With Dugu Bo's help, Ye Yu defeated the Undying Grass Soul Beast whose cultivation had reached 5,000 years.
As the deep purple thousand-year spirit ring condensed and took shape,
Ye Yu immediately sat cross-legged, summoned the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine Martial Soul, closed his eyes, and began cultivating the Core Formation Technique (Neidan Method).
Under the effect of the Core Formation Technique,
Ye Yu felt as if heaven and man were united, his spirit merging with the surrounding microcosm, refining itself through constant resonance.
His soul power circulated rapidly, and his qi and blood were transported and strengthened continuously.
Meanwhile, as the soul power circulated,
The Undying Grass's spirit ring was instantly drawn toward Ye Yu, shrinking rapidly until it wrapped around his body.
In an instant, a mighty surge of soul power flooded into Ye Yu's body.
Although compared to beast-type spirit beasts,
Especially vicious and violent ones like the Human-faced Demon Spider,
The Undying Grass, as a plant spirit beast, emitted much gentler soul power from its spirit ring.
However, the soul power released by a 5,000-year-old spirit ring was still overwhelmingly massive, causing Ye Yu's body and meridians to throb painfully, his face showing clear signs of suffering.
"Xiao Yu!"
Beside him, Dugu Bo looked anxious and worried but was unsure how to help.
Still, Ye Yu only showed pain on his face.
Although his body and meridians ached under the torrent-like soul power released by the Undying Grass's spirit ring,
It was all within his tolerance.
After all, Ye Yu had already undergone the Ice-Fire Body Refinement with Octagonal Profound Ice Grass and Fierce Fire Apricot Blossom,
And when he fused with the Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone,
The life force enhancement from the Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone further strengthened his body.
Moreover, Ye Yu had taken whale resin to reinforce his body for over a year,
And for more than seven years, he had diligently cultivated the Core Formation Technique daily, continuously strengthening his qi and blood transport.
Although absorbing the Undying Grass's spirit ring was no easy task,
After the absorption,
Ye Yu felt his physical constitution had been significantly enhanced once again!
"Xiao Yu, you did it!"
Seeing Ye Yu successfully absorb the 5,000-year cultivation Undying Grass spirit ring,
Dugu Bo couldn't help but laugh out loud in excitement and joy.
"The first spirit ring of five thousand years!"
"With such a start, even those legendary Heavenly Soul Power level 20 Six-winged Angel families from the Spirit Hall probably can't do this!"
"My little Yu's future is boundless!"
If Dugu Bo had previously only acknowledged Ye Yu,
Now he was extremely satisfied with him.
He even felt lucky he hadn't dealt a fatal blow to Ye Yu back then,
Instead choosing to give him a chance to grow to his current level.
Yan Yan's judgment was really good!
She had indeed chosen a potential rising star—a son-in-law worthy of the Golden Tortoise family!
Dugu Bo felt very proud.
"Xiao Yu, quickly check your first soul skill!"
After the excitement and joy,
Dugu Bo immediately wanted to see what first soul skill Ye Yu's Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine had gained after absorbing the Undying Grass's spirit ring.
"Okay, Grandfather."
Ye Yu stood up with some anticipation in his heart.
He stretched out his hand and summoned the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine Martial Soul again.
In an instant, after a flash of blue-silver light,
A Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine Martial Soul appeared, its entire body translucent like blue crystal, with slender leaves and vines filled with golden threads, intertwined with crimson and ice-blue patterns.
After absorbing the Undying Grass's spirit ring,
Since the Undying Grass had no stalk, only leaves and a developed root system,
The thickness of the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine hadn't changed much, and the slender leaves had only become thicker.
However, its roots had grown numerous developed rootlets.
"Roots have grown?"
Ye Yu was undoubtedly pleased with the changes to his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine.
Because sprouting roots meant the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine's vitality had become even more tenacious.
This change was exactly what he wanted to see from his plant-type spirit beast's spirit ring with added Life attribute.
Right after, in front of Dugu Bo,
Ye Yu activated his first soul skill.
Upon activation,
The developed rootlets of the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine began to grow wildly, deeply rooting into the ground, constantly branching and spreading.
They started to absorb the nutrients from the earth madly, converting them into soul power and life force.
After rooting,
The Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine Martial Soul began to grow wildly.
However, Ye Yu sensed that his own soul power consumption was minimal.
After testing,
Ye Yu finally understood the effect of the first soul skill.
He named this first soul skill: Undying Rooting!
When activated,
The Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine will deeply root its rootlets into the earth, absorbing nutrients to convert into soul power and life force, reducing soul power consumption by the soul master, and then begin to grow wildly.
It gains the Undying Grass's ability to be undying with rapid regeneration.
Even if torn to pieces, fragments can quickly regrow into new Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vines with roots that continue to take hold in the ground.
It won't consume too much of Ye Yu's soul power.
"This soul skill is way too broken!"
After experiencing the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine's first soul skill: Undying Rooting,
The wildly growing Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine's continuous entangling attacks
Made it impossible for Dugu Bo to escape with just soul power and physical strength.
He was tangled up badly,
Finally forced to use soul skills to break free.
This made the old veteran grumble.
This wildly growing Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine's physical attacks were basically ineffective.
Probably only energy attacks like Ice and Fire could deal with it thoroughly.
Even a legendary Title Douluo like him had some trouble.
What a broken soul skill!
After fully absorbing the first spirit ring,
Ye Yu tested his soul power again.
Sure enough, his cultivation level had directly reached level 20!
Ye Yu was not surprised.
At Notting Academy, when he first entered the fifth grade,
His cultivation level had broken through to level 10.
Although he hadn't chosen to hunt spirit rings to break through soul master levels,
He still trained hard.
Later, he fused the Blue Silver Emperor's 100,000-year right leg bone,
Consumed Mo Jade Divine Bamboo Shoot at Ice-Fire Two Extremes Eye,
And took Octagonal Profound Ice Grass and Fierce Fire Apricot Blossom for Ice-Fire Body Refinement.
Although the Ice-Fire Body Refinement mainly enhanced his body,
Granting near immunity to ice and fire energy,
It did not increase his cultivation level.
In the original story, Tang San took Octagonal Profound Ice Grass and Fierce Fire Apricot Blossom to refine his body but did not increase cultivation level either.
But even just one Mo Jade Divine Bamboo Shoot, a legendary herb, could allow a 33rd or 34th level Soul Master to break directly to level 40.
Not to mention Ye Yu was only level 10.
Thus, after absorbing the first spirit ring, his cultivation level jumping to level 20
Made Dugu Bo click his tongue in amazement but was not too surprised.
Afterward, he continued guiding Ye Yu to seek a suitable, powerful Life attribute plant spirit beast in the Star Dou Great Forest.
After absorbing the 5,000-year-old Undying Grass spirit ring and breaking through to level 20,
Ye Yu raised the cultivation requirement for the second spirit ring's target spirit beast to 7,000 years!
In the Star Dou Great Forest,
After nearly half a month of searching,
One night,
Dugu Bo and Ye Yu found a Star Light Tree with over 7,300 years of cultivation.
This was an extremely rare plant spirit beast, also with the Life attribute but combined with Star attribute,
Its vitality extremely tenacious and regeneration ability extremely powerful!