Douluo Continent has a system, but I don't want to use it.

Chapter 40 Soul Saint

"So when you encounter a Soul Master with the lightning attribute, it's best to be careful and avoid using small items like willow-leaf throwing knives," Fang Tian warned.

"Hehe, I understand. This is the first time we've encountered this, so we won't make the same mistake again. Let's deal with them as soon as possible." Qiu Fengyan looked at the three corpses on the ground with shining eyes.

"Okay, looks like you've gotten addicted to looting corpses. It's all my fault for passing this bad habit on to you," Fang Tian teased, feigning nonchalance.

"Hehe, I always reap huge rewards, especially from disciples of major sects, there are so many good things there." Qiu Fengyan said a little embarrassed.

The two men talked for a while, but their hands didn't stop. They quickly ransacked the three men and then disposed of the bodies to cover their tracks.

As for packing things up, let's leave that for later. After all, this place isn't far from the edge of Sunset Forest.

After finishing their business, the two quickly left, heading rapidly into the depths of Sunset Forest.

Fang Tian had already planned ahead: first, search for the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire in the center of Sunset Forest, and then gradually search outwards.

If a suitable spirit beast is encountered along the way, it will be hunted down and used as a spirit ring.

Fang Tian estimated the travel time and, having reached the central area, stopped with Qiu Fengyan to begin their search.

At this point, Qiu Fengyan's external soul bone becomes very useful, as it can determine the situation of a large area after taking flight, which undoubtedly greatly speeds up the search.

Searching the central area of ​​Sunset Forest is also very dangerous. Although there are no 100,000-year-old soul beasts here, there are quite a few 70,000 to 80,000-year-old ones.

There was no need for the two to fight these soul beasts. When they encountered powerful soul beasts, Fang Tian would use his speed to lure them away, and then Qiu Fengyan would quickly search a large area.

Overall, the speed is not slow; searching within a radius of a hundred miles every day is easy.

"There's a 60,000-year-old plant spirit beast, the Thousand-Thread Willow, ahead. Should we detour?"

On this day, Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan continued their search for traces of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye. Qiu Fengyan, who was flying in the air to investigate, suddenly flew back to ask a question.

"Oh! The Thousand-Silk Willow? No need to detour, this Thousand-Silk Willow is perfect for my seventh soul ring." Fang Tian's eyes lit up.

"Hmm? Seventh spirit ring? Didn't you always choose vine-type spirit beasts for your spirit rings before? Why did you change this time?" Qiu Fengyan asked, somewhat puzzled.

"I chose a plant-type spirit beast with strong vitality for my spirit rings, not necessarily a vine. Also, I want to evolve the sweet potato seedling from a vine into a tree. So this time I chose this Thousand-Thread Willow," Fang Tian explained patiently.

"Alright, you decide on your spirit rings. That Thousand-Thread Willow is about three miles ahead, let's go."

The two carefully advanced for three miles before finally seeing a huge willow tree.

This Thousand-Thread Willow is over a hundred meters tall, with a sparse, spreading crown and thousands of branches hanging down and dancing in the wind. Scattered around its trunk, which would take seven or eight people to encircle, are the remains of some spirit beasts.

The Thousand Willow is a very vigorous plant. If you stick a branch into moist ground, it will basically take root, sprout, and grow into a new plant. Some Thousand Willows can even be struck by lightning and still sprout new buds.

"It can indeed be my soul ring." Fang Tian used the system to identify it and found that the information matched, so he confirmed it with Qiu Fengyan.

"Let's finish this quickly, this time we'll use kerosene again."

"Heh, the Wan Si Liu's attack methods are nothing more than entanglement, strangulation, and whipping. I want to try using my martial spirit to kill it."

"I think you're getting more and more arrogant. You have an easy way out, but you insist on choosing something difficult," Qiu Fengyan complained.

"Anyway, this Thousand-Thread Willow poses no threat, so I thought I'd use it to practice. You know I usually use my Martial Soul as a support skill, so it's time to hone its offensive capabilities."

"Alright, go ahead and do it. I'll just watch from the sidelines."

Fang Tian released his martial spirit, Potato Sprout, which quickly wrapped around the Thousand Willow Branch.

Fang Tian's rank-up experiments over the past four years, while not very effective, have greatly increased the range of his martial soul control. Previously, he could only control the vines within a radius of twenty meters, but now that range has expanded to over a hundred meters.

Fang Tian controlled the vines of his Martial Soul Potato Seedling to continuously approach Wan Si Liu. Upon seeing something approaching, Wan Si Liu immediately swung its branches to lash out.

The sweet potato vines, thanks to the support of the iron wire vine, are now 80,000 years old, and their toughness is incomparable to that of the branches of the willow.

When the willow branches lashed against the sweet potato vines, the vines naturally wrapped around them, and the two became entangled.

More vines surged through the gap, gradually covering the entire Wansi Willow.

Fang Tian activated his Soul Absorption skill, continuously drawing life force from the Thousand Willow Branches.

The extracted life force wasn't transferred to Fang Tian. If such a massive amount of life force were poured into a person, Fang Tian would probably collapse to the ground. He didn't want to embarrass himself.

The extracted life force was used to grow more vines, which continued to wrap around the willow, eventually enveloping it in a large cocoon.

The large cocoon formed by the vines struggled and twisted continuously until it gradually came to a stop, and a black spirit ring slowly took shape.

Fang Tian smiled and said, "It's easy! It seems that with the toughness of my spirit, the sweet potato vine, ordinary spirit beasts won't be able to break free once they're bound. Unless they have exceptionally sharp claws that can cut through the vines, or they have skills like fire and ice that are effective against plant spirit beasts."

Fang Tian analyzed the situation in his mind, but instead walked towards the spirit ring formed by the myriad willow branches. He sat down cross-legged and began to absorb the black spirit ring.

Although this spirit ring was not difficult for Fang Tian to absorb, it still took him five hours to absorb the enormous spirit power contained within it.

Fang Tian glanced at his system panel and found that his soul power had reached level 72. As for his soul skill, he knew without looking that it was the Martial Soul True Body.

The Martial Soul Potato Sprout was released, and its appearance was completely different from before.

The entire martial spirit roughly takes the shape of a tree. Numerous vines intertwine and twist to form the main trunk of the tree, while the tips of these vines become the branches.

At the same time, you can see seven black rings tightly wrapped around the tree trunk from top to bottom, like some kind of strange decoration.

Judging from its current form, it's unlikely that anyone would believe it's a vine-type martial soul.

"True Spirit Body!" Fang Tian wanted to see what was so different about the so-called True Spirit Body, and why it was said that having a True Spirit Body was an important transformation for a Soul Master.

To be honest, perhaps it was because Fang Tian's soul power was of very high quality, and his physical and mental abilities far surpassed those of a normal soul master, that he didn't feel much different after advancing to Soul Saint.

A vine tree, over twenty meters tall with thousands of branches hanging down, appeared where Fang Tian was standing. The vines covered an area of ​​ten meters in radius, and its roots were deeply embedded in the ground, rapidly absorbing nutrients and transforming them into soul power.

(End of this chapter)