Chapter 16: Centennial Spirit Ring Upgraded? Millennial Spirit Ring?
Tang Chuan landed, slowly retracting his iron spear.
He gazed at the floating spirit ring, a look of determination in his eyes.
"It's over."
"Time to absorb the spirit ring."
Sitting cross-legged, Tang Chuan extended his hand. The deep yellow spirit ring trembled slightly, then, as if drawn by an unseen force, it rose into the air and slowly flew towards him, eventually enveloping him.
The next moment, the spirit ring suddenly sank, firmly settling over his body.
"It has begun—"
Tang Chuan closed his eyes, mobilizing the spirit power within his body to guide the spirit ring's Fusion.
Initially, everything went smoothly.
But after only half an hour, Tang Chuan suddenly felt an astonishing torrent of spirit power pouring down from the spirit ring, like a surging river, incredibly violent.
"What's going on!?" Tang Chuan's face changed drastically, and he abruptly opened his eyes.
"The intensity of this spirit power far exceeds a five-hundred-year spirit ring! It's even close to… a thousand-year spirit ring!"
Tang Chuan was horrified to discover that the Illusionary Hidden Flower's spirit ring was not as simple as the five-hundred-year estimate recorded in the books. Could it be that after its mutation, its age could no longer be judged by previous methods? Had its spirit ring's age already approached the thousand-year mark?
The next second, Tang Chuan's body was churned by this power, his Meridians swelled violently, and a tearing pain faintly emanated from within.
"Damn it, if this continues, my Meridians will be directly ruptured!"
Tang Chuan immediately gritted his teeth, forcibly mobilizing his Spiritual force to suppress it.
At the same time, Blue Silver Grass emerged from the ground at his summons, swirling around him, slowly absorbing and channeling the excess spirit power, forming a spirit power buffer zone.
Even so, he still felt as if his internal organs were filled with mercury, heavy and burning hot.
"I must… I must succeed in the Fusion…"
Just as Tang Chuan was about to be overwhelmed by the surging spirit power, his vision went black, a trace of blood oozed from the corner of his mouth, and the wildly chaotic spirit power crashed against his bones, muscles, and internal organs.
"This is bad, I'm about to explode." Tang Chuan gritted his teeth, his eyes bloodshot, still holding on.
But just then.
Buzz—!
His Right Leg Bone suddenly lit up, and a dazzling blue-gold light burst forth from his Right Leg Bone, illuminating the entire swamp area like a sacred divine force!
Was that? The Bloodline Power of the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone?
As the light gathered, a solemn and ancient life aura rose within Tang Chuan's body, as if a ten-thousand-year-old ancient tree had sprung from his spirit sea, and endless Blue Silver Grass phantoms appeared on his body's surface, their leaves unfurling to form the silhouette of a woman in the Void Realm.
The Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline will remaining in the Spirit Bone instantly resonated with the mutated Illusionary Hidden Flower's power within the spirit ring!
The Blue Silver Emperor's Bloodline, as the supreme royal family of the plant system, naturally possessed the ability to control and suppress all lower-tier Blue Silver-type Spirit Beasts and even some plant-type Spirit Beasts!
In just an instant, the almost out-of-control spirit power within Tang Chuan's body was quickly stabilized under the protection of the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline.
The spirit ring seemed to be guided by something, instinctively submitting to the Blue Silver Emperor's aura. Although it still impacted Tang Chuan's body, it was no longer wild and untamed, but rather like a domesticated torrent, flowing orderly along his Meridians.
"Pfft!"
Tang Chuan's entire body violently shook, and he spat out a mouthful of turbid blood, then slowly closed his eyes, completely entering a state of Fusion.
After an unknown amount of time.
Accompanied by a low buzzing sound, the spirit power within Tang Chuan's body suddenly began to pulse violently, as if boiling!
His spirit power was no longer at Level 1, no longer at Level 10, but surged all the way… up to Level 18, Level 19…
"This is…"
In meditation, Tang Chuan clearly felt that after absorbing the hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bone, he had accumulated an extremely vast amount of spirit power, which had been suppressed at the Spirit Scholar Realm due to the absence of a spirit ring in his body.
Now, as soon as the first spirit ring's Fusion was complete, some of the accumulated spirit power burst forth like a broken dam! What shocked him even more was that his first spirit ring, which was originally deep yellow, was now slowly beginning to turn purple under the dual catalysis of spirit power and Spirit Bone!
The edges of that yellow spirit ring gradually became tinged with a faint purple light, and as time passed, the purple color gradually permeated inward.
With a loud bang.
The yellow spirit ring instantly burst forth with a purple light!
The next moment, a purple thousand-year spirit ring condensed, formed, and solidified beneath Tang Chuan's feet.
Slowly opening his eyes, Tang Chuan remained seated cross-legged, the surrounding dust long since dispersed by his spirit power. He looked down at his surroundings, and the next moment, his pupils suddenly contracted!
He saw a spirit ring, emanating a purple light, slowly rotating around his body.
"This… what's going on?"
"Wasn't it a hundred-year spirit ring?"
Tang Chuan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly stood up, involuntarily taking half a step back, his expression shifting from shock to confusion, and then from confusion to doubt.
"I clearly absorbed a hundred-year Spirit Beast Illusionary Hidden Flower. Even if mutation caused me to misjudge its age, it should only be around eight or nine hundred years… How did the spirit ring's color turn purple?"
Frowning, Tang Chuan's mind raced. After a moment of silence, he began to analyze:
"Wait… this spirit ring, during the final stage of my absorption just now, its massive spirit power almost caused me to explode, but at that very instant, the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline actively released by my Right Leg Bone suppressed it… and then…"
His voice trailed off, his expression becoming unprecedentedly solemn, and he continued in a low voice:
"Could it be that after I absorbed the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, a large amount of spirit power accumulated in my body. At the moment of the spirit ring's Fusion, this spirit power uncontrollably surged into the spirit ring itself, causing Fusion and enhancement with the Illusionary Hidden Flower spirit ring's own spirit power?"
Suddenly recalling the wildly surging spirit power when he absorbed the spirit ring, Tang Chuan suddenly realized: "If that's the case, it makes sense. Originally, this Illusionary Hidden Flower's spirit power age was probably around nine hundred years, but due to the impact of my internal spirit power, which almost caused my body to explode, Fusion occurred with the assistance of the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline, and its spirit ring's age was directly pushed to the thousand-year threshold."
"So that's how it is…"
At this moment, Tang Chuan finally understood that although he had seemingly only hunted a mutated Illusionary Hidden Flower that was less than a thousand years old, it was due to the immense spirit power accumulated from absorbing the hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bone that he had unintentionally forced the spirit ring to catalyze and upgrade, ultimately obtaining a true thousand-year spirit ring!
Tang Chuan looked at the Blue Silver Grass emerging from his palm and noticed that its leaves were faintly shimmering with a purple glow, while the edges of the leaves carried a subtle blue-gold light.
"It's time to try out what Spirit Ability this spirit ring brings."
Taking a deep breath, Tang Chuan raised his right hand, and the Blue Silver Grass instantly grew rapidly from his palm.
[end of the chapter]