Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 5: Thousand-leaf Banyan

Lin Rong's words echoed in Feng Xiaotian's ears for a long time.

At the age of six, he awakened a mutated martial soul, the Gale Two-Headed Wolf, and his aptitude was an innate full soul power that is rarely seen in a century.

At that time, Feng Xiaotian practiced diligently and was full of vigor and vitality. It was not until the college exchange meeting that he met the girl who made his heart beat—Huo Wu—at Chihuo College.

Huo Wu has a strong personality, so from then on, Feng Xiaotian began to neglect his cultivation, and worked hard to gradually bring his soul power level to the same level as Huo Wu.

To this end, Feng Xiaotian also found a perfect excuse to cover up the matter of his soul power level, which was to research his own soul skills.

The bonfire was reflected in Feng Xiaotian's eyes, and the dancing flames transformed into the appearance of Huo Wu. That was Huo Wu's bright smile when they first met.

Then, the picture jumped and switched to the scene where he and Huo Wu were being chased by the Crypt Demon Spider tonight.

Afterwards, these two images kept switching back and forth in Feng Xiaotian's eyes.

Until one moment, the picture stopped jumping and froze on the scene of his first meeting with Huo Wu.

"That's right!" Feng Xiaotian's eyes gradually became firm.

"If you like someone, you must have the ability to protect her."

"From now on, I, Feng Xiaotian, will practice diligently and will never let what happened tonight happen again!"

Suddenly, Feng Xiaotian had a thought that he had never thought of before. He turned around and thanked Lin Rong loudly in the tent:

"Your Excellency the Duke, I cannot thank you enough for your kindness."

"I've taken note of your advice today. If you need me in the future, I will go through fire and water for you without hesitation!"

In the tent, Lin Rong's mouth corners slightly raised after hearing these words.

"This young man is teachable, and my words are not in vain."

……

Time flies.

Two days passed since that night.

Sunset Forest, in a valley deep in the outskirts.

"It took more than four days, and I finally found one with the right age!"

In front of Lin Rong is a 525-year-old Thousand-Leaf Banyan tree. There is only one Thousand-Leaf Banyan tree, but its lush roots have grown a large number of sub-plants, and from a distance it looks like a dense banyan forest.

"Grandpa Yu, do it!"

Following Lin Rong's order, the saplings of the Thousand-Leaf Ficus were quickly eradicated by the old housekeeper. The main body of the Thousand-Leaf Ficus was also uprooted, and many rhizomes were cut off one by one, leaving only one rhizome rooted in the soil, maintaining the last bit of life of the Thousand-Leaf Ficus.

"Young Master, please!"

Lin Rong stepped forward, released his martial spirit, the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon, and controlled a vine dragon root to gently hit Qianye Rong, cutting off the last bit of life.

Not long after, a deep yellow soul ring condensed above the Thousand-leaf Banyan Tree.

Soul rings are the most important symbol of a soul master, bar none. Even soul bones are far inferior to soul rings.

It’s not just because spirit bones are rare, but also because spirit rings, not spirit bones, are essential for a spirit master to advance.

"I have been traveling through another world for six years. I am finally going to receive my first soul ring in my life."

Lin Rong took a deep breath, sat cross-legged on the spot, practiced the Marrow Cleansing Sutra to adjust his condition to the best, and then controlled his martial soul to pull the soul ring.

"here we go."

At one side, the old butler looked at the soul ring on the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon, and immediately focused his attention and became alert to the surroundings to protect the young master.

The Thousand-Leaf Banyan symbolizes tenacious life. The 525-year-old Thousand-Leaf Banyan soul ring, carrying enormous soul power and vitality, explodes in Lin Rong's body.

Just as Lin Rong was about to practice the Xisui Jing to absorb these powers, a dragon roar sounded from his body.

Instantly, the vitality carried by the spirit ring became unusually docile, like a subject seeing the emperor, and it even took the initiative to wrap around the spirit rings and spirit powers that came from the same source as it. "As expected of the Nine-Bend Vine Dragon, its control over vitality is so high."

"This way, the process of absorbing the spirit ring will be much smoother!"

Lin Rong thought to himself, and then practiced the Marrow Cleansing Sutra to refine these soul powers and life forces, completely transforming these powers into a part of himself.

Time passed slowly.

outside world.

Because of absorbing the soul ring, Lin Rong's figure grew a lot taller, and his long black hair was also stained with a hint of light blue.

But then another dragon roar was heard, the light blue color disappeared, and the hair turned back to pure black.

In the palms of his hands, the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon did not undergo any changes, but upon closer inspection, it seemed that there were some differences from before. It was a kind of mysterious Taoist rhyme that was hard to describe.

After an hour, the absorption of the soul ring was nearing completion.

At a certain moment, the soul ring completely stabilized and came to Lin Rong's feet, moving rhythmically. At this moment, Qianye Rong suddenly ignited a sky-blue flame.

The green flame instantly burned the thousand-leaf banyan tree to ashes.

"Bang! Bang!" A heartbeat sounded in the flames. A crystal-clear wooden bead like green jade absorbed the green flame and then turned into a stream of light and drilled into Lin Rong's body.

The incident happened suddenly, and when the old butler reacted, it was too late to stop the wooden bead from entering the young master's body.

Fortunately, Lin Rong's breathing was still stable. The old housekeeper breathed a sigh of relief and began to think about what the wooden bead was.

"Could it be... an external soul bone?"

After a while, when Lin Rong opened his eyes, he saw the old butler's aged face close to him, which was full of concern.

"Grandpa Yu, what's wrong? Is there something on my face?"

"Young master, have you noticed anything wrong with your body?" said the old butler, and then told Lin Rong what had just happened.

"It's all my fault that I was useless and failed to detect it in time, which allowed the nameless wooden bead to get into the young master's body."

"Grandpa Yu, are you talking about the Banyan Heart?" Lin Rong reached out to help the old housekeeper who was kneeling on the ground, and explained:
"You guessed right, actually. That wooden bead is the external soul bone produced by the thousand-leaf banyan tree. I call it the heart of the banyan tree."

"Congratulations, young master." When the old butler heard that the wooden bead was really an external soul bone, a burst of joy from the bottom of his heart diluted the self-blame in his heart, and then said with a serious face:

"Young Master, don't mention the matter of the external soul bone to outsiders."

"Although the external soul bone cannot be obtained by others after it is completely integrated, there is no guarantee that someone will kill you out of jealousy."

"Yes, I know." Lin Rong nodded in response.

The corresponding position of the Banyan Heart is the heart, unlike Tang San’s Eight Spider Lance, which needs to be displayed outside the body.

Therefore, as long as Lin Rong doesn't say it, no one will know that he has an external soul bone.

This time, after absorbing the 525-year-old Thousand Leaf Banyan Soul Ring and the soul power obtained from refining the Thousand Leaf Banyan's remaining body with the Banyan Tree Heart, Lin Rong's own soul power level has reached level 15.

Among them, the soul ring provided soul power of over level three, raising his soul power level to level thirteen.

The remaining two levels of soul power are provided by the banyan tree heart.

The higher the level of the soul master, the more soul power is required at each level.

Therefore, although the soul power obtained from refining the Thousand-Leaf Banyan Tree with the Banyan Tree Heart was more than the soul ring, it only increased Lin Rong's soul power level by two levels.

However, the improvement of soul power level is secondary. The most important thing is the soul skills attached to the soul rings and soul bones.

During this soul hunting trip, Lin Rong was very satisfied with both the soul rings and external soul bones produced by Qianye Rong, and the soul skills attached to them.

　It was mentioned in the original book that the reason why absorbing soul bones can increase soul power is because of the soul power remaining after the soul bones explode from the soul beast.

　　Therefore, the soul bone itself will not increase the soul power level of the absorber.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)