Douluo Continent: The Eternal Dawn

Chapter 31 The Dark Swan of Eight Thousand Years

The Golden Iron Triangle who founded Shrek Academy possessed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill that could summon the Golden Sacred Dragon. Therefore, when Tang Ya learned that Bei Bei's Martial Soul was the Light Sacred Dragon, she already knew everything.

Beibei was probably sent by the college's higher-ups to contact her, but she didn't need such charity.

As long as Ye Xixuan is by her side, Tang Ya has the courage to face anything.

Meanwhile, Xu Sanshi, a defensive-type Soul Master, and Jiang Nannan, an agility-type Soul Master, were assigned to the same class. However, Xu Sanshi, wanting to get revenge on Bei Bei, devoted himself entirely to cultivation and had almost no contact with Jiang Nannan.

All the world lines seem to have changed.

Spring has passed and winter has come; a year has gone by in the blink of an eye.

Whether it was Ye Xixuan cultivating on Seagod Island or Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi studying in the outer academy, their lives gradually became busier.

With the continuous nourishment of the evil energy from Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul Origin, Ye Xixuan's first two Soul Rings increased in age by about a thousand years in this year.

Correspondingly, Ma Xiaotao herself was no longer troubled by the evil fire, and her cultivation speed was incredibly fast. At only sixteen years old, she broke through to the Soul Emperor realm, and it was even possible that she would break through the bottleneck of level seventy within the next three years.

At that time, she will be under twenty years old and will be fully capable of participating in the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Battle Tournament.

A participant with the cultivation level of a Soul Saint has probably never appeared in the tens of thousands of years of history of the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Battle Tournament.

When Elder Mu participated in the competition, his soul power cultivation was only level 69. Of course, Elder Mu was only eighteen years old at the time, which was somewhat unfortunate given the age limit for participating in the competition.

The evil energy within Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul also enhanced Ye Xixuan's cultivation speed to some extent.

Another six months passed, and Ye Xixuan's soul power cultivation naturally reached level 30. In other words, it only took him a year and a half to cultivate from level 23 to level 30 soul power.

At only nine and a half years old, he could successfully advance to the three-ring Soul Master realm as long as he acquired a suitable third Soul Ring. This completely broke the record previously set by Elder Mu.

However, while Ye Xixuan was in seclusion cultivating, a major incident occurred within the academy.

Elder Xuan led twelve inner court disciples into the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt soul beasts, but they unexpectedly got separated. The twelve inner court disciples encountered a 100,000-year-old soul beast head-on. Eight of them died in battle, and Zhang Lexuan was among the four survivors. She eventually obtained the soul ring and soul bone of that 100,000-year-old soul beast.

Ye Xixuan had clearly warned Zhang Lexuan beforehand, but unfortunately, he still couldn't prevent the tragedy from happening.

After all, with his current cultivation level and strength, he was simply incapable of doing anything substantial. And who could have imagined that with Elder Xuan, a level 98 Super Douluo, in charge, such a thing could still happen?

Finally, as the team leader, Elder Xuan could not escape blame. He began to give up on himself and submitted a request to the Sea God Pavilion to resign from his position as the deputy head of the Shrek Academy Inspection Team.

The atmosphere on the entire Seagod Island was extremely heavy after such a tragedy. Zhang Lexuan also suffered a backlash from forcibly absorbing the soul ring and soul bone of that 100,000-year-old soul beast, and would need to recuperate for at least two years before she could use the power of her martial soul.

Therefore, Elder Mu personally guided Ye Xixuan's cultivation during this period. This morning, as usual, Ye Xixuan walked out of the Sea God Pavilion and came to the open space in front.

Old Master Mu remained lying in his chair with his eyes closed as always, but a strange soul beast had appeared beside him.

It was an elegant and graceful black swan, its entire body covered in thick black feathers, unlike the exaggeratedly large size of ordinary soul beasts. Invisible dark elements spontaneously coalesced towards its feathers, giving the surrounding air a slightly viscous texture. The dark aura clearly repelled the light surrounding the golden tree.

This seems to be a unique innate ability of this black swan; even though it had long lost consciousness, it did not affect the operation of this innate ability at all. What is even more remarkable is that the purity of the dark elemental energy it condensed was comparable to the light energy of the golden tree.

Ye Xixuan withdrew his gaze in surprise and bowed to Elder Mu with a sense of gratitude.

"Mr. Mu."

"This is a dark swan with eight thousand years of cultivation. It is the third soul ring I specially found for you," Elder Mu said to Ye Xixuan with a kind smile.

"In the world of soul beasts, swans have always been very proud creatures. Almost all swan-type soul beasts are good at healing and support abilities, such as the Emerald Swan among the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts. Only the Black Swan is an exception. They are good at various dark attribute curses and ranged attacks, and are the top existences in the soul beast pyramid. If a Black Swan can cultivate to the level of 100,000 years, I have no doubt that their dark attribute abilities may even reach the extreme like the Beast God Di Tian."

"However, the Dark Swan's true form, like that of the Emerald Swan, is extremely fragile and far from being comparable to a top-tier true dragon like the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King," Elder Mu added.

"I considered adding soul skills to your character a long time ago, and this dark swan should bring you a nice surprise."

"Yes, Elder Mu." Ye Xixuan suppressed his inner joy and nodded solemnly. He hadn't expected Elder Mu to be so considerate of him, and even personally find such a suitable soul beast for him as his third soul ring.

He certainly couldn't let Elder Mu's good intentions go to waste, so he immediately sat down cross-legged and conjured a shadow dagger to sever the proud, slender neck of the dark swan.

A deep, purplish-black soul ring began to condense above the Dark Swan's body, its rich soul energy resonating with the surrounding space and emitting a trembling hum.

Drawn by the soul power, the Dark Swan's soul ring slowly descended from above Ye Xixuan's head, and the intense heat of the fused soul ring instantly spread throughout his meridians. However, all of this was within a controllable range.

Elder Mu had already sensed Ye Xixuan's physical strength beforehand, and closed his eyes again with satisfaction.

After Elder Xuan's team encountered trouble, although he verbally comforted Elder Xuan, how could he not have some thoughts in his heart? As a level 98 Super Douluo, if something could happen while leading a team, he was now unwilling to let anyone else take Ye Xixuan to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain a spirit ring.

Fortunately, he took matters into his own hands and found such a soul beast for Ye Xixuan from the Star Dou Great Forest.

Elder Mu placed high hopes on Ye Xixuan, and even more so on, he hoped that Ye Xixuan could inherit his mantle and become the pillar of Shrek Academy.

　The Supreme Elder of the Holy Spirit Cult is really going all out! Everyone, please give us some recommendation tickets and monthly tickets! I'm about to give it my all!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)