hotmtlnovel Chapter 252 Mountains and rivers may meet again, but fortunes change!
Chapter 252 Mountains and rivers may meet again, but fortunes change!
Chapter 252 Mountains and rivers may meet again, but fortunes change!
"Hachimoku, you smell so good~"
Lin Nuo was somewhat tempted. Ma Xiaotao's appearance during her rebirth resembled a large bird egg. The ever-growing phoenix bloodline and the enormous energy contained within it all whetted Lin Nuo's appetite.
A certain immortal once said that anything that is not humanoid can be eaten, and Lin Nuo wholeheartedly agreed.
If Ma Xiaotao in human form can't bring herself to eat her, then why not just take advantage of her while she's still in egg form and eat her clean?
"Slurp~"
"Oh no, am I going to become an evil spirit master too?" Lin Nuo wiped away the tears that were flowing from the corner of his mouth. This really meant his future was completely ruined.
Perhaps sensing the intense malice emanating from Lin Nuo, Ma Xiaotao, in her egg form during her rebirth, couldn't help but tremble. At this moment, she was undoubtedly in her most vulnerable stage, feeling utterly insecure as she couldn't use any power.
This is truly a situation of both internal and external troubles.
"Who cares? Living things obtain nutrients from the outside world to survive; that's called the survival instinct. You could say that every bit of meaning in a living thing's existence is plunder. As Uncle Diao said, do you even remember how many pieces of bread or how many pounds of pork you've eaten?"
Lin Nuo had finally mentally prepared himself, especially since he didn't even consider Ma Xiaotao, this roast chicken, to be a human being.
In Lin Nuo's eyes, Ma Xiaotao is not only not human in definition, but also not human in form; he has simply eaten an egg.
That's right, that's it!
"Alright, I'm coming clean. The most important thing in life is timing! Let's do it, brothers!" Lin Nuo released his martial spirit, and nine dazzling and beautiful spirit rings pulsed around him, while the phantom of the World Tree enveloped his body.
At the same time, the sixth blood-red spirit ring on his body suddenly lit up.
Sixth Soul Skill - Assimilation and Symbiosis!
launch!
Blood-red patterns began to spread from the surface of the soul ring, gradually entangling the trunk of the World Tree, giving the originally sacred and majestic World Tree an eerie and chilling aura.
Those eerie, blood-red lines formed pupil-shaped patterns on the surface of the tree trunk. Even more strangely, when you gaze at these blood-red eye patterns, you will find that no matter what angle you look at them from, they are all staring back at you.
This is the special ability of the Demon Eye Tree!
Lin Nuo doesn't usually use this power. With the Holy Body of Medicine, the Demon Eye Tree's abilities aren't particularly useful to him. So far, no one has piqued Lin Nuo's interest in devouring them.
Ma Xiaotao is the first one so far.
With sufficient cultivation and a strong enough martial spirit, the poets of Wanquan tribe will not feel guilty about eating it.
This was also the first time Lin Nuo had used this ability. He looked at the changes in his body with some curiosity and carefully felt the extra power in his body. After using the sixth soul skill, he felt the powerful ability hidden in his body for the first time.
It was a terrifying digestive power that defied description. It was like an ancient black hole, tearing apart and crushing any medicine that entered Lin Nuo's body, then turning it into pure energy to feed back to Lin Nuo.
Of course, this is just an analogy, and Lin Nuo cannot currently understand the specific composition of this force.
In his view, this force was like a black hole, indiscriminately tearing apart all the drug energy in his body.
Moreover, he only sensed the existence of this power for a fleeting moment. It was the assimilation and symbiosis that allowed him to glimpse the tip of the iceberg of his drugged holy body. This kind of ability, which is almost a rule and a concept, is something that even the two great god kings of life and destruction cannot understand, let alone Linno now.
"Whatever your power may be, at least you can be controlled by me like an extension of my own arm, becoming my greatest asset in my continuous growth!"
Lin Nuo suddenly looked up at the phoenix egg that Ma Xiaotao had transformed into after her rebirth.
Her rebirth process is coming to an end. Her Black Phoenix Martial Soul has been reborn from the ashes into a pure Fire Phoenix Martial Soul. Measured by the strength of her attributes, the intensity of her transformed ultimate fire can even approach the ice attribute strength of the Snow Empress at her peak.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have the potential to become a god, and Ma Hongjun would sense her as soon as she went out.
A red sparrow, heartbroken from longing, eats a cow.
"But now, everything you have will be for my benefit!"
Countless tree roots with blood-red eye patterns broke through the soil, constantly wrapping around the surface of the phoenix egg like a spider web. Tiny, tentacle-like roots also broke through the eggshell like drills, taking deep root inside the phoenix egg.
"This wave, this wave is called Blue Silver Entanglement! Add the Devouring Golden Threads, and you're already on the verge of death!"
A salute, a complete salute!
As expected, Tang San is the ancestor of Douluo Continent. The entertainment effect he casually created is an abstract masterpiece that countless successors have tried to achieve but could not reach.
The ultimate fire, approaching god-level strength, was utterly ineffective against the World Tree roots entwined around the surface of the phoenix eggs. No matter how strong Ma Xiaotao's passive counterattack was, it could not burn away a single root.
She was like a lamb to the slaughter, forced to watch helplessly as the roots broke through the shell of the phoenix egg, took deep root in her body, and devoured her soul.
At that moment, Ma Xiaotao felt as if she were crawling all over with mosquitoes, their countless proboscises piercing her skin and sucking away her nutrients.
His consciousness, which had only recently awakened, plunged into darkness once more. The phoenix egg shattered and was instantly refined!
The orange-red phoenix egg gradually turned grayish-white, and finally, with a soft "poof," it turned into ashes scattered across the sky.
Lin Nuo, on the other hand, was beaming with health, and his aura grew stronger and stronger. His orange-gold soul ring, ranked ninth, was like a real sun, radiating endless light and heat.
Once the tree roots retracted, the dense fluctuations of soul power gradually subsided. Lin Nuo's ninth soul ring had completely turned golden. Not only was the thickness of the soul ring twice that of a normal soul ring, but the patterns on the surface of the soul ring had also changed.
This spirit ring is definitely the most unique spirit ring in history. A golden dragon and a phoenix are wrapped around the surface of the spirit ring, head to tail. It is no longer like other spirit rings, which are just empty halos, but have real substance.
Lin Nuo reached out and gently touched it. The sensation from his fingertips was both the smoothness and solidity of metal, and the warmth and heat unique to its fire element.
At this point, it had become a god-level soul ring.
Unlike other soul rings, the Ice and Fire Dragon King's soul rings do not come with soul skills, a fact that Lin Nuo discovered after absorbing them.
At first, Lin Nuo thought it was a bug, since his soul ring was formed by devouring a dragon soul, which was different from a normal soul ring. But after Lin Nuo devoured Ma Xiaotao, he finally understood what was going on with these two soul rings.
"Snap—" Lin Nuo snapped his fingers, and the golden spirit ring immediately lit up.
A figure slowly emerged from the light.
She wore a gorgeous orange-red dress that seemed to be made entirely of dragon scales and phoenix feathers, woven with crimson gold threads. Her hair, the same color as the dress, was as dazzling as flames, and from a distance, it looked as if real flames were burning.
Behind her stretched a pair of broad dragon wings, but the surface of the dragon wings was not a fleshy membrane, but colorful phoenix feathers.
Ninth Soul Skill - Dragon Phoenix True Spirit.
The Fire Dragon King's remnant soul was ultimately too incomplete, and it lacked a dragon core to fill it. This resulted in the soul ring it transformed into only having the basic structure of a god-level soul ring, but lacking the soul that a soul ring should possess.
It's like having a computer with top-of-the-line hardware, but without downloading and installing the latest operating system and software.
Even with high-end hardware, it can't deliver the performance it deserves.
Not only the Fire Dragon King's soul rings are in this state, but the Ice Dragon King's soul rings are also in this state. They both lack their own souls, possessing only the most advanced hardware but lacking the software to drive them.
However, after Ma Xiaotao voluntarily became a part of Lin Nuo, sacrificing herself to the Fire Dragon King's soul ring, it gained a true soul and naturally developed corresponding soul skills.
That is, the true spirit of the dragon and phoenix before Lin Nuo's eyes.
Its existence is similar to that of the Sun and Moon Goddesses in the world of Linno, both of whom can use Linno's power to fight, but their essence is very different.
The Sun and Moon Goddesses can only use the power of their inner world; they are dimensional consciousnesses and cannot cultivate independently. Their strength is equal to the strength of their world, and they will perish along with the world when it is destroyed.
However, the Dragon Phoenix True Spirit is quite different from Lin Nuo. Not only can it use martial souls, but it can also use soul skills and cultivate autonomously. The cultivation results will also be 100% synchronized with Lin Nuo.
Even when Lin Nuo doesn't use his martial soul, this soul skill is still activated passively.
If the Ice and Fire Dragon King's soul rings all obtain souls, Lin Nuo will essentially have two more fully automatic, year-round, AFK (away from keyboard) software programs.
The Dragon-Phoenix True Spirit's soul ring can also passively act as a resurrection shield once.
The activation method is similar to the Soul Ring Explosion. As long as it senses that Lin Nuo is about to die or has already died, the Soul Ring will explode, allowing Lin Nuo to be resurrected with full health once.
Even if Lin Nuo is suddenly killed before he can react, this soul skill will still be activated.
However, like the exploding ring, this soul skill also has a cooldown period.
The cooldown time for Soul Ring Explosion is three days, while the cooldown time for Resurrection Armor is thirty days, which is ten times that of Soul Ring Explosion. Moreover, just like Soul Ring Explosion, during the cooldown time, the Soul Ring can only be seen as a phantom, and the Soul Skill cannot be used until the cooldown time ends.
To be honest, this soul skill is quite good at getting Ma Xiaotao's Nirvana ability. Although it is not like Phoenix Nirvana, which can make one's strength further after successful Nirvana, it does not have the risk of dying during Nirvana, nor the side effect of weakness and fragility during Nirvana.
In terms of direct combat power, the Dragon-Phoenix True Spirit is inferior to the two plane consciousnesses within the inner world.
Ultimately, the strength of Lin Nuo's inner world is greater than his level as a Soul Master. No matter how Lin Nuo cultivates, the strength of his inner world will always surpass his Soul Master cultivation.
Relying on the inner world of the World Tree Martial Soul, the world grows stronger with every bit of growth of the Martial Soul.
This is a situation where both sides are progressing at the same pace, and it's unlikely that they'll ever catch up.
The Dragon-Phoenix True Spirit, which can only use the Lin Nuo Martial Soul System, is naturally not as strong as the Sun and Moon Goddess who can use the power of the world. However, the Dragon-Phoenix True Spirit is not without its advantages; it has more methods.
The fact that they can cultivate on their own is already a huge advantage, not to mention that they can use soul skills.
Taking the Dragon Phoenix True Spirit as an example, after obtaining Ma Xiaotao's soul, she was not only able to use all of Ma Xiaotao's soul skills, but Ma Xiaotao's soul skills were also enhanced by the Fire Dragon King's soul ring on the original basis.
Otherwise, why would it be called the Dragon-Phoenix True Spirit?
Ma Xiaotao's original soul skills have all been transformed into Dragon-Phoenix battle skills. Her seventh soul skill, Martial Soul True Body, has also been transformed into Dragon-Phoenix True Body. It seems that even the Dragon-Phoenix True Spirit can replenish the ninth soul ring that Ma Xiaotao has not yet absorbed.
Although the divine-level soul ring only has this one soul skill, to be honest, the effect of this soul skill is already outrageously powerful.
So much so that after Lin Nuo figured out the effects of this soul skill, he even doubted whether this soul skill was something a soul master could really possess.
But on second thought, if Tang Wutong's 100,000-year spirit ring could possess the divine skill "Father," then it seemed reasonable for me, with my divine-level spirit ring, to have a genuine divine skill.
"Speaking of which, the simplest way to give souls to the Ice and Fire Dragon King's soul rings is to use their own dragon cores. Only someone like me, who is cheated, can eat everyone else like bread. Otherwise, finding souls for these two blank soul rings would be no easy task."
"No, normal people aren't even qualified to absorb the Ice and Fire Dragon King's soul ring." Lin Nuo scratched his head.
That's fine.
Superman is supposed to do inhuman things, so how can Superman be treated with common sense?
While Lin Nuo was tasting Ma Xiaotao, Electrolux had already taken the four frozen Zhang Lexuan to study the lich.
Normal conversion is a minor issue, as there are plenty of liches in the undead demiplane. However, transforming Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo, who are still alive, into liches while retaining their memories and a certain degree of martial soul ability is a considerable challenge.
Ironically, Electrolux is most afraid of challenges, and even loves them the most.
Lin Nuo didn't disturb him. After calling A Yi over to ask about the time, he left the inner world and headed back to the Sun and Moon Empire.
It has been almost a month since he left the Sun Moon Empire. With less than half a month left before the start of the competition, there is not much to watch at Shrek Academy, so Lin Nuo naturally has no intention of staying any longer.
It was Yan Shaozhe's whereabouts that piqued Lin Nuo's interest.
Before leaving, Lin Nuo wandered around Shrekk but didn't find Yan Shaozhe, which meant that he had successfully escaped. What's even more interesting is that Xuan Zi has now taken over the position of Sea God Pavilion Master. Qian Duoduo, the wronged laborer, has not only regained his position as a Sea God Pavilion Elder with Xuan Zi's support, but has also re-condensed his Soul Core and regained his Title Douluo cultivation.
Instead, Xian Lin'er became Qian Duoduo 2.0. Because of Yan Shaozhe, her soul core shattered and her soul power dropped to level 89.
Sure enough, what's that saying again?
Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river; mountains and rivers may meet again; fortunes change like a wheel!