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Chapter 276 Third Soul Skill - [Contract]! [Please subscribe! Please vote!]

Chen Hong realized he had been tricked!

When Chen Hong activated his third spirit ring, he felt his spiritual energy suddenly transform into countless threads, weaving into a giant net that tightly bound him. Chen Hong even lost control of his physical body.

Then, Chen Hong's soul seemed to leave his body, and a mysterious mark appeared on his head.

"Chen Hong, what's wrong with you???" Qian Daoliu and the others behind him noticed something was wrong, so they all stepped forward and surrounded Chen Hong, who was frozen in place.

Before they could say anything more, Chen Hong's stiff body began to move, turning his head haltingly to give Qian Daoliu and the others a forced, stiff smile, stammering, "Use...spirit...to...interrupt...my...state."

"..." Qian Daoliu stared expressionlessly at Chen Hong, who seemed to have turned into a puppet, and remained silent for a moment. Then he raised his hand and gave Chen Hong, who was in a wooden puppet state, a mental power contest.

Snapped!

Chen Hong was slapped to the ground. Under the watchful eyes of Qian Daoliu and the others, it took him a while to slowly get up from the ground. The mysterious mark on his forehead disappeared, and Chen Hong's movements returned to normal.

"What happened to you just now?" Qian Daoliu asked with a stern face.

Chen Hong rubbed his face, still shaken, and said, "The effect of the third soul skill, [Mental Contract] (Slave Contract), has mutated the Cave Spider's ability to set traps and control its prey, creating a powerful mental trap that can be set up on the mental body of the contracted party."

Qian Daoliu was slightly startled and frowned, saying, "But you?"

Chen Hong said helplessly, "The first target I use my soul skill on is myself."

Just now, Chen Hong wanted to use his third soul skill. Although he knew that his soul skill would be strange, he did not expect it to be this strange.

Slave Contract (crossed out), Mental Contract. Chen Hong directly created a blank mental contract for himself. The fine lines of mental energy had already begun to weave into his mental body. How could this be self-enslavement? Bah, he created a contract for himself! So Chen Hong didn't dare to move at all and quickly used all his strength to make Qian Daoliu interrupt his "stalemate with himself".

Of course, "spiritual contract" is Chen Hong's own understanding of this soul skill. According to the traditional soul master's understanding in this world, the correct name for this soul skill is "spiritual silk," which can bind and restrict the soul body.

However, in Chen Hong's eyes, this ability is a mental contract. For example, placing mental threads in your soul body restricts certain behaviors of your soul body. Once you cross the line, you will suffer the piercing of mental threads in your soul body.

Furthermore, since Psychic Lys is a spiritual creation, it also possesses the potential to perceive and understand spiritual entities.

In other words, Psycho-Ries has the potential to understand the thoughts of a psychic being, and it can be activated if you do something that does not conform to Psycho-Ries' internal judgment process.

However, this operation still needs careful study. What Chen Hong needs to do most now is to cultivate the third soul ring to the level of intent.

Otherwise, Chen Hong's third soul skill, [Contract], would be impossible to release to anyone else. For now, Chen Hong can only set high moral standards for himself; any violation will result in a severe blow from his mental defenses.

"Your skill..." Qian Daoliu didn't know what to say, and in the end he just shook his head and sighed.

The Azure Phoenix Douluo examined the already dead Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Cave Demon Spider and actually dug out a delicate and exquisite head soul bone from its body.

"What a pleasant surprise! The probability of a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast possessing a soul bone is quite high, but this kind of head soul bone is still very rare." Azure Phoenix Douluo handed the ten-thousand-year-old soul bone to Chen Hong.

Chen Hong did not refuse. After thanking him, he packed the soul bone and the corpse of the cave spider together and put them into his spatial soul tool.

"I'm done, let's go." Chen Hong quickly tidied up and then said to Qian Daoliu.

Qian Daoliu nodded and then led everyone to fly quickly towards Soto City.

With Qian Daoliu and the others escorting him, Chen Hong returned to Soto City in a short time and bid farewell to them.

"Finally back." After returning home, Chen Hong inquired around and found out that Flander, Liu Erlong, and the others had taken the Shrek Seven Devils to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for spirit rings. So he didn't pay much attention to it, but simply greeted his family and returned to his private courtyard.

"What's wrong? You look so worried about going home?" As soon as Chen Hong entered his small courtyard, he saw the mermaid Kelly sitting on the artificial reef by the shore with a troubled expression.

"Ah! No way!" Startled by Chen Hong's sudden appearance, Mermaid Kelly cried out, then snorted and plunged into the water, disappearing from sight.

Chen Hong: "."

Chen Hong felt that if his third soul ring could be used by others, then he should create a set of "Mermaid Self-Cultivation" for the mermaid Kelly, and urge her to become a well-mannered and knowledgeable mermaid.

Unfortunately, no. Chen Hong's third spirit ring wasn't obtained through sacrifice, so he couldn't directly master it and needed to start cultivating it from scratch. However, there was one saving grace: before absorbing the Earth Demon Spider, Chen Hong had nearly destroyed its soul. The spider didn't even trigger the fixed process of spirit ring absorption, "Soul Impact," before being swallowed whole by Chen Hong's manifested psychic martial soul. This meant that Chen Hong would save a considerable amount of time cultivating his third spirit ring, [Contract], to the level of intent.

Shaking his head, Chen Hong thought, "Today you ignore me, but tomorrow I'll teach you to be reasonable." He then walked towards his private research lab.

Back in his clean and tidy research lab, Chen Hong saw the three-nothing big-headed doll [Huang] flying around cleaning the lab.

However, watching [Huang]'s busy figure, Chen Hong felt that the guy had sensed his return and only started cleaning then.

One good thing is that after [Huang] possessed the Bone Spirit Body, he also had a physical body, which allowed him to clean Chen Hong's research lab spotless.

Chen Hong walked to the work table and took out the spoils of his trip from his pocket.

A bottle of Soul Power Essence, a ten-thousand-year-old head Soul Bone, a stack of Immortal Herb Illustrations, and speculations about his own Martial Soul.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Hong took a fist-sized space stone from the shelf next to him that was filled with various odds and ends.

A stone containing the Spirit Hall's files.

(End of this chapter)