"real?"
After hearing Qing Tianfeng's words, Qing Mu's heart suddenly became happy.
If it is really as Qing Tianfeng said, he won't have to wait half a year to go to the Soul Hunting Forest. He can obtain the soul ring half a year in advance and become a real soul master.
Qing Tianfeng smiled and nodded, saying, "Of course it's true. I, your father, would never lie to you. Your mother also knows about this. Tomorrow we will set off to that forest to hunt souls for you!"
"That's great, Bulbasaur, we're about to get our first spirit ring."
Hearing this, Qingmu immediately raised the Bulbasaur in his arms high up, spinning around and speaking excitedly.
"Dana, dana~"
Bulbasaur was also very excited. With the first soul ring, Qingmu's level would no longer be limited to level ten, and he could also learn more special moves.
The next day, a relatively luxurious carriage drove out of the Qingmu family's castle and headed towards the soul beast forest that Qing Tianfeng mentioned.
In the carriage, Qing Tianfeng explained, "That soul beast forest is quite far away. It will take us about ten days to reach our destination."
"Ten days? Doesn't that mean we have to go abroad?"
Xu Yao said in surprise.
Although the carriage they were riding in was not as fast as they were traveling on their own, they could still leave the Haagen-Dazs Kingdom in ten days.
Qing Tianfeng shook his head and said, "Not yet, but almost there. Our destination this time is a small forest extending from the Xingdou Mountains, only a few hundred miles away from the Gulei Kingdom."
The Star Dou Great Mountain Range, although it sounds very similar to the Star Dou Great Forest, is actually very different from the two.
The Starry Sky Mountains are a huge mountain range that crosses several countries. However, because it is located in the Haagen-Dazs Kingdom and passes by the edge of the Starry Sky Forest, it is called the Starry Sky Mountains.
Although there are soul beasts living there, both the types and numbers of soul beasts are far less than those in the Star Dou Great Forest. Even ten thousand year old soul beasts are not very common.
The place they went to this time was an edge area within an edge area, and it was very safe.
However, Qing Mu didn't care too much about this. It was only ten days, which was better than him waiting for half a year.
"I wonder how much my soul power will increase after I obtain my first soul ring?" Qing Mu thought to himself.
Generally speaking, a soul master will only be promoted by one level at most after adding a soul ring, but Qing Mu is different. After reaching the bottleneck, he trained with Bulbasaur for another half a year.
Judging from the speed at which Bulbasaur is improving, they have accumulated a lot of experience in the past six months, and are just waiting to burst out after absorbing the spirit rings.
In a blink of an eye, ten days had passed and Qingmu and his friends finally arrived at their destination.
It was a lush forest, and from the outside it looked no different from other forests, but even in such a forest, there lived terrifying soul beasts.
"Let's go!"
The carriage was parked in a nearby town. Under the leadership of Qing Tianfeng, Qing Mu and Xu Yao entered the forest.
As soon as he entered the forest, Qing Mu saw some ten-year soul beasts living in groups, and he couldn't help but look curious.
Apart from the hundred-year-old shadow leopard, this was the first time he saw a living soul beast.
Looking at Qingmu's expression, Qing Tianfeng smiled and explained to Qingmu: "That is a ten-year-old green goat. Although its attributes are the same as your Bulbasaur, the age difference is too great. If we want to find a good soul beast, we have to go further."
As he went deeper, Qing Mu saw more soul beasts, including a thirty-year-old golden iron rat, a fifty-year-old wood vine snake, an eighty-year-old wind-chasing eagle, and a hundred-year-old blue rainbow falcon...
But these soul beasts were directly ignored by Qing Tianfeng and Xu Yao.
In the eyes of Qing Tianfeng and Xu Yao, how could these trash be worthy of their genius son? In order to serve as their son's first soul ring, it must be at least two hundred years old, and the attributes must also match.
Finally, after walking in the forest for most of the day, Qing Tianfeng and Xu Yao finally found a soul beast that caught their eye.
A blue-black vine with strange fruits appeared in the three people's sight, emitting a cold breath like a snake, which made people shudder.
Then, Qing Tianfeng asked Qing Mu, "Son, this is a ghost vine that is over two hundred years old. It has the attributes of wood and poison, which matches the attributes of your Bulbasaur. It can be used as your first spirit ring."
Although Yu Xiaogang had already announced the so-called maximum number of years for absorbing spirit rings, Qing Tianfeng, Xu Yao, and most spirit masters just treated it as a joke, and no one would really look for it according to the standard published by Yu Xiaogang.
The reason is very simple, because the maximum number of years for soul ring absorption published by Yu Xiaogang can only prove that someone has absorbed a soul ring for 423 years before, and even the source of these 423 years is unknown.
In this situation, no one would let their descendants do such a dangerous thing just to verify Yu Xiaogang's words.
After all, no one knows whether Yu Xiaogang's 423 years are true or not, but there are many examples of people being seriously injured or even dying due to absorbing 200-year or 300-year soul rings.
In reality, the specific number of years of spirit rings to absorb still depends on the spirit master's judgment based on his own experience.
Generally speaking, as long as the first soul ring is a hundred years old, even if it has just entered the hundredth year, it is already a pretty good start.
If the first soul ring is older, it would naturally be better, but even if it is not, the impact is not that big.
Anyway, as long as it's not a ten-year soul ring, it's fine. After all, the difference between a hundred years and ten years is still huge.
At this time, Xu Yao also said to Qing Mu: "Mu'er, with the characteristics of your Bulbasaur, there are not many soul beasts that can adapt to it, and this ghost vine is one of them!"
Xu Yao and Qing Tianfeng argued countless times about the choice of their son's first soul ring before they finally reached a consensus, which was to find a soul ring between two hundred and three hundred years old with the dual attributes of wood and poison as Qing Mu's first soul ring.
In fact, if it is for safety, Qing Tianfeng and Xu Yao can choose a soul beast that is 150 years old. This is not only safe, but also the soul skills are not bad. Many children from big families also make this choice.
But Qing Tianfeng and Xu Yao felt that their son was a genius and naturally could not be judged according to the standards of ordinary people, so they raised the age limit to two hundred to three hundred years.
However, facing his parents' questions, Qing Mu shook his head and said, "Mom and Dad, although this ghost vine is good, it is not suitable for me now!"
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