Chapter 220: Mastery of Life
The soul ring, green-gold with black-gold patterns, looked particularly eerie, emitting a mix of evil and saintly bright auras. The evil sensation likely stemmed from Xuan Zi's Taotie martial spirit, while the holy brightness could be from the Golden Tree.
"Quick, absorb it and see," Du Busi urged Du Qianjue. Among everyone present, only Du Qianjue could absorb this unique soul ring.
Du Qianjue nodded, sat down cross-legged, and released his Chaos Dragon King martial spirit, which drew the unique soul ring to rest above his head. This divine soul ring, formed from the fusion of the Golden Tree and Taotie origins, held a quality that placed it in a unique tier within the Douluo Continent's martial spirit system.
Du Busi glanced at Xuan Zi's remains and sighed softly, using his power to pull the body over, intending to find a place for burial. Although he had looked down on Xuan Zi previously, he had come to respect him more after Xuan Zi's explosive actions had wiped out the entire Shrek Academy. In any world, strength was respected.
Regardless of Xuan Zi's character, leaving his body in the wilderness would be disrespectful to a strong fighter. Du Busi naturally decided to take care of Xuan Zi's remains.
"Huh? What's this…" Upon touching Xuan Zi's body, Du Busi furrowed his brows, noticing something strange about Xuan Zi's right leg. The soul power fluctuation there was peculiar.
Du Busi looked at the green-gold soul ring slowly settling on Du Qianjue's head, realizing the fluctuation was eerily similar to the soul ring's aura.
Jin Peng, standing nearby, also sensed this odd feeling and exchanged a look with Du Busi, both voicing their disbelief, "This can't be, can it?"
"What's impossible?" Di Tian, who was meditating, opened his eyes curiously. Du Qianjue was absorbing the soul ring, and they had decided to stay to protect him, a task that wouldn't take much time.
Curiosity piqued by Du Busi and Jin Peng's exclamations, the others turned their attention towards them.
With a somewhat pitying look at Xuan Zi's body, Du Busi started mumbling, "Xuan Zi, don't blame me for not leaving your body intact, I'm just too curious..."
"Come on, big brother, just check it out. He's dead anyway, why care so much? We're already being merciful by handling his remains," Jin Peng said eagerly.
Nodding, Du Busi raised his hand and slapped Xuan Zi's right leg, instantly disintegrating the flesh and leaving behind a pristine, green-gold colored leg bone wrapped in black-gold patterns, which gave it a sinister feel.
"Is this actually a soul bone?" Du Busi felt dizzy. Since when could people explode into soul rings and soul bones?
What was odd was that no other part of Xuan Zi's body showed any soul power fluctuation, indicating that any soul bones he previously absorbed were gone.
"What's going on?" Jin Peng was equally baffled. The situation with Xuan Zi challenged their understanding of the soul master world built over more than two hundred years.
"This is rather interesting," Di Tian said, intrigued, and gestured, "Let me see."
Du Busi handed the soul bone over nonchalantly. After all, Di Tian couldn't use the soul bone; it would ultimately go to Du Qianjue just for a look, and Du Busi wasn't petty about it.
Di Tian examined the soul bone closely and tested it with his spiritual power, then nodded, "It is indeed a soul bone, though its aura is a bit off, but it's no different from a soul beast's soul bone after death."
"Can Qianjue absorb it?" Xue Linglong asked, frowning.
"It should be fine," Di Tian replied, tossing the soul bone back to Du Busi.
"Should be?" Xue Linglong was clearly dissatisfied with the casual response. This wasn't a matter to be taken lightly.
"If you don't believe it, check for yourself," Di Tian shrugged and resumed his meditation posture.
Xue Linglong did just that, inspecting the soul bone closely. Bi Ji, curious, joined her, and they whispered to each other. As soon as Xue Linglong touched the soul bone, she sensed the strong aura of the Golden Tree. Having observed the Golden Tree closely before, she easily recognized it. Yet, she puzzled over the familiarity of this soul bone—it felt just like any other from a soul beast, except for a certain lofty aura that she found somewhat familiar.
"Any problems?" Bi Ji asked softly as she saw Xue Linglong's furrowed brow.
"Nothing major, just that this soul bone feels familiar," Xue Linglong shook her head, her gaze sweeping over Du Qianjue before she quickly realized—this lofty aura was the same she had felt from him!
The aura of a god!
With a wry smile, Xue Linglong handed the soul bone back to Du Busi. Indeed, she had been overly cautious.
Thanks to the child of fortune's aura that Du Qianjue carried, the soul ring formed from the Golden Tree origin did not reject him. In just two hours, the green-gold soul ring had settled into the fourth slot of Du Qianjue's second martial spirit. His aura gradually increased as the soul ring boosted his soul power.
The power boost from a divine soul ring was substantial. Du Qianjue's level leaped from 85 to 89, just a breakthrough away from reaching level 90 and becoming a Titled Douluo.
He now had two options: either condense a third soul core to break through to Titled Douluo or patiently train and gradually reach it. Given the quality of his soul power, he could easily outperform most Titled Douluos and was nearly on par with Extreme Douluos.
Breaking through to Titled Douluo would be straightforward; he didn't need to form another soul core just yet. Opting not to take this shortcut, he could still steadily achieve Titled Douluo status, but it would just take some time.
"How many levels now? Reached 90 yet?" Du Busi came over, clapping Du Qianjue on the shoulder, inquiring.
Since Du Qianjue's breakthrough to Soul Saint, it had been difficult to discern his exact level of cultivation, even for Du Busi.
"Not yet, only at 89. But reaching 90 should be soon; it won't take long," Du Qianjue stood up, smiling. The benefits this time were substantial, with the level boost being secondary. Most importantly, he had gained an additional attribute.
Golden Tree Soul Ring First Skill: Mastery of Life. (End of Chapter)
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