Douluo Continent: Peerless Bei Bei, Light Dragon King

Chapter 23 Time Flies Like a Galloping Horse

"Level 28."

For a Soul Bone with a lifespan of 100,000 years, such a significant improvement was not surprising to Bei Bei.

Furthermore, this is based on the fact that soul bones primarily focus on cleansing the marrow and transforming the body, and do not significantly increase soul power cultivation.

Ma Xiaotao: "???"

Before the freshman assessment, wasn't there only level 24 soul power?

How did my soul power suddenly jump to level 28?!

In just one night, he leveled up four times, catching up with my cultivation progress of more than half a year!

On drugs?!

However, she quickly dismissed this last guess.

Taking drugs is like overdrawing one's talent potential in exchange for rapid improvement in cultivation, which is tantamount to pulling up seedlings to help them grow, and is simply foolish.

Given how highly regarded Beibei is in the Sea God Pavilion, if he dared to take drugs on his own, the elders would be furious!

The option of taking drugs has been ruled out, and the player hasn't reached the level bottleneck. Absorbing a soul ring beyond one's level to boost soul power is also ruled out.

A miraculous herb with no side effects... According to the Shrek Academy's library, it has been nearly ten thousand years since anyone has obtained it, and it is unlikely that anyone has.

Only... Soul Bones!

That makes sense, considering he just made a new contribution in yesterday's operation to kill the evil spirit master.

Sometimes, the academy would use soul bones as a reward to encourage students.

"Have you fused with a soul bone?"

"I have good talent, cultivate quickly, and level up entirely through hard work. It has absolutely nothing to do with that damn soul bone!"

Okay, based on this nonsense, Ma Xiaotao was completely certain that it must be a fusion of soul bones.

"How many tens of thousands of years is the lifespan of a soul bone?"

"What are Soul Bone Skills?"

"You promised you wouldn't hide it from me next time."

"Uh." This is like shooting yourself in the foot.

After organizing his thoughts, he said, "Soul Bone Skill, Golden Light, is a passive support skill with the Light attribute that fully restores soul power and can affect teammates, but the effect decreases with each use."

"As for the timeframe, I won't tell you."

"Okay, okay~"

"I won't make things difficult for you. As for the age of the soul bone, there's no need to talk about it. The difference between a ten-thousand-year soul bone and a ninety-thousand-year soul bone is just the quality. It won't give you an extra soul bone skill."

Clearly, she wasn't thinking about the possibility of a 100,000-year-old soul bone.

That makes sense; as a student, she wouldn't have access to the specifics of the academy's collection.

Then, with a hint of envy, she remarked:

"I thought you wouldn't reach the level of a three-ring Soul Master until at least your second year."

"It seems I underestimated you. You should break through to Soul Master before the end of your first year."

"Moreover, he is very likely to become the third student in the class to break through to the Soul Master level, right after me and Dai Yueheng."

Haha~

"Thank you for your kind words."

But to everyone's surprise, just as Beibei finished being happy, Ma Xiaotao suddenly said something.

"However, I'm not afraid that you'll catch up with me."

"Your martial soul possesses extreme attributes. Once you reach the third ring, your cultivation progress will be as slow as a snail's pace."

"By then, I'll definitely leave you in the dust."

"Hmph~"

Beibei: "..."

Seeing the proud "Little Phoenix" already ahead, Beibei knew what to say.

What a load of arrogance!

If your cultivation level is eight streets ahead of mine, do you think I'd suppress your evil fire with a hammer?!

...the cold season comes and the heat season goes.

In the blink of an eye, more than three months have passed.

The bottleneck to Soul Master status was as if it didn't exist; it was broken through in a flash.

"Beibei, this is probably the last time you'll receive a spirit ring at the academy."

Old Gong, walking side by side with Beibei, spoke with a tone full of sighs.

After all, it hasn't been half a year since I last helped Beibei obtain a spirit ring!

Who knows, before my body is fully developed, my cultivation level might break through to the ninth ring!

"Elder Gong, there's no need to worry. The Star Dou Great Forest is right next to the academy, so finding a spirit ring won't be complicated."

According to Bei Bei's plan, the third spirit ring would be ten thousand years.

However, ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts are not only powerful, but also quite intelligent, making them difficult to manage.

Therefore, even the academy's arena can only house relatively young, ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts.

They are few in number and their bloodline is not strong.

This means that starting from the fourth spirit ring, Bei Bei will have to go to the Spirit Beast Forest to hunt for spirit rings.

Of course, there is one exception among the ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts kept in the academy.

A powerful soul beast—Tyrannosaurus Rex—was forcibly captured from an obscure small soul beast forest by Elder Xuan, under the guidance of Mu En!

Although it is a sub-dragon species, it has a single but pure Golden Dragon King bloodline and is known as the King of Sub-dragons and the King of Earth Dragons.

The place they entered was not the arena that the students usually used, but a place far away from the arena.

A retro-style, flattened cylindrical amphitheater, with a radius of over 100 meters, cast from special steel.

Its interior is hollowed out, with a courtyard a hundred meters in diameter, filled with the body of a ten-thousand-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex.

It is over sixty meters tall and its size is so large that it resembles a small mountain.

Its entire body is covered in thick, gray-black scales, each with an irregular shape, and its enormous head takes up almost a quarter of its total body size.

With its ten thousand years of cultivation, it's hard to say who would emerge victorious in a battle against a typical hundred-thousand-year-old soul beast.

Even Elder Gong, who was standing to the side, felt a certain amount of pressure from it.

We might be able to defeat it in battle, but capturing it alive is almost impossible.

At this moment, Bei Bei's martial spirit had been summoned, a phantom of a golden dragon, its fifth claw extended from its hidden position, its body expanding to confront the ten-thousand-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex.

"roar--"

The Tyrannosaurus Rex opened its blood-red maw, letting out a series of roars.

Despite feeling the immense pressure from the superior dragon race emanating from the tiny ant before it, its indomitable will prevented it from prostrating itself on the ground.

Old Master Gong stood by, ready to defend against any unforeseen events.

"Beibei, the soul of a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast has begun to mature, and its spirit possesses considerable offensive power. Absorbing it will cause a soul shock."

"Moreover, this 10,000-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex possesses an indomitable will."

"Therefore, I cannot help you; you must kill it yourself."

"In this way, the indomitable will will not be too strong during absorption."

Beibei nodded and stepped forward, her martial spirit activating, her spirit rings flashing, and the dragon might of the Light Dragon King reaching its maximum.

Dozens of iron chains, each as thick as a person's waist, bound the Tyrannosaurus Rex's massive body and connected it to an eighth-order soul-guided ground lock installed on the ground.

Resistance in action, as well as suppression based on bloodline, made it possible for Beibei to kill the millennia-old Tyrannosaurus Rex.

With a push of his feet, he leaped onto the iron chain in an instant, and in a few steps, he was in front of the Tyrannosaurus Rex's chest.

Tiny white dragon scales, densely packed, covered the surface, sending chills down one's spine.

Despite its golden dragon eyes, Beibei could see through the dense dragon scale armor to a crystal-shaped dragon scale.

That was the Tyrannosaurus Rex's weakness, its Achilles' heel!

(End of this chapter)