Douluo Continent: Starting with a Void Treasure Trove

Chapter 118 The Beginning of the Story

There's still no good clue about how to create a ten-thousand-year soul ring.

A year ago, Xu Yang even went out of his way to find Long Xiaoyao.

He remembered that among the venerable figures of the Holy Spirit Cult was Zhang Peng, the Scorpion Tiger Douluo. He commanded twelve Soul Douluo-level beast souls, and Xu Yang had assumed Zhang Peng was also knowledgeable in the field of souls. He had even gone so far as to contact Zhang Peng through Long Xiaoyao's connections.

Through He Shan's communication, and with both parties' consent, Zhang Peng also joined the research on artificial ten-thousand-year soul rings.

Heaven knows what Zhang Peng felt when he was surrounded by seven or eight level-nine soul masters. At first, he wanted to resist and fight for himself. However, when Di Tian appeared, Zhang Peng became completely subdued. Later, with the appearance of Kong Deming, Zhang Peng suddenly felt that the Holy Spirit Cult's offering hall was nothing special.

Therefore, Zhang Peng is now also working hard at the Destiny's experimental center for the cause of artificial soul rings.

Zhang Peng's addition has indeed brought about considerable progress; at least these level nine soul masters are no longer completely ignorant about the soul.

Even Elder Wang, who was previously the most outstanding in mental-type soul tools, benefited greatly.

It is now possible to produce artificial ten-thousand-year soul rings using the souls of recently deceased soul beasts, although the soul of a ten-thousand-year soul beast can only produce a maximum of four soul rings.

This still doesn't meet Xu Yang's requirements.

However, just like the artificial soul rings that are thousands or hundreds of years old, these soul rings began to be promoted on a small scale in the military.

Moreover, it received a lot of positive reviews.

Because the requirements for Soul Masters to combat the remnant souls within these Soul Rings have been significantly reduced, many soldiers now possess standard ten-thousand-year Soul Rings as their fifth Soul Ring. Previously, only genius soldiers like Xu Sheng could achieve this; most had a thousand-year Soul Ring as their fifth Soul Ring, making it nearly impossible for them to break through to the Soul Emperor realm in their lifetime.

Meanwhile, Gu Yuena, who had transformed into Gu Yue, was tracking a special soul beast with Xu Yang.

The only million-year-old soul beast in the entire Douluo Continent—the One-Day Dream Ice Silkworm.

In a sense, this is the true chosen one. If the Snow Emperor had his luck, Xu Yang believes that she would have surpassed the Evil Emperor and become the number one soul beast on the continent under the Emperor's Heaven long ago.

The Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, enough to break through a million-year cultivation level, resulted in a piece of trash that couldn't even defeat some powerful ten-thousand-year soul beasts.

It is empowered by the spiritual power of the mimicry of Yu Duchen and Gu Yuena.

Therefore, neither Xu Yang nor Gu Yuena were detected by Tianmeng Ice Silkworm.

Of course, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was unaware of all this.

He was still immersed in the joy of finally being freed from Di Tian's grasp.

"It's been so long, why hasn't this good-for-nothing found the chosen one yet?!"

Gu Yuena was brought here by Xu Yang, and in less than a year, her health will be fully recovered. At this moment, she is still thinking about what reason to use to keep Xu Yang by her side.

"Don't rush, it's not that easy—"

Xu Yang wasn't in a hurry at all, still eating a piece of osmanthus cake in his hand.

He sent people to investigate the White Tiger Duke's mansion in Xingluo Imperial City.

It was the demon spirit that had been slacking off outside. A year ago, it wandered into Mingdu City and was caught red-handed by its own boss, Di Tian.

Because of his personal abilities, Xu Yang assigned him to do some investigative work.

A few days ago, the demon spirit sent back news that Huo Yuhao had just come out of the White Tiger Duke's mansion. Although he didn't know why Xu Yang wanted him to investigate such an ordinary person, he couldn't disobey his boss.

After learning Xu Yang's identity, the demon spirits have already recognized him as their new leader, since Di Tian usually acts as if he is completely obedient to Xu Yang.

Later, after being told about Gu Yuena's identity by the Red King, the demon spirit felt even more that his decision was wise and brilliant.

At Huo Yuhao's speed, these few days should be enough time for him to arrive at the Star Dou Great Forest.

Xu Yang expressed his admiration for Huo Yuhao, who was able to walk from the Star Luo Imperial Capital to the Star Dou Great Forest in just six days, as depicted in the original novel. He believed Huo Yuhao most likely hitched a ride on a freight train traveling from the Star Luo Empire to Tian Dou City for trade.

The message from the demon spirits was the same.

Huo Yuhao has now reached the sign that reads "Fifty miles ahead of the Star Dou Great Forest".

It's only a matter of time before the ten-year-old soul beast Wind Baboon, the god-killer, engages in a life-or-death struggle with the distance.

The demon spirit reported Huo Yuhao's location and situation to Xu Yang in real time.

"Almost there, let's go outside for a walk."

Xu Yang headed in the direction of the Star Dou Great Forest, but Gu Yuena said it was too slow, so she used spatial teleportation to pull Xu Yang along.

At this moment, our chosen one, Huo Yuhao, had just used his level-five soul tool, the White Tiger Dagger, to kill the Wind Baboon and encountered the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, thus beginning the first step of his extraordinary journey.

Xu Yang and Gu Yuena watched all of this from the spatial rift.

Xu Yang was more interested in witnessing a memorable scene and went there to have some fun, but Gu Yuena didn't seem to be in a good mood. She expressed strong disdain for Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's behavior.

If Xu Yang hadn't stopped her, and if there hadn't been someone watching from above, she probably would have already sent Tianmeng Ice Silkworm to its death with a single claw strike, and then given its remains to Xu Yang to make a suitable soul tool.

Its powerful spiritual essence could just be used to create a signal base station that could cover the entire continent.

The two watched as Huo Yuhao merged with the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, and the first intelligent soul ring was born on the Douluo Continent.

"This Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm is quite talented, it's a pity—I can't recruit her to my side."

Xu Yang secretly used the Void Treasury to deconstruct the principle of the so-called intelligent soul ring of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, and discovered some clever ideas that might be used in the future research and development of artificial 100,000-year soul rings.

Just as Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was putting all its effort into sealing its powerful primordial cultivation, the strange phenomenon caused by Tianmeng's previous sacrifice also attracted Xu Yang's true purpose this time.

Ilex, who hails from the neighboring Holy Demon Continent and is revered as the Holy Spirit Death God and the Calamity of the Undead.

At this moment, fragments of his consciousness were transforming into a gray current, quietly burrowing towards the back of Huo Yuhao's head.

"Is that the fragment of divine consciousness you're looking for?"

Gu Yuena immediately recognized who Electrolux was.

"An aura of death, and also the attribute of light? That's quite interesting; two contradictory attributes appearing in one person—"

"Yeah, I tried looking for this thing in the Star Dou Great Forest before, but I didn't have any clue. I have to say, it's quite good at hiding; even you didn't notice it?"

Xu Yang looked at Gu Yuena with a hint of doubt in his eyes.

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