Douluo's Soul Power increases by two levels every year

Chapter 584, Level 98!

For Han Feng, absorbing the ninth spirit ring was neither particularly difficult nor easy; it all depended on Han Feng's own choice.

With Han Feng's current foundation, pushing his divinely bestowed soul ring to 100,000 years would be a piece of cake, and even 500,000 or 600,000 years would be no problem. After all, this guy cultivates essence, qi, and spirit, and has also obtained the Heart of Balance!

But from the very beginning, Han Feng set his sights on more than 800,000 years!

Although Han Feng now possesses a sense of balance and no longer needs to force a balance between the power of his True Ice Martial Soul and the Blazing Sky Shield; although Han Feng often says things like "one should not take all the good fortune, for doing so will bring disaster"; although for Han Feng now, the difference between a soul ring with 600,000 to 700,000 years of cultivation and one with 800,000 to 900,000 years of cultivation is not drastic; although Han Feng already knows that no matter how many tens of thousands of years of cultivation a soul ring has, the soul skill he ultimately obtains will only be a rudimentary form of a divine skill...

Even so, Han Feng occasionally wanted to try to achieve perfection!

Han Feng also had ambitions. He wanted to see if there was a limit to the divinely bestowed soul ring, and if so, whether it could be extended to a million years!

As it turns out, it's not possible...

A spirit ring with a million years of cultivation can no longer be called a spirit ring; it is a divine ring!

A soul beast with a million years of cultivation already possesses the potential to become a god. It can forcibly break through the gods' blockade of the soul beast race and defy the heavens to enter the god realm. The soul rings produced by a soul beast with a million years of cultivation are especially likely to be mortal objects!

The Deep Sea Demon Whale King doesn't count.

Although the Deep Sea Demon Whale King possesses nearly a million years of cultivation, it is all show and no substance. It's just a pretty face. Although that guy has a million years of cultivation, his actual strength is probably still around 500,000 to 600,000 years. If a real fight were to break out, he wouldn't even be able to defeat the Ice Jade Scorpion that Han Feng encountered in the Xuanming Land!

The reason why the Deep Sea Demon Whale King was able to cultivate to the level of 900,000 years, nearly a million years, was actually the work of the Sea God!

If the Sea God hadn't used the Deep Sea Demon Whale King to test his successor, and if the Sea God hadn't prepared to bestow the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's soul ring and soul bone upon his successor, the Deep Sea Demon Whale King would have died under the Heavenly Tribulation long ago, given his greedy and reckless cultivation methods!

With the strength of five or six hundred thousand years, he was able to cultivate to nine hundred thousand years. This cannot be explained by mere good luck.

Getting back to the main point, when Han Feng was absorbing the ninth soul ring, it took him five months to push the cultivation level of the divinely bestowed soul ring to 600,000 years, and then another six months to push it to 800,000 years!

But those last few hundred thousand years took Han Feng a full four months!

In the end, it wasn't that Han Feng had reached his limit and couldn't continue the deduction, but rather that the divinely bestowed soul ring had reached its limit and could no longer be used for deduction!

Han Feng's ninth spirit ring ultimately stalled at 970,000 years of cultivation!

It's not that it's impossible to push it to the limit of 990,000 years, but doing so would be meaningless. Han Feng has already obtained the answer he wanted. If he cannot break through the million-year limit, whether it is 910,000 years or 990,000 years, it will not have much meaning for Han Feng. Therefore, Han Feng gave up when he pushed it to 970,000 years.

It would be a lie to say he wasn't disappointed. Han Feng had originally thought he would be able to obtain a million-year divine ring before becoming a god!

Unexpectedly, his progress was halted by the limits of the divinely bestowed soul ring!

To be honest, it's not entirely impossible to obtain a million-year-old divine ring. Beneath the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest lies the true form of the Silver Dragon King. Han Feng doesn't believe that the Silver Dragon King doesn't have a million years of cultivation.

But the goal is to obtain the Silver Dragon King's spirit ring...

Putting aside whether one can bear it, having such thoughts is already a reckless act!

Leaving aside gods like the God of Defense who possess the strength of a God-King, even though the Silver Dragon King's injuries haven't fully healed, he's not someone to be trifled with. I'm afraid even a first-level god like the God of Fire wouldn't fare well if he personally descended. Han Feng must be crazy to go back and provoke the Silver Dragon King!

After much thought, Han Feng was already quite satisfied with his ninth soul ring, which represented 970,000 years of cultivation!

If you can't complete the sixth divine test of defense, then you can transform into a divine ring with a million-year cultivation level!

So in the end, Han Feng could only console himself with the saying, "One cannot have all the good fortune in the world."

Actually, even the God of Defense and the God of Fire were puzzled!

They never imagined that Han Feng had already begun to contemplate matters of divinity before even becoming a god!

Throughout history, no one in the entire Douluo Continent has ever been seen to subdue a million-year-old divine ring before becoming a god!

To compensate Han Feng, the skills solidified by the God of Fire and the God of Defense on Han Feng's ninth spirit ring did not disappoint him. In the end, the divinely bestowed spirit ring and divinely bestowed spirit bone were only the prototypes of divine skills. Even the Holy Flame Sky-Burning Strike that Han Feng had always suspected was only a prototype of a divine skill. But this time, in Han Feng's ninth spirit ring, the God of Defense and the God of Fire solidified two genuine divine skills!

The Realm of Ruins and the Domain of Holy Flame!

As is customary, one is a defensive divine skill, and the other is a fire divine skill!

As you can tell from their names, Guixu is a defensive divine skill, while Shengyan Domain is a fire god's divine skill.

Even Han Feng, who possesses the divine skill Guixu, doesn't fully understand it. The description of the divine skill is vague. Han Feng asked the God of Defense, but the God of Defense evaded the question and refused to elaborate.

The strangest thing is that this skill cannot be used actively, and it doesn't even seem like a passive skill that can provide Han Feng with any boost.

In fact, Han Feng didn't even feel anything after acquiring this skill!

However, the God of Defense was unwilling to elaborate, and Han Feng didn't press for details. In short, it must be an extremely powerful divine skill; otherwise, the God of Defense wouldn't have wasted Han Feng's ninth soul ring slot. One day, Han Feng would find out.

As for the Holy Flame Domain, it's much easier to understand. As the name suggests, it's a domain-based divine skill!

Once the Sacred Flame Domain is unleashed, everything within it is an ultimate fire, increasing the power of fire attributes by 200% and the speed of soul power recovery by 200%. All fires under heaven dare not disobey!

This is because Han Feng currently only possesses soul power.

Once Han Feng transforms the soul power within his body into divine power, the Holy Flame Domain can be transformed into the Holy Flame Divine Domain, suppressing all directions with ease!

This is the divine realm of a first-level god!

This was a pleasant surprise, though not a huge one. Han Feng couldn't fully utilize the true divine power of the Holy Flame Domain yet, so let's leave that aside for now. Han Feng had the Supreme Defense Isolation Domain for defense, and the Ice God had the True Ice Domain. However, he didn't have a domain skill he wanted for the Fire God position. Now that's good, it's a good improvement. He can combine the True Ice Domain and the Holy Flame Domain, and perhaps he can even create a dual-domain skill!

In conclusion, Han Feng was quite satisfied with his ninth spirit ring.

It is worth mentioning that with the successful absorption of the ninth spirit ring, Han Feng's cultivation level also surged like a flood, unstoppable. In just one day, he broke through from level 90 to level 98!

Including the time it took Han Feng to absorb his ninth spirit ring, Han Feng has been stuck at level 90 for three years. Originally, Han Feng even doubted whether he would break through to level 99, the Limit Douluo!

After all, whether it's the two torso bones with 600,000 years of cultivation or the divinely bestowed soul ring, their feedback power is enormous!

However, Han Feng ultimately underestimated the gap between Title Douluo level and other levels.

The difference between level 99 and level 98 is like heaven and earth; it cannot be achieved simply by accumulating soul power.

Moreover, Han Feng's improvement was not limited to his soul power. After acquiring the Heart of Balance, Han Feng's essence, qi, and spirit became indistinguishable. Most of the accumulation Han Feng had made over the past few years, as well as the massive amount of feedback power within his body, were used to enhance his blood and qi power and soul power!

Han Feng's cultivation level of 98 is not just about his soul power, but also about his blood, soul power, and soul being at level 98!

This is a height that no one has ever reached before!

It's no exaggeration to say that although Han Feng is only at level 98 and hasn't even broken through the human limit of level 99, he already possesses the power to contend with true gods!

Han Feng naturally wouldn't dare to hope for a god with a certain rank, but if it was just a god's child between level 100 and 190, Han Feng was confident he could fight against it!

However, Han Feng showed no intention of leaving the seclusion.

The spirit ring has indeed been successfully absorbed, and the cultivation level has also broken through, but the divine test has not yet been completed!

The sixth trial of the Ice God: condense the core of the Ice Soul; the sixth trial of the Fire God: condense the core of the Fire Soul.

Han Feng is now level 98, but he has not yet condensed his soul core!

(End of this chapter)