Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 265 The Choice of the Ninth Soul Ring
The Azure Bull Python is a wood-attributed dragon-type soul beast. Whether it is the soul rings or soul bones it produces, their properties are quite compatible with the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon.

The dragon draws inspiration from water, the wood generates wind and thunder, and the wood becomes vitality.

Among the eight attributes that Lin Rong now possesses, namely wood, water, wind, thunder, life, destruction, space, and time, the soul rings and soul bones of the Sky Blue Bull Python occupy five of wood, water, wind, thunder, and life.

The remaining three attributes: destruction, space, and time, are not attributes possessed by the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon itself, but are derived from the three soul beasts: Thundering Hell Vine, Sky Green Bamboo, and Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

It can be said that it is probably difficult to find a soul beast in the entire Douluo Continent that is more compatible with the Nine-Bend Vine Dragon than the Sky Blue Bull Python. The Thousand-Leaf Banyan and the Sky Blue Vine (Dragon Soul Vine) are only better than the Sky Blue Bull Python in terms of compatibility because the Nine-Bend Vine Dragon is mutated from these two martial souls.

Due to the compatibility of attributes and Lin Rong's current physical strength as a demigod, it was extremely easy for him to absorb the 100,000-year-old soul bone of the Sky Blue Bull Python.

During the absorption process, Lin Rong was surprised to find that there was not a trace of the Azure Bull Python's soul consciousness left in this torso soul bone.

He had originally planned to use his soul power to eliminate the soul consciousness remaining in the soul bone of the Azure Bull Python, but now it seems a bit redundant.

"Is it because of the soft-boned rabbit and the Titan ape that your heart is broken?"

"It really is……"

Lin Rong once again felt deeply moved by the Azure Bull Python's love-mindedness.

There is no residual soul consciousness of the Azure Bull Python in the torso soul bone, so the soul bone will not resist the soul master's absorption during the process of absorbing the soul bone, which also increases his speed of absorbing the soul bone again.

In less than an incense stick of time, Lin Rong completed the absorption of a hundred thousand year old torso soul bone.

"Level 85, a bit low."

Lin Rong was slightly dissatisfied with the level of soul power after absorbing the soul ring and soul bone.

No matter how fast one practices, in the later stages of practice, the increase in soul power level will slow down.

In particular, Lin Rong also has an external soul bone, the Banyan Wood Heart, which can increase the total soul power by an additional 50%. Although this ability is effective, its disadvantage is that it will slow down his cultivation speed.

In the early stage, he could still use the increase in the speed of soul power cultivation due to the innate eight meridians to cover it up, but in the later stage after level 70, it became increasingly unable to do so.

"Forget it. It doesn't matter if I am slow in cultivation. At the very least, I am already a level 85 Soul Douluo. Compared with my peers of this generation, I am already far ahead."

Soul Douluo, the next realm is Titled Douluo.

Of the nine soul rings, Lin Rong already has eight.

As long as he increases his soul power by five levels and then absorbs another soul ring, he will become a Titled Douluo, the last realm below gods.

As for the choice of the ninth soul ring, there is no soul beast on land that Lin Rong is interested in. Even if there is one, he doesn’t know where it is hiding, and its age may not be worthy of his attention.

There is no choice on land, so we can only turn our eyes to the endless ocean.

In the ocean, the Deep Sea Demon Whale King with a million years of cultivation is Lin Rong’s first choice for the ninth soul ring.

The reason why it is the first choice instead of the reservation is because the compatibility of the Deep Sea Demon Whale King with the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon in terms of attributes is really average.

The Deep Sea Demon Whale is an animal-type soul beast, not a plant-type soul beast, and is not compatible. The water attribute is one of the eight elemental attributes of the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon, and the attribute compatibility is one-eighth.

After a million years of cultivation, it is about to transform into a dragon, but unlike the Azure Bull Python, it is not a dragon soul beast itself, so its dragon attributes can be basically ignored.

The elemental compatibility of one eighth is so low. If it weren't for the fact that the Deep Sea Demon Whale King has cultivated for a million years, Lin Rong would really not take it seriously.

But if he couldn't find a 100,000-year soul beast that satisfied him in the ocean, Lin Rong could only make do with absorbing the soul ring of the Deep Sea Demon Whale King on the spot.

As for the million-year-old soul bone, it depends on fate.

Although the soul bones of a hundred thousand year soul beast are certain to drop, and the location of the soul bones can be determined by the soul master, they can only be selected from the six conventional soul bones.

If you want an external soul bone, you cannot specify the drop. Let the hundred thousand year soul bone be generated randomly. Only in this way will it be possible for an external soul bone to appear.

Therefore, if he is lucky, Lin Rong can get a million-year-old external soul bone. If he is unlucky, he can only get one of the six regular soul bones in a random position.

Since the six regular soul bone positions on his body are already full and the attribute compatibility is average, even if the Blue Silver Emperor soul bone has the ability to regenerate broken limbs and can replace the limb soul bones, and the soul bones dropped by the Deep Sea Demon Whale King are for the limbs, Lin Rong will not choose to replace the existing soul bones.

"The number of hundred thousand year soul beasts in the ocean is far greater than that on the mainland, and far greater than what soul masters imagine. We can see some clues from the battle of Sea God City."

Lin Rong thought:

"I hope to find a sea soul beast in the ocean that is more compatible with the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon. Although the Deep Sea Demon Whale King is old enough, the compatibility is still too poor."

Those who have read the original novel know that after becoming a god, spirit rings become decorations, even the tenth god-level spirit ring that represents the god level.

At best, the soul ring after becoming a god can only reflect the difference in foundation, but it is useless.

Tang San, the original sea god who possesses two god-level spirit rings, would not be able to defeat Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue together, let alone defeat her if he did not have a bunch of Tang Sect cheats.

It is said that Qian Renxue, with the help of Qian Daoliu, was forced to grow so fast that her foundation became unstable, but does that mean Tang San has nothing to do with her?
It was also five years, but the difference was that Qian Renxue soared from Soul Sage to God level, while Tang San soared from Soul Emperor to God level.

Both use external forces to increase the soul power level, but how much better can it be than using divine means to increase the soul power level?
In comparison, after Bibi Dong acquired the Rakshasa inheritance, she went through more than twenty-five years of accumulation of foundation before she was able to achieve the status of Rakshasa God.

Even though she has become Tang San's foil in terms of battle record and performance, her foundation is truly deep and solid, which cannot be compared with Qian Renxue and Tang San's cheating upgrades.

Because of this, when choosing a soul ring, Lin Rong would pay more attention to the compatibility between the soul beast and the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon, rather than blindly pursuing the age of the soul ring.

Among soul rings and soul bones, there are only differences between ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years, ten thousand years, and a hundred thousand years. Only when they reach a hundred years, a thousand years, ten thousand years, or a hundred thousand years will a qualitative change occur.

The million-year spirit ring does not have this, it still belongs to the level of the hundred-thousand-year spirit ring, and there is no essential difference compared to the hundred-thousand-year spirit ring.

Therefore, for Lin Rong.

A hundred thousand year soul ring with attributes matching the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon, even if the soul ring just happened to reach the standard of one hundred thousand years, is far superior to the million year soul ring of the Deep Sea Demon Whale King.

(End of this chapter)