Douluo Continent: Xiao Xiao, I'm going to control you fiercely!

Seven months later.

Sunset Forest.

Xu Shu controlled Xiao Xiao to follow a 1.5-year-old crimson dragon at a distance.

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The Thousand Banyan Trees that Tang Ya needed were very easy to find.

Families with some influence often keep a few banyan trees in their small Soul Hunting Forests to maintain the forest environment.

The only problem was that the root system of the Thousand-Root Banyan was quite extensive. It took the two level 20 Soul Masters three days to clear the root system. In the end, Tang Ya terminated the main trunk and absorbed its Soul Ring.

Because she had consumed the immortal herb and the thousand-year-old soul ring had virtually no mental impact, Tang Ya absorbed it very smoothly.

The effects of the obtained soul skills were almost identical to those tested on the forum.

So, Xu Shu bid farewell to Tang Ya, whose soul power had surged to level 27, and began to control Xiao Xiao to search for a suitable soul beast within the Heavenly Soul Empire.

Since Xiao Xiao was acting alone this time, without anyone else by her side, Xu Shu had to explain things to her more.

Unlike Xiao Xiao, who repeatedly returned to the same day when she obtained her first soul ring, Xu Shu went back one or two hours after discovering that the soul ring was unsuitable, and then continued on his way.

This way, the backtracking time is shorter, Xu Shu spends less time traversing the map, and he gets closer to the next teleportation point.

Xiao Xiao currently has a physical constitution of 15000 and a mental strength of 495. In addition, absorbing a soul ring only requires enduring the peak of mental impact, unlike absorbing a soul spirit which requires a long period of endurance.

Therefore, the current tier of soul rings that Xiao Xiao can absorb is a 12500-year soul ring (black).

However, after testing it for two Douluo months, Xu Shu discovered that this timeframe was not fixed like a thousand years.

Instead, it fluctuates depending on the strength of the spirit beast's race.

For weaker, low-quality ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts, the mental strength requirement is lower. Xiao Xiao can even absorb 1.8-year-old ones, but the soul skills are really weak.

In short, nearly two and a half months have passed, and Xu Shu has searched most of the Heavenly Soul Empire, but still has not found a suitable soul beast for Xiao Xiao.

But just as Xu Shu was preparing to continue the liver treatment...

The all-knowing netizens on the forum have once again posted a guide on the priority of Soul Ring attachment and Soul Beast search.

First of all.

Before attaching a spirit ring to your martial soul, first determine the six-dimensional values ​​of your martial soul.

As for which six dimensions they are, the original work has already provided a clear answer.

1. Strength/Attack Power (Powerful Offense Type)

2. Agility/Speed ​​(Agility-based attack)

3. Strength/Defense/Quality of the Martial Soul itself (Defense type)

4. Attack range and endurance (food-type, control-type)

5. Special Abilities (Support, Buffs, Debuffs, Intimidation)

(Although I don't know how the author set it up, debuffs such as slowing down are indeed classified as support rather than control.)

6. Attributes (spirit, space, ice, light, dragon bloodline, strength, sharpness, etc.)

Each ability can be roughly divided into 0-5 points.

0, level of useless martial spirit

1. Low-level Martial Soul

2. Intermediate Martial Soul Level

3. Advanced Martial Soul Level

4. Top-tier Martial Soul level

5. God-level, Super Martial Soul level

Following the strategy provided by netizens on the forum, Xu Shu created a six-dimensional chart of the martial soul for Xiao Xiao's transformed Three Lives Soul-Suppressing Cauldron.

1. Attack power/strength, 4.3 (Because it lacks the hammer handle and lever, its melee form is indeed inferior to the Haotian Hammer).

2. Agility/Speed, 1.0 (entirely depends on the Soul Master's ability to control Soul Power)

3. Defense/Weight of the Martial Soul itself, 4.4 (The weight and hardness of the cauldron itself are no less than that of the Clear Sky Hammer. The original work was originally developed towards a defensive system.)

4. Attack range and endurance: 2.0 (30m, standard artifact soul release distance)

5. Special Ability, 4.7

(A unique debuff in the original work: the Martial Soul True Body can summon cauldrons infinitely for half an hour without consuming soul power, and can achieve infinite stun; moreover, it can seal soul power, suppress the body, and expel the soul.)

6. Attributes, 4.8

(Suppression, sealing, and stabilizing the destiny)

(The special abilities of the Three Lives Soul-Suppressing Cauldron are mostly related to its suppression and sealing attributes.)

Once this six-dimensional chart of the martial soul is created, it becomes very clear which direction Xiao Xiao's martial soul will develop in.

That is to continue to leverage the advantages of martial spirit attributes such as suppression and sealing.

As for why they didn't develop the martial soul in terms of increasing its weight and quality, it can only be said that Tang San was too authoritative.

Didn't you see that Tang San kept increasing his power, and only after absorbing a million-year soul ring and completing the divine test did the Clear Sky Hammer evolve into a god-level martial soul?

Then look at the four major families that focused on a single attribute; even their graves disappeared ten thousand years later.

In the world of Douluo, what is noble is the mechanism, special attributes, and elemental attributes.

Physical attributes like weight, strength, and sharpness are truly relegated to the bottom tier, inherently inferior to everyone else.

Numerical ratings and the like are all rather vague.

More importantly, Dou Er and Dou San are strongly related.

In Douluo Continent III, Soul Masters with Weapon Martial Souls can develop Intent based on the characteristics of their Martial Soul, and then use Intent to nurture and modify their Weapon Martial Soul.

Even if it were for the sake of the possible path of transforming one's martial soul, Xu Shu had to choose to strengthen the sealing ability of the Three Lives Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, which was relatively easy to comprehend.

Having made up his mind to develop the ability of his martial soul to suppress and seal, Xu Shu began to review Xiao Xiao's soul skills.

First Soul Skill: Collapse.

Its greatest function is to disintegrate the soul power within the enemy's body by a percentage.

Dissolving someone else's soul power...

Xu Shu felt that this ability was all too familiar.

The Rouge Dragon Martial Soul of Nan Shuishui of the Earth Dragon Gate can annihilate the soul power and soul skills outside the soul master's body.

One inside and one outside,

A perfect match.

dragon,

But it is proof of imperial authority.

Adding a dragon-suppressing energy pack to the cauldron is no problem.

However, the Crimson Dragon, a type of spirit beast, is indeed quite difficult to find.

Xu Shu searched the entire Heavenly Soul Empire, but ended up with the same fate as Nan Shuishui in the original story—he didn't even find a single dragon scale.

Fortunately, there's always a way out. Xu Shu, who had found nothing, opened the game's built-in encyclopedia and searched for all the soul beasts that could be related to the Rouge Dragon, such as the Rouge Soft-Tendon Python.

They searched for similar environments, related traces, and clues in the surrounding area one by one.

Finally, he found a 1.5-year-old Rouge Dragon in the Mingdou Mountains, a section of the Star Luo Empire located very far south.

Four days, more than three Douluo months.

Xu Shu felt that he was really going to develop cirrhosis.

Searching for a soul beast across the entire continent is no less difficult than when he once had his Border Collie search the whole city for that amber-colored button he dropped by the maple tree in the park last autumn.

Finding a suitable soul beast for Xiao Xiao is extremely difficult.

But driving away the soul beasts was not so easy afterward.

The soul beast that Xu Shu found was 1.5 years old, while Xiao Xiao's maximum absorption limit was 1.15 years.

It exceeded that by more than three thousand years.

Moreover, the Rouge Dragon is a true earth dragon with a strong spirit and pure dragon bloodline, unlike the trashy soul beasts that were hunted before the previous rewinds.

Just to be on the safe side, Xu Shu finally decided to drive the ten-thousand-year-old Rouge Dragon into the Sunset Forest.

Like Tang San, he could absorb the spirit ring by using the suppressive force of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well itself.

The ten-thousand-year-old Rouge Dragon is indeed extremely powerful.

In front of it, Xiao Xiao never used her first soul skill even once.

If it weren't for the Dark Gold Terror Claw being sharp enough, the etherealization inherent in the Soul Bone not being a separate-body Soul Skill, and Xiao Xiao's own Soul King-level physical attributes allowing her to react to the Rouge Dragon's attack...

Xu Shu probably had the will but lacked the power.

However, after several replays to familiarize herself with the attack patterns of the Carmine Dragon...

In the end, Xu Shu was the victor.

Now, the ten-thousand-year-old crimson dragon fleeing in panic not far in front of Xiao Xiao in Sunset Forest is the best proof of Xu Shu's gaming skills.