LRAB Chapter 3: Extremely Stringent Requirements for Soul Rings
Chapter 3: Extremely Stringent Requirements for Soul Rings
A week later, Wu Heyi rushed to the school gate like a rabbit. A week earlier, he had already successfully registered for enrollment with the rest of the group.
Under the witness of the academy dean, he successfully completed the second soul power test, and his soul power level was confirmed.
Because of his dual identity as an imperial orphan and possessing innate full soul power, the academy not only waived all his tuition and accommodation fees, but also assigned him to a four-person room, so he wouldn't have to squeeze into a ten-person mixed-gender dormitory with other villagers.
Correspondingly, Wu Heyi also signed a talent contract with the Empire, which means that no matter how powerful he becomes in the future, he must serve under the Heaven Dou Empire and cannot choose other forces.
Wu Heyi himself discovered that people with innate full soul power were not as rare as described in the original work, but rather quite numerous and could be considered geniuses.
However, the major imperial powers had already taken in nearly 99% of the children with innate full soul power during the selection process for martial soul awakening.
Only a small number of children whose martial souls have undergone malignant mutations, or those from remote areas that cannot be covered by the law, will be left behind in the countryside. Of course, there are also cases of soul beasts turning into humans, but their numbers are so small that they can be almost ignored.
During this week, Wu Heyi eagerly studied various basic local knowledge at the academy, while also undergoing initial refinement of his martial spirit.
He was fairly certain that the Martial Soul was indeed as he had thought, but there was a slight difference, which made Wu Heyi somewhat uncertain.
Currently, only the Five Elements attributes and the Tai Chi of Light and Shadow are showing any reaction from the Martial Soul, and the feedback from the Martial Soul indicates specific requirements for the Soul Rings. This alone is causing Wu Heyi a great headache.
First, there are the mysterious and unpredictable five elements. The feedback from the fire element can only be absorbed by the soul ring of a soul beast with a true dragon bloodline of the fire attribute.
The earth element must be the soul ring of a tiger king soul beast with earth attributes, and it must be at the level of a domain overlord.
As for the element of gold, it was even more outrageous than imagined. First, it had to be an ice and snow spirit beast; second, it had to have the attribute of gold and leather; and finally, the beast had to be a canine. Wu Heyi searched the academy's library for two days but could not find any trace of such a spirit beast, as if it did not exist.
However, the water and wood elements are relatively normal.
The requirement for the Wood element is an eagle capable of harnessing both Wind and Wood attributes, like a spirit of nature.
The requirement for the water element is a giant armored rhinoceros that can control the water element, just like the overlord of the water.
After a long period of searching, Wu Heyi finally gained some understanding of some of the soul beasts.
However, the requirements for Tai Chi Light and Shadow are extremely demanding. It requires top-tier soul beasts with the ultimate attributes of light (darkness), and soul rings with an age of less than 5 years cannot be absorbed. This is as difficult as finding the brightest star in the night sky.
The requirements for acquiring these spirit rings alone weighed heavily on Wu Heyi, leaving him overwhelmed and stressed. Not to mention how troublesome the spirit skills would be later, Wu Heyi didn't even dare to think about it.
Although the acquisition of the first spirit ring was imminent, the team of teachers who helped Wu Heyi acquire the spirit ring was relatively humane. They asked Wu Heyi to submit what kind of spirit beast he hoped his first spirit ring would come from, instead of arbitrarily assigning him one that was just the right age.
However, Wu Heyi was only given one day to think it over. Once he missed that time, he would have to force a match with a suitable soul beast whenever he came across one.
Immediately, Wu Heyi submitted the name of the soul beast in just half a day. It was an eagle, but because of its lightning-fast movement speed and its steel-like vitality, most people would not choose it.
"Emerald Feather Eagle"
However, precisely because this kind of soul beast is extremely difficult to hunt and has very few natural enemies, its population is quite large and it is not one of the soul beasts that is particularly hard to find.
To be fair, this soul beast's wingspan reached nearly ten meters during its juvenile stage of around three hundred years, making it even larger than a typical thousand-year-old soul beast—it was practically a behemoth.
When Wu Heyi arrived at the meeting point, he immediately spotted the girl who had been in the same car as him, along with two little boys he had never seen before.
The two of them were dressed so luxuriously, and both had delicate, fair skin; they were clearly children from wealthy families.
However, the two little boys were quite humble, seemingly well-mannered. The teachers leading the group this time included a Soul Master and two other Soul Venerables.
Normally, academies only send two Soul Masters to lead the team. Could it be that the kind of Soul Beast Wu Heyi wants is too difficult to capture, so they arranged for an additional three-ring Soul Master?
Or perhaps Wu Heyi was overthinking it. Maybe the two young masters had such powerful backgrounds that the academy sent an extra three-ring Soul Master.
But whatever the situation, it's a good thing for Wu Heyi!
Everyone had arrived, and the teacher didn't waste any time. He quickly arranged two carriages, and then we set off.
To meet the demand for spirit rings among its citizens, the Heaven Dou Empire built artificial spirit beast forests in every major city. The spirit beasts there reproduced naturally, and the most powerful ones were only a few insignificant ten-thousand-year-old spirit beasts.
These spirit beasts are prepared for those in the Heaven Dou Empire Academy and army who need spirit rings, but not just anyone can go in and capture spirit beasts; there is a pass required.
Only those who perform well and contribute to the empire can exchange contribution points for passes.
Therefore, this opportunity for Wu Heyi is truly rare!
The first stop for the teachers was to prioritize the two children with the simplest needs, one of whom was the girl.
Because the girl was still young and female, she lacked the strength to draw a bow, making it extremely difficult for her to use her martial spirit. Therefore, the school arranged for her to use the Mighty King Kong Ape.
It is estimated that, apart from the first soul skill, the girl's physique and strength will be significantly improved.
Therefore, she moves extremely fast during her soul beast and soul ring hunts.
Therefore, the absorption of the spirit ring was very fast, without any major problems, and it was successful in one go.
As expected, her first soul skill is a power amplification type. Her passive ability can amplify her power by three times, and by pulling her martial soul, she can gather an explosive arrow with five times the power attribute.
As she grows older, her basic strength will increase, and the power of her soul skills will continue to grow.
Most importantly, her soul skill actually has two forms, and the form will be randomly triggered as long as it hits the opponent.
The Dragon Soul form can suppress the strength of Soul Masters with no more than 20 Soul Power by 10%, and can be stacked up to 5 times, lasting for 10 seconds.
The Phoenix Cry form increases the user's attack speed by 5%, stacking up to 10 times and lasting for 10 seconds.
The two forms can be triggered simultaneously; her martial soul is simply monstrous.