Third Soul Ring, Ten Thousand Years!

At the same time, Chen Xin rented a room next to Jiang Xuan's.

However, before raising his strength, Jiang Xuan had activated the aura-concealment function through the system panel. Unless someone entered his room, there was no way they could detect the unusual aura within.

Unaware of this, Chen Xin carefully probed with her spiritual power. After confirming that Jiang Xuan was unharmed, she calmed down and began studying her current body.

First was her own strength.

Her soul power had genuinely broken through to Rank 97. She was at least thirty percent stronger than before. Old Bones, who had once been able to exchange a few moves with her, would now show signs of defeat before lasting a hundred exchanges.

If her physical changes could be set aside, this alone would have brought the entire Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect joy for a long time.

Unfortunately, it could not be set aside.

Back at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, she had been too embarrassed—and had lacked the time—to examine things closely in front of the others.

Now that she was alone, after pondering it again and again, she closed her eyes and, with trembling hands, felt over her body from top to bottom.

This completely shattered her last hope.

She truly had become a real woman.

But... why?

Why had this happened?

What level of power could completely transform a person's sex, inside and out?

In Chen Xin's understanding, even the strongest warriors in this world—Rank 99 Limit Douluo—could not possibly accomplish such a thing.

If she had to explain it, only calling it a miracle of the gods could barely make sense of it.

"So... Xuan'er's martial soul came from a divine inheritance? If that is the case... then will a god emerge from our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect in the future?"

"Forget it. Becoming a god is still far too distant for Xuan'er. For now, I should protect him and let him grow up slowly. He is a good child. Once he attains the Dao in the future, our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect will surely rise to heaven alongside him!"

As Chen Xin voiced these thoughts, Jiang Xuan's endurance was already nearing its limit.

Nine thousand years!

As long as he held on a little longer, he could break through ten thousand years!

But the problem was that he seemed unable to hold on much longer.

The pain within his body felt as though he were being torn apart, spreading through every inch of him.

In some places, Jiang Xuan felt as if he were about to burst open.

Just as he hesitated over whether to stop here and play it safe, the previously tranquil Eight Trigrams Furnace martial soul suddenly emitted a dazzling light and instantly expanded several times in size.

Then, the furnace door in its center opened on its own. A sudden suction force erupted and directly pulled a dumbfounded Jiang Xuan into the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

"Damn! What's going on? Why does my martial soul seem to be out of my control?"

Before Jiang Xuan could figure out what had happened, the furnace door shut automatically. Then the accompanying Six-Ding Divine Flame appeared out of thin air, forming a circle around him.

Anyone who saw this without knowing what was going on might have thought some demon king was about to roast a living person over charcoal.

Jiang Xuan truly had nowhere to vent his misery. He repeatedly tried to control his martial soul, but every command he issued vanished without a trace, receiving no response at all.

I'm screwed!

Could he become the first soul master in the entire Douluo Continent to be killed by his own out-of-control martial soul?

Everything had happened too quickly for Jiang Xuan to think much. Just as despair gradually filled his heart, he suddenly realized that aside from making him feel somewhat hot, the Six-Ding Divine Flame did not seem to be harming his body.

No!

Not only was the Six-Ding Divine Flame not harming his body, it seemed to be tempering his flesh as well!

This...

Could it be that the Eight Trigrams Furnace martial soul had sensed that his body was about to reach its limit and was using this method to make him stronger?

If so, then his Eight Trigrams Furnace martial soul definitely possessed intelligence. He just did not know why its spirit had never communicated with him.

Did it temporarily lack the ability to communicate with him, or was it simply too lazy to talk to him?

But now was not the time to dwell on such things.

After confirming that this was beneficial to him, Jiang Xuan quickly adjusted his mindset and threw himself wholeheartedly into cultivation, fully cooperating with the Six-Ding Divine Flame as it tempered his body.

Soon, he felt the pain in his body gradually weaken. The age of his soul ring, which had stopped increasing, began rising again.

This truly was an enormous surprise!

The Eight Trigrams Furnace martial soul could actually help temper a person's body!

If that was the case...

Jiang Xuan suddenly recalled that Sun Wukong, who had caused havoc in Heaven, had seemingly been refined within the Eight Trigrams Furnace by Lao Jun's Six-Ding Divine Flame for seven times seven, forty-nine days, thus gaining his divine fiery golden eyes.

If he could replicate this divine ability, even if he only gained a crude fragment of it, it would still be countless times stronger than that little punk's Purple Demon Eyes!

He had decided. Once this body-tempering was over, he would definitely find time to properly research whether this was feasible!

After the divine flame tempered his body for roughly two hours, a sharp gleam burst from Jiang Xuan's eyes. Then, the deep-purple soul ring floating outside the Eight Trigrams Furnace martial soul completely transformed into black!

His ten-thousand-year third soul ring was complete!

Jiang Xuan could hardly put his joy into words.

At first, it had merely been a casual thought. He had never expected it to actually succeed in the end!

Moreover, the Six-Ding Divine Flame had yet to stop tempering his body, and his soul ring's age was still rising.

Could his third soul ring directly break through to one hundred thousand years?

But reality proved that Jiang Xuan had been overthinking things.

The Six-Ding Divine Flame stopped tempering his body once the soul ring's age reached twelve thousand years.

Feeling that the increase was still insufficient, Jiang Xuan wanted to continue. But unexpectedly, the Eight Trigrams Furnace's door opened on its own again. As a breeze brushed past him, he was blown out of the furnace.

"Not... enough power... Help me... collect... Heavenly Essence and Earthly Qi... Only after gathering enough... can you continue tempering your body..."

A fragmented voice entered his ears. Although he could not identify its source, Jiang Xuan was certain that it was the Eight Trigrams Furnace's spirit transmitting its voice to him.

But what were Heavenly Essence and Earthly Qi?

Jiang Xuan wanted the spirit to explain more clearly, but unfortunately, it said nothing in response to his questions this time.

"Did it fall asleep? Forget it, I'll take things one step at a time. Maybe one day, if I'm lucky, I'll naturally find clues about Heavenly Essence and Earthly Qi."

Successfully obtaining a ten-thousand-year third soul ring, greatly strengthening his physical body, and directly leaping to Rank 32 soul power all at once made Jiang Xuan extremely happy.

At this moment, he had 7,400 Merit Points remaining.

The system panel showed that, based on his current soul power rank, each rank increase required 500 Merit Points.

No need to think about it. Level up directly!

Ordinary soul masters had to worry about overtraining and suffering qi deviation when raising their soul power.

But he was allocating points through the system. If he still had to fear qi deviation, what was the point of adding points?

[Congratulations, Host. You have successfully spent 4,000 Merit Points. Soul power rank has been raised to 40.]

One day!

It had taken only one day to rise directly from Rank 22 to Rank 40!

Awesome!