Golden light tore through the depths of space and slipped into the boundless secret realm within the human body.
That golden light was dazzling, erupting with brilliant radiance.
Within this vast hidden treasury of the human body, it shone with a dazzling radiance all its own.
The intense golden light even pierced through Su Yu's perception, breaking past his narrow view of that gray, silent space and entering his senses.
Amid the golden light, he vaguely glimpsed the multicolored starry sky he had seen when he first entered the inner landscape.
Even a glimpse of one corner was enough to be certain.
This intense golden light came from outside, and I just fused with a Soul Ring.
Su Yu immediately thought of its source.
The Golden Giant Ape!
This was the Golden Giant Ape's power.
It had probably entered his body along with the Soul Ring as he fused with it.
The golden light remained dazzling, but it lost that sense of "proclaiming its presence to the world" that it had possessed when it first broke into his body and entered this world. It gradually vanished from Su Yu's view.
Even its last lingering ray was utterly dazzling, but Su Yu's field of perception was limited.
His senses only extended ten meters around him.
Being able to see that dazzling, foreign golden light in the instant after fusing with the Soul Ring was itself a special stroke of fortune.
Su Yu firmly committed the location where the golden light remained to memory.
Whatever else he did, he needed a direction in which to explore the body's hidden treasury.
Aimlessly searching for red and blue substances, or uncovering new mysterious substances, was too inefficient. It also offered no way to achieve a qualitative breakthrough in his exploration of the world within the inner landscape.
He might as well follow the golden light and explore that region.
He would uncover the hidden treasure the Golden Giant Ape had brought him.
Perhaps this would give him a deeper understanding of Soul Rings.
He could do this with his first Soul Ring, and with every Soul Ring that followed.
Cultivating the abilities of nine Soul Rings was already quite a complicated undertaking. Starting additional projects on top of that would be a heavy burden indeed. He would be better off developing the abilities of those nine Soul Rings to their utmost.
If he could accomplish that first, exploring more of the inner landscape's hidden treasures afterward would not hinder his cultivation. Instead, it would yield twice the results for half the effort!
Su Yu quickly made his decision and set off to explore that region with abandon.
Within the inner landscape, his consciousness was not restricted to the speed of his physical body in the real world.
A single thought could carry him tens of millions of miles.
Of course, since his senses only extended ten meters around him, if he truly moved tens of millions of miles in a single thought, he would be unable to detect any mysterious substances along the way. That was why he had not previously moved around at random.
Now that he had a clear destination, he naturally moved to that region in an instant.
Fortunately, the moment he arrived, a clump of golden substance lay within his range of perception.
"Hmm..."
Su Yu did not fuse with it right away.
Unlike the mysterious substances in the body's hidden treasury, this mysterious substance had come from outside through a Soul Ring. He did not know whether it would be beneficial or harmful.
So, after noting the golden substance's location, he searched the surroundings for red, blue, and other mysterious substances native to his own body.
After finding one clump each of red and blue substance, he still felt it was not safe enough, so he went ahead and stockpiled ten portions of each.
Some strengthened the body, while others purified it.
Only once he finally felt a little more confident did he attempt to fuse with the golden clump of light.
A tearing agony surged through him.
It felt as though every cell in his body was being torn apart, then reconstructed.
This is the power of a bloodline!
Su Yu understood.
After a brief moment of hesitation, he did not immediately interrupt the process.
The bloodline system was a massive pitfall.
But the current version had not yet advanced to the bloodline expansion.
On the continent as it was now, there was no need to worry about the pitfalls brought by the bloodline system.
As for the later stages?
With the inner landscape in his grasp, Su Yu was confident that he could blaze his own trail on the bloodline path.
If he could not-
Then he was simply trash, and the question of whether to give up the benefits of a bloodline now would already be meaningless.
Outside.
Seeing that the absorption of the Soul Ring was nearing its end, Su Yu opened his eyes and released the Soul Ring. Everything was stable.
But suddenly, an expression of pain appeared on Su Yu's face, as though he were enduring some extreme agony, and Du Busi instantly grew solemn again.
Inexplicably, he sensed a peculiar aura from Su Yu.
That aura was faint, but unmistakably real.
It was like... a savage beast from the primordial wilderness!
To be more specific, more accurate, it was not a primordial beast, but a Soul Beast-a ferocious beast!
The aura emanating from Su Yu's body actually resembled the power of a Soul Beast's bloodline.
And that bloodline was exactly the same as the Golden Giant Ape's!
"This kid absorbed a Soul Ring and actually fused with its owner's bloodline too?"
Du Busi could only find it absurd.
"If we brought him a Soul Beast with a true dragon bloodline, would this kid fuse with its true dragon bloodline?"
After the shock came wild delight.
"If that's the case-no, even if it isn't, even if this fusion was a special case and he only obtains the Golden Giant Ape's bloodline, that alone is more than enough!"
The human body had its limits.
It was difficult for a human Soul Master's physical strength to rival that of a Soul Beast.
So possessing a Soul Beast's bloodline was equivalent to raising the ceiling on one's physical strength.
Although there would still be a higher ceiling, it undoubtedly put one far ahead of other Soul Masters.
While the Body Sect had its own secret methods that could likewise break through the human body's limits, why turn down an additional, stackable means of breaking those limits?
Du Busi temporarily suppressed the various thoughts running through his mind.
He looked at Su Yu and found that his expression had begun to relax.
The pain had lasted only a few seconds.
Now, Su Yu was looking calmly at Du Busi.
After grimacing, he struggled to get up from the ground.
"Sect Master, I've finished the fusion."
Du Busi nodded. "How is your Soul Skill?"
A Soul Skill?
Su Yu froze briefly before coming back to his senses.
Right, the point of absorbing a Soul Ring is to obtain a Soul Skill.
He had been so absorbed in the golden light that suddenly tore across the inner landscape's sky that he had forgotten to examine his Soul Skill.
He immediately closed his eyes to sense it, then soon snapped them open.
"First Soul Skill, Golden Source!"
As the 2,600-year Soul Ring beneath his feet erupted with dazzling purple light, golden light flashed in the dantian in his lower abdomen.
There seemed to be liquid flowing, accompanied by the sound of surging waves crashing against the shore.
Brilliant golden Soul Power flowed out of Su Yu's dantian and spread through his limbs and every part of his body.
Su Yu could not help throwing back his head and roaring.
At that moment, he seemed to have become a Golden Giant Ape.
His body swelled to nearly twice its size.
A layer of golden fur covered him, and the skin beneath it developed a thick, hardened layer as well.
"This..."
Du Busi stared at the sight, his eyes widening.
How was this any different from Golden Giant Ape Martial Soul Possession?
Ohhh...
At the one-ring stage, a Soul Master with a Golden Giant Ape Martial Soul wouldn't have such a complete transformation during Martial Soul Possession.
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