Xiaotao, Come See This Treasure!

Manipulating the specially made Battle Soul Instrument and Soul Tool equipment, Chen Fu tested his hypotheses while recording the results.

"Why do Soul Rings have colors?"

"Spiritual Power impact trial, first attempt, increase intensity..."

"Mixed Soul Power trial... adjust ratio..."

"Fluctuations detected. Recording."

"Unknown gaps have appeared in the fluctuation data."

After only a hundred or so rounds of trial and error, Chen Fu, pale-faced, realized he seemed to have caught hold of a thread.

Soul Rings were linked to the mind. Using his own Soul Ring for experiments did consume Spiritual Power. However, his self-examinations showed that the consumption was controllable, so he began wearing it down bit by bit within safe limits.

"It should be that hypothesis. The color of the First Soul Ring is fading."

Chen Fu continued operating the specially made Spirit Impact device. He first injected his own Spiritual Power into it, mixed it with the origin Soul Power inside the Ark Core in a certain ratio, then launched it at high speed against the Soul Ring in a semi-fused state.

Since the Soul Power within the Ark Core had been injected by him, and the Spiritual Power was also his own, an impact with identical frequency and attributes should, in theory, have passed through directly and quickly.

However, under the semi-fused state of Spiritual Power and Soul Power, the Soul Ring had to possess both the same spiritual and Soul Power frequencies as the main body in order to remain completely unharmed. Otherwise, even if they were highly similar, it would still suffer minor damage.

Changes in this fusion ratio did not affect the main body, but they could fool those not-so-intelligent imitators.

If it remained unharmed, that would prove the Soul Ring was completely integrated with him. If there was consumption, then this "add-on" was ultimately an external object. Perhaps it had already been highly infected, but it still differed from the origin at its core.

"Among traditional Soul Ring colors—white, yellow, purple, black, red—the corresponding Soul Beasts have a vast gap in intelligence. And according to my argument, what affects intelligence is the soul, not the mind. The mind can be produced by the soul, but it is not the soul."

"So the soul affects color, while the mind affects the type and strength of Soul Skills?"

"At the same time, part of the Soul Power is injected into the Soul Ring in a certain ratio, while the rest is fed back to Heaven and Earth?"

"So the deeper the color of a Soul Ring, the more it unconsciously gives people a sense of pressure?"

"If that's really the case..."

Chen Fu rapidly made records on the specially made Battle Soul Instrument while setting the laboratory to closed-door cultivation mode.

"If it is completely removed, then what happens to the Soul Skill?"

"This shortcut really is... too much of a shortcut!"

"Sure enough, an [unconscious] remnant soul resides within the Soul Ring..."

"Can the plunderer's control truly suppress the remnant soul completely?"

"In that case... can it be activated... Delete this record!"

[Record deleted]

"He locked himself up for a month?"

Ma Xiaotao, like a fairy of flames, looked at Big Hamster blocking the doorway.

"He said no one was allowed to disturb him while he was in closed-door cultivation."

Mo Ling was afraid that Ma Xiaotao would ignore the obstruction and force her way inside. That would make things difficult to explain.

"Doesn't he have monthly orders to fill?"

"Young Master finished them that very day."

Uncle Fu explained from the side. He had also just heard the commotion and hurried over.

Ma Xiaotao's gaze paused briefly on Mo Ling's wrist. She could not help but snort coldly before turning and leaving.

After waiting at Lin Pavilion for half a day and seeing that the room door remained silent, she ultimately chose to return to her cultivation.

"Let me know when he finishes his closed-door cultivation."

Another three days passed before the tightly sealed metal door finally opened.

A man with a haggard face and pale complexion staggered out, though his eyes still shone brightly.

"Young Master!"

Uncle Fu, who had heard the movement long ago and waited by the door, hurried forward to support him.

Mo Ling also quickly instructed the cook to prepare food while brewing tea for Chen Fu herself.

Seeing Chen Fu silently forcing down his meal, the two of them were anxious, yet neither found it appropriate to ask.

Finally, once Chen Fu had eaten and drunk his fill, Mo Ling could no longer hold back her question.

"What did you do to yourself? How did you end up like this?"

"It was fine at first. Then I realized I'd run out of rations near the end. After finishing the last experiment, I got so hungry my head was spinning."

After gnawing on rations for a month, Chen Fu now sat contentedly with a hand over his stomach, leaning back in the grand chair the hamster girl usually used to slack off.

Everything had been fine at first, but his rations had run out during the final experiment. He had no choice but to endure his empty stomach until he finished it, only to be dealt a critical hit by hunger afterward.

He had gained a great deal this month. He had basically figured out the matter of Soul Rings.

He had figured out three uses for Soul Rings: the first was the crude and worst method, Ring Detonation; the second was using them as Storage Rings; and the last was complete Melting Ring.

The former could unleash a brief burst; the middle one was an Energy Storage Ring that ordinary people simply could not afford; the latter used the Physical Body to sustain Soul Rings.

Chen Fu still did not know the limits of the latter two, but Ring Detonation had clear records.

The theoretical upper limit of a Storage Ring could match or even surpass a soul beast's Soul Power reserves.

Melting Ring stripped the lingering soul fragments from a Soul Ring and linked it to the acupoints of one's own Physical Body, enhancing constitution and recovery.

Melting Ring could coexist with a Storage Ring, but the vast majority of people could not afford to sustain both.

And regarding the acquisition of Soul Rings, he had also tentatively arrived at two theories.

One was a more difficult version of Self-Attachment. Just as Soul Beast Transformation could attach Soul Rings to itself, although it was relatively difficult, the success rate was theoretically very high.

The reason transformed soul beasts could generate Soul Rings for themselves was because they possessed the accumulation of a hundred thousand years. Soul, spirit, and Soul Power fused into one, directly imprinting their original abilities.

As for why transformed soul beasts could no longer attach Soul Rings to themselves after the sixth ring, Chen Fu personally believed that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were simply too stupid! They had not studied and accumulated knowledge properly!

Racking his brains, Chen Fu truly could not understand it. Why were soul beasts still so stupid after an entire hundred thousand years? Their Soul Power realms were absurdly high, yet they were as dumb as idiots.

Soul beasts at the Fierce Beast level were much smarter. By this reasoning, if soul beasts of that level underwent Soul Beast Transformation, then with their profound accumulation of both wisdom and skill, they could break the fallacy that "transformed soul beasts cannot break through to Soul Saint on their own"!

The other method of acquiring Soul Rings was relatively simple: it still involved working on soul beasts.

However, unlike the traditional method of directly slaughtering them, forming a Soul Ring only required a small portion of the soul beast's soul to participate, along with an infusion of Mental Power and Soul Power. During this process, the soul beast's soul could ultimately be extracted. If it was extracted, the Soul Ring's quality would decline; if not, it would be a genuine soul beast Soul Ring. Moreover, there was no need to kill the soul beast, nor would one have to face its final Spirit Impact.

These two methods of obtaining Soul Rings were still only theoretical for now. The specific steps still required experimental verification.

But the future was promising!

After resting for an afternoon, Chen Fu spent the next day completing this month's orders while also replenishing his stock of standard Soul Tools.

At that moment, the cultivation maniac from next door arrived.

In a single month, she had advanced another level... With no need to worry about evil fire, Ma Xiaotao was exceptionally passionate about cultivation.

"Xiaotao, come quickly! Let me show you a great treasure!"

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