A soul master's seventh soul ring, regardless of how many years are attached, will always only possess one soul skill.
Martial Soul True Body!
Whether beast soul masters, weapon soul masters, or other miscellaneous soul masters, it's all the same.
Logically speaking, since all soul masters' seventh soul rings are Martial Soul True Body, then obtaining any one would suffice.
But... that's not the case!
A soul master's seventh soul ring is particularly important, and could even be said to be the most important soul ring on a soul master's body.
Because this soul ring is the cornerstone of becoming a powerhouse; it determines the height a soul master can gradually reach in the future.
Taking a step back...
Although all soul masters' seventh soul skills are Martial Soul True Body, some people's amplification in Martial Soul True Body state is one hundred percent, while others' is two hundred percent.
The gap between these depends partly on the soul ring's year count.
Second, it depends on the spirit beast's quality.
Third, it depends on whether the soul ring's attributes match the soul master's.
Like Yang Fan...
The hundred-thousand-year Scarlet Flame Black Tiger's soul ring perfectly matched these three points, so his full attribute amplification in Martial Soul True Body state was one thousand percent.
And that wasn't all!
Because of the Scarlet Flame Black Tiger's fire attribute, he also had certain additional bonuses to flames when in Martial Soul True Body state.
"Kid."
"What level are you now?"
Dugu Bo looked at the eight soul rings circulating around Yang Fan's body.
Extraordinarily intimidating!
If these eight soul rings appeared on an old fellow's body, he probably wouldn't give it a second glance.
But this was Yang Fan!
This kid was only fucking fourteen years old now.
Following this cultivation speed, he would probably become a Title Douluo before twenty-five.
"Level 78."
Dugu Bo's eyes suddenly widened, almost losing control of the surging soul power within his body.
Level 78...
He retracted his previous thought.
This little abnormal Yang Fan would probably become a Title Douluo before twenty.
What was the concept of a twenty-year-old Title Douluo?
The age limit for the Continental Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament was twenty-five.
That is to say...
While those soul masters in their twenties were still racking their brains over the Soul Master Tournament, Yang Fan had already quietly reached the peak of the Douluo Continent.
After the shock, Dugu Bo felt everything seemed so reasonable.
One hundred-thousand-year soul ring might not instantly boost Yang Fan's soul power by 8 levels.
But don't forget...
Before this, Yang Fan had also absorbed the hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape's left arm soul bone.
The combination of the two made it not strange for Yang Fan to instantly reach Level 78.
"Little fellow."
"Don't be busy being happy yet; there's an even bigger surprise waiting for you next."
Yang Fan originally thought Yao Lao was talking about the hundred-thousand-year Scarlet Flame Black Tiger's soul ring.
According to the characteristic that hundred-thousand-year spirit beasts definitely drop soul bones, he was one hundred percent certain to obtain a soul bone.
But Yao Lao shook his head holding the soul bone.
Obviously!
Yao Lao wasn't talking about the Scarlet Flame Black Tiger's soul bone, but rather that there was something else hidden within the Scarlet Flame Black Tiger's body.
"Why does the Scarlet Flame Black Tiger only have flames when it reaches a hundred thousand years?"
This question instantly enlightened Yang Fan.
"Beast flame?"
This idea suddenly emerged in his mind.
He remembered Yao Lao had previously said that magical beasts on the Dou Qi Continent would possess beast flames only after reaching a certain year count.
Spirit beasts were naturally the same!
That is to say, after reaching a hundred thousand years, the Scarlet Flame Black Tiger already possessed beast flames within its body, which allowed its body to burn with flames.
"Exactly!"
"If what Old Poison said is correct, then this Scarlet Flame Black Tiger's body definitely possesses beast flames."
Yao Lao said with great certainty.
Beast flames...
For their master and disciple, the temptation of beast flames was no less than that of a hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
"What do you mean 'if what this old man said is correct'?"
"Don't blame this old man for things you're not certain about, you old fellow."
While Dugu Bo and Yao Lao were bickering, Yang Fan had already arrived before the Scarlet Flame Black Tiger's corpse.
Spear raised and fell!
Lin Fan used the Soul Breaking Spear's sharpness to slice open the Scarlet Flame Black Tiger's belly.
"Beast flame!"
"It really is a beast flame!"
Just like the flames burning on the Scarlet Flame Black Tiger's body, this beast flame hidden within the Scarlet Flame Black Tiger's body was similarly terrifyingly black.
Yang Fan's body began to tremble slightly due to excessive excitement.
He had already forgotten how long it had been since he last found a beast flame.
This beast flame was not just a simple beast flame to the current Yang Fan.
It had even more important significance!
The appearance of this beast flame meant it could break the historical balance between the Fire Dragon Flame and the Ice Dragon Flame.
Yang Fan worried that because too much time had passed since the Scarlet Flame Black Tiger's death, he would lose this hard-won beast flame.
So he almost didn't hesitate at all!
He picked up the beast flame source from within the Scarlet Flame Black Tiger's body and stuffed it into his mouth.
Devouring flames—he was all too familiar with this!
With the previous experience of devouring Heavenly Flames, this Scarlet Black Flame posed no threat to his body whatsoever.
"Yao Chen."
"What exactly have you taught this kid?"
This was the first time Dugu Bo had seen Yang Fan swallow a Heavenly Flame into his mouth.
Hard not to be surprised!
In his view, even as a Title Douluo, if he wanted to devour such a ball of flame, he would probably burn his internal organs.
This kid Yang Fan looked like nothing had happened.
"Cultivation technique!"
"Even if I told you, you wouldn't understand."
"Why don't you also become my disciple? I could similarly teach you tirelessly."
Dugu Bo pursed his lips and retorted: "In your dreams!"
Make him a fellow junior disciple with this kid Yang Fan?
And he has to fucking call Yang Fan senior brother?
However, Dugu Bo already knew Yao Chen didn't belong to this world, so he didn't ask further about this cultivation system that crossed boundaries.
But one had to admit...
The cultivation system Yao Chen mastered was considerably stronger than the Douluo Continent's cultivation system.
...
Yang Fan's devouring continued...
This time didn't seem as smooth as when he absorbed the soul ring before.
Not because the Scarlet Black Flame was difficult to absorb!
Actually, Yang Fan had long since devoured the Scarlet Flame Black Tiger and successfully refined it using the Flame Mantra.
What he was doing now was using the Fire Dragon Flame to devour the Scarlet Black Flame, then devouring the Ice Dragon Flame.
This was his ultimate goal!
Beast flames were just a process; the end result was always Heavenly Flames.
However...
This was Yang Fan's first time integrating beast flames into Heavenly Flames, and the difficulty was something he had never imagined before.
And it was from this day that Yang Fan fell silent in the spirit beast forest just like this.
The leaves turned a vibrant crimson, lava-like upon the floor...
Yang Fan sat like this for a full month. When he slowly opened his eyes, his body was already covered with spider webs.
His own legs had been washed by mud and water, embedding him about ten centimeters into the ground.
He succeeded!
After the Fire Dragon Flame successfully devoured the Scarlet Black Flame, it completed a qualitative change. And after this qualitative change, the Fire Dragon Flame once again completed its devouring of the Ice Dragon Flame.
Now there were only two types of flames in his body: Hellfire and Ice Fire Dragon Flame.
Both were Heavenly Flames!
"Success."
"We succeeded."
Tears began to flash in Yao Lao's old eyes.
This was not only Yang Fan's success, but also his.
Until this moment...
Yao Lao truly saw hope of reconstructing his physical body.
Because the three most difficult Heavenly Flames needed for reconstructing his physical body, their master and disciple had already collected them all.
"Master, we really succeeded."
Yang Fan's excitement was no less than Yao Lao's.
Beast flames completed their evolution into Heavenly Flames!
This meant that even if he continuously obtained beast flames in the future, he could similarly complete the impact toward Heavenly Flames.
"Master."
"My cultivation technique has now become Earth Tier."
The Flame Mantra was already at the doorstep of Earth Tier. Yang Fan originally thought he could successfully advance to Earth Tier after absorbing the Scarlet Black Flame.
But he didn't!
He overestimated the beast flame's ability, even though this beast flame originated from a hundred-thousand-year spirit beast.
He also underestimated the experience needed for the Flame Mantra's upgrade.
Fortunately, the beast flame's transformation into Heavenly Flame allowed his Flame Mantra to successfully break through.
But this also made Yang Fan recognize how difficult the Flame Mantra's future advancement would be.
If there were no Heavenly Flames in the future, the Flame Mantra would probably be difficult to advance even an inch.
"Master knows."
This moment was enough to prove that Yang Fan's original choice was correct.
After the Flame Mantra advanced to Earth Tier, it had already completely caught up with the previous Zhuo Fire cultivation technique.
Every subsequent inch of progress would be a reward for Yang Fan's original choice.
"I say, have you master and disciple finished crying enough?"
"If you've cried enough, let's go back. This old man has had enough of staying here."
At this moment...
The only calm one was Dugu Bo standing to the side.
There was no absolute empathy in this world!
Dugu Bo could never understand how much effort Yang Fan and Yao Lao had made to complete the impact from beast flames to Heavenly Flames.
Nor could he understand the joy and shock of the Flame Mantra evolving from Xuan Grade to Earth Tier cultivation technique.
"Old Poison."
"Didn't you always live in Sunset Forest before? Is there such a thing as having enough of staying in the spirit beast forest?"
Yao Lao teased.
"How the fuck can they be the same?"
The mountain in Sunset Forest was his home.
Daily necessities were all fully equipped.
What was this place?
If he fucking stayed here any longer, he felt he would become a savage.
Jokes aside!
But when Yang Fan learned that it took him a full month to complete the evolution from beast flame to Heavenly Flame.
He wasn't calm anymore!
Counting the time they spent searching for spirit beasts and traveling back and forth, a month and a half had already passed since the Continental Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament began.
The tournament had entered the latter half of the elimination rounds; he must return now to hold down the fort.
Otherwise, once Blazing Fire Academy was eliminated, it wouldn't be fun.
...
On the other side.
The Continental Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament elimination rounds had entered a white-hot stage.
Before this tournament, no one had expected an unstoppable dark horse to appear.
It was Canghui Academy!
During the qualifying stage, Canghui Academy used their trump card, the Seven-in-One Fusion Technique, to heavily damage Blazing Fire Academy and Thunder Academy.
The Huo siblings were injured!
But fortunately, the entire Blazing Fire Academy didn't lose all combat effectiveness because of this.
Relying on previous consecutive victories, they smoothly advanced to the second stage elimination rounds.
But...
Thunder Academy didn't have such good luck!
As the first soul master academy to suffer heavy damage, their students lost combat effectiveness during the elimination round stage.
Thunder Academy had no choice but to abandon this Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
Precisely because of Thunder Academy's withdrawal, Lanba Academy ranked sixth smoothly advanced.
This could be considered dogshit luck!
What a coincidence!
At this moment on the Douluo arena was the crucial battle between Blazing Fire Academy and Lanba Academy.
Whoever loses is eliminated!
The elimination rounds used a one-on-one Arena Gauntlet method to determine victory.
Each academy could send seven people to participate in the competition; if one side's seven people were all defeated, they lost.
This competition method was completely different from the Qualifying stage's system.
The purpose of doing this was to more clearly allow soul masters' individual abilities to be perfectly displayed, facilitating various families' recruitment efforts.
"Damn it!"
"Where exactly did Yang Fan go?"
"Why hasn't he returned yet?"
Under normal circumstances, Blazing Fire Academy's strength could easily crush Lanba Academy.
But...
Now the Huo siblings were injured in the previous elimination round and couldn't participate in today's elimination round.
Blazing Fire Academy without the Huo siblings had greatly reduced strength, only counting as a second-rate academy team.
Facing a fully healthy Lanba Academy, they were obviously somewhat stretched thin.
"Lanba Academy wins!"
At this moment...
Blazing Fire Academy's sixth person had already been defeated.
Obviously!
As long as they lost one more match, Blazing Fire Academy would stop here at this Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
Looking at the opposite Lanba Academy...
The fourth to appear, Tang San, had caused them considerable trouble.
He had already consecutively defeated two Blazing Fire Academy team members!
Although both were Soul Elders...
Tang San, who possessed Mysterious Heaven Skill, Purple Demon Eye, and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, obviously occupied an absolute upper hand.
After consecutively defeating two opponents, there was still no sign of decline on his face.
"Good!"
Yu Xiaogang, seeing his beloved disciple defeat two generals, excitedly slapped the wall beside him.
As long as he won one more match, they could successfully advance to the next round's final stage.
This was one step closer to him becoming a theory master!
Blazing Fire Academy only had one student left who could be sent onto the field, while Lanba Academy still had three students available even if Tang San lost.
At this moment...
The situation on the field could be said to be infinitely tilting toward Lanba Academy.
Yu Xiaogang seemed to see success waving to him...
"I'll go!"
Huo Wu couldn't bear it anymore.
If they were eliminated today by Lanba Academy, a cow-horse academy without even one Soul Ancestor, Blazing Fire Academy would probably become the biggest laughingstock of this Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
Huo Wu just thinking about it felt more disgusting than eating shit.
"Sit down!"
This situation similarly made Dean Huo Bao angry.
But there was nothing he could do!
Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang were originally injured during the elimination round stage because of the Seven-in-One Fusion Technique.
If they went onto the field without fully recovering and left hidden injuries, Huo Wu would probably never reach Soul Saint in her life.
Let alone the Title Douluo that the entire Douluo Continent yearned for.
"Then what do we do?"
"Just give up on this Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament like this?"
The next person they had to send out was only a Level 35 Soul Elder.
Even if he could defeat the fourth to appear, Tang San, there were still fifth, sixth, and seventh after that.
One versus four...
Was this fantasy reasonable to place on a Soul Elder?
At this moment...
Blazing Fire Academy seemed to have no hope left; all participating students also believed Blazing Fire would stop here.
One must know!
Because of Yang Fan's 'return from the dead,' Blazing Fire Academy's goal was the championship.
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