A piece of golden light bloomed from his hand.
It was a piece of Soul Bone about the size of a palm. It was crystal clear and had a light golden halo flowing on its surface.
The outline of the skeleton shows the shape of a toad leg bone, and the surface is densely engraved with natural soul patterns, emitting warm and thick metallic energy fluctuations.
Ten thousand years Golden Toad Left Leg Soul Bone!
"It's actually Soul Bone!"
Meng Hongchen exclaimed, she was dumbfounded.
She didn't expect that Soul Beast, which was only about ten thousand years old, would actually explode with a piece of Soul Bone!
This probability is too low. It is also for this reason that no one expected that Lu Ren actually discovered a piece of Soul Bone.
Hearing this, other people also came over one after another, their eyes fixed on the piece of bone in Lu Ren's hand that exuded a pale golden light.
At this moment, they had to lament that Lu Ren was really lucky. Soul Beast was able to bring out a piece of Soul Bone easily.
You must know that the rarity of Soul Bone is unbelievable. How many people have never seen what a Soul Bone looks like in their entire lives, and Lu Ren just went to pee and got back a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast with Soul Bone on it.
Lu Ren looked at the Golden Toad Left Leg Bone in his hand, looked at it over and over for a few seconds, and then casually put away his Storage Soul Tool.
No one said anything about Lu Ren's behavior.
It even feels natural.
This Soul Beast was captured by Lu Ren alone. Soul Bone was also discovered by Lu Ren first. He accepted this Soul Bone without anyone having any objections.
Soul Master World has Soul Master World's rules: Whoever owns things belongs to whom. Unless a distribution plan is agreed upon in advance, teammates will not covet each other's gains.
The time for Xiao Hongchen to absorb Soul Ring is surprisingly short.
Only about half an hour later, the black circle of Soul Ring completely integrated into his body.
Two yellow, two purple, one black, five Soul Ring were slowly spinning at his feet. Being able to get ten thousand years on Fifth Soul Ring was already a considerable gain for him.
Xiao Hongchen opened his eyes, feeling the power rushing through his body, and could not suppress the excitement on his face.
"I finally reached Soul King!" He clenched his fists, and five Soul Rings burst out with dazzling light at the same time. The breath of Soul King level spread wantonly, making the campfire sway, "Hahahaha! I finally broke through to Soul King before the competition!"
Considering that he is less than fifteen years old, he is able to reach the level of cultivation of Soul King level. Although part of the credit must be attributed to the assistance of drugs, it is already a quite astonishing achievement.
For any force, it is the most top-notch talent treatment, enough to put countless peers beyond their reach.
Xiao Hongchen can be called the first genius in the history of the Sun Moon Empire because he is good enough.
However, before Xiao Hongchen could be happy for too long, he saw Lu Ren take out the pale golden piece of Soul Bone.
"This is----"
Xiao Hongchen's smile froze on his face, and his eyes fell on the glowing bone fragment in Lu Ren's hand.
"Soul Bone?"
"I gave it to you what I found on the corpse." Lu Ren threw the Soul Bone away casually, as if what he was holding was not a piece of Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone that could make countless Soul Master fight to the death, but a piece of leftover scrap material.
"It just so happens that you sucked the Soul Ring and Soul Bone that come with it, so this can bring a lot of improvements to your cultivation. You're lucky."
Even though he said that, Lu Ren still felt that it was him Fortune.
If it were anyone else, he probably wouldn't be able to find this piece of Soul Bone.
Soul Bone drew a golden arc in the air and accurately fell into the hands of Xiao Hongchen.
Everyone was stunned, Ju Zi covered his mouth, Keke's eyes widened, Jing Ziyan's hand trembled----
At this time, they only had the same thought in their minds:
Lu Ren just gave away a piece of Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone?
Didn't you even mention the conditions?
Not even asking for any benefits, just throwing it away, like throwing away garbage----
That kind of understatement is not pretending to be generous at all, but it is really not taking this piece of Soul Bone seriously!
"Wait, wait, wait."
Lu Ren's behavior made Xiao Hongchen completely confused. He held the still glowing Golden Toad Left Leg Bone in both hands and stared at Lu Ren with a completely incomprehensible look.
"This is Soul Bone! The ten thousand year level Soul Bone! You are not mistaken, right? You gave it to me? Just gave it to me like this?"
"Yeah, is there a problem?"
Lu Ren looked back with a more confused look.
"What's going on? What's all the fuss about?"
Big, fuss?
You call this a fuss?
Everyone swallowed subconsciously.
Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, give it as you say!
This is Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone. Looking at the entire continent, even a strong person at the Titled Douluo level may not be able to collect a complete set of Soul Bone Set.
It was Soul Master's lifelong dream to own a piece of Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, and now, Lu Ren just gave it to a classmate whom he had just met for a few months without even frowning.
"This----" Xiao Hongchen felt that his hand holding Soul Bone was shaking, "What do you want? I can tell grandpa that even if you want Level 9 Soul Tool in exchange, I will find a way to help you get it----"
Level 9 Soul Tool exchanges for a piece of Soul Bone that is about ten thousand years old. Xiao Hongchen can say this, which shows how confused his mood is now. I am afraid he is not dizzy.
I feel really uneasy holding this Soul Bone and Xiao Hongchen.
In his life experience, no one would ever give away such a valuable thing for nothing, show courtesy for nothing, and be either an adulterer or a thief.
Lu Ren suddenly treated him so well. Could it be that he had other motives?
Even if you slap me a few times or beat me up, I still think it's okay to take this piece of Soul Bone!
But you just gave it to me for free, I'm so panicked----
Hearing Xiao Hongchen say this, Lu Ren rolled his eyes, and the expression on his face seamlessly switched from confusion to speechlessness.
"I don't need it. In my eyes, this Soul Bone is of no use to me at all."
"Also, can you please stop staring at me with that "I'll take it all for you" look? Am I that kind of person?"
What a joke.
In the eyes of Lu Ren, it must be at least a piece of Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone to be worth absorbing, right?
The energy contained in Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone is not of the same order of magnitude as Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone. Only Soul Bone of that level is worthy of him exchanging Binding Vow for a higher level of power.
Just this piece of junk Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone?
Is it worthy for him to absorb it?
Funny.
He doesn't even want to make do with Soul Ring now. The first and second Soul Ring are at the Thousand-Year level and there is no way to do it due to limited conditions. But starting from Fifth Soul Ring, it will take at least one hundred thousand years to start.
This is the death line he set for himself, which means that every Soul Ring in the future is an opportunity for qualitative change. If it is wasted, it will be a lifetime loss.
"----No, no use?" Xiao Hongchen's mouth twitched hard.
The expressions on other people's faces when they looked at Lu Ren were also brilliant and carved out of the same mold.
The corners of their eyes were twitching, their lips were trembling, and they wanted to say something but didn't know how to say it.
In their perception since childhood, Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone is already the top product.
How many soul masters are willing to kill people and buy goods just to fight for a soul bone, how many friends have turned against each other for a soul bone, and how many sects have forged bloody feuds because of a soul bone.
But the fifteen-year-old boy in front of him actually commented on a piece of Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone with the same eyes as he looked at the garbage on the roadside, saying "it's of no use to me."
Xiao Hongchen gritted his teeth, holding the golden piece of Left Leg Bone in both hands, his fingertips turned slightly white from exertion, and there were even tears in his eyes----
He raised his head and looked at Lu Ren. His eyes, which were always Pride, were filled with extremely complex emotions at this moment.
There's gratitude, there's shame, and it's more of something that even he himself can't explain.
He recalled his high-mindedness when he first met Lu Ren. Even in front of Lu Ren, he often treated him with a proud air.
And now, Lu Ren helped him catch Soul Beast in the Jingyang Mountain Range, gave him Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring that was highly compatible with his Martial Soul, and threw the matching Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone into his hand without mentioning any benefits.
This made Xiao Hongchen feel that his previous arrogance was like a joke. Not only was he not as strong as the other party, he was even inferior to him in terms of state of mind!
Xiao Hongchen took a deep breath, then he took a step back and bowed deeply to Lu Ren.
This time it was deeper and more solemn than before. His back was bent at a standard ninety degrees, his arms were close to his sides, and his posture was as respectful as a sect disciple saluting the sect master.
"Lu Ren, from now on, you are my brother!"
Xiao Hongchen's voice was several tones lower than usual, obviously trying his best to suppress his emotions.
But in the next sentence, his voice suddenly increased again, turning into his trademark full of confidence. "I have decided that in a few months, you will be the captain of the reserve team!"
Lu Ren:
"----"
He opened his mouth, trying to explain something.
I want to say that this Soul Bone is really useless to him. I want to say that I didn't go out of my way to help anyone. I want to say that the Golden Toad Soul Beast was the one who bumped into me.
But looking at Xiao Hongchen's expression of gratitude and excitement, as if he was about to make an alliance with him through blood, he swallowed back all his words.
Forget it, I'm too lazy to explain.
It would be nice if Xiao Hongchen could owe him a favor, and it would be more convenient to work with the Sun Moon Empire in the future.
After all, Xiao Hongchen is the direct grandson of Jing Hongchen and the future heir of the Hongchen Family. His favor is not light.
"It's up to you." Lu Ren waved his hand, turned around and walked towards his tent, "After absorbing Soul Bone, go to bed early. I have to find Soul Ring for your sister tomorrow."
"No problem! Brother, you should go to bed early!"
Xiao Hongchen responded loudly from behind, his tone as positive as if he had just been given a booster shot.
Meng Hongchen stood there, with the swaying light of the campfire reflected in his eyes, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth unconsciously.
When she saw her brother finally letting go of his unnecessary arrogance and sincerely recognizing Lu Ren, she felt an indescribable warmth in her heart.
Ju Zi stood on the other side of the fire and witnessed the entire process from beginning to end.
Her eyes stayed on Lu Ren's back for a long time, and then she looked back thoughtfully.
This person was much more complicated than she initially judged. If she just regarded him as a gifted genius, that would probably not be enough.
Just such a simple method can completely win people's hearts. It seems that the other party is not simple.
Ju Zi gave Lu Ren high praise in his heart.
Not only that, at this moment, everyone changed their views on Lu Ren, thinking that he was a person of high moral character.
Soon, Xiao Hongchen began to continue to absorb Soul Bone, while others silently protected him.
At this moment, Lu Ren suddenly came to Ye Guyi.
Under Ye Guyi's doubtful eyes, Lu Ren used Soul Power to send a voice message to her. "Follow me. I've raised you for so long, it's time to play your role."
Hearing this, Ye Guyi's pretty face darkened.
What do you mean you have raised me for so long?
Is this correct?