#88 - The art of wooden men?

"It's terrifying, and it can also enhance combat power. It's somewhat similar to the God of Slaughter Domain."

Although this skill doesn't have the growth potential of the God of Slaughter Domain, it's still a decent soul skill. If he hadn't activated his Martial Soul Fusion in time, even he would have been too scared to move.

"And that's not all!" Zhu Zhuyun said with a smile, "This soul bone has also enhanced my spiritual power, allowing me to absorb higher-year soul rings in the future!"

"Well, that's a good thing." Dai Weisi nodded, happy for Zhu Zhuyun to have obtained a freshly acquired soul bone.

Then, Zhu Zhuqing and Anna also slowly woke up. After absorbing the soul bones, both of their soul power had increased. Zhu Zhuqing's soul power reached level thirty-nine, while Anna reached the peak of level thirty-six.

As in the original story, Zhu Zhuqing's soul skill is also "Swift Pierce Qi Slash", channeling soul power into her left leg and then kicking out a purple wind blade powerful enough to cut gold and break jade, with considerable power.

As soon as the wind blade appeared, it seemed as if the space was about to be cut apart!

"Zhuqing's soul bone skill is very good, just making up for her lack of long-range attacks." After saying that, Dai Weisi looked at Anna again and said with a smile, "Nana, what is your soul bone skill?"

"My soul bone skill is called Tree Spirit Possession! It's a comprehensive skill that can enhance my close combat abilities. I'll show it to you, so watch carefully!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Anna ran to the courtyard outside with a smile, and Dai Weisi and the others followed closely behind.

"Tree Spirit Possession!"

She concentrated her soul power and channeled it into her torso bone. In an instant, countless ink-green Ink Jade Divine Grasses grew out of the girl's body and tightly wrapped around her delicate frame.

It felt as if Anna had used Parasitic Seeds on herself. Countless Ink Jade Divine Grasses intertwined and rose from the ground!

Eventually, this overwhelming Ink Jade Divine Grass converged into a giant Tree Spirit up to eight meters tall. The Tree Spirit was exceptionally strong, resembling a strong, muscular man from afar.

Behind the Tree Spirit, the branches and leaves were lush, and the branches and trunks made of Ink Jade Divine Grass were wrapped around its feet. Anna's cheeks were carved on the Tree Spirit's body.

However, coupled with this ink-green body, Anna looked ugly at this time, simply like a haggard woman.

"This! Could this be Thousand Hands Imbecile's Wooden Human Technique?"

Seeing this giant tree man, Dai Weisi was immediately stunned, thinking of Thousand Hands Hashirama from Naruto.

The appearance of this tree man was exactly the same as Thousand Hands Hashirama's Wooden Human Buddha! It's just much smaller.

What is this? Attacking Thousand Hands Hashirama?

"Brother, this is my soul bone skill. I can use my soul power as a source to transform into a giant Tree Spirit for battle. The Tree Spirit's attack and defense are no weaker than soul masters of the same level who specialize in strength or defense.

Moreover, since this Tree Spirit is formed by the intertwining of Ink Jade Divine Grass, I can use my own soul skills to enhance the Tree Spirit's combat power!"

For example, Anna could completely activate her third soul skill to make the Tree Spirit's defense even better than before and have a certain degree of fire resistance.

What was even more commendable was that Anna directly controlled it from inside the Tree Spirit, instead of having to control the Wooden Human's movements from the outside like Thousand Hands Hashirama.

"Nana, is your Tree Spirit only this big?" Dai Weisi asked. If he could create a Tree Spirit that was that big, that would be amazing.

"Of course not!" Anna shook her head and said with a smile, "The size of the Tree Spirit can be freely adjusted according to my soul power. Currently, for me, creating an eight-meter-tall Tree Spirit is already the limit without affecting the battle!"

After all, she was just a level thirty-six Soul Venerable. Being able to create a Tree Spirit of this size was already difficult for her.

"Haha, it's okay, Nana, I believe you will definitely be able to condense a larger Wooden Human in the future!"

Seeing Anna's strength getting stronger and stronger, Dai Weisi became more and more excited. The stronger Anna's strength, the greater the possibility of inheriting the Sea God's position in the future.

"By the way, Nana, can you use this skill to condense a wooden dragon? That way, you can use the wooden dragon to attack during battle?"

"This is no problem. As long as I have enough soul power, I can create Tree Spirits of various shapes?" After saying that, Anna mobilized the soul power in her body and gathered it on her torso bone.

In an instant, a ten-meter-long wooden dragon grew out from behind, tightly wrapped around the Tree Spirit's waist. At critical moments, she could completely control the wooden dragon to attack.

"Don't worry, Weisi! We all know what to do!" Zhu Zhuyun said with a smile. The three soul bones had greatly increased their strength.

In the days that followed, the group continued to cultivate as usual. When Bai Chenxiang's body became resistant to the ten-thousand-year whale gel, Dai Weisi fulfilled his promise and took her to obtain her second soul ring.

In the end, Dai Weisi hunted a golden-feathered swallow that was over nine hundred years old as Bai Chenxiang's second soul ring.

After all, Bai Chenxiang had not taken the Immortal Herb, so Dai Weisi did not dare to let her rashly absorb a thousand-year soul ring, but she was already very happy to be able to absorb a soul ring that was over nine hundred years old.

As in the original story, Bai Chenxiang's second soul skill is called Step Swallow, which is an acceleration skill. After using it, Bai Chenxiang's speed will increase a lot.

What is different from the original story is that after using the second soul skill, Bai Chenxiang's attack power will also increase by 30%, which is considered a mediocre self-enhancement soul skill.

After absorbing the soul ring, Bai Chenxiang's soul power directly reached level twenty-two, and Dai Weisi also sent her to the Star Luo Royal Academy to study. Time passed like this for more than two months.

On this day, he, who was originally cultivating, suddenly received an order from Dai Pojun, asking him to go to the palace immediately.

Dai Weisi knew that unless it was a major event, his father would not come to him, so he hurried to the palace.

"Father, why are you in such a hurry to find me? Did something happen?"

Dai Pojun looked at Dai Weisi and smiled slightly, "Not bad, your soul power has already reached the peak of level fifty-eight. I believe it won't be long before you can break through level sixty and become a Soul Emperor!"

After a pause, Dai Pojun continued: "There are indeed some things, but don't be nervous, this is a good thing!"

"Oh? A good thing?"

"That's right!" Dai Pojun nodded lightly, "Master Lou Gao has already sent someone to send me a letter. They have developed a high-altitude cannon with a range of up to two thousand meters and the power to severely damage a Soul Douluo with one shot. More importantly, it's cheap!"

When he said the four words "cheap to build", Dai Pojun couldn't suppress the corners of his mouth. Although he was the monarch of a country, there wasn't much money left in the national treasury to maintain military spending.

Therefore, Dai Pojun undoubtedly liked this kind of weapon that was cheap to build but had great power!

"Oh? Has the high-altitude cannon finally been developed?"

He hoped that Master Lou Gao would also forge cannons, but the range was too short and was directly eliminated by Dai Weisi. After more than half a year of research, Lou Gao finally developed a cannon with a long enough range.