boyutpedia Chapter 170 Martial Souls and Soul Beasts
Chapter 170 Martial Souls and Soul Beasts
Chapter 170 Martial Souls and Soul Beasts
"Teacher! I feel so much better!"
Before anyone could ask, Ma Xiaotao's excited voice rang out first.
Unfortunately, after the intense competition of the Soul Master Tournament, Ma Xiaotao didn't even have time to use the Ten Thousand Year Cold Jade Bed before Tang Ya occupied it. Ma Xiaotao had been suppressing it for a long time.
In a sense, the evil fire was like a phlegm, constantly stimulating Ma Xiaotao's nerves. However, Ma Xiaotao always suppressed it and refused to vent it. Anyone else would have been driven crazy by the evil fire long ago.
No, Ma Xiaotao was also driven crazy a few times, otherwise where would Huo Yuhao have gotten the Soul Ascension Pill...
Getting back to the topic, Ma Xiaotao excitedly released her martial spirit as soon as she finished speaking, looking very happy at the fiery red flames around her.
This was the first time Ma Xiaotao had ever seen her flame so pure.
However, before Ma Xiaotao could be happy for long, streaks of dark gray light emerged from the fiery red surroundings, which were surprisingly jarring.
This wisp of blackish-gray flame immediately dampened Ma Xiaotao's excitement. Looking at the blackish-gray flame, Ma Xiaotao froze.
Ma Xiaotao turned her head to look at her teacher, and said with some grievance:
"Teacher, has the evil fire still not been eliminated?"
The stimulation that the evil fire had been giving Ma Xiaotao suddenly subsided, and Ma Xiaotao thought she had completely gotten rid of the evil fire. Unexpectedly, the evil fire had not subsided, but was only temporarily suppressed.
Ma Xiaotao couldn't even remember what a normal feeling was like. She had just realized that she didn't need to distract herself to suppress the evil fire, so she assumed that the evil fire had subsided.
Seeing his disciple's tearful face, Yan Shaozhe comforted her, "Xiao Tao, don't be sad. At least you can relax in your cultivation from now on and won't have to suppress your evil fire all the time. Besides, we have found the right way to suppress evil fire, and one day you will be able to get rid of it completely."
"That shouldn't be the case."
Huo Yuhao was puzzled as he looked at the flames on Ma Xiaotao's body.
Having just carefully reviewed the description of the Fire Lotus from Elder Yu, Huo Yuhao had gained more confidence in Ma Xiaotao's ability to suppress the evil fire. However, he did not expect the effect to be worse than he had imagined.
According to the information, the growth of the Fire Lotus requires a certain temperature, which Huo Yuhao understands to mean that the Fire Lotus requires a certain level of activity of the surrounding fire element.
Since this ancient fire lotus can grow next to magma, it should have the ability to temper the raging fire element, or even possess a soul skill.
However, this was not the case for Ma Xiaotao. After absorbing the spirit ring, the flames on Ma Xiaotao's body not only did not become more restrained, but instead became even more intense.
"What shouldn't be?"
Elder Yu noticed Huo Yuhao muttering to himself, and all the other elders also turned their attention to Huo Yuhao because of Elder Yu's voice.
Huo Yuhao whispered, "I'm just wondering why some of the characteristics that the Fire Lotus should have didn't appear on Senior Sister's Martial Soul."
"Um?"
This caused quite a stir among the elders.
"You mean that some of the characteristics of the spirit beasts that are absorbed will appear on your martial soul?"
Huo Yuhao nodded matter-of-factly: "That's right."
Old Man Yu, who was standing to the side, asked, "Where did you hear that from? We've never heard of it before."
"what?"
Huo Yuhao was also stunned. Wasn't this common knowledge in Douluo Continent?
Huo Yuhao didn't know how to explain for a moment. Thinking of the scene he had witnessed when he first transmigrated, he shared the scene of Tang Ya absorbing the soul ring with the elders through mental sharing.
The group of elders were initially puzzled as to why Huo Yuhao would suddenly establish a mental connection with them, until they saw the shared images.
Because the images were observed through mental detection, the elders clearly saw the scale patterns that emerged from the Blue Silver Grass when Tang Ya absorbed her third spirit ring.
From the perspective of mental detection, the scale pattern was indeed more resilient than the blue silver grass inside, as if the plant itself had created a protective shell...
This……
The elders fell silent.
It seems that, just as Huo Yuhao said, some of the characteristics of the soul beast corresponding to the absorbed soul ring will indeed appear on the absorber's martial soul.
Why didn't they notice this before?
The elders exchanged glances, and Elder Song suddenly spoke up: "After I absorbed the ninth spirit ring, even without using spirit skills, my spirit's size shrank slightly, its color became darker than before, and its defensive power was stronger. At the time, I thought it was just that my spirit had become more condensed..."
Old Song's martial soul is the Azure Shadow Divine Eagle, a top-tier speed-type martial soul, and its pair of sharp claws also give him considerable attack power.
Its ninth spirit ring comes from a rare spirit beast that is nearly extinct, the Jade Hummingbird, which is known as the bird with the strongest defense. Its petite size also gives it top-tier speed.
In short, it's tough and hard to catch.
The Jade Hummingbird went extinct because its body could not store much energy and it needed to replenish its energy frequently. Even relying solely on soul power was not enough, so it needed to obtain energy from the surrounding plant-type soul beasts. Therefore, it had a high requirement for the number of plant-type soul beasts in its growing environment.
Old Song was lucky to encounter such a bird in the Star Dou Great Forest. It was 90,000 years old. Old Song chased it for ten days and ten nights, and finally, the jade hummingbird died from exhaustion.
Qian Duoduo then spoke up, "After I absorbed the Earth Dragon once, some dragon patterns appeared on the Black Dragon Shield. At the time, I thought my martial soul had undergone a partial evolution because of the Earth Dragon bloodline. Now that I think about it, those dragon patterns actually look somewhat like the scales of that Earth Dragon..."
But Mr. Zhuang remained silent.
As the owner of the Tree of Life martial soul, he couldn't recall any changes to his martial soul.
Elder Lin... let's not talk about it. Huo Yuhao didn't even know what her martial soul was, but judging from her expression, it should be a top-tier martial soul that wouldn't easily change.
At this moment, Huo Yuhao also realized what was going on: "So, the elders here, because their martial souls are too powerful, have rarely, if ever, experienced the characteristics of a corresponding soul beast that their martial soul acquires after absorbing a soul ring. Some even thought that their bloodline had been replenished, thus causing their martial soul to evolve on its own?"
This……
It seems there really is such a possibility. For example, the scales of the Mandragora Snake are very hard, but it depends on what it is compared to. If the Jade Serpent King absorbs the martial soul of the Mandragora Snake, does that mean the scales of the Jade Serpent King will have to turn into the shape of the Mandragora Snake?
Are you kidding me? A tiny datura snake doesn't even deserve to be called one!
Meanwhile, Elder Yu, who was standing to the side, had nothing more to say. He took out a notebook and quickly jotted down the few examples that had just appeared, planning to find a few people with mediocre martial souls to verify them after he finished this task.
(End of this chapter)