In the blink of an eye, nearly eight hours had passed.
In front of the Asura God Statue, enduring the pain of killing intent seeping into her body and sweeping through every part of her, Shui Bing'er glanced at the hourglass timer placed not far away. Noticing that under the tempering of the killing intent, there was still room for her soul power to improve, she decisively gave up on completing the trial for now and stepped out of the range shrouded by the Slaughter God Light.
With the Lunar Spirit Refining Technique in hand, Shui Bing'er's spiritual power, while not on par with Mu Yang's at the same level, was still extremely remarkable.
Strong spiritual power could significantly enhance a soul master's will. Although the pain from the killing intent invading her body was gradually increasing, it still had not reached a point where Shui Bing'er could not endure it.
The Lunar Spirit Refining Technique had forged her formidable spiritual power, while the Sun Body Refining Technique had forged her powerful physique. This made her shortcomings in the three aspects of the body the same as Mu Yang's—soul power.
Although she could not gain improvements in physique or spiritual power, since her soul power still had room to refine under the Slaughter God Light's shroud, Shui Bing'er naturally would not think of completing the trial right away. At the very least, she would wait until the Slaughter God Light could no longer bring her any benefits.
Two hours later, Mu Yang repeated Shui Bing'er's approach, doing his best to maximize the trial's benefits.
Although restarting the trial meant that the Slaughter God Light's strength during the same period of the trial would be exactly the same as before, as long as it could purify his soul power, it did not matter if the efficiency was a bit slower—he could simply do it a few more times.
However, three days later, the two of them had to stop this little trick.
Due to the time limit for completing the trial, the Slaughter God Light's maximum strength could not increase without limit. In addition, because the Extreme Ice Meditation Technique and Ice Flame Meditation Technique made their soul power—though still their shortcoming among the body's three aspects—far beyond that of ordinary soul masters of the same level, in just three short days the Slaughter God Light could no longer refine their soul power.
If they continued, there would be no benefits at all, and they would have to endure the pain of the killing intent invading their bodies for nothing. Naturally, Mu Yang and Shui Bing'er would not choose to suffer in vain, and they completed the trial one after the other.
After persisting for eight hours under the Slaughter God Light in one go, a red stream of light surged out from the eight-pointed star mark on Shui Bing'er's forehead, forming a red light screen before her. The screen then shattered, turning into countless points of red light that re-entered her.
The next moment, a majestic voice rang out in Shui Bing'er's mind.
"Top-Tier Eight Trials, Third Trial: Slaughter God light, completed! Reward: Soul power level increased by one, all spirit ring years increased by three thousand years!"
As the majestic voice fell, Shui Bing'er's aura instantly rose, her soul power level advancing from Level 74 Soul Sage to level 75 Soul Sage.
At the same time, her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul automatically appeared, and her seven spirit rings—purple, purple, purple, black, black, black, red—flared brightly.
Then, all seven of Shui Bing'er's spirit rings began to emit a faint red glow.
The changes to her first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh spirit rings were not very obvious—the colors only deepened slightly. However, the change in her third spirit ring was very noticeable.
Its color began to deepen rapidly, shifting from deep purple to purple with black, and finally completely transforming into a black ten-thousand-year spirit ring.
Because she had consumed quite a lot of whale glue before, her physical qualities had greatly improved, so the initial age of her third spirit ring had been close to five thousand years.
The first trial had increased its age by one thousand years, the second trial by two thousand years, and now the third trial by three thousand years—adding up to six thousand years in total—causing her third spirit ring, which had originally been under five thousand years, to evolve into a ten-thousand-year spirit ring.
Thus, Shui Bing'er's spirit ring configuration had reached a level unreachable for ordinary soul masters of the same rank: purple, purple, black, black, black, black, red.
A few hours later, after persisting for twelve hours under the Slaughter God Light in one go, Mu Yang also successfully passed the trial.
Asura God Trial, Third Trial completed: Asura God affinity increased by 10%, reaching a total of 25%; soul power increased by one level, advancing to level 84 Soul Douluo, and all spirit ring years increased by another three thousand years.
Gaining the reward of increased soul power, Mu Yang was quite satisfied. After all, he was already an eight-ring Soul Douluo and had long since lost the boost from immortal herbs. Relying solely on his own talent to cultivate, being able to advance two soul power levels in a year was already very good.
One level of soul power could save him about half a year of cultivation time.
The only pity was that the trial's reward did not include the God-bestowed Spirit Ring he wanted most.
Excluding the Ninth Trial, which would allow him to ascend to godhood upon completion, even if each of the following trials granted a God-bestowed Spirit Ring, there would at most be only five of them, while the number of spirit ring slots missing for his two Martial Souls was as many as eight.
Clearly, because a twin martial soul required double the number of spirit rings, in terms of rings Mu Yang could not rely entirely on the God Trials—he would have to find his own solutions as well.
With the completion of the Asura God Third Trial, Mu Yang sank his consciousness into his spiritual sea to check the contents of the Fourth Trial.
—Asura God Fourth Trial: Tempering of the Strong; defeat any Title Douluo with a soul power level no lower than 95, or hunt a 100,000-year spirit beast. Time limit: one year.
Seeing the contents of the Fourth Trial, Mu Yang couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
This trial had two ways to be completed—one was to defeat a Title Douluo at level 95 or above, the other was to hunt a 100,000-year spirit beast.
Without a doubt, Mu Yang could only choose the first option—go out into the world and find a level 95 Title Douluo to give a good beating.
After all, if he chose the second option, 100,000-year spirit beasts were rare on the continent, and just finding one would take an unknown amount of time, far more troublesome than finding a Title Douluo of level 95 or above.
Although there was still a 100,000-year spirit beast in the Asura Secret Realm, the trial required hunting, not merely defeating. That 100,000-year Azure Dolphin was very suitable for his sister-in-law Shui Yue'er, so Mu Yang naturally would not set his sights on it.
Then, Mu Yang turned his head to look at Shui Bing'er.
"My Fourth Trial task is to assist you in completing your trial."
Shui Bing'er immediately understood what Mu Yang meant, her expression turning strange as she spoke.
The contents of her Fourth Trial already listed Mu Yang's Fourth Trial task—to defeat a Title Douluo of level 95 or above, or hunt a 100,000-year spirit beast.
Compared to hunting a 100,000-year spirit beast, defeating a level 95 Title Douluo was naturally the easier choice. Shui Bing'er automatically ignored the option of completing the trial by hunting a 100,000-year spirit beast.
Looks like Lord Asura God's eyesight isn't that great!
The trial target was merely a level 95 Title Douluo. Shui Bing'er didn't believe Mu Yang truly needed her assistance.
With her Spirit Gold Battle Armor in hand, Shui Bing'er felt that she could defeat level 95 Title Douluo such as Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo of Spirit Hall by herself, let alone Mu Yang, whose level was higher and strength even greater.
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