Ring Fusion

Inside the room, Lin Yang sat cross-legged, Crimson Interval resting across his legs, seemingly meditating.

But soon, two Soul Rings, one yellow and one purple, appeared beneath him, each radiating its own light.

Immediately afterward, the two Soul Rings rapidly drew closer, as though an invisible pressure were squeezing them together.

During this process, the Yellow Soul Ring and Purple Soul Ring seemed to enter some kind of resonance.

After a few brief seconds, they miraculously fused into a single, larger, deep-purple Soul Ring.

The instant this special Soul Ring formed, a keen, cutting presence suddenly swept through the entire room.

Swish, swish, swish!

In mere moments, everything in the room was silently sliced into inch-wide squares.

Like toppled building blocks, they clattered across the floor.

Even the bed beneath Lin Yang instantly fell apart.

Caught completely off guard, Lin Yang landed on his backside amid the wreckage.

The two fused Soul Rings separated as well, returning to one yellow and one purple ring that quietly circled him.

Lin Yang opened his eyes. Rather than minding the damage, he could not keep a smile from spreading across his lips.

"At last, all that effort wasn't wasted..."

Lin Yang had never stopped pursuing strength. He knew exactly what he needed.

When he had faced Dai Ziming before, the difference in their Soul Power Levels had made him realize that he was still very weak.

Although he had killed Dai Ziming using the Demon God Body's powerful regenerative ability and a few little tricks, the fight had also exposed his shortcomings.

Against powerful enemies whose Soul Power Levels far exceeded his own, he still lacked an offensive method that could settle the fight with one decisive blow.

The Demon Slayer Mark, Bright Red Nichirin Sword, and Transparent World could gradually improve his strength.

The Demon God Body gave him more room for error, and even the External Soul Bone and Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone could each be considered a trump card.

But that was still far from enough.

After much thought, Lin Yang ultimately set his sights on Soul Rings.

Among secret techniques involving Soul Rings, the most famous was naturally the Clear Sky Sect's Ring Detonation.

By detonating a Soul Ring and converting all the power it contained into attack power, it served as an ultimate, life-or-death skill.

Aside from that, there was Ring Fusion, a skill that had appeared only a handful of times.

Although Ring Fusion was called a secret technique, it was more like an innate talent.

But only after trying it himself did Lin Yang understand that so-called Ring Fusion involved meticulous control over Soul Power and Spiritual Power.

By sensing the frequencies of the Soul Power fluctuations in different Soul Rings, he could perceive the barriers around them.

He would then use Spiritual Power as a bridge to break through the Soul Ring Barriers and connect the two Soul Rings.

Once the two entirely different fluctuations reached a certain degree of resonance or complemented each other, achieving a dynamic balance, Ring Fusion could be completed.

It sounded simple, but actually doing it

was no different from completing an exceptionally intricate miniature carving inside a jolting carriage, without making a single mistake along the way.

Fortunately, after more than two months of attempts, Lin Yang had now completed the most difficult step.

What had just happened was the best proof.

As for exactly what abilities Ring Fusion would grant him, Lin Yang still needed to explore them slowly.

But judging by its performance so far, they should not be bad.

While Lin Yang was lost in thought, someone suddenly kicked the door open with a bang. Xiao Wu rushed in like a whirlwind, hurriedly asking,

"What happened? I just heard..."

Before she could finish, the wreckage before her choked off her words.

The room looked as though something had plowed through it. At a glance, almost nothing remained intact.

Xiao Wu's eyes widened, and she blurted out,

"Are you tearing the place down?"

With a sheepish laugh, Lin Yang stood up from the wreckage and casually brushed the dust off himself.

"I was testing a Soul Skill just now and didn't quite control its force."

Xiao Wu stared at him without a word for a long while. Only after some time did she grit her teeth and squeeze out a word.

"Freak!"

There was no need to ask. From the looks of things, this fellow had definitely grown stronger again.

That placed yet another layer of pressure on the little rabbit out of nowhere.

Seeing Lin Yang cultivate every single day without fail despite already being so strong made her afraid to rest too much now. Every shopping trip seemed to come with a sense of guilt.

She could not enjoy shopping at all!

Only cultivation could ease that invisible sense of urgency.

Lin Yang turned a deaf ear to her and merely said,

"Come on, go out with me. We need to buy some replacements."

"No." Xiao Wu tossed her head and said decisively,

"I'm going to cultivate. Go by yourself."

With that, Xiao Wu turned and returned to her room. Clearly, Lin Yang had spurred her on quite a bit.

"Has she changed her nature? She won't even go shopping."

Muttering to himself, Lin Yang waved a hand and transferred all the wreckage in the room into his Soul Tool Bracelet.

After leaving the room, Lin Yang walked into the courtyard.

At that moment, a Blue Silver Emperor over two meters tall stood rooted in his courtyard, its broad leaves stretching freely as it basked in the sunlight.

Beneath the sunlight, its leaves, traced with fine golden lines, seemed to radiate a hazy blue sheen.

A large patch of ordinary Blue Silver Grass grew around it, occupying almost the entire courtyard.

Seeing Lin Yang come out, Ah Yin quickly shook her leaves.

Lin Yang smiled. "I'm heading out for a bit. I'll be back soon."

The Blue Silver Emperor trembled slightly, as though nodding.

The current Blue Silver Emperor was equivalent to a four-thousand-year Plant-type Soul Beast. With the Blue Silver Domain, there was no need to worry about anyone discovering a Soul Beast inside the little courtyard.

Leaving the courtyard, Lin Yang went straight to the market to buy various pieces of furniture and daily necessities.

As he passed a secluded alley, Lin Yang immediately noticed a Soul Power mark hidden on a shop's sign.

It was something only Soul Masters could detect.

The shop was small and somewhat out of the way. Never mind Soul Masters-even ordinary people rarely came here.

Looking at the storefront, Lin Yang already had a few guesses.

This was very likely the Soul Tool shop Flender had opened to help fund Shrek Academy.

After a moment's thought, Lin Yang stepped into the alley anyway.

Standing at the shop entrance, Lin Yang was just about to enter when a dark figure rushed out in a great hurry.

The figure apparently had not expected anyone outside either and was startled.

Just as the two were about to collide, Lin Yang stepped back and turned slightly sideways, narrowly avoiding a head-on collision.

"Sorry, I'm in a hurry!"

The figure did not even stop, merely turning his head to shout at Lin Yang.

Then, looking somewhat disheveled, he hunched over and ran out of the alley, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Lin Yang narrowed his eyes. This sleazy-looking little fatty with two small wisps of mustache above his mouth should be Ma Hongjun.

Was he rushing off to vent his Evil Fire?

Although Ma Hongjun was already an old hand among the rouge crowd at such a young age, one was willing to strike and the other willing to take the blow. Outsiders could hardly pronounce it right or wrong.

Lin Yang shook his head. None of this had anything to do with him.

He had come here this time simply to see whether the piece of plate crystal Tang San had bought was here.

It was a rare treasure, after all. Missing it like this would be rather a pity.

Inside the shop, Flender lay on a recliner with his eyes closed, rocking intermittently.

The chair seemed to have quite a few years on it, constantly creaking as it rocked.

The sound was just like Flender's inner turmoil-irritating beyond words.

Ultimately, it was all because of the personal disciple he had taken in not long ago.

The boy clearly possessed a top-tier Beast Martial Soul, the Fire Phoenix, yet his Martial Soul was defective, causing Evil Fire to erupt at regular intervals.

As his teacher, Flender could do absolutely nothing about it.

He had wanted to ask his brother Yu Xiaogang whether there was any way to resolve this Martial Soul defect, only to find that he could not even locate the man.

With no other choice, he could only have his disciple vent the Evil Fire through the most primitive method.

The current Flender had not yet resigned himself completely to his fate as he would a few years later.

Instead, he was thinking about how to resolve this defect.

The thought that he, the "Corner of Flight" of the renowned Golden Iron Triangle, had actually raised a Brothel Phoenix instantly made his head feel ready to burst.

Yet he could not bear to give up such a promising child with a top-tier Beast Martial Soul.

The more he thought about it, the more frustrated he became!