The craze over the Ring Ascension Technique had yet to pass when a new problem presented itself before everyone.
The Soul Rings had indeed been raised, and their colors looked impressive, but when it came to actual combat, countless people were left dumbfounded.
Where were the Soul Skills? Even after a ring was raised into a black Soul Ring, a Soul Ring without a Soul Skill still had no Soul Skill.
The Soul Rings self-condensed through the Ring Condensation Technique had never possessed Soul Skills to begin with.
At first, everyone thought that once the quality of their Soul Rings improved, perhaps they might awaken something.
But after painstakingly raising them into thousand-year and Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, aside from increased Soul Power capacity and stronger physical endurance, they still had to rely on Self-Created Soul Skills in actual combat.
No matter how heaven-defying the Ring Ascension Technique was, it could not fill the gap left by Soul Rings that lacked Soul Skills.
The Soul Ring skills everyone used were still those they had absorbed in the past.
Only those Soul Rings, after being enhanced through the Ring Ascension Technique, had their Soul Skills strengthened.
But then again, with Su Mo publicly revealing his Self-Created Soul Skills, no one thought much of those old Soul Skills anymore.
Unless they were particularly special and practical Soul Skills, they simply could not compare to the Self-Created Soul Skills Su Mo had revealed.
A Soul Master complained in a tavern, "My Soul Rings have turned red, but what am I supposed to use to fight people? I have eight Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, yet the only usable skills are still those few Self-Created Soul Skills. Isn't this just putting gold trim on a kitchen knife?"
Someone beside him chimed in, "You can't put it that