Blood Flame (Please Follow and Vote)

Gu Yi's purple soul rings shone brilliantly around him, illuminating the entire cave.

Strands of blood-red Soul Power flowed from Gu Yi's palms, turning into tiny plumes of smoke that streamed into the Purple Cloud Wings.

With the help of enlightenment, Gu Yi's perception had reached an extremely high level, allowing him to clearly sense the remnant soul within the Purple Cloud Wings.

Gu Yi mobilized his spiritual power and the Soul Power of his Blood Martial Soul, doing everything he could to gather the Purple Cloud Eagle's remnant soul and prevent it from dispersing into the heavens and earth.

At the same time, his Soul Power circulated through the Purple Cloud Wings and his own body according to the path described in the scroll, imprinting a Soul Power mark within the Purple Cloud Wings.

Gu Yi focused intensely. Following the bold idea that had suddenly emerged in his mind, he imitated his past experience of absorbing two thousand-year soul rings and began absorbing the Purple Cloud Eagle's remnant soul and wings.

The purple-black Purple Cloud Wings on the black scroll suddenly burst with dazzling light. The radiance grew increasingly intense, even eclipsing the glow of Gu Yi's two soul rings.

A few breaths later, the wings transformed into two tiny purple-black streaks of light and shot into Gu Yi's body through his palms like lightning, rapidly coursing through his meridians.

When they finally reached the meridians along Gu Yi's back, they forcefully opened up two tiny branch meridians that continued extending outward.

Intense pain struck without warning. Even Gu Yi, in his state of enlightenment, could not help but tremble violently as beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.

However, Gu Yi immediately used the soul technique Solid as a Rock, steadying his mind and resisting the intense pain through sheer willpower.

He could clearly feel an additional pair of wings on his back. Within them, a violent remnant soul was slowly dissipating.

Gu Yi once again circulated his blood-red Soul Power, continuously pouring it into the wings on his back.

He even mobilized nearly a hundred drops of the limited essence blood within his body, sending them through his blood vessels and meridians to merge into the wings.

Through Gu Yi's efforts, the Purple Cloud Eagle remnant soul's rate of dissipation slowed greatly. However, Gu Yi actively wore away its violent consciousness, leaving behind only pure Soul Power that merged into every part of the wings.

In the end, a pair of palm-sized black eagle-wing tattoos appeared on Gu Yi's back, with faint purple patterns vaguely visible within them.

Gu Yi controlled his Soul Power, sending it through the two newly formed tiny branch meridians and into the eagle-wing tattoos on his back.

The next second, the eagle-wing tattoos released a faint purple glow and transformed into a pair of tangible wings roughly half a zhang long, growing out of Gu Yi's back from thin air.

As Soul Power continued to flow into them, clusters of flames suddenly ignited across the surface of the Purple Cloud Wings. The flames were blood-red, eerie and enchanting.

Joy appeared in Gu Yi's eyes. "I succeeded! I didn't expect that I would actually succeed in extracting a skill from the Purple Cloud Eagle's remnant soul and the Purple Cloud Wings!"

"Though it isn't the Blood Escape I envisioned..."

Blood Flame: It can transform Soul Power and essence blood into a special flame containing vast life force, healing and restoring the injuries of oneself or others!

This was the skill Gu Yi had extracted from the Purple Cloud Eagle's remnant soul and the Purple Cloud Wings.

—The Black Flame Purple Cloud Eagle possessed a trace of thin Ancient Phoenix bloodline.

Just now, after Gu Yi saw the true nature of this flying battle technique and suffered the soul shock from the Purple Cloud Eagle's remnant soul,

an idea had suddenly formed in his mind.

Wouldn't these Purple Cloud Wings be equivalent to a flying-type "External Soul Bone" in Douluo Continent?

The way the Purple Cloud Eagle's remnant soul existed was very similar to the remnant souls left within soul rings and soul bones after ten-thousand-year and Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts died in Douluo Continent.

Over the past two years, Gu Yi had learned every book in Nuoding Academy's library and Yu Xiaogang's study. The Martial Soul theory in his mind was no weaker than Yu Xiaogang's, and perhaps even surpassed it.

Moreover, Gu Yi had always wanted his two Body Martial Souls, "blood" and "bone," to undergo their second awakening sooner, thereby improving the quality of his Martial Souls.

Thus, whenever he had time, Gu Yi entered enlightenment repeatedly to study his Blood Martial Soul, Bone Martial Soul, and the two soul rings he had absorbed.

He had even studied Xiao Wu's Martial Soul and soul rings.

—Gu Yi was equally curious about Xiao Wu, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast that had taken human form. He wanted to understand and unravel the mystery of how she condensed her own soul rings.

If it proved possible, Gu Yi might be able to condense soul rings himself in the future, without needing to hunt Soul Beasts to obtain them.

After all, the Soul Ring System could only reach the level of a nine-ring Titled Douluo. In the Nine Heavens Continent, that was simply insignificant.

If Gu Yi did not wish to abandon this cultivation system, he would sooner or later have to walk the path of condensing his own soul rings.

Back to the point.

After a long period of research, Gu Yi discovered that whether they were the Martial Souls of Douluo Continent or the Martial Souls of the Nine Heavens Continent, they were fundamentally products formed from the union of a person's soul and bloodline—a kind of innate ability.

This was also why the Myriad Worlds Gate had classified Gu Yi's Blood Martial Soul and Bone Martial Soul under the talent category.

Martial Souls could either be inherited from one's ancestors or bestowed by powerful individuals.

The gods of Douluo Continent and experts above the Venerable Martial Realm in the Nine Heavens Continent could both bestow Martial Souls upon others.

For example, the god-granted Martial Souls, the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul and the Sea God Martial Soul.

There was also the Seal Gate Bloodline Martial Soul of the Duan Family, the Snow Moon Kingdom's royal family, as well as the Purple Snake Martial Soul hidden within Moyue Kingdom's Purple Manor.

Even during the era of Douluo II ten thousand years later, a million-year Soul Beast, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, could bestow an ice-element Martial Soul upon Huo Yuhao, the child favored by fate at the time.

This showed that as long as one possessed sufficient understanding of souls and bloodlines, along with enough strength, one could add new Martial Souls to others and even to oneself.

Soul rings, meanwhile, were products formed from a Soul Beast's soul, Soul Power, and soul skills under the influence of the Laws of Heaven and Earth.

That was why soul rings possessed the skills a Soul Beast had in life, and why soul rings produced by Soul Beasts over ten thousand years old also contained their remnant souls.

Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts that cultivated anew as humans could also condense their own soul rings before reaching level sixty.

As for Soul Beasts below ten thousand years, their souls were too weak for remnant souls to remain within soul rings, leaving behind only soul skills.

It was precisely the insights Gu Yi had gained from researching Martial Souls and soul rings over the past two years that gave him such confidence, prompting him to attempt modifying the Purple Cloud Wings and the remnant soul within them.

The result was gratifying. Gu Yi's attempt had succeeded, giving him a new method out of thin air and making up for one of his weaknesses.

The martial skills Gu Yi had cultivated over the years and the soul ring skills he had obtained were all combat-oriented.

For example, the essence blood condensed by his first soul skill, Blood Refinement, could originally be burned to enhance attack power, speed, and other attributes. It could also be converted back into Soul Power for replenishment. Its uses were mainly combat-related.

His second soul skill, Blood Ignition, was likewise combat-oriented.

It was a technique for utilizing essence blood, capable of improving the efficiency with which essence blood was used.

The difference was like that between ordinary charcoal and honeycomb briquettes.

The latter had a larger contact area with oxygen, burned more thoroughly, and could release more heat.

It was also like the difference between the Yellow-tier Low-grade Basic Spear Arts and the Yellow-tier High-grade Charge Spear Technique. Naturally, the latter possessed more profound application techniques.

Without using his second soul skill to burn essence blood, one drop could only increase Gu Yi's attack, speed, and so on by 100%.

But with Blood Ignition, a single drop of essence blood could increase Gu Yi's attack, speed, and other attributes by 200%, doubling the efficiency.

And this was only temporary. Once Gu Yi gained a deeper understanding of the soul skill Blood Ignition and a clearer grasp of the structure of essence blood, its efficiency would steadily rise.

Eventually, burning essence blood might directly increase his strength by twofold, threefold, or even more.

But the healing Blood Flame brought by the Purple Cloud Wings allowed essence blood to serve a new purpose, making it far more versatile.

Gu Yi now effectively carried healing pills with him at all times. His combat endurance had soared, and he could fight, endure, and recover—truly a well-rounded warrior.

Sorry, I'm a little stuck on the writing. The second chapter may not be updated until tomorrow morning. There will be three chapters tomorrow.