Qian Renheng nodded slightly at that. It counted as pooling their strength. There was no such thing as a free lunch in this world.
Ming Ji and Chun Xing were extensions of him. The fact that they could fight independently was already incredible. Did anyone expect them to conjure Soul Power out of thin air without consuming his?!
"Hehe—"
Chun Xing, hanging from Qian Renheng's back, sensed his joy and happily giggled along with him.
"Master, were you shocked by our abilities? If we run into bad people in the future, you and Sister Ming Ji can charge into battle and knock them down. I'll be responsible for supporting you and Sister Ming Ji."
Although Qian Renheng had yet to attach any Soul Rings to his second martial soul, the Healing ability it possessed was still terrifyingly powerful.
"Then it's settled." Qian Renheng smiled faintly before beginning to consider something else.
"Possessing extraordinary intelligence and even being able to fight independently..."
He was not content with the status quo. Suddenly, an idea flashed through his mind—a thought so wild it could only be called insane.
"Ming Ji, Chun Xing, starting now, follow the meditation method I usually use to cultivate and see whether you can absorb the unaligned Soul Power drifting between heaven and earth!"
Ming Ji and Chun Xing froze at his words. They were supposed to refine Soul Power?! Could that really work? Yet out of absolute obedience to their master, neither of them voiced any doubt.
"As you command, Master!" Ming Ji and Chun Xing said in unison, beginning to sense the unaligned Soul Power drifting through heaven and earth.
Seconds ticked by. A moment later, Qian Renheng's body jolted, and his eyes widened!
He clearly sensed that, after Ming Ji and Chun Xing began attempting to refine Soul Power,
two streams of incomparably pure Soul Power, requiring no deliberate refinement from him whatsoever, were continuously flowing through the invisible bond between him and his martial souls into his dantian!
The cultivation speed far surpassed his own, amounting to roughly twice as much!
"It really works! I actually guessed right!" Qian Renheng was so excited he nearly jumped up. He laughed loudly. "My martial souls possess extraordinary intelligence—they really can refine the Soul Power drifting between heaven and earth in my place!"
"The Soul Power they refine will directly feed back into my dantian and become part of my cultivation!"
"In other words, with Ming Ji and Chun Xing, these two Detached Martial Souls, it's like I've gained two cheat codes that stay with me and cultivate automatically around the clock?!"
"In terms of combat power, I'm equivalent to three combat units. And in daily cultivation, I'm also three times faster than an ordinary Soul Master!"
This earth-shattering discovery deeply stunned him. Before this, if he had not noticed that Ming Ji and Chun Xing possessed such intelligence,
he would never have dared to make such a connection.
After all, having martial souls sit in meditation and cultivate on their own? If he told anyone about it, a whole crowd would probably think he had gone mad from wanting to cultivate too badly.
"Hehe—"
Seeing how happy her master was, Chun Xing had no idea what exactly he was happy about, but she still grinned foolishly along with him.
"Innate Soul Power Level twenty, Whale Rubber laying the foundation for absorbing Soul Rings beyond the normal limit, and now a cultivation speed three times that of an ordinary Soul Master?"
"And the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye is still waiting for me to claim it." Qian Renheng stroked his chin, silently calculating his heaven-defying talents and opportunities. He could not help sucking in a breath.
"My talent and setup are a little too overpowered, aren't they? How were other Soul Masters supposed to compete?!"
"In the future, the Soul Master world will marvel that Tang Hao, the man who wielded the great hammer, became the continent's youngest Title Douluo!"
"But what if I become a Title Douluo in my teens? Wouldn't that be unprecedented throughout history?!"
He had the confidence to reach the realm of Title Douluo before the age of twenty.
After all, from the day he awakened his martial souls until now, only a few days had passed in total?!
But what about his Soul Power Level? After absorbing two Thousand-Year Soul Rings, the Soul Power fed back by those two Thousand-Year Soul Rings had sent his Soul Power Level soaring like a rocket to level twenty-seven.
Once he settled his foundation a little and reached the threshold of level thirty Soul Power, he could absorb a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring as his third Soul Ring.
Then, with the even more immense Soul Power feedback from a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, his Soul Power Level would undoubtedly undergo another explosive leap!
Add to that his cheat code that could cultivate automatically twenty-four hours a day, as well as the Immortal Herbs he was about to obtain.
Becoming a Title Douluo in his teens—was that goal excessive? Not in the slightest!!!
"Hmm? Master, that's strange."
Just as Qian Renheng was envisioning the future, Ming Ji slowly opened her eyes and withdrew from cultivation, a trace of surprise appearing on her exquisite face.
"I really did sense the Soul Power drifting between heaven and earth just now, and I was continuously absorbing it."
"But... all the Soul Power I absorbed vanished for no reason. Why is that?"
From discovering that she could cultivate to having the Soul Power she cultivated disappear, Ming Ji felt somewhat troubled.
"Cough, cough—" Hearing Ming Ji's question, Qian Renheng said solemnly, "Well, Ming Ji, your situation is perfectly normal!"
"After all, you are both my martial souls. We are fundamentally one and share the same origin. Since you can refine Soul Power,"
"then naturally, this Soul Power will ultimately follow the laws of heaven and earth and feed back into the body of me, your host. Mm, there's nothing strange about it."
Ming Ji and Chun Xing both nodded innocently at that.
"So that's how it is. We can cultivate and even feed it back to Master?! Hehe, I'm so happy!"
"Then, by that calculation, Master, you don't need to do anything. As long as we cultivate,"
"your cultivation speed will still be twice that of others?! And if you cultivate too, wouldn't it be three times theirs?!" Chun Xing counted on her fingers and opened her mouth wide.
"Of course!"
Qian Renheng clasped his hands behind his back and looked at his two martial souls, the corners of his lips curling upward.
"So, as the martial souls of Qian Renheng, look at how difficult your master's life is."
"To strengthen Spirit Hall and deal with all sorts of tedious matters, I work so hard every day. I'm so diligent."
Qian Renheng coaxed them. "Since your master works so desperately hard, how can you two, as my martial souls, be embarrassed to snore away inside my body, wasting your days for nothing?!"
"For our bright future, starting today, you no longer need to return to my body. Stay outside and cultivate without interruption all day long!"
"Yay, yay!"
The innocent Chun Xing did not think too deeply about it. Hearing that she could remain outside, she was overjoyed and immediately clapped in agreement.
Yet she did not know that the black-hearted Qian Renheng was about to work them like beasts of burden.
When oxen got tired, they could no longer work. When people got tired, they rested. But when martial souls got tired? Well, could martial souls even get tired?!
"Master, if we're both cultivating, what about you?"
Chun Xing looked at Qian Renheng with watery eyes and softly asked in confusion.
"Me?"
Qian Renheng stretched lazily and smiled. "Naturally, I need to think about more important and mentally taxing matters, such as saving the continent and strengthening Spirit Hall."
"I'll leave something as easy and simple as cultivation to you and Chun Xing."
His martial souls got to enjoy themselves outside, while he, their master, had to exhaust himself every day over saving the continent and strengthening Spirit Hall. Life was truly not easy!
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