Chapter 72: Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, Two Extreme Attributes!
"Huh, I seem to sense a faint, almost imperceptible trace of Luck. Which little guy's Martial Soul has such Heaven-Defying ability? And it also seems to possess strong mental power talent."
At this moment, near the Lake of Life, a plump, large white worm suddenly opened his eyes.
Around him, a group of Fierce Beasts was absorbing his life essence.
Tianmeng Iceworm!
He had finally escaped his natural enemies in the Extreme North—eating and sleeping, sleeping and eating—and after an unknown amount of time, his cultivation finally reached nine hundred and ninety thousand years. Then, he traveled across the sea to the Star Dou Great Forest, only to be captured.
Don't let his high cultivation fool you; he possesses both mental and ice attributes. However, limited by his racial talent, he can't even defeat a Hundred-thousand-Year Soul Beast, and he's not even a match for some special ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts.
It sounds quite laughable—despite having nine hundred and ninety thousand years of mental power and ice attribute cultivation, his strength is truly that weak.
However, during these years, while being absorbed, he wasn't without thoughts of escape. Shortly after being captured, he tried to use his mental power to stir up a beast tide, hoping to escape in the chaos. But no one expected that the hundred-thousand-year and other high-level Soul Beasts that came would all chase after him, as if his flesh possessed some kind of magical allure.
The result was obvious: he was captured again, and his life essence was consumed by the surrounding Soul Beasts.
According to his calculations, if this continued, in about another ten thousand years, he would likely be completely depleted. He had to find a way to escape this place!
Just as his mental power was wandering, he sensed a surge of Luck in a corner of the Star Dou Great Forest. This feeling was very strange; he didn't know why only he could perceive it.
He noticed that the Fierce Beasts around him seemed to show no reaction to it.
Opportunity!
This was his chance to escape!
Perhaps because he leaned more toward being a mental-type Soul Beast, his mental detection range was incomparable to that of the several great Fierce Beasts around him.
He silently extended his mental power, achieving an effect similar to Soul Emergence.
Then, his mental perception range reached the vicinity of the Sacred Forest.
Coincidentally, he overheard the conversation between Qian Daoliu and Dugu Bo, and his gaze fell upon Hu Bai.
With long, snow-white hair and dressed in a white robe embroidered with luxurious patterns, Hu Bai was a rather handsome little boy.
Of course, for the Tianmeng Iceworm, this wasn't the main point!
The key was, what was Hu Bai's Martial Soul? Why did he possess Luck? And why did he exude mental power fluctuations surrounded by a large amount of natural elements?
Even with Tianmeng Iceworm's extensive knowledge, he had never heard of any Martial Soul possessing such abilities!
Controlling Luck is generally attributed to an Auspicious Beast, but isn't this ability usually exclusive to specific Soul Beasts?
As for mental power, he wouldn't even mention it; although such Martial Souls are rare, he could certainly list some.
But the surrounding elemental affinity was excessive; all natural elements were incredibly close to this kid!
Was this guy's Martial Soul a mental-type Martial Soul or an elemental-type Martial Soul?
With his mental power, although he couldn't discern the Martial Soul of the person before him, he could perceive many things.
Moreover, this person, like him, had fair skin and a handsome appearance, which was to his liking.
Of course, Tianmeng didn't perceive the Extreme Ice and Extreme Fire elemental application abilities.
Hu Bai: ???
Thanks for the invitation, but I am not a big worm.
If Hu Bai knew that Tianmeng Iceworm was thinking this, he would be speechless and complain that he was a hundred times more handsome than Tianmeng Iceworm!
And just then, as the soul ring absorption entered its final stage, a very strong Holy Light suddenly erupted from Qian Renxue's body!
"Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap! How is this possible? This human actually achieved an Extreme Breakthrough in her attributes just by absorbing a fourth soul ring!" Tianmeng Iceworm's eyes nearly popped out.
Yes.
After Qian Renxue finished absorbing her fourth soul ring and External Soul Bone, her attributes, already infinitely close to Extreme, broke through!
Holy and Light Dual Extreme!
Tianmeng Iceworm could not be mistaken because his natural enemy, the Ice Jade Scorpion clan, all possessed the Extreme Ice attribute, so he was most familiar with Extreme attributes. {T/N: I don't think the author has done much research on the original work. As far as I know, in the Ice Jade Scorpion clan, those with cultivation levels between 10,000 and 99,999 years should possess quasi-extreme attributes, while those with 100,000 years or above should have true extreme attributes}
Of course, although the Ice Jade Scorpion clan all possessed the Extreme Ice attribute, the varying strengths between individuals led to different levels of power in their Extreme Ice attributes.
It's a simple truth: the Ice Empress's Extreme attribute must be superior to that of her own clan members, and the richness of her Extreme attribute must certainly be higher than that of an ordinary Ice Jade Scorpion.
At this moment, Qian Daoliu, who also possessed the Seraphim Martial Soul like Qian Renxue, felt an absolute suppression from her attributes!
This suppressive force was completely on a different level than what he had felt before!
This made his eyes light up slightly; was this the difference between Extreme and non-Extreme?
Qian Renxue also opened her eyes, filled with joy, and stood up. Without a word, she walked directly to Hu Bai and embraced him.
This sudden embrace made Hu Bai a little shy.
"Sister Xue, what's wrong?"
Qian Renxue said softly, "This External Soul Bone has a share of your contribution. Although I am young, I know that the probability of a Soul Beast producing a Soul Bone is not very high—probably only one in ten thousand—and the probability of an External Soul Bone is even more negligible."
Hu Bai thought to himself, "You're not small at all."
"Then, Sister Xue, have you named this Soul Bone? And what is your fourth Soul Skill?"
Hu Bai's words were what everyone present was most curious about.
Qian Renxue released Hu Bai and smiled, "My fourth Soul Skill is called—Angel's Free Will. It's a control-type Soul Skill. As for this External Soul Bone, I'll just call it Radiance Wing."
Through Qian Renxue's explanation, everyone also learned the effect of this fourth Soul Skill: the power of Holy Light transforms into golden threads to bind opponents, which can be linked with her Light's Shackles.
Although the Soul Skill was somewhat repetitive, its emergence made Qian Renxue's Divination: Light's Shackles even more powerful.
As for the Radiance Wing, it not only increased her speed but also boosted all her attributes by fifty percent. This was only its current effect; with further development, it should gain additional effects.
And as expected, Qian Renxue's soul power level immediately reached level fifty!
Her next goal was to delve deeper into the Sacred Forest and hunt a strong attack-type Light Soul Beast.
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