Doulou Dalu: The Power of a Book

Chapter 65: You Can't Trick Me!

Although the Dugu Family is powerful and has a heritage, there are still problems with their own cultivation.

Even though they have strong paths for Spirit Ring combinations, they mostly stick to the methods of ordinary Spirit Masters when exploring new Spirit Skills, in order to find ways to improve the toxicity backlash of the family's Martial Spirit.

Due to the significant flaws in their Martial Spirit, they don't seek help from other scholars to develop methods to detoxify it. Instead, they research on their own.

As a result, through generations, a family known for its expertise in toxins has accumulated considerable knowledge about Martial Spirits, especially Dugu Bo. With his high-level research on toxins, he has developed his own approach to studying Martial Spirits.

In the past, Dugu Yan was puzzled by her grandfather's decision to focus on theoretical books after achieving the rank of Titled Douluo.

Now she vaguely understood.

"Xiaowen, Teacher Xiao Zhan, my grandfather said that there are Stone Monsters in Sunset Forest that have been around for over fifty thousand years. It's also a gathering place for the Stone Monster Tribe. However, there are still many Stone Monsters living outside. Let's search around the outskirts."

"Fifty thousand years?" Su Wen exclaimed.

He hadn't come across any Stone Monster cases with such a high age limit in the many records he had seen.

The highest he had seen was a thirty-thousand-year-old Stone Monster discovered by a Spirit Master in the Star Dou Great Forest, as recorded in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect records.

"It seems we can't completely trust publicly available information in the future," Su Wen thought to himself.

It's not that there's an issue with the publicly available information, but rather that it might not be entirely comprehensive in its accounts.

"Fifty-thousand-year-old Stone Monsters are indeed rare," Xiao Zhan also remarked.

The birth of Stone Monsters is inherently difficult, and even though it's unrelated to Su Wen, for defensive-type Spirit Masters like him, Stone Monsters make excellent Spirit Rings.

Therefore, the number of Stone Monsters has always been small, and they rarely grow to maturity.

"Wait." Su Wen called out to Dugu Yan and Xiao Zhan, approaching a special rock beside a small hill.

He extended his Spiritual Power.

"There are remnants of Soul Power inside this rock, indicating that a Stone Monster has stayed here."

When Stone Monsters rest, they choose special rocks as their resting spots and blend with them to camouflage themselves.

After they leave, remnants of their Soul Power will remain inside the camouflaged rocks.

"The intensity of the Soul Power isn't high, but according to records, the Soul Power left by Stone Monsters in rocks is usually weak and will diminish over time."

From this, it can be inferred that this Stone Monster is at least over three thousand years old.

"How about it, does it meet your age requirements?" Xiao Zhan asked.

Three thousand years old already exceeded the absorption limit of a typical Level 30 Spirit Master for their third Spirit Ring.

And by a significant margin.

Su Wen had absorbed beyond his level before. How far his Spirit Ring's age could reach depended on his own estimation, as he was the one who truly understood himself.