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After using his first soul skill, Su Yuntao's movements became more fierce than before, and his speed also increased. With the soul power of a great soul master, he added a bit of ferocity to himself.
He leaped up, like a hungry wolf pouncing on its prey, and in the blink of an eye, he jumped under the crown of the thousand-root banyan tree.
He raised his hand.
He swung his claw at the banyan silkworm.
"Chi!"
However, the banyan silkworm was worthy of being the guardian of the thousand-root banyan. Its reaction speed was also astonishing. It instantly spat out a silk thread, wrapped around Su Yuntao's arm, and its silk thread kept branching, spreading along his arm, and winding around his body. It also had some stickiness, making it hard to break free.
"Is this really not a spider wearing a silkworm coat? This silk thread is much stronger than Sisi's." Su Yuntao noticed that the sticky silk thread was spreading along his arm to his body, and he was shocked. He quickly used his second soul skill.
Su Yuntao's second soul ring was planned by Tang San.
In theory, for a soul master whose martial soul is a wolf, the best choice of soul beast is also a wolf, which is the same as his own martial soul, and has a high probability of enhancing his bloodline power.
But the soul beast that Tang San chose for him was not a wolf, not even a canine, but a feline.
Terror Cat!
First of all, the Lone Wolf martial soul was not a real wolf, but something between matter and energy. In Tang San's imagination, it was part of the human body's extraordinary organs.
Adding a soul ring, obtaining a soul skill, was to add a skill to the blank skill slot.
It was just that different soul beasts produced soul rings that had different compatibility with martial souls.
Otherwise, those soul masters with weapon martial souls could only find antique objects to obtain soul rings.
Admittedly, hunting soul beasts of the same kind or close relatives as the beast martial soul can enhance the bloodline power, which is a good choice from the perspective of continuing and expanding the family.
But one thing to note is that soul masters like Su Yuntao, who are commoners, can't do that.
Large and small families with powerful beast martial souls can do that, because they can eliminate most of the other unstable factors, and the family can protect the growth of their descendants. But Su Yuntao was just a commoner, even if he joined the Spirit Hall, but because of his own talent, he did not get the attention of the high-levels of the Spirit Hall. It was impossible for him to deliberately help him hunt down wolf-type soul beasts with powerful bloodlines for a soul master or a great soul master.
From nothing to something, establishing a family is the hardest step.
And the first generation of a family, grassroots commoners, need to consider not the inheritance of bloodline, the evolution of martial soul, but strength.
He wanted to establish his own family and establish a heritage, so he could only become stronger first, and then accumulate for one or two generations, establish a small family, and then from the third generation, he could slowly test out which wolf-type soul beasts were most suitable for his Lone Wolf martial soul.
This process, at least, takes a hundred years.
A hundred years, Su Yuntao can wait, but he is the "first generation", he doesn't have that many choices, he was born as a commoner, he can only temporarily discard the factor of enhancing bloodline in the choice of soul ring, mainly to obtain powerful attack ability, while making the martial soul stronger, increase special attack.
This is both to protect himself and to have the strength to fight against criminals and even fallen ones when enforcing the law.
It was mentioned before that Su Yuntao's work was leisurely, but in addition to helping the people in the villages near Nuoding City awaken their martial souls, he also had to change shifts with the patrol team.
And in the patrol, he would inevitably encounter some troubles.
This requires strength, not bloodline.
For martial souls with weak bloodlines, a slight increase in bloodline power does not increase combat power too much.
For the Lone Wolf, which is not a powerful beast martial soul, unless he finds a high-level wolf-type soul beast, the bloodline enhancement is limited, far less than a powerful attack soul skill.
In the environment and class that Su Yuntao is in, how to choose is just a cost-effectiveness issue.
And the Terror Cat, this kind of soul beast, is most famous for its pair of claws that are about ten centimeters long. Even a hundred-forged steel knife can be cut by its sharp claws.
After obtaining the Terror Cat's soul ring, Su Yuntao's physical quality increased slightly, but his waist flexibility improved by more than one level.
On this point, Sisi had the most say.
Cough!
Back to the topic, the Terror Cat's soul ring not only improved Su Yuntao's agility, but more importantly, gave him another pair of claws.
Adamantium Claws!
When using this second soul skill, the wolf claws on Su Yuntao's ten fingers disappeared, and he clenched his fists. Except for the thumb, the remaining four fingers had three blades that looked like strange daggers.
Its sharpness could easily cut through the armor that could withstand the full blow of a thirty-level soul master. If it was applied to the flesh, it could be said that as long as it was not a defense-type soul master, the soul king could also be broken by this claw - although the soul king would not stand there stupidly.
And, Su Yuntao could also use this soul skill to condense his whole body's soul power on the six wolf claws, and shoot them out in the form of energy blades, with an attack range of more than twenty meters, and the power weakened as the distance increased.
If it was within ten meters, the soul master would be hit, and it would be nine deaths and one life... excluding those soul masters with powerful martial souls.
However, if he used his full strength, Su Yuntao would consume all his soul power because of this move.
If this move couldn't kill the enemy, then he would be the one who was killed.
But Su Yuntao was very happy, because he never thought that the second soul ring could have such a powerful killing soul skill, and the attack method was really very handsome, much more chic than his first soul skill: Hungry Wolf Pounce.
However, because this move was very consuming of soul power, Su Yuntao basically didn't use it, and relied on the Adamantium Claws to improve his combat power. After all, with such a pair of iron-cutting Adamantium Claws, his armor-breaking ability increased by at least five times.
At this time, Su Yuntao used the Adamantium Claws to cut off the silk thread of the banyan silkworm, fell back to the ground, and flicked off the silkworm silk on his body.
"It's really sticky."
"Sisi!"
He turned his head and shouted to Sisi.
"First soul skill: Entangle!"
Sisi naturally knew Su Yuntao's idea, and immediately released her martial soul, using her first soul skill.
In an instant, the white ribbon in her hand really moved like a python, winding towards the banyan silkworm on the crown of the tree. In a moment, the slow-moving banyan silkworm was hit, bound, and kept twisting.
"Got it!"
She pulled.
She dragged.
The banyan silkworm fell to the ground and stopped moving.
"The banyan silkworm may be playing dead." Tang San reminded.
"Look at me!" Su Yuntao leaped up, jumped to the front of the banyan silkworm, and stabbed his Adamantium Claws into the body of the banyan silkworm, nailing it to the ground.
Now, whether it was playing dead or not, it could not escape.
"Sisi, hurry up, this bug is quite strong." Su Yuntao nailed the banyan silkworm with one hand and pressed its violently struggling body with the other, and shouted to Sisi.
Sisi ran over immediately, took out the short knife she carried with her, and stabbed it into the head of the banyan silkworm, cutting off the black part of the head completely.
Then, a yellow soul ring appeared.
"Hu~"
Sisi breathed a sigh of relief, put away the short knife, and began to adjust her state.
The absorption of the soul ring was also a challenge for the soul master. She had to do it in the most perfect state to increase the success rate of absorption.
After adjusting her state, Sisi released her martial soul, and used her soul power to pull the soul ring, and put it on her ribbon martial soul.
At the moment when the soul ring was put on the martial soul, Sisi's body trembled slightly, and her face turned pale at a speed visible to the naked eye. Su Yuntao, Ma Xiunuo, and Tang San couldn't help but squeeze a sweat for her.
And this also made Tang San feel guilty.
According to his idea, an adult, no matter what his physical condition, should be able to bear a hundred-year soul ring, let alone the second ring.
But now, Sisi absorbed a four-hundred-year soul ring, and before that, she had almost no consumption, but the form she showed was under great pressure.
Was the banyan silkworm incompatible with the ribbon martial soul?
That was impossible.
Otherwise, the weapon martial soul would not match any soul beast.
Then the reason was only one left: for ordinary commoner soul masters, even the second soul ring, bearing around four hundred years of age, was still difficult.
"That's right, ordinary commoner soul masters, unlike those large and small families, had no medicinal baths when they were young, and their martial souls were poor. In the junior academy, they were often bullied by the students of the nobility. I guess they left a lot of hidden injuries at that time. Their physical condition naturally could not compare with those of the family descendants, and those with powerful martial souls, or those who mutated in a good direction."
Tang San frowned, and suddenly understood why most of the commoner soul masters' first soul ring was white.
Not only because the teachers of the junior academy helped them hunt, for the sake of convenience, but more importantly, most of the commoner soul masters' physical condition could not compare with those of the family descendants.
The first soul ring absorbed a hundred years, and it might cause them life-threatening!
Ten minutes later, Sisi's face became rosy again, and she seemed to have made it.
This also made Su Yuntao breathe a sigh of relief, and thanked Tang San: "Xiao San, thanks to you, otherwise Sisi would have missed such a suitable four-hundred-year soul ring for her."
Tang San shook his head: "I should apologize, for Sisi, this soul ring, almost made her fail to absorb, I didn't expect that the four-hundred-year soul ring for Sisi sister, also had such a big pressure..."
"There is no need to blame yourself." Ma Xiunuo patted Tang San's head and said with a smile, "Soul ring absorption is a risk, every year there are many soul masters who fail to absorb soul rings, and thus lose the opportunity to become soul masters... Sisi's situation is already good."
What Ma Xiunuo said was indeed the truth.
Every time a soul master absorbs a soul ring, it is not only a breakthrough in cultivation, but also a challenge to oneself.
If the willpower is not enough, there is no chance to continue.
And the consequences of absorption failure, lightly, the soul power is reduced, and can no longer continue to break through; heavily, the body explodes and dies.
For soul masters, cultivation is not smooth sailing.
Half an hour later, Sisi finally absorbed it, opened her eyes, and was full of joy.
"Sisi, you succeeded! What is your second soul skill? Tell me quickly!" Su Yuntao saw this, and knew that Sisi must have obtained a very suitable soul skill for her, and was happy for her.
"My second soul ring makes my martial soul more tenacious." Sisi released her martial soul, and the ribbon seemed to have no difference from before, but Tang San, with his Purple Demon Eye, was the first to find the difference of the ribbon.
If the previous ribbon was a white cloth strip, it looked very smooth, but now, its martial soul surface had weaving marks.
In short, before absorbing the banyan silkworm soul ring, Sisi's ribbon was a smooth cloth strip, with no traces on it, but now, it had details, like a masterpiece from a weaving master.