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"What on earth is Grandmaster Wen doing?"
Lin Dong was filled with curiosity.
"Is he developing a martial soul?"
"But why are there such obvious energy fluctuations, just like when someone is absorbing a soul ring?"
"..."
Lin Dong was thoroughly mystified.
He realized that even with his current grasp of soul master cultivation theory, he couldn't even begin to guess what Grandmaster Wen was doing.
"It seems I still have a long way to go in my theoretical studies."
Sensing his seventh soul ring, Su Wen smiled with absolute confidence.
"The seventh soul ring, a divine-grade soul ring. The visualized Heavenly Book hasn't fully integrated yet, but the Physical Form Heavenly Book has been completely fused, along with the six physical form components of the Heaven and Earth Set."
Su Wen focused inward to check his changes.
The Heavenly Book was incredibly powerful. Within the Heaven and Earth Set, the Heavenly Yuan Pen had fused with many of Su Wen's soul rings, unifying his ability to mobilize various elements.
The Heaven and Earth Seal had integrated into his fourth soul ring.
The Heavenly Bead had integrated into his fifth soul ring.
The Heaven Destroying Divine Millstone had integrated into his sixth soul ring.
The Heavenly Eye, also considered a piece of the Heaven and Earth Set, had integrated into Su Wen's second soul ring. To be precise, it had also fused together with his Illusionary Spirit Pupil.
Now, Su Wen was beginning the process of fusing his own internal strengths.
This was merely the first step. As his cultivation progressed, he would need to perfectly blend all of his powers, truly uniting everything into a single entity. Once he achieved that, he would genuinely become a god.
For him, there would be no bottlenecks in this process.
Becoming a god was well within his reach!
"Next, I should complete the fusion of the armor set as well--the six armor pieces and the six soul bone slots..."
Su Wen had already started exploring the soul bone cultivation system before leaving the Douluo Continent.
Unfortunately, he hadn't been able to complete it back then.
In the Heavenly Bead Plane, Su Wen's greatest harvest was naturally the Creative Holy Power, but aside from that, there was also that new cultivation system. The physical form crystallization and skill storing of Heavenly Bead Masters had exerted a massive influence on him.
His method for self-condensing soul rings was only truly perfected through the inspiration gathered from those two concepts.
In addition, regarding the soul bone cultivation system, Su Wen planned to draw lessons from the Physical Form Master system and adapt it to fit the native conditions of the Douluo Continent.
"The space attribute..."
Perhaps in the future, the space attribute would become a highly sought-after commodity on the Douluo Continent. Not just because it was powerful and unpredictable, but also because of soul bone physical forms.
Su Wen tested his seventh soul skill, Heavenly Book Descent. It allowed him to project the miniature world contained within his Physical Form Heavenly Book, effectively transforming the surrounding world into the Heavenly Book World.
Within the Heavenly Book World, all the natural energy of heaven and earth was at his disposal.
And while Su Wen maintained the operation of this entire Heavenly Book World, he could draw in outside energy to replenish himself.
This made his power virtually limitless.
"As expected of a divine-grade soul ring."
As for the amplification it provided to his other soul skills, it could only be said that the impact on Su Wen wasn't substantial.
After all, his strength did not rely on the baseline effects of soul skills, but rather on his own development and mastery of them.
The increase in a soul skill's raw power would make things easier when he used the abilities he had developed himself. But in truth, it only made it easier; it wouldn't shorten his casting intervals, because Su Wen had already reduced those to the absolute absolute limit beforehand.
Su Wen was in a highly pleasant mood.
Although this was a matter of unearthing his own inner strength, it ultimately involved the fusion of a miniature world. The feedback of energy from it to Su Wen was monumental.
Soul Power Level 80.
Counting the levels Su Wen had accumulated through self-cultivation while stuck at Level 70, after unearthing his seventh soul ring--his intrinsic soul ring--Su Wen skyrocketed directly to Level 80.
Generally speaking, unearthing an intrinsic soul ring wouldn't provide such a massive feedback of soul power. However, Su Wen was an exception. Fusing the Physical Form Heavenly Book into his primary Heavenly Book was essentially integrating a portion of the cultivation he had previously gained in the Heavenly Bead Plane.
At Level 80, he had to start pouring effort into his eighth soul ring.
In fact, Su Wen felt that the dilemma regarding his ninth soul ring would closely follow on its heels.
Su Wen had long since considered his choices for these two major soul rings.
"The eighth and ninth soul rings--one for vitality, and one for mental energy. They will completely merge my own intrinsic strengths into them."
Given Su Wen's current realm, he could actually cultivate his own vitality as an alternative martial soul, but there was no longer any point to it.
Once one truly achieved godhood, the difference between having one or two martial souls was negligible.
Did Su Wen lack soul skills?
He did not.
Did he lack the soul power feedback brought by appending extra soul rings?
He did not.
Right now, for Su Wen, condensing a vitality soul ring just for his vitality was unnecessary. However, he could treat his vitality as a whole and fuse it into the Heavenly Book Martial Soul as one of its soul rings.
The same applied to his mental energy.
Essence, Qi, and Spirit--all of them would be completely fused into the Heavenly Book.
Ending his seclusion, Su Wen emerged from the cultivation chamber and looked out at the scenery of the Academy.
"Grandmaster Wen." Lin Dong stepped forward, holding a multitude of doubts he wished to ask about.
"I was just cultivating and condensed my seventh soul ring," Su Wen said with a smile.
He didn't hide anything.
Lin Dong, however, was dumbfounded by Su Wen's words.
What did he mean by "condensed his seventh soul ring"?
Could Grandmaster Wen be a soul beast?
"I created a method to condense soul rings. Even without hunting soul beasts, one can still condense a soul ring through their own means. However, the enhancement to the martial soul this way is very minor. It only unearths one's own latent power, without integrating external forces to remodel the body."
Lin Dong's eyes dimmed slightly.
Just from hearing that, he knew this method wouldn't be of much use to him right now.
"Don't lose heart. With your pace of progress, sooner or later you won't need the replenishment of external forces. Just like my Heavenly Book, didn't it start out looking pretty similar to your Five Elements Spear? But by the seventh soul ring, I have already begun self-excavation," Su Wen said, patting Lin Dong on the shoulder to encourage him.
Given Lin Dong's talent, Su Wen would absolutely have him condense his own intrinsic soul ring for his seventh soul ring.
The seventh soul ring slot was simply too vital for a soul master; it was the most critical junction for unifying one's entire cultivation.
"Furthermore, self-condensing a soul ring comes with a very excellent advantage--it makes upgrading its age limit incredibly convenient," Su Wen added with a chuckle.
This ought to be a highly attractive selling point, right?
As your development of an ability progresses, the capability corresponding to your soul ring will enhance, and the soul ring's age will increase right along with it.
In fact, this was equivalent to a downgraded version of "attaining a state means locking it forever." It could use the soul ring to lock down a martial soul capability that had already been developed, thereby making subsequent development much easier.
As Su Wen introduced the benefits of self-condensing soul rings, the students grew visibly excited one after another. Even Lin Dong changed his mind.
Lin Dong's entire path was focused on developing his martial soul, so if he could condense his own soul rings...
"Of course, it is still not recommended to have too many self-condensed soul rings. As of right now, I only suggest condensing one at the seventh soul ring slot to serve as your intrinsic soul ring, which will then fuse the power of all the soul rings from the other eight slots."
Lin Dong quickly grasped Su Wen's meaning. His eyes flashed with an excitement that was difficult to suppress.
"By the way, Grandmaster Wen, regarding the current turmoil in the Star Dou Great Forest..." After the excitement settled, Lin Dong quickly sobered up.
With the rapid advancement of the soul master world, the soul beast faction had already begun to push back.
"The method of self-condensing soul rings might be able to alleviate the conflict, but self-condensing soul rings..."