Douluo: Emerald Poison King

Chapter 13: Second Soul Ring
What happened today was too fantastic, so Chen Shijie and Chen Tianyun did not want it to be revealed. Although Chen Ming said several times that it was not necessary, the two still started with the angel god above and made a serious oath with their martial spirits as the price.

In this world, this kind of thing is very important. If Chen Shijie and Chen Tianyun reveal it casually, then even if the Angel God does not punish them, their martial souls will have problems. At the very least, their soul power will regress, and at the worst, their martial souls will be abolished.

However, a cave is not a place for conversation after all. After confirming that there were no other problems, Chen Shijie took Chen Ming and Chen Tianyun and returned to the secret room in the basement of the Chen family through the underground passage.

The cave where the Green Phosphorus Seven Wonders Flowers are cultivated is located deep in the Biluo Gorge. The Chen family has occupied an ecological niche by integrating into the soul beast ecosystem. For hundreds of years, they have pretended to be a group of soul beasts to maintain this place. Because they are deep underground and located in the core of the Biluo Gorge, there are many ten-thousand-year soul beasts outside as barriers, so no other outsiders have ever discovered them.

The secret passage is very long and winding. Even with the strength of a soul master, it takes half a day to walk through it. Once you get lost in it, it is difficult to find the direction. Currently, only a few people in the Chen family know the overall situation of the secret passage.

After returning home, Chen Ming was allowed by Chen Shijie to play in the city for a month with Chen Tianyun by his side. During this period, if he wanted to leave Biluo City to go to other cities to play, he and Chen Tianyun had to accompany him together.

Chen Ming agreed, but after just playing in Biluo City for a few days, Chen Ming, who had been suppressed for a long time, felt that it was enough. Just after half a month, Chen Ming went back to the Chen family and began to practice.

There is no other reason, mainly because there is really nothing fun to do.

The entertainment methods and types in Douluo Continent are very backward, and because of his values from his previous life, Chen Ming doesn't want to go to those special places to play.

The entire Biluo City is poor and barren. The largest market in the city is the Chen family's business. Chen Ming has no idea how many times he has been there. The best trading place in the city is the business of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, but there is nothing noteworthy in it. After walking around, Chen Ming felt that he had wasted his time and might as well go home to eat whale glue and then continue practicing.

Because of the evolution of his martial soul and the acquisition of the soul ring of the top soul beast, the Seven Absolutes of Green Phosphorus Flower, Chen Ming's talent was further enhanced, and the original deficit was also partially compensated. Although generally speaking, the fastest time for soul masters to practice is before level 10, and the speed of practice will begin to slow down after level 10, but Chen Ming's practice speed has become more than twice as fast as before with various blessings.

In just two years, Chen Ming successfully upgraded his soul power from level 12 after absorbing the soul ring to level 20, improving his soul power by eight levels and becoming a quasi-great soul master.

During this period, he not only strengthened his body through exercise and the rational use of whale glue, allowing it to withstand spirit rings of higher age, but also through the practice and accumulation of soul power, his martial soul successfully became thirteen sections before obtaining the second spirit ring, and the quality was further improved.

Although according to Douluo Continent, an 11-year-old quasi-grand spirit master is already quite good, Chen Ming himself is still not very satisfied. After all, his level is comparable to Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing among the Shrek Seven Devils in the original novel, and is much worse than Tang San who has Xuantian Gong.

In his opinion, his greatest gain in the past two years was not his soul power, but the discovery of his own "golden finger".

Through repeated meditation and exploration of the soul ring, Chen Ming discovered that his golden finger should be a unique manifestation of spiritual qualities that do not belong to the Douluo Continent. This spiritual quality cannot be used in battle for the time being, but it can be reflected in other aspects. For example, when absorbing the soul ring before, Chen Ming can actively choose the soul skills and performance of the soul ring, and obtain part of the power of the deeper laws in the soul ring. After the soul ring is fixed, he can slowly increase the age of the soul ring by actively consuming mental power and soul power, and to a certain extent, change the soul skills in the soul ring.

It was just like Huo Yuhao ten thousand years later. This improvement could not bring him an increase in basic qualities, but only improve the power of the spirit ring's carrying law. In other words, after absorbing a hundred-year spirit ring, the body could only obtain the basic attribute increase of the hundred-year spirit ring. Even if this spirit ring was upgraded to a hundred thousand years later, it would not be able to bring about changes in physical qualities.

Two years was only enough for Chen Ming to dig into his golden finger to this extent. As for the deeper level, Chen Ming felt that he needed to wait until he reached a very high level before digging into it bit by bit.

In fact, if Chen Ming didn't spend time exploring the ability of the golden finger and trying to increase the age of his soul ring, the time it took him to reach level 20 might be shortened by another half a year. However, the development of the golden finger was obviously more important than soul power training.

As for which soul beast his second soul ring came from...this matter had already been decided when he just awakened his martial soul.

"A thousand-year-old emerald scorpion with nine tail segments... what an incredible talent. If it doesn't die, it won't be a problem for it to become the Scorpion King in the future. It's not impossible for it to become the Scorpion Emperor, right?"

Looking at the emerald scorpion in front of him that had been cooked for who knows how long, there was some emotion in Chen Ming's words, but there was no mercy in his eyes, nor any murderous intent on his body.

Killing a bug that had intruded into one's life might require some killing intent, but killing a chicken or duck waiting to be slaughtered was not even worth the effort. Before Chen Ming awakened his martial spirit, he had killed countless scorpions when he was trying to practice mimicry in the scorpion cave. Killing one more at this moment would have no effect at all.

The body of this emerald scorpion was pierced by wooden nails, and its tail section was tightly bound. Facing Chen Ming and the other two, it did not have the aura and reaction that a soul beast should have.

This gifted emerald scorpion was discovered by the ancestor of the Chen family decades ago, and then packaged and brought home.

At that time, this Emerald Scorpion was only a hundred years old, but it was born with seven tail segments. After being captured by the Chen family, the Chen family pierced its body with special wooden nails, sank it into a deep pool underground, and soaked it in potions made from various medicinal herbs and poisons, stimulating its growth in various ways.

Every year, just to maintain a stall of potions, it costs thousands of gold soul coins, and some soul beasts used as medicinal materials have to be captured by the Chen family in the Blue Sky Gorge. It can be said that the Chen family spent hundreds of thousands of gold soul coins on this soul beast, which is a huge price.

　In this new month, I beg for your support.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)