Chapter 273: Ice Emperor's Proposal, Ring Fusion Method
Xu Tianzhen would now live in Lin Qinghan's palace.
Although Lin Qinghan had not held any weddings with the girls by his own choice, their names had been officially added to the imperial harem list.
There was no distinction of title such as queen or concubine—everyone in Lin Qinghan's harem had equal status on the surface.
After settling Xu Tianzhen's affairs, Lin Qinghan went into seclusion once again.
Only four months remained until his next God Test. This time, he would face enemies ten levels stronger than he was now.
He was currently level 90, which meant the next test would begin with him facing at least ten Super Douluo at once.
If the difficulty of the bonus reward stacking increased like the first test, he might not even reach the twelfth reward stack.
If the enemies—those with bloodlines of the Silver Dragon King or Golden Dragon King—again burned their bloodline power in battle, as before, he might only be able to withstand ten reward layers at most.
Therefore, to maximize benefits, Lin Qinghan needed to improve his combat power.
But his spiritual realm had already reached the first level of the Divine Origin Realm. Without a special breakthrough, even someone like Lin Qinghan could not improve it further in a short time.
So, he turned his attention to enhancing his martial soul.
His current spiritual realm was so advanced that most offensive soul skills were useless to him, except those that increased attributes by percentage.
Moreover, since he had the ability to condense soul rings, Lin Qinghan now planned to replace all soul rings under one million years on his body.
During his previous month of seclusion, he had figured out how to condense a million-year soul ring.
Over that month, Lin Qinghan tried countless methods, even examining the soul ring of the Skydream Iceworm from every angle using his spiritual sense. However, at best, he could only create God-given soul rings capped at 990,000 years.
And since the process consumed an immense amount of energy, he depleted his soul cores to the point that his soul power level dropped by one. Fortunately, he had since recovered.
The silver lining was that from now on, anyone close to Lin Qinghan who needed a 100,000-year soul ring would no longer need to hunt soul beasts—he could simply provide them.
Just as Lin Qinghan was about to give up, believing that without divine power he could never condense a true million-year soul ring, he suddenly had an idea: he would compress the soul power used in the condensation process even further.
Lin Qinghan's soul power was already at the peak of mortal compression. By compressing it again, it reached a level comparable to divine power. This allowed him to successfully condense a divine soul ring crystal with an upper limit of 1.5 million years.
However, because the age of the ring was too high, even though the method required little soul power per unit age, Lin Qinghan was nearly drained during the process. Thankfully, under the operation of his three soul cores, his recovery rate surpassed even that of an Extreme Douluo, allowing him to survive the ordeal safely.
That said, the artificially condensed million-year soul rings lacked the special features of naturally evolved million-year rings, such as granting a new martial soul or unique abilities.
Still, since Lin Qinghan could now determine what type of soul power to infuse, he could custom-design soul skills, as long as they stayed within the limits a million-year ring could bear.
Yet one obstacle remained.
Stripping his old soul rings wasn't difficult for Lin Qinghan anymore. The soul ring from the Skydream Iceworm was already a million years old, so it didn't need replacing. However, the Ice Emperor was currently his soul, and although she only provided a 400,000-year ring, she couldn't be removed.
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"So… you're saying you want to replace all your current soul rings with million-year ones to improve your combat strength?"
Inside the spiritual world, the Ice Emperor looked at Lin Qinghan, her voice laced with uncertainty.
If she hadn't heard it from Lin Qinghan himself, she would've thought it was sheer madness.
But Lin Qinghan wasn't one to joke about such things. He had just produced a golden-crystal rune ring and absorbed one in front of her.
An hour later, his soul ring configuration had changed—from two rings (one gold, one red) to three (two gold, one red).
Previously, his Divine Martial Soul had only two rings. Now it had gained one more.
"Yes. But since you are my soul, I can't remove the ring you provide. Do you have a solution?"
Lin Qinghan nodded. Honestly, he hadn't expected an answer from the Ice Emperor.
After all, if she had a solution, she wouldn't still be giving only a 400,000-year ring.
He now regretted absorbing all of the Skydream Iceworm's original power. If he had left some for the Ice Emperor, she might have been able to evolve to a million-year ring by now.
But it was too late for regret. That power had been absorbed back when Lin Qinghan's spiritual energy had just reached its tangible peak.
"I remember… you have a girlfriend who knows the ring fusion technique, right? If you don't need those other rings anymore, you can fuse them into me. With your current spiritual realm, you should be able to force the fusion state, shouldn't you?"
The Ice Emperor's proposal caught Lin Qinghan off guard—and also enlightened him.
He had been fixated on upgrading ring age, but forgotten the simpler technical options he had encountered before.
Soul ring fusion was not even a rare secret in Shrek Academy anymore. Most major sects had access to it.
He even recalled his own family possessed this technique, but since it couldn't be used on 100,000-year rings, he'd never bothered learning it.
Without hesitation, Lin Qinghan used space power to teleport directly to Shrek Academy, arriving at Xiaoxiao's dormitory.
"Qinghan? Why are you back all of a sudden?"
Xiaoxiao had been planning to lie down and rest after washing up. She returned to her room to find Lin Qinghan already waiting for her.
"I just came back to retrieve something—and to see you."
Lin Qinghan had no intention of facing Zhang Lexuan yet. After all, he had now taken control of the Sun and Moon Empire, with no plans for peaceful coexistence with the three original Douluo kingdoms.
Facing Zhang Lexuan—now the Sea God Pavilion Master—would require a long explanation.
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