Of course, Jiang Hai had not come away empty-handed.
Jiang Hai extended his left hand. His five fingers were thin and long, their joints clearly defined, yet his skin was smooth. Beneath the lustrous skin of his palm and arm, faint strands of white radiance flowed as though alive.
As Jiang Hai's soul power flowed into his arm, the white radiance boosted its speed by roughly thirty percent.
Indeed, Jiang Hai was not yet skilled enough to refine the human body into a soul tool, but he could still make some basic modifications. Those faint traces of white radiance were a type of soul tool array he had created himself. To engrave these arrays into his own body, Jiang Hai had sliced open his skin and flesh with an engraving knife, carving them into the bones of his arm one stroke at a time.
The benefits brought by that agonizing pain were equally clear. With the soul tool arrays' support, his soul power circulated through his left arm at least thirty percent faster.
Soul power circulation speed affected recovery, explosive output, and growth across the board. A thirty-percent increase in circulation speed through his left arm meant that, under identical conditions, Jiang Hai's soul power would reach his left arm before his opponent's did, allowing that arm to unleash its power sooner. If he extended the arrays throughout his body, the resulting difference in performance would grow even greater. Moreover, faster circulation meant that, within the same amount of time, Jiang Hai would recover more soul power and gain more through meditation. Although the arrays were currently limited to his left arm, their overall effect had already improved his meditation efficiency by nearly five percent.
Five percent sounded insignificant, but accumulated over time, it became considerable. Over ten years of