Chapter 28 Rewarding

A little bit of time passed, and about two-quarters of an hour later, Lin Manshan slowly opened his eyes.

What met his eyes were the slightly odd gazes of the seven burly men.

Lin Manshan shuddered inwardly and instantly had a guess, so he asked with a smile, "What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Brother Ah Man, there's something I want to tell you." Xiao Zi Zai wrinkled his brow and said with a somewhat odd expression, "Your experience of absorbing spirit ring doesn't seem to be quite the same as ours. When the few of us absorbed the spirit ring, the spirit ring was first attached to our body and finally attached to our martial soul. But yours, just now, stayed stuck at your waist which was parallel to your martial soul, and then, just like that, it slowly faded away and disappeared."

"Honestly, this is the first time I've seen such a scenario."

"Why don't you summon your Martial Soul out and take a look?" Brother Dog, who was on the side, couldn't help but interject.

"Okay." Lin Manshan, who stood up, patted his bum, nodded, and summoned his martial soul, and sure enough, there was no spirit ring.

"This," The group didn't understand what was going on, Xiao Zi Zai opened his mouth and finally said, "The sword is quite handsome."

Xiao Zi Wang, who was at the side, pondered and hurriedly asked, "Brother Ah Man, how much did your spirit power rise? What is your spirit skill?"

It didn't matter if there was a spirit ring or not, anyway, usually, apart from displaying it to look good and be able to pretend to be a badass, it doesn't have much use.

For a spirit master, spirit power and spirit skills are the keys to their strength.

"Spirit power has increased by 3 levels and is now at level 13. As for spirit skill, no spirit skill has been generated." Lin Manshan answered truthfully, not only he didn't feel frustrated inwardly, but he was instead overjoyed abnormally. It should be known that Tang San had been practising Mysterious Heaven Skill before his martial soul awakened, and after his martial soul awakened, he had been practising for three months before absorbing the spirit ring and had already accumulated quite a lot of spirit power in his body. But even so, after absorbing the first spirit ring, his spirit power was only raised by 3 levels, while he, whose spirit power had just broken through level 10, absorbed the spirit ring, and his spirit power was also raised by 3 levels.

It was already quite good.

More importantly, from what he felt when he absorbed the spirit ring before, although his martial soul did not have a spirit ring attached to it, the energy within the spirit ring had been absorbed by him in its entirety. It was only that most of it had been used to strengthen the martial soul, but wasn't that better?

The strength of the weapon is an important factor that affects the exertion of soul power, the stronger the basic strength of the weapon, the stronger the power that can be exerted after the soul power is increased. From a long-term perspective, this is a solid deal. After all, there weren't many ways to drastically increase the strength of a martial soul in a short period of time, and absorbing a spirit ring happened to be the quickest way to do so.

"No spirit skills!!!?"

The group froze, the lack of spirit skill is obviously more surprising to them compared to the increase in spirit power by 3 levels.

"It's fine. It's good to be able to continue cultivating, and the spirit power boost is quite large." Lin Manshan smiled.

The group looked at each other in dismay, and in the end, they could only accept this reality and try their best to say some comforting words.

After answering in response to their gesture, Lin Manshan looked at the surrounding sky and glanced at the corpse of the Golden Armoured Beetle on the ground that was completely crushed by the rock, and said, "Big brothers, now that it's already late in the day, it's really too dangerous to continue on, so why don't we set up camp close by. However, camping too close to a water source at night is also more dangerous, we still need to move further away."

"Well, there's a relatively empty place not far on the path we came from just now. Let's return the way we came and go there. Now that it's so dark, and we're not familiar with the surroundings, it's also dangerous to search blindly." Xiao Zi Zai nodded and said.

"Good!" The group nodded, and with Xiao Zi Zai's brothers at the front, they returned the way they came.

Lin Manshan followed at the end, carrying his parcel, skilfully bending down, lightly lifting the rock, wiping his hand, getting up and quickly following the group.

Through the darkness of the night, his fingertips lightly touched a piece of bone the size of a baby's fist, and there was a long sharp horn on it.

'Surprisingly, it's a head spirit bone.' Just now after absorbing the spirit ring Lin Manshan sensed an extremely weak soul fluctuation underneath the rock, and it still hadn't dissipated after a bout of conversation he had with the group. At that time he guessed if his luck had to be considered, he might have burst out a spirit bone.

After all, that Golden Armoured Beetle did die a pretty miserable and suffocating death. It was mentioned in the original book that if the spirit beast was brutally abused and died with too much resentment, the probability of dropping a spirit bone would be increased.

What a sin. Your shell is really too hard, there is nothing I can do about it.

The skull was very small, Lin Manshan easily took it into his arms, while at the same time, he couldn't help but think inwardly: 'In that case, will the spirit bone also contain the soul residue of the spirit beast? And is it something to do with the spirit bone skill?'

'If that's really the case, then, when I absorb the spirit bone in the future, won't the soul power in my body also repel the soul remnants inside? Then, the spirit bone skill will disappear directly too, leaving only the basic level-up effect?'

There is already no Spirit Skill, and if I can't even get a Spirit Bone Skill, it's a pain in the arse.

Luckily, I inherited a whole set of sword techniques.

Shaking his head, Lin Manshan's gaze flickered as he looked at Xiao Zi Zai and the others in front of him.

He had no intention of telling them about the spirit bone, not to mention the fact that there was only one spirit bone, which was simply not enough to share. Even if he wanted to take it and sell it, with the civilian status of everyone present, going to the auction and pulling out the spirit bone, before the money could even reach them, the people would be missing first. As for assimilation, the reasoning is the same, if you absorb it, you won't dare to use it at all. Without a background, once it is exposed, it will easily lead to a disaster that will kill you.

'In the next two days, I will teach them more about spirit beasts, and by the way, I will make some suggestions on cultivation and spirit ring matters. Maybe it's not as precious as a spirit bone, but at least it will allow them to progress a little smoother in their future cultivation path.' Lin Manshan sighed in his heart, 'As for what to do with this piece of spirit bone. It is a head spirit bone from a 450-year-old Golden Armoured Beetle, so in terms of rarity, it is probably more precious than quite a few thousand-year-old ordinary spirit bones. But even so, it won't provide me with a significant gain. Let's keep it for now, and when I find an opportunity to sell it later, I hope I can find a way to buy a storage spirit tool.'

Without a Storage Spirit Tool, he couldn't even bring a few hidden weapons with him, which was also rather distressing.

Not long after, the group came to the clearing, sprinkled the repellent powder, and casually ate something while the night was still young. Because of the existence of spirit beasts, in this world, you can't just casually start a fire in the forest, because certain powerful spirit beasts have fire-loving traits.

After eating and chatting about spirit beast knowledge for some time, Lin Manshan took the initiative to volunteer to keep watch at night. With the presence of soul power in his body, all aspects of his bodily functions were generally more active than those of an ordinary person, and not sleeping for a day or two wouldn't be much of a problem at all. Moreover, he also wanted to take advantage of this time to try to cultivate his spirit power, to see if his cultivation qualifications had improved a little after absorbing the spirit ring.

The few people nodded and spread out their blankets to sleep in place.

Not long after, Lin Manshan, who was sitting cross-legged, slowly opened his eyes.

'It's still pretty slow, cultivating soul power and absorbing spirit ring may increase and strengthen my physical body, but it doesn't improve my qualifications. No wonder even after absorbing spirit ring energy in its entirety, my spirit power only increased by 3 levels.'

'Poor cultivation qualifications, coupled with the lack of better meditation methods and the failure to clear the eight meridians, the efficiency of my body in absorbing and transforming spirit ring energy is just too low.'

'Moreover, the time a spirit ring exists and the time it takes to absorb a spirit ring is only so long, and the amount of spirit energy that my body can absorb and transform within that limited time is also limited.'

'Hhu, if I want to change this situation, the only way I can think of is to consume Immortal Herb.' He couldn't help but sigh darkly.

Then he thought for a second, 'Now that the strength of my physical body has greatly increased, coupled with the fact that I had consumed quite a bit of soul power before, the amount of soul power that my body can now hold has undoubtedly increased greatly. Moreover, compared to slowly cultivating spirit power, cultivating soul power is obviously more significant in terms of improving my strength right now. Temporarily stopping my spirit power cultivation for the time being and focusing on soul power will also be more helpful for my next plans.'

Thinking of this, Lin Manshan closed his eyes once again and began to cultivate.

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