When the sun rose, coloring the vast canvas of dark sky, a new day had come. When all the students were sleeping and the academy was as silent as possible, a pair of legs was walking towards the gate, leaving the academy in its silence.
After walking for a minute or so, he found a cart and went to the hunting ground to hunt for his first soul ring. After an hour of journey, he reached the hunting ground. In front of him was a massive wall surrounding the whole forest with only one entry and exit gate. Surrounding it were the people selling and buying gear, some forming teams to hunt for soul beasts. Ignoring these, Tang Yin went towards the gate.
"Children, where are your companions? Soul hunting ground is very dangerous. You are not thinking of going inside alone, are you?" Asked the guard looking towards Tang Yin.
"I have the hunting permit issued from the soul hall. I am going alone as I don't need a high-level or dangerous soul beast, so you don't need to worry about me, brother." Tang spoke showing his permit to the guard.
Seeing the permit and hearing his words, the guard let Tang Yin inside the ground. After walking a certain distance, he started becoming extremely wary, as in hunting, even if there were very few high-level spirit beasts, like a thousand-year-old soul beast, there were many hundreds and ten-year-old beasts. In his current stage, even a ten-year-old can kill him. He took out his spear he had purchased in the market yesterday and started walking slowly.
After walking for a whole day, he still could not find a suitable soul beast, so he set up a small tent and spent the night in the forest. At night, he could hear many voices and the howl of wolves, but fortunately, no spirit beast came near him. As such, the first night in the forest was spent.
Early the next morning, he again started to search for a suitable soul beast. After searching for some time, he saw his first soul beast, a ten-year old blood sucking vine. It had grown to 5 meters tall and was 50 years old. Upon seeing it and learning of its age, he left from afar, thinking that if he could not find a suitable spirit beast, then he would use this as his first spirit ring.
After an hour, as if the goddess of luck had smiled at him, he saw another spirit beast. A 500-year-old star-rain willow tree. Star-rain Willow trees usually grow 1 meter every 10 years until they reach 100 years old, then they grow 1 meter every 100 years. The one in front of him was 15 meters high and starting to reach 15.5 meters high. So it should be around 500 to 550 years old. As Tang Yin looked at the willow tree, he noticed that the willow tree was heavily injured in its main trunk. There was a huge wound from which its sap was flowing continuously. Its life aura was decreasing rapidly.
The willow tree was the best type of soul ring that he could find in the hunting ground. The star-rain willow tree cultivates by absorbing the power of the sun, moon, and the stars, so if he undergoes mutation and obtains this ability, then the slow cultivation of his soul will be gone.
As he was thinking this, he saw that the soul beast was at its last breath, so he resolutely delivered the final blow by piercing the tree and completely breaking its main trunk. "Even if the age of the soul ring is higher than the regular age of the first ring, I believe that with my physique, I can absorb it." Slowly, the yellow spirit power from the body of the soul beast was flowing out from his body, and slowly it was taking the form of the spirit ring.
Tang Yin started sitting in the meditation posture and started drawing the power of the spirit beast and the soul ring towards him. When the spirit ring reached him and surrounded his martial soul, it started putting huge pressure on. The sound of bone breaking was coming from his body. Blood was flowing from his eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and other holes. The impurities in his body were coming out from his body, and his meridians were widening. At this moment, the soul ring stopped putting pressure and was being absorbed by him.
Suddenly, the sap from the already dead willow tree was flowing towards him and being absorbed into his heart. Slowly replacing his heart and converting into something else. This continued for a whole day. Tang Yin, in his spirit sea, was surprised to find that his heart had been replaced by the heart bone from the willow tree. Is this the attached bone? But how could it be in the shape of a heart?
The attached heart bone was made of sapphire with the pattern of a willow leaf in it. It gave a very gentle aurora. As it was full of life energy, it helped strengthen his body, upgrading it to a new height. Soon, new pieces of information were coming into his mind about his soul skill.
Finally, in the middle of the night, he slowly opened his eyes after finally finishing his soul ring and comprehending it. His face showed a rare, genuine smile, being satisfied with the soul skill gained. He slowly summoned his martial soul. His blue silver plant was looking like a small tree with beautiful leaves. It has clearly grown from its two-leaf stage. A dark yellow spirit ring slowly rose from his feet and up to his head. As he activated his soul skill, the yellow soul ring glowed, and a leaf of the blue silver plant, glowing with a faint blue light, slowly emerged from his martial soul, containing the power to nullify all the negative effects. Its degree of nullifying depended on the soul master; the higher the spirit master, the greater the effect.
"I can now be basically immune to the negative effects like poison of the soul master up to grandmaster level soul master. Such a heavenly skill. The star-rain willow has also caused my martial soul to mutate; now it can basically cultivate using the power of the sun, moon, and stars more easily." He took out a small knife from his pocket and cut his hand, which gradually started to heal on its own, and after some time, it looked like there was never a wound in his hand. "Now, because of the attached bone to all the injuries will gradually heal, and to kill me, they will probably have to destroy my heart completely, and it can also store the soul power, then I will have two places to store soul power. One place more than other people. Let me check its other ability."
As he activated his second heart bone skill, 50 blue silver leaves appeared in front of him and slowly started transforming into a blade. He threw them towards the tree. The blades fled towards the tree at an extremely fast towards the tree, piercing it.
"Wow, so fast, and its sharpness is also great. It can be used as a self-defense method from now on. I finally got an attack method, now I don't have to be scared as before."
After getting the soul ring, he started returning towards the exit gate, leaving the hunting ground and returning to the academy.