The Tree Realm Descends on Douluo Continent

Chapter 7, First Soul Skill: Birth of the Tree Realm, Thorn Jungle

Li Xun looked at the spectacular scene before him and nodded slightly.

If even one of these hundreds of thousands of seeds successfully grows, it will extend the life of this silver spruce tree.

His idea for the first spirit ring also stemmed from this.

After the flying sword landed, Li Xun slowly walked to the side of the silver spruce tree.

A gentle push.

The enormous silver fir tree then fell to one side. After waiting for a while, a yellow halo slowly rose from the tree stump.

Sword Douluo looked worried and said, "Xiao Xun, sit cross-legged, hold your breath, and use your mind to protect your martial soul."

Li Xun sat cross-legged as instructed, concentrating his mind on the Thousand-Hand Buddha in his right hand. His martial spirit immediately generated a suction force, slowly pulling the yellow spirit ring on the tree stump.

As the spirit rings approach the martial spirit.

Li Xun could feel a pressure coming from above. This pressure felt like a squeeze on his body, causing his bones to crack and pop.

The spirit ring quickly arrived above Li Xun's head, then suddenly contracted, directly encasing his martial spirit.

Li Xun suddenly felt the pressure increase.

The nearly 600-year-old spirit ring, although gentle in nature, had exceeded his limit due to its age.

Fine wounds had appeared on his body, a sign that the expanding energy could not be absorbed. But then, Wood Release used its powerful self-healing ability to restore his wounds.

This process was repeated several times.

Sword Douluo's eyes narrowed, but even someone as powerful as him had no choice. Absorbing a spirit ring depended entirely on oneself; interference from others would only harm the other party.

I don't know how much time passed.

Li Xun felt the pressure gradually lessen, and a surge of energy flowed into his body from his soul ring. As soon as this energy entered his body, it quickly merged into the flames formed from chakra and soul power.

The moment the energy merged with the flames, the True Thousand Hands began to change. The originally brown Thousand Hands Buddha began to show a slight hint of vibrant green.

"It's done."

Li Xun felt a surge of joy at the change in his body and immediately opened his eyes.

"Okay!" Chen Xin smiled.

He was worried that he wouldn't be able to bring Li Xun back safely this time, but fortunately, he escaped unharmed.

Li Xun slowly stood up, adjusting to the changes in his body.

He felt that it wasn't just that he had gained an extra spirit ring; his physical strength had also increased.

"How is it, Xiao Xun?" Sword Douluo asked curiously.

Li Xun laughed and said, "With your soul power increasing to level twelve, I estimate you're not far from level thirteen."

With his absorption exceeding the limit, coupled with his innate full soul power, he might already be level thirteen if he hadn't had a weak foundation.

As for soul skills

Li Xun slowly raised the Thousand-Hand Buddha, and the yellow spirit ring beneath his feet slowly lit up.

The next second, ten energy fruits were hurled out by the Buddha statue's arm. These energy fruits exploded rapidly in mid-air, transforming into seeds that flew in the designated direction according to Li Xun's will.

Seeing that the seed was in place, Li Xun interlocked his five fingers to form the Si Seal, and began to circulate his chakra.

"The sea of ​​trees was born."

As he finished speaking, the seed of life underground began to grow rapidly.

In the blink of an eye.

Then fifty or sixty small trees, about the thickness of three fingers and nearly half a meter tall, grew into mature trees.

"Xiao Xun, is there still room for improvement in your first soul skill?" Sword Douluo asked thoughtfully.

Initially, Sword Douluo didn't place much importance on Li Xun's first soul skill. Even if a hundred-year soul ring is exceptional, it wouldn't necessarily lead to a qualitative leap.

Not to mention the young saplings all over the place.

However, he noticed that after Li Xun used his skill, there were still a large number of ungrown seeds left on the ground.

Hence this question.

"Yes, Grandpa Sword, my first soul skill will improve according to my level, enhancing the quality of the plants and the number of summons." Li Xun looked at the dozens of saplings on the ground.

"As long as there are tree seeds remaining on the ground, even if the enemy destroys the jungle, I can regenerate an equal amount of plants."

This first soul skill confirmed his conjecture: choosing an amplification-type soul ring would yield far greater benefits than an attack-type one.

With his current chakra reserves, he could unleash an even larger-scale attack if he used it without reservation, but that would be nothing more than a facade and useless against the enemy.

Therefore, he must reserve a portion of his chakra to manipulate trees in combat. Although there are limitations now, with future upgrades, it will definitely be stronger than choosing offensive spirit rings in the early stages.

Tang San's Blue Silver Entanglement is Li Xun's guide to avoiding pitfalls.

In the later stages of the game, the opponent almost completely abandoned their first few spirit rings. Their Blue Silver Emperor bloodline and Blue Silver Emperor domain also became practically nonexistent. If Tang San hadn't taken advantage of Xiao Wu's resurrection to change his spirit rings, they wouldn't have possessed such formidable combat power.

Dispersing his thoughts, Li Xun held a hand seal with one hand and mobilized his chakra to try to control the trees.

Affected by Wood Release.

The once-sturdy trees seemed to have softened, intertwining and sprawling. From a distance, they resembled a dense vine network, making it hard to believe this was a forest.

What caught Sword Douluo's eye the most was that the vines of these small trees were covered with dense, sharp thorns.

The spikes are of varying lengths.

The longest is seven or eight centimeters, and the shortest is two centimeters.

Sword Douluo's eyes lit up, and he nodded: "Not bad, it has both control and lethality."

He had initially worried that Li Xun would be weaker than other children his age due to a lack of offensive skills. Now it seems he was overthinking it.

Not a single mistake, not a single poem, not a single post, not a single piece of content, not a single look!

In his opinion, this skill was effective enough against low-level Soul Masters.

Despite its flaws, it has a promising future as the first soul skill.

Li Xun chuckled.

This skill was evolved from the Wood Release: Wood Splintering Technique. Although it cannot launch spikes, under his deliberate control, these trees are like a living thorn forest.

"Let's call this first soul skill combination 'Birth of the Tree Realm, Thorn Jungle'."

As the flying sword ascended into the sky, Li Xun glanced into the distance.

In the heart of this Sunset Forest, there may also be the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire.

Sword Douluo's flying sword was very fast.

Including the time it takes for Li Xun to absorb the soul ring, it would only take them about five hours to make a round trip.

This troubled Ning Rongrong greatly: "Brother Li Xun, I've finished all my lessons for today, so you can go by yourself."

Ning Rongrong shook Li Xun's arm and said coquettishly.

After she made the bold statement that she would work hard to cultivate, Li Xun told Ning Fengzhi about it.

Ning Fengzhi was naturally happy for the two of them to spend more time together.

After all, one is the future sect leader and the other is the future pillar of the sect. Deepening their relationship from childhood will help them cooperate in the future.

Even Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo remained silent about it.

"Then I'll give you half a day off."

Seeing that Ning Rongrong's coquettishness was endless, Li Xun said helplessly.

"Yay! Thank you, Brother Li Xun. I'm going to play now." Without waiting for Li Xun's reply, Ning Rongrong skipped and hopped away into the distance.

"Aunt Xue, then I'll have to trouble you to take me there."

Li Xun looked at Aunt Xue beside him.

Taking Ning Rongrong to study was a pretense; his main purpose was to go to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's library.

He needs to learn about different types of spirit beasts and herbs to prepare for the future. Immortal herbs, in particular, are of paramount importance.

Currently, only three people across the entire continent possess the most comprehensive understanding of this matter: Tang San, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Yang Wudi.

As an elder of the Spirit Hall, Chrysanthemum Douluo was difficult for him to approach.

Tang San's question was a death sentence.

Yang Wudi is knowledgeable, but he is also eccentric and somewhat stubborn, so we must deal with him gradually.

"Aunt Xue, could you please post a quest for me? The quest objective is to collect books on rare herbs from across the continent."

"Any book containing medicinal herbs that I haven't seen before counts. Each book costs between one and one hundred gold soul coins, depending on its contents."

That brings us to this point.

Li Xun paused for a moment: "If the books are truly what I need, the maximum price is one thousand gold soul coins."

"Young Master, isn't the bounty too high? I'm afraid many people will use it to cheat," Aunt Xue said worriedly.

(End of this chapter)