Fleeing the cataclysm they had created at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Lin Feng and Xiao Wu pushed themselves to the limit. They stopped only when they were deep within the Sunset Forest, far enough to be safe from the elemental backlash and the forest's agitated guardians. Lin Feng was completely exhausted, but the shimmering Primordial Nature Soul—the 300,000-year foundation for his next rings—pulsed in his containment shell, demanding immediate absorption.
Lin Feng was only Level 14. Absorbing an entity with the spiritual power of 300,000 years was a death sentence. Yet, his Fusion Phoenix Martial Soul and his fused constitution were unlike any in history. The Infinite Fusion System (IFS) had already prepared the next step: a technique to split the colossal energy.
He initiated the absorption of the Primordial Nature Soul. The energy was so pure and vast that it immediately split into two perfect rings: one BLACK (150,000 years) and one BLACK (150,000 years). These were unprecedented in their purity and age for a second and third ring, both far exceeding the conventional limits.
The process of absorption was agony magnified tenfold. The two rings, representing raw elemental chaos and primal life force, simultaneously descended upon his body. Lin Feng's veins turned a terrifying mix of blue and red, his skin cracking under the internal pressure. He screamed internally, his will fighting against the sheer overwhelming power.
The IFS, now fully active in self-preservation, initiated a chaotic, emergency fusion: it fused Lin Feng's collapsing Soul Core with the 'Concept of Twin Fusion Harmony' and consumed most of the stored Fusion Energy from the previous quests. This fusion forced his body to accept and perfectly harmonize the two enormous, disparate energies.
When the storm subsided, Lin Feng lay drenched in sweat and blood, his internal organs completely reforged. He was alive, and the twin BLACK rings shimmered around his hand, masked by the system's ongoing disguise.
The absorption of the two massive rings catapulted Lin Feng's cultivation, pushing him through multiple ranks at once.
[HOST STATUS UPDATED: SOUL POWER: LEVEL 23. SOUL RINGS: 100,000 (RED/WHITE DISGUISE), 150,000 (BLACK/WHITE DISGUISE), 150,000 (BLACK/WHITE DISGUISE).]
He had successfully skipped nine ranks, reaching Level 23—a Spirit Grandmaster—before his seventh birthday.
He immediately unlocked two devastating new skills, both based on the primordial nature essence:
Second Soul Skill: Phoenix Fusion Burst: A focused blast of fused elemental energy (ice and fire in perfect balance) that, upon impact, causes an instantaneous fusion of the target's internal soul power with a random, destructive concept.
Third Soul Skill: Twin Fusion Barrier: A defensive barrier that uses the perfectly harmonized energy of the two new rings. This barrier doesn't just block attacks; it fuses the spiritual energy of the attack itself with the ambient environment, dissipating the attack into harmless background energy.
These two skills made him an immovable defense and a surgical striker, securing his invincible position against anyone below the Spirit Elder level.