Second Martial Soul, the Banana Sun Fan!

While Jiang Xuan and Tang San faced off, Ning Rongrong was enthusiastically picking flowers a hundred meters away.

On a whim, she wanted to weave several pretty flower crowns and give them to Jiang Xuan and the elders who cared for her.

However, that meant she needed quite a lot of flowers, and as she picked them, Ning Rongrong unconsciously wandered farther and farther away.

Chen Xin had mainly been focused on Jiang Xuan just now and had paid slightly less attention to Ning Rongrong. If Jiang Xuan hadn't mentioned it, he wouldn't even have noticed that a thousand-year soul beast was quietly approaching her.

Fortunately, they discovered it in time. With the powerful soul power within him, Chen Xin flashed to Ning Rongrong's side and shielded her behind him, his sharp eyes fixed on the bushes ahead.

It was actually a thousand-year Blazing Hound!

What a coincidence...

Thinking of Jiang Xuan's request from earlier, Chen Xin deliberately restrained the soul power he released, suppressing the Blazing Hound until it couldn't move without taking its life.

When Jiang Xuan finally caught up, Chen Xin spoke directly.

"Jiang Xuan, what do you think of this soul beast? Does it meet your requirements?"

Hearing that, Jiang Xuan carefully examined the Blazing Hound for a moment. Then, his Eight Trigrams Furnace martial soul let out a hum of approval.

Since even his martial soul deemed the Blazing Hound suitable as his second soul ring, Jiang Xuan naturally had no other objections. He immediately summoned the Eight Trigrams Furnace, enlarged it, and smashed it fiercely onto the helpless Blazing Hound, causing a soul ring to burst forth.

"Jiang Xuan, be careful. Don't force yourself. If anything goes wrong later, don't panic. I'll step in and keep you safe."

Although Chen Xin still thought it was utterly absurd for a Soul Master with twenty levels of soul power to absorb a thousand-year soul ring, Jiang Xuan was someone he had watched grow up. At such a crucial moment, he chose to support and trust him.

"Don't worry, Grandpa Sword. I won't do anything I'm not confident about!"

Hearing their conversation, Ning Rongrong finally recovered from her fright.

However, she wasn't as worried as Chen Xin.

Because in her eyes, Brother Jiang Xuan was capable of anything!

"Go, Brother Jiang Xuan! Rongrong believes you can do it!"

"Ha! Of course I can!"

With Chen Xin standing guard beside him, Jiang Xuan could naturally absorb the soul ring without distraction.

Following the usual process, he mobilized his soul power and drew the soul ring into his body. The immense soul power brought by the thousand-year soul ring instantly spread throughout his entire body.

An ordinary Soul Master at level twenty might have already had their body burst apart from that overwhelming soul power.

But for Jiang Xuan, this immense soul power was just right.

Just as when he absorbed his first soul ring, after one hour, he completely refined the second soul ring. He successfully gained his second soul skill, and his soul power naturally broke through to level twenty-two.

Seeing Jiang Xuan succeed, Chen Xin finally set aside his worries and praised him sincerely.

"Good lad! Absorbing a thousand-year soul ring with only two rings—this old man truly didn't misjudge you!"

Ning Rongrong also stepped forward at the right moment. She placed the flower crown she had woven while Jiang Xuan absorbed the soul ring onto his head and asked curiously,

"Brother Jiang Xuan, what is your second soul skill?"

"Nothing special. It just enhances my control over fire somewhat."

His answer wasn't wrong. He had merely concealed one crucial piece of information.

The ability granted by his second soul skill allowed him to better control the innate Six-Ding Divine Flame contained within the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

Perhaps some people still didn't know what the Six-Ding Divine Flame was.

Simply put, when Taishang Laojun refined Sun Wukong for forty-nine days, the flame he used was this innate Six-Ding Divine Flame!

Although this flame's essence lay in creation and refinement, its penetrating power and endurance were exceptionally strong!

After the Eight Trigrams Furnace was overturned by Sun Wukong, merely one furnace brick falling into the mortal world, carrying a trace of the Six-Ding Divine Flame, created the Flaming Mountain—a blaze that burned for hundreds of years without losing even the slightest bit of its might.

Even the Samadhi True Fire that Red Boy used to make Sun Wukong suffer was, in essence, merely an inferior flame derived from the Six-Ding Divine Flame.

If Jiang Xuan could fully master the Six-Ding Divine Flame and use it against his enemies...

Tsk, tsk. Flames that couldn't be extinguished by anything short of an innate spiritual treasure of the same rank—if Jiang Xuan wished, it wouldn't be impossible for him to burn the entire Douluo Continent, even the God Realm, into ashes someday.

However, controlling fire wasn't Jiang Xuan's most important concern right now.

It was the system panel that had been on standby in his spiritual sea for three years!

[Congratulations, Host, on successfully obtaining your second soul ring. A special function has now been unlocked.]

[A beginner's gift pack for unlocking this function for the first time has been issued. Please claim it.]

"A beginner's gift pack too?"

Jiang Xuan's eyes immediately lit up. He hurriedly opened the system's built-in storage space and confirmed that he wanted to use the gift pack.

[Congratulations, Host, for obtaining Taishang Laojun's Alchemy Dao Inheritance (partial).]

[Congratulations, Host, on successfully activating your sealed second martial soul, the Banana Sun Fan.]

This fan was a complementary artifact to the Eight Trigrams Furnace. It could more efficiently unleash the Six-Ding Divine Flame, and its supreme might could also be used in battle against enemies.

With a single gentle wave, it could raise heaven-reaching divine flames, blow away countless magical artifacts, and fan countless living beings into extinction.

After reading the system panel's notifications, Jiang Xuan's breathing stopped for several seconds.

Taishang Laojun's Alchemy Dao Inheritance!

A second martial soul of the same grade as the Eight Trigrams Furnace!

At this very moment, only two words could describe Jiang Xuan's feelings:

Taking off!

Twin martial souls were one thing, but both were top-grade innate spiritual treasures from the Primordial World. Before him now, who on the Douluo Continent dared claim invincibility? Who dared call themselves unbeaten?

If he could use Lao Jun's Alchemy Dao Inheritance to refine a Nine-Turn Golden Elixir...

Wouldn't he be able to break through this world's upper limit of power in a single second and suppress all the heavens?

With that thought, Jiang Xuan eagerly began examining the portion of inheritance he had received.

Alright, he had celebrated a little too soon.

This portion of the inheritance didn't contain the method for refining the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir.

Still, that didn't affect Jiang Xuan's mindset.

After all, with his current strength, even if he possessed the recipe for the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir, he probably wouldn't be able to refine it successfully anytime soon.

So, he shouldn't reach for the sky just yet. Better to stay grounded and take things one step at a time...

After calming himself, Jiang Xuan began examining the system's newly unlocked function.

[Merit-Based Sainthood]

[Lao Jun devoted his life to doing good deeds and accumulated boundless merit...]

[Host, please use the Alchemy Dao Inheritance obtained from Lao Jun to refine pills and give the finished products to others free of charge. For every pill successfully gifted, the Host will receive a random number of Merit Points.]

[Merit Points can be spent to increase the age of the Host's soul rings and soul bones, or directly raise the Host's soul power level...]

Holy shit!