Chapter 84: Broadened Horizons
Unlike the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the atmosphere here is rich with life, mostly nurturing medicinal herbs, with almost no poisonous plants.
In the world of healing and toxicity, there's no clear distinction. Dugu Bo specializes in poisons, but his knowledge of medicinal properties is also noteworthy. Having an exclusive medicinal garden is quite normal for him.
"If we talk about Spirit Beasts with the life attribute among plant-type species, this Earth Ginseng should be suitable for Old Jerry."
Plant-type Spirit Beasts are rare, but with sufficient age, the probability of mutating into a Spirit Beast also increases.
Reaching the level of a thousand years old, without transforming into a true Spirit Beast, is quite rare.
The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, however, is an exception.
While the environment there is conducive to the cultivation of plant-type Spirit Beasts, it also suppresses the birth of spiritual intelligence. Without spiritual intelligence, there is no instinct, and without instinct, the birth of Soul Power to become a Spirit Beast is impossible.
Su Wen followed the direction pointed by Dugu Bo and saw a massive ginseng securely bound, emitting a tempting aroma.
Earth Ginseng, a potent tonic, is highly beneficial for replenishing the vitality of the elderly. It can also be used to rapidly restore Soul Power. This thousand-year-old Earth Ginseng only needs a small piece of its root to quickly rejuvenate a Spirit Elder's Soul Power.
"That's the one!"
Su Wen quickly identified the age of the Earth Ginseng at fifteen hundred years, surpassing the age of his second Spirit Ring. However, he believed that Old Jerry, who had consumed the Immortal Grass, could handle it.
This was the disparity in conditions, unavoidable.
While others might rely on their elders, Su Wen found himself making it easy for an elder here.
"Grandpa, you can directly go up and cut off its main root." Su Wen pointed to the main root for Old Jerry.
Old Jerry, also excited, quickly took out a dagger and thrust it upwards.
A purple Spirit Ring emerged.
Old Jerry entered the phase of absorbing the Spirit Ring.
Dugu Bo and Su Wen stood by, guarding Old Jerry.
"Old Jerry, did you not reach the physical limit?" Observing that Old Jerry did not experience the bloody scene that occurred when Su Wen absorbed a Spirit Ring, Dugu Bo wondered.
"Of course not. Grandpa is at such an old age, and he's just a Food Spirit Master. There's no need for him to endure so much suffering."
If one could easily absorb a higher-level Spirit Ring, then why not? Su Wen had no intention of making Old Jerry go through the same hardships as himself.
After an hour passed, Old Jerry opened his eyes, and the purple Spirit Ring now encircled his only yellow Spirit Ring and directly reached level 30 thank to the remaining spirit power from the Golden Dragon Sweet Potato and the accumulated Source Soul power he had!
"Grandpa, you must be careful. In the future, try not to release your Martial Spirit, and even if you do, control it so that you don't release the Spirit Ring."
The Spirit Fusion Method can also allow the release of the Martial Spirit without unleashing the Spirit Ring.
"Of course, when you're around me, you can give me a heads-up in advance and release it to confuse people."
Su Wen released his Martial Spirit.
However, strangely, at this moment, his external four Spirit Rings were one yellow and three purple.
Soon after, it changed to two yellow and two purple.
Dugu Bo wasn't surprised by Su Wen's Spirit Ring color changes. It was a Snow Silkworm Replication he had obtained from the Icebound Forest during their return journey.
His surprise was directed at the fact that Su Wen's Martial Spirit had not changed.
"Xiaowen, can you maintain the Martial Spirit unchanged and only use the Spirit Skill obtained through Replication?"
To be precise, Su Wen's Replication was about copying other people's Martial Spirits, transforming his Book Martial Spirit into the corresponding Martial Spirit, and then utilizing the opponent's Spirit Skill.
However, now it seems that Su Wen can only deploy Spirit Skills.
"Strictly speaking, I can't do it yet," Su Wen shook his head and said, "It's just that Snow Silkworm is too weak. I found it relatively easy to develop, able to achieve this step, but other Replications still cannot avoid Martial Spirit transformation."
Although this is the case, it at least proves that this direction is achievable, but it requires greater development efforts.
Dugu Bo nodded, feeling that this was also a certain milestone.
"The corpse of this Earth Ginseng is also a good thing," Su Wen collected the corpse of the Earth Ginseng.
Although there is the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, a thousand-year-old Earth Ginseng cannot be thrown away casually. Anyway, it's just a matter of convenience.
"Grandpa, can you talk about the feelings during the absorption process just now? I'll take notes," Su Wen interviewed Old Jerry.
This Spirit Ascension Method is also a technique that Su Wen has explored based on his own experience of leap-level absorption of a Soul Ring.
There's no way around it, because it involves penetrating from the Spirit Master's body into the Martial Spirit Space, it inherently involves the entire body of the Spirit Master. In order to achieve the effect in the form of Soul Power Circulation Route, not only does Soul Power need to circulate throughout the body, but special structures need to be formed everywhere to compress the Spirit Ring Soul Power into the Martial Spirit Space.
In fact, Su Wen expressed that breaking it down is quite simple. It's just dozens of different structures of Soul Power circulating throughout the body, connecting into a larger circulation.
However, Su Wen is still unclear about the specific effects of this set of techniques.
He needs to investigate the feelings of ordinary Spirit Masters when using it.
The reason for not selecting a thousand-year-old Spirit Ring that Old Jerry can easily withstand also has something to do with this aspect.
After the investigation, Su Wen looked at Dugu Bo.
"Let's go. If Old Jerry's Second Spirit Skill is about restoring Soul Power, then the Third Spirit Ring must be about healing. I've actually seen healing-type Spirit Beasts in the Sunset Forest," Su Wen praised Dugu Bo.
Under Dugu Bo's guidance, Old Jerry's Third Spirit Ring was quickly obtained.
It was a five-thousand-year-old one.
This time, it had already reached a limit for Old Jerry himself, but because of the Spirit Ascension Method, he effortlessly absorbed this Spirit Ring.
At the Saint Spirit Hall, Dugu Bo brought Su Wen and Old Jerry to register their Spirit Master information.
"Hmm?" the deacon in charge of the inspection exclaimed.
Old Jerry's Spirit Master certificate indicated that he became a Spirit Master over three years ago, but now he appears to be at the level of twenty-five?
"My grandfather has been stuck at level twenty for a long time without absorbing any Spirit Rings. This time, after I helped him absorb the Spirit Ring, he directly reached level twenty-five," Su Wen explained.
The deacon was speechless.
It had been less than four years in total; how long could he be stuck?
But he didn't delve into it further.
Poison Douluo wasn't someone to mess with.
Quickly adding the record of Old Jerry becoming a Spirit Grand Master to his Spirit Master certificate, the deacon returned the document to Old Jerry.
Su Wen stepped forward for testing as well.
"Level thirty-nine!" the deacon exclaimed.
He stared at the Spirit Master certificate, his brain frantically calculating ten times in an instant, before confirming that he hadn't made a mistake. Su Wen was only fourteen years old.
But why did you come to register at this time?
"I went into seclusion for cultivation after obtaining the Third Spirit Ring with my senior, so I didn't register until now," Su Wen explained.
The deacon glanced at the formidable Poison Douluo, then diligently registered Su Wen and returned his certificate to him. Along with it came the Spirit Master subsidy that Su Wen hadn't claimed before.
"Kid, I'm impressed by how you can use this simulated Spirit Skill," Dugu Bo said, showing admiration.
Simulating the color of one's own Spirit Ring was one thing, but being able to mimic the brightness of the crystal ball used to test Soul Power was quite remarkable.
In fact, just now, when Spiritual Power penetrated their bodies, Su Wen easily faked the results.
"This is also part of developing Spirit Skills."
The three of them headed towards the direction of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.
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