Chapter 123: The Limit of Re-absorbing Soul Rings

"Why are you thinking about such random things?" Dugu Bo said irritably.

"I just suddenly thought of it..." Ning Feiliu smiled and told Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan about his series of speculations.

After hearing this, the grandfather and granddaughter were suddenly somewhat silent.

"Soul Rings are bones, you kid... you can always come up with such strange things." Dugu Bo slowly exhaled and said, "But I don't know either. In the ancient era of the Douluo Continent, no records were passed down. With hundreds of thousands of years of heritage, Spirit Masters have long been accustomed to this way of cultivation and would never think about where their martial souls and Soul Rings come from."

"That is why the development of Spirit Masters has always been so slow." Ning Feiliu shook his head and said, "If you don't know the cause and don't seek the solution, then the Spirit Master world will always stop here. How can one's martial soul unleash more powerful strength? How can the cultivation speed be faster? Without knowing the true structure, it is very difficult to make progress!"

It is just like pharmacology; one only uses experience to distinguish what effects certain herbs roughly have, but one does not know the true active ingredients, which parts they act upon, or which receptors they target. How can one save people better?

For Ning Feiliu, science, metaphysics, and the extraordinary are not antonyms; science is a means for humanity to better understand the world.

Just like snake antivenom, why would anyone think that snake antivenom cannot work in a fantasy world?

The production process of snake antivenom is actually injecting a certain amount of snake venom into an animal after attenuation and other operations, and the animal's immunity produces globulin antibodies.

After the antibodies reach a certain effective amount, the blood is drawn, extracted, and prepared into a specific medicine.

In any world, as long as this attenuated snake venom does not kill the experimental animal, an effective serum can be extracted.

Such serum is absolutely effective in that current world.

If you do not understand the principles, of course you would feel that real-world medicine cannot possibly be useful in a fantasy world.

In reality, if the principle exists, then the actual effect is just as valid.

"That makes sense..." Dugu Bo immediately said with a serious expression, "You are indeed right. Yes, it is precisely because of this that the Spirit Master world has been the same for hundreds of thousands of years."

"On this point, perhaps all the Spirit Masters on the Douluo Continent are not as good as you. I finally understand why you could come up with that Martial Soul Forging Method..." He said with a dumbfounded smile.

This kid... it seems he had far underestimated him.

Dugu Bo looked at Ning Feiliu; he had a premonition that his future would not just be a Title Douluo, leaving behind a name for one generation.

But rather... in the future, this kid would leave a heavy, colorful stroke in the history of the Douluo Continent, and his name would be sung by ten thousand people and admired for ten thousand generations!

Ning Feiliu felt somewhat ashamed and said, "Teacher, you are over-praising me..."

As for the second half of what Dugu Bo said about coming up with the Martial Soul Forging Method, he subconsciously ignored it.

"Over-praising what! Hmph!" Dugu Bo said very dissatisfied at this moment, "I, Dugu Bo, have always spoken the truth. You kid... I said it! Even the likes of the Clear Sky Douluo or the Pope of the Spirit Hall are not as good as you on this point!"

"Uh..." Ning Feiliu scratched his head and said, "Forget it, Teacher, don't talk nonsense about this... Let's talk about something else. For example, do you know how much my soul power level has increased now?"

He mainly felt that the big hammer and Bibi Dong—one is brainless and the other is love-struck—if he really thought about it carefully, they were indeed not as good as him...

But saying it out loud would definitely lead to trouble.

So, of course, forget it.

"Increased by how much?" Dugu Yan asked curiously.

"I am at level 35 soul power now," Ning Feiliu said with a smile.

Actually, his previous soul power should have reached about level 33.8. After absorbing a 7,000-year Soul Ring, it should have increased by about 1.5 levels of soul power, so it increased to a little over level 35.

"Not bad." Dugu Bo nodded with a smile, and then he suddenly said with a strange expression, "Speaking of which, if you often use that Explosive Ring Soul Skill, wouldn't you be able to increase your soul power very quickly by using this method?"

That's right, exploding a Soul Ring and re-absorbing it, he would be able to increase his soul power level by level.

"It is possible... but the new Soul Ring I absorb must be higher than the limit of the original Soul Ring to increase soul power," Ning Feiliu said somewhat helplessly.

That is to say, he can now absorb a 7,000-year Soul Beast to increase his soul power by 1.5 levels.

The next time he explodes a Soul Ring, whether it is the second or third Soul Ring, and re-absorbs a Soul Ring, he would have to go above the 7,000-year Soul Beast limit.

If it is lower than a 7,000-year Soul Beast... sorry, it is equivalent to not exceeding one's own limit, and all the power of the Soul Beast will be gathered in that Soul Ring.

After all, it is not a new Soul Ring, but a re-absorbed Soul Ring.

The energy of a re-absorbed Soul Ring will mostly gather on that Soul Ring, unlike the first time one absorbs a Soul Ring, where a portion of the power feeds back into the Spirit Master's own body.

To increase soul power by another level by re-absorbing a Soul Ring, he would probably need a high-quality Soul Beast of over 8,000 years.

Because Ning Feiliu's own limit will also rise under these circumstances.

But because of the rejection reaction of re-absorbing a Soul Ring, not absorbing a Soul Ring from the same species of Soul Beast comes with huge risks.

In the short term, he could explode a Soul Ring once a day and then increase his soul power by absorbing a higher-year Soul Beast.

And if it continues to accumulate like this, it seems that in a few years he could even absorb a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast...

But... is it really possible?

First of all, Ning Feiliu's body has a limit; growth cannot infinitely grow or infinitely exceed one's own limit in a short period of time.

Unless he is a certain bald man.

If the human body's limit could be exceeded so quickly and easily, then it could not be called a limit.

This is equivalent to you practicing long-distance running every day; the first day you break your limit and run 1,000 meters, the second day you break your limit and run 2,000 meters, the third day 3,000 meters... by the tenth day, it would be 10,000 meters.

Let's first say whether you can or not, even if you can.

After training like this, let alone ten days, by the fourth day, your whole body would be ruined.

You would either be exhausted to death or die from rhabdomyolysis.

Re-absorbing a Soul Ring is the same; you cannot infinitely explode rings to raise your own limit in a short time, because if you do that, you will explode and die before you even break your limit.

At the very least... you cannot repeat this multiple times within a month.

Re-absorbing a Soul Ring is possible, but if you increase the year by 1,000 years each time and do it more than twice a month...

Ning Feiliu's body probably couldn't bear it, although he doesn't know what the consequences of not being able to bear it are.

But he would absolutely not easily joke with his own life.

(End of chapter)