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After Ye Lan finished organizing all his abilities, he began testing his new spirit skills. After all, the 'Blue Silver Clan - God' attribute granted by his fifth soul ring had many aspects that required verification.
A golden flash passed over Ye Lan's body, and fifty-four 'Gold-Patterned Galaxy Emerald Sky-Reaching Vines' burst forth from his surroundings, shining brilliantly.
The moment the 'Battle Blue Silver Grass' appeared, both Ah Yin and the Silver Wolf were shocked. The reason was simple: they were enormous!
It was as if Ye Lan had instantly summoned fifteen towering ancient trees. Each stalk of 'Battle Blue Silver Grass' reached a length of over fifty meters, with a diameter exceeding a meter in thickness!
Originally, the 'Battle Blue Silver Grass' wasn't this exaggerated, but the passive effect of 'Titanization' had directly increased their size by one hundred percent.
Subsequently, Ye Lan immediately activated 'Blue Silver Prophet' and 'Nature Domain.'
Fifty-four stalks of 'Battle Blue Silver Grass' radiated golden light, and instantly, eighteen 'Blue Silver Priests' appeared in their place. Based on the size of the Battle Blue Silver Grass, the Blue Silver Priests' size was multiplied by three, reaching a height of seventy-five meters!
He wasn't finished yet. Ye Lan's fourth blood-red soul ring and fifth blood-red soul ring shone with crimson light simultaneously.
Ye Lan roared, "Titanization! Blue Silver Sublimation! Grow Bigger Fast! Titan God Body!"
These four spirit skills caused the 'Blue Silver Priests' to undergo a terrifying qualitative change in an extremely short time.
First was the vitality bonus. 'Blue Silver Sublimation' increased it by 100%, and combined with the 800% vitality bonus from 'I Want to Grow Up,' the vitality of the 'Blue Silver Priest' became thirty times that of the base Blue Silver Grass!
Under the 'Nature Domain,' which gave a 50% domain-type life bonus, and the 'Ultimate Water' attribute granting a 100% total life bonus, the vitality of the 'Blue Silver Priest' soared to ninety times that of the base grass!
Then, 'Grow Bigger Fast' provided a 100% summoned creature vitality bonus, bringing the 'Blue Silver Priest's' vitality to one hundred and eighty times that of the base Blue Silver Grass!
At this point, the vitality of every single 'Blue Silver Priest' had reached the astonishing level of a Spirit Douluo!
Simultaneously, the passive effect of the 'Titan God Body' took effect. The 'Blue Silver Priests' instantly transformed into 'Blue Silver Titans,' with each Titan immediately gaining 50% strength based on their vitality.
With the 'Titan God Body' BUFF active, the 'Blue Silver Titans' evolved into 'Blue Silver God Titans.' They immediately acquired a body size based on their Spirit Douluo-level vitality—their size instantly increased fifty-five times over! Following this, they gained another 90% strength bonus based on their size-to-vitality conversion!
'Titanization' increased the 'Blue Silver God Titan's' total size by 100%.
'Grow Bigger Fast' increased the total size by another 100%.
'Blue Silver Sublimation' increased the total size by yet another 100%.
The 'Blue Silver God Titan's' total size had increased by 300%!
At this moment, the 'Blue Silver God Titan's' mass had instantly skyrocketed by 224 times. Under the passive effect of the 'Titan God Body,' gaining strength based on body size, it was assessed as a Quasi-God Body Type! It obtained 140% strength based on vitality!
Added to the 'Titan God Body's' automatic 50% strength passive for Blue Silver units, the 'Blue Silver God Titan' instantly possessed 190% strength based on its health points! This granted the 'Blue Silver God Titan' power equivalent to a Rank 91 Title Douluo!
Furthermore, under the judgment of 'Blue Silver Sublimation,' the Life Damage Domain expanded to a radius of eighty meters, dealing 2% of a Spirit Douluo's life attribute as damage every second!
In that instant, the 'Blue Silver God Titans' exploded from seventy-five meters to a staggering height of four hundred and sixty-eight meters—essentially, a mass increase of 244 times, which roughly correlated to a 6.25 times increase in height.
The Silver Wolf and the Blue Silver Emperor (Ah Yin) watched helplessly as the seventy-five-meter 'Blue Silver Priests' transformed into 'Blue Silver God Titans' towering over four hundred meters high. They were stunned into silence.
And it wasn't just one 'Blue Silver God Titan'—there were a full eighteen of them!
The members of the 'Blue Silver Clan' who were currently migrating sensed the eighteen 'Blue Silver God Titans' behind them and instantly erupted with endless joy, worship, and piety.
The 'Blue Silver King' prostrated himself completely on the ground and began to worship the Lord God, exclaiming in his heart: He really is the God of our 'Blue Silver Clan'!!! We, the Blue Silver Grass clan, have finally stood up!!
In Ah Yin's field of vision, the eighteen 'Blue Silver God Titans' looked like eighteen 'Sky-Reaching Pillars' holding up the heavens.
Ye Lan looked at the 'Blue Silver God Titans' and was also somewhat surprised.
With the help of 'Spirit Skill Selection,' his 'Blue Silver Grass – Radiant Life' martial soul was becoming stronger at an exponential rate!
Regarding the current state of his 'Blue Silver Grass – Radiant Life,' Ye Lan could only express his helplessness.
He, Ye Lan, wasn't using hacks or cheats; all of this was purely the result of hard work and sweat!
After marveling at the conventional strength of the 'Blue Silver God Titans,' Ye Lan's third spirit skill, 'Life Sharing,' lit up!
The life force of the eighteen 'Blue Silver God Titans' and Ye Lan's own life force were all stacked together into one super-conventional health bar!
At this moment, the total shared health bar reached an astonishing Title Douluo level.
Ye Lan instantly stacked the 'Total Shared Life Health Bar' onto a single 'Blue Silver God Titan'!
Now, this 'Blue Silver God Titan's' vitality was judged to be at the Title Douluo level, and its size instantly increased by eighty-nine times.
Under the 300% total size bonus from 'Blue Silver Sublimation,' 'Titanization,' and 'Grow Bigger Fast,' the size increased to three hundred and fifty-six times!
The height of this 'Blue Silver God Titan' grew from 468 meters to 530 meters!
At this time, this 'Blue Silver God Titan' was still judged to have a "Quasi-God Level" body type, gaining 190% strength from vitality. However, since its vitality was now at the Title Douluo level, this 'Blue Silver God Titan' possessed strength roughly equivalent to a Rank 94 Title Douluo!
Next, Ye Lan began trying to transfer the 'Total Shared Life' onto himself.
He directly activated 'Titan God Body' and 'Blue Silver Sublimation' on himself, followed by 'Titanization' and 'Grow Bigger Fast'!!
Originally, as a human, Ye Lan could not activate 'Titanization' or 'Grow Bigger Fast.' However, the passive effect of 'Grow Bigger Fast' judged him to be part of the 'Blue Silver Clan – God.'
This led Ye Lan to wonder if he was currently being judged as a Blue Silver Grass unit. The subsequent changes confirmed his hypothesis because Ye Lan's height instantly skyrocketed from 1.83 meters to nearly thirteen meters!!
Clearly, Ye Lan's body size had directly increased by 356 times! This meant that 'Titanization' and 'Grow Bigger Fast' had taken effect directly on him!
The Silver Wolf could currently only see Ye Lan's calves. He looked up at the thirteen-meter-tall Ye Lan, his mind filled with nothing but question marks.
At this moment, an extremely loud voice boomed out as Ye Lan opened a giant mouth capable of swallowing a cow whole:
"Uncle Wolf, test my strength!"
Looking at the giant-like Little Lan, the blood in the Silver Wolf's body began to boil!
He had fought soul beasts that were over ten meters tall, but a human over ten meters tall? This was a first!
Ye Lan's eyes locked onto Uncle Wolf's position. He raised a fist like a massive boulder and smashed it toward Uncle Wolf with all his might!
The immense power instantly compressed the air until it exploded, creating endless wind pressure that seemed to lock the Silver Wolf in place.
Feeling himself confined to the ground by the wind pressure, the Silver Wolf dared not be negligent.
With a flash of silver soul light, he instantly completed his Martial Soul Possession.
Then, his seventh soul ring lit up.
The Silver Wolf instantly transformed into a ten-meter-long Stellar Wolf. With his physical attributes comprehensively boosted, the Stellar Wolf charged toward Ye Lan against the massive wind pressure, swinging a giant wolf palm in return.
BOOM!!
The astral wind generated by the collision of the two fists blew down countless large trees. It was only then that the Silver Wolf realized just how terrifying Little Lan's current strength was!
Little Lan's strength was actually more terrifying than his own. Without using spirit skills, his raw power was actually crushed by Little Lan.
At this moment, the Silver Wolf didn't know that Ye Lan's strength had reached Rank 94. Compared to Rank 91, it was three levels stronger.
After all, in the Title Douluo stage, every single rank represented a massive increase. The difference in every rank after Rank 95 was even more terrifying.
Without using spirit skills and having no strength left to spare, the Silver Wolf was instantly knocked flying hundreds of meters by Ye Lan.
The massive Stellar Wolf smashed through countless mounds of earth, lawns, and large trees, rolling several times before finally stabilizing his body.
The Silver Wolf raised his right front paw, looking at the somewhat swollen limb, and sighed, "Little Lan, your strength has already surpassed mine."
The giant Ye Lan scratched his head and said, "It's only strength. Aside from strength, my speed, defense, and spirit power can't compare to Uncle Wolf at all."
The Silver Wolf nodded. "Little Lan, this mindset of yours makes Uncle Wolf admire you even more. Even though you are far inferior to a Title Douluo in aspects other than strength, you have to remember, Little Lan, you are only a Spirit King! If you become a Title Douluo, I can't even imagine how strong you will become!"
"Aside from various physical attributes, my spirit power consumption is also very fast." Ye Lan immediately transferred the 'Shared Life Force' back to the 'Blue Silver God Titan,' then canceled the 'Titan God Body' and all other spirit skills.
That 'Blue Silver God Titan' exploded instantly. Fortunately, he possessed 'Life Sharing' and could transfer the injuries away. Otherwise, with 'Blue Silver Sublimation' and 'Titan God Body' stacking the stored damage, he dared not imagine what state he would be blown into by injuries amounting to hundreds or thousands of percent of his life.
Seeing the 'Blue Silver God Titan' blown directly into grass clippings, Ye Lan felt relieved.
In the future, no matter when he activated the 'Titan God Body,' he had to remember to transfer the 'Shared Life Force' away first.
Seeing Ye Lan return to his normal size, Ah Yin hurriedly crawled onto Ye Lan's body and used her vines to continuously massage his shoulders.
"Master, you are too amazing now! Even in my previous life, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been your match," Ah Yin exclaimed in admiration.
"Ah Yin, aside from strength, I am still far from the old you." Ye Lan waved his hand dismissively.
"Master, do your fists hurt? Do you want me to rub them for you?" As Ah Yin spoke, her vines had already crept to Ye Lan's right hand.
Ye Lan did not refuse the maid's request for a massage. After Ah Yin finished massaging him, Ye Lan opened the 'Wishful Hundred Treasure Purse' and said, "Ah Yin, come in."
"Yes, Master." Ah Yin crawled into the 'Wishful Hundred Treasure Purse.'
After securing Ah Yin, Ye Lan said to the Silver Wolf, "Uncle Wolf, my gains this time were immense, and not just regarding soul rings.
"Moreover, through the soul ring obtained via the 'Blue Silver Awakening' ritual, I fully witnessed the birth of a soul ring, the absorption of a soul ring, the conversion of a soul beast's soul power into martial soul power, the fusion of the soul ring and the martial soul, and other such martial soul knowledge."
"Let's return to the 'Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well' now. I need to calm my mind and research soul rings. Perhaps it won't be long before I can solve the huge trouble currently facing Spirit Hall."
"Good! Uncle Wolf believes you will definitely succeed! After all, you are the youngest number one theoretical genius on the continent. I don't think anything can stump you! I'll take you there now!" Uncle Wolf looked with gratification at the Holy Son who shared Spirit Hall's burdens, then grabbed Ye Lan's shoulder and began to speed toward the 'Sunset Forest.'
Several days later, with Uncle Wolf's help, Ye Lan successfully arrived at the 'Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.'
Before they even landed, they saw Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan welcoming them from a distance.
As soon as they landed, Yan-Yan threw herself directly into Ye Lan's arms.
During these days, Dugu Yan had neither eaten nor drunk well, missing Ye Lan every single day.
Having tasted the marrow and knowing the flavor, Dugu Yan was even more unable to stop herself from desiring her idol. At this moment, she hugged Ye Lan tightly, nuzzling against him constantly.
Feeling the astonishing softness transmitted from her body, Ye Lan's mind wavered.
Sure enough, no matter how his strength grew, he couldn't resist Dugu Yan's temptation.
Watching the two reluctant to part, Dugu Bo coughed and asked, "Little Lan, how was the harvest?"
Dugu Yan's face instantly blushed crimson, but she couldn't bear to let go.
Her large emerald pupils looked at Ye Lan; she was also very curious about what her idol had been doing during this time.
Ye Lan decisively summoned his soul rings.
Deep Yellow, Purple, Black-Purple, Blood Red, Blood Red!
"Good! Good! Good! As expected of my, Dugu Bo's, son-in-law! With a worthy son-in-law like you, Little Lan, I, Dugu Bo, won't even need to look people in the eye when walking the continent in the future! Hahahaha!" Dugu Bo laughed heartily.
The most correct decision he had made in his life was to betroth Yan-Yan to Ye Lan and bundle the 'Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well' and the 'Immortal Herbs' as a dowry for him.
As Ye Lan's strength grew step by step, even if Dugu Bo became crippled, no one would dare disrespect him.
From now on, the Dugu family was truly going to prosper!
Dugu Yan said, "Grandpa, you can't act like that. Otherwise, you'll ruin my idol's reputation!!"
Hearing Yan-Yan's reminder, Dugu Bo laughed loudly, "Indeed, a married granddaughter is like spilt water! You already know to side with Little Lan!"
Hearing Dugu Bo's teasing, Dugu Yan shyly tightened her hug on Ye Lan's arm.
Subsequently, after Ye Lan simply introduced his newly obtained spirit skills to Grandpa Dugu and Yan-Yan, he walked toward the 'Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.'
Seeing Ye Lan walk into the well area, Dugu Yan followed him like a ghost possessed.
Not long after, Ye Lan looked at Dugu Yan, whose eyes were practically dripping with affection. His mouth went dry, and a fire rose in his belly.
After decisively activating the 'Isolation Barrier,' Ye Lan immediately pounced on Dugu Yan.
Several days later, after bidding farewell to the reluctant Dugu Yan, Ye Lan began his research on soul rings.
Due to the disappearance of ten-thousand-year soul beasts in the Heaven Dou Great Forest and the overly perverse nature of the 'Myriad Beast Sect's' Soul Spirit System, most soul masters in the areas controlled by the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall had begun to flow toward the 'Myriad Beast Sect' and the Star Luo Empire.
As ten-thousand-year soul rings became fewer and fewer, Spirit Hall united with the Heaven Dou Empire to control the Soul Beast Forests. Many soul masters reacted fiercely to this, beginning to criticize Spirit Hall.
As the Holy Son of Spirit Hall, he had an obligation to solve difficult problems for the organization. Moreover, according to Ye Lan's plan, Spirit Hall could gain immense benefits and a massive amount of prestige among soul masters from this.
Aside from helping Spirit Hall out of its predicament, there was definitely some huge conspiracy behind the 'Myriad Beast Sect's' 'Soul Spirit System.' Ye Lan would never believe that the 'Myriad Beast Sect' would be good to soul masters for no reason; those hundred-year, thousand-year, and ten-thousand-year Soul Spirits were almost being given away for free.
Although Ye Lan didn't know the specific plot of the 'Myriad Beast Sect,' his perception of danger prevented him from agreeing to the hundred-thousand-year Soul Spirit they promised. even though the 'Myriad Beast Sect' promised him he could be both the Holy Son of Spirit Hall and the Young Master of the 'Myriad Beast Sect,' he still did not agree.
Furthermore, he didn't know if the 'Soul Spirit System' would be useful for his 'Spirit Skill Selection.'
Although the 'Soul Spirit System' offered high age limits, according to Ye Lan's understanding, the hundred-thousand-year soul rings from the Soul Spirit System didn't always come with two skills.
An ordinary hundred-thousand-year Soul Spirit could grant a soul master five hundred-thousand-year soul rings, but each ring only had one skill.
As for the situation with Soul Spirits over two hundred thousand years old, he didn't know, and the Myriad Beast Sect hadn't announced it. However, it was absolutely impossible for it to be as ridiculous as every ring having two skills.
Under the normal system, a hundred-thousand-year soul ring possessed two skills, and a million-year soul ring even possessed four.
For him, who possessed 'Spirit Skill Selection,' naturally, the more skills, the better.
As long as he matched them reasonably, the 'Blue Silver Grass – Radiant Life' martial soul would become stronger and stronger, transcending conventional levels of power!
Retracting his thoughts, Ye Lan activated 'Seven Orifices Exquisite Heart' and 'Consciousness Acceleration,' instantly increasing his brain's thinking speed by 6,700 times. Then, he began to organize his ideas for 'Artificial Soul Rings.'
First was the age limit of the 'Artificial Soul Ring.' Since the current situation was an extreme scarcity of ten-thousand-year soul rings, and the 'Myriad Beast Sect' could provide 'Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirits,' he couldn't just research low-level artificial rings and call it a day. The 'Artificial Soul Rings' had to meet the demand for ten-thousand-year levels, or even hundred-thousand-year levels.
Through his perception of the 'Blue Silver Soul Ring,' Ye Lan learned that a soul ring's age limit was related to the quality of soul power within the ring and the total amount of soul power.
Therefore, to research ten-thousand-year artificial soul rings, he had to ensure the quality of soul power inside the ring was higher than ten thousand years—that is, Spirit King level.
With his Spirit King level strength, he met this requirement perfectly.
Next came the type of 'Artificial Soul Ring.'
The difference between soul rings produced by soul beasts lies in their 'Bloodline Factors,' or the distribution of soul power particles.
The 'Bloodline Factors' produced by each type of soul beast are different, such as 'Blue Silver Grass Soul Rings,' 'Lightning Cat Soul Rings,' 'Man-Faced Demon Spider Soul Rings,' etc.
Because the 'Bloodline Factors' of these different soul beast rings are different, the distribution of soul power particles is also different.
If one wanted to create 'Artificial Soul Rings' of different soul beast types, one had to solve how to use soul power to manufacture soul rings with different 'Bloodline Factors.'
In this regard, Ye Lan had two lines of thought.
One was to use soul beast blood as the core, and the other was to use a soul master's blood as the core.
The former could cause certain changes in the martial soul, and the resulting spirit skills would be compatible with both the soul beast and the martial soul.
The latter would not cause changes to the martial soul, but the spirit skill should be the one that fits the martial soul's main body best—likely most suitable for the seventh soul ring, the 'Martial Soul Avatar.'
As for whether he could obtain something like Ye Lan's fifth soul ring—a martial soul exclusive soul ring—he didn't know.
A martial soul exclusive soul ring could increase in age along with the soul master's comprehensive strength. Ye Lan did not currently understand the principle behind the generation of this ring.
Ye Lan guessed there was a high probability it was related to the soul ring core and the martial soul core. However, since Ye Lan had absolutely no cognition of the essence of these two cores, the exclusive soul ring idea was likely a scrapped draft.
Ye Lan didn't need to consider the spirit skills within the rings too much.
This was because he had already learned that spirit skills were the result of the fusion of the martial soul and the soul ring's 'Bloodline Factors.'
When Ye Lan absorbed soul rings, after sensing that the soul power inside the ring was converted by the martial soul into higher-quality soul power, he guessed that the unlocking of the martial soul relied merely on the stimulation from the soul power within the ring.
That martial soul unlocking is related to soul power stimulation also explains why absorbing low-level soul rings leads to a lower upper limit for the martial soul.
Take two Level 10 Spirit Scholars who both possess the 'Blue Silver Grass' martial soul. One absorbs a ten-year soul ring as their first ring, while the other absorbs a hundred-year soul ring.
Although both can advance to Spirit Master, the stimulation to their martial souls is different.
One is a ten-year level soul power (Spirit Master level) stimulation, and the other is a hundred-year level (Great Spirit Master level) stimulation. The Spirit Master stimulation can only unlock the martial soul to the Spirit Master level, whereas the Great Spirit Master level can let the martial soul perceive a higher realm, making the martial soul's evolutionary direction more certain and the unlocking direction clearer.
As a soul master continues to obtain rings, if their first and second rings are both only ten-year rings, and the martial soul has never perceived Great Spirit Master soul power, then their upper limit is practically locked at the Great Spirit Master stage—and a very weak Great Spirit Master at that.
If a soul master's first three rings are Yellow, Yellow, Purple...
Then during the Spirit Scholar stage, their martial soul is stimulated by Great Spirit Master level soul power. At the Spirit Master stage, it is still stimulated by Great Spirit Master level power. When advancing to Spirit Elder, it is stimulated by Spirit Elder level power. Thus, their martial soul can develop normally.
By the same logic, if their third ring is still yellow, then the unsealing of their martial soul might very well evolve in the wrong direction, leading to increasing difficulty in advancing to Spirit Ancestor or even Spirit King.
Therefore, the unlocking of a martial soul and a soul master's upper limit have a strong correlation with soul ring age limits.
Based on the degree of martial soul unsealing via soul power stimulation, Ye Lan directly excluded the "Soul Master Self-Condensing Soul Ring" plan from the 'Artificial Soul Ring' proposal.
After all, you couldn't possibly expect a Level 10 Spirit Scholar to condense a Great Spirit Master level (hundred-year) soul ring.
The soul power in their dantian is at the Spirit Scholar level; it is impossible to condense a Spirit Master or Great Spirit Master soul ring.
If a cultivation method for self-condensing rings truly existed, there might appear a type of single-digit-year soul ring that is even weaker than a ten-year ring...
Therefore, for the 'Artificial Soul Ring' plan, Ye Lan decided that higher-level soul masters would condense high-age soul rings, and then these 'Artificial Soul Rings' would be bestowed upon lower-level soul masters.
In this way, lower-level soul masters would have a high probability of obtaining limit-level soul rings.
After all, from Ye Lan's understanding of soul rings, the age of the ring is strongly correlated to 'Soul Power Quality.'
Thus, the upper limit of artificial soul rings might be far more terrifying than imagined.
(End of Chapter)