Feng Piaoling put away his soul tools. Using a Fireball Talisman as a heat source early on, he boiled a pot of meat soup using the soul beast meat and non-toxic mushrooms he had collected in the Jing Yang Mountain Range over the past few days.
Before long, a rich aroma wafted across the cliff where everyone was gathered.
Jiang Nannan, Xiao Xiao, and the others emerged one after another from their cultivation states. While enjoying the delicious food, they did not forget to show off their gains.
First of all, the Golden Wolf belonged to the power-attribute soul beasts and possessed the metal attribute at the same time. Everyone who absorbed a Golden Wolf soul ring received a massive boost to their base strength. It was just that because the soul rings' ages and their martial souls differed, the soul skills they obtained varied slightly.
After absorbing the ten-thousand-year Golden Wolf King soul ring, combined with her accumulation from the previous two months, Jiang Nannan's soul power rose to Rank 43. Her fourth soul skill was still the Invincible Golden Body. However, because it was a ten-thousand-year soul skill, its initial duration was five seconds, and her strength was increased by twofold. Going forward, for every additional soul ring she gained, the duration of invincibility and strength enhancement would increase by two seconds.
In other words, when she cultivated to the Titled Douluo realm, her Invincible Golden Body would last for fifteen seconds. Within these fifteen seconds, she would remain invincible against anyone below the god level. This was a remarkably excellent skill.
After Xiao Xiao absorbed that Golden Wolf, which was close to six thousand years old, her soul power rose to Rank 33, and she obtained her third soul skill, Tripod Power. It inherited the metal and strength attributes of the Golden Wolf. Aside from substantially increasing the weight and hardness of the Three Lives Soul Sealing Cauldron, activating this skill would also double the power of her first two soul skills. Furthermore, it could subsequently affect the other soul skills of the Three Lives Soul Sealing Cauldron.
It would double the power of soul skills below the ten-thousand-year mark, increase ten-thousand-year soul skills by 50%, and increase hundred-thousand-year soul skills by 10%. Compared to the original timeline's two-thousand-year Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear soul ring, it was only stronger, not weaker. After all, no matter how powerful a Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear was, there was ultimately a four-thousand-year gap between it and a six-thousand-year Golden Wolf soul ring. This followed the same logic as Tian Meng: before his sacrifice, his combat strength was complete trash, but after his sacrifice, he was full of treasures, and even his discarded skin could briefly trap the Ice Empress.
After Nanmen Yun'er absorbed that nearly five-thousand-year Golden Wolf soul ring, her soul power reached around Rank 32.5, and she obtained a boost skill called Jadeite Golden Body. Upon activating this soul skill, her resistance to abnormal statuses, as well as her attack power, defense, strength, and speed, would simultaneously increase by 1.2 times. It could be considered an enhanced version of Dai Huabin's White Tiger Vajra Transformation.
After Wang Gang absorbed a thousand-year Golden Wolf soul ring, his soul power stood at Rank 22, and he obtained his second soul skill, Golden Tiger Slash. Its effect was somewhat similar to Nanmen Yun'er's second soul skill, Jadeite Slash, as both were skills with a lock-on effect. However, because it was a thousand-year soul skill, it was even more dominant in terms of offense than the Jadeite Slash. It went a long way toward making up for the lack of attack power in Wang Gang's first soul skill, Tiger Claw.
Yet, what surprised Feng Piaoling the most was the martial soul fusion skill of Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo. They had only absorbed a four-thousand-five-hundred-year Golden Wolf, but they obtained the skill Hair Blade. Not only could it turn their hair into countless tiny sharp blades, but it could also converge into a giant blade. While significantly reinforcing the hardness of their hair martial soul, it could also enhance the sharpness of their second soul skill, Hair Spike. This left Huang Chutian and Zhu Lu, who had not yet met the requirements to obtain a soul ring, incredibly envious.
After drinking a large pot of soul beast meat and mushroom soup, the group set off to look for a spiritual-type soul beast for Cui Yajie. Whether it was a stroke of good luck or something else, Feng Piaoling secretly had Electrolux keep an eye out. In the end, they miraculously found a Ghost-Eyed Jade Lion whose age was around five thousand years.
This kind of soul beast possessed both spiritual and strength attributes. After absorbing this soul beast's soul ring, not only did Cui Yajie's strength and spiritual power increase greatly, but she also gained a skill similar to Huo Yuhao's Soul Shock, called Shocking Spirit Spike. In coordination with her Soul-Cleaving Divine Eye, it was enough to make a Soul Elder of the same rank instantly lose combat capability.
This caused her to leap into becoming the third-strongest expert among the ten siblings of the Soul Hall, second only to Feng Piaoling and Jiang Nannan. Even Xiao Xiao, who also cultivated the Soul-Cleaving Divine Eye, tried to withstand this move out of sheer stubbornness, only to end up dizzy and mentally drained. Once she cultivated the Soul-Cleaving Divine Eye for a longer time in the future and her spiritual power increased, she would definitely be a nightmare for soul masters of the same tier. With this, the soul hunting operation came to a successful conclusion.
On the way back, Cui Yajie suddenly leaned in close to Feng Piaoling and said, "Boss, not long ago, Lin Jiayi, the academy's director of instruction, approached me. He wants me to study soul tools."
Ju Zi remarked from the side, "The academy has been actively looking for spiritual-type soul masters in recent years. Presumably, it has to do with the soul tool research currently underway."
Feng Piaoling looked at Cui Yajie and asked, "Xiao Ya, do you want to learn?"
"If I need soul tools, I can just ask you and Tenth Brother to make them for me. Personally, I don't have much desire to learn about soul tools. I only want to dedicate all my energy to cultivation within my limited time, so I can become a Titled Douluo as soon as possible." Cui Yajie shook her head.
Feng Piaoling smiled and said, "Then just ignore him. Keep doing what you've been doing."
"Mm." Cui Yajie nodded heavily. Overwhelmed with emotion, she actually stood on her tiptoes and kissed him on the cheek in front of everyone.
This single kiss instantly smashed open a jar of jealousy. Fearing they might get caught in the crossfire, Wang Gang and Huang Chutian exchanged a look and tacitly backed away, watching helplessly as the remaining six sisters swarmed and surrounded Feng Piaoling and Cui Yajie.
Ju Zi also retreated, watching Feng Piaoling with an expression of pure schadenfreude.
Feng Piaoling's face was lined with exasperation. Ultimately, he had to promise to set aside six days to instruct each of them individually for one day before they finally let the matter drop.
Once back at the academy, Feng Piaoling and Ju Zi jointly submitted the data regarding the soul tool testing to Xuan Ziwen.
After reviewing the various data, an unmaskable look of admiration appeared on Xuan Ziwen's face. "Hall Master, it seems your Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Sword is even more formidable than I imagined. I will study it further once we get back, and strive to design a plan to upgrade it into a Class 6 soul tool before you advance to a Soul Ancestor, saving you more time to focus on cultivation."
"Hall Master?" Ju Zi looked at Feng Piaoling in surprise. She knew he had established a sect, since she was originally sent by Xu Tianran to monitor him. However, for someone as proud as Xuan Ziwen to actually join Feng Piaoling's sect, it caught her completely off guard.
Feng Piaoling smiled and said, "It seems Teacher Xuan has made up his mind."
"In truth, I made up my mind long ago; I just couldn't bring myself to swallow my pride over the past few days. This time, your soul tool demonstrated power far beyond my imagination. Under a full-force strike, it has already reached the standard of an ordinary Class 8 soul tool. It's only a matter of time before you surpass me. I suppose I'm just giving myself a graceful way out," Xuan Ziwen sighed.
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