Soul Core Experiment Failed, Sending Dugu Bo Flying!

Jin Yan closed his eyes and circulated Soul Power through his meridians. As the ice and fire energies flowed in, the meridians throughout his body widened considerably, making his cultivation speed much faster than before.

If his original cultivation speed had been a small, brief stream, then after being transformed by the Immortal Herbs and the ice-fire spring water, his meridians had widened by far more than a little.

As he cultivated, Jin Yan recalled the Soul Core Cultivation Method from Douluo Dalu II.

The so-called Soul Core Cultivation Method involved continuously compressing the Soul Power within one's body.

Both humans and martial souls could serve as vessels for Soul Power, but both had limits.

At the beginning, a soul master's Soul Power was born within their body in gaseous form. Gas was everywhere, circulating endlessly through the soul master's body.

Upon reaching a certain realm, Soul Power changed from gas into liquid. Its volume was compressed, allowing the soul master's body to store more Soul Power.

When a soul master reached rank eighty-nine, they could attempt to compress their liquid Soul Power within their body and transform it into solid Soul Power. In other words, they could condense a Soul Core.

Successfully condensing a Soul Core meant successfully breaking through to Titled Douluo.

The Soul Core rotated within the body and absorbed external energy. When gaseous, liquid, and solid Soul Power all appeared within the body, it meant the soul master had broken through to the level of a Super Douluo.

After reaching Super Douluo, as one's strength grew ever more profound, every level gained became a qualitative transformation. The body would finally reach its limit, and no matter how much Soul Power was compressed, it could no longer be stored.

At that point, the soul master would begin touching upon the basic application of space. When a soul master reached ranks ninety-seven or ninety-eight, every rotation of the Soul Core within their body would bring tremendous energy. Following the Soul Core's rotation, that energy would form a Soul Power storm like a cosmic black hole.

At that point, the soul master could compress Soul Power into the space created by the Soul Core and open a second Soul Core within their body. Once a Soul Core black hole like the first Soul Core was formed, it meant the soul master had successfully broken through to Limit Douluo and reached the pinnacle of mankind.

Di Tian had even cultivated Yin-Yang Dual Soul Cores, granting him strength comparable to a Demigod.

Jin Yan wondered whether he could try this Soul Core Cultivation Method. After all, it represented the progress made in cultivation over tens of thousands of years in Douluo Dalu. It had to be better than the current cultivation methods. Following this line of thought, once he became stronger, he could continue refining it.

"I can try it now."

Jin Yan wanted to test this so-called Soul Core Cultivation Method right away. With the abundant energy of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, combined with the ice and fire energies within his body, this was the perfect environment for experimenting with Soul Cores.

Of course, he would not try it inside his body. A single mistake while condensing a Soul Core could injure him.

Spreading open his palm, Jin Yan circulated his Soul Power and controlled it as it slowly rotated in his hand like a tornado. As he steadily increased his Soul Power, the vortex in his hand spun faster and faster.

In the end, the vortex began automatically drawing in the free Soul Power particles scattered around it.

Jin Yan began to feel some pressure. Merely keeping the Soul Power in his hand stable was not easy. He also needed powerful spiritual power to control the direction of its rotation and keep it from going out of control. This was no small challenge for someone who was only rank forty.

As time passed, large beads of sweat rolled down Jin Yan's face. The vortex in his hand had grown to half the size of a person. To condense it into a Soul Core, he would have to keep compressing it.

But this was already his limit. There was not much Soul Power left in his body. If he continued forcing it, neither his spiritual power nor his Soul Power could endure it. The burden on him would be enormous.

Just as he tried to slowly draw back his Soul Power, an abrupt change occurred!

The spring waters of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had originally maintained a clear boundary, with yin and yang generating and restraining one another like a taiji diagram.

But Jin Yan's Soul Core experiment had disrupted it.

The energy field around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well fell into chaos.

Violent energy swept outward in all directions with Jin Yan at its center.

On the shore, Dugu Bo, a Titled Douluo, and Zhang Yan, a Quasi-Titled Douluo, both changed expression dramatically.

They stepped forward and opened Soul Power barriers, protecting Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and all the nearby Immortal Herbs that could be covered.

The ice and fire energies slammed fiercely against their Soul Power shields, making a sizzling sound like ice meeting boiling water.

Jin Yan, at the center of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, did not suffer much injury.

Having consumed two Immortal Herbs, he had long since become impervious to ice and fire. The ice and fire spring eyes around him surged violently, their waters mingling and raising crashing waves.

But he was far from safe. He had completely lost control of the Soul Power vortex. His spiritual connection with it had become extremely weak, and the vortex was nearly beyond his control, about to slip from his grasp.

It spun continuously before him and grew larger. Under its terrifying suction, the ice and fire spring waters were pulled from the well like two raging dragons of ice and fire, roaring as they followed the vortex's rotation.

Even more terrifyingly, although the spiritual connection between them was nearly severed, their Soul Power connection had not been cut off. Like a black hole, the vortex continued absorbing Jin Yan's Soul Power.

Jin Yan's expression darkened. He knew that if he did not make a change now, he would undoubtedly be drained into a dried corpse.

He gritted his teeth, a trace of resolve flashing through his eyes.

With both hands raised, another burst of Soul Power suddenly erupted from his body and was sucked into the vortex. At that moment, Jin Yan flung his arms upward, hurling the rapidly spinning vortex, now taller than a person, into the sky.

Freed from Jin Yan's control, the vortex became even more unrestrained. It suddenly swelled, heedlessly sucking the violent energy around it into itself. If not for Dugu Bo and Zhang Yan's protection, the surrounding Immortal Herbs would have suffered long ago.

Even so, as they watched the rising vortex, their expressions remained grim.

Because anyone could see that this vortex was about to explode!

When that happened, this place would be severely affected as well.

"Damn it, what is that brat doing?!"

With an angry curse, Dugu Bo shot into the air, intending to stop the vortex before it exploded.

But the thing had existed for the time it took an incense stick to burn, and the energy within it was already immense. In particular, ice and fire energy were colliding inside it. How could it possibly be stopped so easily?

The moment Dugu Bo approached, he could sense the terrifying energy fluctuations emanating from it.

The intensity of the energy above was something even he, a Titled Douluo, had to take seriously.

Even so, how could this possibly stump Dugu Bo? He was one of the few true men in Douluo.

A true man never admitted defeat!

Green Soul Power surged between his hands. With an enraged roar, he pressed himself directly against the vortex, intending to use even greater power to suppress it outright.

But anyone who had been sucked into a tornado knew that the more one resisted it, the stronger it became. Dugu Bo's Soul Power was like a mud dragon entering the sea, directly absorbed by the Soul Power vortex Jin Yan had created and turned into nourishment for its growth.

The vortex expanded violently once more. Every hair on Dugu Bo's body stood on end as he hastily activated an energy barrier. The light of his seventh soul skill burst forth.

"Seventh Soul Skill, Martial Soul Avatar!"

With a tremendous explosion, Dugu Bo's figure was blasted out of the vortex's center like a torn sack, crashing miserably to the ground.