Peerless: After traveling through time, who would still want to be Tang San's son-in-law?

Chapter 278 Information on Spirit-Attribute Soul Beasts
"One loser may not be able to cause much trouble, but the Sun Moon Empire has countless such failed Soul Masters. They will eventually traverse all the wrong paths, and what remains is the broad road of rapid development and progress for Soul Tools."

"In comparison, we Soul Masters are actually lacking in this kind of people. Compared to ten thousand years ago, how much progress have Soul Masters made? How much progress have Soul Tools made? If Soul Masters continue to be complacent and arrogant, they will be completely surpassed by Soul Masters sooner or later."

"I……"

Wang Dong's mouth opened slightly, unsure of what to say for a moment, so he awkwardly changed the subject.

"It seems like Di Rachel is almost finished absorbing it."

Huo Yuhao didn't chase after him to hit him, and silently shut his mouth.

The fluctuations in soul power subsided, and everyone's gaze turned to Di Rachel.

The sudden appearance of the unfamiliar soul beast, which possessed the bloodline of a golden dragon and even had an external soul bone, was a huge boon for Di Ruiqiu. Everyone wanted to see how much Di Ruiqiu would improve after this gain.

Upon opening her eyes, the first thing Di Ruiqiu saw was Cai Meier's figure. She was momentarily stunned, and it took her a while to recover before she said:
"Old...teacher."

Cai Meier reached out and pulled Di Ruiqiu up, eagerly saying, "Quickly try out your new soul skill. Oh, and also show off your soul bone and soul bone skill."

"Huh? Oh... okay."

Di Ruiqiu nodded and summoned her martial soul. A golden phantom appeared behind Di Ruiqiu, accompanied by...

One yellow, one purple, and four black—six soul rings in total.

"After my sixth soul skill is activated, the soul power consumption is not high, but after being injured, I will use the life force that was originally used for healing to improve my physical attributes."

"The more severe the injury, the more life force is mobilized, and the stronger the resulting amplification. If the body can fight normally, the limit is to maintain 100% amplification for about one minute. In the case of near death, it can even reach 200% amplification."

After explaining the effects, Di Ruiqiu lowered her head and remained silent.

"This……"

Everyone looked at each other, speechless for a moment.

Is this soul skill powerful? It's incredibly powerful, with a maximum increase of 200% in physical attributes. Even the strongest support-type martial soul, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, couldn't match that, right?
However, this greatly reduces the practicality of the soul skill. The Golden Dragon, the ancestor of power, has a defensive ability that is no weaker than power itself. Who at the same level can break through Di Ruiqiu's defense?
Furthermore, what about using the life force that was originally meant to heal the body to amplify it? What about the injuries? If there are no teammates around, wouldn't it just lead to a chaotic feast?
The sixth soul skill is powerful, but its strength lies in life-or-death situations. Otherwise, it's as good as having nothing at all.

Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo looked at each other.

No wonder. They clearly felt that the golden bird's soul power fluctuations weren't very high, at most 50,000 years, barely reaching the level of a Soul Douluo, yet it was so troublesome. It turned out it had such a heaven-defying ability. If it weren't for a group attack, they might not have been able to kill that golden bird in a one-on-one fight.

"A pretty good soul skill. It has the potential to kill opponents of a higher level. Congratulations on obtaining a good soul skill."

Those who have just entered the inner academy and have not yet experienced much fighting may have some doubts about the practicality of this soul skill. However, Cai Meier, the vice dean of the Martial Soul Department, and Zhang Lexuan, who has hunted down evil soul masters many times, understand the practicality of this soul skill even more.

When fighting against evil spirit masters, the only priority is to kill them first, and then consider whether you can survive. As for the life force lost in the process? Let the Shrek Academy's Golden Tree and the Elder Reserve who recently broke through to the Soul Douluo level with the Tree of Life martial soul be the ones to talk about it.

"By the way, have you decided on a name for the sixth soul skill?"

Cai Meier asked.

Di Ruiqiu shook her head. She didn't care much about the names of her soul skills; she just added "Golden Dragon" before them based on their characteristics. For example, "Golden Dragon Head," or "Golden Dragon Explosion."

"How about we call it 'Dragons Fight in the Wilds'?"

Huo Yuhao suddenly said.

"Dragons battling in the wilderness?"

Di Ruiqiu pondered these four words and cast a questioning look at Huo Yuhao.

"Dragons fight in the wild, their blood is black and yellow."

Huo Yuhao paused for a moment, then continued, "The fact that a mighty dragon, high above, has been reduced to fighting on the ground signifies fierce conflict and also symbolizes the coming of new changes."

"Okay, this is a good name."

Cai Meier made the decision.

This name perfectly matches the effect of Di Rachel's sixth soul skill.

What's so great about it? I've never been injured in my entire life. The last time I suffered a loss was when Elder Xuan pinned me to the ground.

Although Di Ruiqiu pouted with a dissatisfied look on her face, practically showing her dissatisfaction, she still had no choice but to submit to Cai Meier's tyranny and accept the name.

"By the way, where's the soul bone? Show it to us too."

Cai Meier couldn't wait to walk around behind Di Ruiqiu, wanting to witness the appearance of her first external soul bone.

Di Rachel weakly summoned her soul bone, and a pair of golden dragon wings slowly stretched out from behind her, covered with golden dragon scales that shimmered with a dazzling golden light under the sunlight.

"Completely integrated?"

After a careful inspection, Cai Meier said in disbelief.

Although it was the first time Cai Meier had seen an external soul bone, she had read a lot about them and was able to judge the condition of this dragon wing soul bone at a glance.

When an external soul bone is absorbed, it is generally not a perfect fit for the human body. At this time, it is just like an ordinary soul bone. After being pulled out, it can be attached to another person, which makes it easy for others to covet it.

Complete fusion means that the external soul bone takes on the shape of the soul master and becomes a complete part of the soul master. Others who want to absorb it cannot do so.

A fully fused soul bone is easier to use and more controllable, as if it were a part of a soul master's nature.

"As expected of someone with the same Golden Dragon bloodline, it was completely integrated immediately after absorption. Very good. Qiu'er, tell me quickly, what are the abilities of the Soul Bone?"

Di Ruiqiu closed his eyes and sensed for a while before saying, "Just like its appearance, the golden dragon wings and the attached soul bone gave me the ability to fly freely. As for the attached soul skills, they are to transform all the dragon scales on my body into attacks and launch them out, but I will also be injured as a result."

After saying that, Di Rachel turned her head away somewhat displeased.

"As for the specific effects, I'd rather not use it."

As an auspicious beast, for ten thousand years, it has always been the case that if an auspicious beast loses a drop of blood, any creature that injures an auspicious beast will lose its head. However, after transforming into human form, the soul rings and soul bones that Di Ruiqiu actively absorbed were all used to harm himself, which left Di Ruiqiu speechless for a moment.

Meanwhile, Di Rachel had already labeled her sixth soul skill and soul bone skill as unworthy of use. "Alright everyone, let's end the rest here and continue the soul hunt. We still need you to find the soul rings for Huo Yuhao and the others."

After saying that, Cai Meier's figure disappeared instantly.

"Yuhao, activate your mental detection and continue searching for suitable soul beasts."

Zhang Lexuan naturally took over the command. Following Zhang Lexuan's instructions, the others spontaneously formed the previous exploration formation and began to explore the mixed area horizontally.

After several days of exploration and several battles, most of the other members of the team had found suitable spirit rings, except for Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, who had not yet found any.

"It's been almost two weeks, and we still haven't seen even a single spirit-attribute soul beast?"

While resting that night, Wang Dong couldn't help but worry about Huo Yuhao.

Wang Dong now understood why the Martial Soul System was unwilling to invest too many resources in Huo Yuhao's spiritual attribute back then; there were simply too few spiritual attribute soul beasts.

Even if you find one, there's no guarantee it will be suitable.

Huo Yuhao shook his head helplessly and said, "If you were a spirit beast with naturally strong spiritual power, and you needed an ability to survive in the Star Dou Great Forest and not become prey, what spirit skill would you choose to evolve?"

"I?"

Wang Dong continued to let his imagination run wild, following Huo Yuhao's train of thought.

“Unless a spirit beast with a special bloodline, but since it needs to consider survival, it is obviously a mutated spirit attribute... So, it can use its mental power to attack, taking advantage of the fact that spirit beasts of the same level generally have weaker mental power than itself to overwhelm them in combat, or... like Yuhao's simulation, it can use spirit skills such as invisibility and illusion to enhance its stealth capabilities..."

Suddenly, Wang Dong stopped talking.

“That’s right. Spirit-attribute spirit beasts with rare bloodlines and inherited special spirit skills are extremely rare. As for the more common mutated spirit-attribute spirit beasts, the spirit-attribute abilities they can evolve are mostly limited, and they are very likely to overlap with the functions of the spirit skills I already have…”

For example, in the original story, the Silver Moon Wolf King's soul ring skill, Mental Confusion, burns the opponent's mental power, causing dizziness and other adverse effects. However, its effect on breaking through mental defense is not as good as the compressed Mental Impact. Even if Mental Impact is ordinary, it is still a million-year soul skill, which is too versatile.

It can be continuously compressed into the size of a needle tip to pierce through the enemy's mental defenses, or it can be condensed into the size of a fist to directly bombard the opponent's soul, causing the soul to temporarily lose control of the body.

The Soul Fusion Skill, Mind Storm, is nothing more than an enhanced version of mental shock for multiple targets.

"I have reviewed all the records of spirit-attribute spirit beasts in the academy. Among them, spirit impact and its variants, illusion, invisibility and other related abilities account for almost half. Other spirit-attribute spirit beasts, such as Silver Elf Beast and Dream Eater, have not been sighted for thousands of years."

Wang Dong suddenly said, "Although human soul masters have never seen one, the Star Dou Great Forest is so vast that there must still be a certain number of them living there, right? Last time, the Silver Elite Beast was presumed to be extinct, but in the end, a ferocious beast still found one."

Di Ruiqiu, who was eavesdropping not far away, twitched her ears and looked at Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong with some vigilance.

"What do you want to do?"

Huo Yuhao said irritably, "We can't just go and capture the auspicious beast to threaten those ferocious beasts now. Things like finding the nearly extinct Silver Elite Beast with the help of the ferocious beasts last time are completely rare. Besides, even a clay figure has some temper, let alone a ferocious beast."

"I was just saying..."

Wang Dong knew he had come up with a stupid idea, so he leaned against the tree and didn't say anything more.

"As for spirit-attribute soul beasts... I roughly know where there is one."

Di Rachel suddenly said.

In an instant, everyone present turned their attention to Di Rachel.

The people present were all highly skilled. Unless they deliberately used telepathy or a soul power barrier to block out sound, as long as they spoke, even the slightest sound could be heard by others.

Do you know where to find spirit-attribute soul beasts?

Wang Dong said impatiently.

"Ah."

Di Ruiqiu nodded and began to explain: "Years ago, when we came to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt souls, our team encountered a strange incident. The agility-type soul master at the front of the team suddenly fell to the ground. The teammate closest to him went to check on the situation and also fell to the ground without warning. In the end, the captain and elders had to step in and pull the two of them out."

"According to the elder, that area is covered by a special spiritual power. If your spiritual power is not strong enough, you will be pulled into a dream after entering this place. That area is likely the territory of a soul beast with the bloodline of a Dream Eater. As for whether it is a purebred Dream Eater, I am not sure."

"Because there were no spirit-attribute soul masters in the team, the elder didn't spend much effort searching for the soul beast's whereabouts and instead led us away directly."

"The elder who accompanied the captain was only at the level of a Soul Douluo. If it really is a Dream Eater, but they couldn't pull it into the dream, it's very likely that their cultivation level is no more than 50,000 years."

"The bloodline of the Dream Eater?"

Huo Yuhao raised an eyebrow. As an imperial auspicious beast, how could Di Ruiqiu not know the other party's specific situation? If that's the case, the soul beast that Di Ruiqiu mentioned really is another type of soul beast with a trace of Dream Eater bloodline.

Just like those bird-like soul beasts with the bloodline of the Golden Dragon.

The Dream Eater was one of Huo Yuhao's ideal targets, but he had never been able to find any information about it. Unexpectedly, Di Ruiqiu had news about it.

"Now that we have information, why don't you lead the way?"

Wang Dong rushed up and grabbed Di Ruiqiu's hand, speaking somewhat urgently.

Di Ruiqiu snorted coldly and said, "Aren't you going to say 'please' at a time like this?"

Di Ruiqiu disliked Wang Dong's impulsive nature.

Perhaps because she possessed Huo Yuhao's memories, Di Ruiqiu was generally quite gentle in her human form, somewhat indifferent to worldly affairs, or disdainful of competing with others, but that was no excuse for Wang Dong to be rude to her repeatedly.

Wang Dong suddenly froze, turning his head somewhat blankly to look at Di Ruiqiu, who was standing still.

"Alright, alright, we're all comrades in arms now, so let's not fuss over such minor rudeness."

Seeing the tension escalating between the two, Huo Yuhao quickly stepped forward, shielding Wang Dong behind him, and said, "Di Ruiqiu, the information you provided is very important to me. I owe you a favor, and I'll need your help to guide me from here on out."

Di Ruiqiu glanced at Huo Yuhao, who was protecting her behind him, and then at Huo Yuhao's sincere expression. She snorted coldly and walked past Huo Yuhao on her own.

Huo Yu turned to look at Di Ruiqiu, who was walking further and further away towards the core area, wondering what the guy meant.

Could it be that you're tired of playing in the human world and are planning to head home?
(End of this chapter)