[Was that ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow?]
[It looked like it. I was wondering why Lin Yi took a natural treasure he couldn't absorb. So this was what he'd been saving it for!]
In Douluo I and Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King, countless people watched the scene and plunged into heated discussion.
Yun Ming frowned.
"Lin Yi was practically like someone from the future who had returned ten thousand years into the past. He knew every opportunity in that era like the back of his hand, planned every step, and made the utmost use of the greatest opportunities of that age."
It was simply unbelievable.
Lin Yi himself did not have the ice attribute, so he could not absorb the ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow.
Tian Meng, however, could.
And the link between Lin Yi and Tian Meng was the Mental Attribute.
As a Million-Year Soul Beast, and one whose million-year cultivation had been accumulated through ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow, Tian Meng had reached the pinnacle of efficiency in absorbing and using this natural treasure.
Now that he had crossed the million-year threshold, he no longer needed to sleep to digest the ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow. He could absorb it actively.
The reserves he had invested in the Evil Emperor's Soul Ring were rapidly replenished.
In the end, the energy of the ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow had been given to the Evil Emperor's Soul Ring.
The conversion was a stroke of divine inspiration!
In the Heavenly Screen's images, Tian Meng digested one piece of ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow after another.
After Tian Meng digested it, it became a kind of reserve for a Soul Ring, which could actually have been used to increase the ages of Lin Yi's first seven Soul Rings.
After thinking it over, however, Lin Yi gave up on the idea.
He used Tian Meng's reserves to fill the Evil Emperor's Soul Ring because both of them were sufficiently pure in the Mental Attribute.
Tian Meng was pure mental nourishment.
The Evil Emperor, on the other hand, used his mind as a foundation from which his power branched outward.
There were no major drawbacks to letting the Evil Emperor absorb Tian Meng's reserves. If anything, it might help Lin Yi gain control of the Evil Emperor's Soul Ring.
The Evil Emperor was, after all, an 800,000-year-old veteran Ferocious Beast with unfathomable methods. In the original story, he had even tried to possess Huo Yuhao.
Lin Yi had to be on guard against the Evil Emperor as well.
He added some of Tian Meng's power to the Evil Emperor's Soul Ring so he could better control it.
Of course, there was another possibility: this power could become nourishment for the Evil Emperor, allowing any remnant of his soul that might be inside to regain strength and become harder to deal with in the future.
But Lin Yi had done everything he could to nip that possibility in the bud.
For although it appeared that the Evil Emperor himself had 800,000 years of cultivation, and that Tian Meng had only raised the Soul Ring's age by 200,000 years,
In reality, only 300,000 years' worth of the power in the Evil Emperor's Soul Ring was his own. The remaining 700,000 years came entirely from Tian Meng.
As for the 200,000 years of the Evil Emperor's cultivation allocated to the other Soul Rings, it was not a potential danger to Lin Yi, but rather a means of weakening the Evil Emperor.
If the Evil Emperor's remnant soul hidden within the Soul Ring were distributed equally among the other Soul Rings along with that cultivation, each fragment of the remnant soul would be weakened, making them easier to deal with separately.
Of course, everything had its advantages and disadvantages. Lin Yi had made preparations, but that did not mean everything would go as he imagined.
In the end, these measures could very well lead to a disastrous outcome: the Evil Emperor might need to split off only tiny fragments of his remnant soul to devour several of Lin Yi's other Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, then use the 300,000-year portion of his remnant soul to swallow Tian Meng's 700,000 years' worth of reserves.
If the Evil Emperor could really do all that, what more was there to say? He could have it!
Unfortunately, none of Lin Yi's hidden measures, maneuvers, or the potential dangers could be shown through the Heavenly Screen.
In both Douluo I and Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King, countless people watched the images displayed by the Heavenly Screen and saw only Lin Yi's moment of glory.
They could not discern the clashes taking place behind the scenes.
There was plenty of ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow, enough to fully replenish Tian Meng's reserves and make this Ninth Soul Ring of his a true Million-Year Soul Ring.
Lin Yi could have Tian Meng distribute the replenished reserves to the other Soul Rings.
After all, Tian Meng's Million-Year Soul Ring really was a bit weak.
But Lin Yi ultimately gave up on that plan.
Aside from the issue of attributes, there was also purity.
If the worst happened, he had to leave himself a way out, didn't he?
If his first eight Soul Rings were all contaminated, he had to keep one Ninth Soul Ring at the height of purity and power.
It didn't matter that Tian Meng was weak. At least Lin Yi could take over.
The images on the Heavenly Screen continued to advance.
After Tian Meng had eaten more than thirty pieces of ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow, the Ninth Soul Ring outside Lin Yi's body blossomed with brilliant platinum radiance.
The white and gold within it blended into one. It was not white mixed with golden light, but a special shade of gold formed by their fusion.
That meant the images of Lin Yi hunting for his Ninth Soul Ring had ended.
The scene shifted.
It still had not entered the actual live broadcast.
After the hunt for the Ninth Soul Ring, the Heavenly Screen showed Lin Yi traveling from place to place, searching for Godhood Inheritances.
Douluo I.
"Unbelievable. There were actually so many Godhood Inheritances on Douluo Continent!"
Qian Daoliu stared at the images on the Heavenly Screen, his eyes wide in disbelief.
He fixed his gaze on the scene.
Realizing the impact these images would have on the Soul Master World of the current era, Qian Daoliu wished he could cover the entire Heavenly Screen.
But there was no way he could do that.
Making information about divine inheritances public to the Soul Master World across the entire continent was certainly no good thing.
Once they knew that gods existed and learned some information about divine inheritances, there would surely be Soul Masters willing to take desperate risks to seek those inheritances.
To be fair, Soul Masters who truly qualified for a divine inheritance were few and far between.
After all, becoming a god was no easy feat.
The Qian Family had worshipped the Angel God for so many years, yet only one person, Qian Renxue, had appeared with a chance of succeeding.
And the Qian Family's Martial Soul was the Six-Winged Angel, blessed by the Angel God at all times. Even so, they had barely managed to produce one inheritor suited to a Godhood Inheritance. For other Soul Masters, successfully inheriting a Godhood was almost impossible.
Moreover, the succession of Godhoods could never happen too frequently.
Yet the mere prospect of a rush to seek divine inheritances was enough to send a chill down Qian Daoliu's spine.
Having enjoyed the benefits of a god's trials, Qian Daoliu knew very well just how much a god's help could raise a Soul Master's upper limit.
When Soul Masters struggled forward on their own, their talent began to go to waste bit by bit from the sixth ring onward, never reaching its full potential.
But if they received a god's trials at the sixth ring, completed the assigned tasks under the god's arrangements, and built a solid foundation, they could, with the rewards from those trials, draw out 120 percent of their potential.
If every Soul Master could receive a trial after their sixth ring, then among all the Soul Emperors on the continent, the number who would eventually become nine-ring Titled Douluo would increase at least tenfold!
In truth, this posed no great threat to Qian Daoliu. After all, his main goal now was to raise Qian Renxue into a god.
A few more Titled Douluo on the continent posed little threat.
But what if?
What if, amid this rush to explore Godhood Inheritances, someone appeared who truly possessed a God's Trial?