"Young friend Chen Mo, what are you laughing at?" Dugu Bo asked in confusion. "If these old eyes didn't deceive me, that was an External Soul Bone just now, wasn't it? Can you tell me what ability it has?"
"It is an External Soul Bone, but it's a support type."
Chen Mo held back his laughter. "It just has a rather unusual ability."
Dugu Bo looked curious, but seeing that Chen Mo did not want to say more, he did not press him.
Chen Mo sat cross-legged and began absorbing the Void Tree Sapling's Soul Ring.
The energy of the 15,500-year Soul Ring was more than five times as violent as that of the 9,500-year Ancient Tree of Life!
The instant the Soul Ring's energy surged into his body, searing pain tore through Chen Mo's meridians, as though they were about to burst.
On top of that, a force of space was tearing at his meridians.
Chen Mo gritted his teeth and activated his Divine Tree of Creation Martial Soul, beginning to break down the Soul Ring's energy.
At the same time, Chen Mo began tempering his meridians with ice and fire energy to ease the swelling pain.
The Divine Tree of Creation's roots grew wildly, absorbing and breaking down the violent Soul Ring energy bit by bit.
But just then, a sudden change occurred!
The Void Tree Sapling's spatial energy actually resonated with the Divine Tree of Creation Martial Soul!
The Divine Tree of Creation Martial Soul began shaking violently, and spatial fissures appeared across its trunk.
Chen Mo sensed that his Martial Soul seemed to be undergoing some kind of mutation.
His consciousness seemed to be pulled into a strange space.
There, he saw an incomparably enormous divine tree, its roots piercing countless worlds.
"This is..." Chen Mo's eyes widened.
He could feel that, as his Martial Soul grew stronger, he might be able to use it to put down roots in another world.
It was a wondrous sensation, as though his Martial Soul did not belong solely to this world, but could also connect to other worlds.
Though he could not do it yet, Chen Mo could sense that direction.
The Divine Tree of Creation Martial Soul absorbed the Void Tree Sapling's spatial attribute, improving in quality once again and undergoing a beneficial mutation.
Its roots became more developed, its crown more lush, and a faint spatial force flowed through it.
Four hours later, the Soul Ring was fully absorbed.
Chen Mo opened his eyes and sensed the Fourth Soul Skill within him.
Fourth Soul Skill: Nature Domain.
Effect: Doubled plant-type abilities within the domain, doubled life force recovery speed, and stabilized space within the domain, preventing spatial transfer.
Chen Mo was overjoyed. This Soul Skill was far too powerful!
Not only could it enhance his own plant-type abilities, but it could also prevent enemies from using spatial transfer. It was practically the bane of spatial-type Soul Masters.
Moreover, after absorbing the 15,500-year Soul Ring, Chen Mo's Soul Power had broken straight through to rank forty-five!
Four Soul Rings, a rank forty-five Soul Ancestor!
However, Chen Mo felt that if his Martial Soul had absorbed something with a different attribute instead of the Void Tree Sapling, he might have reached rank fifty or even higher outright.
But when he thought of how he would be able to travel to other worlds once his Martial Soul finished mutating, his heart settled back into his belly.
"It worked?" Dugu Bo asked excitedly. "You really absorbed a 15,500-year Soul Ring?! And you even obtained an External Soul Bone?!"
"It worked, Senior," Chen Mo said with a smile.
Dugu Bo stared at Chen Mo, too shocked to speak.
Six years old, rank forty-five, four Soul Rings with the oldest at 15,500 years, and an External Soul Bone.
This was no longer monstrous talent. This was a miracle!
Chen Mo nodded in satisfaction, then brought up the system panel.
[System panel] [Protagonist: Chen Mo] [Age: 6] [Martial Soul: Divine Tree of Creation (Quality: divine-grade · mutating · space+)] [Innate Soul Power: rank 20] [Current Soul Power: rank 45+ (Soul Ancestor)] [Soul Rings: purple (1,000 years · Man-Eating Flower), purple (4,200 years · Soul Devouring Vine), purple (9,500 years · Ancient Tree of Life), black (15,000 years · Void Tree Sapling)] [Soul Skills:] [First Soul Skill: Life Drain] [Second Soul Skill: Vine Binding] [Third Soul Skill: Life Blessing] [Fourth Soul Skill: Nature Domain] [External Soul Bone: Dandelion Clone (can parasitize others to increase cultivation speed; retrieves Soul Power with interest when recalled)] [Special physique: dual ice and fire immunity, immunity to all poisons.] [Martial Soul Mutation: Divine Tree of Creation fused with the spatial attribute; can put down roots in other worlds in the future] [Systems: Check-in System, Bond System, Diary Fabrication System] [Affection:] [Dugu Yan: 60 (dependence + gratitude)] [Xiao Wu: unknown (not yet met)] [Ning Rongrong: unknown (not yet met)] [Zhu Zhuqing: unknown (not yet met)] [System space: several immortal herbs, Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Leg Bone, Tang Hao's Storage Soul Tool]
Chen Mo looked at the system panel and nodded in satisfaction.
A rank forty-five Soul Ancestor, four Soul Rings, an External Soul Bone, and his Martial Soul had even undergone a beneficial mutation.
At this pace, he had already left Tang San so far behind that he was nowhere in sight.
After returning to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Chen Mo used stabilizing his cultivation as an excuse and went straight back to his room to start writing his diary.
[Year X, month X, day X. Clear skies.]
[Huge gains today!]
[First thing this morning, I helped Dugu Yan completely eliminate the toxins in her body. She even called me Big Brother, haha.]
[She was pretty tsundere at first, but the moment she saw my Soul Rings, she chickened out.]
[After all, I'm a rank forty Soul Ancestor (rank 45 now), while she's only in the teens. What else would she call me if not Big Brother?]
[Then I took the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot and cultivated the "Dual Ice and Fire Immunity Physique." From now on, any Soul Master whose rank isn't higher than mine using ice and fire attributes will just be tickling me, hahaha!]
[As for the other immortal herbs, I left them all in the system space for my future wives. Ahem, ahem, ahem. Anyone interested, hurry up and sign up. The road to godhood is right beneath your feet.]
[While sorting through Tang Hao's Storage Soul Tool, I found Ah Yin's Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Leg Bone!]
[This is good stuff. I'll absorb it when I have time.]
[Then I hunted down my fourth Soul Ring, a 15,000-year Void Tree Sapling!]
[That thing had the spatial attribute and nearly killed me.]
[But in the end, I still sucked it dry with Life Drain.]
[Oh, right, when I killed the World Tree Sapling, it also dropped an External Soul Bone!]
[Dandelion Clone. It can parasitize someone else to increase cultivation speed, and when recalled, it retrieves Soul Power with interest.]
[This skill suits me perfectly. In the future, I can have it parasitize Tang San, then collect everything with interest once his cultivation has grown.]
[Tang San will toil away for decades, only to end up working for me all along, haha.]
[While absorbing the Soul Ring, my Martial Soul underwent a beneficial mutation!]
[My Fourth Soul Skill is Nature Domain. It doubles plant-type abilities within the domain and can also prohibit spatial transfer.]
[My Soul Power went straight to rank forty-five. Four Soul Rings. Awesome!]
[Tomorrow I'll go to the secret chamber and take the Soul Bones out of Tang Hao's body. I'll give two to Dugu Bo and the rest to Dugu Yan. After all, my own Soul Bones have to be at least 100,000 years old.]
[Then I can go to Nuoding City to find Xiao Wu.]
[Such a cute little bunny. Bullying her will definitely...]