svetikya Chapter 9: All Soul Rings Acquired
Chapter 9: All Soul Rings Acquired
After parting ways with them, Xiao Chen began to test the second soul skill of his wooden bow martial soul.
Xiao Chen could clearly feel that his eyes had undergone a subtle transformation.
This second spirit ring greatly enhanced his field of vision and ability to capture movement, significantly extending the range of his vision, allowing him to see even the slightest movements in the distance.
It also carries a faint spiritual deterrent, which can briefly disturb the minds of low-level soul beasts and soul masters.
Especially in this dense forest, his vision became increasingly clear, and he even had a faint intuition of danger.
This second spirit ring not only granted Xiao Chen an active spirit skill—Mental Shock—but also added several passive skills.
Expanded field of vision, dynamic capture, danger warning, and enhanced visibility in nighttime environments—these effects are always active without requiring the activation of soul skills.
Xiao Chen's current field of vision extends to a maximum of 800 meters. If it weren't for the dense forest obstructing his view, his field of vision under the cover of night would definitely exceed 1,000 meters.
Xiao Chen could clearly capture the movement trajectory of a target moving within 500 meters.
The warning range is also about 150 meters.
"System, I love you to death!" Xiao Chen hugged the system spirit tightly.
Before this, Xiao Chen still harbored reservations about the ten-year soul ring, but now, all that remained in his heart was an overwhelming joy.
The improvement that this second spirit ring brought to Xiao Chen was so comprehensive that its effect far surpassed that of a thousand-year or even ten-thousand-year spirit ring.
"Host, please have some self-respect!" The system spirit hurriedly broke free from Xiao Chen's grasp.
It darted back half a step, then pulled out a small, fragrant spray from somewhere and sprayed itself vigorously.
Xiao Chen smiled, patted it lightly on the head twice, and then began searching for a suitable soul beast for his second martial soul.
With the addition of his second spirit ring, Xiao Chen no longer needed to proceed with the same caution and groping steps as before.
With his extraordinary vision, he found a compatible soul beast in just a few minutes.
System scan results: Swift Shadow Weasel, age nine and a half, speed type, very suitable.
After locating the position of the Swift Shadow Itachi, Xiao Chen quietly made his way there.
His vision now extends far, but the range of his arrows is limited; using only his first soul skill, he can only shoot up to about 100 meters.
Of course, if the second martial soul is activated and a fusion skill is used, the range can at least double.
However, there is no need to waste soul power in the Star Dou Great Forest. Soul beasts less than ten years old can be easily shot down with ordinary arrows.
The Swift Shadow Itachi reacted quite quickly; when Xiao Chen reached about fifty meters away and fired the first arrow, the Swift Shadow Itachi actually dodged it.
In the dense forest, archers indeed have a hard time, as there are too many things that can block arrows.
However, the Swift Shadow Weasel was only a soul beast less than ten years old. Once Xiao Chen got serious, it had nowhere to escape.
While Xiao Chen was absorbing the soul ring, the system also recycled Swift Shadow Itachi's soul into the system space.
With no one around, Xiao Chen completed attaching the soul ring in an instant.
The spirit ring of the Swift Shadow Weasel provided Xiao Chen with a spirit skill—'Shadow Step Swift Movement'.
Xiao Chen immediately turned it on and tried it out.
As soon as it was activated, an indescribable sense of lightness instantly flowed through his body, and Xiao Chen immediately rushed forward, his figure leaving a blurry afterimage in the spot.
In the blink of an eye, Xiao Chen's figure had already moved several feet away.
"So fast!" Xiao Chen exclaimed inwardly. The speed that burst forth just now had caught him off guard.
He immediately adjusted his breathing and calmed his mind. After getting into a good state, he activated Shadow Step again and rushed out.
Xiao Chen transformed into a pale blue afterimage, swiftly traversing the dense forest.
With Shadow Step fully activated, Xiao Chen's feet barely touched the ground as he swept past the branches and leaves of the trees, his clothes rustling softly, leaving only a few fallen leaves in his wake.
Xiao Chen ran at full speed for a minute before stopping.
In just one minute of rapid movement, he had already grasped the basic rhythm of "Shadow Step".
The system stated that the speed Xiao Chen had just unleashed was comparable to that of a level 40 speed-type Soul Master!
Even better, the Soul Skill effect of "Shadow Step" can also be applied to arrows.
This increased the speed of Xiao Chen's arrows by more than three or four times, and also significantly improved their range and attack power.
While Xiao Chen was testing his soul skills, Chu Ruolan and her group unexpectedly encountered a 500-year-old ghost vine.
The vine-type spirit beasts were a perfect match for Su Ting's martial spirit, "Entangling Silk Grass," and the age was also very suitable, so they stopped to hunt this ghost vine.
With Chu Ruolan around, hunting a five-hundred-year-old soul beast would naturally be no problem.
In other words, it will take Su Qing some time to absorb the soul ring.
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At the same time, Xiao Chen had already found a second suitable soul beast—an eight-year-old spiky porcupine.
With a shudder, this little thing can shoot out a dense barrage of needles, much like a "rain of pear blossom needles".
Xiao Chen took it away with a single arrow, and a white spirit ring slowly rose up, which was instantly absorbed by Xiao Chen.
This time, Xiao Chen gained another passive skill—Piercing Injury!
The penetrating power of the arrows he fired had at least doubled, and their range, speed, and attack power had also been enhanced.
They also gained an active skill – Thorn Rain.
This soul skill is an area-of-effect attack. It requires charging to activate, and the longer the charging time, the larger the area covered by the rain of needles.
Xiao Chen immediately drew his bow and nocked an arrow, attempting to activate the soul skill.
He concentrated his energy for about twenty breaths, and then shot an arrow.
The arrow suddenly disintegrated fifty meters ahead, transforming into a dense shower of sharp bone spikes that rained down on an area of ten meters in radius.
The rain of needles poured down, piercing deep into the trees.
The tree trunks were instantly pierced by the needle-like rain, the branches and leaves were torn to shreds and scattered, and the once upright trees made a series of cracking sounds as they could not bear the weight, and then collapsed in large numbers.
Dust and wood chips mixed with remaining bone spurs were scattered all over the ground, turning the once intact woodland into a mess in an instant.
"This destructive power...is beyond my expectations!" Xiao Chen couldn't help but exclaim.
Now that he had acquired all the spirit rings, Xiao Chen no longer needed to stay in the Star Dou Great Forest.
However, just as he was about to leave, he heard a roar coming from the depths of the dense forest. The direction from which the sound came was the same as where Chu Ruolan and the others were.
After a moment's thought, Xiao Chen activated 'Shadow Step' and rushed over there.
On the other side, Chu Ruolan and the others also heard the roar, but Su Qing was still absorbing the soul ring, so they couldn't leave.
"Ma Yan, you two stay here and watch over Su Qing. I'm going to check out what's going on up ahead!" Chu Ruolan instructed, then groped her way towards the direction from which the voice came.
Soon, Chu Ruolan saw the source of the roar.
"Damn it, it's a Thunder-Patterned Leopard!" Chu Ruolan's expression changed drastically.
Based on the size of the Thunder-Patterned Leopard and the soul power emanating from its body, she could instantly determine that this Thunder-Patterned Leopard was at least 3,500 years old.