Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 188 Gathering in the Star Forest

"It's so spectacular! It's worthy of being the largest forest on this continent. You can't see such a magnificent view on the island."

In the Star Forest, Jixiang stood not far away and looked at the endless green ocean in front of him.

The refreshing autumn breeze blows towards you from the direction of the forest, carrying with it the unique fragrance of plants that is refreshing to the heart.

Jixiang walked slowly towards the Star Forest, but he seemed to be talking to the air, saying something non-stop.

"Teacher, it's already autumn, why can't I see any dead leaves in this forest?"

Before he finished speaking, a thin grey air current surged out of Jixiang's body and condensed into an illusory figure of an old man.

The old man floated beside Jixiang, stroking his beard and said with a smile:
"It's just different types of trees. Some trees are evergreen all year round and never lose their leaves."

"Thinking back to my hometown, there seems to be a big forest, not smaller than this Star Forest. However, I only have a trace of consciousness after all, and my memory is incomplete. I have forgotten the name of the forest in my hometown."

After entering the forest, Alex's expression straightened up, and he said to Jixiang in a very cautious tone:
"Disciple, the Xingdou Great Forest is the largest gathering place for soul beasts in your world. It is not as simple as it seems."

"In nature, the more beautiful things are, the more dangerous they are!"

"Don't be blinded by the beautiful scenery of this primeval forest. Stay alert, as danger may arise at any time."

"If you encounter danger, hide in my undead demiplane as soon as possible. Saving your life is the most important thing."

Although his tone was cautious, his words were full of concern, which made Jixiang feel warm in his heart. He responded solemnly:
"Teacher, rest assured. I understand."

"Yeah!" Alex nodded, and his whole body turned into a gray airflow and returned to Jixiang's sea of ​​consciousness to cultivate.

The best age for the third soul ring is comparable to that of a thousand-year soul beast, but Jixiang is currently only a quasi-soul master at level 30 and cannot cope with it on his own.

Therefore, if he encounters a suitable thousand-year soul beast, he will be the main force of the attack, so he now needs to conserve his energy in preparation for the next battle.

……

"Star Forest, here we come again!"

Among the group from the Spirit Hall, Xie Yue walked at the front of the team, his face full of arrogance but unable to hide his excitement.

Two years ago, he and Yan came here to obtain the fourth soul ring. Two years later, they and his sister will come here to obtain the fifth soul ring.

The first ten thousand year soul ring in a soul master’s life, the significance it represents is enough to make any soul master who has broken through to level fifty excited.

Of course, the prerequisite is that there is a soul master with the capital to obtain a fifth soul ring of ten thousand years. Those soul masters with a fifth soul ring of a thousand years can be ignored.

Xie Yue, Yan, and Hu Liena are the golden generation of the Spirit Hall. Hu Liena is the disciple of Pope Bibi Dong. This time they came to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain the fifth soul ring. The Spirit Hall sent three Soul Douluo-level powerhouses to escort them.

Among these three Contras, there is Sarath who was demoted to cardinal.

At this time, Salas was walking at the end of the team, looking straight ahead with a wandering look, as if he was thinking about something.

Although he fell from a platinum bishop to a red cardinal, everyone knew that he was taking the blame for Pope Bibi Dong. In addition, with his strength as a high-level Soul Douluo, his status in the Spirit Hall did not decrease much.

Pope Bibi Dong secretly gave the soul bones that were originally intended to be the rewards for the champions of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition three years later to three people from the golden generation in advance. Saleth was aware of this.

But that was all he knew. The only people who knew about the fact that the three people of the Golden Generation had inherited the divine legacy were the Golden Generation themselves, Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang.

Therefore, even though he had absorbed the soul power attached to the soul bone, because Salas did not know about the inheritance of the gods, he was still doubtful about the abnormal cultivation speed of Xie Yue and the other two.

At the front of the team, three members of the golden generation were whispering about matters related to the fifth soul ring.

"Yue, Nana, we have absorbed the ten thousand year soul bone, and our physical fitness has been greatly improved. The maximum age that the fifth soul ring can absorb should be increased to more than 20,000 years. What do you think?"

Among the three, Yan was the first to bring up this topic.

"Yan, I've told you so many times, call me by my full name, don't call me Nana." Hu Liena raised her eyebrows when she heard that.

The existence of the fox spirit makes her exude charm all the time. After inheriting the legacy of the god of desire, her ability in this area has been greatly enhanced.

Yan already had deep feelings for Hu Liena, and after Hu Liena's charm increased, he fell in love with her even more. In his eyes, his Nana was so charming even with this angry little expression.

"Okay, Nana." The three of them had practiced together for so long that Xie Yue had long been accustomed to this scene. He skillfully changed the topic and said:

"Let's talk business. I think we are fully capable of absorbing spirit rings of more than 20,000 years. Don't forget, we still have that one."

The ones he was referring to were naturally the three artifacts of Pride, Fire of Rage, and Eye of Desire.

However, their identities as the inheritors of the gods needed to be kept secret, and Xie Yue took into consideration the presence of three Soul Douluos, so he spoke very cryptically.

"That's right." Hu Liena took over her brother's words and whispered:

"And the age of the wisdom skull of spiritual concentration that I absorbed is extremely high, more than 50,000 years old. Adding that, I estimate that I can absorb spirit rings under 30,000 years old."

"Brother, I remember you told me that when you and Yan came to the Xingdou Great Forest to hunt for spirit rings last time, you encountered a three-eyed demon fox that was nearly 30,000 years old. If I can encounter it this time, I will use it as my fifth spirit ring."

"Three-eyed Demon Fox, let me think about it." Hearing his sister's words, Xie Yue tried hard to recall where he met the Three-eyed Demon Fox when he came to obtain the fourth soul ring last time.

Generally speaking, soul beasts have their own range of activities, and unless they are driven out by other soul beasts, they rarely take the initiative to leave the territory they have occupied.

Therefore, the three-eyed demon fox, whose cultivation was close to 30,000 years old, should still be near the area where he met it last time. The place where he met the three-eyed demon fox was the junction of the outer and inner areas of the Xingdou Great Forest.

Normally, a thousand-year-old soul beast that wants to obtain its fourth soul ring does not need to go so deep into the Star Dou Great Forest, but he was unlucky at the time and could not find a satisfactory soul beast, so he kept going deeper and deeper, and thus accidentally encountered the three-eyed demon fox.

The three-eyed demon fox is a relatively rare soul beast with spiritual attributes.

Not only is it the same fox type as Hu Liena's fox spirit, but it also has the same spiritual attributes. It can be said that the three-eyed demon fox is the most suitable choice as Hu Liena's spirit ring.

But at that time, Xie Yue did not take the encounter with the three-eyed demon fox to heart, because the three-eyed demon fox's cultivation years were very embarrassing.

The optimal soul ring ratio is that the fifth soul ring is about 12,000 years old, the sixth soul ring is about 20,000 years old, and the seventh soul ring is more than 30,000 years and less than 50,000 years old.

Therefore, for a normal genius soul master who has not absorbed soul bones, the fifth and sixth soul rings are too high, and the seventh soul ring is too low for a period of nearly 30,000 years.

He also mentioned it casually when chatting with his sister. He didn't expect that because of the divine inheritance and the ten thousand year soul bone, his sister would be able to absorb soul rings less than thirty thousand years old when she had the fifth soul ring.

"The last time I encountered the three-eyed demon fox was at the junction of the inner and outer parts of the Star Dou Great Forest. If we keep going deeper in this direction and don't deviate from it, we should be able to find that place smoothly."

Xie Yue pointed out the direction and walked in front of the team to lead the way.

……

Somewhere in the forest, a group of people were walking.

"Is this the Xingdou Great Forest?" Yun Hui walked in the middle of the team, exuding the liveliness and innocence of a young girl, and said in a brisk tone:
"When I knew I was going to come here to obtain spirit rings, I consulted a lot of ancient books. I thought the descriptions of the Star Dou Great Forest were exaggerated."

"But I didn't expect that the real Star Forest is far more magnificent than what is described in ancient books."

There was not only Yun Hui in the team, but also Ning Rongrong, the young master of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and a cold woman with a black veil on her face.

This cold and aloof woman is Ye Lingling, who successfully inherited the power of the God of Love.

Unlike the innocent and lively Yun Hui, and also unlike the noble and elegant Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling walked silently in the team.

She was dressed in black and had a black veil on her face. Except for the area above her eyes, the rest of her skin was covered by the clothes.

She had long blue hair draped over her shoulders like a waterfall, and her eyes, the same color as her hair, were as deep and quiet as the sea, revealing no emotion.

Even though she had inherited the power of the god of love, it did not seem to dispel the loneliness and desolation that emanated from her.

Her mother died giving birth to her, and her grandfather died because she awakened her martial spirit.

The death of her mother and grandfather is a sorrow that Ye Lingling will never be able to heal. So what if she has inherited the love god's legacy? So what if she has lifted the curse of the Nine-Hearted Begonia?
If she could bring her mother and grandfather back, she would rather give up the inheritance of the god of love and have a complete and warm family.

Among the three women, Ning Rongrong walked between two of them. She glanced at Yun Hui who was walking on her left, then at Ye Lingling who was walking on her right, and finally at Lin Rong who was sitting on the back of the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon in front of the team. Her eyes were full of complexity.

This person is one month younger than her. Five and a half years ago, he was a soul master who had just obtained his first soul ring. But now, he is a soul saint with combat power comparable to that of a Titled Douluo, and he even has more than one inheritor of the gods under his command.

She herself is the inheritor of the Nine-Colored Goddess, Yun Hui is the inheritor of the God of Kindness, Ye Lingling is the inheritor of the God of Love, and her future husband Oscar is the inheritor of the God of Food, as well as Lin Rong, the inheritor of an unknown god.

This team consists of five inheritors of gods, plus the Thor inheritance and Hercules inheritance which have not yet been selected, which makes up the seven great god inheritances.

When she first learned about it, Ning Rongrong's three views were shattered, and she almost doubted her life. Since when did the inheritance of gods become available wholesale?

This was because Ning Rongrong didn't know that Feng Xiaotian, the inheritor of the God of Wind, was Lin Rong's man, and that Ma Hongjun, the inheritor of the God of Fire, existed. Otherwise, she would have really become mentally ill due to such excessive stimulation.

There are four people who come to the Star Dou Great Forest and need to obtain spirit rings to advance. They are Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, Yun Hui and Oscar.

Oscar needs to obtain the third soul ring to advance to Soul Master.

Yun Hui needs to obtain two spirit rings at least. The specific spirit power level depends on whether she can increase her spirit power to level 30 after absorbing the spirit rings.

Ye Lingling needs to obtain the fourth soul ring to advance to Soul Sect. Her original soul power is only level 34, which does not meet the requirements for advancement. However, because the martial soul curse is lifted, the Nine-Hearted Begonia releases a large amount of pure soul power, which directly soars her soul power to level 40.

Ning Rongrong needs to obtain the fifth soul ring, and the soul beast is the gem martial soul that Ning Fengzhi has already found in the Star Dou Great Forest, a 32,000-year-old green water clam.

This was originally the soul beast that served as her sixth soul ring. The original fifth soul ring was found by her father in the Sunset Forest, an agate unicorn that was more than 15,000 years old.

But after Lin Rong found out, she disliked the Agate Unicorn's low level of cultivation and told her that her current physical fitness was enough to withstand a soul ring below 35,000 years old. So she chose the 32,000-year-old Green Water Clam as her fifth soul ring instead.

The four people who need to obtain spirit rings are all descendants of gods, and the Star Dou Great Forest is full of dangers. Therefore, Ning Fengzhi once proposed to Lin Rong that Uncle Jian and Uncle Gu, two Titled Douluo, accompany them to the Star Dou Great Forest.

But Lin Rong directly rejected Ning Fengzhi's proposal. Chen Xin and Gu Rong, the two Titled Douluo, were very famous in the soul master world and were almost known to everyone.

They were just juniors hunting for spirit rings, but they sent out two Titled Douluo to escort them. This would only arouse suspicion and increase the risk of their identities as inheritors of gods being exposed.

Moreover, the forest is Lin Rong's home ground. As of now, there may be people in this world that he cannot deal with in the forest, but no one can take his life and the lives of those he wants to protect in a primeval forest of the level of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Therefore, in their team, apart from Oscar and the other four who needed to obtain spirit rings to advance, there were only Lin Rong and the old butler accompanying them.

They walked deeper into the forest. Although the atmosphere in the team was not very active, it was very relaxed and comfortable. They did not have the necessary vigilance as they should have in the Star Dou Great Forest, the largest gathering place for soul beasts in the entire continent.

There was no way. Among the six of them, Lin Rong and the old butler were strong enough to not fear the dangers of the Star Dou Great Forest. Ning Rongrong, Oscar and Yun Hui had also witnessed Lin Rong's strength, so they were not panicked at all. Ye Lingling, on the other hand, looked down on everything and had already put life and death aside.

They advanced very quickly, and thus arrived at the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, the area where the hundred-year-old soul beasts were active, half a day later.

(End of this chapter)