"The Jade Shield Flower, which lasts for ten thousand years, might be able to grant me a decent defensive soul skill."
Qing Mu smiled.
The Azure Shield Flower is extremely weak. Even a ten-thousand-year-old Azure Shield Flower will only shatter into pieces if its main body is attacked by a hundred-year-old soul beast.
Logically speaking, these soul beasts should have been eliminated long ago, but they happen to have a powerful talent: they can condense an incredibly sturdy green energy film.
With this talent, the Azure Shield Flower not only protects its extremely fragile body, but can even turn this membrane into a capture device.
If the prey cannot break through this membrane, it will starve to death inside and be absorbed as nutrients by the Jade Shield Flower.
But the Jade Shield Flower is not invincible. First of all, it has no offensive capabilities, which means it can only passively take hits.
Moreover, its emerald shield, while powerful in defense, is not unbreakable. Once the shield is broken, the weak creature, unable to escape, is almost certain to die.
But this is precisely why Qing Mu chose it. Not only is its defense powerful, but it also cannot resist. Is there anything more suitable as a soul ring in the world?
Thinking of this, Qing Mu immediately stopped hesitating, her soul rings lit up, condensing into a white ball of light, which she then threw into the sky!
Then, Qingmu said to the Ivysaur beside him, "Ivysaur, start growing!"
Under the blessing of a sunny day, Ivysaur can grow at the fastest speed, and the 300% boost is enough to make Ivysaur's strength achieve a qualitative leap.
The defense of the Eternal Jade Shield Flower is extremely strong, and it is impossible for a soul beast of the same level to break through it. However, the Ivysaur in its growing state is far superior to ordinary ten-thousand-year soul beasts. No matter how strong the defense of the Eternal Jade Shield Flower is, it is impossible for it to withstand the continuous attacks of the Ivysaur!
"Da na~"
Ivysaur nodded, and then its body swelled and grew larger under the sunlight, eventually becoming even larger than a typical Venusaur.
At this moment, the aura emanating from Ivysaur became several times stronger than before. Even a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast would have no choice but to retreat in the face of the current Ivysaur.
Sensing the aura emanating from Ivysaur, Violet seemed to sense a threat and immediately expanded the shield around its body, even darkening the color of the shield.
Seeing this from afar, Qing Mu couldn't help but laugh and said, "Have you strengthened your defenses? Let me see if your defenses are as strong as the records say."
"Ivysaur, let's go!"
Immediately, Qingmu jumped directly onto Ivysaur's back.
Feeling the slight chill from the leaves beneath her feet and the warmth emanating from the flower buds, Qingmu remained unusually calm.
At this moment, Ivysaur is already at its strongest. Ordinary ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts would be no match for Ivysaur in its current state, let alone a Blue Shield Flower that has no attack ability.
As they approached Ivysaur's attack range, Qingmu immediately entered telepathic mode and said to Ivysaur, "Ivysaur, use Seed Bomb!"
"Da na!"
The next moment, Ivysaur shot out several huge seeds from the flower bud on its back, heading towards the direction of the Blue Shield Flower.
"Boom boom boom—"
The seed bombs were blocked by the green shield of the Jade Shield Flower, and several explosions rang out in an instant, causing ripples to appear on the green shield.
"Wow, that's some serious defense!"
Seeing that several seed bombs only produced a barely perceptible ripple, Qing Mu couldn't help but gasp.
If Ivysaur's attack had hit an ordinary ten-thousand-year-old soul beast, it would have been enough to severely injure them, or even blast them into dust.
This level of attack only caused a barely perceptible ripple on the emerald green shield, making its defensive capabilities undoubtedly far stronger than those described in the books.
But soon, Qingmu's heart became excited.
With such strong defense, it means that the soul skills he gains after absorbing the soul ring of the Azure Shield Flower will be even more powerful!
With such defensive capabilities, coupled with the defensive power of the Wood Spirit Seed, his safety is no longer a concern.
"Ivysaur, take root, unleash your little crazy plant power!"
As Qing Mu spoke, he unleashed his first soul skill, Green Grass Field!
Grassy Terrain increases the power of Grass-type moves by 30%. Although the increase is not high, it can be stacked with the growth from Growth, effectively doubling the power of Ivysaur. Therefore, the increase is not insignificant.
This is why teams often include a support-type Soul Master. The support skills of a support-type Soul Master are often multiplicative, while the Soul Master's own amplification skills are often additive. In reality, the amplification that a support-type Soul Master can bring is greater than imagined.
Otherwise, with the usual 10% or 20% boost from a support-type Soul Master, there would be no need for another person to protect them, and support-type Soul Masters would be completely unnecessary.
After all, even the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, which is known as the number one support-type martial soul in the world, can only increase power by 80% when one reaches the Soul Saint level, while the Soul Master's own power increase is often 100% or more.
If this amplification is diluted by the Soul Master's own Soul Skills, then who would bother to add amplifying Soul Skills? Everyone would just use healing, removing negative status effects, or adding negative status effects to the opponent.
"Da na!!!"
Upon hearing Qingmu's words, a fierce glint flashed in Ivysaur's eyes, and it immediately stopped. Numerous roots grew from its limbs and headed into the ground.
With a pulse like blood vessels, a large amount of energy underground was absorbed by Ivysaur, and Qingmu's soul power, which had been depleted by using Seed Bomb, was instantly restored by more than half.
Ivysaur, now replenished, unleashed its strongest move yet without hesitation: a mini crazy plant formed from the fusion of several vine whips!
The next moment, several thick, emerald green vines burst from the ground and attacked the Evergreen Shield Flower at an extremely fast speed.
With its growth secrets and the support of a grassy field, this little crazy plant grew as thick as an adult's thigh, and even resembled a real crazy plant.
In an instant, those incredibly thick vines crashed into the emerald green shield of the Eternal Jade Shield Flower.
"Crack!!!"
After only a brief stalemate, the once incredibly sturdy emerald green shield was breached like glass by the little crazy plant, and green fragments scattered all over the ground.
After breaking through the emerald green shield, the Eternal Shield Flower had no ability to defend itself anymore. Its body was directly pierced by the thick vines of Ivysaur, and it died on the spot.
As the Eternal Jade Shield Flower died, a jet-black soul ring slowly condensed from its corpse.