Perhaps because the Lone Bamboo soul ring originated from the same source as Lin Yuan’s martial soul, combined with the fact that he had previously consumed more than a dozen pieces of 100-year whale rubber and possessed the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Art, Lin Yuan did not feel much pain when absorbing this nearly 600-year-old soul ring.
An hour later, he had successfully absorbed it.
By then, Lin Yuan’s father had already wrapped the soul bone in thick cloth, layer after layer.
Seeing Lin Yuan awaken, he hurried over with an excited expression.
“Ah Yuan, how do you feel?”
“Not bad.
My soul power seems to have increased by about three ranks.”
Lin Yuan roughly sensed his current condition before answering.
“Rank 14.”
Lin Yuan’s father was overjoyed.
“What about your soul skill?
A first soul ring that’s five or six hundred years old…
I’ve never even heard of one, let alone seen one.”
Lin Yuan smiled.
“My first soul skill is called Lone Bamboo Throw.
It can condense a bamboo staff and throw it out, instantly increasing my attack power and strength by fifty percent.
It can also be used as a weapon.”
“As for its actual power, we’ll have to test it to find out.”
As he spoke, Lin Yuan’s eyes settled on a massive boulder more than ten meters away that weighed over a thousand jin.
A deep yellow soul ring rose from beneath his feet before bursting into brilliant light.
“First Soul Skill: Lone Bamboo Throw!”
He shouted softly as the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Art circulated through his body.
A dark-green bamboo staff roughly the same length as Lin Yuan’s body appeared silently in his hand, blue arcs of electricity flickering across its surface.
He casually threw it forward.
The moment the bamboo staff left his hand, however, the scene became frightening.
Blinding lightning erupted.
The blue electric arcs covering the entire bamboo staff rapidly converged toward its tip, making it look as though a bolt of blue lightning had been released from Lin Yuan’s hand.
The flash was so dazzling that Lin Yuan’s father immediately closed his eyes to protect them.
When he opened them again, most of the bamboo staff had already been driven deep into the enormous boulder, with only a small section remaining outside.
The boulder had been shattered into several pieces.
Cracks spread all the way into the ground beneath it, while blue arcs of electricity continued to flicker across its surface and spread outward in every direction.
“So…
so powerful!”
Seeing this scene, Lin Yuan’s father couldn’t help swallowing hard.
This could really be considered a first soul skill?
Even the second soul skills of those Power Attack System Soul Grandmasters with optimal soul-ring configurations were probably no stronger than this!
If it could do this much damage to a boulder, what would happen if it struck a person?
Wouldn’t it blast a bowl-sized hole straight through them?
Lin Yuan, however, was somewhat disappointed. This story is hosted at g.com.
He had originally expected the boulder to be blown away.
At the very least, he thought the bamboo staff would completely penetrate it.
Now, it seemed that the Lone Bamboo Martial Soul was still somewhat lacking.
Perhaps after reaching the 10,000-year quality, it would improve considerably.
Until then, he could only make up for its shortcomings through his cultivation techniques.
Thinking of this, he said to his father, “Dad, that much noise just now will definitely attract the villagers’ attention.
Let’s leave quickly.”
“Mm.
Let’s go.”
Lin Yuan’s father nodded.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to greet the villagers.
Rather, there was a very good chance that the two of them had already attracted someone’s attention, just like Lin Tian had.
Unless they could confirm that they were truly safe, it was better not to show themselves.
…
Three days later.
The father and son returned to their new home.
When Lin Yuan’s mother learned that her son had not only successfully absorbed a 600-year soul ring but had also obtained a soul bone, she was naturally overjoyed.
She kept praising her son, saying that he had the potential to become a Soul Saint.
Immediately afterward, she took out the soul bone that Lin Yuan’s father had stored away and gave it to Lin Yuan to absorb.
She also warned him not to reveal it until he possessed sufficient strength, lest it bring disaster upon him.
Lin Yuan had originally planned to sell the soul bone at an auction house.
But when he thought about it, his mother was an ordinary person, his father was far too straightforward, and he himself was still a child.
No matter which of the three took the soul bone out to sell, something could easily go wrong.
Thus, he agreed.
However, he did not absorb it.
Instead, he carefully stored it inside his storage soul tool ring.
Once he possessed sufficient strength in the future, he would consider selling it.
At the same time, considering that there might also be a transmigrator within Spirit Hall, when he went to receive his soul master subsidy, he chose to change his name and identity.
When registering his martial soul, he also chose to register it as Thunder Bamboo.
And so, life once again returned to tranquility.
For the next eight months, Lin Yuan resumed his ordinary yet far-from-boring life.
Every night, he used the Palm Heaven Bottle to collect the green liquid.
In the mornings, he followed Saitama’s training regimen.
During the afternoons, he practiced the martial arts techniques of the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Art.
The remaining time was devoted entirely to cultivation, improving both his soul power and the realm of his cultivation technique.
Once he finished cultivating the second layer of the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Art, he would cultivate the Supreme Holy Qiankun Skill.
When the Supreme Holy Qiankun Skill also reached the second layer, Lin Yuan finally experienced the true benefits of these complementary cultivation techniques.
When operated simultaneously, they not only doubled Lin Yuan’s combat strength but also greatly increased his cultivation speed.
Even with the enhancement provided by the green liquid from the Palm Heaven Bottle, he could still maintain a cultivation speed of roughly one soul-power rank every two months.
By the time Suo Tuo City Intermediate Soul Master Academy was about to begin its new term, his soul power had already reached rank 17. This chapter was taken from g.com without permission.
Originally, Lin Yuan had planned to go directly to Suo Tuo City and register.
However, his parents were unwilling to let him travel outside alone at such a young age.
With no other choice, Lin Yuan could only agree to stay for another year.
…
Time passed without notice during cultivation.
Two months slipped away amid Lin Yuan’s diligent training.
By then, Lin Yuan was already nine years old.
Compared to the small child he had been when he left Nuoding City, his height had changed dramatically.
He had already reached 1.6 meters.
The contours of his face had also become increasingly defined.
Perhaps because his martial soul was constantly evolving, his appearance had grown more and more handsome.
At first, he could only be considered reasonably good-looking.
Now, he was undeniably a handsome young man.
His strength had undergone an even more earth-shattering transformation.
After another year of cultivation and using the Palm Heaven Bottle to catalyze his martial soul, Lin Yuan’s soul power had long since broken through rank 20.
Three months ago, he had obtained a catalyzed 1,500-year Thousand Illusion Bamboo Soul Ring.
With it, he gained a soul skill called Bamboo Forest Mirage.
This soul skill could simultaneously release a large number of Lone Bamboos, creating a mirage so realistic that it was difficult to distinguish truth from illusion.
Anyone trapped within the mirage would not only have their spiritual power suppressed but would also lose their sense of direction.
Lin Yuan, on the other hand, could strengthen his own spiritual power while moving freely within the mirage.
He could also use the cover provided by the mirage to launch surprise attacks on his enemies in combination with Lone Bamboo Throw.
Most importantly, he could project his first soul ring onto his second soul ring, thereby changing the color of the soul ring.
It was an extremely practical soul skill.
At the same time, after killing the Thousand Illusion Bamboo, Lin Yuan obtained a Wisdom Skull.
This strengthened his speculation that plant soul beasts cultivated through the catalyzation of the Plastic Palm Heaven Bottle could produce soul bones.
Afterward, he tried it twice more, only to be greatly disappointed.
Because plant soul beasts catalyzed by the Plastic Palm Heaven Bottle had to be cultivated from 10-year soul beasts before they could produce soul bones.
Plant soul beasts that were already over 100 years old would not produce them.
It was a rather mediocre ability.
Taking the attitude that something was better than nothing, Lin Yuan stored away the Thousand Illusion Bamboo Wisdom Skull.
He then began using all the green liquid to catalyze his Lone Bamboo Martial Soul.
Finally, on the day before he was scheduled to depart for Suo Tuo City Intermediate Soul Master Academy, the quality of his Lone Bamboo Martial Soul broke through the 10,000-year level.
The color of the bamboo changed into a dark jade hue, as though it had been carved from emerald jade.
A faint green light flowed across its body.
The attack power of Lone Bamboo Throw increased dramatically.
The range covered by Bamboo Forest Mirage also increased from its original diameter of twenty to thirty meters to more than fifty meters.
Perhaps once it broke through the 100,000-year level, its range would be able to reach more than a thousand meters.
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