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Chapter 104 Chen Hong's Martial Soul Mutation! [Please subscribe! Please vote!]

The Berserk Baboon is a soul beast that can barely be considered to have some mental abilities. Its characteristic is that when facing a powerful enemy, it can enter a berserk state, greatly enhancing its fighting will and reducing its pain perception. The cost is that it will consume excessive mental energy and is prone to losing its rationality in the berserk state.

The second spirit ring that Chen Hong obtained from the berserk baboon almost perfectly replicated the spirit beast's "Berserk" state, forming Chen Hong's second spirit skill, Mental Adrenaline, also known as [Rejuvenate].

It just so happens that the name of Chen Hong's first soul skill, "Writing Spirit Focused," and "Sage Time," share a similar style.

Somewhere on the outskirts of the Starry Sky Forest, near a stream, the starry night was dazzling. Various fantastical luminescent plants grew in the surrounding jungle, emitting a beautiful, faint glow in the darkness. Blue, purple, and yellow hues made Chen Hong, who was sitting cross-legged on the grass beside the clear stream with Ning Quan, marvel at the magical plants in the Starry Sky Forest.

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As the soul power within Chen Hong gradually subsided, he slowly opened his eyes, which had regained their deep, dark depths, and looked at Ning Quan, a young man in fine clothes, breathing in harmony with the starlight under the night sky. Beside Ning Quan lay the corpse of a soul beast, its body completely unscathed.

The corpse of the berserk baboon emitted a dangerous odor in the jungle on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, causing nearby soul beasts to instinctively stay away and avoid running into it.

Chen Hong opened his black eyes, a knowing look flashing in them.

"How is the soul skill?" At this moment, Ning Quan, who was bathed in the starlight, also opened his starry eyes that emitted a faint glow and looked at Chen Hong with curiosity, meeting the other's eyes that were as dark as an abyss.

"Inheriting the berserk ability of the berserk baboon, as expected, my self-amplifying soul skill, which I call Mental Adrenaline, can greatly increase the target's mental activity in a short period of time and reduce pain perception. It can almost be considered a life-burning ability. However, compared to the berserk baboon, which consumes its own blood soul power and mental power, my soul skill Mental Adrenaline focuses on burning mental power." Chen Hong told Ning Quan about his second soul skill completely without holding anything back.

As far as Chen Hong is concerned, his soul rings and soul skills will eventually break away from their specific forms and appear in various variant soul skills, which are impossible to guard against. There is no need to worry about exposing his soul skills. Moreover, Ning Quan is his own uncle, and the saying "the maternal uncle is more important than one's mother" carries a lot of weight.

In any case, Chen Hong didn't need to worry about the risk of his soul skills being exposed, because both of his current soul skills were at the realm of intent, where form and will moved with intention. The only slight difference was that he had a deeper grasp of Sage Time, allowing him to handle changes more skillfully. As for Mental Adrenaline (Rejuvenating Vigor), it was only based on the rules of soul beast sacrifice, barely reaching the realm of intent, and Chen Hong was not yet able to control and use it well.

In the first realm of Soul Rings, the Form Realm, for example, Xiao Wu's first Soul Skill, Waist Bow, can only be used at specific times. However, in the hands of Soul Ring Intent Master Chen Hong, he could maintain his Waist Bow posture throughout, granting his body greater mobility. Another example is Ma Hongjun; his first Soul Skill, Phoenix Fire Line, is fired from the mouth of his larger head. If someone blocks Ma Hongjun's mouth, he likely won't know how to activate Phoenix Fire Line. But if Ma Hongjun reaches the Intent Realm of Soul Rings, even if his larger head is blocked, he can still use his smaller head to catch the enemy off guard.

"Hmm, you did inherit our family's bloodline. It looks like a pretty good soul skill, but it sounds like it conflicts with your first soul skill?" Ning Quan couldn't help but sigh after hearing Chen Hong's explanation, and then raised his own question.

"Look at what you're saying." Chen Hong rolled his eyes at Ning Quan helplessly and continued, "It's as if I wasn't born from my mother just because I don't have this second soul skill to prove my innocence."

"The person who should say this is my dad, not you, his uncle," Chen Hong complained, finding Ning Quan's words full of flaws.

The martial spirits of Chen Hong's family of three are not entirely unrelated, but they are completely unrelated. One is a tungsten steel hammer, another is a seven-colored medicine gourd, and the third is mental power.

If anyone is questioning Chen Hong's bloodline, it should be his father, Chen Lin. After all, his mother, Ning Lu, definitely knows what kind of child she gave birth to. Chen Hong is definitely her precious darling and Ning Quan's nephew.

"Should I pass on your words to your father?" Ning Quan's expression froze for a moment, then he smiled helplessly.

He never doubted whether Chen Hong was his nephew or Chen Lin was his brother-in-law, because Chen Hong's resolute and spirited features were almost identical to Chen Lin's, while his fair skin and slender fingers were inherited from Ning Lu.

It's just that the martial soul isn't the same. However, Ning Quan still has some speculations about Chen Hong's martial soul. Thanks to the sheer number of mutated martial souls in Ning Quan's family, and the influence of his family environment, he has a level of understanding about martial soul mutation unknown to outsiders. At least, Ning Quan is certain that even Yu Xiaogang, who is known as a master of martial soul theory, is definitely no match for Ning Quan's family's expertise in martial soul mutation.

After all, this is a world where the dissemination of knowledge is extremely limited. Yu Xiaogang is just one of the people who has initially broken the monopoly on knowledge. Many Soul Master sects have their own practical experience in the research of Martial Souls.

The Seven Star Ning Clan is a family within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School that researches martial soul mutation. Over four or five generations, they have attempted to break the innate constraints on the Ning Clan's bloodline from the perspective of martial soul mutation.

Therefore, in Ning Quan's view, the formation of weapon spirits seems to be closely related to spiritual will. Chen Lin has a weapon spirit, and Ning Lu also has a plant weapon spirit. Furthermore, due to Ning Lu's weapon spirit defect, she lacks resistance in spiritual will. Therefore, when nurturing the next generation, she may focus on nurturing what the mother lacks.

Furthermore, Ning Lu was caught in the crossfire during her pregnancy. Perhaps it was at that time that Chen Hong, who was still a fetus, had his martial spirit form scattered, eventually giving birth to an invisible spiritual force.

At least within Ning Quan's family, this is how they understand Chen Hong's psychic martial soul, and their theoretical understanding is very logically consistent.

But what is the truth?

That's exactly right. Before he was three years old, Chen Hong was as stupid as an idiot. After he turned three, he broke through the mystery of his birth and awakened his mind, and his intelligence slowly returned.

(End of this chapter)