Time passed minute by minute, and in the blink of an eye, more than half an hour had gone by.
At this moment, beads of fine sweat had seeped out on Mu Yang's forehead as he was attaching the God-bestowed Spirit Ring, and the densely packed golden threads surrounding his body once again underwent a change.
Strands of golden thread began to gather together, transforming into ring after ring of golden halos.
There were as many as nine halos. They first expanded outward around Mu Yang's body, then rapidly contracted, heavily colliding into him, repeating this cycle over and over.
Every impact of the golden halos made Mu Yang's body involuntarily tremble, and under this tremendous pressure, even faint crimson blood began to seep from the surface of his skin.
However, whenever Mu Yang's body suffered more severe damage, a blue-gold radiance filled with the aura of life would spread over him.
With the flash of that blue-gold light, all of Mu Yang's injuries would instantly recover as if they had never existed. If not for the bloodstains left on the surface of his skin that had not been wiped away, it would have been impossible to tell his body had been damaged before.
This blue-gold radiance was none other than one of the two soul bone skills attached to the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone—Wildfire Burns Without End, the Spring Breeze Blows It to Life Again.
As time passed, Mu Yang's body suffered damage again and again, yet each time it recovered anew under the healing of the hundred-thousand-year soul bone skill.
After countless cycles of destruction and restoration, the nine golden halos that had been repeatedly impacting Mu Yang's body finally turned entirely blood-red. Then, nine became one, transforming into a massive blood-colored halo with golden patterns that floated around Mu Yang's body.
Boom—
A thunderous sound rang out as Mu Yang's whole body shook. His clothing was torn to shreds, but fortunately, the manifested external soul bone—Crystal Scale Armor—prevented the embarrassment of being exposed after his clothes burst apart.
Immediately afterward, the surrounding heaven and earth energy surged over, forming a small cloud of origin energy above Mu Yang's head, which then funneled into the massive golden-patterned blood-colored halo.
Because the year limit of the God-bestowed Spirit Ring Mu Yang had condensed was too high, the initial energy it contained was slightly insufficient, requiring him to draw upon the external world's heaven and earth energy to replenish it.
Otherwise, while the year limit of the God-bestowed Spirit Ring might reach the target, the energy it contained and the effect of the soul skill formed would not match such an extraordinary age.
Sun and moon alternated, cycles repeated, and in the blink of an eye, it was already the third day.
On the open space before the Hell Road at the God Mountain within the secret realm, Mu Yang, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground absorbing and advancing with the God-bestowed Spirit Ring, suddenly erupted with a powerful aura.
Boom—
The surge of powerful aura startled Shui Bing'er, who had been meditating and cultivating not far away. She immediately stood up and ran to Mu Yang's side.
Crackle—
A series of crisp, low pops came from his body as Mu Yang opened his eyes, a sharp gleam flashing within them.
"Mu Yang, your eighth spirit ring is so strange. What do these three golden stripes mean?"
After carefully examining him and finding Mu Yang's condition to be better than ever, Shui Bing'er finally breathed a sigh of relief and shifted her attention to his eighth hundred-thousand-year spirit ring, which radiated from him with three golden stripes.
Before Mu Yang could answer, Shang—who had appeared without anyone noticing—explained: "A hundred-thousand-year spirit ring appears red, while a spirit ring above a hundred thousand years appears red with golden stripes.
Each golden stripe within the spirit ring represents Hundred thousand years in age.
His Highness's eighth hundred-thousand-year spirit ring has three golden stripes, which means this eighth spirit ring is at least three hundred thousand years old!"
"Three hundred thousand years?!"
Hearing this, Shui Bing'er's eyes widened in shock.
Leaving everything else aside, just the year limit of this single spirit ring alone surpassed the combined year limits of the nine spirit rings in the optimal configuration for a nine-ring Title Douluo.
"Mu Yang, what's your level now? A three-hundred-thousand-year spirit ring should boost you quite a bit, right?"
Shui Bing'er couldn't help but ask.
"Level 83 Soul Douluo, and my soul power accumulation for this level is already more than halfway complete."
Although after advancing to the eighth ring, due to the massive increase of soul power within his body, his soul power control level had inevitably decreased somewhat, Mu Yang could still accurately perceive his own soul power level.
That was because the quality of his soul power was already much higher than that of ordinary soul masters of the same level, so the soul power accumulation required for advancement was much greater. Otherwise, after adding a three-hundred-thousand-year spirit ring, the increase in his soul power level would definitely be more than three and a half levels.
Immediately, Shui Bing'er spoke excitedly, "Already over halfway through Level 83? Then if you add another God-bestowed Spirit Ring to your second martial soul, wouldn't your level be about 87? If there are more God-bestowed Spirit Rings later, wouldn't you be able to break through to a nine-ring Title Douluo?"
"Most likely not. I can feel that if I were to attach a God-bestowed Spirit Ring to my second martial soul right now, its year limit definitely wouldn't reach three hundred thousand years."
Mu Yang shook his head.
"Why?"
Shui Bing'er asked in confusion.
Mu Yang rolled his eyes. "Bing'er, did you forget how twin martial soul spirit masters in the history of the continent's soul master world met their end?"
One had to know that at present, he already possessed three hundred-thousand-year spirit rings and one three-hundred-thousand-year spirit ring. If he added in those few ten-thousand-year spirit rings, the total year limit of all his spirit rings had already exceeded seven hundred and fifty thousand years.
Such a high total year limit of spirit rings had already brought him immense pressure to bear.
Although this bearing pressure wasn't obvious in daily life, it was extremely fatal when attaching high-year-limit spirit rings later on.
It was precisely because of this that twin martial soul spirit masters in the history of the continent's soul master world had almost all been blown apart during the process of attaching spirit rings.
It was true that he possessed many top-grade spirit bones and had also cultivated body-tempering supreme arts, but his total year limit of spirit rings was still several times that of soul masters of the same level. If in the future he didn't find a way to improve his physical fitness and still danced on the knife's edge pursuing extreme spirit rings, his body might very well collapse outright.
It could be said that unless all the high-year-limit spirit rings he obtained later came from spirit beasts willingly sacrificing themselves, Mu Yang wouldn't dare to continue playing this game in the short term.
Of course, now that his soul power level had advanced to eight rings, the quality of his soul power had undergone a qualitative transformation, and the cultivation threshold of the Solar Body Refinement had also risen sharply. Over the following period, as long as he cultivated diligently, his physical strength would see a great improvement.
By the time he broke through to Level 90 Quasi-Title Douluo in the future, if the ring he added was still a God-bestowed Spirit Ring, its year limit would definitely far exceed three hundred thousand years.
Moreover, among his six spirit bone slots, the torso bone slot was still empty. After refining a torso bone—which had the greatest effect on improving physical fitness—his physical strength would also see a great improvement.
He might even deduce a special secret technique to increase the year limit of his spirit bones, and by raising their year limit, his physical strength would also skyrocket. The future was promising.
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