Douluo: What the hell is the academic master development system?

Chapter 555 Absorbing the God-Given Soul Ring
Two months later, inside the Sea God Pavilion.

Chen Ping sat quietly cross-legged in the center of Mu En's room, with Xuan Zi beside him.

Absorbing a 100,000-year soul ring at level 50 is something that has never been done before since records began. The closest person to this record is Tang San, who had a 10,000-year soul ring and six rings.

Even Tang San's record of a 100,000-year sixth spirit ring was achieved through the sacrifice of the 100,000-year spirit beast, the Soft Bone Rabbit Xiao Wu. What Chen Ping is about to do is to absorb a 100,000-year spirit ring with his own five rings.

When Chen Ping told them about this, Mu En and Xuan Zi initially thought they were just old and hard of hearing and had misheard.

But when Chen Ping used the excess energy that Electrolux had extracted, leaving just enough to create a 100,000-year-level divinely bestowed soul ring, not only was Xuanzi dumbfounded, but even Mu En sat up from his recliner.

A divinely bestowed spirit ring! This is a divinely bestowed spirit ring!
Although Mu En has said many times that he has come to terms with things, to be honest, when he and Long Xiaoyao traveled the continent back then, they actually fantasized a lot about things like becoming a god at level 100.

Unfortunately, despite their dreams, they ultimately failed to find a place where the gods inherited their legacy, thus failing to fulfill the long-cherished wish of those brilliant but ultimately tragically dying young geniuses over the past ten thousand years.

When they heard Chen Ping's explanation and learned that this divinely bestowed soul ring was actually the one that had been preserved by the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School more than 10,000 years ago, they couldn't help but sigh with regret.

"The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School's foundation is indeed terrifying. The divine soul ring from ten thousand years ago has been passed down for so long. They must be a very powerful and wealthy family."

Upon hearing this, Elder Xuan sighed. He had originally heard that Chen Ping had successfully broken through to level 50 a few days ago, and had come to volunteer to take Chen Ping to the Star Dou Forest to hunt soul beasts.

He assured that whatever Chen Ping said during this Soul Hunting Operation would be the same; he would not drink, he would not slack off, and he would not follow the ancient texts to formulate or plan the operation.

Unfortunately, Chen Ping didn't give Elder Xuan a chance to go out and hunt soul beasts.

Long ago, Chen Ping's comprehensive physical strength assessment, which combined various metrics such as resilience, strength, and speed, had already reached the level of a Contra Master.

After opening one of his eight extraordinary meridians, defeating the golden-haired lion mastiff, and breaking through two levels of soul power to successfully reach level fifty, his condition was finally adjusted to a point where he could begin to try to absorb a 100,000-year soul ring.

Although this was only a rough estimate of Chen Ping's physical limits, Electrolux nodded in agreement.

If he were to hunt other 100,000-year-old soul beasts, the extra few years of lifespan, the resentment of the soul beasts within his soul ring, and the violent and mixed soul power of the soul ring itself could all become obstacles to his 100,000-year lifespan and the five-ring system.

The only exception is the divinely bestowed soul ring, which has none of the above problems. If the time limit is said to be 100,000 years, it cannot be 100,001 years.

The power within the divinely bestowed soul ring is composed of the purest divine power. It will not become a terrifying torrent of soul power that is more difficult to control or subdue due to the different attributes or levels of the soul beast.

As for the troublesome resentment power of the soul beasts within the soul ring—where would a divinely bestowed soul ring get so much of that?

Creating a divinely bestowed soul ring is already difficult enough; to then create a soul on top of that and make things even more difficult for the absorber is just asking for trouble.

Therefore, the 100,000-year soul ring that Chen Ping is facing now is theoretically safer than the 10,000-year soul ring he absorbed back then.

The ten-thousand-year spirit ring produced by the Shadow Leopard was merely a result of overdrawing its own soul power for revenge, allowing Chen Ping to avoid the unique soul impact of a ten-thousand-year spirit ring. As for this divinely bestowed spirit ring, absorbing it only requires considering whether the body can withstand the power of a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring; all other issues are irrelevant!

It was precisely because of this that Mu En and Xuan Zi finally agreed to help Chen Ping protect the Dharma and witness Chen Ping create the miracle of the fifth ring in 100,000 years.

At this moment, the soul power of the Soul King realm surged within Chen Ping's body, and his rock-solid foundation astonished both Elder Xuan and Mu En.

No wonder Chen Ping can use the Spirit Body so skillfully. With such a solid foundation without any superficiality, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that one part of his spirit power is equivalent to two parts of an ordinary spirit master's!

As if a switch had been flipped, when the golden bead floated up and appeared in front of Chen Ping, the soul power released by his entire body surged back.

Chen Ping seemed to have returned to his original simplicity, looking no different from an ordinary person, just sitting quietly cross-legged.

Mu En knew that this was Chen Ping's way of using all his strength to the fullest extent.

Absorbing a 100,000-year-old soul ring is an absolutely insane idea.

Although there is no such thing as failure in absorbing a divinely bestowed soul ring, if Chen Ping only obtains a soul ring with a lifespan of 99,999 years due to some wasted soul power, it would be truly laughable.

The difference in years is only one year, but the implications are worlds apart.

Just like the 50,000-year fifth spirit ring that Huo Yuhao recently absorbed, although it is more than five times the lifespan that an ordinary five-ring spirit king can bear, the difference cannot be directly shown as long as the spirit ring is not red.

After all, when people talk about Mu En, they talk about his three 100,000-year spirit rings starting from his seventh spirit ring. In reality, could Mu En's fifth and sixth spirit rings, which are at the ten-thousand-year level, be spirit rings with the best possible ratio of spirit rings?
Of course not, but most people wouldn't care about that.

With a snap, the golden bead shattered, and a dense golden mist spread like a pouring water over every corner of Chen Ping's body, obscuring his figure.

Only the domineering domain light that Chen Ping had released early on shone brightly, still so clearly.

At the same time the golden bead shattered, four spirit rings—one yellow, one purple, one black, and one orange-gold—were released from Chen Ping's body, pulsating up and down.

At this moment, the power of all four spirit rings was released, along with the concentrated and dense domain power that was about the same size as the spirit rings. He was going to use his best condition to accept the test of the divine spirit ring bead in front of him.

This is theoretically the easiest 100,000-year soul ring to absorb in the entire Douluo Continent, and he must seize this opportunity.

Chen Ping couldn't come up with a specific plan to beat Tang San, but he knew the most basic requirement to achieve this was to do every step better than Tang San.

Tang San had a four-ring ten-thousand-year soul ring, so he only had a three-ring ten-thousand-year soul ring. When a six-ring ten-thousand-year soul beast came to Tang San's door to offer sacrifice, he only gained the qualification to truly absorb a ten-thousand-year soul ring at level seventy. He was going to obtain a ten-thousand-year soul ring by his own ability at level fifty.

(End of this chapter)