Douluo: Emerald Poison King

Chapter 10: The Choice of the First Soul Ring, the Seven Absolute Jade Phosphorus Flowers
After all kinds of training, Chen Ming is finally facing an important step on his path to becoming a soul master, which is to absorb the first soul ring in his life.

After vigorous training and various medicines plus a small amount of whale glue, Chen Ming's body is far ahead of his peers. He does not look like a child who has just turned nine years old, but rather like a fourteen or fifteen-year-old junior high school student.

In the huge dark cave, clusters of emerald green vines spread and grew everywhere, unconsciously emitting "faint" poisonous gas.

This poison gas is extremely corrosive. Most people cannot stay in this environment for more than a few minutes before their bodies begin to melt. Low-level soul masters will also die wailing. However, Chen Ming and the other two stood quietly in the middle of the cave, looking at the vines expressionlessly.

The Chen family planted and cultivated the Seven Absolutes of Green Phosphorus flowers themselves. They had prepared drugs to deal with them long before they matured. In addition, the Chen family's emerald scorpions had mutated under the influence of the Seven Absolutes of Green Phosphorus flowers. This poison gas, which is fatal to ordinary people, did not have much impact on the Chen family...

Of course, this is only a relatively small impact, it does not mean that there is really no impact.

If you stay in this cave for no more than one day, there will be no impact. If you stay in this cave for no more than three days, you can find a way to make up for the damage to your body. But if something unexpected happens or you lose your soul power, the Chen family can only live one more hour.

Over the past few hundred years, the number of Chen family members who died in this cave for various reasons has reached double digits. If there weren't so few people who could become soul masters, triple digits wouldn't be a difficult thing.

Generally speaking, it is difficult for plants to become soul beasts, and the number of soul beasts is mainly driven by numbers. For the same plant, some may not become soul beasts even after living for a hundred years, while others may become soul beasts in just a dozen years. This standard is quite confusing, and there is no good explanation until now.

For example, some snow lotuses may become soul beasts after hundreds or thousands of years on ordinary snow mountains, but some top-quality snow lotuses can only be regarded as natural treasures even after a hundred thousand years in the far north. They have not yet become soul beasts and will eventually be eaten by other soul beasts.

Generally speaking, behind a plant-type soul beast often represent many similar ones that have not become soul beasts. Even those common plant-type soul beasts only have a higher probability of appearing as soul beasts.

The Silver Dragon King fell to the Douluo Continent hundreds of thousands of years ago, and the dissipated power became the Lake of Life, which in turn gave rise to the Star Dou Great Forest. However, hundreds of thousands of years have passed, and although the trees next to the Lake of Life were nourished by the Lake of Life and did not die, they still did not become soul beasts.

Generally, it takes ten thousand years for the Green Phosphorus Seven Wonders Flowers to have a chance to become a soul beast. However, it is obvious that the Green Phosphorus Seven Wonders Flowers in the cave are not ordinary cases. They grow in a top treasure land of poisonous plants, and the current situation has come about due to the human intervention of the Chen family.

There are nearly a hundred large and small green phosphorus seven-unique flowers in the entire cave, but only less than two of them can be considered soul beasts, and the rest can only be regarded as plants with soul power, and it is still unknown when they can become real soul beasts.

The overall color of the Bilin Qijue Flower is dark green, with a huge flower bud and several vines wrapped around it, which is a means for the Bilin Qijue Flower to absorb nutrients and attack.

Due to their age, most of the Bilin Qijue flowers cultivated by the Chen family have not bloomed completely. Most of the time, the flower buds are tightly closed and disguised as dark green rocks, with only the vines left as a conspicuous mark.

Although it is true that the Green Phosphorus Seven Wonders Flower is of high quality, it will generally choose to disguise itself, unless the age or quantity is so high that it believes there will be no threat at all. Otherwise, it is rare to see the Green Phosphorus Seven Wonders Flower blooming all day long.

After all, releasing poison also consumes energy, and the consumption is not small. If you release too much, it will not only delay the increase in lifespan, but may also cause various accidents due to poor condition.

Chen Ming stared at the Green Phosphorus Seven Wonders flower in front of him, his eyes filled with determination, his soul power surging slightly, and his breathing seemed to echo with the Green Phosphorus Seven Wonders flower in front of him. Every breath and heartbeat of Chen Ming would make the huge flower bud in front of him tremble slightly.

"Xiao Ming, have you really thought it through? Although we have asked you many times before, I still want to ask you here, have you really thought about absorbing the spirit ring of the Seven Absolutes of the Green Phosphorus Flower?"

"Your current body and meridians are almost equivalent to those of an average great spirit master, or even slightly stronger. Theoretically, you can even absorb an eight-hundred-year-old spirit ring."

"Some Soul Masters who are in the third ring generally don't have this age limit."

“Xiao Ming, if you have made up your mind, I will immediately find you a top-quality hundred-year-old soul beast. When you absorb the first soul ring, your strength will immediately surpass that of ordinary soul masters. It is not impossible for your second soul ring to absorb a thousand-year-old soul ring…”

"Have you really thought about absorbing this five hundred year old Jade Phosphorus Seven Absolutes Flower as your first soul ring?"

Chen Shijie reached out and touched Chen Ming's head, and persuaded Chen Ming earnestly, his eyes full of desire. Chen Tianyun on the side also hesitated to speak.

It is absolutely impossible for ordinary soul masters to absorb the equivalent of the age of others' second soul ring with the first soul ring. Although they don't know who stipulated it, the soul master world has been saying this for hundreds or even thousands of years. Therefore, Chen Shijie and Chen Tianyun actually don't believe that Chen Ming can absorb a soul ring with a lifespan of 700 to 800 years with his first soul ring. If Chen Ming himself proposed it, they would definitely not allow it.

But...it depends on what you compare it with.

Chen Shijie could still interrupt the forced absorption of super-age spirit rings that were no more than a thousand years old with his ability. Even if it would cost him a lot and he would not be able to increase his spirit power and absorb spirit rings for a few years, he could still save his life and become a spirit master.

But the Jade Phosphorus Seven Absolutes Flower was too overbearing. If a thousand-year-old soul beast of ordinary quality was thrown next to a Jade Phosphorus Seven Absolutes Flower that was not a soul beast, the thousand-year-old soul beast would be turned into pus in a short time. The poison and soul power in it were several times higher than that of an ordinary hundred-year soul ring. Even some soul rings of more than a thousand years were not as fierce as the five hundred-year-old Jade Phosphorus Seven Absolutes Flower.

Once absorbed, there is no regret, no hesitation, either success or sudden death. Even if a Titled Douluo is here, at least a healing soul master above Soul Sage is needed to save Chen Ming's life. In the best case, Chen Ming will never be a soul master in this life. In the worst case, he will probably only be able to lie in bed and survive for a few years.

If you fail in the current situation and die, you won’t even leave a body behind, only a pool of water.

In the eyes of Chen Shijie and Chen Tianyun, Chen Ming was tantamount to seeking death.

They have also seen Chen Ming's talent in recent years. He indeed has the potential to be a Soul Sage or even a Soul Douluo. If he practices diligently in the future and has children, it is possible that he will solve his family's problems. There is absolutely no need to take a gamble and risk absorbing the soul ring of the Green Phosphorus Seven Wonders Flower!

"I have made my decision..."

Chen Ming could feel the concern of the two, but he still shook his head and spoke firmly.

He stretched out his hand and stroked the poisonous vines in front of him. The moment he touched it, the Green Phosphorus Seven Wonders Flower, which originally had no intelligence, suddenly twisted as if stimulated by something. The originally closed flower opened slightly, and the surrounding poisonous gas became much thicker.

"When I first came here to practice, I fell in love with this Green Phosphorus Seven Wonders Flower at first sight. At that time, it was not even a soul beast. I fed this Green Phosphorus Seven Wonders Flower with my own soul power and blood for two and a half years. I can feel that there seems to be some kind of connection between me and this Green Phosphorus Seven Wonders Flower."

"When I touched its body, I could feel as if I had an extra arm connected to it by flesh and blood, and a special organ had grown..."

Having said that, Chen Ming shook his head.

“Although this is difficult to understand and I cannot explain the principle, this is the fact. If it were any other Jade Phosphorus Seven Absolute Flowers, I would not be 100% sure that I could absorb their spirit rings, but if it is the one in front of me, I think I should have no problem.”

“It won’t reject me.”

As Chen Ming spoke, the vines in front of him twisted slightly, as if they were closing in on something, or as if they were expressing their dissatisfaction. However, in the eyes of the two people beside him, this twisting had no meaning at all.

"It takes ten thousand years for a plant-based soul beast to develop some spirituality, and it is said that it takes a hundred thousand years for it to develop true spiritual intelligence. A mere five hundred year old Green Phosphorus Seven Wonders flower can become a soul beast only because of the right time and place. How could there be such a thing as spirituality? Xiao Ming, you have to think clearly..."

At this time, Chen Tianyun, who had been silent, finally couldn't control his emotions. He reached out and grabbed Chen Ming's sleeve, and said with some desire.

Chen Ming's father, Chen Tianfeng, had a son in his old age and loved Chen Ming very much. However, he unfortunately had an accident while hunting soul rings with his wife and passed away.

Chen Shijie had to be the pillar to take care of the entire family, and Chen Ming was brought up by Chen Tianyun. From the time he learned to speak to the time when his martial soul awakened, Chen Tianyun treated him as his own flesh and blood.

To Chen Tianyun, Chen Ming is like his own son, and in his heart he is far more important than his two unborn children.

In Chen Tianyun's opinion, even if Chen Ming was gifted and had a 10% chance of success, there was at least a 90% chance of death. This was totally unacceptable to him.

(End of this chapter)