He Grabbed the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and Refined It in an Instant!
Meanwhile, Yu Fan, riding the Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger, had finally found a Soul Beast with the sharpness attribute in the Star Dou Great Forest.
[Ten-Thousand-Year-Vajra Berserk Bear!]
Although this Soul Beast had only a mere ten thousand years of cultivation, it was exceptionally suitable for him.
It had both the strength and sharpness attributes, and it would also spare him the Morality Points wasted on further refining later.
"When the time comes, I'll use Ring Fusion to wash away all the attributes of the Soul Rings I fuse into it, turning them into sharpness or strength."
"Then my Way of Jin and Che will surely grow stronger."
Yu Fan had noticed it during his fight with Di Tian.
Although his Way of Jin and Che was powerful, it was not as powerful as he was.
The reason was presumably that he had not fused a Soul Ring into it.
"Roar!!"
The Vajra Berserk Bear was currently gnawing on the carcass of a blue deer Soul Beast.
After sensing the Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger's presence, it turned and let out a warning roar at the tiger.
It seemed to be threatening the Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger.
Don't come over here looking for trouble.
"Oh, you're pretty cocky, aren't you?"
Yu Fan raised an eyebrow and dismounted from the Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger.
"Roar!!"
Seeing the Vajra Berserk Bear roar at it, the Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger answered with a low growl.
"Little Black, can you beat this bear? I reckon it's about twenty or thirty thousand years old."
Yu Fan asked curiously.
But the Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger shook its head and growled.
"Awooo!"
It couldn't beat it?
Why was this Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger so useless? Was it good for nothing except running fast?
"All right, then."
Yu Fan walked up to the Vajra Berserk Bear and planted the Golden Dragon Spear upright on the ground.
"Are you going to come over and offer yourself up to die?"
"Or shall I beat you to death?"
The two choices left the Vajra Berserk Bear completely baffled.
It didn't know what he meant, but it was clearly an enormous insult.
It looked at Yu Fan and could roughly sense his Soul Power cultivation.
A Soul Grandmaster?
A mere Soul Grandmaster!
What a piece of trash. How dare he interrupt its meal?
"Roar!!"
The Vajra Berserk Bear flew into a rage.
It roared and lunged over!
"Hmph, looks like there's no talking this out, huh?"
Yu Fan gave a cold smile.
Gripping the Golden Dragon Spear, he did not release the Dragon God's pressure against the Vajra Berserk Bear.
After all, why use an ox cleaver to kill a chicken?
What fun would it be to scare the Vajra Berserk Bear into wetting itself right away?
"The Master did not speak of strange things, feats of strength, disorder, or spirits!"
The next moment.
Yu Fan vanished from the spot!
When he appeared again, he was already in front of the Vajra Berserk Bear!
The Vajra Berserk Bear froze in surprise!
It seemed to have underestimated the weakling Soul Master before it...
But before it could strike with its paw, a sound rang out!
"Pfft!!"
Blood splattered, warm liquid spilling onto the ground.
The Vajra Berserk Bear's eyes widened. In a single instant, it found itself unable to summon any of the Soul Power in its body.
Even its life force was rapidly draining away.
This feeling...
It was probably going to die.
"Boom!!"
A thunderous crash rang out.
The next second!
The Vajra Berserk Bear's enormous body flew backward!
The Golden Dragon Spear was lodged firmly in its chest, pinning it fast to a hundred-year-old tree!
The twenty-thousand-year Vajra Berserk Bear...
Dead!!
The Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger stared dumbfounded.
It had imagined that its master would be powerful, powerful enough that even Lord Beast God had to avoid his edge for the time being.
But it hadn't expected him to have such overwhelming power over a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
He had killed it in an instant, right after meeting it?
"Awoo, awoo, awoo!!"
The Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger howled that it was fucking awesome.
Though it spoke in the language of Soul Beasts, Yu Fan could still sense its praise.
He had to admit, the feeling was truly wonderful.
A black Soul Ring slowly rose from the corpse of the twenty-thousand-year Vajra Berserk Bear!
"Little Black, don't let anything disturb me before I finish absorbing the Soul Ring."
Yu Fan patted the Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger on the head and added a warning.
"If I find out you've run away..."
"You'll end up just like this stupid bear."
At those words, the Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger couldn't help shuddering.
"Awoo, awoo!!"
It promised it would never sneak off.
Besides, even if the Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger did run away now, it was a fugitive throughout the entire Star Dou Great Forest.
No matter where it ran, death was the only road waiting for it.
It was better off following Yu Fan and hugging his thigh.
"Mm, good!"
Yu Fan began absorbing the Soul Ring of the twenty-thousand-year Vajra Berserk Bear.
To be honest, he had never learned anything about the subject and really didn't know how to absorb a Soul Ring.
But when he had watched Tang San do it, it had seemed fairly simple.
"Here goes, then."
He reached out and gripped the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring with extreme force. Compressed by space, it settled firmly into his hand.
As he forcibly pulled the Soul Ring onto himself.
The next moment.
"Crack!!"
A crisp snap rang out.
Just like that, the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring shattered.
This time, however, the Soul Ring shattered in a completely different way from that of the ten-year Soft Bone Rabbit.
The shattered Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring turned into countless points of light and began melting into Yu Fan's body.
Once the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring's energy was exhausted.
"Whoosh!!"
A Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring slowly lit up beneath Yu Fan's feet.
He looked down at it.
"Was that grabbing it and refining it in an instant?"
It turned out that his physique had become excessively formidable after the system's stat boosts.
He had long since surpassed the age limit for Soul Rings an ordinary Soul Master could absorb.
Even the mental shock a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast delivered before dying had no effect on him.
Although he didn't know how to use his mental power, it was as solid as a towering wall.
"???"
The Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger stared in utter bewilderment.
Wait, was it really that easy for a Soul Master to absorb a Soul Ring?
It hadn't even finished eating its bear meat!
It had only just taken a little bite, and he was already done?
"This feels pretty good."
Yu Fan noticed that his strength seemed to have improved significantly.
He hadn't expected a Soul Ring to give a Soul Master such a tremendous boost.
"Way of Jin and Che!"
Yu Fan swung one hand and unleashed a slash!
"Boom!!"
A huge boulder in the distance was instantly cut in half, its surface smooth and bright as a polished mirror.
The power of his Way of Jin and Che had increased by more than several dozen times.
"So it really does depend on my own strength and my Soul Ring."
Yu Fan sounded a little surprised.
If he kept absorbing and stacking Soul Rings, the Way of Jin and Che might become as powerful as the Golden Dragon Spear.
But only if he stacked them high enough.
"If I fuse them into a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring..."
"Wouldn't I be able to kill a Titled Douluo with a single strike of the Way of Jin and Che?"
Yu Fan could already picture it.
There were plenty of Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest. Now that he had the Vajra Berserk Bear's Soul Ring as a foundation, he could continue fusing other Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings into it.
After washing away the attributes, he could raise its age to thirty thousand years.
Of course, if the attributes matched, he wouldn't even need to refine them before fusing them.
"I still have ten thousand Morality Points, too."
"All of that together is enough for me to synthesize a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring."
"If my next skill is related to strength, I can harvest the Three Ant Emperor Brothers and piece together a three-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring."
Yu Fan couldn't help looking forward to it.
But, given the system's usual ways...
He would probably have to wait until he actually broke through to Soul Grandmaster.
He was only level fifteen at the moment, and that was after absorbing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
Without absorbing it, he would probably still be level eleven.
"The Golden Dragon Spear can absorb the essence of Soul Beasts, but that can't forcibly raise my Soul Power. It can only help me cultivate."
"In other words, it multiplies my cultivation speed."
"And when I'm close to death, I can release that Soul Beast essence to heal my injuries, but it's not as good as my King Engine."
"Forget it. I have to cultivate anyway, so I might as well absorb a little more Soul Beast essence along the way."
Yu Fan thought it over and decided he could do that.
He recalled the million-year-old Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
He had been careless. He should have absorbed some from Brother Sky Dream.