36: Chapter 35 The Peculiar Soft-Boned Rabbit

Stepping into the Extreme North, Lin Yan took out a rough map. After briefly identifying his bearings, he raised his hand to point toward the eastern side of the ice field, saying to Zhang Lexuan, "Senior Sister, we are heading in this direction."

"The habitat of the Spirit Beast we are targeting this time is in the middle zone between the outer perimeter and the core area of the Extreme North."

Hearing this, Zhang Lexuan and Jiang Nannan nodded gently. Along the way, Lin Yan also seized the Opportunity to introduce the target for this trip in detail to the two of them.

Frost Shadow Space Rabbit, this is a top-tier rabbit-type Spirit Beast living in the Extreme North, and it is also the fourth spirit ring Lin Yan selected for Jiang Nannan. Its core attribute is space, and its secondary attribute is ice, making it extremely rare.

The core reason for choosing this Spirit Beast is precisely the spatial attribute it possesses.

As early as the very beginning, the development route Lin Yan finalized for Jiang Nannan was to develop toward the space Domain.

Actually, in Lin Yan's view, a "trash Spirit" like the Soft Bones Rabbit, which is in the same tier as the Blue Silver Grass, is actually quite unreasonable.

Because if you look at the original work, what kind of a mess have Xiao Wu and Jiang Nannan's Spirit Ability become, and how treacherous have they become!

Charm, Nihility, Teleportation, Paragon Golden Body, Gravity Control...

No matter how you look at it, these Spirit Ability should not have anything to do with the Soft Bones Rabbit. If only Xiao Wu's Spirit Ability were like this, it could still be attributed to the particularity of her transforming from a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast.

But Jiang Nannan in the original work was also like this. Whatever kind of Spirit Ability she wanted, she could obtain it. That can only mean that the root of the problem lies in the Soft Bones Rabbit Spirit itself.

To this end, Lin Yan reviewed past records and surveyed a large number of Soft Bones Rabbit Spirit owners, putting forward a reasonable conjecture that could explain this phenomenon—non-directional Spirit mutation!

According to his survey data, among all Soft Bones Rabbit Spirit owners with an Innate Soul Power below level five, no matter what kind of spirit rings they absorbed, Spirit Ability completely unrelated to the Soft Bones Rabbit, such as Paragon Golden Body and Gravity Control, had never appeared.

The Spirit manifestations of these people were indistinguishable from ordinary Soft Bones Rabbit Spirit Beast, and the Spirit Ability they obtained were also mediocre and conventional.

According to Lin Yan's conjecture, the upper limit of Innate Soul Power for ordinary Soft Bones Rabbit Spirit owners should be at most level five.

As for that group of people whose Innate Soul Power was above level five, their Spirits seemed completely unchanged on the surface, but in reality, mutations had already occurred. It was just that this mutation was invisible and non-directional.

Ordinary Spirit mutations would completely finalize at the very moment of Spirit Awakening.

But according to Lin Yan's experimental findings, this kind of Spirit, the Soft Bones Rabbit, possesses a peculiar Bloodline exclusiveness that innately isolates other traits in the owner's Bloodline, thereby causing it to be unable to fuse with other traits hidden within the Spirit Master's Bloodline to complete the Fusion.

Precisely because of this, the Spirit mutation process, which should have completely ended at the moment of Spirit Awakening, was restricted by the inability to fuse Bloodline traits to undergo changes, causing the mutation to become completely stuck.

So much so that what was ultimately awakened was still the seemingly unchanged Soft Bones Rabbit Spirit.

But the process being stuck does not mean that the mutation that should have occurred disappeared; it just changed into another form and temporarily went dormant.

And the external manifestation was that it endowed the seemingly unchanged Soft Bones Rabbit with unparalleled plasticity.

It is precisely by virtue of this ultimate plasticity that such Soft Bones Rabbit Spirit owners can obtain those all-SORTS of Spirit Ability by absorbing different spirit rings.

At the same time, since after Spirit Awakening, the absorption of spirit rings acts directly on the Spirit itself and is not restricted by Bloodline exclusiveness,

therefore, theoretically speaking, as long as one continuously absorbs a few spirit rings with commonalities to provide a clear mutation direction for the dormant mutation, the interrupted Spirit mutation should be able to restart and complete along the guidance of the spirit rings.

But if one does not understand this point, the selection of spirit rings happens to be where problems are most likely to reappear.

If the attributes of the first few attached spirit rings are mixed and have no commonality at all, it would be like the path ahead splitting into multiple forks, making the dormant mutation lose strong directional guidance, and it would once again fall into a state of stagnation.

Moreover, this stagnation should be completely locked down; unless one subsequently obtains a Heaven-Defying Opportunity to wash away the influence of the existing spirit rings, there is a high probability that the Spirit mutation will never be completed.

Seeing this, someone might be puzzled: could such a special Spirit mutation mechanism have never been noticed by anyone since ancient times?

If it had not been discovered by anyone for so long in another World, Lin Yan might have felt it was somewhat unreasonable, but this is Douluo Continent!

According to Lin Yan's conjecture, since Jiang Nannan's first spirit ring came from a Soft Bones Rabbit, it did not set any direction for subsequent Spirit mutations.

Therefore, logically speaking, back then she could actually choose any direction to continue the Fusion.

However, after Lin Yan proposed this conjecture back then, due to a lack of empirical evidence, he could not be certain whether it was really the case.

Even though Jiang Nannan was willing to trust his judgment, he was not Great Master; how could he possibly make a joke of Jiang Nannan's future?

Therefore, after careful consideration, he finalized the route of space for Jiang Nannan.

Jiang Nannan in the original work already possessed spatial Spirit Ability like Teleportation, which was enough to prove that her Soft Bones Rabbit Spirit was capable of obtaining space-type Spirit Ability.

As a result, even if his theory had deviations and the subsequent Spirit mutation could not be restarted, walking the space agility-attack route was still a very promising development direction.

And judging from the Spirit changes after Jiang Nannan absorbed the second and third spirit rings, Lin Yan was now ninety percent sure about the correctness of his set of conjectures.

Furthermore, according to Lin Yan's speculation, after attaching this third space-attribute spirit ring, Jiang Nannan's long-dormant Spirit mutation would be completely reactivated!

In other words, under normal circumstances, if the first three spirit rings actually shared a certain commonality, it would be enough to restart the mutation.

Unfortunately, when Lin Yan met Jiang Nannan, her first spirit ring slot had already been wasted.

However, the past cannot be blamed, but the future can still be pursued; it is not too late now!

On the way to look for the Frost Shadow Space Rabbit, after Lin Yan finished introducing the situation and abilities of this Spirit Beast to Jiang Nannan and the other, seeing Zhang Lexuan showing hesitation and stopping herself from speaking, he spoke up, "Senior Sister, do you have any other questions?"

Hesitating slightly, Zhang Lexuan asked with a trace of doubt, "Before coming here, I learned about the situation of Nannan's previous Spirit Ability."

"I am a bit curious, why did you choose to develop toward the space direction, instead of emulating the Spirit Ability matching of Xiao Wu, the Soft Bones Douluo who became a god ten thousand years ago?"

Hearing this, Lin Yan smiled wryly and was about to open his mouth to explain when he saw Jiang Nannan look toward him, casting an inquiring gaze.

Nodding slightly to signal, Jiang Nannan then, with excitement and pride, elaborated on Lin Yan's conjecture in detail to Zhang Lexuan.

After listening to Lin Yan's unprecedented theory, waves instantly surged within Zhang Lexuan's heart.

Although Lin Yan's conjecture had not yet been officially verified, with a living example like Jiang Nannan placed right before her eyes, what was missing from a complete conclusion was merely the final kick.

What truly made Zhang Lexuan's heart unsettled was that, according to Lin Yan's conjecture, wouldn't that mean the legendary Soft Bones Douluo who became a god ten thousand years ago had also walked the wrong path?!

At this moment, the sanctity of the Shrek Seven Devils of the older generation instilled in her heart since childhood seemed to have suddenly been torn with a subtle crack...