"Alright, since you've broken through, you can leave now."
Estimating that Wu Feng had roughly finished dressing, Chen Junting also withdrew the array he had set up. At the same time, he placed the remaining Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower back into its box and handed it to Wu Feng.
"I intercepted a large portion of the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower's energy just now, preserving this immortal herb's medicinal effects. So give this to Grandpa Wu—he's been waiting quite a while for this moment."
"I understand."
Wu Feng received the box, her expression serious. Chen Junting nodded, a smile hooking at the corner of his mouth, "Also, congratulations on truly becoming an extreme fire attribute soul master."
After bidding farewell to Wu Feng, Chen Junting also left immediately.
However, his path next differed from Wu Feng's—he was heading toward the basement where they had been in closed-door cultivation for over a month.
Using a god-bestowed soul ring to break through to Soul Douluo.
However...
Upon arriving at the basement, he took out a golden pearl.
Chen Junting was very clear that the god-bestowed soul ring would capture traces from between heaven and earth to bestow upon him a soul skill most suitable for him.
But what was most suitable for the Seven Kill Sword didn't necessarily mean it was suitable for him.
Moreover, in his research on self-condensing soul rings, he also planned to use the power of the god-bestowed soul ring to take one step of verification.
Sitting cross-legged, eyes closed in meditation. The moment he adjusted his state to its peak, his right hand suddenly exerted force!
Only a "crack" was heard.
The golden pearl shattered, and dense golden mist spread like pouring water to every corner of Chen Junting's body, concealing his figure. Only the crack on his forehead that gradually began to bloom with brilliant light became so obvious at this moment.
In the next second, the crack expanded.
The Eye of Destiny bloomed with a magnificent rose-gold radiance.
Chen Junting didn't take excessive action, only continuously absorbing the energy of the god-bestowed soul ring. He could clearly feel this energy—no! To be precise, it was the power of faith.
Without an upper limit, seemingly endless.
At least for the current Chen Junting, this was the case.
The power of faith continuously surged from the golden pearl. Those golden mists were transformed from the power of faith. They served the function of heaven and earth origin energy or soul beast soul power, making the golden light surrounding Chen Junting's body become even denser. Even within that golden mist, faint golden threads could be seen beginning to continuously compress around Chen Junting's body.
Time passed minute by second.
In the blink of an eye, half an hour had passed.
At this moment, the golden energy around Chen Junting's body underwent another change in form. Streams of golden threads began to condense together, transforming into circles of golden halos—nine halos in total. They expanded around Chen Junting's body, contracted, and finally collided heavily, repeating in cycles.
Now, the rudimentary form of the soul ring had taken shape.
'So this is how the foundation of a soul ring operates.'
Chen Junting, with his eyes tightly closed, thought to himself.
Up to now, the energy of the god-bestowed soul ring was not his limit, which allowed him to divert a sliver of his mind to observe.
And not long after the nine golden rings formed—roughly the time it takes to drink a cup of tea—Chen Junting's Eye of Destiny saw several mysterious patterns appear invisibly between heaven and earth, winding toward the nine golden rings. Although each pattern appeared incomplete, in Chen Junting's view, as long as these nine patterns were matched one by one, two soul skills could be replicated.
Thinking of this, he rapidly sketched the nine patterns in his sea of consciousness with his spiritual power. Then, without excessive thought or observation of time, he directly mobilized the power of the Eye of Destiny to strike!
The target of his strike was precisely those nine patterns.
That's right!
Chen Junting's purpose was to disperse them!
A sweep of destiny's light, and the patterns directly broke.
The nine golden rings revolved faintly, as if falling into confusion.
But this way, how should the soul skill that this god-bestowed soul ring should have be compensated... Chen Junting had long planned for this.
Suddenly, he opened his eyes.
While circulating soul power to support the soul ring, he took out a jade bottle. The moment he opened the stopper, a wisp of rose-gold mist drilled out from within, floating in mid-air.
Tilting it, liquid flowed out in a murmuring stream.
This was nothing else—it was blood shimmering with rose-gold.
As for where this peculiar blood came from?
Naturally, there was no need to say much. Undoubtedly, it was the blood essence of the famous Emperor Auspicious Beast, the "Three-Eyed Golden Lion."
After watching Di Yao self-condense her soul ring last time, he had shamelessly asked her for blood essence. Under the pretext of researching self-condensing soul rings, Di Yao was quite generous, directly giving him a full nine drops.
At this moment, Chen Junting's Eye of Destiny at his brow turned.
The moment it shone on that mass of blood, the mass of blood was directly divided into six drops. Moreover, each drop of blood appeared in the Eye of Destiny's perspective as a pattern shimmering with rose-gold.
At this moment, Chen Junting used spiritual power as his brush, mobilizing the nine drops of blood.
To be specific, it was the nine patterns contained within them.
Next, he inscribed them one by one onto the nine golden rings.
Perhaps because it was his first time, not only was it slow, but there were also a few drops of fine golden sweat on his forehead.
At the moment he finally finished inscribing, the nine golden rings emitted a dazzling rose-gold brilliance. Under their mutual illumination, the nine rose-gold halos suddenly collided with each other.
In an instant, a soul beast phantom suddenly appeared.
Over three meters in length, eight feet in shoulder height, its entire body covered in a layer of brilliant golden fur. Its form was like a lion, its four claws like a dragon's, treading on golden flames, with golden scales beneath its fur. It possessed three eyes—two golden eyes, with only the vertical pupil flickering with somewhat demonic red.
Also, the moment the Three-Eyed Golden Lion phantom appeared, the power of destiny connected, brilliant golden light shone, and the nine golden rings returned to one!
Then, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, red, orange—seven soul rings transformed from stars into rings, and at the eighth soul ring position, a soul ring quietly appeared. A rose-gold soul ring floated around Chen Junting.
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion's eighth soul ring!
Shrek Inner Court.
Di Yao, who was in cultivation, seemed to sense something. She suddenly opened her eyes, locking onto a direction without warning.
That was the location of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
At this moment, unprecedented excitement flowed in her eyes, and she even murmured, "You really succeeded!"
...
"Ha—"
In the basement, Chen Junting exhaled a breath of turbid air. With a thought, that rose-gold soul ring floated before him.
Looking at it, he suddenly sighed with emotion, "Success!"
Even if this was only one method.
"Let me feel just how powerful a soul skill from the Emperor Auspicious Beast is." Chen Junting closed his eyes, then connected with the eighth soul ring. Subsequently, information about the soul skills flooded into his mind.
First soul skill, Destiny Judgment: The power of judgment from destiny—when fortune comes, heaven and earth all work together, the power to judge everything;
Second soul skill, Destiny Wound: Once hit, all non-soul-power defenses will lose their effect, and the target will become extremely fragile.
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