Sixteen-Year-Old Title Reserved

It is common knowledge that there are very few restrictions on soul beast sacrifices.

Basically, as long as the soul beast is completely willing, there will be no issues with the sacrifice.

Furthermore, a sacrifice possesses an extremely important characteristic.

If the sacrificer burns their own life energy and merges their soul into the soul ring, then this sacrifice will have no level restrictions, no pressure to bear, and no soul shock.

The recipient of the sacrifice can easily obtain a hundred-thousand-year soul ring, even if they are only a level sixteen soul master!

In just a brief moment, under Xiao Wu's sacrifice, Jiang Ci'an's soul power surged like a burst levee, easily breaking through bottlenecks all the way to level twenty.

A blood-red soul ring suddenly appeared, naturally circling Jiang Ci'an's body and emitting a heart-palpitating pressure.

Jiang Ci'an did not move.

He was too lazy to even actively accept the soul ring, simply observing the process of its formation quietly and feeling the sensation of the soul ring being naturally absorbed by his body.

As for everything else, he naturally let Xiao Wu handle it herself.

Soon, the soul ring completely merged into his body, and accompanied by a violent surge of aura, his soul power level, which had stalled at twenty, changed once again!

Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three...

His level climbed rapidly, and in just a moment, it soared all the way to level thirty before stopping again due to a bottleneck.

The sacrifice finally neared its end, and the surrounding red flames slowly dissipated.

Xiao Wu's figure had completely vanished into thin air, leaving only a massive, charred ring on the grass as a trace of the recent sacrifice.

Jiang Ci'an looked at the spot where Xiao Wu had disappeared and sighed softly, feeling a bit of regret in his heart.

If a few more hundred-thousand-year soul beasts were to sacrifice themselves for him, he wouldn't even need to jump straight to Titled Douluo; reaching a Soul King or Soul Emperor level shouldn't have been a problem.

Of course, that was just wishful thinking.

He couldn't take this cultivation back with him anyway.

He had previously thought that perhaps he could obtain a second soul ring through sacrifice, thereby unlocking more strange soul skills for his "World Modulation Mode" martial soul.

But in reality, although he could obtain soul rings in this virtual world, the soul skills he gained could not possess the special properties they would in reality.

For instance, the soul skills attached to this hundred-thousand-year soul ring were Void and Invincible Golden Body.

These were two very powerful defensive skills, yet they were far inferior to his "Indifference," which came from a five-hundred-year Silent Form Mouse.

Moreover, they could not receive special enhancements in this world like "Indifference" could.

They were only left with some research value.

Of course, that was not important.

What mattered was the hundred-thousand-year soul ring itself.

Jiang Ci'an lowered his eyes, looking at the blood-colored soul ring circling his body, his gaze deep in thought.

It is common knowledge that the Clear Sky Sect possesses a secret technique called "Ring Detonation."

By using this secret technique to detonate a soul ring, one can release a massive amount of soul power in a short period to enhance oneself, thereby erupting with astonishing strength far exceeding one's normal state!

So, the question arises.

Does there exist some method to use the principles of "Ring Detonation" to truly increase one's soul power level?

This was a question worth researching.

After observing Tang Hao's Ring Detonation multiple times as a reference, he discovered:

The reason Ring Detonation could only be used to boost combat power for a short time, rather than directly increasing cultivation, was essentially because the method of detonation was too direct.

Although it could indeed shatter the soul ring and release the vast energy contained within, the technique caused the energy to become instantly violent, leaving no conditions for it to be refined and absorbed.

At the same time, if the detonator's physical strength was insufficient, this violent energy could not remain in the body for too long, or the body would become overloaded and explode.

Because of these various circumstances, normal practitioners of Ring Detonation would rush to use the energy as soon as they detonated the ring.

They might unleash a powerful strike or break through some restriction, but they would never let the violent energy remain in their bodies for long.

Over time, "Ring Detonation" became fixed as an explosive attack method.

Even with subsequent improvements, they only slightly optimized the detonation technique; the energy remained violent and impossible to refine.

But he had a different idea.

Since detonating the soul ring all at once made the energy violent and unbearable for the body, then...

Could one avoid detonating it all at once, and instead chisel a small opening to absorb and refine only the energy flowing out from that tiny gap, thereby increasing one's cultivation?

Coupled with the fact that the soul ring itself possessed the characteristic of self-repair and energy replenishment...

Wouldn't that be equivalent to connecting an external energy absorption device?

Of course, this was just Jiang Ci'an's ideal scenario.

After all, even if he only chiseled a small opening, the energy flowing out of the soul ring would not be insignificant, and a large influx of energy into the body would still be difficult for his physique to withstand.

But that was where "Martial Way" came in handy!

One might ask, why did he choose to pioneer the "Martial Way"?

Was it for a powerful physique? To be invincible among his peers?

No, those were merely side effects.

His true purpose was to increase his cultivation speed as rapidly as possible!

A level twenty Great Spirit Master or a level thirty Spirit Elder, no matter how stunning their talent or how invincible they were at their own rank, remained an ant that could be crushed with a single finger by a Titled Douluo, or even more so by a god.

One had to remember, a certain God King in the God Realm was truly capable of doing things like a higher-ranked cultivator suppressing a lower-ranked one!

Therefore, his real goal was to construct a method for himself that could accelerate his path to becoming a Titled Douluo, reaching the limit, and eventually, ascending to godhood!

As for the complete perfection of the "Martial Way" system, and establishing it as a comprehensive cultivation path...

Once his cultivation was high enough, he could look down from a position of strength; wouldn't that be even simpler?

And right now!

He used the physique strengthened by the "Martial Way" to easily bear the energy flowing out from the gaps in his spirit rings, then refined it to boost his spirit power level and physical strength, before plugging the gaps once the energy absorption was complete, allowing the spirit rings to accumulate energy on their own.

Once the accumulation ended, he would pry them open again and absorb!

Subsequently, he would rely on the powerful physique nourished by the spirit ring energy to absorb spirit rings of higher ages than he should be able to handle!

Spirit rings of higher ages contained more energy, which could increase his spirit power and physique faster; once his physique improved, he could then absorb even higher-aged spirit rings.

This cycle repeated, like a snowball rolling, constantly accelerating, and accelerating again!

One had to know, under normal circumstances, for a spirit master's cultivation, those with good talent in the early stages could level up five times a year.

But after breaking through each realm, the cultivation speed would decline.

From five levels a year to three, and later on, after reaching the Spirit Emperor or Spirit Saint realms, it would drop to two levels a year or even less.

Even for individuals like Tang San or Huo Yuhao, it took until they were in their twenties to barely reach the Titled Douluo realm.

Was this speed slow? It was not! However, if his method was feasible and successfully developed, perhaps five levels a year would become the norm, or even faster—six levels a year, seven levels a year!

Ten years...

No, perhaps it wouldn't even take ten years before he could achieve the Titled Douluo realm!