Douluo Continent: Half-level Innate Realm, but a Sword Cultivator with a Heart-Only Mind

After their conversation, Qi Dao did not leave the Crown Prince's residence immediately. Instead, he went to see his parents and told them about his promise to the uncles and aunts in the Soul Hunting Group.

When Qi's parents learned that their old friend would soon arrive in Tiandou City, they were overjoyed.

Having lived in Tiandou City for many years, they also missed their old friends very much.

Qi Dao spent half a day with his parents before returning to Tiandou Academy and finding Dugu Yan.

Dugu Yan had reached level 55 before the preliminary rounds. Now, half a year later, having absorbed a ten-thousand-year soul bone along the way, her level has reached level 58.

The two chatted for a while, and Qi Dao told her how he killed Tang Hao. Then he took out the 60,000-year-old head bone and handed it to her.

Dugu Yan accepted the soul bone with a smile and said, "I won't stand on ceremony since it's a gift from Adao."

Their relationship had long since transcended the importance of whether a gift was valuable or not.

Qi Dao smiled and said, "Senior, absorb this soul bone now. If you can break through to level 60, I'll go with you to hunt souls in the Star Dou Great Forest."

Dugu Yan smiled slightly.

"I'll listen to you."

After saying that, she took out a futon, sat down cross-legged, and began to absorb the soul bone.

Several hours passed.

A faint fluctuation of soul power emanated from her body, and she slowly opened her tightly closed eyes, revealing a joyful smile on her slightly charming face.

Qi Dao smiled and asked, "Senior, how are you feeling?"

Dugu Yan exclaimed excitedly, "My level has indeed broken through to level sixty!"

Qi Dao was not surprised.

Even a Soul Douluo can level up by absorbing a 60,000-year-old soul bone, let alone Dugu Yan, who is only a Soul King.

Congratulations, senior!

Qi Dao smiled and cupped his hands in greeting.

Dugu Yan asked, "When shall we set off for the Starry Sky Forest?"

Qi Dao replied with a smile, "How about now?"

"Let's set off now, just the two of us." Dugu Yan's heart stirred; this was a rare opportunity to be alone with Qi Dao.

"good!"

Qi Dao snapped his fingers, and a purple soul ring lit up.

Immediately following, a flying sword materialized out of thin air, transforming into a giant sword about ten feet long and rising into the air.

Qi Dao waved his hand and said, "Please, senior!"

Dugu Yan lightly leaped onto the flying sword with a light touch of her toes.

Qi Dao followed closely behind and stood beside Dugu Yan.

With a thought, the flying sword immediately flew towards the Star Dou Great Forest.

Looking at the rapidly receding scenery around her, Dugu Yan exclaimed, "Adao, your soul skill is truly practical."

Flying is a skill that countless Soul Masters yearn for.

Unfortunately, unless one is a Soul Saint-level flying Soul Master, only those who reach the Title Douluo level can possess the ability to fly.

Qi Dao laughed and said, "I was just using a trick. But flying is ultimately just a manifestation of a high-level Soul Master's exquisite control over Soul Power. Once you break through to Soul Saint, you can also achieve short-distance flight by systematically training your Soul Power control."

Dugu Yan asked curiously, "There's such a saying?"

Qi Dao nodded.

As times progress, Soul Masters in the second era of Douji had a more complete and systematic cultivation method, thus possessing certain advantages in various aspects.

It is precisely for this reason that the subsequent eras gave people the feeling that geniuses emerged in great numbers and titled Douluo were as common as dogs.

It can be said that the titled Douluo in the first Douluo series basically all relied on their talent and hard work to reach that level. In other eras, it wouldn't have been a problem for them to cultivate to the level of Super Douluo.

Qi Dao controlled his flying sword, and with the sword spirit's blessing, he arrived at the Star Dou Great Forest in just over half a day.

After arriving at the Star Dou Great Forest, Qi Dao did not rush to take Dugu Yan into the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt souls, but instead took her to wander around the perimeter.

Qi Dao's target, of course, is the two-thousand-year-old human-faced demon spider from the original story.

Knowing the age of the human-faced spider in advance makes the search much easier.

Dugu Yan asked, "Adao, what are we doing?"

Qi Dao smiled mysteriously.

You'll find out then!

Qi Dao did not tell Dugu Yan directly that he was helping her find the Human-Faced Demon Spider with an external soul bone.

If she doesn't find it, at least she won't be disappointed.

Because he wasn't sure if the human-faced demon spider from the original story would drop an external soul bone like it did in the original story.

Seven days passed in the blink of an eye.

A black spider, about 1.6 meters in diameter and with eight spear-like legs over three meters long, appeared in Qi Dao and Dugu Yan's sight.

Qi Dao's eyes lit up when he saw the spider.

Based on the size of this human-faced demon spider, Qi Dao deduced that it was over two thousand years old.

The number of human-faced spiders is not large to begin with, and the one in front of us is just over two thousand years old, so it is very likely the one from the original story.

Thinking of this, Qi Dao's heart stirred, and he raised his hand to unleash a sword intent that instantly pierced through its body, but spared its life.

After its body was pierced, the human-faced spider emitted a strange wail.

Seeing that no further attacks followed, he immediately fled into the depths of the forest, his body still bleeding profusely.

Qi Dao followed behind him at a leisurely pace.

Since it's uncertain whether this human-faced demon spider will drop the external soul bone from the original work, let's force it a bit. Let it escape first, and then come out to kill it when it thinks it's safe, thus arousing its resentment.

Dugu Yan didn't understand why Qi Dao did this, but she believed that Qi Dao must have his reasons.

Another day passed quickly.

Throughout the day, Qi Dao played like a cat toying with a mouse, striking the Human-Faced Demon Spider several times when it thought it was safe and stopped to rest, forcing it to keep running until it died from exhaustion.

After its death, a purple soul ring condensed on its corpse, and at the same time, a faint purple halo appeared and disappeared within its body.

Upon seeing the dark purple halo, Qi Dao felt a surge of joy.

As expected, it acquired an external soul bone.

In the original story, the Eight Spider Lances grew out of Tang San's body when he absorbed a spirit ring. However, external spirit bones are not only obtained by absorbing spirit rings. For example, Huo Yuhao's two-thousand-year-old Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear Paw Bone in Douluo Continent II is also an external spirit bone, but it was dropped in the same way as other spirit bones.

Dugu Yan also saw the eerie purple light emanating from the corpse of the human-faced demon spider and glanced at Qi Dao in surprise.

Did Adao already know that this human-faced demon spider would drop a soul bone?

Qi Dao became even more mysterious in Dugu Yan's mind.

Seeing the surprise in Dugu Yan's eyes, Qi Dao didn't care and said with a smile, "Senior, now you know why I've been chasing after this human-faced demon spider, right?"

"The human-faced demon spider's external soul bone, although only about two thousand years old, has great potential and is in no way inferior to a one hundred thousand-year-old soul bone."

This is Qi Dao putting it simply, because the external soul bone of this Eight Spider Lances has the ability to devour.

As long as it can devour the essence of other human-faced demon spiders in the Star Dou Great Forest, its evolution speed will definitely be extremely fast.

In the original story, after Tang San absorbed many human-faced demon spiders and the human-faced demon spider king with the Eight Spider Spears, he almost evolved the Eight Spider Spears to a level close to that of a god.

"External Soul Bone!!"

Dugu Yan's mouth gaped open in surprise. Although she could tell that it was a soul bone, she did not know that the corpse of the human-faced demon spider contained an external soul bone.

But then he immediately felt it made sense, because ordinary two-thousand-year-old soul bones were not worth Qi Dao going to such great lengths for.

Qi Dao laughed and said, "That's right, go and absorb it!"

Dugu Yan smiled and nodded, then walked towards the corpse of the human-faced demon spider and took out the external soul bone from the corpse.

This external soul bone looks like a piece of eight ribs connected to the spine.

Dugu Yan sat down on the spot, then mobilized her soul power to merge her soul bone with herself.

Immediately afterward, the external soul bone of the human-faced demon spider seemed to melt under the influence of soul power, slowly climbing onto Dugu Yan's body and seeping into her back.

Two hours later, Dugu Yan suddenly opened her eyes.

The next second, eight purplish-black spider legs extended from her back, looking like eight sharp metal spears, exuding a faint, cold aura.

It was none other than the Eight Spider Lances from the original work!