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Attracting Spirit Beasts
🕑 Added 2025-04-17 00:24:26 +0000 UTC--- Chapter 63 ---
Mangrove Forest.
Han Yuan and others have been searching for an hour.
Although they didn't find any targeted spirit beasts like the Moon Fish and plant-type ones for Ye Lingling, they didn't waste it and tested Dugu Yan's newly evolved martial soul.
After discussing for a while, they decided to name Dugu Yan's new martial soul Jade-Scaled Flood Dragon!
The Jade-Scaled Flood Dragon possessed two states, Sea Dragon Form and Evil Dragon Form.
In Sea Dragon Form, Dugu Yan was a support-system spirit master with extreme buffing skills, rivaling the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile in some ways.
Meanwhile, in Evil Dragon Form, Dugu Yan was a pure attack system spirit master with extreme burst skills, putting the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon to shame.
The combination of water and poison is dangerously corrosive. Dugu Yan could melt through a 10,000-year-old spirit beast that majored in defense as if it were thin paper.
So, strictly speaking, even Spirit Kings might not hold a candle against the current Dugu Yan.
On top of that, the physical change the Jade-Scaled Flood Dragon brings to Dugu Yan is massive. As her cultivation progresses, her physical power will become better and better.
Han Yuan sensed the Blue Silver Grass's network and was amazed at how tenacious this plant was. "I found it!"
"Oh, what did you find?" Liu Erlong comes to Han Yuan's side.
Han Yuan smiled, "I discovered the plant-type spirit beast suitable for Sister Lingling."
"Follow me."
They followed Han Yuan to a dense part of the mangrove forest and saw an estuary. Weirdly enough, this estuary is very still despite the strong sea waves not far away.
As they looked closer, they witnessed a tall palm tree swaying its massive leaves and creating airwaves.
"What kind of plant spirit beast?" Even Dugu Bo, who has traveled around the Douluo Continent for years, couldn't recognize this palm tree.
"Xiao Yuan, give us an answer!" Liu Erlong snapped his finger.
Han Yuan's mouth twitched at how bossy this woman was, "You're lucky I knew about this palm tree."
"The tree is called Wind-Blowing Fan Tree, a rare plant-type spirit beast that thrives on estuaries. This one is nearing 9,000 years, which you can count by the amount of leaves it has. Each leaf signifies 100 years of cultivation."
"However, what makes the Wind-Blowing Fan Tree rare is its ability to control the weather and make Seawind."
Han Yuan glanced at Ye Lingling and assured her, "Even though the Nine Heart Begonia couldn't obtain another spirit skill other than support, the Wind-Blowing Fan Tree will provide Sister Lingling with positive origins and allow her martial soul to evolve eventually."
Ye Lingling wasn't disappointed she couldn't get offensive spirit skills as she knew her role well. Not to mention, the ability Han Yuan shared with her was more than enough to protect herself.
She has learned Chidori but is far from mastering it.
Of course, once Ye Lingling fully absorbed the Immortal Pill's property and broke the limitation of Nine Heart Begonia, a new path would be opened for her.
After killing the Wind-Blowing Fan Tree and cleansing its spirit ring, Ye Lingling sat down and meditated to absorb it.
Not long after, Ye Lingling successfully broke through and reached level 36, not far from level 37.
"Hmm?" Ye Lingling opened her eyes in confusion.
"What happened, Lingling?" Ye Xuelan asked her daughter.
Ye Lingling blinked, "It seemed my Nine Heart Begonia showed a sign of changing. My third spirit skill is no longer pure healing but also has a purification effect."
"I can purify poison, burning, freezing effect, etc now."
"Well, Sister Lingling is finally beginning to digest the essence of Beautiful Silk Tulip and Eight Petal Immortal Orchid." Han Yuan nodded. "You're one step closer to evolving Nine Heart Begonia into a super martial soul."
"Now, we only need to look for my sister's spirit ring."
"Moon Fish is much harder to find than I expected."
Han Yue sighed helplessly, "You're right, Xiao Yuan, but Sister planned to absorb Moon Fish around 15,000 years old, making this even harder for us."
Han Yue's third spirit ring comes from a yin-attributed spirit beast called the Moon-Swallowing Tiger. And that spirit beast is 11,000 years old.
Technically speaking, Han Yue could target a Moon Fish older than 15,000 years old, which left Han Yuan confused.
Han Yuan smiled faintly at Han Yuan, "I know what you're thinking, but after Glorious Moon evolved into Glorious Holy Moon, the requirement of my spirit ring became stricter for spirit beasts with strong bloodlines instead of older ages."
"Ordinary spirit beasts won't cut it anymore."
"Damn, we are going to stay in this mangrove forest for a week at this point." Liu Erlon furrowed her brows.
"Hunting for a spirit ring is never a fast process." Dugu Bo shrugged his shoulders. "The longest I've ever been to hunt a spirit ring is around four months."
"Four months???" Everyone was speechless.
"It's just bad luck." Dugu Bo waved his hand casually and tried to make it sound better.
No, anyone would get out of the hunting ground at that point!
You're just stubborn!
Dugu Xin recalled his gruesome experience hunting spirit rings with his dad and couldn't help but shiver. Yeah, he doesn't want to stay in Star Dou Forest for any longer than three days.
Ye Xuelan stared at Han Yuan and asked, "Xiao Yuan, if I'm not wrong, there is an Immortal Herb that can attract spirit beasts, right?"
"Well, you're talking about Aromatic Silk Beauty. An Immortal Herb that can neutralize poisons with its scents but can't detoxify them." Han Yuan nodded in acknowledgment. "However, the scent of this Immortal Herb is also attractive to spirit beasts."
"If I pulled it out right now, any spirit beast within one to two miles would enter a frenzied state and charge madly at us."
Dugu Bo's eyes lit up as he stated, "Young Master, I can set up a poison miasma barrier around us to filter spirit beasts below 10,000 years old. By then, only those spirit beasts above 10,000 years old can enter this area, and hunting suitable ones for Young Lady should be easy."
"What about those spirit beasts under 10,000 years?" Ye Xuelan asked Dugu Bo. "They won't die, right?"
Although Ye Xuelan was the one who proposed the idea of using Aromatic Silk Beauty first, she didn't want to see a meaningless slaughter of spirit beasts, mainly because it would burden Han Yuan to cleanse those spirit rings.
Dugu Bo chuckled, "I'm currently the second-best poison master and can create paralyzing poison without a problem. There might be some spirit beasts that would catch stray attacks, but my poison won't kill them."
"Let's do it then." Liu Erlong excitedly said.
Everyone stared at Liu Erlong blankly, believing she should be careful with her explosive attack.
Liu Erlong pouted, 'I can hold back, you know?'
"Okay, let's use Aromatic Silk Beauty." Han Yuan nodded. "Sister Yanyan and Sister Lingling, you two stay behind me and focus on assisting the seniors."
Han Yuan slowly gazed at Han Yue, "Sister, expand your spiritual power and identify the spirit beast you want quickly."
"The longer I kept the Aromatic Silk Beauty out, the more spirit beasts would come. At some point, we will get small-scale spirit beast tide coming at us."
"I understand." Han Yue replied solemnly.
Han Yuan tinkered with his spatial storage and pulled out a blue jade box, revealing a large pale pink flower with no leaves. The stem is three feet long, the flower is massive, and the diameter is full. Each petal looks crystal-like and crystal clear. The stamen is lavender, just like purple diamonds inlaid there.
When the beautiful flower appeared, a pleasant scent slowly entered everyone's nostrils and spread to the surrounding area.
Dugu Bo hurriedly made a poison miasma barrier and modified the poison so it was strong enough to hold spirit beasts below 10,000 years but weak for spirit beasts above 10,000 years to pass through.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
RUMBLE!
The sound of heavy, hurried footsteps approached them.
The mangrove forest is rumbling!
(A/N: Got it? Rumbling? Hehe~!)
"Damn, the flower is more effective than I thought!" Dugu Xin's brown eyes widened in disbelief as he saw a wave of 10,000-year-old spirit beasts coming.
Han Yuan summoned the Purple Silver Grass, "Prepare for combat..."
