Lu Yu truly felt like crying, but no tears would come. His Martial Soul was awesome, but he couldn't use it.
How was this any different from Gangzi's Luo Sanpao? It was the embryonic form of the Golden Sacred Dragon, but Gangzi was so useless that he couldn't figure out how to use it.
Now Lu Yu was the same. His Martial Soul's characteristics were awesome, but he was too useless to use it.
"One level of Soul Power is 100 jin. By the time I reach level 10, the Ruyi Staff will weigh 1,000 jin. How the hell am I supposed to lift that?"
Lu Yu tilted his head back and heaved a long sigh.
"Am I really going to be stuck as a summoner?"
As Lu Yu pondered his future, Great Sage began squeaking anxiously, his cries coming in rapid bursts. Lu Yu looked down at him in confusion.
Great Sage was frowning as he watched a particular direction warily. Lu Yu followed his gaze.
His pupils immediately contracted. Five meters away, a bloody rabbit lay on the ground, moving. A bright red trail of blood marked the dirt behind it.
A golden ant the size of an apple was perched on the rabbit's head. As far as Lu Yu knew, judging by its appearance, it was undoubtedly an ant, but what ant was as big as an apple and golden all over? Countless ants were also crawling around the rabbit.
"Holy crap, what kind of ant is that? It's huge! And that color can't be right, either?!"
Lu Yu's cry of surprise immediately alerted the ant colony. The ants stopped at once and warily surrounded their prey. The largest golden ant waved the antennae on its head and surveyed its surroundings.
As soon as the ants stopped, Lu Yu took Great Sage and hid behind a rock. Peeking out with half his head exposed, he marveled at the ants as they assumed a defensive posture.
"That size, and that gleaming golden shell... Could it be a Soul Beast? It's so small. Is it even ten years old?"
Lu Yu thought for a moment and decided to give it a try. He would kill the golden ant and see if it dropped a Soul Ring. Even if something so small was a Soul Beast, it definitely wouldn't be able to catch him.
After some thought, Lu Yu lowered himself and leaned close to Great Sage's ear. "Great Sage, make the Ruyi Staff bigger and longer in a moment, then give him a whack with it. Keep the noise down..."
Great Sage's eyes lit up. Following Lu Yu's instructions, he controlled the Ruyi Staff, making it bigger and longer.
From the earlier experiment, Lu Yu had confirmed that the Ruyi Staff's weight increased with Soul Power Level. But for some reason, though its weight didn't change in Great Sage's hands, he could ignore that weight.
It was as though the Ruyi Staff were part of Great Sage himself, responding as readily as his own arm.
In the end, the Ruyi Staff grew to 20 centimeters wide and 10 meters long. Great Sage wrapped both his tiny monkey paws around its lower end and slowly smashed it down toward the ants.
The Ruyi Staff now weighed a full 900 jin in Great Sage's hands. Lu Yu refused to believe that such a small Soul Beast in Douluo, the sewer of fantasy worlds, could withstand 900 jin of weight.
Boom-
Though the movement was gentle, the 900-jin weight still landed with a tremendous crash. The surrounding trees swayed from side to side, and leaves came rustling down.
"Great Sage, grind it back and forth some more. Crush the other ants too."
Lu Yu wasn't confident. After all, this was his first encounter with a Soul Beast. The blow weighed 900 jin, but it wasn't the ten thousand possibilities one feared, just the one in ten thousand. What if the ant had withstood it?
To be safe, he had to test it some more!
Lu Yu had already died once. He had no idea whether he would transmigrate again if he died in this life, and he treasured his little life all the more now.
Rumble, rumble, rumble...
Great Sage controlled the Ruyi Staff, rocking it from side to side and grinding it back and forth five or six times. Lu Yu was just about to tell him to lift the staff so they could first see how things stood.
Before he could speak, wisps of white mist rose from beneath the Ruyi Staff. They quickly formed a white Ten-Year Soul Ring above it.
"Holy crap, it really was a Soul Beast. White? Well, it was so small, after all."
The appearance of the Soul Ring proved that the Soul Beast was completely dead. Only then did Lu Yu put away the Ruyi Staff with a thought and hurry over.
Looking at the crushed track on the ground, one meter wide and ten meters long, Lu Yu was overjoyed. The weight alone had produced such power. If he combined it with Flowing Cloud Seven Tremors, the martial art he had learned in his previous life, he could hardly imagine how powerful it would be.
Looking at the slowly rotating Ten-Year White Soul Ring before him, Lu Yu curiously crouched down to examine it closely, then reached out and poked it. His finger passed straight through, as though he were poking the air. He felt nothing at all.
Even wind could be felt when it touched the body, but the Soul Ring before him could only be seen, not touched.
"How amazing!" Lu Yu exclaimed.
Looking at the Soul Ring before him, then down at Great Sage, Lu Yu had a peculiar idea.
Since he had Twin Martial Souls, what would happen if he added nothing but Ten-Year White Soul Rings to his first Martial Soul?
When Lu Yu became a Titled Douluo, other people's Soul Rings would be "yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black" when they released their Martial Souls, while Lu Yu's would be white across the board.
Never mind a Titled Douluo. Even as a level 40 Soul Elder with four Ten-Year White Soul Rings around him, once he released his Martial Soul, enemies who saw those four White Soul Rings would wonder if a spiritual-type Soul Master had dragged them into an illusion.
One Ten-Year Soul Ring, and people would laugh at him. Two, and they would stare blankly for a moment before laughing. Three, and the other party would lose confidence. Four, and their eyes would turn serious. Five, and they would warily look around. Six...
Thinking of his future enemies seeing his entirely Ten-Year White Soul Rings, Lu Yu's lips slowly curled upward. Even if a Titled Douluo came along, that Soul Ring Configuration would leave them staring blankly for a moment.
Besides, Lu Yu had studied martial arts at a martial arts school in his previous life. In Douluo, those martial arts moves could become Self-Created Soul Skills when performed with Soul Power, right?
Although he hadn't verified it, judging by how Tang San could cultivate techniques and martial arts from another world in Douluo, there shouldn't be a problem.
That way, Lu Yu wouldn't lack Soul Skills. Even if his Soul Rings were of a low age, he could eat an Immortal Herb later and then tag along on a divine trial to increase their age.
There was another point that Lu Yu cared a great deal about. From what he knew of Douluo, whether an ordinary person could become a Soul Master depended on whether they had Innate Soul Power. Only those with Innate Soul Power could continue cultivating.
Cultivation was for absorbing Soul Rings and thereby reaching higher levels. In other words, "as long as you have Soul Power, you can absorb Soul Rings." Only the quality of the Soul Rings differed.
Lu Yu himself now had level 1 Soul Power, while Great Sage had level 9. In a sense, did that mean Lu Yu himself could absorb one set of Soul Rings, and Great Sage could absorb another?
After pondering for a long time, Lu Yu made his decision. Either way, it was only a Ten-Year Soul Ring. He would certainly be somewhat weak at the start, but as long as he kept his head down and survived, he could eat an Immortal Herb later and tag along on a divine trial to increase the age of all his Soul Rings.
Taking a deep breath, Lu Yu recalled Great Sage into his body. Strength instantly filled him. Lu Yu sat down cross-legged and calmed his excitement. This was a fantasy world. Even if it was the sewer, it was still fantasy!
Even if your finger could produce fire, even if it was only a tiny flame like a lighter's, you would show it off everywhere every day.
When lighting a cigarette, you would unconsciously straighten your back and stand in the most conspicuous spot to do it!!!