With the soul ring merging, there also came a crystal-clear skull soul bone radiating intense spiritual power.
Wang Chen's spiritual power instantly skyrocketed. From the mid-stage of Tangible and Substantive, it broke through to the late stage, and finally, at the last moment, it charged straight to the peak of Tangible and Substantive.
With the attachment of the eighth soul ring, the bottleneck that had been stuck at level 80 due to the lack of a soul ring could now continue to rise.
Although the Sea Princess was a spiritual-attribute soul beast and didn't contribute much to Wang Chen's physical body, as a 600,000-year-old soul beast, the soul ring and soul bone she provided contained extremely terrifying soul power.
Wang Chen's soul power rapidly soared from level 80: level 81, level 82, level 83... all the way until it gradually stopped at level 86.
In just a short time, Wang Chen's strength had undergone a tremendous leap.
While Wang Chen was fusing with the Sea Princess, the Snow Empress quietly arrived in the hall and saw that Wang Chen had already begun the fusion with the Sea Princess.
The Snow Empress immediately stood guard for Wang Chen while preparing herself for fusion with him.
The fusion time passed in a flash, and soon, half a day had gone by.
After Wang Chen finished digesting the spiritual power and soul power gained from the Sea Princess's soul ring and soul bone, he slowly opened his eyes.
In that instant, six red, one gold, and one red-gold eight soul rings in total rose and circled his body, making Wang Chen's aura extraordinarily terrifying.
Wang Chen looked at the Snow Empress who was protecting him and smiled, "Snow Empress, you're here."
The Snow Empress said, "It's my turn to fuse with you now. Bing'er gave you her right arm soul bone, so I'll give you my left arm soul bone."
Wang Chen didn't stand on ceremony, nodded, and then switched his martial soul to the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion. The original eight soul rings belonging to his tool spirit martial soul disappeared, replaced by a red soul ring with four golden patterns.
Wang Chen said, "Let's begin."
The Snow Empress gazed at Wang Chen, who had switched to the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion martial soul. A trace of determination flashed in her ice-blue eyes.
Once she fused with Wang Chen, there would be no turning back. She could only follow Wang Chen to the end—either accompany him to become a god or die with him. There were no other choices.
The Snow Empress's slender fingers lightly brushed through her silvery-white long hair, and fine ice crystals began to drift around her body.
Then, the Snow Empress's figure suddenly blurred, turning into a blizzard that enveloped Wang Chen. An extreme chill instantly caused thick layers of ice to form throughout the entire coral palace.
An ice-blue pillar of light shot into the sky, piercing through the seabed straight to the clouds. The pattern of the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion appeared on Wang Chen's back.
As the Snow Empress's power poured in, Wang Chen clearly felt that the quality of his second martial soul, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, had been upgraded. Its attributes became even stronger, getting closer to absolute zero, and the quality of his soul power also became much greater.
The ice scorpion pattern on Wang Chen's back underwent a strange transformation. The originally emerald-green scorpion tail took on the Snow Empress's distinctive white colour, and gorgeous snow-white patterns grew on the scorpion pincers.
A brand-new soul ring rose from beneath his feet—a red ring with golden patterns, bearing a full seven golden lines!
Yes, exactly seven golden patterns. The Snow Empress's cultivation was only a hair's breadth away from 700,000 years.
So, Wang Chen had the Heaven Dream Ice Silkworm add a bit of cultivation time to the Snow Empress's soul ring to round it up.
Although 690,000 years and 700,000 years were only separated by a thin line, the difference was like heaven and earth. Reaching 700,000 years meant the soul beast had condensed dual soul cores, resulting in a leap in strength.
With the fusion of the 700,000-year soul ring, Wang Chen's left arm bone also became crystal-clear due to absorbing the Snow Empress's soul bone.
Wang Chen's cultivation began to soar once again. The greatest improvement was in soul power level—his soul power directly rushed from level 86 to the peak of Soul Douluo, only one step away from condensing the second soul core and becoming a Title Douluo.
Next was spiritual power. Although the Snow Empress's spiritual power was far inferior to the Sea Princess's, her spiritual realm had still reached the early stage of Tangible and Substantive.
The fusion with the Snow Empress solidified Wang Chen's spiritual power at the peak of Tangible and Substantive, taking a small step closer to god-level spiritual power.
As for physical strength, there was little improvement. Like the Sea Princess, the Snow Empress did not excel in physical prowess.
In just one day, Wang Chen's soul power had increased by ten levels, completing the entire journey through the Soul Douluo realm.
Now, the thickness of Wang Chen's soul power was no less than that of a level 98 Super Douluo, and in terms of soul power quality, he had reached the peak of Super Douluo.
With such enormous growth, Wang Chen had no choice but to seriously meditate and digest his gains.
While Wang Chen quietly digested his explosively increased power, his mental sea was exceptionally lively.
The Ice Empress, Snow Empress, Sea Princess, and Heaven Dream Ice Silkworm—four soul beasts gathered together, enough to play mahjong.
The Ice Empress, seeing her good sister, the Snow Empress, had also become Wang Chen's wisdom soul ring, immediately pounced over and rubbed against the Snow Empress's soul.
"Xue'er, now we're truly together," the Ice Empress said with a smile.
The Snow Empress helplessly patted the Ice Empress's head and said, "Yes, we just need to wait for Wang Chen to become a god, and then we can ascend to the God Realm."
The Heaven Dream Ice Silkworm watched the Ice Empress and Snow Empress hugging each other and thought miserably, "The rumour that the Ice Empress likes the Snow Empress... could it be true? No wonder the Ice Empress always ignored me. Woo woo woo, my life is so bitter!"
The Sea Princess nearby saw the deep sisterly bond between the Snow Empress and Ice Empress and tactfully didn't join in. She then glanced at the Heaven Dream Ice Silkworm and turned her head in disdain, clearly unimpressed by a bug.
So the Sea Princess used telepathy to communicate with her two daughters, informing them that she had fused with Wang Chen.
She told Li Jing and Li Ya not to worry about her and, during this time, to serve Wang Chen well while managing the mermaid clan properly.
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Time flew by, and three days passed.
In these three days, besides mastering his explosively increased strength, Wang Chen also conducted a thorough review of himself.
First, he used his golden finger black book, channelling his peak Tangible and Substantive spiritual power to upgrade his cultivation method, Tong Mai Gong, as well as his skills.
After the upgrade, the recovery speed of soul power, spiritual power, and stamina became faster, his endurance grew stronger, and the quality of his soul power further improved.
The ring explosion secret technique, after upgrading, could now consume soul power to accelerate the repair of damaged soul rings.
Wang Chen tested it: after exploding a 100,000-year soul ring, using soul power to repair it, it only took half an hour to fully restore.
For every additional 100,000 years in soul ring age, Wang Chen needed an extra half hour to repair. A million-year soul ring, once exploded, required five hours to repair.
Of course, all damaged soul rings could be repaired simultaneously—after all, each soul ring existed independently, so there was no need to repair them one by one.
After finishing his review, Wang Chen first enjoyed a grand meal served by Li Jing and Li Ya.
Then he began secluded cultivation to condense the yin-yang complementary second soul core and break through the level 90 bottleneck.
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