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Chapter 367 Soul Beast Annihilation: The Four Categories of Soul Rings! [Please Subscribe! Please Vote!]

"Soul Ring Imprint?" The Demon Orca King emerged from the sea with its small eyes full of great doubt. If spiritual power could be materialized, then a big question mark should already be appearing above the Demon Orca King's head at this moment.

"Well, if you want it to be easier to understand, then I can explain my research on spirit rings to you in detail." Chen Hong stood in the air, with transparent crystalline spirit power beneath his feet. The Demonic Orca King below was no stranger to that ability; it was a talent of their Demonic Orca clan. And the Demonic Orca King had a more radical skill evolution for this ability—Mirror Annihilation.

However, it was clear that the Demon Orca King found that the 'solidification' ability activated by Chen Hong was simpler and more ancient, with a kind of heavy, unsharpened feeling, like a heavy sword pointing straight to the root.

Of course, the Demon Orca King was unaware that Chen Hong's fourth spirit ring, [Illusion and Reality], also possessed the skill branch [Sword of Psychic Power]. If it had known, the Demon Orca King would surely have applauded Chen Hong, because the [Illusion and Reality] spirit ring almost perfectly inherited all of the Demon Orca's abilities!

In a sense, the Demonic Orca is also a soul beast with spiritual attributes. The Demonic Orca King has even evolved corresponding spiritual skills, namely [Demon's Capture] and [Orca Domain]. The former is a hard control skill that ignores physical defense, while the latter is a spiritual domain that continuously affects and interferes with the mind and soul.

Chen Hong's fourth soul ring, [Illusion and Reality], perfectly inherits the core talent of the Demonic Orca, and directly returns to its original form, removing the 'demon' attribute and returning to its essence, pointing directly to the two great paths of 'soul power' and 'spirit'.

Normally, if nothing unexpected had happened, Chen Hong's fourth spirit ring and external spirit bone should have been combined to successfully achieve success in both the spirit power and mental power domains. However, due to the overly forceful absorption of the spirit ring by Chen Hong's martial spirit mental power, a portion of the power of the external spirit bone, which had been crushed by the martial spirit mental power, was absorbed by the fourth spirit ring, thus successfully allowing the fourth spirit ring to achieve success in both the spirit power and mental power domains.

Although the external soul bone that was crushed was broken in its external form, its essence (divine runes) still existed. This non-spiritual power of the martial soul could not digest it, and it eventually escaped from the giant mouth of the phantom of the spiritual power and attached itself to Chen Hong's eye, thus evolving into an external soul bone that should not exist.

The essence of externally attached soul bones and soul eyes is that the external form of divine runes is crushed by the illusory image of psychic power. Divine runes can interact with the energy and rules of heaven and earth, a point mentioned in the final "Heaven and Man Harmony Realm" in Chen Hong's "Triple Realm of Soul Rings". Soul ring divine runes connect with heaven and earth, using the power of heaven and earth as energy to unleash powerful skills. That is a realm that Chen Hong can only touch upon at present - Beast Blood Divine Runes. Using beast blood containing high concentrations of energy as a catalyst, it draws on the soul power of heaven and earth to aggregate, ultimately unleashing a skill corresponding to the grade of the beast blood.

For example, Chen Hong used the blood of a soul beast at the 100,000-year level to outline the Beast Blood Divine Pattern. In the end, the energy of the beast blood plus the energy gathered from heaven and earth equaled the skill strength of the 100,000-year-old soul beast.

Chen Hong's fourth spirit ring, [Illusion and Reality], is so strong that it doesn't seem like a ten-thousand-year spirit ring, especially the two skill branches [Spirit Power Sword] and [Psychic Power Sword]. It is very similar to the 'one ring, two skills' that only a one-hundred-thousand-year spirit ring can possess.

The stronger the [Virtual Reality] Soul Ring that has absorbed the energy of the external Soul Bone, the weaker the external Soul Bone Soul Eye becomes.

The energy flow logic of a normal Soul Master using Soul Skills is almost identical to that of Chen Hong's Beast Blood Divine Mark. The Soul Master's Soul Power, combined with the Soul Power within the Soul Ring, ultimately forms a powerful Soul Skill. The weaker the Soul Master, the higher the quality of the Soul Ring, and the stronger the Soul Skill. Conversely, if the Soul Master is strong enough, even a low-level, hundred-year Soul Ring can still unleash power comparable to a thousand-year Soul Ring.

Because Chen Hong's external soul bone only retained the most essential divine runes, the cost of activating the Soul Eye was extremely high. This was because using the Soul Eye naturally bypassed the "soul bone energy" step. This resulted in an exceptionally high cost for using the Soul Eye, meaning that even with a Spiritual Realm of Level 80 Soul Douluo and a Soul Power Realm of Level 42, Chen Hong could only activate his Extraordinary Vision for a fleeting moment.

At the same time, Chen Hong's extraordinary vision is also a very simple and ancient ability.

Strictly speaking, the skill of the external soul bone and soul eye has been washed away, that is, destroyed, by the phantom of psychic power, leaving only a primordial divine rune. This primordial divine rune has successfully attached itself to Chen Hong's eyes, mutating them, thus allowing Chen Hong to use this divine rune to 'see through' the primordial soul power in all things in the world.

To give a more vivid example, the divine pattern on the Soul Eye was originally a hazy crystal, but it was suddenly hollowed out, smoothed out, and polished into a transparent lens, allowing Chen Hong to accidentally discover plant cells through this transparent lens. (Leeuwenhoek and the early microscope)

The lens of the Soul Eye Divine Pattern is most likely a Soul Power Mirror. Due to the special nature of Martial Soul's mental power, the original fourth Soul Ring should be a mental skill, while the external Soul Bone is a Soul Power skill.

The external soul bone and soul eye seem to confirm the saying, "Good fortune may be the harbinger of misfortune, and misfortune may be the harbinger of good fortune."

There is good within bad, and bad within good.

Without a doubt, it was a perfect match for the Demon Orca in every aspect, allowing Chen Hong to achieve a qualitative leap on the path of a Soul Master by chance.

Therefore, Chen Hong's perception of the Demon Orca Clan naturally carries a "favorability +50" buff.

"In the traditional sense, there are generally only two ways to obtain a Soul Ring: hunting Soul Rings and sacrificing Soul Rings."

On the calm, azure sea, Chen Hong, his eyes wrapped in bandages, slightly raised his hand towards the demonic orcas below. Then, the outermost two layers of the purple-black soul ring flower in his hand rapidly withered, leaving only the innermost 'purple bud'.

"Hunting Soul Ring, Sacrifice Soul Ring." Chen Hong magnified the two purple soul rings in his hand and then pointed out the differences to the demonic tiger whales.

However, since Chen Hong had already cultivated his first hunting spirit ring and second sacrificial spirit ring to perfection, their auras were perfectly integrated, and the demonic tiger whales outside couldn't distinguish the differences based on their senses alone. In their perception, the spirit rings on Chen Hong's body seemed to be entirely condensed by himself. However, this refers to the process of condensing spirit rings, which will be discussed later.

"These are the two common types of spirit rings in this world. Of course, there are also condensation spirit rings, which only appear on transformed spirit beasts and belong to the later content. Among the three types of spirit rings, I have added an imprinting spirit ring."

(End of this chapter)