As everyone knew, on the Douluo Continent, most people relied on soul rings and soul skills to fight. Only a tiny minority possessed self-created soul skills, especially in the era of Douluo I.
With everyone having the same nine soul rings, anyone who wanted to be stronger than the rest had to work on either their soul rings or their soul skills, aside from obtaining soul bones.
Working on soul skills meant creating one's own. As for soul rings, a few gifted individuals would develop special ways to use them.
Of these special applications, the two Tang San remembered most clearly were Ring Fusion and Ring Detonation. In the era of Douluo I, Ring Detonation could be considered exclusive to the Clear Sky Sect. And because of the Great Sumeru Hammer, the technique was essentially passed down through the lineage of successive sect masters.
In essence, it detonated all the energy stored within a soul ring at once, then unleashed it through other means.
The tremendous soul power released in that single burst would not only inflict immense damage on the user's body, but also severely damage their martial soul. Anyone without a top-tier martial soul and a strong physique might kill themselves outright by using it.
Tang San had already developed plenty of variations on this. Drawing inspiration from techniques like the Eight Gates Technique next door, he had used Ring Detonation to devise both a secret body-tempering method and a secret power-burst method.
Using it directly would convert all the vitality in his body into immensely powerful destructive force. His physique, soul power, and killing power would all reach their peak.
As for Ring Fusion, Tang San actually believed there were two versions in theory. In the strictest sense, Ring Fusion referred to an ability possessed by Huo