As the Life Sharing Ritual activated, they once again felt the surge in soul power that came with absorbing a soul ring, even though they had already finished the process. Absorbing a millennium soul ring beyond their level had originally raised their soul power by three ranks.
But now, under some inexplicable force, their soul power rose by another rank. The Burning Bug soul ring, which had only barely reached the millennium level, also mysteriously gained several hundred years of cultivation. Liu Xing sensed that the Burning Bug's age had increased from one thousand years to fifteen hundred years.
Outside, the pale purple soul rings around Liu Xing and Firefly darkened by an almost imperceptible degree. Without careful observation, no one would have noticed.
As their cultivation reached Rank 14, the two opened their eyes and simultaneously released their Martial Soul Possession. The silver-white mecha dissolved into flames, and their bodies appeared before Luan Yu and the other two once more.
Liu Xing looked at the pale purple soul rings beneath his and Firefly's feet and understood. This should be the effect of the Life Sharing Ritual. They had absorbed the soul rings together and shared them, causing what had originally been a thousand-year soul ring to become a fifteen-hundred-year one, while also granting an extra rank of soul power.
Liu Xing guessed that if only one of them absorbed a soul ring, the other would likely be able to share the same soul ring without absorbing one. If they absorbed them at the same time, there would not be two soul rings; instead, the soul rings would stack and increase in age.
That meant they would no longer need to worry about being unable to find high-age Spirit Beasts to hunt in the future. If they simultaneously absorbed the