Douluo Continent: This Soul Master is Too Bizarre and Unpredictable

After the rules were established and the meeting concluded, Mu Yang began investigating spies within the academy.

Unlike sects, the Elemental Academy consists mostly of temporary members, meaning students who will not hold positions within the academy after graduation. Only a minority of students and faculty members are confirmed to hold positions within the academy after graduation.

Since there weren't too many targets to investigate, and Mu Yang's method of investigating spies was very convenient and effective, there was no need to spend a lot of energy exploring the target's interpersonal relationships and finding evidence. He could directly use the "Soul-Capturing Secret Technique" to control consciousness and ask questions. In less than half a day, Mu Yang completed the task of investigating spies.

As expected, Mu Yang identified five spies planted by other forces among the academy's faculty.

Two were from the Heaven Dou Empire, and the remaining three were from the Spirit Hall, the Star Luo Empire, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, respectively.

Fortunately, the Elemental Academy has not been around for long, and although the three major elemental academies of Blazing Fire, Divine Wind, and Heavenly Water were quite famous, they did not have anything worth coveting by various forces. Therefore, there were no long-standing old spies lurking in the academies.

These five spies were all new recruits to the Elemental Holy Academy after its establishment, when the academy was recruiting talents. The highest level of their soul power was only a six-ring Soul Emperor. They were not among those who were taught various secret techniques, so the various secret techniques that Mu Yang had created were not obtained by other forces.

After some deliberation, Mu Yang, considering that the five had not caused any actual damage to the academy and had always been diligent and conscientious, did not kill them, but simply had Huo Lie dismiss them.

Subsequently, Mu Yang spent more than a day planting the mental demon lock on nearly a hundred academy teachers and genius students who applied to stay at the academy after graduation.

Moreover, to set an example, Huo Lie, as the dean of the academy, took the lead and was the first to have Mu Yang implant the Heart Demon Lock in him.

As for the teaching of the "Ascension Technique," Mu Yang doesn't need to do that.

The two versions of the "Ascension Method" he wrote were very detailed, with all the cultivation details marked out. Once Huo Lie and the others had mastered them, they could be taught according to the original classification standards.

Three days later, Mu Yang, who had been working tirelessly to absorb the spiritual energy of the outside world through the "Spirit Ascension Technique," finally increased the age of the wisdom skull formed by his spiritual condensation to 100,000 years.

At this point, all six soul bones within Mu Yang's body, as well as the external soul bones, had reached an age of 100,000 years or more.

In just three or four days, Mu Yang used the "Spirit Ascension Method" to upgrade his 60,000-year-old spiritual wisdom skull to a 100,000-year-old soul bone, averaging about 10,000 years per day. This shows that the "Spirit Ascension Method" is very efficient at increasing the age of soul rings and soul bones.

However, the efficiency of the "Spirit Ascension Technique" in improving soul rings and soul bones is not fixed.

The stronger a Soul Master is, the more efficient they are at absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and converting it into special spiritual energy to enhance the age of their Soul Rings and Soul Bones. In addition, Mu Yang has a Yin-Yang complementary dual Soul Core within his body, making his speed of absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth far superior to that of other Soul Masters who are also level 98 Title Douluos. Therefore, the efficiency of the "Spirit Ascension Technique" is naturally high.

The main function of the head spirit bone is to enhance mental strength. After the age increased, it led to an increase in Mu Yang's mental strength.

After the wisdom skull of spiritual condensation reached 100,000 years, the moon in Mu Yang's sea of ​​consciousness, which symbolized his spiritual cultivation, began to shine with brilliant moonlight, and his realm had entered the fourth realm of Radiant Moon Perfection.

The completion of the four realms of "Taiyin Refining Spirit" signifies that Mu Yang's spiritual power has reached level 99.

Of course, Mu Yang's gains were not limited to that.

Generally speaking, a 100,000-year-old soul bone can come with two 100,000-year-old soul bone skills. The Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull, which has been upgraded to 100,000 years old, is no exception. Based on the original soul bone skill, Taiyin Divine Light, it has developed a second soul bone skill.

Soul Bone Skill: Taiyin Protection, similar to Invincible Golden Body, is an "absolute defense" skill.

However, Taiyin Protection is not an absolute defensive technique on the physical and energy side, but rather an absolute defensive technique on the mental side.

Once activated, it grants immunity to all mental attacks below the god level and can also remove mental control from those below the god level for 3 seconds. It can only be used three times per day.

With his head soul bone's age advancing to 100,000 years, Mu Yang temporarily put aside the work of increasing the age of his spiritual wisdom skull and instead focused on increasing the age of his Ice Jade Emperor torso bone.

Given the same age, the torso soul bone is more effective in improving physical fitness than the limb soul bones. Moreover, the Ice Jade Emperor's torso bone is of a higher age, so Mu Yang plans to 'graduate' from the torso soul bone first.

The Ice Jade Emperor's torso soul bone has a potential for improvement of over 600,000 years. Once it reaches 999,999 years, it should be enough for him to condense another 999,999-year-old divinely bestowed eighth soul ring for the Ice Flame Sacred Shadow Martial Soul.

Time flies, and more than two months have passed.

That afternoon, on the summit of a secondary peak outside the academy, Mu Yang was attaching the eighth divine soul ring to his Ice Flame Holy Shadow Martial Soul.

Three days ago, Mu Yang used the "Spirit Ascension Technique" to increase the age of the Ice Jade Emperor's torso and soul bones to the limit of 999,999 years.

Although increasing the age of a soul bone through the "Spirit Ascension Method" is very different from refining a soul bone of the same age and cannot increase soul power, the improvement in physical attributes brought about by the soul bone itself will not change.

Compared to two months ago, his soul power level remained unchanged, or even improved by much. However, the Ice Jade Emperor's torso soul bone, which had aged over 600,000 years, significantly enhanced his physical attributes.

After resting for three days and recovering from the fatigue of two months of intense work, Mu Yang began to condense the eighth soul ring of the Ice Flame Holy Shadow.

The surge in his physical abilities greatly enhanced Mu Yang's ability to withstand the strain of his spirit rings.

As expected, the eighth spirit ring of the Ice Flame Holy Shadow Martial Soul that has been condensed this time will be the same as the existing seventh spirit ring, both reaching the limit of the divinely bestowed spirit rings in terms of age.

The divinely bestowed soul ring with nine golden patterns that is currently floating around Mu Yang, but has not yet been fully refined, is a good example of this.

In the blink of an eye, another night passed. Just as dawn was about to break, Mu Yang, who was refining the energy of the divinely bestowed soul ring, gradually saw his soul power aura stabilize.

After a while, Mu Yang, whose aura surged and who had completely refined the energy of the divinely bestowed soul ring, opened his eyes.

"Not bad, I've finally reached the level 99 ultimate realm!"

Gazing at the almost pure gold-colored, divinely bestowed eighth spirit ring radiating from his body, and feeling the vast, ocean-like spirit power within him, Mu Yang nodded in satisfaction. (End of Chapter)