Successfully Absorbed

The next second, over a thousand flying insects shot out from the sun flowers, while many strangely shaped creatures on the ground fled in a hurry. Clearly, all of them were soul beasts that cultivated with the help of the sun flowers.

"That's a mutated Firelight Dual-Attribute Slime and a Sun Sacred Beetle. I just don't know if their ages match, or whether they'll still be around by the time I reach Soul Grandmaster and Soul Elder..."

When he saw the two types of soul beasts mixed among them, Xu Yang, who had been lying on the tree and secretly observing, instantly straightened up. His eyes widened. He had never expected to see these two kinds of soul beasts here.

Slimes were an extremely ordinary type of Elemental Martial Soul, their quality comparable to Blue Silver Grass among plants. Most had the Water Attribute, and they were very common. Because of their own traits, they were extremely prone to mutation, turning into slimes of other attributes, so this kind of soul beast came in every attribute.

Even so, a slime's attack methods were still extremely one-dimensional and utterly trash.

But slimes had one trait that Tool Spirits could inherit as a soul skill: their Splitting and Merging Traits. This trait was the foundation of a slime's survival. As long as its core remained, it could recover in a short time.

After Tool Spirit and Elemental Martial Soul masters absorbed a slime's soul ring, they would one hundred percent obtain a Splitting Soul Skill. Elemental Martial Soul masters in particular would one hundred percent inherit this slime trait.

The soul skill was also very simple: it divided one's Tool Spirit into two, two into four, continuously splitting it, and after splitting, it could merge back into one again.

Compared to slimes, the Sun Sacred Beetle was far more famous. It was one of the rare Insectoid High-Tier Soul Beasts, extremely skilled at shaping soul power. Its most famous move was condensing a sacred sword on the horn atop its head, one that could even ignore Aura defenses, then stabbing down at its enemy from the air with lightning-like speed. Basically, soul beasts and soul masters of the same level had no way to dodge it.

This kind of soul beast could grant Elemental Martial Soul masters Weapon-Type Soul Skills similar to the Blue Silver Overlord Spear, and they were generally sacred swords.

When Xu Yang had read the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's introduction to this soul beast, he had guessed that Qian Renxue's Sacred Sword should have come from this soul beast. In his view, the root of this soul skill should be the condensation and shaping of soul skills, because a few Sun Sacred Beetles did not condense sacred swords, instead condensing a suit of armor around themselves. From this, it could be seen that the use of this soul skill mainly depended on the user.

These were also the second and Third Soul Rings he had chosen for himself after reading the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's collection. He had originally planned to have sect disciples investigate the traces of these two soul beasts when he was close to breaking through. He had never expected that, when he had only just started hunting his First Soul Ring, he would see these two kinds of soul beasts.

While Xu Yang was still shocked, Ning Haiyan's figure had already arrived above the Golden-Edged Sun Flower. His left hand grabbed hard, directly seizing the sun flower's stem. With a forceful pull, he yanked it out by the roots, then immediately turned and rushed in Xu Yang's direction.

Plant-Type Soul Beasts were basically the same as plants in terms of Plant Characteristics. Their vitality was extremely astonishing. Even if their roots left the soil, they would not lose their lives in a short time. This was also why Ning Haiyan acted so roughly.

After Ning Haiyan left, the Sun Flower Sea, whose flower buds had originally closed, bloomed open once again.

"Young master, kill it and absorb the soul ring! I'll stand guard for you beside you!"

Ning Haiyan tossed the sun flower of a suitable age in front of Xu Yang and gave him his instructions.

Hearing this, Xu Yang nodded. He took a dagger from his Storage Ring and began chopping hard at the sun flower's roots. For plants, the roots were the source of life. Once the roots rotted, the plant would die sooner or later. This also applied to plant-type soul beasts, at least before ten thousand years.

After chopping its roots to pulp, Xu Yang discovered that this Golden-Edged Sun Flower still had not died. He could not help sighing inwardly at its vitality. With a casual slash, he cut through its main stem, finally ending its life.

Immediately, a deep yellow soul ring floated out, hovering above the sun flower's corpse.

Xu Yang hurriedly put the dagger away, sat cross-legged on the ground, calmed his mind, focused his spirit, summoned his martial soul, and began drawing in and absorbing the soul ring according to the method recorded in the Meditation Method.

As the soul ring settled around the Sun Martial Soul, Xu Yang immediately felt a vast surge of energy pour into his body. This energy was scorching hot and violent. The moment it entered his body, it began rampaging everywhere, trying to destroy his body.

Fortunately, he had swallowed Whale Rubber before and had also consciously tempered his body in ordinary times. His physical quality far surpassed that of soul masters of the same level. After entering meditation, he guided it with his own soul power and Spiritual Power, and this energy was still within the range he could endure.

In the Original Work, even Yu Xiaogang had been able to research the existence of some Meridians. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Meditation Method had been passed down for a thousand years, so naturally it also had research in this area. Though it might not have studied them as thoroughly as Huaxia traditional medicine and ancient martial arts, the mainstream meridians used for cultivation and the application of soul skills were still recorded, and they could form the simplest circulation.

And now Xu Yang used his own soul power to move this energy along these meridians, continuously digesting it.

He did not want to study meridians too deeply. That was something accumulated from nearly ten thousand years of Huaxia's research into the human body, not something he could completely figure out after just a few years of simple study. But he did not need to worry either, because he had once heard a theory that he found very reasonable, and that was Water Fills and Overflows.

The Dantian was the dam that stored water, and the meridians were the river channels that drained it. Once soul power filled this dam, the excess soul power would naturally begin flowing along those river channels. When enough soul power accumulated within the river channels, it would naturally clear the originally blocked channels. At that time, all the meridians throughout the body would become unobstructed. This was the so-called Water Fills and Overflows theory.

So he needed to put more attention on soul power itself and its application, not waste time on meridians.

Perhaps because the compatibility between the Sun Martial Soul and the sun flower soul beast was very high, even though it had seven hundred years of cultivation, it did not cause much ravaging to his body. The process was exceptionally smooth and did not take much time at all.

Boom!

As the soul power was completely absorbed, Xu Yang only felt the soul power in his Dantian become greater and stronger, turning from the small stream that had originally been a trickle into a Winding River. The Sun Soul Power that had originally only transformed by a trace had also increased to ten percent.

He had succeeded!

Xu Yang was ecstatic!

Not only had he successfully absorbed his First Soul Ring, his own soul power had also drawn closer to the Sun Martial Soul.

Not only that, under the tempering of the Extreme Yang Extreme Strength of Sun Soul Power, his body had also become increasingly powerful, comparable to a Soul Elder-level Battle Soul Master.

Most importantly, he instinctively felt that he could draw in and gather Sun Power within a radius of a hundred meters. Although he could not condense it into form, it would definitely be no problem for assisting cultivation. Even the consumption of that First Soul Skill also felt very small.

By the time he stood up, he only felt that his entire body was filled with power. Punching a cow to death would be a small matter.

However, he also knew clearly that this was the illusion brought about by a sudden surge in strength, not that he truly possessed such power.