Seeing Xu Yang staring at the three strangers, Dugu Yan was a little curious, "Xu Yang, is there anything special about these three?! Apart from the hook-nosed middle-aged man at the head, whom I can't see through, the remaining two little brats have only just stepped into the threshold of Soul Masters!"
"It's nothing, just reminded me of some things!"
Xu Yang shook his head. He suddenly remembered that Shrek Academy was in Soto City.
He had a little bit of interest in the school that the original protagonists attended, and he was wondering if he should go take a look. Although Tang San and Grandmaster's character and values weren't great, he had transmigrated after all, and he was still very curious about some things in the original plot.
"Oh!"
Seeing that Xu Yang didn't answer, Dugu Yan didn't ask any further questions.
She had complex feelings for Xu Yang. She was sure that she definitely loved Xu Yang, but at the same time, she didn't want to share Xu Yang with others, so the two had always maintained an ambiguous relationship.
But after Xu Yang risked his life to save her before, her heart softened a little.
After all, it was not uncommon to have multiple wives and concubines in this world.
Xu Yang was not clear about Dugu Yan's thoughts. After a brief thought, he felt that he still... wouldn't go.
After all, Shrek Academy was just a broken village, and there was really nothing to see. With this time, he might as well go back and manufacture some Soul Tool parts!
After dinner, Xu Yang and Dugu Yan returned to the hotel.
Ning Haiyan and Dugu Bo's injuries still needed some time to recover. He wanted to take advantage of this time to hurry up and manufacture some more bullets for backup, as the last consumption was really not small.
Another two weeks passed, and Xu Yang's injuries completely recovered. Ning Haiyan and Dugu Bo also recovered to seventy-eighty percent, which wouldn't affect their strength. The group set off again on the journey to the Star Dou Great Forest, but this time there was an additional Super Douluo, Gu Rong.
During this month, Xu Yang and the others were not completely healing, but spent money to hire a Soul Hunting Team from Soto City to help find the location of the Three-Tailed Fire Crow group. After a month of searching, they finally found its traces.
With a clear goal, they no longer needed to search in the forest and could go straight to the source.
In just less than two days, they saw the Fire Crow group in a forest near the core area of the inner circle. This forest was completely different from other areas of the Star Dou Great Forest. The trees here were covered with fiery red maple leaves, like flames.
The Fire Crows built their nests and played on these red maple trees.
Outside the Maple Forest, on a large tree, Xu Yang and the others carefully observed the entire Three-Tailed Fire Crow group, searching for the location of the Three-Tailed Fire Crow King.
"Golden Light?!"
A golden light flashed in his eyes, and Xu Yang had doubts in his heart, thinking that he had seen it wrong, because the entire forest was a fiery red, and it was impossible for gold to appear.
But soon he realized that he was not mistaken. With his Spiritual Power cultivation, it was impossible for him to have an illusion.
Putting on the Monocle he usually used for carving Soul Tools, and relying on the Monocle's ability to magnify his vision, Xu Yang finally made a discovery. On a large tree in the central area of this forest, there was a golden Fire Crow that was different from other Three-Tailed Fire Crows.
This Fire Crow was three meters long, with three tails that were also more than three meters long, indicating that its cultivation had reached thirty thousand years.
"Bone Grandfather, look at the golden Fire Crow a thousand meters away to the left, is it a mutated species?!" Xu Yang excitedly pointed in the direction of the Fire Crow and said to Gu Rong.
Compared to the Fire Crow King, this mutated Three-Tailed Fire Crow was obviously more suitable for him, because in the Soul Beast world, mutation often represented strength, a manifestation of bloodline reversion. The Golden Crow Bloodline in this Three-Tailed Fire Crow was obviously more concentrated, so it appeared golden.
Following Xu Yang's gaze, Gu Rong quickly discovered the hidden golden Three-Tailed Fire Crow, but his brows furrowed, "Yang Er, you should still choose the Three-Tailed Fire Crow King not far away. Forget about this mutated Fire Crow. The Spiritual shock it brings far exceeds that of a thirty-thousand-year Soul Beast. Your Spiritual Power can't withstand it."
Mutation often represented strength. Through the judgment of Soul Power and Spiritual Power intensity, Gu Rong could feel that the strength of this Three-Tailed Fire Crow was comparable to a forty-thousand-year Soul Beast, which had far exceeded the limit that Xu Yang could absorb.
Now Xu Yang's physical endurance was sufficient, but his Spiritual Power was obviously not enough, and he could not take risks.
As a Titled Douluo, his experience in absorbing Soul Rings was far from what ordinary Soul Masters could compare to. After a Soul Master could absorb ten-thousand-year Soul Rings, each time they absorbed a limit Soul Ring, they were actually walking between life and death, precisely because their Spiritual strength was not enough.
Therefore, most Soul Masters choose to approach the limit rather than reach it.
This is also why he chose a 90,000-year Soul Beast for his ninth Soul Ring instead of a 100,000-year one. It wasn't that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School couldn't find a 100,000-year Soul Beast, but that he wasn't confident he could withstand the mental shock of a 100,000-year Soul Beast. The same went for Sword Douluo Chen Xin.
Because the mental shock brought by a 100,000-year Soul Beast is extremely terrifying. Without sufficient Spiritual Power, a quasi-Titled Douluo who tries to absorb it would basically explode and die.
It is because of so many predecessors' experiences that most Soul Masters on the Douluo Continent today have 90,000-year Soul Beasts for their ninth Soul Ring, and very few Titled Douluo possess 100,000-year ones.
"Spiritual Power?!"
Xu Yang instantly thought of the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew he had stored in his Wishful Treasure Sack.
Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, when consumed, can train the Fiery Eyes of Truth, allowing one to see through all kinds of strange objects. But it also has another effect, which is to greatly enhance Spiritual Power. In the original story, after Tang San used the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, his Purple Demon Eyes improved to the Microcosm Realm, and his Spiritual Power reached the Soul Douluo realm. This was later confirmed by Tang Hao.
And now, he asked himself if his foundation of Spiritual Power was no less than Tang San's at the time. Even without pupil skills, even if he couldn't perfectly absorb the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, reaching the Soul Saint realm in Spiritual Power would not be a problem.
Moreover, he didn't want to miss this Three-Tailed Fire Crow. The moment he saw this Fire Crow, he had a feeling that this Fire Crow could definitely improve his cultivation speed more than other Fire Crows, and could slow down the debuff on his cultivation speed from Soul Elder to Soul Saint.
The most important reason he chose the Three-Tailed Fire Crow was that this kind of Soul Beast cultivates by absorbing Sun Power, and it is very efficient.
After his cultivation speed became slower and slower as a Soul Elder, Xu Yang had thought about alleviating this debuff. Among them, he felt that the most effective way was to increase his cultivation speed again. With one decrease and one increase, his cultivation speed would definitely be no different from other geniuses.
In this way, he couldn't imagine what level his cultivation speed would reach after his debuff ended.
It should be known that the true power of an ultimate Soul Master far exceeds the advantage of ordinary Soul Masters above the Soul Saint realm. The cultivation speed is more than one level faster than that of ordinary Soul Masters, and they can even achieve the improvement speed before the Soul Elder realm.
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