Upon contact with the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, Xiang Yang felt a powerful impact, something he had never experienced before when refining Soul Rings.
But this level was not enough to make Xiang Yang feel any sense of crisis. He calmed down and proceeded step by step to guide and refine the essence.
Time always flies when you're focused on something. Just as it was about to come to an end, the anticipated Soul Power of the Sun Wheel Flower Soul Beast finally struck.
Actually, it had no other choice. This Soul Master had been methodical from beginning to end, and there was no way to find any flaws. If it didn't act now, it would really have no chance to take him down with it.
Just as Xiang Yang was about to experience the legendary "Soul Shock," the Golden Crow on the surface of his Martial Soul, which had been "drifting with the tide," seemed to sense something and suddenly disappeared.
"Hmm?" Tang Hao looked up from a big tree ten meters away, puzzled. He felt like something had just appeared near Xiang Yang, but when he looked over, everything seemed normal, there was nothing there, and Xiang Yang was perfectly fine.
It's probably due to the energy fluctuations of the Soul Rings. After all, it's a ten-thousand-year-old fourth-ring spirit ring, so it's understandable that it's a bit special.
As he thought about it, he remembered Ah Yin, who was still at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He figured that he could speed up their journey back later.
Xiang Yang was puzzled. The soul of the Sun Wheel Flower Soul Beast suddenly disappeared, but the refining of the Soul Ring would not stop there. A few minutes later, Xiang Yang successfully obtained the fourth Soul Ring.
Tang San, who was protecting him, was fiddling with the parts of the Hidden Weapon in his hand while glancing at Xiang Yang's condition every now and then, so he immediately realized, "Is it done?"
Xiang Yang didn't answer immediately; his expression was strange, as if something unbelievable had happened. Tang San asked curiously, "What's wrong? Are you dissatisfied with the Soul Skill?"
As if she had just heard his voice, Xiang Yang seemed to be just realizing what was happening. "Ah, it's alright, let's go back first."
"Hmm? That's good," Tang San knew he must have made some new discovery, nodded knowingly, and turned to call out, "Dad!"
"Um."
"Ugh!" ×2
Tang Hao had just put the two down when he disappeared, leaving Tang San and Xiang Yang retching in place.
Fortunately, both of them were physically strong and recovered quickly. Xiang Yang said to Tang San, "Your parents have a really good relationship."
"Hehe." Having just experienced a rollercoaster ride, Tang San was speechless and could only chuckle awkwardly to change the subject, "What happened to the Soul Ring just now?"
Xiang Yang wasn't one to hold grudges, but he would "accidentally" let it slip the next time they met. Hearing Tang San's question, he revealed his newly refined Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and, unwilling to give up, sensed it again.
Seeing that he remained silent, Tang San asked anxiously, "What's wrong? Tell me!"
Xiang Yang said expressionlessly, "No Soul Skills."
Huh? Tang San didn't understand for a moment. Nothing?
"What do you mean, 'nothing'?" Tang San couldn't help but ask. Xiang Yang's words just now made him feel like he either misheard or was dreaming.
Xiang Yang continued, "Soul Skills? None. Soul Rings? Empty." He even tried injecting Soul Power, but apart from making it a little brighter, it was completely useless.
Tang San also fell silent. After a moment, he said, "How could that be? Maybe it's... temporary?" He still didn't quite believe that Soul Ring could be without Soul Skill. If it was just this one, that would be fine, but what if all the others were like this... Although Xiang Yang could develop his Self-Created Soul Skills, he still needed a reference point.
"Actually... something strange just happened." Xiang Yang felt it must be related to this.
"What is it?" Tang San asked, frowning.
"The Soul Beast's soul also disappeared. I had sensed that it was about to attack me, but it suddenly vanished. At first, I thought it had given up."
When Xiang Yang learned that there were no Soul Skills within the Soul Ring, he felt that there was a connection between the two. Although he did not know exactly what had happened, this confirmed one thing for him—the generation of Soul Skills was bound to the soul of the Soul Beast, and Soul Rings and Soul Power alone would not generate Soul Skills.
He had previously had many ideas about the relationship between Soul Beasts, Soul Rings, and Soul Skills, but due to the inability to actually observe them, even Xiao Wu's "personal understanding of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts " was of little use. She only knew what it was, but not why it was, and had never absorbed Soul Beast Soul Ring. Her experience could only be used as a reference.
Therefore, progress in this area has been stuck at the first step, but now we can confirm some of the details.
"Perhaps... it's also related to the intelligence of the Immortal Herb?" Xiang Yang had just been silent as he sorted out his thoughts. The first thing he considered was the soul. One of the reasons he was absorbing the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring was to conduct some kind of test, but he had no feeling about it at all.
It's still my own soul, after all. Surely I should be able to sense no fluctuations at all? So, only the original spirit of the Immortal Herb remains, along with the spirit of my Martial Soul...
Huh? Where's the picture? I've lost it!
The reason Xiang Yang only noticed it now is because his Martial Soul is spherical and emits light and rotates like a real Sun. So, if you don't look carefully, you won't notice the Golden Crow Diagram. Besides, he had looked at it countless times in the past few days, so he naturally didn't pay attention. Who would have thought that this thing would also go missing?
However, this confirms that the disappearance of the Sun Wheel Flower's soul is related to it.
Hearing Xiang Yang's thoughts, Tang San carefully examined his Martial Soul and finally breathed a sigh of relief. "It's good that you were able to find the problem. Once it reappears, your Soul Skills should return as well."
"Hmm, I hope it will happen soon." Xiang Yang had a feeling that something unexpected would happen.
The two traveled together, first to satisfy their hunger, then one continued refining pills while the other diligently wrote...
In the following days, Xiang Yang's fourth Soul Skill still did not appear, but fortunately this did not affect his Soul Power cultivation. Because it was Tang Hao who made the move, his crushing attack naturally prevented the Sun Wheel Flower from consuming too much Soul Power. In addition, the Sun Wheel Flower was Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
Therefore, after absorbing the Soul Ring, Xiang Yang's Soul Power Level reached level 42, which is slightly higher than that of Soul Ring of normal age.
Finally, I'm not at the bottom anymore! ╰(*°▽°*)╯
As expected, the Sun Solar Essence reached the Soul Emperor level. Moreover, based on Xiang Yang's instinctive intuition, the Sun Solar Essence should be able to maintain a gap of no more than two levels with him for a long time, unlike before when it "shrank" so quickly.
It should be noted that Xiang Yang's current Soul Power has "Extreme Attributes," which already surpasses the quality of others of the same rank. Therefore, this two-rank difference is actually a return to the initial three-rank difference.
Xiang Yang had been testing himself in detail with Tang San and Tang Hao over the past few days. He found that his current Soul Power quality was equivalent to that of Soul Emperor, but his overall combat strength was only around that of a high-level Soul King.
This is mainly because the Soul Emperor has two more Soul Rings than him. His Soul Skills, which have been around for tens of thousands of years, are incomparable to ordinary energy output skills. His output power in the same amount of time is also much higher than his at higher realms. Xiang Yang only surpasses him in terms of endurance.
Actually, this is already pretty good. Normally, simply Extreme Attributes can only allow Soul Master to be about five to ten levels ahead of Soul Saint, except for the protagonist.