“What is that gold wheel on your martial soul’s head for?”
“This?
Oh, it’s just a decoration.”
Lin Li chuckled, choosing to use a child’s innocence to cover it up rather than telling the truth.
“Alright then.”
Director Su didn’t dwell on the issue too much, turning his thoughts elsewhere.
“If things are truly as you say, then helping you obtain a Soul Ring will indeed be much easier.”
“Then, Director Su, can I get a Soul Ring with a higher age limit?”
“Hmm?
Why?”
Director Su didn’t refuse immediately.
He wanted to know why Lin Li thought that way and what age limit he was aiming for.
“It’s like how a hundred-year dragon-type Soul Beast and a Blue Silver Grass Soul Ring are both hundred-year rings, but the Martial Soul Abilities they provide are completely different.
Their strength gap is huge, and similarly, the pressure they exert is very different too.”
“Correct, go on.”
Director Su hadn’t expected a six-year-old child like Lin Li to understand these things, so he listened with curiosity.
“Because my martial soul gets the same Soul Skill no matter what Soul Ring I obtain, I figured I might as well get one with a higher age limit.
That way, every one of my Soul Rings can be higher in the future.”
Lin Li’s reasoning sounded simple, like a child’s natural competitiveness, wanting his Soul Ring’s age to be higher than a normal person’s.
But his true intention was to see if his martial soul could adapt to the pressure of absorbing a Soul Ring.
If this experiment succeeded, he could plan to absorb Soul Rings far beyond his supposed limit in the future.
As long as it didn’t instantly cause his body to explode, he could obtain it.
If there was a Soul Master capable of controlling a gravity Domain to help him increase his endurance beforehand, he could even attempt even higher age limits.
And Douluo just happened to have such a character—Zhao Wuji from Shrek Academy, whose martial soul controlled gravity.
Director Su nodded, seemingly accepting Lin Li’s explanation, but he also set a condition:
“It’s possible, but it can’t be too much higher…
Let’s hunt a Soul Beast of five or six hundred years for you, and it must be a weak Soul Beast with no offensive power.”
“Great!”
Lin Li thanked him joyfully, “Thank you, Director Su!”
“Go pack your things first; we’ll set off tomorrow.”
“Okay, goodbye Director Su!”
Lin Li bowed and then turned to leave.
In his heart, he already had a plan: when he ate hot pot in the future, he would pack a portion for Director Su.
A kindness of a meal must be repaid!
Lin Li enjoyed the scenery along the way, slowly making his way to the entrance of Dormitory Seven.
This was the dormitory for the work-study students.
*Creak—*
Lin Li pushed open the door and, as expected, didn’t see a single person.
Most of these work-study students came from poor families.
Once the holidays started, they needed to go back to help with farm work or work to save money, so they didn’t have the luxury of staying at school.
This was just as well; Lin Li could cultivate in peace.
After choosing a bed by the window to enjoy the most sunlight, Lin Li immediately sat cross-legged on the bed and began practicing the Basic Meditation Method.
However, something unexpected happened.
After cultivating for about an hour, accompanied by a “clack-clack” sound, Lin Li opened his eyes to see the Dharma Wheel on Mahoraga’s head spin once.
“What the hell?”
Lin Li froze in place, wondering what Mahoraga was adapting to.
It couldn’t be adapting to cultivation, could it?
Lin Li was amused by his own fantasy, but then his smile suddenly vanished.
Wait a minute, that might actually be possible.
After all, no one had ever tested if Mahoraga could cultivate!
After all, the setting…
Mahoraga: What are you babbling about?
This is how the code was written.
Lin Li thought about it uncertainly and realized it was indeed a possibility, so he immediately sat back down and continued to cultivate.
He cultivated like this until evening, when the Dharma Wheel on Mahoraga’s head completed a full rotation, representing the completion of the first adaptation.
In an instant, Lin Li felt the Soul Power circulating within his body increase by half!
“It really is adapting to cultivation!”
Lin Li opened his glowing eyes, startled by his own discovery.
Even though it took about half a day to complete the first adaptation, wasn’t this too terrifying?
What if he chose to go into long-term seclusion and just kept cultivating?
As for things like hunger…
“It will adapt.”
Lin Li felt those words make his scalp tingle.
Before, he hadn’t had a concrete feeling for it, only thinking Mahoraga was strong in combat, but he hadn’t expected it to be strong in every single aspect!
“Cultivate, cultivate!”
Lin Li suddenly became addicted to cultivation and immediately resumed his practice.
Although he couldn’t increase his level without obtaining a Soul Ring, the cultivated Soul Power could still be stored in his body.
And so, Lin Li cultivated for the entire night.
In the middle of the night, the Dharma Wheel on Mahoraga’s head spun once more.
Lin Li himself wasn’t sure how much his Soul Power had increased; he would only know after obtaining a Soul Ring.
Early the next morning, Lin Li followed Director Su to the Soul Hunting Forest.
As for the paperwork and such, Lin Li didn’t ask.
He knew an academy would surely be able to get it easily, at most using up a quota.
Throughout the journey, Director Su sat in the carriage, explaining to Lin Li the precautions for entering the forest and what to do in various dangerous situations to save his life.
Lin Li couldn’t help but feel that this was the kind of teaching a junior academy should have.
When one’s strength was low, one should learn how to survive, rather than having all sorts of knowledge shoved into a six-year-old’s brain.
It was only because Tang San was a reincarnated adult; otherwise, never mind whether he could remember it all, he would have died during his first Soul Ring hunt if he didn’t have some tricks up his sleeve.
Lin Li didn’t know why, but no matter what he thought about, he would think of Yu Xiaogang and then involuntarily feel a sense of disdain.
He warned himself not to be like that; at the very least, he should get to know the man first.
Being prejudiced was not good.
The carriage bumped along the road until it dropped them off at the Soul Hunting Forest.
After the guards checked the permit Director Su provided, they opened the gates and gave them a few reminders.
“Director Su, what should we do next?”
Hearing Lin Li’s question, Director Su scanned the surroundings and replied:
“The Soul Beasts in the Soul Hunting Forest are generally not strong.
We can head straight for the depths, obtain your Soul Ring, and then leave quickly.”
At the same time, Director Su went over the several types of Soul Beasts he had planned for Lin Li in his mind.
They needed to be high-aged but not inherently strong.
Such Soul Beasts usually had strong survival abilities, making them no easier to catch than powerful Soul Beasts, just relatively safer.
As they walked forward, Director Su explained what certain uncommon Soul Beasts were and how to judge their age.
As for common Soul Beasts, Lin Li would learn about them once school started; there was no need to waste their limited hunting time on that.
This hunt went even more smoothly than Lin Li had imagined.
They arrived at the Soul Hunting Forest in the morning and found a suitable Soul Beast before sunset, rendering the three days’ worth of food Lin Li had prepared useless.
Currently, Lin Li and Director Su were hiding behind a bush, their eyes fixed on a Soul Beast in the grass ahead that closely resembled a pangolin.
Based on what Director Su had previously said about Soul Beasts that met Lin Li’s requirements, he already knew what kind of Soul Beast this was.