The moment Ye Zhiqui's consciousness connected with the soul ring, the nine tailed beast phantoms in his dantian and qi sea suddenly opened their eyes.
They stared upwards, their gaze fixed on the exact location of the 100,000-year Unicornevil Dragon soul ring.
"It's coming, it's coming!" Ye Zhiqui's heart pounded with excitement. Could it be a million-year soul ring?
Could it or couldn't it?
As for absorbing the soul ring? He didn't need to do anything; the nine free laborers would automatically take care of it for him.
At this moment, the nine tailed beast origins simultaneously opened their mouths.
The 100,000-year Unicornevil Dragon soul ring, suspended in mid-air, was swallowed and absorbed into their bodies in the blink of an eye. It split into nine parts, completely devoured, not even a hair left behind.
Once the soul ring was devoured, the nine tailed beast origins fell silent.
Ye Zhiqui, filled with anticipation, began to browse the system store. Once he bought a ninjutsu, and the nine tailed beast origins returned their power, it was highly likely that his first million-year soul ring would appear. At a time like this, it would be a lie to say he wasn't excited.
A-rank Ninjutsu: Rasengan (Price: 3000 Negative Emotion Points)
Super S-rank Ninjutsu: Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands (Price: 100,000 Negative Emotion Points)
Special Ninjutsu (No Rank): Kagura Mind's Eye (Price: 10,000 Negative Emotion Points)
Ye Zhiqui browsed the system store for a while and found three ninjutsu that he quite liked.
Originally, he had also considered the S-rank forbidden jutsu, Impure World Reincarnation, but the thought of digging up rotten corpses and using living people as sacrifices made him immediately discard it.
Among the chosen techniques, the Rasengan, needless to say, although it was a basic technique, given the nature of a 100,000-year soul ring, it would inevitably undergo a qualitative change. Ye Zhiqui had no doubt it could unleash the power of an S-rank or even Super S-rank ninjutsu, and when combined with his Flying Thunder God, it would almost certainly hit its target.
If Ye Zhiqui were to use the Rasengan, with his almost inexhaustible soul power, he could probably condense a devastating attack on the scale of Goku's Spirit Bomb from Dragon Ball.
As for the second ninjutsu, this was the ultimate technique of Hashirama Senju, the God of Shinobi, capable of overpowering the Nine-Tails.
Whenever Ye Zhiqui saw this technique, a scene would involuntarily appear in his mind.
Hashirama Senju: "Nine-Tails, you are too powerful. I cannot allow you to roam free."
Then, Hashirama Senju's True Several Thousand Hands extended a hand and squeezed the Nine-Tails like a chick. The Nine-Tails' eyes bulged out, almost choked to death by Hashirama.
And behind Hashirama Senju, emmm, there were still 999 hands unused.
This… this was the True Several Thousand Hands, a ninjutsu that shone brightly even in the later stages of the Naruto world's final battles.
As for the third technique, Kagura Mind's Eye, this was a functional ninjutsu, a sensory technique that appeared on Tobirama Senju, the Second Hokage, and Karin.
It possessed sensory and detection capabilities far superior to the Byakugan. Even a novice ninja like Karin could use this technique to sense every rustle within dozens of miles.
It's important to note that this wasn't ordinary sensing; this technique was like a person watching a black-and-white animation from a god's-eye view. It was a divine skill among auxiliary ninjutsu.
If Ye Zhiqui were to use it himself, he felt that with his mental power, sensing a hundred kilometers should not be a big problem, and the effects added by a 100,000-year soul ring would probably not be too bad either.
These three ninjutsu were all excellent, and Ye Zhiqui found himself in a dilemma for a moment. Which one to choose?
All three seemed very good.
After much hesitation, Ye Zhiqui pointed at the True Several Thousand Hands. For no other reason than that in a fight, he could loudly declare: "Trash, I'll let you use two hands!"
And then use the True Several Thousand Hands' thousand arms to teach the opponent a lesson. Just thinking about it was exciting, wasn't it?
However, the next moment…
[System Notification: No Sage Body, conditions not met.]
Ye Zhiqui: "…"
"I feel like you're messing with me!"
"I finally made up my mind, didn't I?"
Alright.
Since the True Several Thousand Hands had unmet conditions, he could only choose between Rasengan and Kagura Mind's Eye.
Ye Zhiqui pondered for a long time and still decided to purchase Kagura Mind's Eye. As for the Rasengan, he at least knew how to research it himself; Naruto was an excellent teacher. Perhaps he could try to develop it himself later?
After all, there were many self-created soul skills in Douluo, so his idea of independently developing the Rasengan should be feasible.
But for Kagura Mind's Eye, he had no idea what its principle was, so he couldn't create it himself. This technique was very useful, and Ye Zhiqui didn't want to give it up directly.
Actually, according to Ye Zhiqui's own thoughts, he felt that he didn't lack powerful offensive killing moves. His previous desire to buy the True Several Thousand Hands was purely for showing off.
After all, he had the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and Rinnegan's ocular techniques. If he wanted to, he could easily conjure various powerful killing moves.
What he needed more now were functional ninjutsu, like his first three soul skills.
Offensive ninjutsu like Water Release and Fire Release might seem flashy when bought early on, but as his strength grew, they would likely be phased out. Functional ninjutsu, however, would not; they would always be useful.
Having thought everything through, Ye Zhiqui unhesitatingly spent 10,000 Negative Emotion Points to buy Kagura Mind's Eye.
At this instant, the nine tailed beasts' soul power began to return, first strengthening Ye Zhiqui's physical body once more, and then slowly emanating from his body to condense a soul ring.
During this process, Ye Zhiqui's expression wasn't very good.
Because he discovered that, apart from the Nine-Tails' emitted soul power fluctuations almost reaching 100,000 years, the other few soul beasts each only emitted about 50,000 years' worth.
And after emitting, except for the Eight-Tails, which looked slightly better, the One-Tails to Seven-Tails all seemed to have shrunk a size, appearing somewhat listless. It would probably take a long time for them to slowly recover.
"Damn, why are you guys so weak? Why can't you be more like Kurama and put in some effort?" Ye Zhiqui looked at the nine tailed beast origins in his dantian and qi sea, unable to help but curse with a dark expression. Was his million-year soul ring just gone?
Damn it!
All that anticipation for nothing.
However, on second thought, the soul power reserves of the first few tailed beasts were probably only slightly more than ordinary 100,000-year soul beasts.
They only absorbed one-tenth of the Unicornevil Dragon's soul ring energy, which was about 10,000 years. Yet they emitted 50,000 years' worth. Thinking about it that way, it actually wasn't bad at all. Ye Zhiqui's complaining was just the human tendency of insatiable desire, always wanting more.
Outside Ye Zhiqui, who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, a scarlet soul ring slowly condensed, encircling his other three soul rings. This soul ring's color was much deeper than the third 100,000-year soul ring, a dazzling red.
The fourth soul ring, 600,000 years!
A unique pressure spread from this fourth ring, covering the surroundings. Daming and Erming, who were closest, felt a tremor in their hearts, an illusion of subjects seeing their king.
Xiaowu almost lost her footing, stumbling and leaning on Daming to regain her balance. At this moment, she almost dared not look directly at Ye Zhiqui's figure, slightly averting her gaze. Only then would the pressure she endured be much less.
At this time, throughout the Star Dou Great Forest, all soul beasts above 100,000 years sensed this unique pressure descending. They put down what they were doing and looked towards Ye Zhiqui's location, their expressions grave.
Ye Zhiqui, whose soul ring had finished condensing, did not rush to exit his meditative state. Instead, he first checked the effects of his fourth soul skill.
Kagura Mind's Eye: A super-large-range sensory ninjutsu. The stronger the mental power, the larger the sensory range.
600,000-year Soul Ring Additional Effects: (Passive: Mental power becomes divine sense and slowly increases autonomously.)
(Passive: Divine Sense Barrier: A divine sense barrier forms in the sea of consciousness, capable of resisting mental attacks up to three times stronger than the user.)
Description: Under divine sense, nothing can hide.
After seeing this soul skill, Ye Zhiqui's face, which had been somewhat dark because the soul ring hadn't reached a million years, slowly regained its healthy color.
Indeed, a happy event brings a refreshed spirit.
Looking at the two passive abilities of his fourth soul skill, Ye Zhiqui felt a surge of excitement. As expected of a 600,000-year soul ring's additional effect, Kagura Mind's Eye was a mental-type ninjutsu, so its passives were all focused on mental power.
Either of these two passives could be considered a divine skill!
His mental power was already strong due to the continuous upgrading of his Sharingan. Now with this soul skill, he wondered if anyone on the Douluo Continent could make him suffer a loss with mental power?
As for the divine sense transformation of mental power, Ye Zhiqui also understood a little. He had read many cultivation novels in his previous life.
Did this mean that he, who could originally only see black-and-white movies with Kagura Mind's Eye, could now see color movies?
Emmm, watching movies wasn't the main point. The main thing was that with divine sense, it would greatly aid in combat. Coupled with his Sharingan, absolutely no one on the Douluo Continent could pull off small tricks in front of him without being discovered.
If mental power were compared to water, then divine sense would be solid ice, and not just any ice, but ten-thousand-year-old ice. The two were incomparable.
As Ye Zhiqui was pondering, a voice suddenly sounded in his mind.
[Host has reached Level 40. The Naruto Negative Emotion God System is beginning to upgrade, taking three days. During the upgrade, the store will be closed.]
Ye Zhiqui: "…"
He had thought before that his system might upgrade, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly.
Ye Zhiqui was still very much looking forward to the system upgrade. Although there were many ninjutsu in the store now, he didn't think much of them. If some useful ninjutsu didn't appear, his fifth soul ring might just be a random pick.
All in all, the system upgrade was good news, a pleasant surprise.
Everything concluded, Ye Zhiqui, who had been sitting cross-legged, slowly opened his eyes, a glint flashing in them.
After slowly getting up and stretching, Ye Zhiqui retracted his martial spirit, and the 600,000-year soul ring pressure permeating the Star Dou Great Forest abruptly dissipated.
Out of curiosity about the function of divine sense, Ye Zhiqui tried to extend his divine sense outwards, and then, Ye Zhiqui was a little stunned.
In the blink of an eye, the divine sense spread out dozens of miles from Ye Zhiqui as the center, and it was still continuously extending.
60 miles.
80 miles.
It didn't slowly stop until it had spread nearly 110 miles. If it continued to spread, Ye Zhiqui noticed a slight mental fatigue, so he decisively stopped.
A range of 110 miles was already very good. This was also when he cast it with himself as the center. If he directly extended his divine sense in one direction, he could probably see even further.
Moreover, he hadn't used any soul skills yet, meaning he hadn't even used Kagura Mind's Eye. This was just a passive ability of Kagura Mind's Eye, and its coverage was already so vast. If he were to use Kagura Mind's Eye's ability, how far could it extend?
Ye Zhiqui didn't know, but it certainly wouldn't be less than 150 miles.
As for the effect, it was indeed as described: wherever divine sense covered, nothing could hide.
Within this 110-mile radius centered on him, everything was visible, as if transparent, forming a miniature world in his mind. From large soul beasts roaming outside to the trembling of grass blades, the actions in the small world formed in his sea of consciousness would instantly synchronize.
Ye Zhiqui even saw Xiaowu without clothes. The clothes she wore seemed to be of no use under divine sense.
This X-ray vision was too powerful. For this, Ye Zhiqui could only silently apologize to Tang San in his heart: "I didn't intentionally look at your future wife's body."
Xiaowu, however, was completely unaware that Ye Zhiqui had seen her body. Even Daming and Erming, who were covered by the divine sense, didn't notice anything unusual.
Although they were 100,000-year soul beasts, it would be difficult for them to perceive Ye Zhiqui's prying with mental power that was a notch lower than divine sense.
According to Ye Zhiqui's estimation, in the Douluo world, to upgrade mental power to divine sense, one would probably need to be at least a Level 99 Limit Douluo to even begin the transformation, and that would be a Limit Douluo with powerful mental strength. Only after becoming a god would it be possible to develop divine sense, as the Douluo Continent does not cultivate mental power.
At this moment, Xiaowu skipped over, looking at Ye Zhiqui curiously. "Brother Qiu, how's your fourth soul skill? Is it particularly amazing? That pressure just now was terrifying; it almost made me fall over."
Ye Zhiqui smiled and said, "It's not bad. This time, I still have to thank you, Daming, and Erming."
"Hehe." Xiaowu giggled, very happy that she could help Ye Zhiqui.
Daming, however, suddenly grumbled, "Actually, we didn't help much. Erming and the Unicornevil Dragon have fought many times, and everyone knows their methods. Without you, it couldn't have severely injured the Unicornevil Dragon."
"Awoo awoo!" Erming bared his big mouth and nodded his huge head, laughing.
Erming was very happy to have killed the Unicornevil Dragon in one battle, though he somewhat regretted losing an opponent.
Ye Zhiqui smiled indifferently, not bothering with pleasantries. Soul beasts were indeed much more adorable and straightforward than humans.
Just as Ye Zhiqui was about to retract his divine sense and return to the Lake of Life with Daming and the others, his divine sense suddenly detected a strange fluctuation beneath the surface of the Lake of Life. This fluctuation was very unstable, sometimes strong, sometimes weak.
In his previous life, Ye Zhiqui had only read the first part of Douluo Dalu. He hadn't had time to catch up on the later parts, but he had heard some things about Ditian and the other Ten Great Fierce Beasts, though he didn't know where they were.
Now, suddenly, he detected a faint fluctuation beneath the surface of the Lake of Life. When the aura was strong, it was the most powerful Ye Zhiqui had ever encountered, far surpassing Daming and Erming, these two 100,000-year soul beasts. But when it was weak, it was like an ordinary 100-year soul beast.
This couldn't help but pique Ye Zhiqui's curiosity.
Could it be the sleeping Ditian or another of the Ten Great Fierce Beasts hidden below? After all, there shouldn't be many creatures on the Douluo Continent that could make him feel terrified.
What could it be?
Ye Zhiqui followed Daming and the others back to the Lake of Life, while extending his divine sense beneath the lake's surface.
Originally, he hadn't thought there would be anything beneath the Lake of Life, as Daming spent every day there, and if there were something, it would have run away long ago.
Today, however, he encountered something special.
He might have discovered one of the Ten Great Fierce Beasts, and Ye Zhiqui couldn't help but feel a little excited.
If he could kill a several-hundred-thousand-year soul beast, his fifth soul ring might be able to break the million-year limit.
After absorbing the Unicornevil Dragon's soul ring, Ye Zhiqui was already Level 45.
If there really was a several-hundred-thousand-year fierce beast hidden beneath the Lake of Life, Ye Zhiqui might wait until he reached Level 50, then return here to kill that fierce beast.
What he needed to do now was to investigate what kind of soul beast was hidden beneath the lake's surface, so he could prepare in advance.
Thinking of this, Ye Zhiqui couldn't help but retract all his dispersed divine sense, pressing it all down beneath the Lake of Life to search for that aura.
The lake was deeper than Ye Zhiqui expected, leading to who knows where. His divine sense continuously extended downwards until it reached a pitch-black area, where no light could be seen.