Douluo: Unparalleled General, Starting by Deceptive Thousand-Snow-Peak 13

Chapter 13: The Five Hundred-Year-Old Soul-Devouring Cat

Entering the Soul Hunting Forest.

This small Soul Hunting Forest’s soul beast quality was truly not very good. The first few soul beasts encountered were all just cubs, probably less than ten years old, maybe even single-digit years old. If such soul rings were absorbed, strength wouldn’t improve, it might even regress.

Therefore, the three of them had to go deeper.

They had to at least reach the central region of the Soul Hunting Forest to find soul beasts hundreds of years old.

“Huang’er and Lingqi’s soul beasts are relatively easier to find, suitable year-limited close-combat or agile-combat type soul beasts will do. But as for you, Xun Yu, haven’t you said that your Martial Soul will change the type of soldier summoned based on the soul ring absorbed? Currently, your only military soul badge is the Servant Knife Soldier, right? That’s a defensive unit that holds a shield in the left hand and a short knife in the right. What kind of second military soul badge do you want?” Queen Lan Xue asked.

“Firstly, Your Majesty the Queen, my name is Xun Yu. Secondly, for my second military soul badge, I hope for a close-combat type unit, a Great Axe Soldier or a Spear Soldier!” Xun Yu replied.

In fact, Xun Yu’s Martial Soul could also be considered a top-tier Martial Soul that combines close-combat, agile-combat, defense, and control.

Summoning Servant Knife Soldiers and Vine Armor Soldiers are defensive types.

Great Axe Soldiers, Spear Soldiers, Heavy Hammer Soldiers, Heavy Cavalry Soldiers, etc., are close-combat, and there are even ranged attacks like Archer Soldiers and Crossbow Soldiers.

The extremely fast Flying Knife Soldiers are agile-combat.

Chain Hammers and Female Soldiers who can restrain opponents belong to the control type.

If you ask how Female Soldiers control, just look at how Hu Liena controls them, and they can follow suit.

Among all the soldier types, the original Flying Knife Soldiers, which have a considerable attack range and fast attack speed, and the Heavy Cavalry Soldiers, which have the strongest impact after Nan Feihuang’s DIY modifications, are definitely the strongest units.

Therefore, these two types of soldiers should be saved for later, summoned with higher-year soul rings, which would save soul power for summoning and ensure a constant supply of powerful units.

As for the early transition period, Xun Yu and Nan Feihuang had discussed it.

Defense relies on Servant Knife Soldiers, close-combat relies on Great Axe or Spear Soldiers, ranged attacks use Archer Soldiers, and control relies on Female Soldiers, which should be sufficient.

Actually, in terms of control, Chain Hammers are definitely better.

As for why these two guys ended up discussing Female Soldiers, well, they are both men, it’s just their little quirk.

“Great Axe Soldiers or Spear Soldiers. Based on what you said, to get this kind of military soul badge, you need to hunt soul beasts with high attack power and proficiency in close-range physical attacks. I understand.” Queen Lan Xue nodded; this kind of soul beast wasn’t too difficult to find.

The group searched while moving deeper.

Gradually, they occasionally saw soul beasts that were hundreds of years old, but at most two to three hundred years old. For them, who had consumed whale gelatin, it was definitely not enough.

These children’s physical fitness was already extraordinary, even more excellent. They now needed at least five hundred-year soul rings, preferably six hundred years.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh…”

Suddenly, several piercing sounds came from the forest, and three or four shadows could be seen darting around, moving incredibly fast.

Nan Feihuang’s eyes twinkled, and he quickly caught their movements.

“Mother, they’re three cat-type soul beasts!”

“Huang’er, your eyesight is truly excellent, you can actually capture the movements of hundred-year-old agile-combat soul beasts. Many second-ring Soul Masters might not be able to do that.” Queen Lan Xue praised, “These should be Soul-Devouring Cats, slightly inferior to the Netherworld Spirit Cats among cat-type soul beasts. They’re fast, their claws are sharp, and they have the ability to attack and devour souls. They are quite good soul beasts, but I wonder how many years old they are. If there’s one around five hundred years old, it would be suitable for Lingqi!”

Having said that, Queen Lan Xue circulated her soul power. Even without using her Martial Soul, her ice-attribute soul power was enough to freeze ten-thousand-year soul beasts, let alone these three hundred-year-old Soul-Devouring Cats.

A ‘crack crack crack’ sound was heard—the sound of something being frozen solid.

Following the direction of the sound, the three quickly saw three pitch-black cats.

The three were of different sizes, the largest one being significantly larger than many canine soul beasts.

“All three are indeed hundreds of years old, the smallest is two hundred, the largest is eight hundred. It’s obvious that none of them are suitable, but the middle one is quite good. I estimate its age to be around five hundred and fifty years,” Queen Lan Xue, a graduate of the Sky Water Academy, truly lived up to her reputation. Not only was her strength formidable, but her theoretical knowledge of soul beasts was also extremely rich.

“Ah ah ah,” Lü Lingqi nodded repeatedly.

She could see that this cat had good attack power and speed, quite suitable for her.

Queen Lan Xue nodded, “Okay, then you can break the ice.”

The soul power she used to freeze these cats was not high, and she didn’t use her Martial Soul, so the ice wasn’t too strong. With her top-tier Artifact Soul, breaking it shouldn’t be difficult.

Lü Lingqi took out her Feilian Twin-Winged Halberd and slashed at the middle Soul-Devouring Cat. The immense force instantly shattered the ice into countless pieces, along with the cat inside.

A yellow soul ring immediately formed.

Lü Lingqi guided it to absorb. As the daughter of the ghost god Lü Bu, despite her slender appearance, her inner strength was only slightly inferior to Dian Wei.

If she were a boy, she might have even surpassed him.

Seeing Lü Lingqi calmly absorbing a five-hundred-year-old soul ring, Queen Lan Xue was even more relieved. A girl, after consuming whale gelatin, could absorb a soul ring a hundred years beyond her age; then her son clearly wouldn’t have any problem.

She had already discovered that her son’s physical talent was the strongest among this group.

This was normal; after all, when Nan Feihuang DIYed himself into a game character, he set his own attributes to be the same as Lü Bu, the ceiling of martial arts, possessing a ghost god’s body. Therefore, his physical strength was even above Dian Wei.

Absorbing the soul ring took time, everyone sat cross-legged, closing their eyes for simple cultivation, a form of meditation.

Queen Lan Xue unfroze the other two Soul-Devouring Cats, and coldly said, “Scram!”

These two little cats were already terrified; without a word, they darted into the forest, showing no intention of avenging their companion.

These unintelligent soul beasts only had the instinct to seek safety and avoid danger. If Queen Lan Xue hadn’t restrained her aura, they would have known this human’s strength was so great and wouldn’t have dared to offend them.

Night fell, and Queen Lan Xue made a fire.

Her profound soul power, and its ice attribute, meant she wasn’t afraid of the cold, but the children were only six years old.

Actually, making a fire in such a place is very dangerous; the firelight could attract a large number of soul beasts.

However, for their group, this was actually a blessing in disguise, perhaps they could quickly find suitable soul beasts for Nan Feihuang and Xun Yu.

After all, they had Queen Lan Xue, a great expert, here. This wasn’t the Star Dou Great Forest, merely a small Soul Hunting Forest, a Title Douluo could walk sideways here.

(End of Chapter)

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