[Hextech Excavation System] [Host: Shangguan Hong] [Martial Souls: Golden Spatula, Golden Frying Pan] [Soul Power: Level 35 Soul Elder] [Soul Rings: Yellow (423), Purple (1001), Purple (5000)] [Soul Bone: Left Leg of the Shadow Demon Wolf] [Items: Item Reforger ×1, Lesser Duplicator ×1, Guardian Angel ×1, Giant's Belt ×1, Negatron Cloak ×1] [Hextech: Recombobulator, Reach the Summit, Golden Egg] [Quests: None]
Compared to six years ago, Shangguan Hong's panel had undergone earth-shattering changes! Aside from the increase in his current Soul Power, the annual small excavation granted by the Hextech Excavation System had dug up quite a few treasures for him.
Take the Item Reforger, for example. It was a single-use item that could reforge all sorts of treasures into something entirely different without changing their quality! That was how Shangguan Hong had obtained his hundred-thousand-year Shadow Demon Wolf Left Leg Bone. Back then, relying on the Void's concealing power, he had quietly sneaked into the place in Holy Soul Village where the Blue Silver Emperor's leg bone was stored. After getting his hands on it, he had eagerly reforged the Blue Silver Emperor's Soul Bone! Now, even if Tang Hao stood right here, he would never be able to tell that this Shadow Demon Wolf Left Leg Bone had come from his wife's Soul Bone.
This was an absolutely perfect means of concealment!
Next came the Lesser Duplicator, which could duplicate Soul Bones below the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone tier, or heavenly treasures below immortal-grade herbs. Its copies were absolutely perfect, making it quite a fine item as well.
As for the remaining items, they were equipment-type tools. Worth mentioning was that this equipment could not only work on Shangguan Hong's summons, but could also be used by him personally. The method of combining them was much the same as with the Golden Spatula, though he had dug up that Guardian Angel outright in an incredible burst of luck! It could only be used once every three years, resurrecting him four seconds after death while also providing some increases to attack and defense. It was a genuine divine artifact.
The Giant's Belt and Duplicator Cloak were components, and Shangguan Hong had no plans to combine them for now.
The true headliners remained Reach the Summit, obtained after breaking through to the Soul Grandmaster realm, and the Golden Egg, obtained after breaking through to the Soul Elder realm!
These were two Prismatic Hextech augments, rewards of the highest tier! Although the Recombobulator was no less important to Shangguan Hong than these two, once he possessed sufficient talent, their arrival provided unimaginable help along his path of cultivation.
Reach the Summit: When cultivation reaches levels 29, 39, 49... 99, disregard the rules, forcibly bypass the bottleneck, and immediately grant one level of Soul Power/divine power!
Golden Egg: The ultimate prize requires patience. After ten years, or upon Soul Power breaking through to level 90, the Golden Egg will open, revealing unimaginably generous rewards within!
One supported Shangguan Hong's current cultivation, while the other would provide help capable of changing everything once he had grown. This was simply a perfect pairing! As a fellow Prismatic Hextech augment, Reach the Summit increased Shangguan Hong's cultivation speed by twenty percent and even allowed him to disregard this world's rules. Once he reached level 99 Limit Douluo, he could directly attain godhood at level 100!
Naturally, the Golden Egg that matched it could hardly be weak either. Just how generous were its rewards? Shangguan Hong's current imagination was insufficient to glimpse them.
Everything the system granted was the foundation of Shangguan Hong's confidence in his cultivation now!
However, he had looked at this panel many times already. At present, his attention was mainly on his second Martial Soul, the Golden Frying Pan he had just obtained.
My second Martial Soul is the Golden Frying Pan? Good grief, I could combine these straight into a crown!
Shangguan Hong silently joked to himself, but when he lightly tapped open the Golden Frying Pan Martial Soul's description, he fell into a daze.
Golden Frying Pan: A special Martial Soul, mutually dependent on the primary Martial Soul, Golden Spatula, with 100% compatibility between the two! No additional Soul Beast hunting is required. It will perfectly copy all Soul Rings and attributes of the primary Martial Soul, Golden Spatula! The special Martial Soul, Golden Frying Pan, requires neither switching nor manifesting the Martial Soul to use its Soul Skills! Please note that it cannot be used alongside summons.
Martial Soul passive: All Soul Rings' ages increase as the host's strength rises!
Silence! Silence was today's Shrek Academy; silence was Shangguan Hong now!
Shangguan Hong's mouth went dry, and his head swam.
Twin Martial Souls, mutually sustaining and dependent-this Martial Soul's passive alone was already as sneaky as sneaky could get! Increasing Soul Ring ages-what did that mean? It meant that all of Shangguan Hong's summons would grow stronger at tremendous speed! With his current strength, for instance, Baron Nashor could easily tear apart ordinary ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts, yet this was only a skill granted by a Hundred-Year Soul Ring! What if it were a hundred-thousand-year ring? If he summoned a Baron Nashor equivalent to a hundred-thousand-year being on the Douluo Continent, wouldn't it pin Di Tian to the ground and pound him? Then mate with the Silver Dragon King in front of every Ferocious Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest?
The supposed restriction that his second Martial Soul's Soul Skills could not be used alongside his primary Martial Soul's summons did not matter either. It hardly counted as a drawback, because Shangguan Hong had seen that the two Martial Souls had 100% compatibility! What did that mean? It meant there absolutely had to be a Martial Soul Fusion Skill! Just like that girl tens of thousands of years later with the Twin Martial Souls Evil White Tiger and Hell Spirit Cat, he could use a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
Well then, an overtuned Baron Nashor receiving bonuses from all sorts of traits-this was simply sneaky beyond all bounds.
Yes, for example, the first Soul Skill of Shangguan Hong's current Golden Frying Pan Martial Soul was "Bruiser Aura." While the Soul Skill was active, it could increase teammates' health by 50%, but even that was not the limit. In the future, that number could rise to 80%, 100%, or even 300%...
And the other Soul Skills were just as overtuned as Bruiser Aura!
What did it mean for your Baron Nashor to activate ten Bruisers, ten Sentinels, ten Dominators, ten Vanguards, ten Challengers, ten Executioners, ten Berserkers, ten Mages, and ten Colossi?
The whole point was no technique whatsoever-just the beauty of raw stats!
Looks like my planned fifteen-year road to the peak is toast! With a second Martial Soul this heaven-defying, if I can't hammer the gods to death within ten years, consider the order blown!
So when the time comes, should I refuse to eat beef, or refuse to eat noodles?
Shangguan Hong brimmed with lofty ambition. Sure enough, the power granted by the system was the real deal. Cultivating on his own and all that was utterly lame!
The corners of his mouth were as hard to hold down as an AK, ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun in the sky.
Just as Shangguan Hong was indulging in fantasies of kicking Bibi Dong around ten years later, pummeling the Clear Sky Sect, and devouring the entire continent with the power of the Void, a powerful fluctuation of Soul Power suddenly erupted.
The teacher named Li Yusong, who was responsible for Shrek's admissions, revealed his Soul Emperor cultivation and forced back all the prospective students who had failed the assessment, along with their parents. He pocketed their ten Gold Soul Coin registration fees in a thoroughly ugly display. The many prospective students and parents left cursing, and the queue suddenly grew much shorter.
Soon, it was Tang San and Xiao Wu's turn.
"Teacher, here's our registration fee!"
Tang San dropped the Gold Soul Coins into the registration box and looked at Li Yusong with confidence all over his face. Dai Mubai, who stood to one side keeping order, gave him a friendly smile. Events unfolded as expected, and Tang San and Xiao Wu passed the entrance assessment with ease.
Next was Shangguan Hong!