Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 8 A Different Fire Phoenix

Sunset Forest is very close to Tiandou City.

More than half an hour later, the carriage that Lin Rong was riding in returned to the gate of the Duke's Mansion.

When Lin Rong got off the carriage, a guard at the door came forward and reported:
"Your Excellency the Duke, the child named Ma Hongjun, the one who awakened the Fire Phoenix spirit, has arrived at your mansion a day ago and settled down safely."

Lin Rong listened to the guard's report without much change in expression. He just casually ordered:

"Please bring him here. I will meet him in the living room of the main house."

"As ordered!"

……

In the center of the manor, the living room of the main house.

Ma Hongjun looked at the man in front of him who was about his age with curiosity, and thought:
"Is this the Duke that the uncle mentioned? How come he is just a little brat like me?"

"Could it be that the Duke is actually the old man next to him, and this kid who is about my age is his grandson?"

Sitting at the main seat, Lin Rong was also curiously looking at the plump little guy in front of him, thinking:

"She's not as fat as described in the novels. After all, she's only six years old and has never experienced anything in life. Her eyes are still very innocent. She's not the prostitute in the novels."

"Yes, it's a good embryo. As long as I polish it carefully, I can forge a peerless weapon for my use, and my efforts will be worthwhile."

Seeing that Ma Hongjun was slow to speak, Lin Rong took the lead and asked:

"How is it? The awakened martial spirit has a companion spirit power. Are you happy?"

"Yeah!" Ma Hongjun nodded vigorously after hearing this.

"The village chief said that if you awaken your soul power, you can become a soul master and live a rich and prosperous life."

"It is precisely because I have awakened my soul power that the uncle is so kind to me and I can eat all those delicious things I have never seen before."

"The uncle you are talking about is the captain of the guard team in my mansion. Do you like him very much?" Lin Rong heard this with a gleam in his eyes.

"Yes! Uncle is very nice to me!" Ma Hongjun answered without hesitation.

Lin Rong was very satisfied with this answer.

A six-year-old child who leaves home can easily become dependent on the person he lives with day and night.

As a result, after more than two months of getting along with each other, Ma Hongjun developed a deep dependence on the guard in his house.

"Since you like Captain Xu so much, he will be your personal bodyguard from now on."

Ma Hongjun was so dependent on the guard that Lin Rong didn't mind giving him a hand.

"Captain Xu is a Soul King. Let him protect your safety until you grow up."

The guards are loyal to Lin Rong, and the more Ma Hongjun relies on the guards, the easier it is for him to develop loyalty to Lin Rong through the guards' words and deeds.

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Rong sensed through his life perception that the soul beasts he had prepared for Ma Hongjun had been delivered to the courtyard.

Ma Hongjun's Fire Phoenix martial spirit was a result of mutation. The Phoenix flame was impure, so it produced evil fire.

However, the cockscomb phoenix sunflower, which can greatly purify the phoenix flame, is still growing in the Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire.

However, there is a poison array set up by Dugu Bo outside the Yin-Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire. Although Lin Rong's Vine Dragon Domain's exclusive effect "Life Dragon Soul" can transform toxins into vitality, he is only at the first level of cultivation after all.

The poison array set up by a Titled Douluo is not something that Lin Rong can contend with at the moment.

What's more, each kind of immortal herb requires special picking and preservation methods. Apart from Tang San, I'm afraid only the Pozhi clan and Juhuaguan know the records about these.

As for telling Dugu Bo the method to detoxify in exchange for the Yin-Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire, it would be equivalent to handing one's life over to an old monster who was both good and evil and killed people like crazy.

Lin Rong did this because he thought he had lived too long. He didn't believe that he was a time traveler and therefore must be the protagonist, so he would definitely have the protagonist's halo and would seek death at every turn. It is better to rely on oneself than on others. He had to take his time to plot the Yin-Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire.

Since the Cockscomb Sunflower cannot be obtained in a short time.

The only option left is for Ma Hongjun to absorb the soul ring of the soul beast with phoenix blood, and purify the phoenix flame by absorbing the phoenix blood.

As early as two years ago, Lin Rong instructed the old butler to send people to capture a flying soul beast that was about four hundred years old and had the bloodline of the phoenix.

In two years, a total of five flying soul beasts that met the requirements were captured.

It’s no wonder that the flying soul beast with the blood of the phoenix is ​​so beautiful in appearance, and it’s quite pleasing to the eye to keep it in the garden.

The five flying soul beasts with phoenix blood are:
Red-tailed Kite, age 412 years.

Green-feathered sparrow, lifespan: 415 years.

White-browed Falcon, age 417 years.

Five-colored pheasant, life span is 421 years.

Ice Flame Sculpture, lifespan is four hundred and twenty-three years.

Among them, the five-colored pheasant has the richest phoenix bloodline, and its age is approaching the so-called limit year of the first soul ring, which is four hundred and twenty-three years.

The so-called pheasant is a wild chicken.

Ma Hongjun's martial soul was originally a mutation of the domestic chicken's martial soul, so the five-colored pheasant is the most suitable soul beast among the five flying soul beasts to be Ma Hongjun's first soul ring.

Of course, the remaining four will not be wasted. Lin Rong will instruct the chef to make these four soul beasts, together with the five-colored pheasant that will be killed by Ma Hongjun later, into delicious dishes for Ma Hongjun to eat.

Although it is not as direct as absorbing spirit rings, it can more or less have some effect on purifying the starting point of the Phoenix Flame.

In this way, these five soul beasts can be said to be fully utilized.

Lin Rong had someone hand Ma Hongjun a sharp blade and said to him:
"Go ahead. The five-colored pheasant has been knocked unconscious. Kill it and absorb its spirit ring. Then you will be a true spirit master."

Ma Hongjun's innate soul power is level nine, and it has been more than two months since he awakened his martial soul.

As early as a month ago, Ma Hongjun broke through to the tenth level of soul power by practicing the meditation method taught by the guards, and he had been eager to obtain the soul ring.

So, Ma Hongjun obediently took the sharp blade, and under the guidance of others, he hit the vital point of the five-colored pheasant.

Ma Hongjun looked at the deep yellow soul ring condensed above the five-colored pheasant, and a desire from the bottom of his heart suddenly emerged, as if urging him to absorb the soul ring quickly.

"Release your martial soul to attract the spirit ring, then sit cross-legged, focus your mind on your martial soul, and absorb the power of the spirit ring through meditation."

Hearing this voice in his ears, Ma Hongjun no longer hesitated and did as the instructions said.

The five-colored pheasant lives for a total of 421 years.

In the original novel, Tang San possessed the Xuantian Gong, and it took him a lot of effort to absorb a nearly four-hundred-year-old Mandragora Snake Soul Ring.

Ma Hongjun did not have the Xuantian Gong, so it took him twenty years longer to absorb the soul ring, so the process of absorbing the soul ring was naturally more difficult.

However, Lin Rong was not worried that Ma Hongjun would explode and die. After all, the five-colored pheasant was highly compatible with Ma Hongjun's fire phoenix martial spirit.

Moreover, after more than two months of dietary supplements, Ma Hongjun's physical strength was able to withstand the impact of the soul ring's power.

At most, the process of absorbing the soul ring is a little painful, but it can also temper Ma Hongjun's character.

Looking at the painful expression on Ma Hongjun's face when he absorbed the spirit ring, Lin Rong thought:

"Only after a period of hardship can a sword become a qualified one. Ma Hongjun, please don't let me down!"

(End of this chapter)