He entered and found a place to settle.
Just as Ning Chen was about to draw the Spirit Rings over and absorb them one by one, an unexpected change occurred.
Three Spirit Rings rose from the three Ant Emperor corpses at the same time!
As though drawn by some invisible force, they did not hover separately. Instead, they spiraled and intertwined, forming a three-stranded helix of dark golden light that surged straight toward Ning Chen's chest.
Ning Chen was briefly startled, but he quickly regained his composure. The three Qian Jun Ant Emperors shared the same origin, and he had defeated them simultaneously. Perhaps this unique synchronicity was precisely what had triggered all three Spirit Rings at once.
He did not resist. Instead, he opened his body and mind, allowing all three Spirit Rings to surge toward him together.
The violent impact he had expected never came.
Although the three Spirit Rings approached with overwhelming force, a gentle yet profound power caught them firmly the instant they entered his heart Martial Soul.
That capacity to bear their power came from the resilient meridians tempered by the Thousand Mountains Formula and the supreme yang physique forged by the Nine Yang Divine Skill.
The power of three ninety-thousand-year Spirit Rings raced through Ning Chen's body, attempting to batter his meridians and internal organs.
Yet under the combined suppression of the Thousand Mountains Formula's true essence of sealing and the Nine Yang Divine Skill's vast internal power, they became utterly docile, causing him not the slightest pain or discomfort.
More than that, under the continuous tempering of the Thousand Mountains Formula's earth vein aura, the three Spirit Rings actually began to transform.
Ning Chen could clearly sense wisps of black impurities being slowly stripped from the three Spirit Rings.
Those were the impure