First Soul Core, Five-Element Soul Core

Moreover, with this connection in place, Lin Yuan felt that even his spiritual power was recovering much faster than before.

He did not absorb it immediately, because the absorption process that followed would likewise consume a great deal of mental energy.

So Lin Yuan took a deep breath. Only after returning himself to peak condition did he turn his gaze to the Heavenly Stem Qilin's first Soul Core.

It had also fused with the Yin-Yang five attributes inherent to the Heavenly Stem Qilin itself, including Yin-Yang Power.

But ultimately, all of it still belonged to the power within its martial soul.

Compared to something completely different, or power whose attributes were fundamentally repulsive to his own—

Lin Yuan thought it over carefully. If he had tried absorbing this Soul Core first, it might have taken quite a while as well.

There was no shortage of power within the origin of his martial soul.

And next came the matter of where to fuse it.

After a brief hesitation, Lin Yuan chose the center of his brow.

It could not be helped. As everyone knew, Soul Cores had three so-called dantians where they could be fused.

They were the upper, middle, and lower dantians.

They corresponded respectively to the brow, chest, and abdominal dantian.

Given his current spiritual power, trying to fuse it into the upper dantian was the best choice. Otherwise, when he condensed a second Soul Core or even a third one later on—

The difficulty would increase exponentially.

Golden light pressed close. The Soul Core merged, and Lin Yuan's body suddenly shook violently.

At that moment, he felt an indescribably terrifying force pour into his Sea of Spirit. It was like a sharp awl, as though it would tear open his head, drain dry his Sea of Spirit, or