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Star Dou Great Forest.
"Thunder Strike, Myriad Pounds!"
Golden arcs of lightning danced around Li Yu body, and then they shot into the sky, transforming into golden lightning spears. These spears aimed at a soul beast that was desperately fleeing, striking it with incredible force.
Though the spears appeared as long lances, the might of the thunder still surged. In an instant, the lances caught up with the fleeing soul beast, piercing its body through and through!
A single, fatal strike!
A black soul ring then rose from its lifeless body.
"30,000 years, too weak!"
Li Yu shook his head and didn't bother absorbing the soul ring.
A 30,000-year soul ring wasn't something he would consider at this stage.
After such a long wait, he wasn't about to hastily absorb just any random soul ring.
Previously, he thought that absorbing any soul beast's soul ring would be the same for his [Elemental Spirit] martial soul. After all, the soul skills he gained were related to elemental control.
But starting from his third soul ring, he abandoned this notion.
His third soul ring, which came from the 2,000-year-old soul beast, the Flame Spring Silver Snake cultivated by Dugu Bo, gave him rare control over the poison element.
It was during this time that he learned that "poison" could also be classified as an element.
His fourth soul ring, derived from a 10,000-year-old vine soul beast, whose name he still didn't know, gave him control over the life element. The connection between the life element and the green crystal in the core of the beast was undeniable.
Though its power was in creating illusions, the life energy contained within the crystal was potent.
His fifth soul ring, coming from the 30,000-year-old Thunder Blade Mantis, granted him control over the thunder element.
At this point, he could no longer ignore the unique properties of each soul ring.
Thus, for his sixth soul ring, aside from considering its age, he paid special attention to the abilities the soul beast possessed.
[Level: 60]
[Reward Settlement: 3,000 years of freely allocated time!]
[Free Allocation Time: 101,000 years]
[Spirit Plan: 3/10]
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"Another 100,000 years..."
Li Yu stared at the prompt that flashed by, feeling a bit of a headache.
On his way to the Star Dou Great Forest, he had already allocated his "stock" in a certain way.
First, the [Bi Fang Spirit Jade Skull] consumed 90,000 years of free allocation time and was upgraded to the 100,000-year level.
As a result, the [Bi Fang Spirit Jade Skull] evolved into the [Spirit Eternal Skull], and the progress of his [Spirit Plan] also updated to "3/10."
After its evolution, the [Spirit Eternal Skull] not only upgraded the previous skill "Bi Fang" to "Eternal," but also added a new skill.
The first skill, "Eternal," retained the same effect as before but was now much more potent in nurturing and protecting spiritual power.
The newly acquired skill was named: Elemental Vision.
This was a mental detection skill, allowing him to view everything within a ten-mile radius by observing elemental distribution and changes.
If he focused his detection in one direction, this distance would double!
It was an immensely useful skill.
This was also the reason why he could so fearlessly battle a 30,000-year soul beast in the Star Dou Great Forest—he used this skill to scout the surroundings and confirmed that there would be no overwhelming danger in the immediate vicinity.
Moreover, the reason he could kill the 30,000-year-old soul beast so efficiently was that he had spent 70,000 years of free allocation time to upgrade his fifth soul ring to a 100,000-year level.
After upgrading to the 100,000-year mark, his affinity with the thunder element increased directly from 70% to 100%!
However, there was a slight regret—perhaps due to the unique mechanism of the [Elemental Spirit] martial soul.
The fifth soul ring, after reaching the 100,000-year level, didn't grant a new soul skill.
But the Thunder Spirit could now exist independently. Its abilities were now much smoother when used.
Previously, the abilities of the single-element "exotic beasts" that were derived from the [Elemental Cube] could be utilized, but they were always "borrowed."
Now, the Thunder Spirit was truly his own.
Additionally, the previously summoned single-element "exotic beasts," while the transformation time could be nearly ignored, still consumed quite a bit of his soul power.
But now, Thunder Spirit existed independently and no longer required transformation or consumed his soul power.
Currently, Thunder Spirit was within the space of the [Elemental Spirit Domain].
With just a thought, Thunder Spirit could instantly appear.
Furthermore, Thunder Spirit gained two new skills in addition to its previous ones:
Thunder Substitute: Thunder Spirit could seamlessly swap places with Li Yu to protect him from harm.Thunder Prison Calamity: A large-scale lightning attack, which could be understood as an enhanced version of the "Thunder Strike."
With these skills, he had a perfect combination of escape, self-preservation, and offense.
With these two allocations, he had consumed a total of 160,000 years of free allocation time.
As for the remaining time, Li Yu hadn't allocated it yet, as it was reserved for the sixth soul ring.
In his plan, the sixth soul ring would have to come from a soul beast with at least 50,000 years of cultivation before he would consider absorbing it.
Thus, upgrading to 100,000 years would require an additional 50,000 years of free allocation time.
As for the remaining 50,000 years...
If he were lucky and got a soul bone, he could absorb it as well!
The plan seemed good.
But now Li Yu headache was precisely because of this.
The time was ready, but where were the soul rings and soul bones?
He hadn't found any yet.
The 30,000-year soul beast he casually killed definitely hadn't dropped a soul bone, and the soul ring was not something he could use.
He still had to search for them.
"If I had known, I should have brought Dugu Bo with me... now I'm hesitant and careful..."
Li Yu couldn't help but feel a little regretful.
He had been too eager to act on his own.
"Maybe..."
At that moment, Li Yu suddenly had a bold thought.
After planting the 'Life Gate' for Xiao Wu, he could sense her position.
And now, without a doubt, Xiao Wu was somewhere in the Star Dou Forest.
That bold idea was just what it sounded like—considering whether or not to directly have Xiao Wu find an old, weak, and rare soul beast for him to kill.
But this idea had barely formed before he dismissed it.
At first, the Xiao Wu he saw was someone who had been tricked by Little San, carrying some pity.
But later, Xiao Wu actions began to feel like betrayal against her own race in his eyes.
Though, under his intervention, nothing had happened yet.
But if he went through with this idea now, wouldn't he be forcing it all to happen again?
Although now, as a human and an outsider, he could calmly view the enmity between soul beasts and humans...
But he still understood the principle of "only slay the evil."
If, like Little San, he started indiscriminately killing every member of Spirit Hall after returning from Sea God Island, without discerning good or evil...
How was he any different from Little San?
Wasn't that just becoming another "evil leader"?
"Well, I'll take it slow..."
Li Yu took a deep breath, resolving to stick to his principles.
But the next moment, his expression changed abruptly, beads of sweat quickly forming on his forehead.
A powerful aura had already locked onto him!