novelraw Chapter 12 The Goddess of Life Butterfly
Chapter 12 The Goddess of Life Butterfly
The Life Goddess Butterfly and the Light Goddess Butterfly differ by only two characters.
The distinguishing feature between them is the pattern on their wings. The Life Butterfly has golden patterns, while the Morpho Butterfly has white patterns.
In Lin Hao's plan, the Goddess of Life Butterfly was his first choice for his first soul ring.
Every time the Life Goddess Butterfly increases its lifespan by one hundred years, a blue and white stripe will appear on its antennae.
Its antennae on the top of its head have four blue and white stripes, indicating that it is four hundred years old.
When it spreads its wings, it can reach a length of two meters.
Don't think that just because it's a life-type soul beast, it's easy to bully.
Look, its curved mouthparts can devour the flames spewed by Qin Ming and convert a certain percentage into the life force it needs.
When Lin Hao arrived behind Qin Ming, the fifth spirit ring under Qin Ming's feet lit up with a purple light.
"Fifth Soul Skill: Blazing Flames of Heaven".
Qin Ming leaped into the air, centered on his Fiery Wolf Martial Soul, and with a wolf howl, he emitted rings of flames that formed several balls of fire, locking onto the Goddess of Life Butterfly.
The Life Goddess Butterfly, which had just devoured Qin Ming's flames, reacted quickly, its wings fluttering and its life force forming an energy barrier around its body.
The flame ripples collapsed the energy barrier upon contact.
With a "pop," the Goddess of Life Butterfly was severely injured by Qin Ming and fell to the ground from the sky.
Flames scorched its wings.
It scrambled to its feet, its wings flapping once more, instantly erasing the burning status ailment from its body. Its wounds were healing at an alarming rate.
The successive battles had severely depleted its soul power. The soul power within its body was insufficient to heal all its injuries.
Qin Ming swooped down, heading straight for the Life Goddess Butterfly, whose soul power was exhausted.
The Goddess of Life Butterfly suddenly sprinted along the ground, hurtling towards Lin Hao. Its long proboscis was pointed directly at Lin Hao, getting closer and closer.
Qin Ming and the Goddess of Life Butterfly, one swooped down at an angle, the other ran close to the ground.
The two missed each other perfectly.
Qin Ming shouted urgently, "Lin Hao, danger!"
Who could have imagined that the Goddess of Life Butterfly would cleverly choose to avoid battle and instead devour Lin Hao to restore her soul power?
By the time Qin Ming realized what was happening, it was far too late.
Lin Hao remained motionless in Qin Ming's eyes, as if he were frozen in fear.
At that moment, Lin Hao's lips curled into a slight smile, and a mocking voice floated out, "Just because I'm small doesn't mean I'm easy to bully!"
As he spoke, Lin Hao suddenly stretched out his right palm, which was behind his back.
"Rasengan!"
"Bang!"
With a deafening roar, the Goddess of Life Butterfly spun back and crashed heavily into a tree that would take one person to encircle.
"Crack!" The tree snapped, and the large tree broke in response.
Qin Ming was stunned for a moment, then walked to Lin Hao's side and asked, "What kind of soul skill did you just use?"
"Rasengan, a soul technique I created myself."
"Rasengan?"
Qin Ming murmured repeatedly, his gaze fixed on the severely injured and unconscious Goddess of Life, Butterfly. His heart remained unsettled for a long time.
The Light Goddess Butterfly, with a lifespan of 100 years, possesses combat power comparable to that of an ordinary thousand-year-old soul beast.
In addition to its extraordinary self-healing and devouring abilities, almost no soul beasts are willing to fight it.
Lin Hao had just taken a shortcut, catching the Life Goddess Butterfly off guard. However, the fact that he could severely injure a Life Goddess Butterfly with a lifespan of four hundred years was enough to demonstrate the power of his self-created soul skill.
Lin Hao recalled the care Qin Ming had given him these past few days and asked, "Want to learn?"
Qin Ming nodded almost instinctively.
Lin Hao said, "If you want to learn, I'll teach you."
Qin Ming snapped out of his daze and shook his head, saying, "My self-created soul skills are priceless; I would never easily teach them to others."
Lin Hao disagreed, saying, "As long as you promise not to teach it to anyone else, I'll teach you the Rasengan, no problem!"
Qin Ming's character is impeccable.
He is loyal, calm, and composed, yet exudes a chivalrous spirit from traditional Chinese culture, with passionate sincerity and unwavering determination.
Whether as a friend or a mentor-apprentice relationship, Qin Ming is a trustworthy person.
In addition, Qin Ming's talent is undeniable.
He possesses the mutated Martial Soul, the Blazing Wolf, and has innate full soul power at level ten. Within six years, he will definitely break through to the Soul Emperor realm.
At that time, Qin Ming is expected to become the second youngest Soul Emperor in the Soul Master world before the age of thirty.
In terms of talent, Qin Ming has enormous potential.
Lin Hao's only thought right now is to become stronger. He hasn't yet planned his future development path.
If they were to establish their own sect in the future and recruit Qin Ming, it would surely add a powerful fighter to the sect.
After careful consideration, since fate had brought Lin Hao into contact with Qin Ming, Lin Hao decided to repay Qin Ming on his cultivation path. He thus planted a seed of goodwill with Qin Ming.
Self-created soul skills are extremely valuable.
That last soul skill required no soul rings, no soul bones, and didn't even require the use of a martial soul to perform.
What does this tell us?
This means that anyone can learn it, and it is a family heirloom like the Nine Absolute Techniques of Haotian and the Seven Killings Technique.
Lin Hao also wanted to keep his Rasengan technique a secret. However, given the dangerous situation just now, he simply couldn't hide it anymore.
I couldn't very well use the flight ability of the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone just now.
Qin Ming didn't take Lin Hao's words seriously, dismissing them as a child's joke. He walked to the Life Goddess Butterfly's side and urged, "Your requirements for your first spirit ring are at least three hundred years old and it must possess a life-type spirit skill. The Life Goddess Butterfly meets all your requirements. I will protect you; begin absorbing its spirit ring."
After a soul beast dies, its soul ring will remain for one hour.
One hour later, the spirit rings that were not absorbed by the spirit master will dissipate on their own.
Holding a dagger, Lin Hao walked to the Goddess of Life Butterfly and ended her life with his own hands.
As the Goddess of Life Butterfly died, a rich yellow light gradually rose around its body.
The yellow light drifted ethereally in the air.
Qin Ming frowned slightly, thinking to himself, "The energy of the spirit ring is so concentrated. Could it be because it's a life-type spirit beast?"
As a top-tier teacher at the Heavenly Dou Royal Academy, Qin Ming has helped many people obtain spirit rings.
He never helped his students obtain life-related spirit rings.
Based on his own experience, Qin Ming sensed that the yellow light emanating from the corpse of the Goddess of Life was more concentrated than that of a soul ring with a lifespan of four hundred years.
Absorbing a spirit ring is a very simple process.
Use your soul power to draw the soul ring to yourself, and then immediately begin meditating to absorb the energy of the soul ring.
Can a plant-type martial soul absorb the soul ring of an animal-type soul beast?
Qin Ming did not stop Lin Hao from absorbing the soul ring.
He had read many books and travelogues, and had also seen successful cases of some plant-type spirit masters who, because they were unwilling and greedy to acquire high-age spirit rings, risked absorbing animal-type spirit rings.
Plant-based martial souls don't necessarily need to absorb the soul rings of plant-based soul beasts, and beast-based martial souls aren't necessarily unable to absorb plant-based soul rings.
Qin Ming also had a certain understanding of the relevant prerequisites.
Guided by the deep blue light emitted by Lin Hao, the soul ring of the Hundred-Year Life Goddess Butterfly slowly flew towards Lin Hao.
"Come, my first spirit ring, you will determine whether I can pioneer the cultivation of the Blue Silver Grass of Life!"