Chapter 58: A Natural-Born Talent

Like a violent storm, the shadows of the blood-red Sickle, accompanied by streaks of emerald-green soul power bullets, poured directly onto the massive body of the male Cockscomb Serpent. The primary target was the blood-red fleshy crest on its head, which was instantly covered by the blade shadows and light, causing blood to fly everywhere.

And its head was covered in dense, countless wounds!

"Hiss..." The male Cockscomb Serpent seemed to let out a sound like a mournful cry, and its peculiar tail lashed out heavily toward Ning Feiliu!

However, Ning Feiliu dodged, putting several meters of distance between them again, evading the male Cockscomb Serpent's tail-swipe attack.

And after the effect of Severing Shadow ended, a bright green mark appeared on the male Cockscomb Serpent's body!

Ning Feiliu switched his main-hand weapon to Calibrum, then, from hundreds of meters away, locked onto its head and unleashed a Severing Shadow attack!

He swung the Severing Shadow remotely, and an instant, blood-colored crescent energy slash landed directly on the massive torso of the male Cockscomb Serpent.

Immediately, a wound deep enough to reveal bone suddenly appeared.

The male Cockscomb Serpent wailed incessantly, and its miserable state also frightened the female Cockscomb Serpent nearby, a hint of human-like fear appearing in its vertical pupils!

Then... that female Cockscomb Serpent actually let out a hiss, the fleshy crest on its head emitted a pale red light, and then it flew away quickly behind it without looking back!

It actually... abandoned its mate and ran!

However, the nature of living things is to seek advantages and avoid harm; morality and law are things only possessed by intelligent beings.

Therefore, in the natural world, it is quite normal for animals to choose to abandon their companions and run when they discover they are in danger.

In such matters, let alone abandoning a mate to run, in some extreme situations, some animals will even eat their own mates just to survive and reproduce!

The high-speed energy shockwave crossed hundreds of meters in a few seconds, tore through dozens of jungle trees, and then struck the female Cockscomb Serpent directly!

These few combinations could be called the strongest weapon set of Aphelios.

The male Cockscomb Serpent left this place, while Ning Feiliu chased directly after the female Cockscomb Serpent.

"Calibrum! First soul skill!" The first Soul Ring on Ning Feiliu's body flickered again, and he used Calibrum to fire a jade-green energy shockwave forward, "Soul Reaping Moonshot!"

That three-thousand-year-old male Cockscomb Serpent's defensive power and strength were not so simple.

With another flesh-tearing sound, the pale red wings on the female Cockscomb Serpent's body were instantly severed, and it immediately plummeted from mid-air!

"Severing Shadow! First soul skill—" Ning Feiliu switched Severing Shadow as his main-hand weapon, erupting with blood-red Sickle shadows like a violent storm!

"Severing Shadow!"

At this time, it would be normal for the female Cockscomb Serpent to flee and the male Cockscomb Serpent to cover it in order to protect their offspring.

"I have fulfilled my duty," Ning Feiliu said with a smile.

"Rip—!"

The female Cockscomb Serpent's speed was extremely fast; the Cockscomb Serpent is a Soul Beast known for its speed, and with it having fled in advance, Ning Feiliu really had a bit of trouble catching up to it.

At least that male Cockscomb Serpent had taken his full set of Severing Shadow attacks, and only then did a single wound appear on its body.

"To say it was 'severely injured'... that's an exaggeration, Teacher," Ning Feiliu shook his head helplessly and said.

However, because the Cockscomb Serpent has no powerful means of attack, it relies on its massive body as capital, doing nothing more than biting or tail-swipe attacks.

Snakes are ovoviviparous animals; they can reproduce through both oviparity and ovoviviparity.

Ning Feiliu used Severing Shadow to slash out another blood-colored crescent energy strike, which landed on...

At the same time, a new Crescent Moon Divine Weapon appeared in his hand, a heavy cannon gun with a dark purple sphere—Gravitum.

There was no need to commit excessive slaughter; after all, the male Cockscomb Serpent was not his target.

And what if the female Cockscomb Serpent was currently carrying offspring?

This way, he could switch to the strongest Crescent Moon Divine Weapon combinations—Calibrum + Gravitum, Gravitum + Infernum, Severing Shadow + Crescendum, Calibrum + Crescendum!

Facing a tank that cannot kill you, no matter how much you "scrape" it with your attacks, it is nothing more than a slightly tougher punching bag.

Success!

A faint smile appeared on Ning Feiliu's handsome face, and at the same time, the Severing Shadow he had used multiple times now exhausted its power and returned into his body.

But...

Although his soul power level is currently at level twenty, without having obtained a Soul Ring, the Speed Amplification granted to him while using Calibrum is still twenty percent.

"Good lad!" Just then, Dugu Bo, who had been following closely behind Ning Feiliu and watching the entire battle process, appeared with Dugu Yan, saying with a face full of smiles.

On the pale red wings of the female Cockscomb Serpent!

The terrifying blood-red Sickle shadows, accompanied by Calibrum's energy bullets, poured onto the female Cockscomb Serpent in front!

The lock-on effect activated!

"Rip—"

"You go; you are not my target," Ning Feiliu left behind this sentence and chased directly toward the female Cockscomb Serpent.

This was also intentional on Ning Feiliu's part; after all, although he was not an Aphelios-specialized player in his past life, he still remembered the most basic gun-switching techniques.

What if the female Cockscomb Serpent was currently carrying eggs with offspring inside?

It was just that now, there was no longer a need to use it for battle.

But the male Cockscomb Serpent noticed the female Cockscomb Serpent's behavior at this moment and became unusually angry!

Seeing this, Ning Feiliu realized that the female Cockscomb Serpent clearly was not carrying offspring, but had simply chosen to abandon the male Cockscomb Serpent and flee.

So even if the male Cockscomb Serpent could withstand Ning Feiliu's attacks, as long as a wound appeared, to Ning Feiliu, it was just a large punching bag.

Instantly, the female Cockscomb Serpent let out a mournful cry, and a wound deep enough to reveal bone was torn into its body.

He chuckled softly, bypassed the male Cockscomb Serpent in front of him, and chased directly toward the female Cockscomb Serpent.

If there is red, hit red; if there is no red, hit the old!

After finishing the bullets of Severing Shadow, consume the old Crescent Moon Divine Weapon.

"You lad... you really are formidable," Dugu Bo looked at the thousand-year-old Cockscomb Serpent corpse in front of him and said with emotion, "Although the Cockscomb Serpent has no aggression, the one you just faced was a three-thousand-year Soul Beast, yet it had no way to deal with you, and was even severely injured by you."

The female Cockscomb Serpent only had a cultivation of just over a thousand years and did not have the powerful defensive strength of that three-thousand-year male Cockscomb Serpent; in an instant, flesh and blood flew everywhere!

In an instant, its life force was completely extinguished, and a pale purple ring gradually condensed over its massive body.

After all, Ning Feiliu's target was not it, and since the female Cockscomb Serpent had abandoned it to flee, it had no obligation to protect the female Cockscomb Serpent either.

The male Cockscomb Serpent was also stunned for a moment, but it soon sensibly fled in the other direction.

"Feiliu's new martial soul..." Dugu Yan's beautiful eyes sparkled at this moment, and she exclaimed, "It feels like its attack power is just too strong."

She had just witnessed the entire battle process; one had to know that the Soul Beast Ning Feiliu was facing had three thousand years of cultivation, while he was currently only at level 20 soul power.

Yet his Crescent Moon Divine Weapon was able to leave a wound deep enough to see bone on the three-thousand-year-old Cockscomb Serpent. Although Ning Feiliu was somewhat modest, this level of attack capability was truly extraordinary!

"It is quite strong, after all, it's a martial soul I obtained after suffering so much..." Ning Feiliu said with a self-deprecating smile.

"Alright, you should absorb the Soul Ring first," Dugu Bo said hurriedly. "I am actually quite curious; according to what you said about absorbing the Immortal Herb, plus this cross-level absorption of a Soul Ring, how many levels will your soul power increase by after absorbing the Soul Ring?"

Ning Feiliu nodded and said, "Alright then, I will absorb this Soul Ring first."

"Martial soul! Appear!"

Ning Feiliu directly summoned his complete martial soul; the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, housing the five Crescent Moon Divine Weapons, landed directly in front of him.

Then he sat down beside the corpse of the Cockscomb Serpent and prepared to circulate...

His expression suddenly became somewhat awkward, because it was broad daylight, and there was simply no moonlight to practice the Moonlight Breathing Method.

However...

From a modern perspective, moonlight is actually sunlight absorbed and reflected by the moon, so in the daytime, one could actually use the Moonlight Breathing Method... right?

So Ning Feiliu directly began to try to circulate his soul power using the Moonlight Breathing Method.

But he saw countless rays of sunlight gathering on his body from all around him, and he instantly felt as if flames were igniting on his body!

No... sunlight that hasn't been absorbed and filtered by the moon is simply too scorching. No wonder it can only be practiced by absorbing moonlight; if an ordinary person used the Moonlight Breathing Method to absorb sunlight for cultivation, it would be no different from playing with fire!

But...

Ning Feiliu's expression was strange; he had consumed the Blazing Apricot Delicate.

In other words, he was currently immune to fire.

Of course, in his estimation, fire immunity should also have a limit; it was impossible to be immune to flames of any temperature.

After all, in the original plot, Tang San was later hammered hard by Qian Renxue's Sun Holy Fire, so it could be inferred that the limit of the Blazing Apricot Delicate was at most the flames of an ordinary Spirit Master.

For example, flames from a Spirit Master of the same level, or high-temperature flames below the level of a Title Douluo, would all be ineffective against a Spirit Master who had consumed the Blazing Apricot Delicate.

Once it reached the high temperatures achievable by fire-attribute Spirit Masters above the Title Douluo level, it might become ineffective.

And the high temperature of the sunlight gathering on Ning Feiliu now did not make him feel any discomfort at all.

So he continued to circulate his soul power using the Moonlight Breathing Method...

Could this be considered...

Ning Feiliu accidentally improving the Moonlight Breathing Method into a Sunlight Breathing Method?

It was just a pity that this Sunlight Breathing Method was limited to him, who had consumed the Blazing Apricot Delicate.

Because only Ning Feiliu, having consumed the Blazing Apricot Delicate, could be immune to the pain of being burned by the flames brought about by the gathering of sunlight.

Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, who were beside Ning Feiliu, also discovered this point.

After all, the sunlight gathering around Ning Feiliu looked as if it had been focused by a magnifying glass, condensing into a holy, moon-wheel-like precious light.

"This kid... has he realized something else again?" Dugu Bo said with some emotion upon seeing this.

Dugu Yan also looked at Ning Feiliu at this moment with curiosity and said softly, "Feiliu... he is the true genius."

"Indeed, although his innate talent is insufficient, his comprehension..." Dugu Bo gave a dumbfounded smile and exclaimed, "He is truly a genius rarely seen in ten thousand years."

While circulating his soul power using the Sunlight Breathing Method, Ning Feiliu guided the thousand-year Soul Ring of the Cockscomb Serpent and slowly absorbed it into his body.

Unexpectedly, the entire process of absorbing the Soul Ring across levels went very smoothly; he didn't even feel any discomfort, nor did he feel the bloating pain in his body from the Soul Ring energy exceeding his limit.

None, there was none at all.

After the time it takes for a stick of incense to burn, a second pale purple Soul Ring appeared on the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda that housed the Crescent Moon Divine Weapons in front of Ning Feiliu.

This meant that he had successfully absorbed a thousand-year Soul Ring as his second Soul Ring!

"He succeeded!" Dugu Yan shouted in surprise.

"So fast?" Dugu Bo was somewhat astonished.

After all, Ning Feiliu was absorbing a Soul Ring across levels, and he had been worried that some accident would occur during the process.

As it turned out, not only did no accident occur, but the speed of absorbing the Soul Ring was actually so fast?!

Ning Feiliu slowly opened his eyes, but at this moment, his expression became particularly strange.

"How is it? Little Feiliu!" Dugu Yan hopped over to Ning Feiliu and asked curiously, "How do you feel? What soul skill did you obtain?"

However, Ning Feiliu raised his head with a strange expression and said to Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo, "Sister Yan... Teacher, I might need to obtain another Soul Ring..."

"What?!" Both grandfather and granddaughter, Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, widened their eyes at this moment.

Ning Feiliu chuckled and said, "I said... I need another Soul Ring now, because my soul power has already reached level 30."

"This..." Dugu Bo could hardly believe his own ears, "Are you telling the truth?!"

"It is true." Ning Feiliu smiled and radiated his soul power aura.

Sure enough, his soul power aura was now reaching level 30!

After absorbing the second Soul Ring, his soul power had directly jumped ten levels to reach level 30...

Such a thing, let alone Dugu Yan, even Dugu Bo had never heard of or seen such a thing!

Ning Feiliu was also somewhat pleasantly surprised; in fact, he had expected that after absorbing his second Soul Ring across levels, his soul power would at most reach level 27 or 28.

But he didn't expect that he had actually reached level 30 soul power again!

Thinking carefully, after Ning Feiliu broke through to level 20 soul power, he had consumed the Immortal Herb, the Qiluo Tulip.

In the original plot, the Qiluo Tulip could increase Ning Rongrong's soul power by six levels during her Soul Elder period; at the Great Soul Master stage, it would only increase it even more.

When forging the Crescent Moon Divine Weapon martial soul set, the moonlight absorbed at full load and overload was also partially converted into soul power through the Moonlight Breathing Method.

Added to the Sunlight Breathing Method he had just used, it seemed to have made his soul power increase even faster, and the soul power feedback provided by absorbing the thousand-year Soul Ring was also far beyond that of an ordinary Hundred-Year Spirit Ring.

All these opportunities combined allowed Ning Feiliu to break through directly to level 30 soul power after absorbing his second Soul Ring!

"Wait! You brat!" Dugu Bo suddenly widened his eyes at this moment and said, "You aren't even thirteen years old this year, right?!"

"About twelve years and seven months," Ning Feiliu said with a smile.

Although this record would likely be broken soon by San Ge far away in Soto City in a few years, but...

At the very least, he was now a record-breaking genius Spirit Master.

I really didn't expect... clearly, just a few days ago, he was still an ordinary Spirit Master who was only at the Spirit Master cultivation level at twelve years old, yet in this short span of a few days, he had become a genius Spirit Master who broke through to Soul Elder at twelve.

If this were to spread, it would drop the jaws of a whole crowd of people, right?

This book of mine won't suppress levels, and of course, it won't be too outrageous either; it's the type where the upper limit of improvement is raised as much as it should be. After directly crushing through things like the Spirit Master tournament with powerful cultivation and glossing over it simply, I will start dealing with the Spirit Hall and the forces behind Tang San and so on. Tang San won't be the opponent, but the likes of the big hammer and Bibi Dong will be the protagonist's opponents, and that's enough.

(End of this chapter)