Douluo: Wuhun Qimen Formation, control everything!

Li Fan stared blankly at the deep black halo around him, his mouth half-open, unable to close it for a long time.

Even now, he finds it hard to believe that it's true.

He raised his hand, then lowered it, feeling the surging soul power within him; he felt as if he were dreaming.

This is... a ten-thousand-year soul ring?
But why is this absorption process different from what's described in the book?
"Fool, what are you standing there for!" Elder Xuan's booming voice rang in his ears. "Release your soul skill and let us see!"

Li Fan snapped out of his daze and subconsciously activated his soul power, causing his fourth soul ring to light up suddenly.

hum!
The ordinary longsword in his hand was instantly covered with a layer of pitch-black energy, and an incomparably sharp aura spread out.

Li Fan had a sudden inspiration and swung his sword sharply at the empty wall.

A solid black sword aura shot out without making a sound, yet it left a half-foot-deep cut on the hard alloy wall, the cut as smooth as a mirror.

"What incredible power!" Li Fan was startled. This power was several times stronger than any thousand-year soul skill he had ever imagined!
This is truly a treasure!
Elder Xuan stepped forward, touched the cut with his finger, and felt the residual soul power fluctuations on it. He could no longer suppress the joy on his face.

"Not bad!"

It's not much different from a regular ten-thousand-year soul skill, but it has the advantage of being safe to fuse with!
If this news gets out, it will be even more astonishing than any ten-thousand-year-old soul bone or soul ring.

"Elder Xuan, Senior Di Tian, ​​this is only the first step. The current method of creating artificial soul rings is still too complicated, and it is not realistic to promote it."

Di Tian waved his hand dismissively: "We've waited this long, what's a little more time?"

Elder Xuan nodded: "I understand that principle as well. Don't worry, no one will know what happened today until you are fully prepared to announce it."

"This matter will be classified as Shrek Academy's top secret!" Elder Xuan's expression turned serious. "Li Fan, from today onwards, you will enter the inner courtyard's core disciple sequence and enjoy the highest level of resources and treatment."

But the origin of your fourth spirit ring must be kept a secret! You must not reveal a single word to anyone, or you will face consequences you cannot bear!

Li Fan was so overwhelmed by this sudden happiness that he could only nod frantically, "Yes! I understand! Thank you, Elder Xuan! Thank you, Senior Zhou!"

As for keeping secrets? That's for sure. He knew about the treatment of core disciples in Shrek Academy's inner court.

Unless he's really upset, he won't reveal a single word.

From the moment she stepped into this secret room, her fate was completely changed.

I can only say I'm incredibly lucky!
After seeing Li Fan off, who practically floated away, Elder Xuan was still visibly excited, his face flushed. He paced back and forth, muttering repeatedly, "The fourth ring of ten thousand years..."

Although Di Tian wasn't as overtly expressive as Elder Xuan, his eyes still gleamed with barely suppressed excitement.

A problem that has persisted for nearly a million years is finally seeing a glimmer of hope today.

No! wrong!

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the problem that has plagued soul beasts for millions of years has practically been solved!
He looked at Zhou Xuan, his tone solemn: "Zhou Xuan, I must admit, this time, I did indeed make the right bet!"

He then raised his right hand, and a black dragon scale appeared on his hand.

"This is my Achilles' heel. Keep it safe. With this Achilles' heel, you can withstand the attack of a Limit Douluo. Moreover, if you encounter any danger, I can arrive in an instant."

Zhou Xuan's eyes lit up: "Thank you, senior."

Zhou Xuan had no reason to refuse such a good thing and immediately accepted it.

With this reverse scale, it can be said that in this Douluo Continent, as long as he doesn't actively seek death, it will be very difficult for others to kill him, unless a certain God King doesn't personally intervene.

After chatting for a while longer, Elder Xuan and Emperor Tian left.

In an instant, Zhou Xuan was the only one left in the entire secret chamber.

He let out a long breath, carefully putting away the life-saving dragon scale. Feeling the faint dragon aura emanating from it, he felt incredibly safe.

The success of creating a spirit ring is indeed a major event, but for Zhou Xuan, it is just one part of his plan.

Zhou Xuan did not leave, but walked back to the center of the secret room.

With a wave of his hand, he unleashed several streams of soul power, completely activating the sealing array of the secret chamber and once again isolating it from all detection from the inside and outside.

He didn't want anyone to know what he was going to do next.

He sat down cross-legged and slowly closed his eyes.

Soul power surged within his body. He had already reached the bottleneck of level sixty. If he were willing to fuse with a soul spirit or have the Snow Empress provide him with another soul ring, he could step into the level of Soul Emperor.

But he doesn't intend to do that.

He wanted to create his own sixth spirit ring.

As his consciousness sank into his body, Zhou Xuan's spiritual sea could only be described as magnificent.

In his spiritual sea, besides spiritual power, there were countless broken golden runes floating around, seemingly chaotic, but actually orderly within the chaos.

This is what the Feng Hou Qi Men looked like after it was broken.

Inside the sealed room, all was silent.

Zhou Xuan didn't rush to start. He just sat quietly, adjusting his breathing and heartbeat to calm himself down. Besides, he had just created a soul ring, which had consumed a lot of energy.

His third soul skill has been activated, making him calmer. The success of the artificial soul ring has confirmed many of his guesses.

The essence of a spirit ring is the solidification of energy and rules.

The shattered Feng Hou Qi Men within his body is itself the ultimate application of rules.

If that's the case, why not use it as your own spirit ring?

Once this idea took hold, it could no longer be suppressed, which led to a series of experiments. Starting with the soul experiment, he began to verify its feasibility.

The success of the artificial soul ring verified the feasibility of his theory—that by using spiritual power as the framework and soul power as the flesh and blood, a container that can bear the rules can be constructed.

And this is precisely the path he prepared for himself, a path unprecedented in history and destined to be unparalleled in the future.

Feng Hou Qi Men is essentially a unified whole, containing the four plates of Heaven, Earth, Man, and God.

The Heavenly Plate governs celestial phenomena, the Earthly Plate determines the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, the Divine Plate controls the power of nothingness, and the Human Plate governs human affairs and activities in the world.

Zhou Xuan's target was this human plate.

What he needs to do is to find the fragments belonging to the Human Plate from this broken Feng Hou Qi Men, piece by piece, then reassemble and fuse them, and finally turn them into his own to forge his sixth soul ring!
This process was akin to finding a needle in a haystack. Zhou Xuan's spiritual power transformed into countless invisible tentacles, cautiously probing into the golden runes.

Even the slightest movement of these fragments caused him an intense pain in his mind.

However, this pain was insignificant to him. Instead, he mobilized more of his mental energy, transforming it into a giant net that forcibly gathered the golden fragments towards the center.

"Come here!"

Outside the secret chamber, on the completely sealed alloy door, the intricate soul-guiding arrays began to flicker wildly, emitting a low buzzing sound, isolating the spiritual power emanating from Zhou Xuan.

Within the sea of ​​the spirit, the storm intensifies.

"No...that's not how it is..."

Despite the excruciating pain, Zhou Xuan remained unusually calm.

"wrong!"

Territory is fundamental! His previous thinking was wrong!
Territory!

Favorable timing, advantageous location, and harmonious relationships, with advantageous location as the foundation!

Without the earth to support it, how can there be all the phenomena of human life? Without the framework set by the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, how can the timing of the heavens and the stars operate? His previous thinking was off from the very beginning.

Although the Human Plate governs all things in the world and seems to be most closely connected with itself, it is ultimately based on changes within the Earth Plate.

A tree without roots, water without a source—forcibly pieced together will only bring disaster upon oneself!

The excruciating pain did not break him; instead, it made him even more lucid.

The group has been assembled, but in the current situation, if they continue, they may even perish.

The only option is to find new pieces of territory.

But there's no other way, we'll just have to keep looking!

Time passed by minute by minute.

But his expression grew increasingly calm, and the pain that came from the depths of his soul no longer affected him at all.

"Kan, Kun, Zhen, Xun..."

He silently repeated the Eight Trigrams in a low voice, and the threads of his spiritual energy began to follow the positions of the Later Heaven Eight Trigrams.

The first one, the second one, the third one...

He peeled away fragments of the territory one by one and began to piece them together to form a complete territory.

With each fragment he successfully removed, one unit of his mental energy was consumed.

Inside the secret chamber, Zhou Xuan's forehead was covered in sweat, and his entire body was soaked, as if he had just been pulled out of the water.

But at the same time, his understanding of the "territory" in Feng Hou Qi Men also deepened.

The framework of the Nine Palaces gradually became clear, and the positions of the Eight Trigrams were also determined.

Qian, Kan, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kun, Dui.

The phantom images of the eight trigrams slowly emerged in the eight directions of his spiritual sea.

"Just one more piece!"

Zhou Xuan's consciousness locked onto the last fragment of territory.

That fragment represents the central "Central Palace," which is also the core of the entire territory.

"Come here...!"

He suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils swirling with Bagua symbols, as if they contained a whole world within them.

All the spiritual power within the Sea of ​​Spirit converged into an invisible giant hand at this moment, forcefully grabbing at that core fragment!

boom!
A muffled thud exploded in his mind.

He endured the pain and pressed the last fragment heavily into the center of the magic circle!
Om-!
In an instant, everything was silent.

All the pain vanished in that moment.

A complete and three-dimensional nine-palace eight-trigram compass quietly floated in the center of his spiritual sea.

The territory has been re-established!
Soul power surged into the territory like rivers flowing into the sea.

"come out!"

Zhou Xuan let out a low shout in his heart, and his tightly closed eyes suddenly opened. Deep in his pupils, it seemed as if a Bagua plate was spinning rapidly.

hum-

An invisible ripple spread out from him, and a phantom magic disc composed of light, shadow and runes slowly emerged from between his eyebrows.

The moment the ground completely separated from the sea of ​​consciousness, Zhou Xuan's body trembled violently, and his face instantly paled even more.

The pain of forcibly separating a part of one's own martial spirit is even greater than the pain of just forming territory.

But his face remained expressionless; he had expected this kind of pain.

"Congeal!"

Zhou Xuan formed a strange hand seal in front of his chest, and the ground floating in front of him shone brightly, then began to shrink rapidly inward.

The countless golden runes that make up the magic disc begin to recombine, fold, and compress under immense pressure.

This process is more complex than creating artificial spirit rings.

Previously, artificial spirit rings were external objects, and failure only consumed energy.

The territory before him was part of his own martial spirit; the slightest mistake could result in damage to his foundation and mental collapse.

The brilliance faded, the golden light dimmed.

In the end, all the brilliance was contained within, transforming into a completely orange-yellow ring.

Upon closer inspection, one can also discover countless fine, dust-like golden runes slowly flowing within the ring.

The sixth spirit ring is complete!
Zhou Xuan let out a long breath, and the turbid air transformed into a white ribbon that lingered for a long time.

However, this is not the end.

Today, he will make this martial spirit a true part of his body!

"melt!"

The newly formed spirit ring slowly floated towards his chest, and then disappeared directly into his body.

Although it looks similar to a normal fused soul ring, only Zhou Xuan knows the real story.

boom!
The moment the spirit ring entered his body, an indescribable burning sensation exploded from Zhou Xuan's chest and instantly spread throughout his limbs and bones!
The golden runes that merged into his body along with the soul ring transformed into the most skilled craftsmen, who began to meticulously carve his bones like jade.

One tiny, intricate rune after another was imprinted on his bones.

From finger bones to spine, from skull to leg bones, nothing was missed!

If someone could see through his body at this moment, they would find that his originally white jade-like bones were now radiating a faint golden halo, covered with mysterious patterns, as if they were naturally formed.

The land, the main earth, the main support, the main foundation.

Using the territory as his soul ring and his own bones as his vessel, Zhou Xuan is forging his body into an indestructible "array," which will also be the foundation for him to integrate the other three territories in the future!
After an unknown amount of time, the burning pain that was transforming my body slowly subsided, replaced by an unprecedented sense of control and power.

Zhou Xuan could clearly feel that the soul power within his body had already broken through the level 60 barrier and was still advancing rapidly, finally stopping steadily at the peak of level 61.

Soul Emperor!

He slowly opened his eyes, a glint of light flashing within them.

He broke through the so-called shackles of heaven and earth that could only be broken by fusing soul rings!

He stood up and casually moved his hands and feet, and a series of crisp popping sounds came from his joints, full of explosive power.

The physical weakness caused by forcing his mental strength in the past was completely and truly made up for at this moment.

He extended his right hand, a thought flickering in his mind.

hum!
His sixth spirit ring didn't have any spirit skills, but it did grant him the ability to freely cast Bagua spells. (End of Chapter)