Shen An, under the pretext of Tom treating his injuries for him, had quietly run off to find a secluded place, incidentally setting up a layer of a barrier for himself.
Looking at the words "exchange or not" displayed on the system page, a feeling of emotion arose in Shen An's heart. For him to be able to get to where he was today was all thanks to himself.
"System, exchange for me!"
Shen An spoke, his voice firm and powerful.
Three hundred million fame points were quickly returned to zero. At this moment, eight great soul rings emerged from his body, each one emitting a terrifying and unfathomable aura.
A seven-colored light shone on Shen An's body, nourishing his entirety. From his body to his soul, it was an all-around improvement, an elevation!
At this time, the starting color of Shen An's ninth soul ring was a scarlet color, and it was continuously giving birth to one after another of golden patterns.
With Shen An's current strength, to absorb and refine energy could be described as being at ease. At the same time, a guess appeared in his heart.
A long time ago, he had discovered that a soul ring was the source of a soul master's strength in this world.
After cultivating to a certain level, one had to absorb a soul ring in order to proceed to the next stage of cultivation.
Thus, the importance of a soul ring was self-evident. If a soul ring were to shatter, at best the soul master's strength would greatly decrease, and at worst they would be reduced to a mortal.
It had been like this since ancient times, without exception.
But as a transmigrator with a broad vision, Shen An had long felt that the restrictions were too great.
"A soul ring and a martial soul are in a certain symbiotic state. Then why can't the energy of the soul ring be completely integrated into the martial soul?"
"Perhaps I can shatter all my soul rings to improve my martial soul. At that time, with the upper limit of the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, the energy it can accommodate will surely be higher than the soul rings I have absorbed myself."
"By the same token, when the soul rings shatter and the energy pours into the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, as the embodiment of my soul's essence, will also feed back to me."
A look of joy was in Shen An's pupils. He felt he should give it a try, in order to seek an even higher realm.
As for whether there would be any danger, what a joke. Now that his golden body and jade frame were already formed, it was approximately the youth version of Tom's undying body.
As long as he still had a breath left, his body could continuously self-repair. What was there to be afraid of?
Just right. This time, he would take advantage of absorbing the system's energy to experiment a little. If it succeeded, then he would transform into a higher life form. Wouldn't that be beautiful?
Shen An decided to experiment a little, to shatter all of his own soul rings, and then with the specialty of his golden body and jade frame, between shattering and reassembling, to find a path that was not restricted by soul rings.
In an instant, with a thought from Shen An, the rootless, boundless seven-colored energy was guided by him into his soul rings.
The nine soul rings on his body continuously expanded. It's unknown how long had passed, but Shen An also felt a sense of swelling.
At this moment, the nine soul rings had all turned into a seven-colored color. The age limit of each soul ring was unimaginably high.
Under Shen An's endless activation of his soul power, the surface of the soul rings even produced insignificant cracks.
Shen An suddenly felt that something was wrong. He had sensed the passing of the soul rings' energy. If he were to continue to infuse it, I'm afraid it would not be to improve his cultivation, but would be similar to the Clear Sky Sect's ultimate skill, Ring Detonation, thus producing a great might.
Suddenly, an inspiration came to Shen An. He thought of another talent of the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, which was to integrate a soul ring into the sword-grass, turning it into a nine-leaf virtual sword.
In the early days, Shen An had thought that this skill was equivalent to making him not afraid of group attacks.
But as his cultivation had improved, when he met someone, he would just slash over with one sword strike. Who cared what group attack or not?
But Shen An had a sudden whim. Could he integrate the soul rings into the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, and then shatter them, and with the supreme rank of the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, firmly lock the energy, integrate it, and thus infinitely raise it!
As Shen An thought this, he also did this.
The nine soul rings transformed into phantoms and integrated into the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass. Immediately, the soul rings suddenly shattered within the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass.
Shen An was as if struck by lightning, blood overflowing from his mouth and nose. For soul rings to shatter would cause great damage to a soul master. This was without a doubt.
But soon, this injury, which would have been fatal to an ordinary soul master, was again continuously repaired under Shen An's golden body and jade frame and the youth version of Tom's undying body.
At the same time, the energy of the nine shattered soul rings was crazily scattering. But the rank of the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass was simply too high. This energy was sealed within its body, without a single bit of it being vented.
The originally just a-chi-long Nine-Leaf Sword Grass was crazily absorbing energy and actually began to grow continuously.
What made Shen An even more ecstatic was that the seven-colored energy was actually still continuously being released, as if as long as Shen An did not proactively terminate it, it would also be endless.
The Nine-Leaf Sword Grass was continuously absorbing the seven-colored energy, endlessly improving, and at the same time feeding back to Shen An.
His originally extremely powerful soul was expanding at an incredible speed. Even more so, countless sword path comprehensions poured into his body.
At this very moment, only then did Shen An understand that the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass was truly the embodiment of the power of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts of the Primordial Era. It was just that it had been transformed by the system with some unknown great power into a sword path seed.
And this seven-colored energy was in turn spurring the seed to grow. Before the sword path laws within the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass had reached their limit of tolerance, this infusion of energy would not stop.
Thus, a transformation from the inside out was occurring on Shen An's body.
Shen An's body began to continuously disintegrate and reassemble. His soul was improving, leaping.
Until a certain moment, Shen An sensed a great terror. That was that his body could not bear this so huge a soul power and the improvement of his essence.
Even his current golden body and jade frame could not bear it. The youth version of Tom's undying body was limited to him still having a breath left, and then he could be saved.
But this had a limit. And that was that the pressure borne by the physical body could not cross the boundary of death. Otherwise, even the undying body would not be enough. After all, it was just the youth version.
The next moment, Shen An decisively cut off the infusion of the system's energy.
"Hoo~" Shen An slowly let out a breath. The pressure in his body was too great. But just this white qi had actually pierced through the barrier he had set up, and at the same time, had pierced through a hill in the distance.
Shen An looked on with a strange expression. At this time, he seemed to be a little ridiculously strong.
At the same time, his body began to crack. This was the disintegration of his physical body caused by his soul and the energy in his body being too powerful. It was just that soon, it was repaired by Shen An himself again.
Shen An looked at his own body being repeatedly disintegrated and then repaired, over and over again, with a blank expression.
There was no other way. To have taken too big a step was this kind of outcome.
His pupils sparkled. He needed to think of a way. Otherwise, in this state, it would be extremely influential.
Thus, as the days and months turned, another three days passed. After Shen An had continuously explored how to seal his own great power, he had set up nine seals within his body.
In the future, when he refined his jade marrow and improved his body's strength, he could slowly undo the seals one by one.
And every time a seal was undone, his strength would again increase by a geometric multiple.
However, there was another very strange point. Shen An had sensed a power that was both mottled and yet pure.
A voice in the dark told Shen An that as long as he absorbed this power, his realm would be able to leap again, to reach the divine realm that the Douluo Continent dreamed of.
That was the unconscious law's voice of the Douluo Continent.
It was just that Shen An's face was strange. He had originally self-sealed himself because he was too strong. Now for him to absorb the power of faith to become a so-called god of the Divine Realm, what a joke. His head wasn't muddled.
"It seems that perhaps the process of my obtaining fame value is the process of obtaining faith. It's just that the system is too domineering. Faith should be pure to be produced. It's just that the system harvests it all."
Shen An murmured. Incidentally, he lightly waved his hand, abandoning all the power of faith.
He then immediately looked at the sky. He had sensed that above the continent, there was an extremely powerful plane, and at the same time, a layer of a barrier, restricting him from walking out of the continent.
Of course, this strength was relative. Even Shen An, who had set nine layers of seals on the power of his body, also had the ability to pierce through the barrier.
"When I have dealt with the affairs of the mortal world, I will come and meet you all."
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Shen An walked out of the barrier, lightly moving his muscles and bones. His entire body made a crackling sound like frying beans. He had finally suppressed the situation of his physical body disintegrating.
Tom was still waiting outside, a look of sorrow on his face. Shen An's one seclusion had lasted for half a month. The three girls, Zhu Zhuqing, were about to go mad. The moment they saw it, they would ask how Shen An was.
As a cat that would not sell out its master, Tom could only choose to escape.
Seeing Shen An come out, Tom excitedly pounced over.
Shen An was stunned for a moment. This cat is quite clingy.
Tom made a gesture. Shen An instantly knew that he had misunderstood. It was still the matter of Zhu Zhuqing and the others.
"It's fine. I'll solve it," Shen An coaxed Tom.
"By the way, Na'er... should it be said that her other personality has awakened?"
Tom made another gesture. Shen An was slightly silent and couldn't help but suck in a cold breath.
He was saying how come he hadn't seen Jerry. These two brothers were usually inseparable.
The six great ferocious beasts, Qian Renxue alone could suppress them. The Silver Dragon King's power was still too off the charts. So, the clever Jerry was guarding by her side.
The moment he saw any sign of the Silver Dragon King awakening, he would decisively use the evil cheese to knock her out again.
So just now, Shen An had a look of his scalp going numb.
Just imagine, the Silver Dragon King had just shown a premonition of awakening, and the foul-smelling gas emitted by the evil cheese had fiercely slapped her twice. So cruel!
"Um, let's go back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect first. I can solve the matter on Na'er's body," Shen An said.
Tom nodded excitedly. Finally, he didn't have to hide anymore. He could go back to the warm room to eat and drink well.
Not long after, in the great hall where the Silver Dragon King was imprisoned, Shen An appeared with Tom.
In fact, to use the word "imprisoned" was not very accurate. The decoration in this great hall was extremely luxurious. The Silver Dragon King was even more so sleeping on a large, soft bed. Beside her was a small mouse writing in a diary.
At the instant Shen An had just stepped into the great hall, Jerry had looked over. At the same time, a weak voice containing terror sounded.
"Don't let that little mouse use that foul-smelling thing! We can talk about anything!"
The Silver Dragon King fiercely opened her eyes and hurriedly said.
Jerry had simply caused too great a shadow on her. She would wake up once, and Jerry would knock her out once. Even if she pretended to be asleep and then suddenly launched an attack, Jerry could still predict it in advance.
This had caused an incomparably huge scar on the Silver Dragon King's soul, so much so that she could only use feigning sleep to deceive Jerry.
So much so that hearing someone come, the Silver Dragon King had let go of the dignity of the great Dragon God successor, the dragon, and had shouted with a pleading tone.
Jerry was instinctively about to take out the cheese. Shen An chuckled lightly. "It's fine, Jerry. Now that I'm back, there's no need to use the cheese anymore."
Only then did Jerry stop his action. The Silver Dragon King also fiercely let out a breath, as if relieved of a heavy burden.
"Come on, let's talk. I've said it. I don't care about you. But I care about Na'er."
"So, I want you to return Na'er. And to give her an independent body and personality."
The Silver Dragon King was just about to say it was absolutely impossible, but her peripheral vision swept over the Jerry at the side, and she silently swallowed her words back.
She said tactfully, "I am Na'er. Na'er is me. We are originally one person. She is just a memory."
"What's more, I do have the ability to separate her. But in this way, I will also lose thirty percent of my energy. I still have a very important mission. I will not agree to this matter."
Then, a magnificent sword qi suddenly appeared on the Silver Dragon King's neck. Its sharpness made even her, an existence whose power was on par with a God-King, tremble.
"How could it be! Your strength!"
The Silver Dragon King shouted in disbelief. Whose good person's strength is a leap-like one? Half a month ago, Shen An was at most at the level of a first-level god. The result is now, she actually feels afraid.
The Silver Dragon King did not know that this was the performance of Shen An having set nine layers of seals on himself.
"There is nothing impossible. You only have two choices. Either die, or return Na'er!"
Shen An said indifferently. The Silver Dragon King also trembled in her heart. It was just that a ferocity also arose in her heart.
"Just you? I really don't believe you have the ability to kill me!"
The Silver Dragon King shouted. A silver light sparkled on her body. In an instant, she had smashed the sword light. Her entire person transformed into a giant dragon, wanting to escape this place.
This luxurious great hall, in an instant, began to tremble. Countless silver lights projected out along the cracks. A high-pitched dragon's roar roared.
The Silver Dragon King at this moment broke through the great hall. Shen An looked at Tom and Jerry and immediately said, "You two take care of yourselves. I'll go and block her."
Then he transformed into a sword light and passed through the huge crack.
The great hall, having experienced the nearly savage charge of the Silver Dragon King, was at this moment on the verge of collapse. Tom and Jerry held their heads and fled with a scared look on their faces.
It was just that Tom was running, and suddenly in his mind, he thought of the diary that Jerry was just writing.
He had originally wanted to peek at it. The result was that this had happened. Immediately, Tom gritted his teeth. If I die, then I die. Jerry's diary, I must read it.
Subsequently, when Jerry had run out and was looking at the collapsed great hall with lingering fear, he found that there was a cat missing by his side.
At this moment, Shen An's gaze was icy. With his current power's performance, it was absolutely above the Silver Dragon King's. But he couldn't take her down without injuring her.
Therefore, Shen An had to be careful. In an instant, a sword domain of who knows how many tens of thousands of meters unfolded. A boundless sword qi formed a cage in the high sky, trapping the Silver Dragon King within.
The Silver Dragon King looked at the terrifying might of the sword domain and knew that she could not force her way through. Otherwise, there would only be a dead end.
"I'll give you one last chance. Return Na'er. Otherwise, you will die!"
Shen An's gaze was cold and sharp, like a heavenly god. The words he spat out were like a divine sword, completely weakening the Silver Dragon King's battle intent.
But immediately, the Silver Dragon King, contrary to common sense, showed a look of joy.
The Silver Dragon King raised her pupils to look at the dome of the sky. She had sensed the power of the Golden Dragon King!!!
And it was only pure divine power, without consciousness!
Isn't this a fcking pie falling from the sky??!
The chance to counter-kill has arrived!