Du Siji's physique was inherently strong, and absorbing a 100,000-year soul ring at the Quasi-Soul Douluo level posed no significant difficulty.
Absorbing a god-given soul ring only required sufficient physical strength to endure the soul ring's energy, allowing for maximum absorption without undergoing the "retribution" from soul beasts, which is known as soul shock.
God-given soul rings themselves carried no resentment from soul beasts, so the absorber didn't need to meet any spiritual power requirements.
Even if spiritual power were a prerequisite, Du Siji's current strength would make it a non-issue.
His character was naturally resolute, and he was the only one among the younger generation of the Body Sect to independently complete the second awakening of a Bronze-level martial soul.
Later, he forcefully broke through his limits and achieved the second awakening of a Silver-level martial soul at a level below Soul Sage.
In Du Siji's case, not only was he exceptional in the present era, but even in the future, even the Child of Destiny ten thousand years later couldn't surpass his talent.
With such perseverance and determination, how could his spiritual power not be formidable?
This 100,000-year soul ring granted him two terrifying 100,000-year soul skills, one of which was the Descent of the Fire God.
The Descent of the Fire God was an enhancement-type soul skill. If the Fire God were willing, he could indeed descend a trace of his divine spirit.
But his opponent was Zhongli, why would the Fire God intervene?
Thus, the Descent of the Fire God became purely an enhancement-type soul skill.
It boosted all his base attributes by 150% and increased his fire attribute by 200%.
In the entire Douluo Continent, the Descent of the Fire God was one of the most powerful enhancement-type soul skills.
Not only was it a soul skill born from a 100,000-year soul ring, but it also contained a trace of the Fire God's origin power.
Even a trace of divine origin power was incomparable to that of an ordinary 100,000-year soul beast.
In the Divine Realm, feeling the faint "summoning" power, the Fire God smirked helplessly.
If he were to descend a trace of his divine spirit to face Zhongli, Du Siji would likely be stuck at the third trial for the rest of his life.
Leaving aside whether the main body could win, a trace of divine spirit definitely wouldn't last even the time it takes to burn a stick of incense.
To play it safe, he intentionally issued this task, hoping Zhongli would go easy and allow Du Siji to pass the "mythical" level trial.
A "God King"-level trial was already worthy of being called "mythical"!
The rewards for clearing it were naturally abundant, ensuring no one could find fault.
The divine trials bestowed by godly inheritances needed to match their difficulty to avoid drawing the attention of the Five Great God Kings of the Divine Realm.
If the trials weren't challenging enough, directly inheriting a god's position wouldn't earn the respect of others.
The Divine Realm didn't accept just any god.
This was also why many gods wanted to leave but couldn't.
They hadn't found a chosen one capable of completing the tasks they set.
Under normal circumstances, once a god's successor appeared, they would inevitably become a new god, this was common knowledge.
God's successors were carefully selected by the gods, with almost a 100% chance of completing the trials and inheriting the divine position.
The only exception was Tang Chen!
Tang Chen hadn't failed to complete the trials; rather, he was abandoned by the Asura God while inheriting the position, leading to his corruption by the Rakshasa God and infestation by the Dark Gold Bat.
Thus, once a god's successor appeared, they were almost guaranteed to become a new god. With Tang Chen's "failure" as an example, the success rate dropped to 99%...
Of course, in the original timeline, Ma Hongjun received the Fire God's inheritance but, due to his insufficient foundation, only attained the secondary god position of the Phoenix God.
He inherited the Fire God's legacy but didn't fully complete it, yet still became a god, a half-failure.
Returning to the matter at hand, with Zhongli as the gatekeeper, even if it was clear Zhongli had gone easy, the trial was still considered passed!
What's wrong with giving generous rewards for clearing a "mythical" level trial?
What's wrong with making the rewards more abundant?
"Hmph, I truly admire myself. As expected of me!"
The Fire God thought with pride, then went to prepare Du Siji's rewards.
With several enhancements applied, Du Siji's aura was nearing the level of a Super Douluo.
Unfortunately, the gap between a Super Douluo and a Titled Douluo was immense, and it wasn't something he could bridge at his current level.
"Is this what a soul skill is?"
Xiao murmured, his eyes flashing with an unusual light.
"It's quite interesting."
The martial soul system could transform a "frail" person into such a formidable being after using a few soul skills, truly miraculous.
Xiao didn't yet realize that the true wonder of the martial soul system wasn't the enhancements, but the special soul skills.
For example, teleportation, spatial severing, temporal storms, and other miraculous law-based soul skills.
Space and time, such powerful laws, could be obtained so easily, how incredible was that?
The only pity was that while they were easy to obtain and use, they were extremely difficult to innovate.
Soul skills produced by soul rings were born from the fusion of the soul beast's innate abilities and the martial soul, resulting in a skill suited to the martial soul.
This was a fixed "path," and unless one was a prodigy, it was nearly impossible to alter this "path."
Using soul power to activate the "path" within the soul ring would release the soul skill.
This fixed path could even autonomously complete form changes.
For example, what was originally just a fireball, under the influence of the soul skill, could take the form of a dragon, becoming a fire dragon.
If the "path" was fixed to a teleportation "array," activating it would allow teleportation.
As miraculous as it was, the limitations were also significant.
For instance, if the law within the "path" was teleportation within five meters, it was impossible to exceed this limit during use, teleportation was confined to five meters.
At this moment, Du Siji wasn't using the enhancements from the Millieth Set. He wanted to rely solely on his own strength to see how far he had come.
With a single step, Du Siji shot forward like a silver lightning bolt, his body wreathed in thunder and fire as he charged at Zhongli.
Around Du Siji, the high temperature caused the air to distort, as if space itself was warping.
This was actually a normal phenomenon, the visible effect of flames burning and interacting with the oxygen in the air.
It wasn't that the fire could truly warp space.
The sun's temperature was unimaginably high, if such heat could distort space, wouldn't the sun be capable of destroying space?
Seeing this, Zhongli remained expressionless. Facing such an attack, he could have ignored it entirely, not needing to use any means to defend himself.
But doing so would have been somewhat perfunctory.
"All-Encompassing Absorption!"
Zhongli clasped a ball of amber energy in his hands, crossing them in front of him. Instantly, a shield bound by two "chains" appeared around him.
At that moment, Du Siji's attack arrived.
"Boom…" A ripple spread across the shield, but it showed no signs of shaking or cracking, as if it had completely nullified the powerful strike.