Azure Vine is indeed a relatively gentle Spirit Beast, or rather, a very common Spirit Beast. Its biggest advantage is its strong vitality and low demands on its living environment.
With soil, water, and sunlight, it can take root, grow rapidly, and then choose a tall tree to climb and bind, forming a symbiosis.
It embodies a Spirit of not competing or snatching, living a peaceful life. If a Spirit Beast or Spirit Master passes by, it won't actively attack, so if one isn't very familiar with it, it's very likely to be overlooked.
This Azure Vine's age isn't low either. It has developed silently on the outskirts of the forest for so many years, but unfortunately, today it encountered a Mountain Boar King that ran out from the forest's core.
Thick-skinned and incredibly strong, the Azure Vine lacked powerful offensive means, and Binding couldn't control the Mountain Boar King's movements.
In the end, it inexplicably became Wang Li's first spirit ring...
At this moment, within Wang Li's body, the Azure Vine's spirit power was vast but gentle, while Wang Li's spirit power, though weak, was more dominant. Coupled with Wang Li's trained body, the process of taming the spirit ring was quite smooth.
His consciousness gradually sank, eventually entering his Dantian. In a lake formed by spirit power, a Blue Silver Grass was absorbing the spirit power from the lake and growing vigorously. Besides spirit power, there seemed to be something else.
Is this inner vision? This is the Dantian!
This is my Spirit, this is the source of my spirit power...
Wang Li's heart was filled with pleasant surprise. He carefully observed the changes occurring in the Blue Silver Grass: its roots were thick, and its branches and leaves were lush.
The original Blue Silver Grass was about two fingers wide, less than three fingers. Now, it was fully five fingers wide, and its form leaned more towards a vine, likely due to absorbing the Azure Vine spirit ring.
He had also seen Tang San's Blue Silver Grass, which was originally less than half a finger, thin and small. Even after absorbing a spirit ring, it only grew to three fingers.
It seems that his evolved Lv2 Blue Silver Grass has a clear advantage compared to Tang San's ordinary Blue Silver Grass, which hasn't even awakened yet.
Wang Li didn't know how much time had passed. When he had absorbed all the spirit power from the spirit ring and the spirit power hidden in various parts of his body that had been released by this breakthrough, he voluntarily woke up.
His condition was better than ever before!
Wang Li got up and stretched, his body crackling. He had grown a bit taller, now almost as tall as Wang Sheng, with broad shoulders and a straight posture. He no longer looked like a child from a commoner background.
Most importantly, his eyes were bright and full of Spirit. Eyes are a window, and a person's vitality and Spirit can all be revealed through them. Now, he was in a vibrant, energetic state.
The first thing he did was check his panel:
[Host: Wang Li]
[Spirit: Blue Silver Grass Lv2 (Evolving)]
[spirit power: Level 13 (24%) +]
[Trait: Vitality Lv2 (Blue Silver Grass, found in every corner of the continent, though pitifully weak, possesses strong vitality. Injuries can slowly recover.)]
[Passive: Toughness Lv2 (What doesn't kill me makes me stronger. Facing any abnormal status, as long as it doesn't result in direct death, the physique will become stronger after recovery.)]
[spirit ring: First spirit ring (Equipped)]
[Spirit Bone: None]
[Combat Experience: 0]
Seeing this panel, Wang Li immediately noticed that his spirit power had reached Level 13, and his mood became even more joyful, but this was not what he most wanted to know.
Immediately after, he used his mind to lightly touch the words "Evolving" in the Spirit column.
It then jumped to another interface:
[Lv2 -> Lv3 Life Origin (5 / 20)]
Upon seeing this, Wang Li fell into thought. Absorbing a spirit ring increased Life Origin, indicating that he could enhance his Spirit by absorbing spirit rings. However, absorbing a hundred-year spirit ring only increased Life Origin by five points. If he were to make a bold guess, he might only be able to begin the next evolution of his Blue Silver Grass Spirit after breaking through to Level 30 and absorbing a thousand-year spirit ring.
For Wang Li, who was only at Level 13, this was a long and arduous task, but he had the panel, so the day he broke through to Level 30 would not be too far away.
Thinking of this, he regained his confidence, then returned to the previous interface and looked at his first spirit ring, lightly touching it to enter.
It jumped to a new interface again:
[Spirit Ability: Growth (Releases spirit power, instantly Birth a large amount of Blue Silver Vines that can be freely controlled)]
[Source: Azure Vine (Commonly found in forests, a plant Spirit Beast that can coexist with other plants)]
[Age: 404 (+)]
Not the Binding skill, but Growth... Wang Li's mind became active. Freely controllable, so he could use it for whipping and Binding, right?
Hunting this Azure Vine was not a loss, truly not a loss.
A 404-year-old Azure Vine, just looking at its age, is even stronger than Tang San's Datura Snake, and it can also... it can also improve...
Wang Li was completely stunned. What did he see? His panel could help him increase the spirit ring's age. What did this mean? It meant that if he cultivated to Titled Douluo...
He could have nine ten-thousand-year spirit rings, or even nine hundred-thousand-year spirit rings. Even million-year spirit rings and ten-million-year spirit rings were not impossible.
Million-year Spirit Beasts could already be called Divine Beasts.
If he truly had spirit rings of a million years or more, he could even achieve God Position through his physical body, neither an inherited God Position nor a God Position condensed from faith. Achieving God Position through the physical body would be unrestricted and free.
Calm down... calm down...
Wang Li kept telling himself this in his heart. As a young Spirit Master with Level 13 spirit power, he shouldn't be thinking about such long-term matters.
But his face still showed an irrepressible excitement.
At this moment, Dean Zhang walked over with a smile. He was not surprised by Wang Li's excitement; instead, he said:
"It took you two hours to absorb the spirit ring. It seems you had a good harvest!"
Wang Li put away his panel and said happily:
"Yes, I have to thank Dean for this!"
Dean Zhang knew Wang Li. After all, besides Tang San and Xiao Wu, he was the only one in the first grade who had reached Level 10 spirit power. His talent was excellent, though his Spirit was a bit lacking. Still, he was curious about what skill a hundred-year spirit ring could bring:
"What Spirit Ability did you get?"
Wang Li still smiled honestly, full of lies:
"Binding. The more targets it needs to bind, the more spirit power it consumes. In general, it consumes less spirit power."
Dean Zhang helped Wang Li obtain a hundred-year spirit ring, and Wang Li was quite grateful to Dean Zhang. However, Dean Zhang had a good relationship with Yu Xiaogang, and Wang Li did not intend to let Yu Xiaogang know about his Spirit Ability.
Dean Zhang heard the Binding skill and didn't suspect anything, smiling as he said:
"That's a very good skill. Return to the team. It's getting late today, we should find a place to camp."
Wang Li replied:
"I understand, Dean."