This single Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma had directly consolidated and sublimated Gu Shengge's soul power and body, and had also evolved the quality of his martial soul.
Most importantly, Gu Shengge could sense that, now that he had taken the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma, every soul ring he added would further improve and evolve his martial soul, Severing Karma. Only after its ninth evolution would Severing Karma finally be truly unsealed.
The four Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings he currently possessed were merely false soul rings he had condensed using his own abilities and soul power, not genuine soul rings.
To condense genuine soul rings, aside from hunting soul beasts to obtain them, he could also expend all his strength and cultivation to form them.
His cultivation had already surpassed a million years, and if he wanted to become stronger on a higher plane, his best option was to establish a solid foundation.
He would wait until his cultivation exceeded ten million or a hundred million years before condensing his first soul ring.
In any case, after expending all his cultivation to condense a soul ring, he would only need to cultivate for six months to a year to replenish it quickly, rather than starting over from scratch.
Thus, there was no rush to condense genuine soul rings.
Once all his soul rings reached a hundred million years, both Severing Karma and Return to Reincarnation would become weapons without equal in this world, the strongest of all.
As for his third innate martial soul, it would also transform into a true ancestral dragon martial soul.
The Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma truly was the supreme immortal herb most underestimated by the world.
Sure enough, eating it had done that useless Yu Xiaogang no damn good.
He had utterly buried this immortal herb's brilliance in dust.
When Gu Shengge opened his eyes and saw Bibi Dong crouching before him, staring at him in a trance, having arrived at some unknown point, he froze briefly.
"Are you done?"
After Gu Shengge finished absorbing the pill refined from the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma, he opened his eyes and froze briefly at the sight of Bibi Dong crouching before him, gazing at him in a trance.
"I finished ages ago, okay?"
Seeing Gu Shengge awaken, Bibi Dong, who had been crouching before him and staring blankly at him, leaped straight into his arms like an octopus. Her legs instantly coiled around his waist, and she wrapped her arms around his neck, saying with a grin, "I'm not angry anymore."
"Let's make up!"
"Silly girl!"
At Bibi Dong's words, Gu Shengge first paused, then laughed. Holding her in both arms, he leaned his head close to her ear and said softly, "When was I ever angry with you?"
"Hmph!"
"You wouldn't dare be angry with me!"
Hearing Gu Shengge's words by her ear, Bibi Dong lifted her head and cupped his face in both hands.
Her little hands, fair and tender as jade, held Gu Shengge's face, making him meet her eyes.
When Bibi Dong saw the gentle, doting look in Gu Shengge's eyes, she pouted, and the little hands cupping his cheeks shifted to pinching them.
Pinching his cheeks with both hands and tugging them outward, she pursed her lips and said, "I'm the one who's not angry with you anymore."
"I've unilaterally made up with you."
"Oh!"
Hearing Bibi Dong's words and feeling her tugging at his cheeks, Gu Shengge gave an "oh."
As Bibi Dong watched his handsome face become somewhat comical under her teasing, she burst out laughing.
"All right, all right, I know you're doing it all for my own good."
"But I really can't wait much longer."
At this, Bibi Dong cupped Gu Shengge's face, her gaze growing somewhat hazy. "Big brother, you're just so, so good."
"Why are you so good to me?"
"The way you treat me scares me."
"If you leave me one day, I think I'll go mad."
As she spoke, the hazy-eyed Bibi Dong caressed Gu Shengge's face with both hands, her gaze tender as water. A light kiss, like a dragonfly skimming the water, landed on his thin lips, giving him no chance at all to speak.
After a long while, both Gu Shengge's and Bibi Dong's breathing grew increasingly rapid.
Bibi Dong lay against Gu Shengge's chest, watching the red and blue mist rising around them, feeling as though they were in an immortal realm.
"Big brother, you'll never leave me, right?"
Hearing her words, Gu Shengge held Bibi Dong, tightening his embrace slightly. "Of course."
"Oh, right, big brother! My second martial soul actually evolved too after I took that pill!"
As though something had occurred to her, Bibi Dong climbed straight out of Gu Shengge's arms, then impatiently pulled him up from where he lay on the ground. Her face brimming with eagerness, she said, "Big brother, open your eyes wide and watch closely!"
"Mm-hmm, don't worry. They're wide open!"
Hearing Bibi Dong's words, Gu Shengge raised both hands to his eye sockets and propped his eyes wide open to look at her.
"Hmph, then keep those eyes wide open and watch!"
Bibi Dong laughed at Gu Shengge's silly antics.
Then, standing a short distance before Gu Shengge, Bibi Dong said softly, "Devouring Goddess Spider!"
As Bibi Dong released her martial soul, the formerly dark-green Soul Devouring Spider Emperor now looked completely different.
An extraordinarily beautiful woman wearing an inky-black long dress appeared behind Bibi Dong. The unrivaled Mount Everests on her chest were even more terrifying and exaggerated than the Mount Tais on the Death Empress Spider's chest.
Her exquisitely beautiful face resembled that of an immortal maiden.
Upon closer inspection, the face of the Devouring Goddess Spider behind Bibi Dong bore a faint resemblance to Bibi Dong herself.
The Devouring Goddess Spider wore a crown formed from eight black-and-white spider legs, with a black eyeball floating at the tip of each leg.
In her hand, the Devouring Goddess Spider held a scepter whose shaft was formed from a spider leg.
That metallic feel gave the scepter formed from a spider leg an even stronger metallic texture and air of mystery.
At the top of the scepter floated a dark-purple eyeball crystal, emitting a mysterious, dusky purple glow.
"Although the Devouring Goddess Spider hasn't had any soul rings added yet, the word 'devouring' already explains this martial soul."
"I can feel that the Devouring Goddess Spider's soul skills are all related to devouring."
Hearing Bibi Dong's words, Gu Shengge's eyes widened slightly, filling with delighted surprise.
As expected of immortal herbs, they truly were the most powerful cheats on the Douluo Continent.
Seeing the shock and delighted surprise in Gu Shengge's eyes, Bibi Dong gave him a mysterious smile and licked the corner of her lips, her gaze brimming with allure. "Big brother, my Devouring Goddess Spider has two modes too. Want to try them?"
"They're very special, you know?"
"Stop right there!"
"Say any more and the censors will shoot this down!" (Just being cheeky, hehe.)
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