Enhancements Brought by the Soul Ring

After Jerry absorbed his First Soul Ring, his Soul Power did not increase and remained at level 23.

After all, he had only absorbed his First Soul Ring in his twenties, and it was only a Soul Ring that had just passed a hundred years. The increase in Soul Power was not significant.

Jerry's Body Strength improved greatly, far surpassing the results of his previous training.

His Spiritual Power had also improved. It seemed that absorbing a Soul Ring had many benefits. Besides the most basic improvements to Body Strength, Spiritual Power, and Soul Power, it could also grant Soul Skills.

Jerry cultivated for a while and found that his Cultivation Speed had increased by roughly thirty percent.

Jerry realized that Innate Soul Power represented one's base Cultivation Speed. If someone with Innate Full Soul Power had a base Cultivation Speed of 10, then his could only be considered 0.5.

The Beginner Meditation Method provided by the Academy could increase Cultivation Speed by around 20%. At that point, his Cultivation Speed was 0.5 × 120% = 0.6.

Thus, after cultivating for a year during his first year, his Soul Power had increased by half a level.

Those with higher Innate Soul Power saw even more obvious improvements.

But he could plant his Martial Soul, and the Martial Soul absorbed twice as much Soul Power underground as it did from the air.

At that point, his underground Cultivation Speed should have counted as 1. With the Beginner Meditation Method, it should have been 1.2.

The aboveground and underground rates added together gave him a Cultivation Speed of 1.8.

With the improvement from the First Soul Ring, his Cultivation Speed reached 2.34.

Then there was the Ten-Year Animal Fertilizer he had made himself. It contained abundant Soul Power, and as long as the Soul Power had not been exhausted, it could be absorbed continuously. That was probably one of a plant's innate traits!

There were many Plant-type Martial Souls on Douluo Continent, but when their owners cultivated, they would summon their Martial Souls and operate their Meditation Methods, using the Martial Souls to absorb Soul Power from the air.

Even with Mimicry Cultivation, they merely went into the forest, which increased their Cultivation Speed somewhat. No one had ever planted their own Martial Soul in the soil. Had the people of this world all been dumbed down?

He had already found it strange when reading the Original Work. Tang Hao had planted the Blue Silver Emperor seed in a damp cave behind a waterfall on Back Mountain.

Tang San was an adult, and a deeply calculating person who could even steal the Tang Sect's secret manuals, yet after Yu Xiaogang said a few words to him, he knelt and became his disciple.

There were many problems with Yu Xiaogang's Ten Great Core Theories if one gave them even a little thought, yet he, a theoretical researcher, had failed to notice them.

Where had everyone's intelligence gone?!

Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. Who had given her the confidence to participate in the national Soul Master Tournament and even run into Spirit City?

After absorbing his First Soul Ring and gaining greater Spiritual Power, Jerry thought of many more questions.

Master had a theory that Soul Masters could cultivate before adding Soul Rings, only at a slower rate.

After absorbing a Soul Ring, the results of their previous cultivation would be revealed.

Slower!

That was not a problem at all for Jerry. Most of Jerry's cultivation relied on the fertilizer Soul Power absorbed from the soil, which was far more abundant than the Soul Power in the air.

It was like soaking in a vat of Soul Power. As long as he breathed, he could absorb Soul Power.

So, before adding Soul Rings, Jerry had still been able to cultivate to over level twenty. It was only afterward that he needed too much Soul Power, while the Ten-Year Soul Beast fertilizer could provide only so much.

If Jerry had backing from some force, he felt that he could have cultivated even higher.

He also tested the First Soul Skill's effect of accelerating Soul Power recovery. It too gave an increase of thirty percent.

Lastly, he tried absorbing Soul Power into the Soul Ring. The natural absorption effect was not very obvious, but while in the soil, he could control whether to absorb Soul Power for cultivation or channel it into the Soul Ring.

In any case, his absorption of Soul Power for cultivation was very slow now, so he might as well absorb it into the Soul Ring first!

The Second Soul Ring had not been cultivated yet. Judging by his current Body Strength, even if he could not absorb a thousand-year Soul Ring, he could still absorb one eight or nine hundred years old, far higher than the more than seven hundred years Master had claimed.