Three months passed in the blink of an eye, from winter to spring.
It was the beginning of spring again.
The rainfall gradually increased, and the Thunderclap of Awakening arrived.
On that spring rain night eight years ago, Lin Rong was born into this world from his mother's womb.
In the blink of an eye, eight springs had already passed.
Deep within the manor, in front of an old wooden house.
Lin Rong looked up at the tender buds that had just emerged on the branches of the banyan tree. He reached out, broke off a green twig, and inserted it into the soil.
Pure life force surged from Lin Rong's body into the twig, causing it to root and sprout, transforming from a green twig of the banyan tree into a banyan sapling.
Looking down at the masterpiece before him, after admiring it for a moment, Lin Rong withdrew the life force he had infused into the twig, allowing it to revert from a sapling back into a green twig.
Then, he used his mental power to control the twig and reattach it to its original position.
No seam was visible between the twig and the banyan branch, as if nothing had happened just now.
"It's been two years since I awakened my Martial Soul."
"Now, I'm no longer the weak, defenseless child I was two years ago."
Lin Rong murmured. The Nine Bend Vine Dragon appeared silently behind him, its banyan roots anchoring themselves in the void.
Yellow, yellow, purple.
Three Spirit Rings appeared in sequence beneath Lin Rong's feet, pulsing and showcasing his cultivation as a three-ringed Soul Elder.
The first Spirit Ring was obtained from a Thousand Leaf Banyan of 525 years.
The second Spirit Ring was obtained from a Kongqing Bamboo of 981 years.
And the third Spirit Ring, which served to connect the previous and the next, was obtained from an Azure Vine of 3,333 years.
The Nine Bend Vine Dragon Martial Soul originated from the fusion and mutation of the Dragon Soul Vine and the Thousand Leaf Banyan.
Now, after absorbing the Thousand Leaf Banyan and the Azure Vine, the mutated spirit beast from his previous life that caused the Dragon Soul Vine's mutation.
The Nine Bend Vine Dragon had finally fully awakened!
Because it had absorbed the Spirit Ring of the Kongqing Bamboo, the Nine Bend Vine Dragon gained spatial characteristics.
The sub-stems of the banyan forest were hidden within the void, leaving only the main banyan tree visible to the outside world.
Looking at the main banyan tree, its bark texture and leaf veins all emanated a faint, almost imperceptible golden light.
Upon closer inspection, one could see subtle golden threads flowing within the bark texture and leaf veins of the banyan tree.
These golden threads flowed through every part of the main banyan tree, invisibly adding a sense of noble sanctity.
The main root of the banyan tree, shaped like a true dragon and coiled around the trunk, was no longer still.
Instead, it seemed to awaken from its slumber, opening its closed dragon eyes and moving around the banyan tree.
The dragon eyes of the green true dragon flickered with an agile spirit, possessing about seventy percent similarity to the spirit in Lin Rong's own eyes.
This was an independent new consciousness born from the Nine Bend Vine Dragon Martial Soul, based on Lin Rong's own consciousness.
This consciousness of the Nine Bend Vine Dragon was born because of Lin Rong, and thus was completely under the control of Lin Rong's own consciousness.
It was equivalent to an external manifestation with its own independent thoughts, but Lin Rong could also take over control of this external manifestation at any time if he wished.
At the same time.
Because the Nine Bend Vine Dragon had fully awakened, its innate Talent Domain had also evolved to the second stage ahead of schedule.
Within the coverage of the Vine Dragon Domain, all allied attributes were amplified by twenty percent, and all enemy attributes were reduced by twenty percent.
The domain's exclusive effect, "Life Dragon Soul," had been strengthened, greatly increasing the speed at which attacks were converted into pure life force, more than ten times the original conversion speed.
And it had awakened a domain soul skill—Evil-Breaking Dragon's Roar:
A area-of-effect soul and spirit type soul skill.
Upon release, it instantly dispelled all negative effects on targets within its range and inflicted soul shock and mental impact on designated targets.
The attack power of the soul shock and mental impact depended on the strength of Lin Rong's own soul and mental power, as well as the soul and mental power strength of the targeted opponent.
Lin Rong was slightly dissatisfied with the domain soul skill "Evil-Breaking Dragon's Roar."
It would have been perfect if the skill could also target and remove the target's negative effects the moment it was released, rather than indiscriminately dispelling them for both friend and foe.
Compared to the slightly flawed domain soul skill, the soul skill attached to the third Spirit Ring was perfectly flawless.
Lin Rong's third soul skill was named "Azure River Shines Upon Azure Sky," an all-attribute amplification soul skill.
The amplification degree was thirty percent, with an additional ten percent amplification for each additional Spirit Ring.
Lin Rong currently had three Spirit Rings, so after using the third soul skill "Azure River Shines Upon Azure Sky," his own all-attribute amplification would reach sixty percent.
Once his cultivation reached the Titled Douluo level, possessing nine Spirit Rings, the amplification would reach an astonishing one hundred and twenty percent.
As for the Soul Power consumption, while it couldn't compare to the first soul skill "Dragon Soul Awakening" which consumed almost no Soul Power, it was still within Lin Rong's completely acceptable range.
After casting the third soul skill "Azure River Shines Upon Azure Sky," it consumed ten percent of Soul Power for every minute it was maintained.
Putting all other factors aside, in a state of full Soul Power, Lin Rong could use his third Spirit Ability for ten minutes.
After retracting his Martial Soul, Lin Rong took out a jade bottle. The Dragon Rhyme Immortal Ganoderma Pill, which originally contained twelve pills, now had nine left.
The three missing pills had naturally been consumed by Lin Rong.
Due to his own deep Soul Power reserves, each level he advanced required significantly more Soul Power than ordinary Spirit Masters.
Furthermore, the Dragon Rhyme Immortal Ganoderma Pill had a tolerance effect; each additional pill consumed reduced its potency by half.
After consuming three pills consecutively, the medicinal effect was equivalent to only 1.75 pills of the Dragon Rhyme Immortal Ganoderma Pill.
Therefore, the three Dragon Rhyme Immortal Ganoderma Pills Lin Rong had taken only increased his Soul Power by three levels.
Three months prior, Lin Rong's Soul Power was at level twenty-seven.
His cultivation over the past three months had only increased his Soul Power by a little over one level.
Consequently, after absorbing the three-thousand-three-hundred-and-thirty-three-year Azure Vine Spirit Ring, Lin Rong's Soul Power directly reached level thirty-four.
At eight years old, reaching level thirty-four as a Soul Elder was a record that perhaps only other transmigrators in parallel universes could break.
There were still nine Dragon Rhyme Immortal Ganoderma Pills remaining.
Three of these were definitely meant for Ma Hongjun, but he couldn't be given them directly, nor too early.
"A measure of grain given in kindness becomes an enemy when a bushel is owed."
Ma Hongjun was not yet nine years old, and many of his habits had not yet solidified.
If he were given good things too readily, it would be easy for him to develop a nature of expecting rewards without effort and demanding whatever he pleased.
These qualities were not fitting for a qualified sharp blade.
The Phoenix Crested Sunflower from before was a case of "better early than late," as the sooner it was absorbed, the better the effect, which was why it was given.
However, the Dragon Rhyme Immortal Ganoderma Pill was different; it would be effective for Ma Hongjun even before he reached level fifty.
Therefore, if he were to give Ma Hongjun these three Dragon Rhyme Immortal Ganoderma Pills, he should do so after the latter completed a task, bestowing them as a reward.
And that task was crucial to Lin Rong's success in seizing the throne of the Heaven Dou Empire, and it absolutely could not afford any mishaps.
Ma Hongjun was the chief executor of that task, with Xu Pan following him as his deputy.
With Xu Pan, a captain of the guard loyal to the Lin Clan, accompanying Ma Hongjun and continuously instilling in him the idea of loyalty to the Lin Clan, Lin Rong could truly feel at ease.
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