Within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi was also bewildered upon seeing Lin Gong's report.
"Uncle Bone, didn't Yang Xiong absorb the Dark Tortoise's soul ring for his First Soul Ring? Didn't he want to follow the Way of Defense? Why does he want to absorb the Golden Spirit Cypress's soul ring now?"
Bone Douluo's face darkened slightly. "I originally thought this Yang Xiong was a smart person. Not only was the opportunity for his First Soul Ring excellent, but his usual training methods at home were also quite good. I thought he wanted to follow the Way of Defense. Why did he suddenly choose this Golden Spirit Cypress? You should know that this Golden Spirit Cypress has reached a lifespan of nine hundred and eighty years. Otherwise, how would it be his turn?"
"I even thought highly of him because I saw him diligently refining his body. I didn't expect him to be someone who doesn't know the immensity of heaven and earth."
Ning Fengzhi thought for a moment before speaking. "That's not right either. We high-level Soul Masters all know that absorbing a soul ring isn't just about the lifespan. It's even more important to consider whether the soul beast itself is powerful. For example, although this Golden Spirit Cypress hasn't reached a thousand years in lifespan, the difficulty of absorbing it definitely exceeds that of ordinary thousand-year soul beasts."
"This Yang Xiong has read so many books, he wouldn't even understand this principle, would he? Could it be that the improvement to the body from Whale Jelly has reached this level?"
Yang Xiong was considered one of the few people in Class 1 who received special attention, especially after discovering the secret of Whale Jelly and reporting it to the sect. That's why he could freely choose such an excellent soul beast.
Bone Douluo snorted. "This kid is cunning. Since entering the Library, not only has he studied my "The Way of Defense", but he's also practicing Distraction Control. I completely don't understand what this kid is planning. Originally, looking at his body refining situation, he was a good prospect for cultivating the Way of Defense. Now he's actually choosing a plant-type soul ring. It's truly too disappointing."
Ning Fengzhi was also a bit speechless upon hearing this. Bone Douluo's words clearly carried some resentment. After all, finding a good prospect who specializes in the Way of Defense is relatively rare, especially since following the path of defense is particularly painful.
"Uncle Bone, do you want to go and take a look? Maybe you can save his life at a critical moment. I quite like this Yang Xiong."
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After everyone truly entered the Soul Beast Forest, Yang Xiong felt that the surrounding environment had undergone a huge change. The entire forest was lush and green. Except for a small path, it was basically covered everywhere with Blue Silver Grass or other weeds.
Every tree was dozens of meters tall, and many of them were soul beasts. The entire Soul Beast Forest was filled with the aura of life.
After entering the Soul Beast Forest, Yang Xiong felt as if he had entered a paradise. This aura of life made him very happy.
Especially when a small soul beast would occasionally dart out. Although their lifespan wasn't high, it was enough to show the large number of soul beasts in the Soul Beast Forest.
One should know that this was just the Soul Beast Forest raised by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Its area was probably less than one-tenth of the Sunset Forest, let alone the terrifying Star Dou Great Forest.
With teachers and tokens, everyone walked through the Soul Beast Forest under the guidance of specialized Soul Beast Forest management personnel and soul hunting personnel.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's management of this Soul Beast Forest was relatively strict. It contained not only various soul beasts captured from outside but also some raised soul beasts, and even conducted some soul beast trading.
The management personnel had a thorough understanding of the types, numbers, and distribution of soul beasts in the entire Soul Beast Forest and could find the desired soul beast immediately.
The group walked for a full half an hour before finally arriving at the core area of the Soul Beast Forest.
In front of them was a huge cypress tree, nearly fifty meters tall, with a trunk reaching a full three meters in diameter. The entire cypress tree was golden, even its leaves were golden, and within a hundred meters radius around it, there were no other plants. This was the Golden Spirit Cypress.
Lin Gong also exclaimed in admiration as he looked at the Golden Spirit Cypress. "The Golden Spirit Cypress is known as the top-tier plant-type soul beast in the soul beast world. Its vitality is extremely tenacious. The entire trunk is as hard as refined iron, and even the leaves are extremely tough. All the nutrients in the soil within a hundred meters around it have been absorbed by it, so it can be said that not a blade of grass grows. Especially when it encounters an enemy attack, its branches and leaves will shoot out like sharp swords, and some branches and leaves can even entangle the enemy. Its Strength is extremely powerful, and even a thousand-year soul beast would find it difficult to resist."
"Especially its terrifying survival ability. Even if it is cut in half, it can quickly grow back. Its roots are distributed dozens of meters underground, making it difficult to kill it normally."
Yang Xiong looked at the Golden Spirit Cypress in front of him with extreme fervor. This was a rare power-type plant-type soul beast that he had found after searching through many books.
Plant-type soul beasts are relatively much harder to kill than animal-type soul beasts, especially since the final blow still needs to be completed by Yang Xiong himself, making the difficulty even higher.
Whether it was the soul hunting team, his father Yang Lin, or even Lin Gong, they all attacked this Golden Spirit Cypress together. Everyone was powerful and attacked from different angles.
Among them, Yang Lin wielded an Iron Sword, and six soul rings appeared on his body. After consuming Whale Jelly and years of hard training, Yang Lin had already broken through to the Soul Emperor realm, and his soul power was now level sixty-two.
And Lin Gong summoned countless purple Bamboo, quickly wrapping around the Golden Spirit Cypress, making all of its branches unable to move.
In just a few minutes, all the branches of the Golden Spirit Cypress were cut off, and even the entire trunk was cut off by a large section by Yang Lin. However, the vitality of this Golden Spirit Cypress did not decrease much. In fact, the entire trunk emitted an extremely strong Strength, and the ground even began to dry up, clearly wanting to quickly absorb the energy it could use to recover its body.
Yang Xiong couldn't care about that anymore. He directly took an Iron Sword and slashed at it with all his might, but the Iron Sword hitting the trunk actually made the sound of metal clashing. Even when it pierced into the trunk, only some golden liquid flowed out.
Yang Xiong gritted his teeth, activating his Body Martial Soul and a yellow soul ring appeared, pushing his strength to the limit.
As expected, under this one sword strike, a large section of the Golden Spirit Cypress's trunk was directly severed, but it showed no signs of dying.
Lin Gong on the side shouted, "We can't kill this Golden Spirit Cypress like this, Yang Xiong! We have to push it to the brink!"
Lin Gong's soul ring flashed, and countless purple bamboo shoots immediately emerged from the ground. The entire ground cracked open, and the massive Golden Spirit Cypress was actually propped up out of the earth by the purple bamboo.
The Golden Spirit Cypress's golden roots, over ten meters long, looked exceptionally terrifying, like giant tentacles, even capable of swaying in the air.
Yang Xiong retracted his long sword, and his hand transformed into an extremely large axe. Without hesitation, he directly chopped at those roots.
After countless consecutive strikes, basically all the roots were severed, and even the trunk was split open. Golden liquid flowed all over the ground.
Only then did a yellow soul ring appear. This soul ring looked a bit deeper than ordinary hundred-year soul rings. Yang Xiong finally breathed a sigh of relief; at least his second soul ring was secured.
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