Douluo: Becoming Stronger Starts with Eating Soul Beast Meat

Quan Yi was always observing his surroundings, alert for attacks from soul beasts.

After two weeks of training, Quan Yi's vigilance has increased, and his five senses have become more acute. The wild environment seems to be awakening Quan Yi's inner perception ability.

Looking closely at Quan Yi's light armor, there are some black burn marks on the surface.

These are traces of a battle with a soul beast.

Bokeno Forest is one of the many soul beast forests on the continent.

It is not large in scale, but because there is an active volcano inside, a large number of fire-attributed soul beasts live in this forest.

The soul beasts in the forest are of lower age, but there are more types of fire-attributed soul beasts. It is said that Su Linger obtained her first soul ring here.

This is already the second week that Quan Yi has come to the forest, and he is still looking for a suitable soul beast.

During this period, Quan Yi also encountered many fire-attributed soul beasts, but most of them were of relatively young age. The few fire-attributed soul beasts that met the age requirement were not of the power type.

"We have almost explored the outer edge of the forest. It seems we need to go deeper."

A soul beast that is more than 500 years old is already as powerful as a great soul master. It is a fantasy for a mere level 10 soul master to want to hunt soul beasts himself.

But since Quan Yi agreed at that time, it meant that Quan Yi had confidence.

His greatest reliance is the Fiery Sun Gauntlet which has fire-immunity attribute. The most threatening flame of fire-attribute soul beasts is completely ineffective against Quan Yi.

With the help of the Fiery Sun Gauntlets and Quan Yi's physical fitness comparable to that of a level 20 weapon spirit master, Quan Yi can easily kill an ordinary 500-year-old spirit beast.

But Quan Yi was not satisfied with ordinary soul beasts, so he needed to take some risks and chose to move into the forest.

Behind Quan Yi, in a secluded place, Quan Yue and Su Ling'er were watching Quan Yi from a distance.

"Honey, Xiaoyi is going deeper into the forest. Should we get closer?" Su Linger couldn't help but feel anxious when she saw Quan Yi was going deeper into the forest.

"It's okay, this distance is just right. Don't worry, the soul beasts in this forest are generally young, and with our strength, we can definitely protect Xiaoyi. You are just too worried."

Quan Yue saw that Su Linger was anxious and tried to comfort her patiently.

The two have been following Quan Yi for two weeks. During this period, Quan Yi had also been attacked by soul beasts, but they were all easily dispelled by Quan Yi.

The two also gained a better understanding of Quan Yi's strength. Quan Yi's physical strength was beyond imagination. Quan Yi didn't even use hardness and sharpness, and he was able to repel the soul beast with his physical body alone.

But unexpectedly, the number of soul beasts in the soul beast forest was much less than expected. Therefore, Quan Yi had to go deeper to obtain the soul ring. This would also increase the danger level of Quan Yi.

When Su Linger was young, soul beasts were still everywhere in the forest. This shows that the disadvantages of over-hunting soul beasts have begun to show.

Quan pressed his hands on his chest, and with a flash of white light, a shield and a spear appeared on his hands.

This is the weapon that Quan Yi brought from the basement. Going inside, the danger is even greater, Quan Yi dare not underestimate it. With the weapon, Quan Yi can save more soul power and greatly increase safety.

The shield and spear were still a little too big for Quan Yi, but he was able to pick them up easily without any sign of reluctance.

These weapons were taken out from the necklace on Quan Yi's chest.

The necklace is called the Heart of the Blazing Sun, and it is Su Linger's jewelry. More importantly, it is a very rare storage soul guide. Because its shape resembles a burning sun, it is called the Heart of the Blazing Sun.

For this test, Su Linger lent this precious soul guide to Quan Yi. Thanks to the soul guide, Quan Yi no longer had to carry heavy luggage and could carry enough supplies to survive for two months.

Apart from these two weapons, there were only soul beast dried meat and water bags inside.

Quan Yi, holding a shield in his left hand and a spear in his right hand, walked slowly and steadily forward into the forest.

The further inward you go, the sparser the trees become. This is probably because of the volcano inside.

Moreover, there was a faint strange smell in the air, but here Quan Yi felt that the fluctuations of his soul power became more active, and his body instinctively felt a comfortable feeling.

This is truly a paradise for fire-attribute soul masters, Quan Yi sighed inwardly.

Quan Yi was following the flow of the stream, moving towards the higher reaches of the forest. Although he had no experience, Quan Yi knew that soul beasts needed to drink water.

As long as he can follow the stream, Quan Yi's chances of encountering soul beasts will greatly increase.

After walking for an hour or two, Quan Yi spotted a huge figure more than 500 meters ahead.

Quan Yi walked lightly behind a tree to hide his body. He observed carefully from behind the tree. Although it was a little far away, the huge size of the soul beast made it easy for Quan Yi to recognize it.

What's more important is that there are five clearly visible circular lines on the horn of this rhino, which is the basis for judging the age of the rhino.

As it ages, its horn will grow longer, and every hundred years a red ring will form on the horn.

This is because the rhino horn of the Explosive Rhino is the part that stores soul power, and it is also its strongest weapon.

The Explosive Rhino has poor eyesight and moves a little clumsily, but it is extremely powerful, and if the body is touched by its rhino horn, the fire-attributed soul power contained in it will flow into the enemy's body and cause an explosion inside.

This is also a skill created to protect oneself from harm. Although the Explosive Rhino gives people the impression of being gentle and honest, no one expected that he would have such a sinister soul skill.

Quan Yi was very excited at this moment, but he forced himself to calm down.

The closer it gets to the end, the calmer you have to be. Facing such a powerful soul beast, Quan Yi must be extremely careful.

Quan Yi kept thinking about the corresponding method in his mind, but soon he gave up thinking.

Quan Yi seemed to have figured something out, and suddenly stood up and walked straight towards the explosive rhino. And there was no sign of hiding at all.

When they were about two hundred meters away, Baoxi, who was drinking water, suddenly noticed Quanyi approaching and looked up at him abruptly.

I saw Quan Yi fully armed with a light armor, holding a shield and a spear in each hand. He had a determined look in his eyes and stared at Baoxi, just like a hero in ancient Greek mythology, coming alone to challenge.

There was a huge difference in size between the two. Exploding Rhino seemed to be aware of the enemy's presence. He stared at Quan Yi closely, slowly turned his body around, and looked at Quan Yi directly.

Quan Yi's parents, who were watching from behind, were also horrified. Su Linger was even possessed by her martial spirit and was about to rush out, but was immediately stopped by Quan Yue who was standing beside her.

"what are you doing?"

"Wait, Quan Yi went there on his own initiative, maybe he has his own plan. If you go out at this time, isn't it just ruining this test completely?"

"What time is it? You are still thinking about the test. This is an explosive rhino!" Su Linger was shocked.

Quan Yue was also frightened and broke out in a cold sweat. He didn't expect that Quan Yi, who was always calm and composed, would do such a reckless and impulsive thing.

However, relying on his strong self-control, Quan Yue managed to maintain a trace of rationality.

Chapter 12 The Weight of Life

The distance between Quan Yi and Bao Xi was only a hundred meters.

Explosive Rhino has already sensed Quan Yi's presence. It faces Quan Yi and keeps tapping the ground, warning Quan Yi not to come near.

Quan Yi didn't care and kept moving forward, almost reaching the range of fifty meters.

Seeing that warnings could not force Quan Yi to retreat, Explosive Rhino rushed directly towards Quan Yi, wanting to pierce the enemy directly with his rhino horn.

The explosive power of the Explosive Rhino is amazing, and it can run very fast in a straight line.

But Quan Yi was not panicked, or rather, he had been looking forward to this moment.

Quan Yi, seeing that the speed was getting faster and faster, immediately raised the spear in his right hand. The red lines on the Fiery Sun Gauntlet lit up, and flames suddenly appeared on the spear, tightly wrapping around it.

Quan Yi stepped forward with his left foot and used the strength of his arms to throw the flaming spear hard towards the face of the explosive rhino.

Explosive Rhino was frightened by the sudden attack and quickly closed his eyes, but his sprinting speed did not slow down.

This is because it has absolute confidence in its hard skin. Indeed, the skin of the Explosive Rhino is very hard and has excellent resistance to fire. It is impossible for Quan Yi's power alone to cause damage to it.

But Quan Yi's purpose was not this. He saw the spear flying quickly towards the face of the explosive rhino. At the moment the spear touched, there was a sudden explosion, and high-temperature heat waves and explosive roars burst out from the spear.

Explosive Rhino was completely confused by this move. For a moment, his hearing and sense of smell failed, and Explosive Rhino could not confirm Quan Yi's location.

Quan Yi did not continue to move forward, but at the moment of throwing the spear, he quickly moved to the left.

This time, Quan Yi stepped forward with his right foot, raised his left hand, and observed Explosive Rhino carefully. At the moment when Explosive Rhino wanted to open his eyes, he used the same trick again and threw the shield in his left hand over.

The round flame shield spun at high speed in the air, like a frisbee, and flew towards the explosive rhino's eyes.

Although the skin of the explosive rhino is very hard, its eyes are still very fragile. Therefore, when the spear flies over, in order to protect its eyes, the explosive rhino can only close its eyes.

But he didn't expect that as soon as he opened his eyes, the flaming flying disc actually flew straight towards his eyes. The Explosive Rhino was terrified and quickly closed his eyes. This time, his steps stopped completely.

Because the distance was very close, Quan Yi's shield hit Explosive Rhino's eye socket hard, and the explosion caused unbearable pain in Explosive Rhino's right eye.

The pain completely aroused the rage of the Exploding Rhino. He opened his eyes desperately, wanting to completely tear apart the human who teased him.

But the moment it opened its eyes, its right eye saw a blurry figure standing in front of it.

This was Quan Yi who had been waiting for a long time. He clenched his right fist, and the soul power at the tip of his fist had condensed into a point. His entire right arm seemed to have become a sharp spear, which was raised high and quickly pierced into the right eye socket of Explosive Rhino the moment he opened his eyes again.

This time, Explosive Rhino was completely unable to react.

Quan Yi's entire forearm directly penetrated into the explosive rhino's head. Quan Yi immediately injected all his soul power into the explosive rhino's brain, causing it to explode directly.

Just like that, Explosive Rhino was killed by Quan Yi in a lightning speed.

The last image in Explosive Rhino’s mind was that blurry figure, and then he fell into complete darkness.

Because Quan Yi's move was fast, fierce and accurate, it went straight to the head of the Explosive Rhino. The Explosive Rhino didn't even feel any pain before he died.

The huge body of the Exploding Rhino fell heavily to the ground. Quan Yi looked at the yellow halo slowly emerging from the Exploding Rhino's body. Only then did he feel completely relieved and pulled out the arm that was inserted into his eye socket.

The whole process was very fast and looked very easy, but it was extremely thrilling.

Exploding Rhino has almost no weaknesses on its body. The only weaknesses that Quan Yi can exploit are its poor eyesight and inflexible movements.

Because of its poor eyesight, it can only rely on smell and hearing to detect the enemy's position most of the time. Therefore, the purpose of the Flame Spear is not the eyes, but to blind its sense of smell and hearing through high temperature heat waves and explosions, so that it can only rely on vision to find the enemy.

At this time, throw the shield out and use the same trick again. If it hits the eyeball directly, Quan Yi can completely detonate the fire and directly burn the brain of the explosive rhino.

However, he did not grasp the timing well and was noticed by Explosive Rhino at the last moment.

But it doesn’t matter, all this is still within Quan Yi’s expectations.

Although this second attack did not kill Explosive Rhino, it had already thrown it into a state of confusion. And at this moment, it was already very close to Quan Yi.

With all the weapons in his hands used up, Quan Yi was in a very passive situation at the moment. Bao Xi also realized this. Therefore, the angry Bao Xi was eager to find Quan Yi's location and kill him.

But what it didn't expect was that the unarmed Quan Yi dared to approach it.

Its rhino horn is a symbol of deterrence.

It was always the case that the Explosive Rhino approached the enemy, but the enemy never approached the Explosive Rhino. The long-standing self-confidence completely ruined the Explosive Rhino.

What it didn't know was that Quan Yi had a rare fire-immune attribute, which gave him the confidence to get close to Explosive Rhino.

Looking back now, the whole process was extremely dangerous. If there had been a mistake, Quan Yi might have been knocked away by the powerful force of the Explosive Rhino.

But Quan Yi had only one thought in his mind at that time, which was to become stronger.

To achieve this goal, Quan Yi must overcome his hesitation and fear. He forces himself to face the explosive rhino and try to inspire the courage in his heart.

Under the pressure of death, Quan Yi broke through his inner limits and calmly defeated his opponent.

Quan Yi looked at the fallen Exploding Rhino quietly, with complicated emotions in his heart.

Quan Yi touched Bao Xi's cheek with his hand and felt the body temperature that had not yet dissipated.

Quan Yi understood that this was the only way to become stronger, but at this moment he truly felt the weight of life.

If he wants to become a soul master, Quan Yi can only carry this burden and move forward.

Quan Yi closed Bao Xi's eyes with a heavy heart. Quan Yi did not choose to forget the feelings at the moment, but chose to keep them firmly in his mind.

In this world, becoming stronger is a process of constantly carrying life on your shoulders.

Behind Quan Yi, Quan Yue and Su Ling'er appeared. They looked at Quan Yi's somewhat solemn back, and they both unconsciously became quiet.

Quan Yi felt the movement behind him.

"Father, Mother, please help me protect the Dharma. I am about to start absorbing spirit rings."

"Okay. Don't worry."

After saying that, Quan Yi sat cross-legged, first recovering his soul power, and then calming his complicated heart.

This place is not far from the volcano. For Quan Yi, it is a simulated training environment, and the recovery speed of soul power is very fast. A quarter of an hour later, Quan Yi opened his eyes.

He summoned the Blazing Sun Gauntlet and brought his hands close to the spirit ring. The spirit ring felt the attraction of the martial spirit and immediately shrank, firmly fitting on the Blazing Sun Gauntlet.

Quan Yi immediately felt an astonishing heat flow from his hands into his body and rampage through it.

The huge soul power instantly filled Quan Yi's body, and Quan Yi felt a sense of swelling and pain.

But fortunately, Quan Yi's physical fitness is amazing. He locks the soul power in his body. Quan Yi focuses all his attention on the influx of soul power and competes with it.

With amazing willpower, Quan Yi got through the most difficult moment, and the soul power in his body began to calm down. After two hours, Quan Yi slowly opened his eyes.

Chapter 13: First Soul Skill