Chapter 24 The Fierce Greatsword, ‘Act Against the Sky’!

'Now let's finish making my Martial Soul into my Natal Soul Gear and Spiritize.' Lin Manshan held the Green Hatchet horizontally in his right hand, closed his eyes, and felt the martial soul in his hand. In the Douluo Continent, the martial soul is part of the spirit master's body, sharing the life of the spirit master, as well as the spirit master's soul.

Therefore, from a certain point of view, this green hatchet martial soul is his natal soul gear, now the only thing that is lacking is enough fuel to ignite it so that it will continue to burn, grow, and become stronger like real life.

And soul power is exactly the fuel to do so.

'Come on! Knife named After 'Act Against the Sky', my Natal Weapon, show yourself as you truly should be.'

'Natal Weapon, Spiritize!'

As Lin Manshan's thoughts stirred, a constant glowing green light emerged from the surface of his body, like smoke or mist, like silk, surging down his right arm towards the green hatchet in his hand.

"Plop. Plop." The blade of the green hatchet trembled slightly as if there was suddenly a heart beating inside.

It was exactly the same rhythm as his heartbeat as if a newborn life was awakening and reviving.

The light was converging, and the originally rusted green hatchet was soon drenched in green soul power. The outline still retained its original green hatchet form, but the material and lustre were like a crystal clear emerald, and like a piece of extraordinary metal that had been carefully hammered and refined without any impurities, it was pure and flawless. In the next second, a sudden change occurred, as if this piece of carefully hammered extraordinary metal had suddenly been refined by a blazing fire to its melting point. It turned into a puddle of calm and colourless metal liquid, which rapidly flowed, expanded, and stretched out to the two sides.

After just a few breaths, it turned into the form of a large, long and broad sword with a glistening green body.

When Lin Manshan opened his eyes, he looked down. The light receded, and his eyes were greeted by a large sword with a turquoise dark blade, the width of an adult's palm, more than a finger thick, with silver light flowing from both sides of the blade, and a slender hilt, which was estimated to be more than 30 centimetres, and enough to be held by both hands.

A most peculiar thing is that the blade and the hilt are covered with twisted and peculiar patterns, like the demonic pattern, but also like emerald gemstones inlaid within. As a whole, there was a kind of illusion that the gemstone was the body, and the outer material only played a role in anchoring and protecting it.

With a total length of nearly 1.65 metres, one could tell that this is a great sword with a great sense of power just from its appearance.

"Fierce Sword - Act Against the Sky! That's your name." Feeling the heavy weight in his hand, Lin Manshan revealed a smile. If not for the fact that a person was still sitting in the carriage, he would have had the idea to juggle this great sword that is taller than him in place, "I don't know if it can be shrunk down a bit."

'This time, incorporating my soul into my Martial Soul Natal Weapon has drained almost all the soul power from my body, so I must restore it as soon as possible.' Feeling the sense of power in his body that was weakening, Lin Manshan hurriedly withdrew his Natal Weapon without any hesitation, the Natal Weapon still retained the characteristics of the Martial Soul, and could be withdrawn into his body at will. 'Looking at it this way, does this count as a Martial Soul Evolution for me.' His eyes flickered, and he instantly closed his eyes.

Starting to restore the spent soul power quickly.

After all, there is a spirit beast in this world. In the continent of Douluo, almost all the creatures more or less have a trace of the spirit beast bloodline, so four hundred miles on the road, is not that far away, the second noon, the carriage finally arrived at the destination.

Stepping off the carriage, what greeted his eyes was not the deep and quiet primitive forest, but the towering fence, the spiked gate made of fine iron, with buildings built side by side on both left and right sides, with the surrounding people's voices booming and clamouring, just like a bazaar, bustling with activity.

"There's a token to hunt a hundred-year-old agility attack system spirit beasts. There are still three people missing."

"Hunting defence system spirit beasts, waiting for a token for seven people."

"There's even a lack of tokens ?" Lin Manshan turned his head to look, the seven members of this team were generally around 17 years old, all male, judging only from their stature, two of them should be Defence-system Spirit Masters, and looking at their appearance they were at least relatives as they looked too much like each other.

Seven people are wearing standard uniform clothing, with a tree pattern on the right arm, as well as the word "Evergreen Tree".

Maybe I don't need to fight alone. Thinking briefly, Lin Manshan walked straight over.

While walking, he took out his token and quickly came behind the sturdy teenager in the lead, "Big brother, I have a primary token."

"Oh?" The teenager hurriedly turned around, glanced at the token, and looked around, "Little brother, how come you're alone?"

"My name is Lin Manshan, I'm a work-study student at Nuoding Primary Spirit Master Academy. My spirit power has just reached level 10, and I want to hunt a hundred-year-old spirit beast. Big brothers, seeing as you are also students of a certain spirit master academy, you should be aware of the situation of work-study students right." Lin Manshan briefly introduced himself.

"Hunting for a hundred-year-old spirit ring!?" The teenager was instantly taken aback, "Little brother Manshan, did no one tell you the rules here? Those who come here to form a team are at least first-ring spirit masters. Without a spirit ring, to put it bluntly, it's a liability, no team will take you in, let alone help you hunt a hundred-year-old spirit beast." After saying that, he grinned a little more.

"However, you're lucky today. These brothers of mine and I are all students of the Evergreen Tree Intermediate Spirit Master Academy, and are all civilian spirit masters just like you."

"For the sake of the token, tell us, what type of hundred-year-old spirit beast do you want to hunt and kill? As long as it's not the kind that's particularly powerful, aggressive, and dangerous to hunt, we can help you."

"I want to hunt and kill a power attack system spirit beast that is around 400 years old ." Lin Manshan said with a sincere expression.

There were dramatic changes in the expressions on several people's faces, and the teenager's eyes widened as he looked like he was about to open his mouth and utter a curse.

"Certainly not the aggressive types like lions and tigers."

The curse stuck in the teenager's throat, and his expression softened a little.

"Rather, it's the Golden Horned Beetle, the Thousand Pound Ant, and the One-Horned Beetle. This kind of armoured insect spirit beast is small in size, slow in speed and has low offensive capabilities at the hundred-year cultivation stage. Against this kind of spirit beasts, as long as we properly prepare ourselves, we can subdue them without confronting them face-to-face, and it's not difficult to hunt them."

After infusing the vast majority of his body's accumulated soul power into his Martial Soul to complete the Natal Weapon integration into his soul, there wasn't a lot of soul power left in his body right now, and the effect of the physical body's rate of augmentation and defence could be described as sharply reduced, with the strength of his physical body following the downturn. With his current physical state, it was estimated that at most he would be able to absorb a 500-year-old power attack system spirit beast.

Not to mention, he had never absorbed a spirit ring before, let alone transcending a major level, so he didn't have a clear perception of the process. For safety reasons, it was better to be cautious.

In addition, it was also because of the existence of soul power, which when injected into the martial soul, was able to drastically increase the intensity and attack power of the martial soul, and he had a Great Sword martial soul, therefore, the spirit beast selection only needed to focus on the enhancement of attack power, taking into account the strength of the physical body and the martial soul.

Although the armoured insect spirit beasts are small, slow and bulky, in terms of strength attributes, they can surpass the vast majority of walking spirit beasts.

On top of that, their defence quality was also extremely high, so it is extremely beneficial to improving the strength of the physical body and the hardness of the Martial Soul.

With his current situation, they were also the spirit beasts that he could easily hunt successfully.

'After all, there's no backstage. If I had a Titled Douluo as a backing, I would love to kill a top hundred-year-old power attack system spirit beast like Duskgold Dreadclaw Bear, Titan Giant Ape or something like that in a real forest to absorb a spirit ring.'

Lin Manshan secretly sighed.

"It doesn't sound like it's too difficult when you put it that way. I did see a ten-year-old armoured insect spirit beast before, walking like a turtle crawling, when I threw a stone at it, it directly froze in place and didn't even move." The teenager laughed and added, "Little brother Manshan, you seem to know a lot about spirit beasts."

Lin Manshan nodded, "Big brother, although I don't have a spirit ring, I learnt a lot about spirit beasts at the academy, and I know them very well. I'm even more familiar with the spirit beasts that are kept in captivity in a Primary Spirit Forest like this one. How their years are distinguished, what their weaknesses are, what kind of environment they like to frequent, and even how to hunt them more efficiently and safely, I know all of that."

In the past two years, he could be said to have followed Tang San to learn all the knowledge about spirit beasts that Yu Xiaogang knew.

"So awesome?" At those words, not only the leader teenager, but the team members behind him also brightened up.

They needed such a person right now!

Although they had learnt some spirit beast knowledge in the academy, most of the instructors' lectures were very basic and didn't involve many types of spirit beasts.

Applying this not-so-detailed knowledge in a forest with a complex environment could kill someone.

Because no one knows from which bush an unknown spirit beast will suddenly jump out, if they really encounter an unfamiliar spirit beast, it is extremely dangerous to deal with it hastily.

Knowledge is something that usually seems useless, but it is really useful when needed.

"Well well well, brother Ah Man, my name is Xiao Zi Zai. We happen to need your spirit beast knowledge this time." The teenager grinned, and familiarly put a hand on Lin Manshan's shoulder, as he waved his hand to call his teammates behind him, "Let's go, let's go into the forest first, let's talk about it while we walk."

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