Introductory Guide to Dao Refining from the Heavenly Craft Pavilion!

High-quality soul rings did indeed provide a boost to Soul Power after absorption.

But even a soul ring produced by a seven-hundred-year Rock Crystal Beast could not raise Ning Chen's Soul Power by five levels at once.

The increase in Soul Power from a Rock Crystal Beast's soul ring alone could at most bring him to level twelve or thirteen. That was already the limit.

The reason Ning Chen's Soul Power had reached level fifteen was the boost provided by the perfected Nine Yang Divine Skill.

Because the rules of this world differed, the perfected Nine Yang Divine Skill could only raise Ning Chen's Soul Power to level ten and could not break through any further.

However, the realm improvement brought by perfecting the Nine Yang Divine Skill remained. It was only because he lacked a soul ring that Ning Chen's strength had been sealed.

Ning Chen's current situation was that he possessed the realm but had little actual strength.

Now that Ning Chen had obtained his first soul ring and his Soul Power could continue to rise, the might of the Nine Yang Divine Skill began to show.

First and foremost, the Soul Power accumulated through his previous cultivation experienced a small surge under the Nine Yang Divine Skill's enhancement, forcibly raising Ning Chen's Soul Power to level fifteen.

Next came his abnormally rapid cultivation speed.

Even during the absorption of the soul ring just now, the Nine Yang Divine Skill had circulated through Ning Chen's body on its own.

By the time he finished absorbing the soul ring, Ning Chen could even feel the bottleneck at level fifteen beginning to loosen.

He had an extremely strong premonition that if he continued cultivating, he might soon break through the level-fifteen bottleneck and bring his Soul Power to level sixteen!

Coupled with the supreme cultivation body created by the Nine Yang Divine Skill opening all the meridians throughout his body, Ning Chen would encounter virtually no bottlenecks before becoming a god, so long as he kept cultivating.

Even Tang San in the original story, despite obtaining so many fortuitous opportunities early on,

only opened his first of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians after the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament ended, when he trained under Tang Hao.

"It's time to head back."

He finished up and rose to his feet. Seeing the bright moon hanging high in the sky, Ning Chen had no intention of spending the night in the Soul Hunting Forest.

There were too many soul beasts and Soul Masters in the Soul Hunting Forest, making it far too dangerous. Since he had absorbed his soul ring, he did not linger.

After filling the Azure Wood Puppet with Soul Power, man and puppet wrapped themselves in cloaks and hurried toward the outskirts of the Soul Hunting Forest.

When they reached the exit of the Soul Hunting Forest, the night had deepened, but the market outside remained brightly lit, with quite a few Soul Masters gathered there.

After presenting his soul-hunting permit, Ning Chen left the Soul Hunting Forest smoothly with the Azure Wood Puppet.

At this hour, Barak City's gates had long since closed. Ning Chen did not continue on his way, instead finding a fairly clean-looking inn, renting a room, and preparing to rest.

The market remained noisy. Ning Chen had been traveling all day and was already exhausted. For once, he did not cultivate, falling asleep to the clamor outside.

The night passed without incident.

After sleeping until dawn the next day, Ning Chen got up early and returned to Barak City.

After a roundabout journey, Ning Chen returned to Emerald Treasure House.

Ning Chen had actually wanted to visit the Martial Soul Hall for Soul Master certification. Not for any other reason, but for the monthly subsidies the Martial Soul Hall gave low-level Soul Masters.

Once Ning Chen broke through to the Soul Master realm and completed certification, he could receive one gold soul coin in subsidies each month.

But his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul was truly inconvenient to reveal, so in the end he could only painfully give up the Martial Soul Hall's subsidy.

One gold soul coin a month was still no small sum for Ning Chen as he was now.

After returning to Emerald Treasure House, Ning Chen resumed his dull life of carving during the day and cultivating at night.

It had to be said that, as the capital of the Barak Kingdom, Barak City had quite good public order.

Ning Chen's remaining two Thunderfire Thunderbolt Bombs had no chance to prove useful.

Furthermore, since Ning Chen's first soul ring was already seven hundred years old, his second soul ring would need to be at least a thousand years old.

The two remaining Thunderfire Thunderbolt Bombs could not deal any effective damage to thousand-year soul beasts, so he simply decided to sell them for money.

Ning Chen first went to several weapon shops. Not only were their offers extremely low, but they also wanted him to demonstrate the Thunderfire Thunderbolt Bombs' power.

Naturally, Ning Chen was unwilling to spend one Thunderfire Thunderbolt Bomb in exchange for merely a few gold soul coins.

Later, through Emerald Treasure House's owner, Shen Yushan, Ning Chen learned of Treasure Gathering Pavilion, the largest auction house in Barak City.

Thus, Ning Chen went straight to Treasure Gathering Pavilion to consign the Thunderfire Thunderbolt Bombs. After using one to demonstrate its power, he had the other taken directly by Treasure Gathering Pavilion for auction.

After Treasure Gathering Pavilion deducted its auction commission, Ning Chen ultimately received three hundred gold soul coins!

Ning Chen had finally earned his first pot of gold in the Douluo Continent by auctioning Thunderfire Thunderbolt Bombs.

As everyone knew, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School was the wealthiest sect on the continent not only because its successive sect masters possessed exceptional business talent.

The greatest reason was that Soul Masters with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda possessed an innate ability to sense high-value treasures, and Ning Chen was naturally no exception.

Relying on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's perception of treasures, Ning Chen found bargains several more times in markets and even jewelry and antique shops, then sold them at high prices.

In just one month, Ning Chen's wealth exceeded a thousand gold soul coins.

Most notably, while wandering through an open-air market in the western part of the city, he unexpectedly found a ring-shaped storage soul tool with at least five cubic meters of storage space.

The seller, unable to recognize its value, had asked for only one silver soul coin and had even thought he was making a killing.

Ning Chen immediately bought it without showing any reaction, obtaining his first storage soul tool.

The ring looked dull and gray on the outside, and its design was unremarkable. It was no wonder the seller had mistaken it for junk, which worked out perfectly for Ning Chen.

Now that he had money, Ning Chen naturally would not remain at Emerald Treasure House. He found a suitable courtyard in a corner of the eastern district, rented it, and left Emerald Treasure House.

Evening, an eastern district courtyard.

After finishing a day of cultivation, Ning Chen rose from the room he had personally arranged for cultivation and walked out into the yard.

Although he had not yet eaten dinner, Ning Chen had no plans to go out. He took several pastries he had bought earlier from the kitchen, brewed a pot of tea, and leisurely ate in his small courtyard.

"Oh, right, today's the day to draw a prize!"

Ning Chen drank the last cup of tea with his pastries, suddenly remembered something, and quickly sat up straight.

Taking a deep breath, he summoned the Myriad Realms Roulette.

Soon, an enormous illusory roulette, more than half a person tall and visible only to Ning Chen, appeared before him.

It was the greatest advantage Ning Chen had gained from transmigrating here: the Myriad Realms Roulette, capable of drawing treasures from countless worlds.

There were no words on the roulette. Instead, its spaces were filled with picture-like silhouettes of different worlds.

There were immortal cultivation worlds where people rode swords into the heavens, martial arts worlds of flashing blades and clashing swords, fantastical worlds both strange and dazzling, as well as worlds of exotic beasts, science-fiction worlds, and countless others.

I wonder what good thing I'll draw this time.

Filled with anticipation, Ning Chen silently commanded it to begin.

The Myriad Realms Roulette began spinning at tremendous speed, and the world silhouettes upon it changed constantly.

At last, the rotation stopped, and an enormous world silhouette appeared on the roulette.

Above the nine heavens, phantom figures of gods and demons looked down upon all living beings. The earth split apart, and countless people bowed their heads.

It seems to be an immortal cultivation world...

Ning Chen thought to himself. Then, a stream of light emerged from the world silhouette on the roulette and slowly came to a stop before him.

The paper of its cover was worn and yellowed, its corners slightly curled. It looked quite old.

Four ancient seal-script characters were written upon it: Introductory Guide to Dao Refining!

At the very top was a line of smaller text: Heavenly Craft Pavilion.