Douluo: Emerald Poison King

Chapter 87: The Third Ring's Choice
During the past few months in Sunset Forest, Chen Ming did not do nothing. During this period, he also learned about the ecology and soul beasts in Sunset Forest from Dugu Bo, and began to choose his third soul ring.

Because of the improvement in physical fitness and mental strength, Chen Ming's current soul ring absorption period is about 7000 years. If he trains for more than a year, eats more herbs that can strengthen the body in the Yin-Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire, and gets more whale glue, he can still reach the standard of absorbing a ten-thousand-year soul ring.

As for the soul shock of the ten thousand year soul beast...this kind of thing really won't add any difficulty to Chen Ming.

But... the problem is that even if Dugu Bo is a Titled Douluo of level 93, Chen Ming doesn't have the courage to absorb the third ring in ten thousand years.

The life span of the third soul ring of an average person is only a little over a thousand years, but if he can absorb it directly for ten thousand years, that would be almost ten times as long. That exaggerated level is dozens of times higher than the so-called second soul ring absorbing a thousand years.

If this gets out, the entire Douluo Continent will go crazy.

Not to mention Dugu Bo is level 93, even if he increases two levels to level 95, he may not be able to protect Chen Ming.

By then, it is possible that an unknown soul master whose martial spirit is the Clear Sky Hammer, Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus and Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda will form a team and join forces to attack Dugu Bo.

If you are lucky, you might even see an unknown soul master whose martial spirit is the Bone Dragon Seven Kill Sword or the Coiled Dragon Stick in the team.

If Dugu Bo had level 97, Chen Ming would dare to try the third ring of ten thousand years. Forget it now, he is not lucky enough.

Anyway, although it is a bit troublesome, he does have the means to increase the age of his soul ring by using the golden finger. At worst, he can increase it to ten thousand years when he is able to protect himself in the future.

Although Sunset Forest was not as good as Star Forest, the several soul beasts there did make Chen Ming feel good. After selecting for a while, Chen Ming locked his target on three soul beasts.

One of the soul beasts is the famous human-faced demon spider in the first part of Douluo Continent. This soul beast itself is of top quality and is the king among spiders. It is probably only weaker than spiders of super soul beast level such as the Death Demon Spider and the Soul Devouring Demon Spider.

His poison was extremely powerful, his body was strong, and he had advanced attributes of Douluo Continent such as evil and devouring. Even with Chen Ming's critical eyes, he had to admit that he was excellent.

If you can get the skill of Spider God Possession, you will make a lot of money.

However, he didn't know if there were any special restrictions on the skills of the God level. If that didn't work, then choosing the secret soul skill that would only appear after ten thousand years of the human-faced demon spider was also quite good.

That level of stealth cannot be detected even by the mental power of a Titled Douluo, and is simply a necessary skill for murder and robbery.

As a person who can choose his soul skills, Chen Ming doesn't have to worry about his card pool being polluted by garbage skills like Spider Web Jet.

The second soul beast, named Phantom Scorpion, is an extremely rare soul beast with spiritual poison mentioned by Dugu Bo. This soul beast is of top quality, and its number is even less than that of the human-faced demon spider. In addition, its spiritual poison is too strange, so few people in the soul master world know of its existence.

This soul beast can transform poison into mental attacks, causing mental damage to the enemy. It can also continuously transform the enemy's mental pain into toxins. Moreover, this toxin is very complex and will change due to different people's mental states, making it extremely difficult to detoxify.

Basically, if you are hit by this kind of soul beast, your spirit will be damaged, and then various toxins will continue to appear in your body. These toxins hurt your body and your spirit, and the mental pain will continue to transform into highly toxic...

This kind of soul beast can walk around in the Sunset Forest for a thousand years. A ten thousand year old soul beast will feel like dying if bitten. The most important thing is that it is difficult to detoxify. Unless there is really no other choice, no soul beast dares to fight with the Phantom Scorpion.

Dugu Bo had studied this type of soul beast before, but had not gained anything, so he did not deliberately look for it later.

To absorb this soul beast as a soul ring, it would probably take a long time to find it.

The third soul beast is called the Emerald Sky Dragon...or the Emerald Gecko.

This kind of soul beast is considered to be one of the Five Poisonous Green Phosphorus. Generally speaking, this kind of soul beast is a high-quality soul beast, which is still a level away from the top level.

However, Dugu Bo knew that there was a nest of emerald geckos in the Sunset Forest whose ancestors were real dragons. The blood of these emerald geckos flowed in their bodies and they belonged to the category of earth dragons. Both the toxins and the physical strength were higher than those of normal emerald geckos. They had dragon scales growing on their bodies and a pair of small wings on their backs. They were top-quality soul beasts.

If he absorbs it, he will probably be able to obtain a good defensive or enhancement-type soul skill, which can just make up for Chen Ming's shortcomings.

The other high-quality poison-attribute soul beasts in the Sunset Forest are either incompatible with Chen Ming's martial soul, or Chen Ming simply looks down upon them.

If these soul beasts are still not suitable, then Chen Ming can only go to the Star Dou Great Forest to find a solution.

After preparing medicine for Dugu Yan and observing her condition to make sure that no problems would arise during the few days she was away, Chen Ming and Dugu Bo left the Yin-Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire and began to think of ways to obtain the third soul ring.

Chen Ming first went to look for the human-faced demon spider. After all, this famous soul beast provided Tang San with the external soul bone Eight Spider Lance in the original work. After Tang San obtained the title of Sea God, it evolved into the Sea God Eight Wings. In the legend of the God Realm, Tang San regarded it as a hidden back-up to deal with the God of Destruction.

In the end, under the baptism of chaotic energy, it even became the only super artifact created by Tang San himself.

So basically, if you are a time traveler, and then come to the Douluo World, you will basically be more or less curious about the Eight Spider Lance, an external soul bone that is like a bug in the original work.

However, there are very few human-faced demon spiders.

This soul beast has a cruel personality and strong strength. It has the attributes of evil and devouring. It is a hunter of small soul beasts and will kill soul beasts wantonly even if it is full.

Even in the soul beast world, it is the kind of soul beast that all other beasts want to kill.

When a soul beast of advanced age encounters a human-faced demon spider that they can handle, they never mind killing it. So although this soul beast has no natural enemies, its number is also very rare. The number of human-faced demon spiders that can live for more than 10,000 years is even less than that of dark gold fear claw bears that live for more than 10,000 years.

Therefore, the lifestyle of this soul beast is almost to move to one place after each shot, and never stay in one place for long.

Even though Chen Ming and Dugu Bo searched for several days in places where the human-faced demon spider might appear, they did not find a single trace of it, and they did not even see the soul beast that was killed by the human-faced demon spider.

There was no choice but for the two to accept the reality that the human-faced demon spider had run away to other places and began to look for the phantom scorpion.

This kind of soul beast is even rarer, even less than the human-faced demon spider. However, because of its excellent combat capability and unlike the human-faced demon spider, this kind of soul beast has its own territory and generally does not run around randomly.

After searching for several days in all possible places where the Phantom Scorpion might appear, Dugu Bo and Chen Ming finally found the nest of the Phantom Scorpion.

It was a group of five little scorpions led by a scorpion king. The age of the Phantom Scorpion King was about 50,000 years, and he was already a real scorpion king. The oldest of the five little scorpions was 30,000 years old, and the youngest was about 7,000 years old, which was just right for Chen Ming.

Just because the ten thousand year old soul beasts all have brains, the youngest scorpion is protected by four scorpions that are over ten thousand years old and kept in the deepest part of the cave, playing next to the fifty thousand year old scorpion king.

Although they did find a group of scorpions, given that the fighting power of this soul beast was not low and its own toxins were very strange, even though Dugu Bo was a Titled Douluo, he did not dare to force himself to catch the smallest scorpion.

This thing itself is a top-level poison-attribute soul beast. Poison resistance is no joke, and combined with the soul beast's body, its vitality is quite tenacious.

If Dugu Bo rushed into the nest and forced his way in, there was a chance that he would be defeated.

After waiting for several days and finding that these soul beasts had no intention of coming out of their nests, Dugu Bo could only give up temporarily and take Chen Ming to see his third choice.

Anyway, if you still want the Phantom Scorpion Soul Ring, these soul beasts will be out of their nests by the time you come back after a trip.

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