"The age is fixed, right?" Ning Fengzhi frowned, "Little Jing Ling's soul spirit is 4799 years old. Does that mean his fourth spirit ring will also be 4799 years old?"
Tang Lan nodded in confirmation.
But everything has its pros and cons.
"What if this soul spirit was exchanged for a 100,000-year soul beast?" Tang Lan countered.
Ning Fengzhi was stunned.
Then, his eyes widened! Right!
A 100,000-year soul beast is something you can only dream of.
If one could have a 100,000-year soul spirit…
Wouldn't that mean they could have 3 to 5 100,000-year soul rings?
Moreover, they'd be more familiar with their own soul skills and could use them more skillfully!
"I'm level 31!" Jing Ling said, surprised. "Little Elephant told me that its age has also broken through, to 4,850 years?"
Huh?
A soul spirit…
Could it even evolve?
Tang Lan couldn't help but sigh at Jing Ling's good fortune.
It was an Innate Soul Spirit!
Just like an innate soul ring, it could evolve as the host grew stronger.
It could only happen to the first soul spirit that was contracted.
The probability…
Was probably equivalent to an external spirit bone.
"Let's call it an Innate Soul Spirit, with characteristics similar to an innate soul ring." Tang Lan decided. "Jing Ling, try out your third soul skill."
That didn't count.
A soul skill still needs to be used on a Soul Master to demonstrate its maximum power.
Jing Ling mentioned this with a strange look in his eyes.
Because his soul skill was very peculiar!
"Sect Master, this soul skill of mine can only be used when the martial soul is attached."
"The effect is..."
Jing Ling summoned his skeleton martial soul, and the martial soul attached to him, donning crude bone armor. Then, his third soul ring lit up!
"Third Soul Skill: Giant Skeleton!"
The black bone armor on his body suddenly expanded, transforming into a half-body skeleton nearly ten meters tall.
Everything was normal up to this point.
Until Tang Lan's gaze shifted upwards.
He saw the ivory, the trunk, everything. It was an elephant head.
He was dumbfounded.
The Susanoo had manifested, but why was it a human body with an elephant head?
Was this some sort of knockoff skin?
"Oh? Interesting," Gu Rong said, beckoning. "Try attacking me."
Jing Ling tried to raise his hand.
The half-skeletal figure also raised its hand, and clumsily swatted down.
Gu Rong summoned a bone shield to test the attack's power.
The sounds of the attacks were loud and impactful.
"Try out the effects of your first and second soul skills," Tang Lan prompted.
"Yes!"
Jing Ling's first soul ring at his feet lit up.
"First Soul Skill: Bone Blade!"
A giant bone blade appeared in the hand of the half-skeleton.
The attack radius increased, and the power was also multiplied.
"Second Soul Skill: Bone Demon Enhancement!"
Between the skeletal frame of the half-body skeleton, a black energy membrane appeared, connecting it all together like skin.
The speed at which the giant bone blade was wielded became faster and heavier.
Oh ho!
Jing Ling's luck was really good. He changed his cultivation direction halfway through, and his first two soul skills could also be linked.
Tang Lan was also thinking – the fifth soul ring would allow Jing Ling to "stand up."
Otherwise, this half-body form still had too many limitations.
As for the fourth soul ring?
He already had his Innate Soul Spirit, so of course, he'd continue to use the Mountain Giant Elephant's.
Thus, his third and fourth spirit rings, like Tang Lan and Zhu Zhuqing's, could also be enhanced with his level.
Once he reached level 95, they would be at least a hundred thousand years old.
Tsk! I didn't expect this first soul spirit to be such a pleasant surprise!
After a dozen or so strikes.
Jing Ling's soul power was exhausted, and he deactivated his soul skills and martial soul fusion.
He bent over, panting heavily.
Gu Rong offered his assessment—
"The initial framework, level 35."
"Including that bone blade, Level 37."
"Using the second soul skill, Level 39."
"I really didn't expect you to be an agility-attack type before."
"I didn't expect the transition to the power-attack type to be so smooth!"
He glanced at Tang Lan.
Jing Ling's seamless transition was ninety-nine percent due to this little monster.
"Indeed, not bad." Ning Fengzhi praised, "Little Jing Ling is practically unmatched among his peers."
"Of course, except for you little monsters, Mubai."
After all, it was just a thousand-year soul ring.
It couldn't make up for the gap in level, martial soul, and foundation.
But Jing Ling was already very satisfied! An Innate Soul Spirit! Like the Sect Master's soul ring, it would increase in years as the host grew stronger! The difference wasn't apparent now.
But when everyone became Soul Douluo and Title Douluo in the future…
When his third and fourth soul rings reached over eighty thousand years, that would be his time to shine! "No rush," Tang Lan said with a smile, "My plan for Jing Ling is to make his third soul skill usable as a Normal Martial Soul True Body."
Normal Martial Soul True Body? Huh? That was truly a wild idea.
But from the current perspective, it was indeed feasible.
"I want a soul spirit too!" Ning Rongrong said expectantly, "Uncle Tang, can you make that Earth Bear into a soul spirit for me?"
Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong didn't object.
Unexpectedly, Tang Lan, the one who proposed it, shook his head in refusal.
"Why?" Ning Rongrong asked, puzzled. "Are you worried that the Earth Bear won't cooperate?"
"That's a consideration, but it's not the main one." Tang Lan said calmly. "Jing Ling, do you think you can still absorb a soul spirit?"
Jing Ling shook his head without hesitation.
"When absorbing the soul spirit, I felt like my mental world was almost burst by the Mountain Giant Elephant."
"Fortunately, Sect Master, you took action."
"Wanting to absorb another soul spirit..."
"At least after I reach the seventh rank of Soul Saint, or even an eighth-rank Soul Douluo, it might be possible."
That's right!
Non-spirit-attribute soul masters can generally only absorb one soul spirit in their lifetime.
Tang Lan naturally knew this.
The reason for going through all this trouble was, of course, to introduce the concept of the "soul spirit."
To get Ning Fengzhi involved.
"I just discovered this myself," Tang Lan said regretfully. "Because soul spirits are housed in the soul, they require a high degree of mental power, and the probability of an Innate Soul Spirit is unknown."
"So, Rongrong, I recommend that you wait until your seventh soul ring before absorbing a stronger soul spirit."
"That way, even if it's not an Innate Soul Spirit, we can still maximize the benefits."
Ning Rongrong nodded thoughtfully.
"Alright, then."
The rest was simple.
Killing soul beasts and absorbing soul rings.
Tang Lan and Gu Rong provided protection throughout the process.
Apart from being stretched and then mended, nothing unexpected happened.
Ning Rongrong couldn't wait to test her third soul skill—
"Nine Treasures rotate to produce glazed tile, third ability: Attack!"
The light fell on Tang Lan and Dai Mubai, permanently increasing their attack power by 40%!
That sudden surge in strength gave Tang Lan the illusion that he could "smash Tang Hao in a head-on fight."
The next second.
Ning Rongrong's Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda dissipated, and she fell backward, stiff as a board.
The amplification vanished along with it.
This sudden change caught everyone off guard.
Only Gu Rong and Tang Lan, one on each side, moved to protect Ning Rongrong.
After a quick check.
They exchanged a strange look.
"It's nothing serious, just an overexertion of soul power," Gu Rong soothed.
Ning Fengzhi breathed a sigh of relief, his gaze turning thoughtfully towards Tang Lan.
This soul power exhaustion... it certainly couldn't be because of Dai Mubai, could it?
He was embarrassed for Tang Lan.
"Well, I didn't expect that either."
"Even though I'm only at rank 59, my soul power reserves are ten times that of others at my level."
"As for my physical strength…"
"I'm still at the level of a seventh-ring Soul Saint."
"Rongrong's soul power is at level 37. If she provides a full boost to me, it can only last for at most a second."
"And that's only if I don't use any abilities."
Tsk! This also indirectly shows how freakishly strong Tang Lan is right now.
"Wait a minute!" Ning Fengzhi called out, "What did you say Rongrong's level was?"
"Level 37, that's correct!" Gu Rong said in a low voice. "Her meridians are normal, her aura is peaceful, and her foundation is solid. There's no overexertion!"
Plus, the one level Ning Rongrong gained when she went from level 29 to 30.
This Qiluo Tulip gave her a total of eight levels?!
And there are no side effects!
Ning Fengzhi looked at Tang Lan with red eyes, his lips trembling several times.
Finally, thousands of words converged into one sentence.
"Eighty thousand years!"
"Old brother will at least find an eighty-thousand-year-old soul bone for you, Lan-di!"
Hearing this, Tang San and the others were filled with envy.
Eighty-thousand-year soul bone!
They had fought tooth and nail for soul bones that were only a few thousand or ten thousand years old.
This eighty thousand years...
Could take their lives!
Tang Lan just smiled, neither agreeing nor refusing.
He changed the subject.
"Big brother, are you interested in developing my Soul Spirit together?"
Ning Fengzhi's spirits lifted!
Could there be such a good thing?
"Brother Lan, tell me, how do you propose we cooperate?"
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