Chapter 23 My journey has truly been fraught with hardship!
Having retrieved his Human Emperor Banner, Jiang Li used his consciousness to claim the rewards for taking on a disciple.
His seventh spirit ring had reached 100,000 years, which meant that his eighth spirit ring would also be at least 100,000 years old.
"Tsk tsk tsk, with my talent, I wonder if the age of my eighth spirit ring can reach a new high."
As Jiang Li thought this, a small, transparent ball of light appeared in his hand in an instant, seemingly containing endless energy swirling within it.
Unlike the divinely bestowed soul rings from the Sea God and the Angel God, which are tainted with their own divine power and appear in the corresponding sea blue or golden yellow.
When the inheritors absorb the divinely bestowed soul rings, their own martial souls will be tainted with their aura to some extent.
For example, the evil fire rooster's failure to successfully inherit the position of the Fire God certainly had its own inherent factors.
In addition, the Sea God's test he had previously undergone also had a significant impact on him.
Jiang Li's divinely bestowed soul ring did not have these additional factors, so it could be said that anything produced by the system was bound to be of high quality!
Immediately afterwards, Jiang Li sat cross-legged with his eyes closed.
After crushing the divinely bestowed soul ring, countless blue-gold light mists instantly appeared around him.
A stream of life force, sharing the same origin as the Blue Silver Emperor, began to boil, condense, and compress in this area, orderly entering Jiang Li's body.
The absorption of a divinely bestowed soul ring is closely related to the soul master's ability to withstand it. Therefore, the moment the energy in the divinely bestowed soul ring entered Jiang Li's body, it began to form from the black ten-thousand-year soul ring.
Soon, the black spirit ring beside Jiang Li began to transform. As the blue-gold energy continuously entered his body, the edges of the black spirit ring soon began to show the rudiments of a 100,000-year spirit ring.
However, this was not Jiang Li's limit!
As time slowly passed...
Jiang Li felt that the energy around him was endless, as if it were inexhaustible!
He unabashedly absorbed this power, continuing to do so until his body was completely pushed to its limit.
When the critical point of endurance was reached, he had no choice but to stop, ending the absorption with a hint of regret.
The next moment, the spirit ring was fully formed.
A 100,000-year soul ring engraved with three golden patterns slowly emerged, steadily hovering beneath his feet, complementing the seven soul rings already in the inner circle, exuding an astonishing aura!
Purple, purple, purple, black, black, black, red, red!
As the strange phenomena around him disappeared, Jiang Li slowly opened his eyes.
He finally obtained his eighth spirit ring, which had a lifespan of 300,000 years!
"I have truly endured many hardships on my journey!"
"Hehehehehehehe—"
Because he absorbed a divinely bestowed soul ring, Jiang Li's soul power did not increase as quickly as expected. After breaking through the level 80 threshold, the soul power that he had not shown when absorbing the immortal herb and the two dragon king-level soul bones was all displayed at once.
His soul power stopped at level 86, failing to reach the level 90 threshold as he had hoped.
However, Jiang Li was already quite satisfied with this.
With two god-level dragon souls by his side, he dared to approach and touch even ordinary Super Douluo.
He then promptly accepted the reward that increased the age of all his spirit rings by one thousand years.
With the injection of that energy, Jiang Li's soul rings changed from three purple, three black, and two red to two purple, four black, and two red.
There was an improvement, but not a significant one. For Jiang Li at this moment, these slight improvements in spirit rings were merely a drop in the ocean compared to the overall increase in his spirit power.
...
Meanwhile, during the time Jiang Li was absorbing the spirit ring, Tang San, under the guidance of the Blue Silver King, had basically learned the form changes of his Blue Silver Emperor martial soul.
The most basic Blue Silver Bind is something that can be done with a simple wave of the hand.
Furthermore, after sensing the aura emanating from Jiang Li's breakthrough, his soul power also increased by one level, reaching the level 22 mark.
Hmm... This wave, let's call it a breakthrough first, then a subsequent breakthrough!
At this moment, he was controlling the Blue Silver Emperor in his hand to grow longer and wrap around the trees in front of him. However, for some reason, Tang San felt a sense of familiarity with this Blue Silver Bind, which was similar to his self-created soul skill.
'Strange, where does this feeling come from?'
'It seems I will have to ask my master later.'
Tang San decided to keep his questions to himself for now and continued to focus on practicing the other forms of Blue Silver Grass.
Not long after, he felt a very familiar aura rapidly approaching him.
"This feeling..."
"Could it be my master?"
Tang San was incredibly excited. He wanted to share his progress with his master as soon as possible!
A short while later, Jiang Li's figure slowly appeared from the depths of the Blue Silver Forest.
"Master!"
Tang San shouted excitedly and ran quickly towards Jiang Li with his short legs.
Seeing his dutiful apprentice looking at him with a pleading expression, Jiang Li simply could not bear to look.
His current appearance was vastly different from that of the Tang God King.
'Could this be the sense of contrast that my teachers in my past life talked about?'
Jiang Li quickly shook his head, banishing these strange thoughts from his mind. At the very least, a person should not... should not have such strange ideas.
"Little San, you are an esteemed Great Soul Master now, you should be more composed!"
Hearing his master say this, Tang San shyly touched the top of his head. Was he not just too eager to share the joy of his improved strength with his master?
Immediately afterwards, he raised the question that had been bothering him, hoping that Jiang Li would give him an answer.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Li was utterly speechless.
This damned sense of familiarity... He could not very well tell his precious disciple that even after becoming the high and mighty God King Tang, the pure and innocent God King always used Blue Silver Bind in his hand during every battle, could he?
"Little San, perhaps it is because your martial soul evolved into the Blue Silver Emperor that this move feels so familiar."
"After all, bind can be said to be an instinctive attack method of plant soul beasts."
When Tang San heard his master say this, he felt it was true and did not dwell on the matter too much.
The master and apprentice then arrived at the location of the Blue Silver King and instructed it to summon almost all the Blue Silver Kings in the Blue Silver Forest, leaving only one around 30,000 years old to prevent other humans or soul beasts from stealing their home after they left.
[end of the chapter]