Their eyes instantly lit up. Feng Piaoling said, "These are the soul tools I have prepared for you. The first item is the Green Scale Armor, and the second is the Cloud-Treading Boots. They can respectively amplify your defense and speed by twofold. They will be sufficient for you to use until you reach the Soul King rank."
"The third item is something I crafted based on your martial souls and personal situations. For Nannan, Susu, Luoluо, and Xiao Xiao, it is a modified version of the Thunder Tribulation Sword. Chutian gets a pair of gauntlets. Yun'er gets gloves. Zhu Lu, Wang Gang, and Cui Yajie get clawed gauntlets."
"Just like the Green Scale Armor and the Cloud-Treading Boots, these are all amplification-type soul tools, capable of increasing your attack power by twofold."
"Thank you, benefactor."
"Thank you, Brother Feng."
"Long live the boss."
The nine individuals who received the soul tools were indescribably happy, the joy and excitement on their faces almost overflowing into their expressions.
Ju Zi looked at the nine people who were showing genuine smiles, and then turned her gaze toward Feng Piaoling. Taking advantage of the moment while the nine of them were looking for cover to equip their soul tools, she said to Feng Piaoling with a complex gaze, "You all really have a wonderful relationship."
"After all, we've been through life and death together," Feng Piaoling smiled.
He then added, "Didn't I prepare something for you too? The fully automatic Class 5 stationary soul tool, the Vulcan Gatling."
"Once this thing is charged, even an ordinary soldier can use it. It can be called a weapon of the battlefield. Aren't you afraid I'll hand it over to that personage?"
Ju Zi winked her right eye at Feng Piaoling.
"Since I gave it to you, it naturally belongs to you. How you use it, or whom you gift it to, is entirely your freedom."
Feng Piaoling was completely unconcerned.
In truth, aside from the high difficulty of replicating the Vulcan Gatling, Feng Piaoling had also built in a self-destruct mechanism. Should anyone attempt to dismantle it without following the prescribed steps, it would automatically detonate.
Ju Zi naturally knew nothing of this. She let out a soft snort, her lips curling upward as she said, "This is something you gave me. I won't hand it over to anyone."
A moment later, Jiang Nannan and the others were all fully dressed. Because the Green Scale Armor would automatically adapt to the size of the wearer's body.
Therefore, after putting the Green Scale Armor on close to the skin, wearing an outer coat over it basically made it invisible.
As for the Cloud-Treading Boots, they looked just like a pair of ordinary boots from the outside. Unless one looked very closely, it was difficult to tell they were soul tools.
As for the clawed gauntlets, gauntlets, gloves, and the Thunder Tribulation Swords, they were all stored inside the storage soul tools they carried with them.
When the need arose, they could just take them out and use them.
Feng Piaoling looked at everyone and said, "This time we are going to the Jing Yang Mountain Range. There are numerous soul beasts there, which should be sufficient to help you find suitable soul rings. I will now use a flying soul tool to take you there. Once we are near the Jing Yang Mountain Range, I'll set you down, and we will proceed on foot."
As he spoke, Feng Piaoling raised his hand and produced a shuttle-shaped soul tool about a meter in length.
Under everyone's astonished gazes, Feng Piaoling casually threw it out. The shuttle-shaped soul tool rapidly expanded, and in the blink of an eye, it became several dozen feet in size.
This was the only Class 6 soul tool Feng Piaoling had crafted, the Wind-Shunning Shuttle.
It could freely control its own size.
Its maximum speed could match the flying speed of an agility-attack system Soul Saint possessing a flying martial soul after activating their Martial Soul True Body. However, its flaw was equally obvious.
Once enlarged, its speed would decrease drastically.
According to Xuan Ziwen's estimation, if this soul tool wanted to completely evade this flaw, it would have to be upgraded to a Class 9 soul tool.
And when that time came, this would be the fastest soul tool in the history of the soul master world.
...
Just as Feng Piaoling and his group were heading toward the Jing Yang Mountain Range to hunt for soul rings, another person had likewise embarked on a journey to hunt for soul rings.
The Far North, an ancient primeval forest covered in ice and snow.
Huo Yuhao, whose body was wrapped in a thick cotton coat, felt as though he was about to freeze solid. With just a slight breath, white water vapor would exhale from his mouth and nose, instantly turning into fine ice shards and scattering in the air.
Huo Yuhao pulled the hood of his cotton coat down to block the bitter cold wind, but the icy, freezing air kept piercing into his body like knives.
"Brother Tian Meng, have we arrived yet? I... I'm about to freeze to death."
Huo Yuhao's teeth chattered.
At this time, eleven months had already passed since Huo Yuhao enrolled in Shrek Academy.
Shrek Academy had entered its vacation period.
Taking advantage of this vacation, Huo Yuhao had come to this place under the guidance of the Tian Meng, just like in the original timeline.
The result was that just at the periphery of the Far North, Huo Yuhao could already no longer bear it.
Let alone going deep into the interior to find the Ice Empress.
"Just hold on a bit longer, we'll be there soon." The Tian Meng was also very helpless. Originally, with its molted skin present, resisting the cold of this Far North would not have been an issue.
But the problem was that now, merely wandering around the exterior was already so difficult.
What could be done about this?
Most crucially, even if they met the Ice Empress, it wouldn't dare let Huo Yuhao get close. Without the molted skin to trap the Ice Empress, stepping forward rashly would be courting death.
The other party wouldn't give it a chance to speak; she would directly swallow it along with Huo Yuhao alive.
Life as a beast is full of hardships!
The Tian Meng lamented in its heart.
Huo Yuhao, however, truly could not hold on any longer. "Brother Tian Meng, yesterday, you said the exact same thing."
The Tian Meng used reverse psychology, saying, "If I tell you to walk, then walk. Why so much nonsense? At such a young age, to be so loose and negligent upon encountering a single setback, how will you obtain a second martial soul in the future?"
"Think about your mother, think about your second brother who shared joys and sorrows with you, think about Zhou Yi, and think about that fellow Feng Piaoling."
"Whether other people die or not I don't know, but he will absolutely never die. That kid is incredibly shrewd. Don't you want to defeat him and seek revenge against him?"
"Don't forget, your teacher Zhou Yi was harmed by him to the point where she still cannot resume her post, suffering the ridicule of the Shrek crowd, being held accountable by the families of those few deceased students, and becoming the laughingstock of the three nations of the Douluo Continent... Furthermore, he even abducted your second brother's wife..."
The Tian Meng employed its tried-and-tested method of psychological chicken soup.
It had discovered that as long as it mentioned Huo Yuhao's mother, or the people he cared about.
Especially when mentioning Feng Piaoling, this fellow who was like his fated enemy.
A surge of power would inexplicably well up inside Huo Yuhao's body.
Sustaining him to press forward.
But this time, it seemed to lose its effect.
Huo Yuhao's voice was weak as he said, "But... But I am truly so cold that I can't bear it anymore."
The Tian Meng fell silent. It knew that for Huo Yuhao to say these words meant the situation was even worse than it had imagined; Huo Yuhao truly could not hold out any longer.
Having no alternative, the Tian Meng chose to settle for the next best thing. "Forget it. From now on, you don't need to continue deep inside. Just walk along the periphery, taking it one step at a time. If we can encounter a powerful ice-attribute soul beast, that would be best. If we truly can't find one, we can only come back next time after making full preparations."
Huo Yuhao complied and walked along the periphery of the Far North. Before he had walked very far, the voice of the Tian Meng rang out in his mind once more, "Yuhao, quickly hide."
Huo Yuhao dared not delay and swiftly found a piece of cover to hide behind.
The Tian Meng assisted him in concealing his aura.
A moment later, a hundred-meter giant python entirely covered in ice-blue armor, with a sharp dragon horn growing on its head, came chasing after a soul beast over ten meters tall, covered in snow-white long fur, and shaped similarly to a giant King Kong ape.
Wherever they passed, large areas of glaciers were shattered, and the ground shook while the mountains trembled.
In the end, seeing that it could not escape, the giant ape soul beast simply pounded its chest violently with both hands and tangled in combat with the giant python.
For a time, it actually managed to barely withstand the impact of that giant python.
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