Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 47 Coming out of seclusion
If absorbing the third soul ring still fails to allow the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda to evolve into the Eight Treasures Glazed Pagoda, then one can only place hope on the fourth soul ring.

In the past two years, Ning Fengzhi not only sent the two Titled Douluo Jian and Gu to hunt soul beasts in turn, but also sent people to find the gem-type soul beasts that Ning Rongrong would need in the future.

In addition to the eight hundred year old Emerald Demon Bird that Ning Rongrong has already absorbed, there is also the two thousand five hundred year old Ruby Sunflower that she is about to absorb.

The Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect also captured a white jade tortoise that was over 7,000 years old, which served as Ning Rongrong's fourth soul ring and provided a defense-enhancing soul skill.

As for the ten thousand year soul beasts required for the fifth ring and above, it is not difficult for the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect to capture them alive.

However, because soul beasts’ intelligence increases greatly after their cultivation reaches a breakthrough of ten thousand years, and because most soul beasts are naturally arrogant, it is extremely difficult to keep them in captivity.

Therefore, Ning Fengzhi simply asked people to note down the activity areas of suitable target soul beasts, and then go directly to that area to hunt them when needed in the future.

Diamond, emerald, ruby, and white jade, these are the gems represented by the four soul beasts.

The soul rings produced by this type of soul beast will provide the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda with four attribute enhancements: strength, agility, soul power, and defense.

If that time really came, even if Ning Rongrong absorbed the soul ring of the white jade turtle, she would not be able to completely solidify the shadow of the eighth floor of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tower.

Well, even if Ning Fengzhi had to sacrifice his daughter's fifth soul skill, which was not an attack amplification skill, he would definitely find a gem-type soul beast soul ring representing Liuli for his daughter to absorb.

Although glass is a precious gem, it is fragile.

Therefore, the gem-type soul beast representing glass does not match the six types of increases in strength, agility, soul power, defense, attack, and attributes required by the first six soul skills of the Seven Treasures Glass Pagoda.

However, the attributes of this type of soul beast are very compatible with the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda, and it is the best choice for the seventh soul ring martial soul avatar.

It’s just that the gemstone spirit rings representing Liuli are extremely rare, and the age of the seventh spirit ring cannot be less than 30,000 years.

Therefore, the leaders of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect in all generations have never had the honor of absorbing this kind of soul beast as their own martial soul.

However, not long ago, when Bone Douluo was looking for a suitable target, he met a 40,000-year-old glass gem-type soul beast.

Bone Douluo knew that this soul beast was extremely suitable to be Ning Rongrong's seventh soul ring. In addition, its cultivation had not exceeded 50,000 years, so he did not attack it, but instead noted its range of activities.

When Ning Fengzhi obtained the 60,000-year-old Mirror Shadow Beast's head soul bone, he also learned this news from Bone Douluo.

This made Ning Fengzhi overjoyed.

In the Sunset Forest there is an agate unicorn that is over 15,000 years old. It represents the gem agate and can provide attack-enhancing soul skills.

In the Xingdou Great Forest, there is a 32,000-year-old green water clam, which represents a gem pearl and can provide attribute-enhancing soul skills.

In addition, the 47,000-year-old Glazed Snow Crystal Deer in the Far North represents the gemstone glazed and can serve as the martial spirit avatar of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tower.

In this way, all the soul beasts needed for his daughter's first seven soul rings have been found.

Just as Ning Fengzhi was thinking about the goals of his daughter's eighth and ninth soul rings, Ning Rongrong had already absorbed the soul bone and woke up.

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In mid-March, Grain Rain comes.

In the early morning, there was a drizzle and a thin mist in the manor.

It is now the last month of spring, March, and in just over half a month it will be the beginning of summer.

The old housekeeper Yu Yuan has been in seclusion since the end of autumn and the beginning of winter last year, and it has been nearly half a year now.

On this day, a door deep inside the manor suddenly opened, and a ruddy-faced old man in a black robe walked out. The old man in the black robe showed a rare look of joy, feeling the vast and majestic soul power in his body like the ocean, and was quite emotional:
"It took me half a year, but I finally broke through the 90th level barrier with the help of the remaining magical herbs in my body."

"Only those with innate full soul power can ignore the bottleneck between level 89 and level 90."

"Below the innate full soul power, it is extremely difficult to break through this bottleneck!"

"With my innate soul power of level eight and a half, if I didn't have the immortal herbs given by the young master, the probability of me breaking through this bottleneck by myself would not exceed 30%."

In today's era, most people's understanding and development of the soul master training system is still limited to meditation, soul rings, soul bones and self-created soul skills.

The external development of herbs, secret recipes, etc. is extremely limited.

Therefore, it is the common knowledge of most soul masters.

Absorbing soul bones to improve qualifications and thus increase the probability of breaking through the level 90 bottleneck is the best and only way.

As for the two matters of immortal herbs and the assessment by the gods, very few people know about them, and even if they knew, it would be of no use.

Fairy-grade medicinal herbs are extremely rare in the world and can only be seen once in a thousand years.

The assessment by gods is a double-edged sword. If the assessee fails the assessment, there is only one way out, which is death. Moreover, there is a very high threshold to become an assessee.

Let’s talk about soul bones.

If you want to increase the probability of breaking through from level 89 to level 90, the age of the soul bone must be at least 10,000 years. The older and higher the quality of the soul bone, the greater the help in breaking through the bottleneck of level 90.

This is why soul bones are so precious.

It's not just because soul bones can provide additional soul skills, but also because absorbing soul bones can improve aptitude, allowing those who absorb soul bones to hopefully cultivate to a higher level.

After breaking through to level 90, the old butler's worry no longer existed.

As the hereditary dukes of Tiandou, the Lin family naturally has soul bones passed down from generation to generation, and there are three of them, namely:
A right arm bone about 12,000 years old, a skull about 14,000 years old, and a torso bone about 15,000 years old.

These three soul bones, together with the top-level plant-type martial soul Dragon Soul Vine which has at least level five companion soul power, allow every generation of dukes in the Lin family to cultivate to the level of Soul Douluo.

Originally, these three soul bones were absorbed by Lin Rong's grandfather.

After the old duke passed away, these three soul bones had not yet been absorbed by Lin Rong's father because he was buried in the beast tide and never had the chance to be absorbed again.

Now, these three soul bones are in the green dragon vine on Lin Rong’s wrist.

Lin Rong was taken care of by the old butler since he was a child, so the old butler knew that his young master was very arrogant and looked down on the three soul bones inherited from the family.

The old butler was worried that if he could not break through the bottleneck of level 90 in the future, the young master would ask him to absorb the three ten thousand year soul bones to break through this bottleneck.

Not to mention how many years these three soul bones have been passed down in the Lin family, these three soul bones alone have been absorbed by the old master.

In the old butler's mind, these three soul bones are part of the old master, so naturally he is unwilling to absorb these three soul bones.

Even though he knew that after absorbing these three ten thousand year soul bones, the probability of breaking through the level ninety bottleneck would increase by about 30%.

But this is a matter of principle, and the old butler asked himself if he could ever do it.

　Here is a little science: before Burmese jade was introduced to China, jadeite, one of the four famous jades, referred to the feathers of kingfishers.

　　
　
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