Chapter 38: The Fourth Soul Skill: Earth Vein Connection — The 47th Level Soul Master Ye Yu Participates!
"Grandpa! Let's take this Earth Vein Purple Ganoderma!"
"It's been cultivated for exactly 20,000 years. Very suitable!"
Seeing not far away, the purple ganoderma rooted in a mountain pass — purple all over, crystal clear like jade — though originally a Ganoderma lucidum, it had grown as lush as a giant tree, emitting a dazzling purple light.
Finally finding a plant-type soul beast whose attributes, years of cultivation, and strength perfectly suited his needs,
Ye Yu was overjoyed and excited.
"Green Phosphorus Snake King, possess!"
After Ye Yu confirmed the target,
Dugu Bo appeared immediately, summoning the Green Phosphorus Snake King Spirit to possess him. Then, just like before with the Thundering Hell Vine, he opened directly with the eighth soul skill: Time Freeze!
After immobilizing the Earth Vein Purple Ganoderma to prevent it from escaping,
he struck with a "Shatter!" and severely damaged it!
Then, Dugu Bo used the first soul skill: Green Phosphorus Poison Fire, the third soul skill: Corrosion Black Witch Snake, and the fifth soul skill: Green Phosphorus Poison Array.
First, he burned the Ganoderma's root connections to the earth to weaken its recovery ability.
Then, he used the third and fifth skills to continually wear down its vitality until it was barely clinging to life.
Next, it was Ye Yu's turn.
Now with a powerful attack-type soul skill, he was ready to "upgrade his shotgun" and let Dagger and Stone retire.
Ye Yu planned to finish the job with Crossing the Tribulation and Ascending.
Summoning the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine,
Ye Yu shouted lowly and activated the skill:
"Third Soul Skill: Crossing the Tribulation and Ascending!"
In an instant, as the third ten-thousand-year soul ring lit up,
rolling dark clouds gathered in the sky.
Thunder rumbled and lightning flashed through the clouds.
On the ground, the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vines — crystal-clear like sapphire, threaded with gold and starlight — now also had ice-blue, fiery red, and dark purple lightning markings running through them.
They burst forth from the ground, dancing in the air like living lightning rods.
Then countless bolts of lightning tore through the clouds like roaring silver snakes, striking down on the Earth Vein Purple Ganoderma.
At this time, the Ganoderma — tree-like in size — had already collapsed.
Its stalk fractured from the time-space freeze, riddled with pits from corrosion, and blackened by poison flames.
But even so, Ye Yu was surprised to find that
after the thunderbolts struck it, much of the lightning power was absorbed into the earth!
Yet with only one breath remaining,
the Earth Vein Purple Ganoderma couldn't withstand the barrage and was finally slain by lightning.
A swarm of dark light particles escaped from its "corpse", forming a circle of black ten-thousand-year soul rings above it.
If Grandpa hadn't weakened it so severely beforehand, even my tribulation skill wouldn't have done much damage at all!
Ye Yu thought to himself.
After the kill,
Ye Yu walked over, sat cross-legged before the Ganoderma's corpse, and closed his eyes.
He began to operate the Inner Alchemy Method once again.
Soul power surged within his body, and the soul ring of the Earth Vein Purple Ganoderma was immediately pulled onto him.
The next moment, an extremely majestic wave of soul power poured into Ye Yu's body.
A soul shock typical of ten-thousand-year spirit beasts followed.
However, being a plant-type soul beast, the Earth Vein Purple Ganoderma had weaker spiritual force and willpower, so the soul shock it produced was mild.
For Ye Yu, whose spiritual power had been tempered by the Inner Alchemy Method,
it was no trouble at all.
On the other hand, while his body had already been greatly strengthened by the Thundering Hell Vine's soul ring,
the soul power released from this 20,000-year-old Ganoderma was still a significant challenge.
Ye Yu still felt the swelling pain and tingling in his body and meridians.
However, the energy from the Ganoderma was far gentler than the thunderous soul power of the Thundering Hell Vine.
So this time, his skin did not split or bleed.
Thanks to his body's formidable recovery ability,
this soul ring absorption process became another round of strengthening.
After fully absorbing the 20,000-year soul ring,
Ye Yu slowly opened his eyes and stood up.
Seeing this, Dugu Bo came forward, stroking the silver beard under his chin and smiling in satisfaction.
"Xiao Yu, let's check out what this soul ring gave you."
"Okay!"
Ye Yu nodded in anticipation and summoned the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine once again.
After absorbing the Ganoderma,
he saw that the vines had grown thicker.
The crystal silver-blue now held a touch of radiant purple.
The narrow leaves had become thick and fleshy like Ganoderma petals.
More importantly, Ye Yu could sense that the spirit's vitality had greatly increased.
Through testing,
Ye Yu discovered that the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine had inherited traits of the Earth Vein Purple Ganoderma:
Even without activating soul skills, if a root, stem, or leaf fell off, it could regrow on its own.
Its vitality had reached a whole new level!
After testing, Ye Yu named the fourth soul skill:
Ground Vein Connection!
Its effect: it can absorb the power of the earth, converting it into soul power and life force to boost the spirit's growth and recovery.
At the same time, it can feed the recovered soul power back into Ye Yu's body,
accelerating his own soul power recovery.
While in the Ground Vein Connection state,
the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine can merge with the earth, channel incoming damage into the ground, and reduce its own damage— especially against lightning!
After the successful absorption of this soul ring,
Dugu Bo handed Ye Yu a test crystal again.
"Come, check your soul power."
Ye Yu placed his right hand on it.
The next moment, the crystal lit up with a dazzling glow.
Judging by the intensity—
Ye Yu had reached Level 47!
"Forty-seventh level Soul Master...?"
Dugu Bo muttered to himself, feeling just a bit regretful.
If he could just gain three more levels and become a Soul King at Level 50...
A thirteen-year-old Soul King would be without equal in the world!
Still, a Level 47 Soul Master at thirteen was already extraordinary.
Over the past few months in the Star Dou Great Forest,
they'd hunted four soul rings in a row.
From Level 10 all the way to Level 47!
Satisfied, Ye Yu followed Dugu Bo to return to Heaven Dou Imperial City.
But due to the heaven-defying configuration of the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine and the number of soul rings, it couldn't be revealed.
Otherwise, it would easily attract unwanted trouble and danger!
So on the way, Ye Yu kept experimenting:
How to use the Blue Silver Domain to conceal both the number and color of his spirit rings, and suppress his aura.
Whether due to talent, or the Inner Alchemy Method's mental enhancements,
Ye Yu quickly figured it out.
He mastered how to use the Blue Silver Domain to disguise his spirit ring configuration and suppress his soul presence.
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