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Ye Lan simultaneously absorbed the soul power from the "Blue Silver Sea" to condense his soul ring and carefully monitored the changes in the soul ring's age limit.
As the color of the black soul ring deepened, Ye Lan, peering through his "Golden Dragon Pupils," observed that the distribution of soul power particles within the ring was aligning with that of the "Blue Silver King."
Once the ring's age broke through the fifty-thousand-year mark, the particle distribution became almost indistinguishable from the main body of the "Blue Silver King."
The proportion of Life Attribute soul power particles shifted from a minority to the majority, while other components steadily decreased.
By the time it reached sixty to seventy thousand years, the particle distribution began to align more closely with the "Blue Silver Emperor."
Combining this observation of the soul ring's gradual evolution with his previous experience—where obtaining the "Blue Silver Prophet" ring caused his Martial Soul to evolve and granted him cellular-level perception—Ye Lan roughly confirmed the true nature of soul rings.
Previously, when obtaining his second soul ring, his conclusion had been:
The essence of a soul skill is the combination of the Soul Beast's bloodline factors and the Martial Soul's bloodline factors. The specific skill depends mainly on the compatibility between the two. Most soul skills are fusion skills between the Spirit and the Beast. A small minority of Spirits only have specific, fixed skills, such as the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda or the Nine Heart Begonia.
This also explained why Soul Bone skills were mostly skills possessed by the original Soul Beast; Soul Bone skills were likely "Beast-dominated," perhaps even ninety-nine percent identical to the beast's original ability.
Of course, Ye Lan's "Golden Dragon Pupils," "Water Dragon King Right Arm," and "Ice Dragon King Claw" were exceptions. He hadn't absorbed standard Soul Bones, but rather energy orbs left behind by the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings. Compared to bones, these orbs fused more perfectly with him.
Thus, the skills from these four "bones" were correlated with him, but they were essentially the characteristics of the Dragon Kings themselves, belonging to a completely different system than his "Self-Selected Soul Skills."
This time, through the "Blue Silver Awakening" ritual and the soul power contributed by the endless Blue Silver Grass, Ye Lan witnessed the complete process of a soul ring evolving from a "Ten-Year Blue Silver Grass" ring to a Century, then Millennium ring. Then came the "Ten-Thousand-Year Blue Silver King" stage, followed by the gradual evolution toward a "Blue Silver Emperor" ring.
Because Ye Lan hadn't used "Soul Skill Selection" yet, the ring wasn't technically absorbed, meaning it hadn't interacted with his Martial Soul.
What Ye Lan was seeing now was the particle distribution of a "True Soul Ring" in its purest form.
Essentially, a soul ring is an energy body composed of "Bloodline Factors." The transition from Grass to King to Emperor confirmed this.
Ye Lan had previously wondered: since soul rings don't have blood, how do they relate to bloodline factors?
The same logic applied to Martial Souls; they aren't physical entities but special mediums.
Now, Ye Lan truly realized what distinguished the essence of every Martial Soul.
It was the "Bloodline Factors"—or specifically, the distribution of soul power particles.
In the vision of his "Golden Dragon Pupils," the structure of his own "Blue Silver Grass - Radiant Life" was extremely stable.
Its distribution was: 50% Ultimate Life particles, 24% Ultimate Water particles, 24% Ultimate Light particles, and a small percentage of other attributes.
This distribution constituted the bloodline factors of "Blue Silver Grass - Radiant Life." It was easy to understand why Ultimate Life took up the most space; it was the core nature of Blue Silver Grass and the attribute Ye Lan had consistently developed. The other two were the cornerstones of his Three-Ultimate Martial Soul, further enhancing the grass's vitality.
Although Ye Lan could see the distribution, it didn't mean he could simply alter it to change his Martial Soul. For example, he couldn't just add more Ultimate attributes to evolve it into a God King level spirit yet.
Currently, the "Golden Dragon Pupils" allowed him to see the "Bloodline Factors," but not the Spirit's core.
There had to be a core, similar to a "Martial Soul Gene Bank," maintaining stability and preventing mutation.
Beyond the bloodline factors, Ye Lan also gained new insight into Soul Ring Age limits.
Previously, the common understanding was shallow: Hundred-year beasts drop hundred-year rings, and so on.
Now, by observing the age evolution, Ye Lan clearly recognized that the essential difference in age lay in the quantity and quality of the soul power contained within.
As the ring condensed, and the quantity and density of power increased, the color changed.
Ten-year rings had little power, with scattered particles. As power increased and solidified, they turned yellow, purple, and finally black.
What surprised Ye Lan was that during the transition from Millennium to Ten Thousand Years, aside from the power change, no external variable (like a Blue Silver Soul) appeared. Instead, a "vacuum" space formed inside the ring.
This was likely the "Soul Residence" for rings from ten-thousand-year beasts.
When a ten-thousand-year beast dies, its soul inhabits this space, which is the root cause of the "Soul Shock" when absorbing such rings.
As the soul power within continued to condense, the age skyrocketed.
50,000 years!
60,000 years!
70,000 years!
When the soul power inside condensed into a liquid state, the ring successfully broke through 70,000 years.
Seeing this, Ye Lan easily deduced that if the liquid soul power transformed into a solid state, the ring would turn from black to red, becoming a hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
When it broke 80,000 years, Ye Lan felt the "Blue Silver Soul Power" provided by the forest was lacking in quality compared to the ring's needs. It could still raise the age, but the speed had slowed.
"Emperor... The Lord God has actually condensed an eighty-thousand-year soul ring!! His physical fitness is too terrifying, isn't it?! This... this is at least the physique of a Spirit Douluo! And the Lord God is currently only a Level 50 Spirit King," the Blue Silver King stammered, staring at the deep black ring in front of Ye Lan.
"As expected of my Lord!! Truly amazing!" Ah Yin murmured, her eyes flashing with golden light.
The Silver Wolf, sensing the slowing speed, sighed. "Has he reached the limit? Still, this is terrifying. Absorbing an 80,000-year ring at Level 50?"
"When Little Lan reaches Level 90, won't he have five hundred-thousand-year rings?" The Silver Wolf counted on his fingers in awe.
Just as they were exclaiming, a jade-green domain erupted from Ye Lan's body.
"Nature Domain," Activate!
Immediately, the Blue Silver Emperor and Blue Silver King connected to Ye Lan's "Plant Consciousness World."
In this world, Ye Lan was a massive white sun. The countless Blue Silver Grasses covered by the Nature Domain were tiny blue stars. There were also stars of various colors representing other plants.
The brightest among them were a fist-sized blue sun and a pebble-sized blue-silver moon. These were the Blue Silver Emperor and the Blue Silver King.
Entering this world, the Blue Silver King truly understood the greatness of the Lord God.
The Emperor's sun was large enough, but beside the Lord God, even the Emperor was merely the light of a firefly. Not to mention beings like himself, who were inferior to the Emperor.
Before the Blue Silver King could finish his thought, he felt his plant activity skyrocket—his growth speed instantly increased tenfold!
Before he could even get excited, a divine aura radiated from Ye Lan's center.
Upon contact with this aura, the Blue Silver Grass went completely insane!
The Blue Silver King felt the soul power in his body surging wildly. Under the tenfold buff of the "Nature Domain," his size and cultivation were rocketing upward.
The Blue Silver Emperor and the countless grasses were the same. With the "Blue Silver God" aura stacked on the "Nature Domain," they began to evolve at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The Silver Wolf noticed the nearby grass surging in height. The originally jade-green forest was turning blue at an astonishing rate.
The mutation of the grass startled the local fauna. Beasts roared, birds cried, and apes howled as the ground shook. Countless soul beasts began to flee the rapidly "Blue-ifying" Blue Silver Forest.
He wasn't done yet!
Ye Lan summoned all his soul rings.
"Blue Silver Prophet," "Life Sharing," "Titan God Body"—All Activate!
Endless life force converged in Ye Lan's body, pushing his vitality to the level of a Spirit Sage.
Under the "Titan God Body" scaling, Ye Lan's size instantly increased by 34 times, transforming him into a giant over six meters tall.
Simultaneously, the radius of his "Nature Domain" increased by 3.3 times, expanding its area tenfold.
The grasses in the forest not covered by the domain sensed the "Blue Silver God" aura and grew frantically. Those inside the domain grew even faster!
The "Blue Silver Soul Power" contribution from each grass jumped from one blue speck to five, while those inside the domain contributed fifty!
The density of the "Blue Silver Sea" instantly thickened seven or eight times over. The sea of energy began to condense into the black ring at an accelerated rate.
In mere seconds, the ring broke through 90,000 years!
Then, it surged at a rate of fifty years per second!
Two hundred seconds later, the liquid soul power inside was fully compressed into a solid state. The black ring instantly turned blood red!
Ye Lan observed this with crystal clarity. Once the internal energy solidified, the color shifted.
Now, he was certain: Soul Ring age was directly related to the state of the internal soul power. Furthermore, he guessed it was largely about the quality of that power.
Because the energy condensed by the ritual wasn't massive in volume, and absorbed rings usually only showed the "Bloodline Factors" without retaining much raw power inside, this was a unique observation.
When the ring turned blood red at 100,000 years, it continued to absorb the "Blue Silver Sea." The 100,000-year limit was not Ye Lan's limit.
The Silver Wolf had climbed a tree, as the ground was completely swallowed by Blue Silver Grass.
Fortunately, Ye Lan had transformed into a six-meter giant. His rings and domain had scaled up by 3.3 times as well.
Staring at the second blood-red ring in front of Ye Lan, the Silver Wolf was dumbfounded.
He always knew Little Lan was a freak, but he didn't expect him to be this much of a freak!
Little Lan's physical fitness has reached the Titled Douluo level?!
While the Silver Wolf marveled, the ring continued to devour power. If not for the "Divine Aura" and "Nature Domain" forcing the grass to grow wildly, Ye Lan would have sucked them dry.
Fifteen minutes later, the ring finally stopped at 120,000 years.
Ye Lan silently thanked the countless grasses of the Blue Silver Forest. He reached his hand into the ring and mentally commanded: Soul Skill Selection!
A stream of information flooded his mind, coalescing into a panel.
Soul Skill Selection (0/2):
Skill Name: Blue Silver Binding
Passive: Vitality increased by 30%.
Active: Generate Blue Silver Grass from any direction to bind the enemy! Instant cast. Control ability increased by 30%.
Seeing "Blue Silver Binding," cold sweat broke out on Ye Lan's forehead. It was a God King's signature move; he didn't want anything to do with it. Seeing this confirmed that most of the fifth skills would be related to "Blue Silver Grass."
After all, this was a 100,000-year ring made from the grass's contributions. He had the luxury of choice.
He quickly swiped away "Blue Silver Binding" and began searching with purpose.
Currently, his "I Want to Grow Up" skill had moved from a 700% to an 800% life multiplier.
This meant his grass's vitality was automatically multiplied by nine. Even if a skill offered a 300% boost, it would only change the multiplier from 9x to 12x—a total real increase of only 33%.
As time passed and "I Want to Grow Up" stacked higher, other percentage buffs would be diluted even further. Thus, skills that just added percentage vitality were practically useless.
Aside from that, he had the "Ultimate Water" attribute doubling his total vitality (100% boost). He didn't expect the selection to offer another "Total Vitality" multiplier, as that came from an Ultimate Attribute.
He decided to check for Domain-type life bonuses, but the "Nature Domain" was already superb for his specific spirit. Most domains only offered 10-20%. Even if he found one with 30%, it would be diluted by the Nature Domain's 50% (which was a specialized result).
So, Ye Lan shifted his focus from raw stat buffs to Summoning Buffs and Base Life Buffs.
Summoning buffs could be transferred to himself via "Life Sharing." Base Life buffs were similar to Total Vitality multipliers—multiplicative, not additive. These were categories he hadn't maxed out yet.
With this mindset, he activated "Eight-Faced Exquisite Heart," "Seven Orifices Exquisite Heart," and "Consciousness Acceleration"! He began filtering through countless skills at a frequency of 6,300 checks per second.
Countless streams of data flashed by. Finally, he found an extremely strong Summoning skill, though he failed to find a Base Life buff.
Is Base Life just the same as Vitality? Is there really no skill to increase the base stats of the grass itself?
Ye Lan didn't dwell on it and looked at the skill he found.
Skill Name: Grow Bigger Quickly! (Kuai Kuai Bian Da!)
Passive: The bond between the Blue Silver Clan and the Blue Silver God becomes tighter.
Active: Increases the total size of "Blue Silver Units" by 100% and Vitality by 100%.
Note: Blue Silver Units refer to summoned units made of Blue Silver Grass.
Ye Lan was confused by the passive regarding the "bond," assuming "Blue Silver God" referred to himself. What was the use of a tighter bond?
However, he drooled over the active effects.
First, Size +100%! This linked perfectly with the "Titan God Body" passive, further increasing the strength ratio he gained from "Blue Silver Prophet."
More importantly, Vitality +100%! This buff would double the life force of the "Blue Silver Sacrifice" after it had already been boosted by Ultimate Water, "I Want to Grow Up," "Blue Silver Prophet," and the Nature Domain.
In other words, the life force Ye Lan received from "Life Sharing" would double again!
Satisfied, he locked in "Grow Bigger Quickly."
Soul Skill Selection (1/2)
He had one choice left. Since he couldn't find a Base Life buff, and other percentage buffs would be diluted, he decided to look for Functional Skills.
specifically, something to negate the "Titan God Body" side effect: the loss of 2% total HP per second.
If he could solve that, keeping the Titan God Body active indefinitely would be a terrifying horror story for his enemies!
He resumed the 6,300/sec screening process.
After a long while, just as he was about to exhaust the library, a skill caught his eye.
Skill Name: Blue Silver Sublimation
Passive: "Blue Silver Grass - Radiant Life" absorbs the desire for evolution from the endless Blue Silver Grass, gaining Passive: Leading Evolution. Where "Blue Silver Grass - Radiant Life" exists, the total growth speed of Blue Silver Grass becomes 10x.
Active: Hah! Sublimation! A Buff-type skill, can be toggled. Sublimates the "Blue Silver Clan." Total Size +100%. Vitality +100%. Regenerates 2% of Total Life per second. Deals Life Attribute Damage equal to the regenerated amount every second (Range depends on body size). For every 50% of life regenerated, deals an additional burst of 50% Life Attribute Damage.
Note: The Blue Silver God (Ye Lan) has a tighter bond with the 'Blue Silver Clan' and is recognized by them as the 'Blue Silver God'. Classification: 'Blue Silver Clan - Deity'.
After reading "Blue Silver Sublimation," Ye Lan's mind was filled with a string of profanities (in a good way).
He hadn't understood the "bond" passive from the previous skill, but here it was! From now on, he was classified as a "Blue Silver Clan Deity"?
The numbers on "Blue Silver Sublimation" were unpretentious but brutal: Regen and Damage!
The 2% regen perfectly canceled out the Titan God Body's side effect. He could now keep the Titan form active forever. And the Titan side effect effectively became a trigger for the Sublimation's damage mechanic.
According to the description, damage is dealt when healing. If he were at full health, he wouldn't heal, so no damage.
But with Titan God Body constantly draining him, he would constantly heal.
This meant if he activated both, he would gain: Increased Size, Increased AOE Range, Strength proportional to Size, 2% Life Attribute Damage to enemies per second, and a 50% Life Attribute Damage burst every 25 seconds. Plus, another 100% Size increase from this skill!
Although the 100% Vitality buff was diluted to about 11% effectively due to his other skills, "Blue Silver Sublimation" was still broken. A qualitative change.
Suppressing his excitement, Ye Lan finished checking the rest of the library. Finding nothing more broken, he locked in "Blue Silver Sublimation" and "Grow Bigger Quickly."
As the "Soul Skill Selection" window vanished, Ye Lan began to fully absorb the 120,000-Year Blue Silver Soul Ring.
Even during absorption, he kept his various skills active to observe the changes between his Martial Soul and the Ring.
(End of Chapter)