Chapter 22 Stellar Soul Core

Wang Lin was sprawled on the ground, with many of his scales fallen.

"Didn't I warn you before to watch what you say in the presence of Di Tian? One day, you will get into huge trouble if you can't control your mouth," said Bi Ji as she placed her palms on Wang Lin's body.

The green halo of life energy emanating from Bi Ji's hands healed the wounds on his body.

"You know, it's not that I can't control my mouth; I know that Di Tian will not harm me unless he wants to get in trouble with Gu Yuena," said Wang Lin.

"Are you serious about venturing outside the core area? Just so you know, the Dragon Claw Technique of Di Tian is not something you can learn willy-nilly," said Bi Ji.

"There is no need to worry when it comes to me learning it. I have something up my sleeve."

"There is something I want to ask. Do you have any beast hides in your possession?" asked Wang Lin.

"I do. Why do you ask?" replied Bi Ji.

"I have a need for the beast hides. If you can lend me some, I will bring you something when I go outside the forest," promised Wang Lin.

"Even if it is possible to learn, I wonder how many years it will take to master the Dragon Claw Technique. Still, you can take some beast hides; it's not like they are precious natural treasures," replied Bi Ji.

Sometime later, Wang Lin was sitting cross-legged in his cave, writing on a beast hide with an ink brush that he had also borrowed from Bi Ji.

"It's completed. There are too many slots that are still empty. I guess I don't have to worry about not having space for these techniques," Wang Lin murmured to himself as he looked at the three techniques: Soul Core Resonance Technique, Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core Technique, and Dragon Claw Technique, which he had inked on the beast hide.

ON HOOK PANEL

Name: Wang Lin

Attribute: Poison, Dark

Age: 203,564 years

Grids Available: 9

Items: Tribulation Lightning (100k), Dark Gold Bear External Claw Soul Bone (22k), Poison Absorption Method (1k), Soul Core Resonance Technique, Life Gold (2k), Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core Technique, Dragon Claw Technique, Storage Spirit Tool

Wang Lin stored the techniques that he had written in the system for enhancement. Minutes after, the techniques disappeared, and memories and information about practicing them appeared in his mind.

He was absorbed in digesting the plethora of information he was gaining. Hours passed as he gained a hundred years of memories of practicing those techniques. As time progressed, the techniques of Soul Core Resonance and Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core seemed to fuse together, emerging as a completely new technique.

The new technique combined the strengths of both: the soul core frequency synchronization of the Soul Resonance Technique and the amalgamation of soul cores from the Yin-Yang Complementary Technique, forming a completely new approach.

Wang Lin continued to gain memories of the newly modified technique. The new technique removed the limit of having only three soul cores. Now, he could have an unlimited number of soul cores, limited only by the toughness of his body. Multiple soul cores could be formed, resonating with one Nucleic Soul Core at the center, as the soul cores revolved around it like planets around the sun.

"Let's call this the Stellar Soul Core Technique," Wang Lin named the new technique.

However, he was still in a dilemma. To form the new soul core with this technique, he would need to destroy his Poison and Blood Essence Soul Cores. To destroy them, he would have to destabilize the frequencies at which they rotated. There was a caveat: the destabilized soul cores would explode, destroying the surrounding area, including his heart and head. He had to find a way to reconstruct his soul cores.

Wang Lin looked toward the system, often the solution to his problems. Most of the items in the system now were techniques, the exceptions being storage tools, Life Gold, a Soul Bone, and Tribulation Lightning.

He already knew from Bi Ji that the Soul Bone was useless to him unless he was human; all he could do with it was use it as a toothpick. Thus, his only options were Life Gold and Tribulation Lightning.

He took out the Life Gold, which doubled in size upon leaving the system, and breathed the rich life energy into his body. He directed the life energy toward his soul cores. The rich life energy brought a reaction from the soul cores, but it was the opposite of what he intended. Rather than destroying the soul cores, it infused them with energy, causing them to grow slightly.

After discovering that the Life Gold didn't work as intended, he released the Tribulation Lightning from the system and absorbed it into his body. Most of the lightning dispersed in his flesh, but a small amount entered his soul cores. This time, there was a positive change. After the Tribulation Lightning entered the soul core, it wobbled, became unstable, and then returned to normal.

The Tribulation Lightning wasn't enough to bring a noticeable change in the soul core, so he released more of it. As he absorbed it into his body, the lightning temporarily liquefied the soul cores before they once again returned to normal. Wang Lin noticed that the soul cores were isolated from one another. If he could use the momentary pause of the soul cores, he might be able to reconstruct them according to the Stellar Soul Core Formation Technique.

But there was a small problem: the amount of Tribulation Lightning that entered the soul core was minute compared to the lightning dispersed through his body.

So, he released a tremendous amount of lightning, which liquefied his Poison Soul Core and Blood Essence Core. The liquid Poison Core traveled from his head to his heart. He controlled the liquefied soul power, shaping it into a sphere as the liquefied Poison and Blood Essence Cores were reshaped. While he was reconstructing them, new changes began to take place. The dispersed lightning in his body gathered and formed a soul core made of Tribulation Lightning.

Wang Lin saw the opportunity and introduced the Tribulation Lightning Core into his Stellar Soul Cores. The three soul cores revolved in their own orbits as tiny amounts of their soul power were siphoned off to form a Nucleic Core at the center, containing all the attributes of the soul cores: Poison, Blood Essence, and Tribulation Lightning.

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