Absorbing a Spirit Ring, Standing Tall

Spirit Hall, Papal Palace.

The magnificent hall was vast and silent, its chilling air carrying an oppressive weight.

"Your Holiness."

The Spirit Hall deacon kneeling below bowed respectfully and spoke in a deferential tone.

Upon the papal throne, Bibi Dong casually crossed her legs. Her luxurious purple-gold robe trailed across the floor, its exquisite fabric outlining her graceful figure.

"Send word to Elders Chrysanthemum and Ghost. Have them depart for Suotuo City immediately."

Bibi Dong's narrow violet eyes were cold and indifferent, her calm voice leaving no room for objection. "Remember, be more courteous. Invite that young man to Spirit Hall as a guest."

"As you command, Your Holiness!"

The deacon did not dare say another word. He lowered his head to accept the order, then bowed and withdrew from the hall.

In the enormous Papal Palace, only Bibi Dong remained.

"Qin Moyu... Let Spirit Hall's two elders test whether that diary is real or not." Bibi Dong parted her thin lips and murmured softly.

She had originally held a fair amount of admiration for that mysterious diary.

Its writing was sharp and incisive, exposing the masks worn by countless hypocrites across Douluo Continent. Every word rang true...

Yet there was one point that displeased her greatly.

Throughout the diary, Qin Moyu mercilessly mocked Yu Xiaogang, likening him to a hypocritical, cowardly, useless piece of trash.

Your diary was well written. Aunt Dong liked it very much, but Aunt Dong did not like your attitude toward Yu Xiaogang!

A cold chill crept into her eyes, and Bibi Dong's expression grew increasingly frosty.

She intended to have Spirit Hall's two elders probe the limits of the Diary Copy's rules.

Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo's Martial Soul Fusion Skill, the Two Extremes Stillness Domain, was among the finest Martial Soul Fusion Skills on Douluo Continent. It could imprison time and space and freeze all things, making it a perfect match for the so-called time dimension mentioned in the diary.

Given Qin Moyu's personality, he certainly would not agree to the two elders' invitation. Conflict would inevitably erupt.

If the two elders could suppress or even capture Qin Moyu, it would be enough to prove that the Diary Copy's rules were nothing but a lie.

As for whether Spirit Hall would suffer calamity if they failed, she did not care.

The only person she cared about was Yu Xiaogang...

Whoever dared slander Yu Xiaogang, no matter who they were, she would never let them go!

In a small room behind Hundred Herbs Hall, Qin Moyu's cheeks burned as he clutched a black box to his chest. Taking advantage of no one paying attention, he quietly slipped out through the back door.

The wooden box contained Whale Rubber ranging from hundred-year to thousand-year grades, even including Whale Rubber from a five-thousand-year sea soul beast.

At first, the plump shopkeeper had refused to sell it no matter what. He kept insisting that the ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber had long been reserved by some noble lord and could not be exchanged even for a fortune.

Qin Moyu could not be bothered to waste words with him. With a flash from his storage ring, a mountain-like pile of Gold Soul Coins crashed onto the ground...

The plump shopkeeper's expression changed instantly, and his smile became incomparably brilliant.

"This gentleman is so approachable. His sincerity moved me..."

At a price more than five times the market value, Qin Moyu successfully acquired the five-thousand-year Whale Rubber.

Avoiding the bustling streets along the way, Qin Moyu soon returned to Rose Hotel.

He shut the door and turned his back. More than ten pieces of smooth, jade-like Whale Rubber lay on the table.

If an uninformed person saw this scene, they would probably immediately imagine that a fierce "battle" was about to take place in this hotel room.

"I can understand Whale Rubber being an aphrodisiac, but why can it also improve a soul master's physical constitution?"

Qin Moyu stared at the Whale Rubber on the table, deep in thought.

Most people who consumed Whale Rubber would immediately have explosive diarrhea, wasting the medicinal effects entirely. That was why Whale Rubber had never been valued and was merely considered an aphrodisiac.

"Perhaps it is because of the Martial Soul's special nature. It can absorb the medicinal properties of Whale Rubber, which is why it has such remarkable effects on a soul master's physical constitution."

As he spoke, Qin Moyu held a portion of hundred-year Whale Rubber, but did not swallow it in one bite.

In its normal state, it was solid yet soft to the touch, similar to a tender jelly. However, Whale Rubber had to be melted with extreme heat before its medicinal properties could be fully activated.

Although the hotel had no means of heating the Whale Rubber, this was not difficult for Qin Moyu.

With a thought, the diary appeared before him...

[The process by which a solid transforms into a liquid is called melting. To melt Whale Rubber, one essentially uses high temperatures to accelerate the thermal motion of the molecules within the object...]

"Herrscher of Reason!"

The next moment, a Martial Soul abruptly appeared in Qin Moyu's hand. The exquisite Herrscher of Reason Divine Core shimmered with a sacred glow.

"Accelerate the thermal motion of the molecules inside the Whale Rubber..."

Pure Soul Power held the Whale Rubber aloft. Nothing appeared to change on the outside, but within the microscopic world of this piece of Whale Rubber, earth-shaking changes had already begun!

Before long, under the forceful interference of the Herrscher Authority from the Dark Plane, the molecules within the Whale Rubber began moving violently.

Visible to the naked eye, the smooth, milky-white Whale Rubber rapidly turned scorched red and melted from the inside out...

From the diary's recorded perspective, the jelly-like Whale Rubber had completely turned into a puddle of liquid.

This scene that defied common sense left the women watching the Diary Copy from an ancient setting utterly bewildered.

Soul Land One Huo Wu: "What happened? Shouldn't Whale Rubber melt from the outside inward? There isn't even any fire, so how did it melt?"

Soul Land One Ning Rongrong: "Was it heated with Soul Power? That can't be right either. Even a Soul King should not be able to control the temperature purely with Soul Power that quickly, right?"

Soul Land One Ning Rongrong: "Besides, Qin Moyu does not even have a Spirit Ring yet. He is not even considered a soul master..."

Soul Land Two Ning Tian: "Ancestor, based on what the diary says, Qin Moyu's Martial Soul itself can analyze microscopic particles at the molecular level and forcibly make the molecules move against one another. The principle is similar to heat generated through friction..."

Soul Land Two Ning Tian: "Molecules cannot be seen with the naked eye. They require a soul tool microscope to be observed. This is very scientific..."

Soul Land Two Ice Empress: "Molecular motion? I have never heard of such a thing. The speed at which humans have developed over these years is truly unbelievable..."

Rose Hotel.

Qin Moyu precisely controlled the upper limit of what his body could endure, melting three pieces of hundred-year Whale Rubber in succession and consuming them bit by bit.

He carefully turned the diary's recording angle behind him. The image in the diary froze on a young man's back and his faintly flushed cheeks, making the scene hazy and subtly suggestive...

"No, I'm already close to the limit of what my body can bear." Qin Moyu breathed heavily, feeling unbearably uncomfortable.

Under normal circumstances, consuming small amounts of Whale Rubber from childhood onward could continuously improve a soul master's physical constitution.

However, Qin Moyu did not intend to proceed so slowly. He planned to consume the Whale Rubber all at once.

In the end, the Martial Soul system of Douluo Continent was far too backward. It could only serve as a temporary means for him to transition his current strength.

Once the Herrscher of Reason Divine Core no longer needed to rely on a weak power like Soul Power in the future, the upper limit of technological creations would depend only on computational power...

With a thought, a profound pitch-black orb of light appeared out of thin air, its rings of strange halos dazzling and eye-catching.

Looking at the God-bestowed Spirit Ring radiating an eerie aura, Qin Moyu subconsciously swallowed. "System, which god bestowed this God-bestowed Spirit Ring? It can't really be the Honkai God, can it?"

[This was naturally bestowed by this system. If you keep dawdling, I'll record the scene of you standing tall in the diary's contents, you know~]

Damn it!

Qin Moyu could not help cursing inwardly.

Before he could complain further, the God-bestowed Spirit Ring gradually fused into him, and its pitch-black halo enveloped his entire body.

The next second, the pain of absorbing a Spirit Ring beyond his level swept through him. A sickly flush instantly appeared across Qin Moyu's skin, while countless tiny blood vessels beneath it were squeezed!

Yet it was precisely this pressure that forcibly opened his blocked meridians, allowing the medicinal effects of the Whale Rubber to fully spread.

During the process of absorbing a God-bestowed Spirit Ring, every additional second one endured would increase the resulting Spirit Ring's effect by another degree.

The Herrscher of Reason Divine Core shone brilliantly. Gorgeous patterns continuously emerged across the Martial Soul's surface, while a pale white ring of light slowly rose...

As time passed, the ring's color deepened continuously—white, pale yellow, yellow...

In the end, the patterns carved upon the Martial Soul were completed, and the first Spirit Ring's color stabilized at a deep violet, darker than that of an ordinary thousand-year Spirit Ring.

"Hah... It's finally over."

Qin Moyu let out a long breath of stale air. His taut body completely relaxed, and every inch of flesh throughout his body conveyed a sense of overflowing strength.

Immediately afterward, he spat out a brownish-black pill compressed to the extreme. It looked ugly and ridiculous, like a Leg-stretching Eye-popping Pill rolled out from beneath Jigong's armpit...

Of course, this was merely because Qin Moyu had multitasked during the process of absorbing the Spirit Ring. Using the Herrscher of Reason Divine Core, he had forcibly gathered the fats, metabolic waste, and other impurities stripped from within his body into his dantian.

Once the Spirit Ring absorption was complete, he expelled all the filthy impurities in one go.

The diary was recording the scene, so he still cared greatly about his image.

Unlike Ma Hongjun in the original story, when he first absorbed a God-bestowed Spirit Ring, grease mixed with blood seeped out all over his body, leaving him covered in filthy grime. The sight was like he had undergone a liposuction weight-loss surgery...