Absorbing a Soul Ring, His Will Enters the Space of Soul Skills

The purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring settled around Tang Shan. Fierce, domineering Soul Power poured from it and rampaged unchecked through his meridians.

Stabs of pain shot through his meridians, but Tang Shan's expression did not change. Ignoring the pain inside his body, he drew on the Soul Power in his dantian and began refining it.

As he absorbed the Soul Ring, he sensed an unseen bottleneck. His surging Soul Power slammed into the invisible barrier.

Crack!

Something broke inside him. His Soul Power surged faster, and Tang Shan used that momentum to drive the Soul Ring energy still flooding into his body toward the meridians in his hands.

Crack, crack!

The first crack had marked the breaking of his bottleneck; these were meridians opening. Riding the momentum of his breakthrough past Soul Grandmaster, Tang Shan drove his Soul Power forward and opened two more of the Twelve Regular Meridians in one push.

Ten of the Twelve Regular Meridians were now open. Just two remained before they formed a complete circuit. He wondered what changes that would bring to the circulation of his Soul Power.

Soul Ring energy continued to pour into him. Tang Shan devoted only part of his attention to refining it. With the rest, he prepared an experiment only he could perform.

Watching over him from a treetop, Snake Lance Douluo suddenly saw Tang Shan's pale-purple First Soul Ring flare. Yet Tang Shan's body showed no change, and Snake Lance Douluo frowned.

Why would he activate a Soul Skill in the middle of absorbing a Soul Ring? And if he had activated it, why was there no change to his body?

While absorbing the Soul Ring's power, Tang Shan had activated his First Soul Skill, boosting his Self-Control by twenty percent. He did not spread that boost across