Three days later, on the outskirts of the Soul Hunting Forest north of Heaven Dou City.
Watching her grandfather Ye Linyuan leave with a single sentence, Ye Lingling couldn't help but stomp her Stomping Tantrum lightly. A rare look of helplessness appeared on her usually expressionless face.
"You promised to bring us to the Soul Hunting Forest, but you ran off as soon as you got us there."
She looked in the direction where Ye Linyuan's figure disappeared and couldn't help but mutter something under her breath.
Just now, Ye Linyuan led the two of them smoothly into this Soul Hunting Forest.
Before Lin Mo could even inquire about the specific action plan, Old Master Ye waved his hand and announced that the search for and hunting of Soul Beast would be carried out by the two of them working together.
He would only protect them from the shadows, and would never easily intervene unless the two encountered Soul Beast that they were truly unable to handle.
After saying that, without waiting for the two to react, he vanished in a flash, disappearing into who-knows-where, clearly determined to remain an observer.
Lin Mo, on the other hand, adapted very quickly.
With a thought, a flash of red light appeared, and the Charmander appeared on the open ground at his feet.
As soon as the little guy came out, it sensed the completely different primal atmosphere around it. It immediately raised its head warily, its sharp eyes scanning its surroundings, and a low whimper came from its throat. The flame on its tail also suddenly intensified.
" Sister Lingling, we can just follow the Charmander," Lin Mo reassured the somewhat helpless Ye Lingling.
"It's very sensitive to auras. Having the Charmander help us find suitable Soul Beast is much safer than us wandering around blindly."
Upon hearing this, Ye Lingling's gaze fell on the Charmander, which was swishing its tail and looked eager to try, but her eyes held a clear hint of doubt.
She'd spent quite a bit of time with the Charmander, but in her presence, the little guy mostly just fussed over the jerky, displaying more of a gluttonous and... somewhat adorable side?
As for the little guy's actual fighting ability, she really had no idea.
The Charmander seemed to Frisk Ye Lingling's suspicious gaze. Somewhat annoyed, it turned its head and suddenly opened its mouth towards the empty space beside it—
"Call!"
A burst of scorching flames erupted instantly. Although it wasn't aimed at any specific target, the intense heat and force of the explosion still caused the surrounding air to distort.
Where the flames swept, the weeds on the ground instantly withered and died. Several Ten-Year Soul Beast hiding in the nearby bushes were terrified and fled in a panic, squealing and disappearing in the blink of an eye.
This sudden action startled Ye Lingling, causing her to take a small step back.
Lin Mo quickly squatted down, reached out and rubbed the Charmander's head to calm it down, "Alright, alright, I know you're strong, don't scare Sister Lingling."
After calming down the slightly temperamental Charmander, Lin Mo also managed to bring his wandering thoughts back.
He surveyed the now even quieter surroundings and became extremely alert.
This Soul Hunting Forest was chosen for him by Elder Ye.
According to Elder Ye, the Soul Beast in this Soul Hunting Forest are mainly those with a hundred years of cultivation, while a small number of Thousand-Year Soul Beast may be encountered in the depths of the core area.
However, even Thousand-Year Soul Beast don't have very high cultivation levels; there are very few Soul Beast with more than two thousand years of cultivation.
Otherwise, Ye Linyuan wouldn't have dared to let Lin Mo and his granddaughter team up to hunt Soul Beast here.
However, the most crucial point is that this forest is home to many Earth Dragon -type Soul Beast, and some lucky people have even encountered Subdragon Soul Beast with stronger bloodlines here.
The types of Soul Beast living here perfectly match Lin Mo's needs for his Second Soul Ring.
As for true True Dragon Soul Beast, forget about it.
That level of being could never possibly appear in this artificially created Soul Hunting Forest.
If you really want to find one, the only possible place is a gathering place for Soul Beast like the Star Dou Great Forest.
Incidentally, this Soul Hunting Forest is also one of the places most frequently visited by the disciples of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
Because of the inherent Ability of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul, the Soul Ring they need are mostly Lock-On onto various Earth Dragon Soul Beast.
It's not that I don't want to find Subdragon and True Dragon, it's just that the latter two are too rare and extremely difficult to hunt.
Therefore, they had no choice but to settle for choosing Soul Ring produced by some high-quality Earth Dragon Soul Beast.
As for his choice of his Second Soul Ring, Lin Mo had already given a clear answer three days ago when he asked Elder Ye about it.
They hope to obtain a Soul Ring from Earth Dragon -type Soul Beast with a slightly stronger bloodline, or a sub- Subdragon- type Soul Beast with a slightly weaker bloodline.
He did not choose to further enhance Charmander's flames.
Lin Mo made this decision after careful consideration of the long term.
Because he knew very well that when the Charmander's Soul Power Level reached level 30, it would undergo its first evolution, transforming from Charmander into Charmeleon.
At that time, he will need a reason that is reasonable enough to convince most people.
While one could Sheer Force attribute the evolution to Martial Soul Mutation, Martial Soul Mutation always requires some triggering factor, right?
In this situation, a Soul Ring from a powerful Earth Dragon Soul Beast, or even a slightly weaker Subdragon Soul Beast, becomes the perfect excuse.
The idea that Martial Soul undergoes Benign Mutation after absorbing this type of Soul Ring, due to the absorption of dragon bloodline, is entirely plausible in the Douluo Continent.
The reason he thought in this direction stemmed from Charmander's final evolution— Charizard.
If we take the Martial Soul Bloodline system of the Douluo Continent as an analogy, the process of inheriting Martial Soul Bloodlines is somewhat similar to the Pokémon " Egg Group " concept that Lin Mo knew in his previous life.
Like the Charizard, although it is often joked that "it is not a dragon and cannot Eruption ", judging from the classification of its Egg Group - " Monster " group and "dragon" group, it can still be associated with "dragon".
This can also be seen from the attribute change of Mega Charizard X, one of Charizard's two Mega Evolution forms—its attribute changed directly from Fire/Flying to Fire/Dragon.
This resulted in the Charmander being forced to manifest in the form of Martial Soul due to the influence of the local rules of the Douluo Continent.
From a certain perspective, it can actually be arbitrarily classified as a "dragon-type Martial Soul," but more often it is privately jokingly referred to as a "fire lizard."
It was based on these considerations that Lin Mo ultimately decided to choose a soul ring from Earth Dragon or Subdragon type Soul Beast for his Second Soul Ring Soul Ring.
This paves the way for Charmander's future evolutions and prepares a flawless excuse to shut everyone else up.