Douluo Continent: From Seven Treasure Glazed Tile to Crescent Moon's Solemnity

Chapter 121 The Limits of Reabsorbing Soul Rings

"Why are you thinking about all this nonsense?" Dugu Bo said irritably.

"I just suddenly thought of it..." Ning Feiliu smiled and told Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan about her series of guesses.

After listening, the grandfather and grandson suddenly fell silent.

"Spirit rings are bones, you kid... always come up with strange things." Dugu Bo slowly exhaled and said, "But I don't know either. There are no records left from the ancient Douluo Continent. After hundreds of thousands of years of inheritance, Soul Masters have long been accustomed to this way of cultivation and will never think about how their Martial Soul and Spirit Rings came about."

"That's why the development of Soul Masters has always been so slow," Ning Feiliu shook her head and said. "Without knowing the reasons and seeking solutions, the Soul Master world will forever remain stagnant. How can one unleash greater power with their own Martial Soul, or accelerate their cultivation? Without understanding its true structure, it's difficult to make progress!"

Just like pharmacology, it only relies on experience to distinguish what effects certain herbs might have, but it doesn't know the actual active ingredients, where they act, or which receptor they target. How can it better save lives?

For Ning Feiliu, science, metaphysics, and the extraordinary are not antonyms; science is a means for humanity to better understand the world.

Just like antivenom, why would anyone think that antivenom couldn't possibly work in a fantasy world?

The process of making snake venom antivenom involves injecting a certain amount of snake venom into an animal after it has been attenuated, and the animal then produces globulin antibodies through immunization.

Once the antibodies reach a certain effective level, their blood is drawn, extracted, and the resulting drug is prepared.

In any world, as long as the weakened snake venom doesn't kill the experimental animal, an effective serum can be extracted.

Such serum would be absolutely effective in that world.

If you don't understand the principles, you'll naturally think that medicines from the real world can't possibly be useful in a fantasy world.

If the principle exists, then the actual effect is just as effective.

"That makes sense..." Dugu Bo said seriously, "You are right. Yes, that's why the Soul Master world has remained the same for hundreds of thousands of years."

"In this respect, perhaps no Soul Master in the entire Douluo Continent is as good as you. I finally understand why you were able to come up with that Martial Soul Forging Method..." He chuckled and said.

This kid... it seems I underestimated him by a large margin.

Dugu Bo looked at Ning Feiliu and had a premonition that his future would not be as simple as becoming a Title Douluo and leaving a lasting name.

Instead, it will be... that this kid will leave a significant mark on the history of Douluo Continent, and his name will be sung by thousands and admired for all time!

Ning Feiliu felt a little embarrassed and said, "Teacher, you're just flattering me to death..."

As for the latter part of Dugu Bo's statement about coming up with a method for forging martial souls, he subconsciously ignored it.

"What kind of flattery is this! Humph!" Dugu Bo said with great dissatisfaction. "I, Dugu Bo, have always spoken the truth. You brat... I said it! Even the Haotian Douluo and the Pope of the Spirit Hall are no match for you in this respect!"

"Um..." Ning Feiliu scratched her head and said, "Never mind, teacher, don't talk nonsense about this... Let's talk about something else, like do you know how much my soul power level has increased?"

His main concern was that Big Hammer and Bibi Dong, one brainless and the other love-obsessed, seemed, upon closer inspection, inferior to him...

But if word gets out, I'll definitely get into trouble.

Of course, that's fine then.

"How much will it improve?" Dugu Yan asked curiously.

"I'm at level 35 in soul power now," Ning Feiliu said with a smile.

Actually, his soul power should have reached around level 33.8 before. After absorbing a seven-thousand-year soul ring, his soul power should have increased by about 1.5 levels, so it increased to a little over level 35.

"Sure." Dugu Bo nodded with a smile, then suddenly said with a strange expression, "Speaking of which, if you use that Soul Ring Explosion Technique often, wouldn't you be able to increase your soul power very quickly using that method?"

That's right. Each time a spirit ring explodes, it reabsorbs another spirit ring, and then the spirit power increases by one level at a time.

"It's possible... but the new soul ring I absorb must be higher than the limit of the original soul ring in order to increase my soul power," Ning Feiliu said with some helplessness.

In other words, by absorbing a seven-thousand-year-old soul beast, he can increase his soul power by 1.5 levels.

The next time a spirit ring is destroyed, whether it's the second or third spirit ring, the time required to reabsorb a spirit ring will need to be at least 7,000 years old for a spirit beast.

If a soul beast is less than seven thousand years old... sorry, it's equivalent to not having exceeded its own limit, and all the power of the soul beast will be gathered in that soul ring.

After all, it's not absorbing a new spirit ring, but rather reabsorbing a spirit ring.

When you reabsorb a spirit ring, most of the energy will be concentrated on that spirit ring, unlike when you absorb a spirit ring for the first time, where a portion of the power will be fed back to the spirit master.

To increase one level of soul power by reabsorbing a soul ring, one would need a high-quality soul beast that is over eight thousand years old.

Because Ning Feiliu's own limits will also be raised under such circumstances.

However, due to the rejection reaction when reabsorbing a spirit ring, absorbing a spirit ring from a spirit beast of the same type carries enormous risks.

In the short term, he can break a spirit ring once a day and then increase his spirit power by absorbing spirit beasts of higher age.

And if this continues, it seems that in a few years he will be able to absorb a 100,000-year-old soul beast...

But... is it really possible?

First of all, Ning Feiliu's body has its limits; she cannot grow infinitely or surpass her own limits in a short period of time.

Unless he's a bald guy.

If the limits of the human body can be surpassed so quickly and so easily, then they cannot be called limits.

This is equivalent to training for long-distance running every day. On the first day, you push your limits and run 1,000 meters. On the second day, you push your limits again and run 2,000 meters. On the third day, you run 3,000 meters... and on the tenth day, you run 10,000 meters.

First, let's talk about whether you can do it or not, even if you can.

After training like this, let alone ten days, you'll be completely ruined by the fourth day.

They either die from overwork or from rhabdomyolysis.

The same applies to reabsorbing soul rings. You can't infinitely explode your soul rings to raise your limits in a short time, because if you do that, you'll explode and die before you even break through your limits.

At the very least... you can't do this multiple times within a month.

Reabsorbing a spirit ring is possible, but each time you reabsorb a spirit ring, you increase your lifespan by a thousand years. If you do this more than twice a month...

Ning Feiliu's body probably couldn't withstand it, although she didn't know what the consequences would be.

But he would never easily joke about his own life.

(End of this chapter)