Advancing to a Level Nineteen Soul Master, a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, and Spirit Connection Realm Mental Power!

"Then let's keep going!"

The Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape nodded together.

Although they no longer had any doubts about Ji Yang, they also wanted to test how much these pills could help them right away.

With that in mind, the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape each struck, beating the newly revived Starwind Wolf and Moonshadow Leopard to the brink of death again so Ji Yang could refine them.

Ji Yang loaded the Starwind Wolf and Moonshadow Leopard into the furnace once more and began another round of refinement.

The difference was that, after this refinement, they would cease to exist. They would no longer cling to life in the form of Soul Spirit Pills, but would instead become seven kinds of pills, including Soul Power Pills, Soul God Pills, and Soul Body Pills.

"Humm-"

Amid the blazing flames of the Eight Trigrams Alchemy Furnace, the seven kinds of pills were soon ready.

Ji Yang put away the other four kinds, keeping only the Soul Power Pills, Soul God Pills, and Soul Body Pills in his hands.

"Here!"

Ji Yang handed the three kinds of pills refined from the Starwind Wolf and Moonshadow Leopard to the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape, respectively.

"All right."

The Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape carefully accepted the three pills, which were utterly tiny compared to them.

Then they tossed them into their mouths.

At the same time, Ji Yang picked up the four kinds of pills refined from the Two Scar-Faced Men-the Soul Power Pills, Soul Ring Pills, Soul God Pills, and Soul Body Pills-and prepared to take them.

Naturally, he took a Soul Power Pill first.

As the Soul Power Pill entered his mouth, gentle soul power immediately flooded Ji Yang's body and was rapidly absorbed.

His own soul power refined the soul power from the pill at a furious pace, strengthening itself.

In the blink of an eye, his soul power level shot straight from level sixteen, which he had only recently reached, to level seventeen.

This was still far from his limit.

Once he fully absorbed the medicinal power of this Soul Power Pill refined from a Quasi-Soul Ancestor, Ji Yang was confident that he could break through to become a level twenty Soul Grandmaster in an extremely short time.

"So this is the miraculous effect of a Soul Power Pill refined from a Soul Master..."

Ji Yang's eyes lit up, his expression brimming with delight.

Just as he had guessed earlier, Soul Power Pills refined from Soul Masters suited him better and had stronger medicinal effects than those refined from soul beasts.

Even if the enormous difference in their effects partly came from the vast gap in levels between the Soul Masters and soul beasts he had refined, he could still clearly feel the inherent difference between their soul power.

The soul power in pills refined from Soul Masters was more compatible with humans and easier to absorb and convert. It could even directly advance his cultivation.

By contrast, Soul Power Pills refined from soul beasts could only accelerate soul power cultivation. They could hardly increase his soul power cultivation directly.

At that thought, Ji Yang could not help remarking, "This is forcing me to 'eat people'!"

Fortunately, his resolve remained firm. He would uphold his principles and bottom line as always, rather than embark on a killing spree merely to raise his soul power level.

Even if he truly went against that principle someday and chose to embark on a killing spree, he would probably do it in the most suitable place.

For example-Slaughter City!

In a place filled with Evil Soul Masters and sinners, he would feel neither revulsion nor hesitation even if he slaughtered people without restraint and mercilessly refined them into pills.

Besides, even if he did not kill them, hundreds or thousands of people would still die every day in Slaughter City's daily conflicts.

He would at least be giving their deaths more value.

As for how he would solve the problem of being unable to use soul skills in Slaughter City?

Heh, the Eight Trigrams Alchemy Furnace's power to refine everything was not a soul skill, but an ability inherent to the furnace itself.

One could say that, once he entered Slaughter City, he would be a "player with cheats enabled."

"I'm really looking forward to that day!"

With that thought in mind, a little more fervor entered Ji Yang's gaze.

Then he continued taking the remaining three kinds of pills: Soul Ring Pills, Soul God Pills, and Soul Body Pills.

Like the Soul Power Pill, this Soul Body Pill refined from a Soul Master gave him a greater improvement than one refined from a soul beast.

However, the difference between the two was not as great as it was for the Soul Power Pills, though it was still enough to satisfy Ji Yang.

As for the Soul Ring Pills and Soul God Pills, those refined from Soul Masters had almost the same medicinal effects as those refined from soul beasts.

Even so, the improvement Ji Yang gained after taking the pills was by no means small.

His physical strength reached a level capable of bearing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring. With the enhancement from the Soul Ring Pills, his Phoenix Bird Soul Spirit and the first soul ring it had become also smoothly advanced to the ten-thousand-year mark.

As before, the increase in his soul ring's age further drove up his soul power level, advancing him from a level seventeen Soul Master to a level nineteen Soul Master.

Of course, this was not entirely thanks to his soul ring's advancement.

The cultivation increase brought by this advancement was actually smaller than the one from his previous soul ring advancement. Ji Yang could still improve this much because the Soul Power Pill he had yet to fully absorb was pushing him forward.

As for his Spiritual Power level?

Ji Yang felt that he had reached a state where his mind connected with the spirit, and his intent arrived wherever his thoughts reached. As a result, he could now actively guide and project his Spiritual Power, performing short-range mental probes and weak Mental Interference.

According to the Spiritual Power classifications used during the era of Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King, his Spiritual Power level should have reached the second tier, the spirit connection realm. He was not even very far from the third tier, the spirit sea realm, where "Spiritual Power becomes a sea."

Previously, his Spiritual Power level should have only just entered the spirit connection realm.

That showed how great an improvement the Soul God Pills refined from the Two Scar-Faced Men, whose cultivation stood at Quasi-Soul Ancestor and Quasi-Soul King, had given him.

That said, the Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul had probably played an even greater role.

If the Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul could not enhance the power and effects of the corresponding ingredients while refining pills, those two Soul God Pills might not have brought his Spiritual Power to its current strength.

"Last are the soul skills!"

Finally, Ji Yang examined the changes in his own soul skills.

"After advancing to a ten-thousand-year soul spirit, the first soul ring skill provided by the Phoenix Bird Soul Spirit increased its boost to fire-type offensive soul skills from 125% to 150%. The temporary increase to my total soul power also rose from 50% to 80%."

"Even the duration increased by two minutes, making it twelve minutes! The healing ability doesn't seem to have changed, though. Still, this is no small improvement."

Ji Yang nodded in satisfaction.

All in all, this round had brought him an improvement that could only be described as advancing by leaps and bounds.

To gain such an improvement just after arriving in the Star Dou Great Forest left him happier than he could possibly express.

And this was merely his starting point in the Star Dou Great Forest.

His growth and progress from here would only become even more astonishing.