The Fourth Spirit Skill of the First Spirit Ring

The main body of the Soul-Pulling Ghost Vine continued to wave its canopy, while the branches that had just been shattered by Wang Hong's spirit skill were regenerating at top speed.

However, as previously mentioned, the Soul-Pulling Ghost Vine's greatest reliance was the illusion it created through massive amounts of mental power. Once it lost the medium used to manufacture these illusions, its main body was nothing more than wood slightly harder than the ordinary kind.

Wang Hong didn't even need to stack his spirit skills again; he simply needed to let his bubbles envelop the target's vital parts and then trigger an explosion.

Wang Hong slowly approached the main body of the Soul-Pulling Ghost Vine. The silver-white, eyeball-like object began to rotate frantically, but it was clear that the "eye" on this main body did not possess the same functions as the gems on the branches—or perhaps, it was currently unable to release its mental power through this eye.

A purple spirit ring lit up, and the Piercing Bubble sank into the root system of the Soul-Pulling Ghost Vine. As Wang Hong snapped his fingers, a violent explosion erupted inside the bubble with a deafening sound. Its roots were instantly reduced to countless fragments, and the life force of the Soul-Pulling Ghost Vine began to drain away from the massive rupture.

At the same time, because the root system was completely destroyed, it could no longer support its enormous frame. The entire giant tree collapsed directly, slamming heavily into the ground and kicking up a massive cloud of dust.

A few minutes later, a purple spirit ring tinged with a faint grayish-white hue slowly floated up from the area where the white gem had been.

"A thousand-year Soul-Pulling Ghost Vine spirit ring. It's just a pity, Lord Huo Yuhao, that you haven't reached level twenty yet; otherwise, this would certainly be an excellent choice for you." Wang Hong said with a hint of regret. After experiencing that illusion ability firsthand, he was certain that since Huo Yuhao could resist the opponent's illusion, his mental power was undoubtedly superior to this Soul-Pulling Ghost Vine.

If Huo Yuhao could absorb its spirit ring, there was a high probability he would also gain an ability to create illusions. With Huo Yuhao's mental power, suppressing spirit masters below the Soul Ancestor level, or even restraining those at the Soul King or Soul Emperor level, would not be a difficult task.

Huo Yuhao nodded as well. In his previous life, the second spirit skill of his Spirit Eye was Simulation, which had given Shrek Academy a massive advantage when he first participated in the Advanced Spirit Master Tournament.

However, the illusion spirit skill of the Soul-Pulling Ghost Vine before him was clearly superior to the Simulation skill in every aspect. If possible, Huo Yuhao truly wanted to make it his own.

But the problem was that his current spirit power was only level sixteen, far from the point where he could absorb a second spirit ring. And to be honest, it would be difficult to encounter such a precious spirit beast again in the future. Could he really just let this precious spirit ring dissipate like this?

"Brother Sky Dream, do you have any way to help?" Huo Yuhao thought of Tian Meng. Since he couldn't absorb the spirit ring, could Tian Meng grant him an ability similar to this illusion skill? If he remembered correctly, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm clan was naturally adept at imitation. Mimicking the spirit skill of another mental-type spirit beast shouldn't be a difficult task for Brother Sky Dream.

"Hmm... unfortunately, according to your idea, directly simulating this spirit beast's skill... even for Brother, it's actually not that simple." Tian Meng said with a touch of apology. But after a brief moment of dejection, a flash of inspiration struck Tian Meng, and he seemed to think of another method.

"However, although Brother cannot create a spirit skill similar to this guy's out of thin air without a reference, Brother can directly find a reference template."

Immediately, Tian Meng proposed a suggestion that made Huo Yuhao wonder if he had misheard.

"Yuhao, absorb this spirit ring into your body right now!"

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A giant question mark popped up in Huo Yuhao's head:

"Brother Sky Dream, I'm only level sixteen right now. If I absorb a new spirit ring directly, my body will explode. Don't do anything reckless, Brother Sky Dream!"

"Who said you were to absorb it directly? Please pay attention to Brother's wording. Brother is telling you to absorb the spirit ring into your body, not to absorb this spirit ring!" Tian Meng emphasized again, but another question mark appeared in Huo Yuhao's head. Was there any difference between those two sentences?

"Heh heh, I knew you wouldn't understand. This concerns a strange encounter Brother once had!"

"A long, long time ago, Brother met a very strange human. I won't go into the details of how we met, but all in all, you just need to know that Brother didn't lose too badly."

"That human told Brother many strange things, including the difference between absorbing a spirit ring into your body and absorbing a spirit ring, just as I told you."

Tian Meng recalled what that human had said in his memories and continued:

"A spirit ring is a substance formed by the fusion of a spirit beast's soul and spirit power. Generally speaking, the process of absorbing a spirit ring that spirit masters talk about involves absorbing both the soul and the spirit power. The soul transforms into a brand-new spirit skill, while the spirit power condenses into the energy for the spirit master to break through their spirit power level."

"If you simply absorb the spirit ring into your body and utilize the spirit power within it without using their soul, you can make the spirit power in the spirit ring your own without blowing up your body from absorbing an extra spirit ring."

"And with the spirit beast's soul, Brother can use it as a template, combined with my privileges as a million-year spirit beast, to attach a brand-new spirit skill to your first spirit ring, and even boost your spirit power level by a notch."

"However... it depends on whether you trust Brother. That human said that the success rate of this method is not high and requires extremely precise mental power to operate. He also said that the only people in this world capable of such an operation are likely Title Douluo-level mental-type spirit masters, or spirit beasts like Brother who have put all their skill points into mental power. Although, even now, I don't quite understand what 'skill points' actually are."

Tian Meng chattered on with a long explanation. Although Huo Yuhao felt a bit dizzy, he basically understood the theory Tian Meng had described.

In short, absorb the spirit power from the spirit ring, use the soul within the spirit ring as a template to craft a spirit skill, and attach it to the spirit ring he already possessed, without actually adding a new spirit ring to the spirit master.

Huo Yuhao had never heard of such a theory. After all, in his memory, although the spirit souls he created might have had some similarities to this theory, that was because one spirit soul could grant multiple spirit rings, and the spirit rings and spirit skills still corresponded one-to-one.

Even if his first spirit ring did indeed possess multiple spirit skills in both his past and present lives, that was due to the privileges of Tian Meng reaching the million-year level.

Re-applying a new spirit skill to an existing spirit ring—this technique was completely unheard of.

"How about it, Yuhao? Do you want the spirit skill or not? If you want it, absorb the spirit ring directly, and I'll make one for you immediately!"

Tian Meng said this last sentence in Yuhao's mind. Don't let its confident tone fool you; in reality, it had its own selfish motives.

After all, Huo Yuhao was a key link in its god-making plan. If this method could succeed, Huo Yuhao's strength would definitely see a massive increase, and he would have a greater possibility of becoming a god.

And... it would also have more bargaining chips to convince its Bing'er.

A moment later, Huo Yuhao spoke slowly:

"I want this spirit skill!"