Douluo: Not enough blood? Use your brain

Chapter 24: The Hunt Begins!

After resting, Xu Yuan directly sought out a group of soul beasts.

Wind Wolves.

These are the most common pack animals within the Spirit Ascension Platform. Each Wind Wolf has approximately thirty to forty years of cultivation, but their strength lies in their numbers; they often travel in packs. A pack of Wind Wolves in the double digits is considered a normal size.

Xu Yuan targeted just such a pack.

Initially, Xu Shengqun thought Xu Yuan had stumbled upon this group of Wind Wolves by accident. However, as Xu Yuan charged directly towards them, Xu Shengqun's heart leaped into his throat. He realized this wasn't accidental; Xu Yuan was deliberately seeking them out!

Xu Yuan, Tian Yuan Spear in hand, plunged into the Wind Wolf pack.

The slaughter of battle made his blood boil; this feeling was incredibly captivating.

The spear techniques he had practiced under Xu Shengqun's guidance for the past year were now readily available at his fingertips. Combined with the Five Elements Spear Spirit and the Tian Yuan Spear, Xu Yuan even threw his spear during the battle for ranged attacks.

This battle can be described as using every trick in the book.

In just ten minutes,

the entire pack of seventeen Wind Wolves was slaughtered by Xu Yuan.

Xu Yuan had three wounds on his body where he was accidentally slashed by the Wind Wolves' wind blades and claws.

The powers of Water and Wood elements flowed over the wounds, nourishing the surrounding cells and rapidly healing the three injuries.

This group of Wind Wolves provided Xu Yuan with approximately fifty years of cultivation.

Although Xu Yuan was using the Water and Wood elements to heal his wounds, he didn't stop there. Instead, he continued to search for prey with his spear in hand.

Outside, Xu Shengqun's heart was in his throat.

Xu Yuan's battle just now was undeniably intense. Although the Wind Wolves' individual strength was far below his, no longer on the same level—Xu Yuan could heavily injure a Wind Wolf with a single sweep of his spear, and a thrust of the spear combined with the Five Elements Spear Radiance could essentially end a Wind Wolf's life—the opportunity to strike was not so easy to find when facing seventeen opponents alone.

Yet, Xu Yuan forcefully found every opportunity he could in such a battle, killing all the Wind Wolves with only three non-fatal wounds, not even what could be considered serious injuries.

"Xiao Yuan seems to be enjoying this kind of battle?" Xu Shengqun watched the scene on the screen of Xu Yuan continuing to search for prey with his spear, his expression complex.

"The consumption and damage can be even less."

Xu Yuan reflected on every detail of the previous battle, reviewing his soul power consumption and the unavoidable injuries, simulating tactics with lower soul power consumption, and anticipating situations that might lead to unavoidable exchange of injuries.

Inside the Spirit Ascension Platform, Xu Yuan began his hunting spree.

On average, he experienced a major battle every hour, recovering himself while searching for his next prey.

Each major battle brought him between thirty to seventy years of spirit power, averaging about fifty years each time.

After ten hours, including the initial one hundred and thirty years gained from the three Flame Lions he encountered, he had gained a total of about six hundred years of cultivation.

Six hundred years!

In just ten short hours.

This was something many soul masters wouldn't dare to imagine.

After all, obtaining spirit power in the Spirit Ascension Platform also required hunting soul beasts. No normal soul master had Xu Yuan's hunting efficiency alone. Even in a team, they still had to deal with the issue of who got the last hit, resulting in very little spirit power on average for each soul master.

It was estimated that only situations where large forces were specifically boosting the soul ring age of their descendants could compare to Xu Yuan's efficiency. That is, a powerful individual, invincible within the Spirit Ascension Platform, personally leading the younger soul masters everywhere to hunt soul beasts, leaving all the finishing blows to the younger generation.

The original age of Xu Yuan's Five Elements Spear Spirit wasn't high, less than the limit of a normal soul master's first soul ring, only three hundred years.

Now, after this significant boost, it had reached nine hundred years.

He could feel the improvement of his Five Elements Spear Spirit; it was a very clear sensation.

The Spear Spirit was improving, the soul ring was also improving, and the effects of the soul skills were gradually increasing.

Whether it was the effect of fighting in actual combat or the effect of improving soul skills, Xu Yuan's comprehension of spear techniques was also rapidly increasing in this process.

"I wonder if I can defeat a thousand-year soul beast in a one-on-one fight with my current situation," Xu Yuan now only had a goal of one hundred years left, so naturally he wanted to get it over with once and for all.

However, after thinking about it, he gave up.

After all, he was only a one-ring soul master, and his strength had significant constraints. The gap between him and a thousand-year soul beast was very obvious.

A thousand-year soul beast was not those three hundred-year Flame Lions; the spirit power provided was the same, but the threat was vastly different.

It was a complete qualitative change, from attack to defense to speed, all were qualitative changes. If Xu Yuan wanted to break their defense, he would first need a full-force peak strike, and even then, he might not be able to find a fatal flaw in the opponent.

Such a battle would inevitably be unwinnable.

Hundred-year soul beasts were still at the same level of strength as Xu Yuan, only making the battle difficult, but thousand-year soul beasts were already two levels apart.

Not levels in terms of realm, but in terms of strength division.

Xu Yuan was only a one-ring soul master. If compared to soul beasts, he definitely wouldn't reach the level of a hundred-year soul beast, but his own talent was excellent, so he could display the strength of a hundred-year soul beast.

"There will be a buffer zone deep within the Primary Spirit Ascension Platform, often with guardians. The guardian deep within the Spirit Ascension Platform of the Eastsea City Spirit Transfer Pagoda is a Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear, which drops an Darkgold Terrorclaw External Soul Bone after being killed. I wonder what kind of soul beast is the guardian here in Tianhai City."

Thinking of fighting a thousand-year soul beast, Xu Yuan also thought of the guardian.

Although he knew the difference in strength, he rationally didn't have the idea of finding and killing the opponent now, but he couldn't help being curious.

Xu Yuan was quite envious.

Mainly, if compared to Eastsea City, if this guardian could also drop an external soul bone, then its value would be immense.

"Seductive little fairy, I'll find you sooner or later and kill you!"

In the last two hours, Xu Yuan honestly searched for normal soul beasts to hunt, raising the age of his soul ring to about one thousand one hundred years.

After half a day of fighting, his heart was also quite tired, and he voluntarily withdrew from the Spirit Ascension Platform.

Looking at his nephew slowly sitting up in the instrument cabin, Xu Shengqun's expression was complex.

"Xiao Yuan, I didn't expect you to complete the task in just one day."

Xu Yuan wanted to speak, but the next moment, after the digestion of a large amount of spirit power within his body, his body also underwent changes, and the Five Elements Spear Spirit within his body also entered a transformation stage, almost causing him to faint.

Fortunately, with his strong mental power, Xu Yuan maintained consciousness, quickly sitting cross-legged to meditate, cooperating with the evolution of the Spear Spirit.

Outside his body, the yellow soul ring was rapidly changing. The light yellow became bright, and then a touch of purple appeared, quickly dyeing the entire soul ring.

A thousand-year soul ring!

Xu Shengqun watched Xu Yuan's soul spirit evolve, very curious about what changes would occur after Xu Yuan's soul spirit evolved.

After all, Xu Yuan's soul spirit was a spear soul spirit, a weapon soul spirit. There had never been an example of it being absorbed by a soul master and then elevated to a thousand years.

Chapter 25 Benefits of Spear Spirit Evolution

Weapon soul spirits were a special case within the metal soul spirit branch created by Xu Yuan's father, Xu Zhi.

With this experience in creating artificial soul spirits, the Spirit Transfer Pagoda naturally tried to create other weapon soul spirits, but the cost was high, and the number produced was extremely small.

Moreover, this type of soul spirit had no gene pool at all. A hundred years was the most cost-effective state. If it was directly stimulated to a thousand years with spirit power, it would be similar to a soul spirit like the Ice Silkworm, basically useless.

It would only have the cultivation of its age, without the corresponding strength.

This was obviously contrary to the Spirit Transfer Pagoda's initial expectations for weapon soul spirits.

Therefore, after stimulating it once, the Spirit Transfer Pagoda did not directly infuse the remaining weapon soul spirits with spirit power.

Some researchers put forward a conjecture, which was actually proposed by Xu Yuan's father. He said that weapon soul spirits did not have the gene pool of soul beasts. If they wanted to obtain an ideal high-year weapon soul spirit, they would need to explore the essence of the soul spirit. This would require it to be contracted by a soul master, and it had to be a soul master with a corresponding weapon soul, and they had to be talented enough.

The so-called exploration of the essence of the soul spirit was the development of the racial skills of weapon soul spirits, which was equivalent to enriching its gene pool from scratch.

For example, the spear soul spirit could be improved from the artistic conception of the spear or the understanding of spearmanship, thereby affecting the spear spirit.

In addition to the improvement in artistic conception and understanding of weapons, one could also consider the metal used to make the soul spirit. To achieve the best results, it was best to have the fused soul master do it.

A true thousand-year weapon soul spirit had never appeared before.

Xu Yuan's might be the first case.

Xu Shengqun greatly recognized his nephew's understanding of spearmanship and was very confident in his own Heavenly Saint Spirit Piercing Spear Intent.

That's right, although Xu Yuan's Five Elements Spear Spirit failed to inherit this spear intent at the beginning, it ultimately had the foundation of this spear intent. With this foundation, and Xu Yuan was practicing Xu Shengqun's Heavenly Saint Spirit Piercing Spear Technique, which was of the same lineage, his understanding of this spear technique was completely sufficient to support the Five Elements Spear Spirit in exploring its talent in spirit piercing.

Xu Yuan opened his eyes and found that he had returned home.

"How is it? Has the spear spirit evolved? What changes have occurred? Also, what about your soul skills? Have there been any changes?"

Xu Yuan listened to his uncle's inquiry and carefully felt his own changes.

"As for soul skills, there is only an increase in intensity. My control over the five elements in the Heavenly Origin Brush form has greatly improved. The effect of using elemental control to mobilize the power of the elements has doubled!"

Of course, this was only on the surface.

With the improvement in control, Xu Yuan's practice of control skills, which had been stuck in a bottleneck, had actually naturally broken through the bottleneck. He could also use the essential improvement of the soul skill to continue to delve into more advanced skills.

In summary, the direct improvement was very large, and the indirect improvement for the future was also quite obvious.

"In the Heavenly Origin Spear form, the Five Elements Spear Secret is more complete." When Xu Yuan said this, his expression was a bit strange.

This Five Elements Spear Secret was really a spearmanship!

Now that it had been promoted to a thousand years, this soul skill bestowed upon him by the Five Elements Spear Spirit was more complete in spearmanship.

"Spearmanship? More complete?" Xu Shengqun was also surprised. He didn't expect weapon soul spirits to be like this.

The bestowed soul skill was spearmanship, and as the soul spirit evolved, the spearmanship would also advance.

He suddenly thought of something and grabbed Xu Yuan's shoulder.

"Xiaoyuan, what are the specific details and techniques of the complete Five Elements Spear Secret?"

Xu Yuan's mind also turned very quickly. Seeing his uncle so excited, he quickly thought of what he was excited about.

Releasing the first soul ring and activating the soul skill, the Five Elements Spear Secret was displayed in his hands very smoothly.

The more Xu Shengqun watched, the more excited he became.

"It really evolved based on the spearmanship you have mastered!"

In Xu Yuan's Five Elements Spear Secret, Xu Shengqun saw many shadows of spearmanship, and even some techniques of the Heavenly Saint Spirit Piercing Spear Technique.

Xu Yuan also understood his uncle's excitement.

This meant that the evolution of the spear spirit was the evolution of spearmanship.

If the spear spirit evolved strongly enough, the spearmanship would also evolve strongly enough, and if the evolution resources contained more powerful spearmanship, the spearmanship evolved after fusing many spearmanship would also be strong enough!

It was simply a spearmanship deduction machine!

"Are there any other changes?" Xu Shengqun asked after calming down.

"Yes, the spirituality of the Five Elements Spear Spirit is stronger, but unfortunately it doesn't have true wisdom yet, but the cooperation in battle should be more tacit, and also..." Xu Yuan held the Heavenly Origin Spear and directly began to demonstrate.

The subsequent explanation was inconvenient to describe in words.

The Five Elements Spear Secret was spearmanship, and it was also a soul skill.

Xu Yuan had only displayed the spearmanship before, but now he was showing its true power.

The power of the five elements revolved, surrounding the tip of the spear.

Unlike the past, this time there was no spear momentum of Xu Yuan's Heavenly Origin Spear, but another kind of artistic conception more focused on the spear permeated.

"Spear intent!" Xu Shengqun recognized this artistic conception.

Spear momentum was to carry the power of heaven and earth with the spear.

Spear intent was an artistic conception that was more focused on the spear.

There was no distinction between high and low, one sought the outside, the control of the outside, and the other sought the inside, the understanding and exploration of the spear.

"Although it has not been completely evolved, it is already a prototype." Xu Shengqun did not expect that the soul skill bestowed upon Xu Yuan by the spear spirit would directly allow him to master the spear intent.

This was an excellent soul skill for soul masters with spear-type martial souls.

What's more, it came with a set of spearmanship.

"Okay, put it away." Xu Shengqun could feel that Xu Yuan was still a little tired and not suitable for displaying spear intent for a long time.

Exiting the state of spear intent, Xu Yuan rubbed his brow.

After fighting in the Spirit Ascension Platform for a day, his spirit was highly tense, and his current state was extremely poor.

But this could not hide his excitement.

Because only he himself felt it more clearly, he felt that as long as he did not slack off in the practice of spearmanship, the existence of the spear soul spirit was a cheat for his spear practice!