Douluo: Make a gun first

Chapter 104: Fire Phoenix Starts a Prairie Fire
The moon sets and the sun rises, and the night is silent.

In the early morning, a loud phoenix cry replaced the crowing of roosters, calling out the sun from the east.

Shen Rui, who was on night watch, suddenly brightened up and turned to look at Ma Hongjun who was absorbing the soul ring.

Ma Hongjun's body was burning with blazing red-gold flames, and three soul rings, two yellow and one purple, were slowly rotating around him.

Along with the cry of the phoenix, a scarlet-gold phoenix shadow spread its wings and flew high out of the flames, circled above his head three times, then swooped down, drilled into his chest and merged into it.

The red-gold flame began to converge, and three soul rings, two yellow and one purple, also merged into his body.

"Whoo~"

He let out a long breath, and a stream of hot air spurted out of Ma Hongjun's mouth. He opened his eyes, and a red-gold light flashed. Flames flowed in his eyes, shining with brilliance, and he looked full of energy.

"Xiaojun, congratulations on your breakthrough." Seeing Ma Hongjun waking up, Shen Rui was the first to congratulate him.

With a restrained aura, Ma Hongjun stood up and bowed to Shen Rui, "Thank you, foster father, for protecting me."

Shen Rui held up Ma Hongjun with his hand and said, "You call me godfather, so isn't it natural for me to protect my own child? Why are you still being so polite?"

At this time, Shen Feng, who had surrounded him at some point, asked, "How's it going, Fatty? How much has your soul power increased?"

Ma Hongjun grinned and said excitedly: "I just broke through. I was a little excited and didn't have time to feel it."

"Brother Feng, wait a moment, let me feel it."

He closed his eyes and sensed carefully, and after a moment Ma Hongjun opened his eyes in surprise.

"Brother Feng, level 35, my soul power has indeed broken through to level 35."

"It's unbelievable. In less than a month, I have broken through from level 28 to level 35. This is such a rapid progress. When the teacher finds out, he will definitely not call me a useless person anymore."

Oscar laughed and said, "Fatty, how can you be considered a useless person? Even without mentioning the improvement brought by the immortal grass, you are a level 12 Great Spirit Master at the age of 28."

"If you are all useless, there won't be many talented soul masters in this world."

Zhao Wuji suddenly laughed and said, "I know Boss F's personality. He is just jealous. He really wants you to catch up with Xiaofeng and Xiaoao."

"In fact, judging from your progress in cultivation, he is also cursing you but feeling happy in his heart."

"Regarding your training speed, he has boasted to me countless times in private."

Ma Hongjun chuckled, scratched his head and said, "Teachers are like this, always saying one thing and thinking another. When they want to praise me, they never say it to my face. They are always secretive and it's not pleasant at all."

Lingna reached out and patted Ma Hongjun's head: "Stop slandering your teacher here. Come on, show us your third soul skill and let us see how it works."

Ma Hongjun nodded and said happily: "My third soul skill is called Fire Phoenix, which is a range soul skill."

As he spoke, Ma Hongjun took a few steps back, his martial spirit possessed him, flames swirled around him, and a pair of scarlet-gold wings extended from behind him.

Three soul rings, two yellow and one purple, rose one by one from under his feet and rotated around his body regularly.

With his wings flapping, Ma Hongjun's feet left the ground, rising to a height of about fifteen meters above the ground and hovering.

First, the second soul ring lit up, and blazing flames suddenly rose from Ma Hongjun's body.

Then the third thousand-year soul ring lit up, and all the flames flowed to the red-gold wings behind him.

The flames compressed rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, the red-gold wings turned into a deep dark red.

"Third soul skill: Fire Phoenix spreads across the prairie."

With a loud shout, Ma Hongjun suddenly flapped the wings behind him, and two hot curtains of fire as sticky as magma instantly broke away from the wings and splashed down from the sky.

The fire curtain was like water, quickly dispersing in the air and splitting into countless red-gold viscous water droplets of varying sizes, splashing on the ground with extremely high viscosity.

"Beng~" The water drops fell to the ground and quickly ignited a raging fire. The fire spread and covered the area more than ten meters in front.

The hard soil and rocks sizzled under the high temperature, and the stones began to crack and show signs of softening.

The red-gold flame burned for five full minutes, the ground sank more than an inch, and nearly two hundred square meters of the ground was completely burned into reflective glass.

Ma Hongjun fell from the sky panting. He raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his head and looked at everyone with burning eyes.

"How is it? How is my third soul skill?"

Shen Rui nodded in satisfaction: "Not bad, the temperature has reached over 1000 degrees, the range is not small, and the duration is excellent. It's just that the consumption is a bit too high."

Ma Hongjun chuckled and said, "If I don't use the second soul skill to increase my power, I can maintain the third soul skill for 15 minutes at full soul power. With the second soul skill, I can only maintain it for 7 minutes at most. If I use the first soul skill to supplement the damage, I'm afraid I can only fight for three minutes."

Shen Feng smiled and said, "Fatty, don't be ungrateful. Three minutes may be short, but you have a strong burst of energy. You are very energetic."

"When I broke through to the Soul Master level, I couldn't even last 3 minutes after a burst of energy. You are already stronger than me."

Ma Hongjun curled his lips: "Brother Feng, don't try to lie to me again, Brother Ao told me everything."

"Your first spirit ring is eight hundred years old, your second spirit ring is over two thousand years old, and your third spirit ring is only one year away from reaching the ten thousand year mark, a 2000 year spirit ring."

"With the cultivation of a Soul Venerable, you can drive a soul ring that is comparable to the age of a Soul King, and you can still complete a set of bursts. How the hell is this."

"Compared to you, I'm just a piece of trash."

Lingna spoke to comfort him, "Don't worry, when your soul power level increases, the fighting time will naturally increase as well."

"It's great now. With such a large range and such high explosive power, if you go to the big fighting spirit arena to compete, that is, the standard arena of 20 meters by 20 meters, once you use this explosive power, you may be able to send away an entire team of spirit masters of the same level."

Ma Hongjun's eyes lit up: "Am I already so strong?"

"Brother Ao, I am so strong, can I fight with you for a few moves?"

Oscar was stunned for a moment, and the soul power in his body suddenly erupted. A pit instantly appeared on the ground under his feet. His body turned into an afterimage and came behind Ma Hongjun.

He swung his right hand horizontally, and the palm wind blew up Ma Hongjun's shoulder-length hair and stopped steadily at his neck.

"Well, obviously, not yet."

Ma Hongjun swallowed hard and said, "Brother Ao, you are a support, can you not be so scary?"

Oscar closed his palm and sighed: "It's not that I'm scary, it's that you don't exercise enough."

"Don't lose heart. Once you get another spirit ring, I will definitely not be able to defeat you. After all, I am just a support. I have inherent weaknesses and cannot compete with you offensive spirit masters."

"Besides, I only have a few tricks that I can use over and over again, and you're not in good condition right now. Once you're ready to fly into the sky, I won't be able to do anything."

As he spoke, three soul rings, two yellow and one purple, rose from Oscar's feet, "I have a sour sausage."

After chanting the soul spell, two lemon-flavored sausages that restored soul power appeared in Oscar's hands one after another.

"Here, eat quickly to recover. The next step is to go to Thunder Cloud Canyon to help Xiao Feng hunt for spirit rings."

Ma Hongjun looked at Oscar with a sad expression, took the sausage from his hand helplessly, and sighed softly.

"Brother Ao, you know what? Only when you take out the sausages will I suddenly remember that you are a food-type soul master."

"I always have the illusion that even if I get another spirit ring, I'm afraid I won't be your opponent."

Oscar smiled and said, "Come on, stop talking nonsense. We are all waiting for you. We will set off after we finish eating."

(End of this chapter)