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The idea was wonderful, but reality was harsh.

The moment this thought arose in Gu Yi's mind, he immediately entered a state of enlightenment, enhancing his comprehension and wisdom as he began deducing the feasibility of the idea.

After all, Gu Yi's other martial soul was his skeleton.

Although over the past few years of cultivation, Gu Yi had primarily cultivated his Blood Martial Soul and followed the path of blood—

He had still devoted part of his energy to studying and cultivating his Bone Martial Soul and the human skeleton.

For example, the Indestructible Golden Body Art was a martial technique Gu Yi had specifically sought out for his Bone Martial Soul.

After all, Twin Martial Soul possessors cultivating the Nine Heavens Martial Dao did not need to distinguish an order of priority as they did in the Soul Ring System.

Thus, Gu Yi's understanding and control of bones far surpassed that of the vast majority of people.

But even so, after deducing it, Gu Yi discovered that making each soul bone correspond to a single bone was simply too difficult.

Compressing the soul bone's energy was easy enough.

But preserving the integrity of the soul power patterns within the soul bone after compression was as difficult as ascending to the heavens.

The structure of the soul power patterns inside a soul bone was extraordinarily complex and intricate; they could not simply be shrunk or enlarged.

Even the slightest change could damage their structure, affect the circulation of soul power, and alter or directly erase the effects of the soul skill.

To preserve the soul power patterns without changing their structure, one had to thoroughly understand the soul power patterns within the soul bone. Its difficulty was no less than cultivating a martial technique anew to major mastery or even perfection.

If Gu Yi possessed such ability, why would he need to absorb soul bones? Wouldn't it be better to cultivate martial techniques himself?

Thus, Gu Yi decisively abandoned the notion of fusing a soul bone into every bone in his body.

"I should absorb this Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone first."

The gleam in Gu Yi's eyes faded as he withdrew from his enlightened state.

Gu Yi stroked the crystal-clear Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone. Feeling the abundant, majestic life force within it, he could sense his Blood Martial Soul and Bone Martial Soul crying out with longing.

He circulated his cultivation technique to calm the restlessness in his heart, then slowly placed the soul bone against his right leg.

Buzz~

A faint hum rang out. The Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone silently vanished, transforming into countless streams of majestic life energy that burrowed into Gu Yi's right leg.

The next instant, the Blue Silver Emperor right leg soul bone perfectly overlapped with Gu Yi's right leg, and its complex soul power patterns slowly imprinted themselves upon the bones of his right leg.

Gu Yi focused his mind and hurriedly mobilized his Blood Martial Soul, circulating his cultivation technique to absorb the life energy of the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone with all his strength.

At the same time, the Purple Cloud Wings tattoo on Gu Yi's back bloomed with a blood-red radiance. A mass of Blood Flame ignited over Gu Yi's body before appearing on his right leg, slowly yet resolutely burning away the residual imprint Blue Silver Emperor had left within the soul bone.

Gu Yi was well practiced in this.

After researching soul rings over the past few years, he had discovered that the soul rings he had absorbed were not pure. They still retained traces of the spiritual imprints of the soul beasts he had hunted.

This was especially true for Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts. Even their remnant souls could launch spiritual attacks, so the imprints they left within soul rings were naturally profound. Simply withstanding their spiritual assaults was not enough to erase them.

Therefore, to make the power within his soul rings purer and more perfect, leaving only Gu Yi's imprint within them—

Gu Yi developed a method of using Blood Flame to burn away the lingering thoughts of soul beasts and incorporate soul ring energy into the circulation of his cultivation cycle.

And indeed, after this series of operations, Gu Yi found that using the power of his soul rings became smoother and more natural, as though they were extensions of his limbs. The power of every soul skill he used had also increased by ten to twenty percent.

Soul rings and soul bones had similar structures, so the same process could naturally be applied to them as well, improving Gu Yi's control over his soul rings and soul bones and truly making them part of himself.

The majestic life energy circulated through his meridians and blood vessels along with his Blood Martial Soul, merging into his limbs and bones, his internal organs, and every bone in his body, strengthening his life force.

Thump! Thump! Thump!!

Gu Yi's heart beat with increasing force. Its pounding was even loud enough to carry beyond his body and echo throughout the room.

The violently beating heart generated immense pressure, causing his blood to surge through his body like a great river, roaring continuously.

His bones shone with golden light, and the Indestructible Golden Body Art began circulating on its own, making Gu Yi appear like a man of gold.

Gu Yi clearly felt that his Blood Martial Soul and Bone Martial Soul had reached a certain threshold. As long as he broke through it, he would step into an entirely new world!

"Is this... the second awakening of a Body Martial Soul from Douluo Continent? Or the Innate Awakening of a Nine Heavens Continent martial artist?" Gu Yi was somewhat unable to determine which state he was currently experiencing.

If it was the former, it would merely be a simple increase in the quality of his martial souls.

If it was the latter, then besides improving his martial souls' quality, it would also mean that Gu Yi was about to break through to the Spirit Martial Realm!

Gu Yi pondered for a moment and inspected himself internally. "It seems to be the second awakening of a Body Martial Soul."

Gu Yi released his Blood Martial Soul and Bone Martial Soul, only to discover that faint silver-white radiance flickered over his blood and bones.

This was clearly the sign of a second awakening for a Body Martial Soul on Douluo Continent—and Gu Yi had achieved a "Silver Grade" awakening!!

The essence of a second awakening on Douluo Continent was stimulating the potential hidden within one's body, breaking through the limits and shackles of the human body, thereby enhancing the origin and quality of one's martial soul.

A Body Martial Soul was part of one's body, and cultivation for Body Martial Soul masters meant excavating their own potential.

Therefore, compared to soul masters with other martial souls, Body Martial Soul masters found it easier to achieve this.

A second awakening could be accomplished through the extreme method of experiencing a life-and-death crisis and facing death directly. For instance, the first sect master of the Body Sect ten thousand years later had used this method.

It could also be accomplished by consuming Heavenly Material, Earthly Treasures, absorbing their origin, and stimulating one's internal potential.

For example, in the original work, Ning Rongrong consumed an Immortal Herb, causing her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to evolve into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

Gu Yi's current situation was much the same as that experience.

The soul bone left behind by the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, the Blue Silver Emperor, contained somewhat less life energy than those Immortal Herbs.

However, its life energy was highly compatible with the origin of Gu Yi's Blood Martial Soul, producing twice the result with half the effort.

At the same time, the origin of his second martial soul, the Bone Martial Soul, also received some replenishment.

Gu Yi primarily cultivated the Nine Heavens Martial Dao. Cultivation in the Qi Martial Realm was originally a process of absorbing Heaven and Earth Origin Qi to nourish one's martial soul.

Each of the nine minor stages could slightly improve the quality of one's martial soul.

And today, the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone happened to help Gu Yi's two great martial souls take that final step.

The second awakening of both martial souls was completed as naturally as it should have been.

Yet Gu Yi did not stop cultivating. "Perhaps I can use the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone's energy to break through to the Spirit Martial Realm in one go and undergo another Innate Awakening!"

On the Nine Heavens Continent, every martial artist had a chance to undergo an Innate Awakening when breaking through from the ninth level of the Qi Martial Realm to the Spirit Martial Realm.

However, whether they could successfully undergo an Innate Awakening depended on the martial artist's will.

If a martial artist's will was weak, the Innate Awakening would fail, and their future achievements would be severely limited.