Douluo: I, the Sun God

Chapter 76 Mutated Fire Crow
Seeing Xu Yang staring at the three strangers, Dugu Yan was a little curious: "Xu Yang, is there anything special about these three people?! Aside from the middle-aged man with a hooked nose who is the leader, I can't see through him. The remaining two brats are probably just stepping into the threshold of soul master!"

"Nothing, just remembered something!"

Xu Yang shook his head. He suddenly remembered that Shrek Academy was in Soto City.

Xu Yang still had a slight interest in the school the protagonists of the original novel attended, and he was considering going there. Although Tang San and Master's character and values ​​were not very good, he had traveled through time after all, so he was still very curious about some things in the original plot.

"Oh!"

Seeing that Xu Yang didn't answer, Dugu Yan didn't ask any more questions.

She has complicated feelings towards Xu Yang. She is sure that she absolutely loves Xu Yang, but at the same time she does not want to share Xu Yang with others, so the two of them have always maintained an ambiguous relationship.

But after Xu Yang risked his life to save her, she felt a little relieved.

After all, it is not uncommon to have three wives and four concubines in this world.

Xu Yang didn’t know what Dugu Yan was thinking. After a brief thought, he decided… not to go.

After all, Shrek Academy is just a broken village, and there is really nothing to improve. He might as well go back and make some parts for soul guides with this time!

After dinner, Xu Yang and Dugu Yan returned to the hotel.

It will take some time for Ning Haiyan and Dugu Bo to recover from their injuries. He wanted to take advantage of this time to make some more bullets for backup, as the consumption last time was really not small.

Another two weeks passed, and Xu Yang's injuries were completely healed. Ning Haiyan and Dugu Bo also recovered almost completely, and their performance would not be affected. The group then set out on the journey to the Star Dou Great Forest again, but this time they had the Super Douluo Gu Rong with them.

During this month, Xu Yang and his team did not fully recover from their injuries. Instead, they paid the Soul Hunting Team in Soto City to help find the location of the three-tailed fire crows. After a month of searching, they finally found their traces.

With a clear clue at hand, they no longer need to search in the forest and can go straight to the source.

It took them less than two days to see a flock of fire crows in a forest in the inner circle near the core area. This forest was completely different from other areas of the Star Dou Great Forest. The trees here were covered with fiery red maple leaves, like flames.

Fire crows build their nests and play in these red maple trees.

On a big tree outside the maple forest, Xu Yang and others carefully observed the entire flock of three-tailed fire crows, searching for the location of the three-tailed fire crow king.

“Golden light?!”

A golden light flashed in his eyes, and Xu Yang felt doubtful. He thought he had seen it wrong, because the whole forest was a fiery red, and it was impossible for gold to appear.

But he soon realized that he was not mistaken. With his level of mental power, it was impossible for him to have an illusion.

Putting on the monocle he usually used to carve soul guides, Xu Yang finally made a discovery thanks to the monocle's magnifying power. In the central area of ​​the forest, perched on a large tree, there was a golden fire crow, distinct from the other three-tailed crows. This fire crow was three meters long, also with three tails, each over three meters long, indicating its cultivation had reached thirty thousand years.

"Grandpa Gu, look at that golden fire crow a thousand meters away in front of you on the left. Is it a mutant?!" Xu Yang said to Gu Rong in surprise, pointing in the direction of the fire crow.

Compared to the Fire Crow King, this mutated three-tailed Fire Crow is obviously more suitable for him. This is because in the world of soul beasts, mutation often represents strength and is a manifestation of reversion of bloodline. The Golden Crow bloodline in the body of this three-tailed Fire Crow is obviously richer, so it appears golden.

Following Xu Yang's gaze, Gu Rong quickly spotted the hidden golden three-tailed fire crow, but his brow furrowed. "Yang'er, you should choose the three-tailed fire crow king not far away. Forget about this mutant fire crow. The mental impact it brings is far more than 30,000 years. You can't withstand it with your mental strength."

Mutation often represents strength. By judging the strength of soul power and mental power, Gu Rong can feel that the strength of this three-tailed fire crow is comparable to that of a 40,000-year-old soul beast, which is far beyond the limit of what Xu Yang can absorb.

Xu Yang’s physical endurance is sufficient now, but his mental strength is obviously not enough, so he cannot take risks.

As a Titled Douluo, his experience in absorbing spirit rings is far beyond the reach of ordinary spirit masters. After a spirit master can absorb ten thousand year spirit rings, every time he absorbs an extreme spirit ring, he is actually wandering between life and death because of insufficient mental strength.

Therefore, most soul masters will choose to approach the limit rather than the limit.

This is also the reason why he chose a 90,000-year soul beast instead of a 100,000-year soul beast for his ninth ring. It was not because the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect could not find a 100,000-year soul beast, but because he was not sure he could withstand the mental impact of a 100,000-year soul beast. The same was true for Sword Douluo Chen Xin.

Because the mental impact brought by the hundred thousand year soul beast is extremely terrifying, if a quasi-Title Douluo does not have sufficient mental strength to absorb it, he will basically explode and die.

It is precisely because of the experiences of so many predecessors that most of the soul beasts in Douluo Continent today are of the ninth ring, which is 90,000 years old, and there are very few Titled Douluo with a lifespan of 100,000 years.

"Spiritual power?!"

Xu Yang instantly thought of the Wangchuanqiushuilu that he had placed in the Ruyi Treasure Bag.

Consuming the "Wangchuanqiushui Dew" can cultivate the ability to see through countless strange objects. However, it also has another effect: a significant boost to mental strength. In the original novel, after using the "Wangchuanqiushui Dew," Tang San's Purple Demonic Pupils were elevated to the Jiezi realm, and his mental strength reached the Soul Douluo realm. This was later confirmed by Tang Hao.

And now he thinks that the foundation of his mental strength is no less than that of Tang San at that time. Even if he does not have the pupil technique and cannot perfectly absorb the Longing Dew, there is no problem for him to reach the level of Soul Saint in mental strength.

Besides, he didn't want to miss this three-tailed fire crow. The moment he saw this fire crow, he had a feeling that this fire crow could definitely improve his cultivation speed better than the other fire crows, and could slow down the debuff of his cultivation speed between Soul Master and Soul Saint.

The most important reason why he chose the Three-tailed Fire Crow was that this soul beast absorbed the power of the sun to practice, and it was very efficient.

After his cultivation speed became slower and slower when he reached Soul Master level, Xu Yang thought about alleviating this debuff. He felt that the most effective way was to increase his cultivation speed again. With one reduction and one increase, his cultivation speed would definitely not be much different from that of other geniuses.

He couldn't imagine how fast his cultivation would go after the debuff ended.

You should know that when an ultimate soul master really exerts his strength, his advantage over ordinary soul masters is that he is above the Soul Sage level. His cultivation speed is much faster than that of ordinary soul masters, and he can even reach the speed of improvement before reaching the level of Soul Venerable.

(End of this chapter)