Martial Soul Fusion!

The Star Spirit Deer was eighteen thousand years old, already beyond Chen Ming's limit and quite close to the absolute limit he could surpass through the Body Martial Soul's unique mechanisms.

Chen Ming estimated that absorbing a nineteen-thousand-year Soul Ring would also be somewhat difficult for him.

As for a true twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring, there would still be an obvious qualitative change, with its strength rising to another level.

At this moment, Chen Ming had merely drawn out a small portion of the Life Force within the Life Gold in his body, yet it had directly caused the Soul Ring to gain three thousand years.

Three thousand years had pushed it straight to twenty-one thousand years.

It was not that Chen Ming had been careless, nor was it that he had failed to anticipate this outcome.

He had done it out of necessity.

He needed to draw out the power of the Life Gold and make this second Soul Ring the Life Gold's main domain.

The Life Force of the Life Gold was already pure enough to suppress the Star Spirit Deer's origin by a considerable margin, yet it still required three thousand years' worth of Life Force to seize the dominant position.

And the final result was that Chen Ming was now on the verge of exploding.

Du Busi frowned as he watched this scene.

"How did this happen?"

The age had been calculated according to the Body Sect's experience. Whether it was Chen Ming's body's limit of endurance or the proportion by which he could exceed that limit, all of it had been determined through the exploration of generations of Body Sect predecessors.

Moreover, even if the data had been wrong, theoretically, it should not have resulted in his body exploding.

At most, his Martial Soul would be unable to bear it, like last time with Chen Ming, or his Spiritual Power would be unable to withstand the soul shock.

But what was this about his disciple being swollen to the point of explosion by the Soul Ring's energy?

Du Busi was frantic as well. He paced back and forth, then paused beside the Star Spirit Deer's corpse. Soul Power surged forth as he tore the corpse apart and searched through it three or five times.

"Damn it, there isn't even a soul bone."

In his view, if something had gone wrong while Chen Ming absorbed the Soul Ring, the only possible oversight was that this Star Spirit Deer had held immense resentment. In such a case, there was a high chance it would have produced a soul bone, and that was also the key to saving Chen Ming.

But there was none!

As for the treasures on the Star Spirit Deer's body?

Yes, the Star Spirit Deer was valuable from head to toe. Its flesh and blood contained abundant life energy, and it might have miraculous effects on anyone seriously injured or even at death's door.

But for Chen Ming, it was a death sentence.

"If we add any more energy at a time like this, my disciple will only explode faster!"

"If only we could expel the energy from his body."

But the problem was that absorbing a Soul Ring was a major matter and could not be interfered with. Furthermore, Soul Ring energy could only be wasted during absorption; there was no such thing as actively expelling it.

Still, saying there was no solution at all would be too absolute.

"Xiao Ming, if it truly comes to it, give up the Soul Ring. Abandon the absorption of this Soul Ring. With your master here to stabilize you, at worst we'll cripple this Soul Ring slot. As long as we can expel the Soul Ring's energy, at least your body won't explode."

Crippling a Soul Ring slot.

For an ordinary soul master, that would ruin their entire life. Without that Soul Ring slot, they could not obtain a Soul Ring and could not advance to the next stage, effectively becoming permanently stuck.

Fortunately, Chen Ming had two Martial Souls. At worst, he could equip his second Martial Soul with two Soul Rings, break through the bottleneck of twenty levels of Soul Power, and then return to cultivating his Body Martial Soul.

This was the best solution Du Busi could think of.

Yet Chen Ming was unwilling to give up.

At the same time, Du Busi's reminder became the key.

"Expel the energy?"

Chen Ming's Spiritual Sense fully merged into his Soul Martial Soul, driving it to the utmost limit.

Even deep within his soul, something gray and dull emerged faintly—enshrouded in dense Death Qi, yet emitting a weak golden radiance.

The Soul Martial Soul completely merged into his body.

The aura deep within his soul intertwined with the dense Life Force emanating from Chen Ming's body.

At the same time, the Reincarnation Disk that Chen Ming had never used began to turn on its own. It absorbed the two energies and actually dissolved the barrier between life and death, harmonizing life and death!

His soul merged with his flesh.

The two Martial Souls fused together.

Chen Ming was in control of everything.

His thoughts had never been clearer, and all the insights he had gained in the past were unleashed at this moment.

With the help of this process, the Reincarnation Disk finally gained the power of Life and Death Reincarnation, rather than merely the rotation of Yin and Yang.

Beyond that, the crucial point was that his Soul Martial Soul and Body Martial Soul had finally fused!

The excess power within the Soul Ring was expelled.

What ordinary soul masters could not accomplish, deities could.

Chen Ming was no longer a deity, yet he still possessed Spiritual Sense, the experience of having briefly been a deity before, and... a Demigod Position.

The energy Chen Ming expelled from his body rapidly gathered.

Around Chen Ming's body, the energies began to take shape, much like every time his soul possessed his body—except before, it had only been an enlarged phantom outline. Now, that outline had become tangible.

Chen Ming's body began to expand.

In the blink of an eye, it had doubled in size.

The enlarged "body" shimmered with pale golden light. When it opened its eyes, those utterly emotionless pupils radiated majesty without anger, and a terrifying pressure spread outward.

Du Busi met those eyes head-on and felt as though he were gazing upon a god. His scalp went numb in an instant.

But he was, after all, a Super Douluo. He immediately recovered and was no longer affected.

"Is this Little Ming's Martial Soul Second Awakening? He's finally awakened his complete Martial Soul!"

Du Busi was so excited that his hands trembled.

The outside world claimed that Body Martial Souls were parts of the body. Whenever Du Busi was mentioned, people would say that his Body Martial Soul differed from ordinary Body Martial Souls—that his Martial Soul was his entire body, the true body.

But now, Du Busi wanted to say that his disciple's Martial Soul was the true body!

The soul counted as part of the body too.

From Du Busi's perspective, under the soul shock of the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, Chen Ming had completely opened the soul aspect of his Martial Soul, completing the so-called Second Awakening.

Next, if he cultivated using this complete Body Martial Soul and followed the Body Sect's methods to complete another Second Awakening—or, rather, a Third Awakening—that would be the highest achievement possible for a Body Martial Soul!

At this moment, Chen Ming was wrapped in a layer of golden light, making it impossible to tell whether things inside remained the same as before.

However, the energy fluctuations were no longer violent.

Chen Ming's aura gradually stabilized, while the source of that Soul Power rapidly grew stronger.

Breakthrough!

As all the energy fluctuations subsided, the golden light dispersed, revealing Chen Ming's true appearance.

His body seemed to have suddenly developed. Though he had been seven years old, he now looked more like a child of nine.

The most noticeable change was his temperament.

It was a harmonious, all-encompassing aura. His own vital presence connected with the surrounding world, as though he understood everything, while Heaven and Earth Vital Energy faintly and instinctively flowed into his body.

"Good. He absorbed it successfully."

As Du Busi recalled the moment when Chen Ming had nearly exploded, lingering fear still gripped him.

"Risks and opportunities go hand in hand. This was a little more dangerous than expected, but the gains were equally great."

A faint smile appeared on Chen Ming's face.

Influenced by Chen Ming's calmness, Du Busi also relaxed with visible relief.

He looked at Chen Ming and began to examine what Chen Ming had gained this time.

"Did your Martial Soul undergo its Second Awakening?"