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"He's already a Titled Douluo?" Hearing Tang Hao's address to Lei Yin, Tang San looked at the peer in the sky with astonishment, finding it hard to believe.
In order to restrain the killing intent he had gathered in the City of Slaughter and eliminate the side effects of that cultivation, he had been cultivating his mind and character in Yue Xuan for the past year.
After graduating, he was eager to learn the truth of that year from Tang Hao, busy with acknowledging his ancestors and returning to the clan, and then discussing the alliance with Xue Beng on behalf of the Clear Sky Sect, so he knew relatively little about what had happened in the past year.
"That guy has Jacob's shadow on him. If Jacob had put all his efforts into training him, it wouldn't be surprising for him to be a Titled Douluo at such a young age," "Gehrman" said from the side.
"Does your Amon family have secret methods that can help people quickly improve their strength? There must be great side effects, right?" Tang San's mind became active.
Being able to quickly raise a person's soul power to the level of Titled Douluo, for large forces, even the greatest side effects are acceptable.
Lei Yin's appearance made him feel a greater sense of crisis, realizing that the Clear Sky Sect's power was still somewhat weak.
If there was such a secret method, I wonder if he could get Gehrman to contribute it in exchange for joining forces against Amon... Tang San thought in his heart.
"Side effects... there are a few, but not very big. The family's treasure can solve the side effects. Jacob probably has completely mastered the 'treasure', so he doesn't have any side effects when using it," "Gehrman" said in a deep voice.
Seeming to see through Tang San's thoughts, "Gehrman" didn't hide anything and frankly revealed the Amon family's "secret method":
"It's very simple, just absorb soul bones, right? If ordinary soul bones are not enough, then add external soul bones. If the age of the absorbed soul bones is high, then you can increase more than twenty levels, and incidentally improve your cultivation talent."
Tang San opened his mouth, not knowing what to say... I also know this method, but I can't use it... he muttered in his heart.
"Wait, you just said there are side effects? What are the side effects of absorbing soul bones? And what is this family treasure you're talking about?" Tang San asked.
"Gehrman" smoothly replied:
"Side effects... not counting external soul bones, a person can only absorb six soul bones. If you blindly attach high-age soul bones in order to increase soul power without considering the matching degree of skills, wouldn't that be wasting these skill slots?
"It's not easy to find soul bones that are both high in age and match the skills... This method of improving levels will have some impact on future combat effectiveness... That's the side effect."
Tang San looked a little dazed, not quite keeping up with "Gehrman's" train of thought...
Why does it feel like soul bones are as cheap as cabbages in your mouth? When did absorbing soul bones require considering both age and skill matching?
Even top sects like the Clear Sky Sect and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect can only equip their successors with a few high-year soul bones...
Our understanding of side effects may be a little different.
Tang San suddenly remembered that he had simply brought Gehrman the news about Amon and received a 50,000-year soul bone as a reward, and the atmosphere between the two sides was not harmonious at the time, a bit tense.
He couldn't help swallowing and said with some difficulty:
"Does your Amon family have so many soul bones that you can't use them all? Could it be that you have dozens or hundreds of soul bones?"
"Don't be so surprised. We have a special method that can greatly increase the drop rate of soul bones, so soul bones are not very rare for us," "Gehrman" revealed this information quite casually.
"Increase the drop rate of soul bones?" Tang San's heart trembled, and he exclaimed... If this news spreads, it will probably cause an uproar. No soul master can refuse such a temptation, and at that time, the Amon family will probably become the target of public criticism.
"Gehrman" smiled lightly, not taking it seriously, and said:
"You should know that when soul beasts die during violent emotional fluctuations, it can greatly increase the probability of producing soul bones.
"So you just need to constantly torture the soul beasts, making them suffer more than death, allowing them to constantly accumulate extreme emotions, and kill them when they hate the most.
"Of course, even if you deliberately abuse ordinary soul beasts, it is difficult to make their emotions reach the threshold for producing soul bones, so you need to choose soul beasts that are inherently full of emotions, such as the Soft Bone Rabbit.
"Or, you can cultivate a relationship with the soul beast, and when the relationship is deep enough, deliberately create an 'accident' that puts you and the soul beast in a desperate situation.
"Only if the soul beast is willing to die for you can you survive; otherwise, you will both die in a desperate situation... With the soul beast's intelligence and emotional sincerity, they are very likely to choose to sacrifice themselves to let you live.
"Our Amon family has accumulated many soul bones through this method. At least it's enough to cultivate several Titled Douluos."
"Gehrman's" words echoed in Tang San's mind like the whispers of a devil, full of temptation and making him feel uneasy.
What a vicious method... Tang San couldn't help but gasp, especially the last one, which was simply a devil playing with people's hearts... It seems that this Amon family is not a good thing either, actually using such an evil way to obtain soul bones.
He solemnly said to "Gehrman": "I hope you don't reveal these methods casually. We humans have finally reconciled with the soul beasts and reached an agreement to deal with Amon together. Such methods will definitely cause dissatisfaction among the ferocious beasts and may cause another beast tide."
"Gehrman" replied with a cold expression: "The Black Dragon is also my enemy... The former Amon family fell because of him. But I can promise you to deal with Jacob first, no, he should be called Amon... Maybe he's right, even the Black Dragon King Di Tian is helpless against him... But I won't forgive what he's done."
"Gehrman's" face showed a complex expression. This made Tang San couldn't help but guess the grudges and love-hate entanglements behind it.
Lei Yin, who was confronting Tang Hao in the sky, revealed his martial soul, and a constantly jumping thunder appeared in his hand.
His soul rings were also revealed, which were yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, and a red soul ring with seven golden patterns.
Two years ago, when assisting Amon in hunting the auspicious beast, Lei Yin was already level 75, and at that time, he had also gathered a complete set of soul bones.
They were a 30,000-year right arm bone "Thunder Railgun", a 40,000-year left arm bone "Soul Bone Space", a 70,000-year torso bone "Thunder Pool", a 60,000-year left leg bone "Thunder Speed", and two 20,000-year soul bones used to increase levels, which were not very useful.
It wasn't that Amon didn't want to give him better ones, but at that time, Amon's own strength was limited, and he only had a few hundred soul bones in his hand, mostly centuries-old or millennia-Outer Deities.
And he also needed to prepare "Grievance Curse", so it was impossible to spend too much effort to help Lei Yin obtain two high-quality soul bones, so he could only casually take two to make up the numbers and "forcefully promote" his soul power, in order to increase the success rate of hunting the auspicious beast.
After Amon absorbed the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King's soul ring and was able to "steal life", he decided to help Lei Yin replace those two useless soul bones.
After all, Lei Yin was the sharpest sword in his hand, and his help in the short term was even greater than Yan Jin's.
Finding loopholes in the rules is what Amon is best at. He discovered that he only needed to "steal" those two soul bones, leave the parts empty, and he could absorb soul bones again.
Although stealing the soul bones would cause the soul power level increased by absorbing the soul bones to drop, as long as the quality of the re-absorbed soul bones exceeded the original ones, the overall level would increase instead.
Amon also tried to exploit the bug and did an experiment:
He had someone absorb a soul bone, steal the soul bone, and then let him absorb a soul bone of the same part, and finally "return" it to see if the two soul bones could be fused to form a higher-quality soul bone.
Unfortunately, it didn't work. Whether the fusion was successful or not had a lot of randomness. Sometimes it was successful, sometimes it failed, causing both soul bones to be completely destroyed and the soul master to be severely damaged... and there was no pattern at all. Therefore, Amon gave up this idea.
Lei Yin spent a year and a half improving two levels on his own, and Amon used two 90,000-year soul bones to replace his head soul bone and right leg bone, helping him improve three levels, bringing his level to 80.
Amon had scattered avatars in various places. Many avatars did not have a clear mission and only served as a backup for resurrection, responsible for surviving.
Not all Amons would be content with "living" peacefully.
There were a few adventurous Amons who put on straw hats, raised their sails, and sailed to the vast sea.
Some were swallowed by the waves, some died in the mouths of sea soul beasts, and one lucky guy drifted across the ocean to the Sun Moon Continent.
Amon's focus was on the Douluo Continent, and he didn't pay much attention to the Sun Moon Continent, but he also had the Amon there pay attention to the location of certain soul beasts.
The Evil Eye Tyrant Dominator was added to Amon's reserve list.
Three months ago, Amon first performed a martial soul fusion with Lei Yin, and then had the Amon from the Sun Moon Continent initiate the theft, stealing Lei Yin entirely.
He took Lei Yin, hunted the Evil Eye Tyrant Dominator, and made it Lei Yin's eighth soul ring. Then he stole Lei Yin's head soul bone again, allowing him to fuse with the head soul bone dropped by the Evil Eye Tyrant Dominator.
After absorbing such high-quality soul rings and soul bones, Lei Yin's soul power level increased significantly, and he ushered in several level jumps. At this time, he was already a level 86 Soul Douluo.
As for why he was clearly just a Soul Douluo, but was called "Thunderclap Douluo" by Tang Hao, the answer was very simple: he earned it.
He had defeated the Myriad Demon King disguised as the Sect Master of the Beast Control Sect in Waterfall City. Two months ago, he killed a Titled Douluo of the Star Luo Empire on the front battlefield with his own strength. Only then was he, as a Soul Douluo, granted the title of "Thunderclap".
Therefore, facing Lei Yin, who was young and whose soul power was far lower than his own, Tang Hao did not dare to be careless at all, because the other party's title was obtained by stepping on the corpses of the older generation.
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