God-Given Spirit Ring

What exactly the people inside the hall discussed, Jiang Xuan had no way of knowing.

However, after the agreed quarter of an hour had passed, Chen Xin emerged from the hall with a dark expression. Nor did Jiang Xuan's system panel show any notification that the rebate had arrived.

From this, Jiang Xuan guessed that their discussion had likely ended rather unpleasantly.

But that had nothing to do with him. After all, in this incident, his role was merely that of a pitiful and innocent junior.

"All right, there's nothing for you to do in the sect for now. Go wherever you want, kid. You've grown up in the blink of an eye; it's time for you to train on your own. Remember to stay safe. If you encounter a powerful enemy, don't act rashly. Keeping your life comes first."

Hearing Chen Xin's reminder, Jiang Xuan let out a breath of relief inwardly and nodded repeatedly.

"Don't worry, Senior. I'll definitely take good care of myself. Rongrong's side effects are still waiting for me to come back and resolve them!"

The moment those words left his mouth, Chen Xin clearly wanted to say something more. Yet when the words reached her lips, she seemed to recall some concern and forcibly swallowed them back down.

While waiting for Chen Xin to come out of the hall, Jiang Xuan had been thinking about where he should go after leaving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

He really did have a way to resolve the side effects caused by the pill. However, if he wanted to refine the pill that could eliminate them, gathering the ingredients would be the first problem.

After all, the first thing this pill needed to do was reverse the power of the Yin-Yang Five Elements Law attached to the Eight Trigrams Furnace martial soul!

Pills refined from ordinary medicinal herbs had no chance of accomplishing that. At the very least, he needed several of those legendary immortal herbs as the main ingredients.

On the current Douluo Continent, those immortal herbs seemed to all be gathered around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

And the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was currently the territory of that old poisoner, Poison Douluo Dugu Bo.

Should he risk offending that old poisoner and go stock up on goods in his territory?

With the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect backing him up, even if he truly provoked that old fellow, he probably would not dare take his life.

Besides, that old poisoner did not stay at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well every day. Perhaps Jiang Xuan would get lucky, and the old poisoner would happen to be away when he arrived?

After giving it serious thought, Jiang Xuan decided that he ought to be bolder.

But before officially setting out, he decided to first find a safe place and turn those 10,000 Merit Points into his own strength as quickly as possible.

Thus, after leaving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Jiang Xuan found a nearby city. He casually used the Gold Soul Coins on him to rent a superior room, then locked himself inside.

After seeing this, Chen Xin, who had been secretly following him, was puzzled but did not think much of it.

Perhaps the child was simply tired and wanted to rest first?

That was right, Chen Xin had followed him.

Faced with the two choices she had given them, Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong went through a difficult discussion, but in the end, the two old fellows still could not overcome the hurdle in their hearts.

Becoming women was simply unacceptable to them.

And with Chen Xin's personality of always following through on her word, she naturally would not give the two any room to negotiate further.

It just so happened that Jiang Xuan wanted to leave the sect, so she could follow him and take shelter from the storm while secretly protecting him.

She had already decided that unless she could return to her original form, or those two old fellows became the same as her, she would never return to the sect!

Unless the sect faced a catastrophic disaster...

Inside the room, after adjusting his breathing for a moment, Jiang Xuan opened the system panel. He first spent 600 Merit Points to raise his soul power from rank 27 straight to rank 30.

It had taken Jiang Xuan three years to raise his soul power from rank 10 to rank 22.

Yet now, it had taken him only one day to go from rank 22 to rank 30!

As expected, spending points once felt great; spending points nonstop felt even better!

And this was not over yet.

After his soul power reached rank 30, a new prompt appeared on the system panel:

[The host's cultivation has reached a bottleneck. Would you like to spend 2,000 Merit Points to exchange for a God-Given Spirit Ring?]

A God-Given Spirit Ring!

If Jiang Xuan remembered correctly, after using a God-Given Spirit Ring, the spirit skill it granted would not only perfectly suit the characteristics of the martial soul, but the spirit ring's age would also equal the highest limit that the soul master's current soul power level could withstand!

He still had plenty of Merit Points left. Exchanging a God-Given Spirit Ring for a mere 2,000 Merit Points was guaranteed profit with no loss!

With that thought, Jiang Xuan no longer hesitated. He directly selected the exchange and chose to use it immediately.

The next instant, a warm current spread throughout his body, while his Eight Trigrams Furnace martial soul appeared.

Jiang Xuan could clearly see that a third spirit ring had already appeared around his Eight Trigrams Furnace martial soul.

At first, it was white.

As time passed, it quickly turned yellow, then purple.

Only then did Jiang Xuan begin to feel a little of the pressure the spirit ring brought him.

Fortunately, judging from the current situation, the pressure was entirely within the range he could endure.

In this era, soul masters had only just begun to develop their bodies.

The vast majority of soul masters could barely absorb a thousand-year spirit ring as their third ring. Even Tang San, the original novel's cheat-enabled protagonist, could only barely absorb a 2,000-year Human-Faced Demon Spider as his third spirit ring.

Yet in Jiang Xuan's perception, the age of the God-Given Spirit Ring had already risen to the 2,000-year level, but it was still far from the limit his body could endure.

Perhaps his twin martial souls, which were top-grade innate spiritual treasures, had greatly strengthened his body without his noticing. Or perhaps there was another reason he had yet to discover.

But at the moment, that was not important.

What Jiang Xuan cared about most right now was exactly how many years his third spirit ring could withstand.

Three thousand years, three thousand five hundred years, four thousand years...

The age of his third spirit ring had already reached twice that of Tang San's, yet it still had not reached Jiang Xuan's limit.

"My physical strength is actually this high?"

In Jiang Xuan's initial estimate, he would have already been satisfied if his third spirit ring could reach around 3,000 years. Who would have thought that in the blink of an eye, the spirit ring's age had reached 6,000 years!

Although Jiang Xuan's body was already feeling tremendous pressure, a sudden intuition arose within him.

It seemed that if he gritted his teeth and held on a little longer, his third spirit ring might have a chance to break through to ten thousand years!

A ten-thousand-year third spirit ring would be five times stronger than that cheat-enabled little punk!

Most importantly, once a spirit ring reached ten thousand years, it underwent a qualitative change. Its strength was on an entirely different level from a thousand-year spirit ring.

For instance, although a 9,999-year spirit ring was only one year short of a ten-thousand-year spirit ring, the spirit skills they provided to a soul master could differ in power by as much as threefold!

A thousand was a thousand, and ten thousand was ten thousand. The difference between ten thousand and a thousand was absolute, with strict ranks dividing them!

Therefore, since he had a chance to challenge a ten-thousand-year spirit ring, Jiang Xuan naturally had to fight for it with everything he had.

But even if he truly could not hold on in the end, it would not matter.

As long as it was not too far from ten thousand years, he could simply use Merit Points to raise it afterward!