Breaking Through to Level Twenty-Four! Qian Tong's Selfish Motives (Please Follow and Read!!! Please Collect!!!)

In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

Su Yu received word from Qian Tong, stopped developing the Blue Silver Domain, and headed for the Ten Thousand Household Building.

"Brother Su, this is the Purple Moon Orchid."

The Purple Moon Orchid absorbed the essence of the sun and moon. It was an exceptional medicinal treasure that could be consumed directly to improve one's physique.

However, the age required for it to improve one's physique was rather high. Only after a Purple Moon Orchid surpassed a thousand years would it begin condensing Purple Moon Origin, gaining the effect of strengthening one's foundation and nourishing one's vitality.

This Purple Moon Orchid, however, had only cultivated for 1,100 years. The Purple Moon Origin within it was exceedingly scarce, greatly diminishing its value as medicine.

Still, if absorbed as a Soul Ring, it could also greatly stabilize the Martial Soul's foundation.

Especially since Su Yu only had his Second Soul Ring at present, the Soul Ring of a thousand-year Purple Moon Orchid was enough to take his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul a step further.

Perhaps it might even undergo a transformation.

The Purple Moon Orchid was already extremely weak. Su Yu used his dagger to end its life.

A light purple Soul Ring slowly rose from its corpse.

The faint purple halo was exceptionally eye-catching.

A Thousand Year Soul Ring!

Su Yu took a deep breath, sat cross-legged, and drew the Soul Ring onto himself.

The Body Tempering Method began to circulate.

Having experienced the process of absorbing a Soul Ring once before, Su Yu had gained a firsthand understanding of it and formed a plan for this absorption.

He circulated the Meditation Method and the Body Tempering Method.

It was daytime, but he could still draw in Star Power.

Star Power entered his body. After nearly half of it was refined by his Martial Soul, it circulated within him.

At that moment, the soul power within the Soul Ring flowed into Su Yu's body.

Star Power was of extremely high quality. Combined with Su Yu's control, it worked alongside his own soul power to quickly suppress this incoming soul power and guide it through his body.

Since his own soul power could no longer advance, he would make use of external energy that had only been half-refined.

That was Su Yu's idea.

When Soul Masters cultivated to a whole-number level, further cultivating soul power would not allow them to advance any further. The amount of soul power would not change either; it was merely stored somewhere unknown and could not be mobilized. Only after absorbing a Soul Ring would it manifest.

Alternatively, they could continue cultivating soul power, refining Primordial Energy into their own soul power and using it to compress their existing soul power, forming higher-quality soul power.

However, that process was tedious, and more than ninety percent of the converted soul power could very well be wasted.

Therefore, after breaking through to a whole-number level, absorbing external energy offered extremely poor returns when it came to increasing the power one had already mastered.

But that was not the case for energy that had not been fully refined.

Su Yu had half-refined Star Power. It had not yet been used to compress his soul power and wasted away, nor had it been completely refined and vanished into some unknown place.

Yet this Star Power could still be controlled by Su Yu.

It was equivalent to him having additional power at his disposal.

That made it easier for him to suppress the impact of the incoming soul power.

With more of the soul power's impact resisted by Su Yu's existing soul power and Star Power, the pressure on his meridians would be lower.

This was also what gave Su Yu the confidence to absorb a Thousand Year Soul Ring.

"Looks like Brother Su came well prepared."

Su Yu only let out two muffled groans before falling silent. The soul power within the Soul Ring continued pouring into his body, where he steadily refined it.

"A Thousand Year Second Ring! I bet right!"

Qian Tong was exhilarated. His investment this time had been a success.

However, he had to suppress his excitement, because absorbing the Soul Ring still had one major hurdle remaining—the later absorption of the Soul Ring's origin.

Time passed in the blink of an eye.

Three hours had passed since Su Yu began absorbing the Soul Ring.

Night fell.

Star Power grew even denser.

Su Yu's own soul power, Star Power, and the soul power from the Soul Ring.

The three forces circulated through his body.

As they circulated, the soul power within the Soul Ring was gradually refined by Su Yu.

Having survived the initial crisis of the Soul Ring's soul power impact, Su Yu instead began controlling the Soul Ring's soul power to assist in refining Star Power.

A massive amount of Star Power entered his body, refined by Su Yu with the aid of soul power far exceeding his own.

The process of absorbing a Soul Ring was when a Martial Soul was at its most active. Refining a Soul Ring took only a few hours, yet it could directly raise one's level by one. Its efficiency was plain to see.

That was why Su Yu intended to make full use of this process.

He believed that after absorbing the Soul Ring, his soul power would increase enormously.

Level Twenty-Three was the bare minimum.

After all, the soul power contained in a Thousand Year Soul Ring was immense. With Star Power's aid, Su Yu had absorbed and refined it with almost no waste.

He had even used that soul power to help refine Star Power.

Moreover, Su Yu had already remained at the Level Twenty threshold for three months, accumulating a considerable amount of soul power.

With all these factors combined, Su Yu was guaranteed to reach Level Twenty-Three. On that basis, he had a strong chance of pushing for Level Twenty-Four.

In order to break through to Level Twenty-Four,

Su Yu deliberately slowed the process of refining the Soul Ring's soul power.

To refine more Star Power, Su Yu naturally had to slow the absorption process.

The duration of the entire process depended on the external Soul Ring.

Once a Soul Ring formed, it would dissipate within a few hours. But if it connected with a Soul Master and the absorption process began, that time could be greatly extended.

This made Qian Tong, who was standing guard for Su Yu, anxious.

"It's already been three days and three nights. Why hasn't Brother Su started refining the Soul Ring's origin yet?"

If he did not refine it soon, the power of the Soul Ring's origin would begin to dissipate.

Just as Qian Tong grew anxious, Su Yu finally showed some movement.

The purple Soul Ring shone as it gradually merged into Su Yu's body.

The process of refining the origin went exceptionally smoothly.

Three hours later.

Su Yu slowly opened his eyes. A powerful Soul Power Fluctuation burst from his body, surging forward like a force that could shatter anything in its path as it steadily rose.

Only after a long while did it stabilize.

"Brother Su, you finally finished absorbing it."

Only after Su Yu's aura had completely stabilized did Qian Tong speak. Though his words sounded like a complaint, the excitement in his voice was unmistakable.

"Want to test your soul power?"

Su Yu nodded.

He took the Soul Tool used to test soul power and poured his soul power into it.

"Level Twenty-Four!"

Qian Tong cried out, completely unable to stay seated.

He had always been a steady person, after all, as someone who did business in the province. Yet at this moment, he could not keep calm.

He could hardly be blamed. Su Yu's situation was simply astonishing.

Absorbing a single Soul Ring and directly advancing four levels!

"Everything went as expected."

Only Su Yu remained comparatively calm.

He had dragged this out for a full three days and three nights. Was breaking through to Level Twenty-Four not only natural?

"Brother Su, are you leaving?"

Qian Tong seemed to think of something and asked.

Having absorbed a Thousand Year Second Ring, was Su Yu about to depart as well?

"No. I plan to continue cultivating for a while, leave once my soul power reaches Level 30, and head to the Sun Moon Empire."

Su Yu said.

A sharp gleam flashed in Qian Tong's eyes.

Brother Su truly was rational after all. His advice had worked.

It was not that Qian Tong had any issue with Shrek. He simply genuinely believed that the Sun Moon Empire was more suitable for Su Yu.

Of course, he also had his own selfish motives.

In Qian Tong's view, the Sun Moon Empire unifying the continent was almost inevitable within fifty years, let alone a hundred.

And when that time came, what path would remain for him?