Chapter 85: Guan Ling's First Spirit Ring Selection

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Another year passed. Tang San was eight years old, and he bid farewell to Old Jack with Xiao Wu and Guan Ling.

Guan Ling had also spent the year at Old Jack's house, becoming Old Jack's granddaughter. Old Jack had even given Tang San a thumbs up at first.

After returning to Nuoding City, Guan Ling asked her teacher for a leave of absence. She planned to go with Tang San and Xiao Wu to hunt for a spirit beast and obtain her first spirit ring.

During the vacation, Guan Ling also worked hard to cultivate. Finally, at the age of seven, her spirit power reached level ten.

"During these days, you have also learned a lot of knowledge about spirit master cultivation from me, and you have also read a lot of information about spirit beasts. Do you know what kind of spirit beast you want to choose for your first spirit ring, and what kind of skill you want to obtain?"

Tang San wanted to test Guan Ling's knowledge. If possible, Tang San was willing to give her a great gift that could speed up her spirit power cultivation. This would be equivalent to truly entering the "true tradition".

"Third Brother, my martial spirit is a bow, a weapon martial spirit. If it were anyone else, they would definitely choose a spirit ability that could give them attack power for their first spirit ring."

Guan Ling had become much more cheerful after a semester of study, and her voice had also become louder. "But every time a martial spirit absorbs a spirit ring, it is a kind of evolution for the martial spirit. This is true for beast martial spirits, and it should also be true for weapon martial spirits."

"I hope that my martial spirit can evolve."

"But weapon martial spirits are different from beast martial spirits. Beast martial spirits can find corresponding spirit beasts to understand, but weapon martial spirits can't. It's hard to find a direction. Most people strengthen them according to the characteristics of various objects."

"For example, swords and the like, they choose to go in the direction of sharpness."

"But in reality, if you only look for spirit abilities that specialize in attack, it's hard to make the martial spirit have a big enhancement... Third Brother, you said that this is because most people are civilian spirit masters, and attack power is the priority choice, but I have you, Third Brother, and during my time at Nuoding Academy, my safety can be guaranteed. I don't need to choose an attack-type spirit ability right away."

Tang San nodded.

Being able to consider the advantages of his teacher meant that Guan Ling was good at thinking and was a malleable talent.

"So, you want to choose to strengthen your martial spirit bow first?"

"That's right."

Guan Ling took out a document from the storage bracer on her right hand and handed it to Tang San, saying slowly: "My first spirit ring choice: Irontooth Fish."

The Irontooth Fish, although it has the word "fish" in its name, is actually not a fish. It is just shaped like a fish. It does not live in rivers or oceans, but in the desert.

This kind of spirit beast can swim in the sand sea like a fish, so it is named "fish". It feeds on plant roots and insects in the desert, and it also swallows metal minerals hidden in the sand sea, condensing a set of iron teeth that can crush metal.

According to legend, the Irontooth Fish is a dragon species, but it gave up on transforming into a dragon, sacrificing its powerful future in exchange for the reproduction of its race.

The number of Irontooth Fish is extremely large, and the strongest in the clan is only a thousand years old.

Ten thousand-year-old Irontooth Fish will not appear, because thousand-year-old Irontooth Fish are too heavy due to the iron teeth that have condensed countless metal minerals, making it difficult to be as flexible as they were in their hundred-year and ten-year periods.

Therefore, when they reach the thousand-year level, Irontooth Fish no longer hunt for food on their own but begin to consume their cultivation and start laying eggs.

This is a single-sex reproductive spirit beast.

And the spirit masters who hunt this kind of spirit beast, if they are beast martial spirits, basically get a good set of teeth after their martial spirits possess them, called: Irontooth Bite, which can bite through gold and stone... Most beast martial spirit spirit masters will not choose this kind of spirit beast, because the attack method is too unsightly, and most of them will not be able to become Spirit Sages.

Why mention Spirit Sages?

Because beast martial spirit masters can use their martial spirit's true bodies after breaking through to Spirit Sages. Most beast martial spirit's true bodies are in the form of spirit beasts, and their size is directly proportional to the amount and quality of their spirit power.

If the Irontooth Bite skill is used in the martial spirit's true body state, then the power will be great.

According to a case in the "Martial Spirit True Body Battle Record" in the Nuoding City Martial Spirit Branch Hall, a spirit master whose martial spirit was a leopard broke through the martial spirit true body of a Diamond Mammoth spirit master who was also a Spirit Sage.

And weapon martial spirit masters who hunt Irontooth Fish will obtain spirit abilities that evolve according to their respective weapon martial spirits. There are many kinds of spirit abilities, but it is certain that these martial spirits will have the characteristics of metal and become harder.

According to Tang San's guess, the essence of this Irontooth Fish should be the ability to digest metal minerals and inject them into its iron teeth, rather than the iron teeth on the surface.

If Guan Ling chooses the Irontooth Fish's spirit ring, there is a chance of obtaining this ability, but the martial spirit is not a real thing after all, and it is impossible to incorporate real metal into it.

If Tang San had thoroughly studied the patterns inside the soul guide, it might be possible, but now, even if Guan Ling obtained the essence of the Irontooth Fish, the effect might not be that great.

In other words, the future is promising.

"Have you thought it through? Choosing the Irontooth Fish?" Tang San closed the document and handed it back to Guan Ling, confirming it for the last time.

"Yes." Guan Ling nodded vigorously. "The only spirit beast I can find that can strengthen my iron bow is the Irontooth Fish. The other spirit beasts with metal characteristics are all over a thousand or ten thousand years old. They are very dangerous, and I feel that my first spirit ring can't withstand a thousand years. It's safer to choose a hundred-year-old one."

"Alright, thousand-year-old Irontooth Fish basically hide deep in the desert. My Blue Silver Grass may not be able to function in the desert." Tang San rubbed his chin, feeling that Guan Ling's analysis was acceptable and that the first spirit ability did not really need to be one with very strong attack power. He was qualified to become a "true disciple".

The only problem was that this time, their spirit hunting might take a long time. After all, the Irontooth Fish only existed in the Infinite Desert, which was very far from Nuoding City.

Just the journey alone would take about a month.

However, Tang San decided to go, because his third spirit ring choice, the Sun Moon Grass, also grew in the oasis of the Infinite Desert... Perhaps, he could ask the Nuoding Academy and the Spirit Hall for a half-year leave. He could also cultivate on the way and strive to reach level thirty.

Anyway, with a Spirit Sage like Ling Yan as a bodyguard, it would be a waste not to use him.

And when Lin Yuhan learned about this matter, she immediately objected: "The desert is not good for a girl's skin. Can't we go to an ordinary spirit-hunting forest?"

"Even if it's not, the Star Dou Great Forest will do. The periphery is relatively safe, and there are more types of spirit beasts."

Tang San shook his head: "The Star Dou Great Forest has many types of spirit beasts, but some special spirit beasts will only live in specific environments. My third spirit ring must also be obtained in the Infinite Desert."

Lin Yuhan was shocked: "You've broken through level thirty?"

"No, but during the time I went back to Holy Soul Village for the holidays, I didn't idle around. My spirit power increased by another level, reaching level twenty-seven. For the remaining three levels, within half a year, I won't do anything else but focus on cultivating my spirit power. I should be able to break through to level thirty." Tang San calculated his spirit power breakthrough speed and said so.

(End of chapter)