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One month later.
For an entire month, Xiao Lin and Tang San remained at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, cultivating, learning, and researching.
With the assistance of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Xiao Lin's speed in cultivating the power of Blood and Qi was incredibly fast, directly catching up to his Soul Power cultivation level. It could truly be described as "Blood and Qi like a dragon."
While Tang San was slightly behind, he also made rapid progress by relying on his powerful vitality and his Martial Soul, which had already evolved into the Blue Silver King.
During this period, Xiao Lin had basically completed his research on Self-Condensing Soul Rings. This required a high degree of fusion between a Soul Master's spiritual will, physical fitness, and Soul Power to achieve.
Thanks to the help of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, it was possible; otherwise, even if Xiao Lin were given another five years, he likely would have only learned the mere surface of it. Realizing the difficulty of self-condensing a Soul Ring, Xiao Lin did not shrink back.
Instead, he was eager to try.
While he wouldn't use himself as a test subject, he could certainly find volunteers.
The best candidates would be Soul Trainees from impoverished, remote areas who were desperate for a way forward. These volunteers would want great achievements but couldn't afford the fees to hire people to help them obtain high-quality Soul Rings.
In those cases, Xiao Lin could help.
By helping those Soul Trainees train and ensuring their spiritual will, physical fitness, and Soul Power reached a high degree of fusion, they would be able to self-condense their own Soul Rings.
Even if the resulting Soul Ring was only at a ten-year level, it would at least be free, and the desired Soul Skill would be of their own choosing. It was far better than spending money to end up with an unsuitable Soul Ring.
A perfectly compatible first Soul Ring would at least prevent the Martial Soul from undergoing a negative mutation, and the Soul Skill would be superior to other ten-year skills—perhaps even some hundred-year skills.
Because it would still be a ten-year skill and perfectly suited to one's own body, the consumption of such a skill might be significantly lower.
Therefore, regarding the matter of obtaining Soul Rings, Xiao Lin planned to find some local volunteers to test this on once he left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and the Sunset Forest to head to the Far North for his own Soul Rings.
Then, he would try to have the Ice Dragon King help those volunteers with Ice-attribute Martial Souls strengthen the age of their Soul Rings, to see if they could break through to become hundred-year Soul Rings.
If this method proved feasible, then the first step of Xiao Lin's Self-Condensing Soul Ring project would be complete. The next step would be researching how to allow a Soul Master to absorb the Soul Power of a Soul Beast without harming the beast itself.
This step was considerably more difficult.
Even with the help of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, Xiao Lin could only choose Ice-attribute or Fire-attribute Soul Rings, or Soul Rings from Dragon-type Soul Beasts.
However, even if only the first step was completed, Xiao Lin could be said to have fundamentally changed the relationship between humans and Soul Beasts.
Well... more accurately, the relationship between humans and low-level Soul Beasts.
Ordinary people would no longer need to absorb low-level Soul Beasts; they could condense ten-year Soul Rings themselves.
This would undoubtedly give low-level Soul Beasts time to recover and flourish, and in the future, there would be more ten-year Soul Beasts successfully promoting to hundred-year Soul Beasts.
If he completed the second step, it would go without saying—Xiao Lin would practically be a living saint of this era. Aside from the cultivation of Blood and Qi and the research into Self-Condensing Soul Rings, Xiao Lin also spent some time researching Body Martial Souls.
According to Xiao Lin's somewhat unreliable research, the probability of awakening a Body Martial Soul was less than 10%. This was a conclusion he reached even while constantly practicing his Blood and Qi and strengthening his body.
This left Xiao Lin quite surprised.
Even if his physical foundation was poor, surely he was stronger than Huo Yuhao, who awakened the Spirit Eyes Martial Soul with only Rank 1 Innate Soul Power?
In the end, this conclusion was difficult for Xiao Lin to accept, yet it made sense. It seemed a powerful external force was still required to condense a second Martial Soul.
Finally, regarding the compression of Soul Power: because Xiao Lin was restricted by the Rank 40 bottleneck, he had long since replaced his Soul Power cultivation time with Soul Power compression.
With the help of the two Great Dragon Kings, Xiao Lin faced almost no difficulty and completed the compression of his Soul Power quite easily. As for the current Xiao Lin, as long as his cultivation reached Rank 70, he would be able to directly cultivate a Soul Core.
Of course, the cultivation of the Soul Core would still rely on the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings. It wasn't that Xiao Lin couldn't cultivate it himself, but why wouldn't he use a "cheat" when he had one?
The two Dragon Kings had stated that when Xiao Lin reached Rank 70, they would help him simultaneously condense two attribute Soul Cores—Ultimate Ice and Ultimate Fire—located in his second dantian.
As for any other Soul Cores, Xiao Lin would have to rely on himself. Finally, regarding the cultivation of mental power...
Xiao Lin's smile instantly vanished.
While visualizing the Horned Dragon Staff within his Spiritual Sea, the two Dragon Kings had shown Xiao Lin the true meaning of "hardship." They put him through a hellish experience that felt worse than death.
On the icebergs and volcanic mountains manifested by the two Dragon Kings, Xiao Lin had to pit himself against extreme environments. This required not only immense control but also a high degree of mental focus and endurance against the elements.
Through a month of this cultivation, Xiao Lin's mental power had achieved a clear breakthrough, though it still couldn't quite match Tang San's. Speaking of Tang San, his progress over the month was also significant.
He didn't fall behind at all in Soul Power compression or the cultivation of Blood and Qi. In this short month, he even completed several upgraded versions of hidden weapons. For instance, the Yama's Invitation.
According to Tang San, the medicinal materials at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well were of such high quality that the condensed Yama's Invitation was potent enough to affect a Titled Douluo.
Whether it could directly dissolve a Titled Douluo into a pool of bloody pus remained to be seen. Additionally, while helping Dugu Bo refine poisons, Tang San had initially lost his composure because he couldn't even break through the defense of Xiao Lin's skin.
It was only after Xiao Lin dropped his guard and relaxed his spirit that Tang San was able to extract a few drops of blood from Xiao Lin's finger. Even then, Xiao Lin healed himself almost instantly. Because of this, the quantity of antidote Tang San produced was much smaller.
However, according to Tang San, the efficacy of the medicine was now much better, and it could even restore some physical strength. Tang San attributed this to the effects of Xiao Lin's Blood and Qi cultivation.
Tang San even believed that if Xiao Lin continued to practice like this, he would eventually become a "Great Immortal Herb" himself. Lastly, Tang San had manufactured quite a few daily-use Soul Tools, improving the living conditions at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
If Tang San hadn't been reluctant to waste the unique ice and fire ores found here, he would have already created offensive Soul Tools with those attributes.
Vroom, vroom, vroom!
Suddenly, Xiao Lin's Blood and Qi power broke through, emitting a strange sound from the surface of his body. Immediately following this, the ice and fire spring water around Xiao Lin within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well began to explode upward.
The commotion was so great that it instantly caught Tang San's attention.
"Hiss! Blood and Qi like a dragon!"
Watching the power formed by the combination of Soul Power and Blood and Qi circulating around Xiao Lin.
The unique Soul Power aura manifesting around him, Tang San couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air. He retreated ten meters, fearing he might be splashed by the spring water of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
Subconsciously, Tang San activated his Purple Demon Eye to observe. Under Tang San's specialized vision, every part of Xiao Lin's body was activated by a powerful force, and a deeper-colored energy gradually permeated Xiao Lin's entire being.
Tang San was no stranger to this power; it was immense vitality.
This visible vitality caused an earth-shattering transformation in every cell of Xiao Lin's body, making them tougher and stronger. Not only that, but Tang San also discovered that as a portion of Xiao Lin's Soul Power and Blood and Qi fused.
They were constantly compressing, gradually forming a spherical shape.
Although it wasn't very solid yet, Tang San could almost certainly conclude that in the future, Xiao Lin would definitely condense a Blood and Qi Soul Core. Or perhaps, one could call it an Inner Core... or a Golden Core?
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