Chapter 27 Thinking about the Spirit Ring Absorption

"Damn, the innate spirit power of the sword martial soul that is so handsome is only at level 3? Unbelievable."

After the previous hunting operation, at this time the sun had completely gone down, and under the cover of the surrounding sky-high giant trees, the ground was already pitch black. The martial soul that manifested on Lin Manshan's hand when he absorbed the spirit ring wasn't big, it could be called pocket-sized and was only a palm long, but under the illumination of the yellow spirit ring as well as Lin Manshan's glistening green soul power, Xiao Zi Zai and his companions were still able to catch a glimpse of its outline.

It is truly dashing and handsome!

However, why is Manshan's spirit power green? This colour doesn't seem too proper...

"It's fine, handsome is a lifelong thing, having a relatively low innate spirit power is fine." Brother Dog made a critical comment.

"Also, brothers help me see if I'm looking at it correctly." Brother Dog turned his head to look at his brothers, then reached out to point at Lin Manshan, "How does the colour of this spirit ring that Brother Ah Man is absorbing seem, to be slowly fading? Moreover, when a spirit master absorbs a spirit ring, shouldn't it first slowly latch onto the body, then shrink at the waist, then enter the body, and finally manifest on the martial soul?"

"But for Ah Man, the spirit ring seems to be hanging on his waist and hasn't moved a bit?"

The group subconsciously tilted their heads slightly to look over, and after ten seconds had passed, they looked at each other in bewilderment.

"It seems to be true! What's up with this?"

"You're asking me. Who should I ask?"

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While the group was caught up in the debate of I have studied little, don't ask me; Lin Manshan on the side, however, was deeply impacted by the situation.

Just like the spiders controlled by the Beast Control Dark Art could be perceived by him, the Martial Soul-cum-Natal Weapon that had been infused with soul power could be perceived by him as well. At the same time, the changes in his physical body could also be perceived.

At this moment, Lin Manshan could clearly feel a majestic energy continuously pouring into his martial soul, which subsequently flowed into his physical body through his martial soul as if his martial soul was a transit station with a filtering effect.

As the energy was being injected, he could also feel that his martial soul was being strengthened by the strange energy, becoming harder and stronger, while his own body, too, was being constantly transformed. The muscles and bones of the whole body along with the meridians seemed to be suddenly stimulated, all of them became abnormally active, and as the energy continued to sink in, there was gradually a kind of faint feeling of acidity, numbness, tingling and swelling.

In addition, with the passage of time, Lin Manshan was surprised to find that the energy of the spirit ring after being injected into the martial soul, most of the energy stayed within the martial soul, and only a small half of the remainder surged into the body, a part of it flows into the meridians, a part of it seeps into the muscles, roots and bones.

What made him feel even more peculiar was that in the energy surging from the spirit ring to the martial soul, he actually felt a faint soul fluctuation, only that it was blocked out by the martial soul and not absorbed.

This was something he understood because only pure soul could give birth to pure soul power after igniting, and because of this reason, the soul power of the Dark Ones could be transferred to other people through the Soul Transfer Art without harming the recipient's soul. Unless one actively devours foreign souls, the soul power will reject foreign souls from entering the body out of self-protection.

After all, if the soul is tainted, the generated soul power will no longer be pure, which in turn will contaminate the physical body, causing it to twist and distort, and then further contaminate the soul as it feeds back to the soul, thus affecting the mind.

This is also the reason why almost no one would cultivate by devouring souls from within the Dark Ones' race.

After all, becoming mentally deformed was still a small matter, but becoming hideous was never acceptable.

'However, where did this soul fluctuation come from?' Lin Manshan couldn't help but fall into thought, 'I'm absorbing the spirit ring right now, and this soul fluctuation is also flowing in during the process, which means that the source should be from the spirit ring.'

'A soul ring is a special energy body condensed after the death of a spirit beast. A spirit master who has absorbed it will not only be able to raise his cultivation, and strengthen his physical body and martial soul, but also be able to obtain a spirit skill from the spirit beast. Spirit skill' Lin Manshan couldn't help but think of the spirit skill Instant Kill Eight Stage Drop that Xiao Wu produced when she sacrificed herself for Tang San. That was a spirit skill that required Xiao Wu's soul to materialise to work with it, 'So the spirit ring, as an energy body, is both a carrier for carrying spirit skills and can also be used as a carrier for the soul's hosting, could it be that the formation of a spirit skill originates from the soul?'

'You need to resist the soul shock when absorbing the spirit ring after the death of a 10,000-year-old spirit beast, from this it can be seen that after the death of a spirit beast, the soul will not dissipate immediately, but will be in the form of the so-called resentment, no, the essence of the resentment may be a soul or a remnant of the consciousness. Retained in the spirit ring? Maybe there's something more to it? Then the essence of spirit skills, could it also be a kind of lingering soul or consciousness?'

'Otherwise, why would a Spirit Master, after obtaining a Spirit Skill, have no need to comprehend it at all, and only need to inject their Spirit Power to activate it?'

'If that's really the case, then it makes sense that after a spirit master absorbs the spirit ring energy, the spirit ring can still be retained and attached on top of the martial soul. Because energy is needed to maintain the existence of the spirit skill!' Thinking of this, Lin Manshan couldn't help but think of Tang Hao again, 'That's why the spirit skill disappeared after Tang Hao performed the blowing up of the ring, and the spirit ring transformed into energy and injected into Tang Hao's body.'

'Then after the spirit ring blew up, where did the residue of consciousness that recorded the stored spirit skill go?'

'After Tang Hao blew up the ring, he didn't take the opportunity presented by the spirit ring shattering away to hunt and kill spirit beasts of a higher age, replacing it with a spirit ring of a higher quality.' Lin Manshan sighed deeply, 'Maybe it's not that he doesn't want to, but he simply can't do it.'

'Because the residue of the consciousness that recorded the spirit skill remains in the martial soul, it just needs to be subsequently recharged to replenish the energy of the spirit ring to continue to use the spirit skill.'

'And Tang San, he transferred the entirety of the first few spirit rings to the resurrected Xiao Wu, along with the consciousness remnants that recorded the spirit skill in them?'

'During the process of the spirit ring merging with Xiao Wu, this fragment was either replaced, crushed, or converted, and only then did it eventually become Xiao Wu's original spirit skill, and at the same time, the possibility of replacing it with a higher aged spirit ring was also lost.' Thinking of this, Lin Manshan couldn't help but think, 'I don't, whether Tang San knows about this mystery, if he does, it's really meticulous thinking.'

Xiao Wu is truly a tool person.

'So, after the spirit ring is absorbed, the energy is mainly divided into three parts and heads to three places. The first is to merge into the meridians, widening and strengthening the toughness of the meridians while increasing cultivation. The second, integrates into the flesh, root and bone, strengthening the physical body, that's why spirit masters will become taller and stronger in a short period of time after absorbing a spirit ring. The third remains within the spirit ring to maintain the existence of the spirit skill, hanging on to the martial soul.'

"Hmm. So, fuck."

Lin Manshan was suddenly shocked inwardly.

'I've cultivated soul power, and my martial soul has been infused with soul power. Repelling all foreign souls naturally includes soul remnants and consciousness remnants.'

'Doesn't that mean that if I absorb a spirit ring, I can only absorb spirit ring energy and can't generate even a single spirit skill?'

Absorbing spirit ring energy, he was literally feeling that.

As for spirit skills

Seeing is believing, practice is the only standard for testing truth.

No longer thinking about it, Lin Manshan hurriedly sank his mind and concentrated on absorbing the spirit ring with all his heart.

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