Douluo Continent: The Holy Evil Emperor.

Chapter 112 Come on, let's take down this soul ring!

After stabilizing the situation for a long time, Ye Qing did not stay in Xingluo City for too long. He took the opportunity to check on the current situation of our protagonist before returning directly to Shrek Academy.

The main character, of course, is Huo Gua.

He's almost eleven years old, with a soul power level of over eight. His father doesn't like his mother's sacrifices, and he's treated like a lackey in the Duke's mansion.

Oh no, not like a lackey. He was a lackey in the Duke's mansion, worse than an ox or a horse. Anyone could come and trample on him. He was even worse than a loser on the street.

"If we calculate the plot, next year will be the time when Huo Yuhao's three-year term is up and the Dragon King returns, right?" Ye Qing pondered.

Because he had been scheming against Beibei for the past few years, they actually entered Shrek Academy a year earlier. As for why Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan also entered a year earlier, we can only ask if someone in heaven interfered.

Originally, Bei Bei met Huo Yuhao during her third-grade vacation, but it turned into a fourth-grade vacation.

That means... there's still one year left.

"But what about Zhang Lexuan? In the original story, she was supposed to experience an attack by a 100,000-year-old soul beast, and Xuanzi would make great contributions to the Holy Spirit Sect, right?" Ye Qing was a little confused. To confirm this, he would go to see Zhang Lexuan every few days for the past year.

It wasn't to win over Zhang Lexuan, but to showcase his 100,000-year-old fifth soul ring in a reasonable way.

Ye Qing planned to go with Zhang Lexuan on this soul hunt. Since Xuanzi was bound to mess things up, he could use the excuse of helping them buy time to lure the 100,000-year-old soul beast over, and then have Biji deal with the unlucky kid. He could also take the opportunity to show off his 100,000-year-old soul ring.

Ye Qing: In order to prevent Sister Le Xuan from getting hurt, I decided to lure away the 100,000-year-old soul beast to buy them time. But this 100,000-year-old soul beast was too weak. It collapsed before I even exerted any force.

Yes, that's how you get a 100,000-year soul ring.

perfect!

Naturally, Ye Qing also needed to pay attention to Zhang Lexuan's movements. As a result, he went to see Zhang Lexuan more than ten times in the past year, and on average, he would go to the inner courtyard to have a meal and go shopping with her every month. However, he never heard from her about any Soul Hunting Plan in the inner courtyard.

More importantly, Zhang Lexuan's soul power level is clearly only level 73!

She's still far from being an eight-ring Soul Douluo. How did she absorb that 100,000-year Soul Ring in the original story?

"Does a Soul Master have to reach a bottleneck before they can absorb a Soul Ring?" So, Ye Qing found Mu En and asked this question.

Mu En looked at Ye Qing with a strange expression, and after a long silence, asked, "Why did you have this problem?"

"As a Soul Master, learning more about the Soul Master profession will help you understand the world better," Ye Qing replied.

With his knowledge of over two hundred years, Mu En could obviously tell that Ye Qing was talking nonsense, but since Ye Qing had already raised the question, as his teacher, he didn't mind explaining it to Ye Qing.

"You can absorb spirit rings even if you haven't reached the bottleneck, but the essence of spirit rings is to help spirit masters break through a bottleneck of a certain stage. The premise of breaking through the bottleneck is that you have already reached the bottleneck and you need a spirit ring slot."

"It's not like no Soul Masters have tried before to absorb Soul Rings before reaching a bottleneck. After all, each Soul Ring contains most of the Soul Beast's Soul Power, allowing Soul Masters to obtain a huge amount of Soul Power at once to break through their current level. Even if they don't need the Soul Ring, they can use the Soul Power in the Soul Ring to grow quickly. But this raises another problem."

"An empty Soul Ring slot?" Ye Qing naturally grasped the key point.

Mu En nodded: "If you force a soul ring into your body when there is no available soul ring slot, it will certainly give you a lot of soul power. However, this extra soul ring will also be forcibly integrated into your martial soul if there is no available slot. In the end, there will only be one outcome, which is that your martial soul will shatter."

"Unless you can accurately calculate the total amount of soul power in the soul ring, so that it precisely reaches the next level ten when it helps you break through your soul power level, ensuring that your martial soul has an empty slot to absorb this soul ring."

"However, we do not actually advocate this method. Firstly, the more perfect one's cultivation is at a certain stage, the deeper the nourishment of the soul power to the body becomes. When reaching a bottleneck, the soul ring age that can be absorbed will also be higher, and the degree of fusion with the soul ring will naturally be higher."

"The second reason is why Soul Masters basically don't use this method to break through. If you forcibly absorb a Soul Ring before reaching your bottleneck, the Soul Power in the Soul Ring will be several times more violent than in a normal absorption state. The damage to your meridians will be devastating. Even if you are lucky enough to absorb the Soul Ring, the violent Soul Power will cause the Soul Master to enter a long period of recuperation. It will also take several times longer to completely refine the violent Soul Power."

In conclusion, it was a losing proposition.

Over the years of development in Douluo Continent, there have naturally been a few extremely rebellious contestants who wanted to do something unconventional, and absorbing spirit rings before reaching their bottleneck was one such unconventional tactic.

As it turns out, it is indeed possible to absorb a spirit ring before reaching the bottleneck. However, the spirit ring will also burst the spirit. At best, one will lose their spirit and become an ordinary person. At worst, one's life will be restarted on the spot.

Moreover, the violent energy in a spirit ring is meant to break through bottlenecks, not to increase levels. If you forcibly attach a spirit ring, all the energy in the spirit ring will be used to increase levels. When breaking through a bottleneck, the spirit ring's tempering effect on the spirit master's body will naturally become worse.

Moreover, it takes a lot of time to completely master these soul ring energies that were originally intended to break through bottlenecks but were instead used to increase levels.

The time spent on this back and forth is actually less than the benefits that could be obtained through normal cultivation and acquiring a soul ring.

Far from being as good.

"So don't try anything new. Our predecessors have already taught us these things with bloody lessons. The only right path is to cultivate diligently step by step. Rebellious cultivation is unacceptable." Mu En earnestly instructed Ye Qing before drifting away.

Beibei is already ruined. Mu En certainly doesn't want his exceptionally talented disciple to die because he suddenly wants to do something naughty.

If someone else asked this question, Mu En would at most assume that the person was just curious about knowledge. But if it were Ye Qing, Mu En would probably really think that Ye Qing was dissatisfied with the cultivation speed of the ultimate attribute, and that his strength would leap forward every time he obtained a soul ring, so he wanted to take an unconventional approach.

Soul Masters who haven't reached the bottleneck before absorbing a Soul Ring may be lucky enough to break through to the next bottleneck, just enough to meet the minimum requirements for absorbing a Soul Ring.

If you're unlucky, it explodes on the spot.

"Come on, let's take down this spirit ring!"

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After that conversation with Mu En, Ye Qing finally understood why Zhang Lexuan could absorb a spirit ring before reaching the Soul Douluo level, and also why she stayed at level 82 for so long.

She was indeed only level 73 at this point, but it wouldn't be long before she broke through to level 74.

In this way, she only needs to absorb a 100,000-year-old soul bone to raise herself by three levels, and then absorb a 100,000-year-old soul ring to reach the bottleneck of level 80. This will allow her to perfectly accommodate these two treasures that soul masters dream of.

But then again, how could doing this be without any risk?

If the soul power of her 100,000-year-old soul ring and soul bone isn't enough to push her to level 80, then her best fate would be to become a cripple. Even if she succeeded in the original story, she still had to stay in bed for a year to recover, and it took her another four or five years to barely reach level 82.

This is the price she paid for forcibly absorbing a 100,000-year-old soul ring, and also the reason why her cultivation level seemed to be abnormal in the original story.

Of course, taking such a risk as Zhang Lexuan would be completely worthwhile for an ordinary Soul Master. With a 100,000-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone within reach, it's unlikely that any Soul Master would give up such immense wealth.

Even though she spent a year in bed and wasted several more years, the quality of the 100,000-year soul ring and soul bone completely made up for the gap in her cultivation during that time, giving her a much richer reward than normal cultivation.

"Hey, Sister Lexuan, it seems you won't be able to absorb this 100,000-year spirit ring. If you do, how am I supposed to use the spirit ring in a legitimate way?"

Using the lives of your classmates to allow you to absorb a 100,000-year-old soul ring and soul bone later in life should be reasonable, right?

Ye Qing was determined to kill the Golden Hawksbill Turtle, after all, he coveted the Life Gold inside it. As for ordinary 100,000-year soul rings, Ye Qing no longer cared much about them. He might as well use one of his own 100,000-year soul beast slots to exchange for the life of this Golden Hawksbill Turtle.

When the time comes, the Gold of Life will be taken out and given to Brigitte. Brigitte can choose whether to use the Gold of Life herself or return it to the Lake of Life.

The soul rings and soul bones were to be absorbed by Zhang Lexuan.

For the sake of the stolen Spirit Gold, if Bi Ji were to keep it herself, she would most likely not tell Di Tian about it. And if she were to return it, Di Tian would make an exception and allow Ye Qing to give his Soul Ring quota to someone else.

A stolen piece of Living Gold is far more valuable to Di Tian than a 100,000-year-old soul beast, especially since it was stolen by the traitorous ninja Golden Tortoise, and Ye Qing was using the quota that was rightfully his.

As for whether the Golden Tortoiseshell's spirit rings and spirit bones are a good match for Zhang Lexuan?

Being able to absorb a soul ring and soul bone of this level is already quite good; wanting to be picky is pointless. The 100,000-year-old soul beast that Zhang Lexuan killed in the original story might not have been suitable for her.

And to be honest, if I gave Zhang Lexuan a 100,000-year-old soul beast to kill, and gave her a 100,000-year-old soul ring and a 100,000-year-old soul bone for free, she would probably offer herself to me on the spot...

"Hehe, let's keep the good stuff in the family, shall we?"

(End of this chapter)