Medicine Refining Furnace Martial Soul with Heaven-Defying Potential

A month passed in the blink of an eye. In a small courtyard near the Great Soul Arena in Blazing Fire City.

Inside a room filled with crystal containers of all kinds, where a thousand-year soul beast was imprisoned, Wang Qi picked up a specially made tube and pierced it into the soul beast's body. Once blood had gradually filled the tube, he inserted the other end back into the soul beast's body, completing a blood circulation loop.

He released his Second Martial Soul, coiled the specially made tube and stuffed it into the Medicine Refining Furnace martial soul. The purple soul ring beneath his feet lit up. At once, the Medicine Refining Furnace was enveloped in Soul Power, while the blood within the tube slowly began flowing faster.

However, the blood flowing out of the Medicine Refining Furnace darkened in color, as though all its nutrients had been drained away, turning it into waste blood.

Within the Medicine Refining Furnace, directly beneath the specially coiled tube, a crimson, gelatinous drop of blood like a ruby was gathering.

While observing the changes in the soul beast being drained of blood, Wang Qi took a thirty-year Spark Mantis from one of the crystal containers and tossed it into the Medicine Refining Furnace.

The Spark Mantis was just about to resist when it was drawn to the blood gathered beneath the specially made tube. It clutched the blood and began consuming that single drop.

Flames gradually engulfed the Spark Mantis. Once it was completely covered in fire, it unexpectedly transformed into a crystalline egg and fell asleep inside the Medicine Refining Furnace.

After taking out the Spark Mantis egg, carefully observing and recording its changes, Wang Qi placed it inside a crystal cover. Then, carrying the cover with it, he moved it to a shelf in the corner.

There were already six more crystal covers containing Spark Mantis eggs on that shelf.

Taking a deep breath, Wang Qi turned and approached the thousand-year Blazing Mantis trapped by a Dark Iron Cage and Dark Iron Chains, its blood circulation maintained through the specially made tube. He activated the Simulation Eye.

Soul Beast: Blazing Mantis (Degenerating)

Age: 1,350 years

Absorption Success Rate: 100%

Compatibility: 13%

"Has it reached its limit? Its soul ring compatibility has dropped from thirty percent to thirteen percent. Judging by its condition, this Blazing Mantis could degenerate at any moment."

"But I've collected nearly all the materials I needed. Your mission is over."

Wang Qi stepped before the Blazing Mantis, whose red carapace was stained with withered gray spots. He drew a deep breath, and Golden Flame immediately wrapped around his right hand. He planted his stance and threw a punch. The Blazing Mantis gradually lost all signs of life, and a purple soul ring floated into the air, slowly dissipating with time.

Over the past month, aside from cultivating Soul Power and practicing his stance and punches, Wang Qi had spent nearly all his time researching his Second Martial Soul—the Medicine Refining Furnace.

With the hints from the Simulation Panel, he knew that the Golden Sacred Dragon Bloodline within Yu Xiaogang could be extracted and absorbed by himself. Since he had a direction for his experiments, his research would not hit a bottleneck for the time being.

With Lin Yan's help, Wang Qi had obtained enough experimental materials.

The thousand-year Blazing Mantis was a high-level soul beast. Its bloodline potential was sufficient to support it in breaking through the ten-thousand-year threshold.

The Spark Mantis was a low-level soul beast and an extremely important part of the bottom-level food chain within Blazing Fire Canyon.

Wang Qi still remembered that the suffix effect of Yu Xiaogang's Golden Sacred Dragon Bloodline was breaking the shackles of innate talent and guaranteeing the completion of martial soul mutation. He had thus wondered whether soul beasts could also transform by absorbing high-level bloodlines.

And so, the experiment began. The result matched Wang Qi's guess: the Spark Mantis had reverted into an egg to undergo transformation. Though it had not yet fully hatched, Wang Qi knew that once it did, both its potential and bloodline strength would increase drastically.

As for why he had added a soul ring to the Medicine Refining Furnace martial soul? The best way to use a Second Martial Soul was to add soul rings after one's physical condition and mental strength had reached the required standard, thereby rapidly raising one's Soul Power Level.

Wang Qi had not wanted to add a soul ring to the Medicine Refining Furnace martial soul so early, mainly because suitable soul rings for it were simply too rare.

Spark Mantis, nine percent compatibility. Blazing Mantis, three percent compatibility. Lava Mammoth, four percent compatibility.

There were too few soul beasts suitable for the Medicine Refining Furnace. Originally, Wang Qi had already prepared himself to have the Medicine Refining Furnace absorb high-age soul rings at random in the future, regardless of whether they were suitable.

Then, on the day before Lin Yan was due to hold a major meeting, the Great Soul Arena acquired a 2,700-year medicinal soul beast: Blood Dragon Ginseng.

After activating the Simulation Eye, Wang Qi discovered that this Blood Dragon Ginseng had an extremely high martial soul compatibility with the Medicine Refining Furnace—an astonishing ninety percent. Only after absorbing it within the simulated illusion did he realize that the Medicine Refining Furnace was not as simple as he had imagined.

Indeed, the Medicine Refining Furnace had only one soul skill: Medicine Refining. But that did not mean the skill was useless. On the contrary, its effect was terrifyingly powerful.

When the Medicine Refining soul skill was activated, the medicine refined within that furnace would be bestowed with the properties of the soul ring soul beast it had absorbed.

For instance, Blood Dragon Ginseng's medicinal effects included replenishing blood and qi, tempering the body, strengthening one's foundation, increasing cultivation speed, and stabilizing one's foundation. After Wang Qi acquired its soul ring, his first soul skill would grant the medicine inside the Medicine Refining Furnace the effects of Blood Dragon Ginseng corresponding to the soul ring's age.

What was even more outrageous was that even if Wang Qi placed a bowl of plain rice inside the Medicine Refining Furnace, once he activated the first soul skill, that rice would likewise possess the effects of Blood Dragon Ginseng.

The moment he considered the Medicine Refining Furnace's effect, Wang Qi's thoughts became more animated. Could he use its properties to refine pills in the Douluo World?

With that idea in mind, Wang Qi absorbed Blood Dragon Ginseng's soul ring. The result was even better than he had expected. Although he had spent much of the month researching soul beast bloodlines and soul beast transformations, with the support of the Medicine Refining Furnace martial soul, he still broke through to level twenty-five Soul Power.

"The only thing left is to wait."

Wang Qi sighed, took out a meat pie, and placed it inside the Medicine Refining Furnace. As he activated his soul skill to imbue the food with Blood Dragon Ginseng's medicinal effects, he also considered the direction for acquiring the Medicine Refining Furnace martial soul's next soul ring.

In terms of martial soul compatibility, the best choices for the Medicine Refining Furnace's soul rings were Medicinal Plant System Soul Beasts.

But there were far too few such soul beasts. If this were ten thousand years later, with the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Wang Qi would not need to think so much. With a whole group of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts there, he would have nothing to worry about.

But now, Medicinal Plant System Soul Beasts were scarce, and not only were they scarce, their ages were insufficient as well. Could his Medicine Refining Furnace martial soul only maintain thousand-year soul rings in the future? If that was truly the case, then the Medicine Refining Furnace martial soul would be useless.

"No. I have to find a way to increase soul ring age. Otherwise, forget refining pills—even the Golden Flame Body martial soul will be dragged down by the Medicine Refining Furnace martial soul."

"Perhaps I don't need to research a method for upgrading soul rings. With a treasure land like the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, I may be able to use the Immortal Herbs there to raise my soul ring age."

Wang Qi swallowed the last bite of the meat pie, then sat cross-legged on the ground and began meditating to cultivate.