Chapter 56: Absorbing a Soul Ring Beyond One's Level

"Right," Dugu Bo said, stroking his beard with a smile from the side, "You have already broken through, haven't you? It is time to go and obtain a Soul Ring."

At this, Ning Feiliu also nodded and said, "Yes, I broke through last night; it is time to obtain a Soul Ring."

"Just as well. Although this Sunset Forest of mine cannot compare to the Star Dou Great Forest, it has quite a variety of Soul Beasts. As for the age limit, since you have only just broken through to Great Soul Master, you only need a Soul Ring under a thousand years, so there is no major issue," Dugu Bo said with a chuckle.

However, Ning Feiliu shook his head and said, "Teacher... actually, for this second Soul Ring of mine, I want to try absorbing a Thousand-Year Spirit Ring."

Here it comes! One of the classic segments that travelers to the Douluo Continent cannot avoid—absorbing a Soul Ring beyond one's level!

Ning Feiliu naturally would be no exception. After all, as a traveler with a cheat, if one doesn't absorb a Soul Ring beyond one's level, can one still be called a protagonist?

But for Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, they were all taken aback.

Although they had never heard of Gangzi's theory of extreme Soul Ring absorption, there were unspoken rules in the Spirit Master world regarding how many years of Soul Beast Soul Rings a Spirit Master should absorb at each stage.

Two yellow, two purple, four black, one red—this is the optimal Soul Ring combination for a normal Spirit Master.

This symbolizes that the upper limit of a Soul Ring absorbed by a Spirit Master at the Great Soul Master realm is no more than a thousand years, while the upper limit for a Soul Elder to a Soul Ancestor is no more than ten thousand years.

From Soul King to Soul Douluo, the upper limit of a Soul Ring is no more than one hundred thousand years.

This is the law of Soul Ring absorption in the Spirit Master world; anything that does not conform to this rule is basically treated as cheating.

Now Ning Feiliu says he wants to absorb a Thousand-Year Spirit Ring for his second Soul Ring?

If this were Ning Feiliu's previous life, this would be equivalent to someone being hit by a truck and not dying, curing a terminal cancer patient, and turning into a divine dragon right in front of you.

And only at the Title Douluo realm can one absorb a one-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.

Although he had not known Ning Feiliu for long, judging by his performance over the past two days, this kid... is definitely not someone who would do things while taking huge risks.

Plus, Ning Feiliu had indeed shown him too many impossibilities and too many miracles: collecting and consuming the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Blazing Apricot Delicate, falling into the Yin Yang Dual Springs and not dying, successfully solving the toxic problem that had plagued him for years, and just now, successfully reforging his own martial soul...

These achievements are truly glorious.

"First of all," Ning Feiliu said with a chuckle, "The absorption of a Soul Ring actually depends on the Spirit Master's physical fitness and soul power level, along with other additional factors, such as martial soul quality and external factors. But to put it plainly, it mainly depends on the Spirit Master's physical fitness and soul power level. This is also why those who do not have enough soul power level cannot absorb Soul Rings of higher-year Soul Beasts beyond their level."

"You kid..." Dugu Bo frowned instead, then relaxed and said, "You are definitely not the kind of reckless person who does not know the height of the sky or the depth of the earth. Tell me, why?"

"No! Feiliu! You are only at your second Soul Ring; absorbing a Thousand-Year Spirit Ring is very dangerous!" Dugu Yan exclaimed.

At this moment, let alone this person saying he is a superman with infinite strength and invulnerability, even if he said he was God, you would probably believe him.

That would be absolutely insane!

Dugu Bo was the same; no matter how outrageous, he still upheld the idea of "believe first, question later," and chose to believe Ning Feiliu for now.

For example, holders of Twin Spirits, or like Tang San and Huo Gua.

Without eighty percent certainty, this kid would never say such things.

"Here, let us first set a threshold, a threshold for a Spirit Master to absorb a Thousand-Year Spirit Ring. A Soul Elder can absorb a Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, but the cultivation of a Spirit Master who has just broken through to Soul Elder is clearly not exactly at the threshold point for absorbing a Thousand-Year Spirit Ring."

Ning Feiliu said, "Because if it were exactly at the threshold for absorbing a Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, then even if the absorbed Soul Ring exceeded the age limit by a little, that Spirit Master would explode and die, right?"

Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, the grandfather and granddaughter, immediately felt that there was reason in his words. Although they still didn't quite understand, they didn't know how to refute him.

"So the threshold for absorbing a Thousand-Year Spirit Ring is actually at a certain soul power level between Great Soul Master and Soul Elder. As the soul power level increases, the age of the Soul Ring one can absorb increases," Ning Feiliu said. "And as for me now, although I have just broken through to level 20 soul power, my actual soul power is far more than level 20."

"In the situation of approaching this threshold, I feel that absorbing a Thousand-Year Spirit Ring is possible, and absorbing a Soul Ring this way also has great benefits for me."

Come on, he has absorbed the three great Immortal Herbs: the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, the Blazing Apricot Delicate, and the Qiluo Tulip.

Even if the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Blazing Apricot Delicate are the same as in the original work, unable to provide too much help in cultivation improvement to the Spirit Master who consumes these two Immortal Herbs.

But what about the Qiluo Tulip?

In the original plot, Ning Rongrong consumed the Qiluo Tulip, and while upgrading her martial soul to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, she increased her soul power by six levels!

And that was a six-level soul power increase at the Soul Elder level.

The total soul power of six levels at the Soul Elder level is definitely higher than the six levels of soul power at the Great Soul Master level.

Even if it only guarantees that Ning Feiliu also increased his soul power by six levels after breaking through level 20.

He is now at level 26 soul power, and it is even possible he is at level 28, to exaggerate a bit.

So Ning Feiliu's current condition should have no problem absorbing a Thousand-Year Spirit Ring.

The most critical thing is... he has the Resurrection Rune Fragment inside him. As long as it doesn't instantly cause him to explode and die, he can use the Moonlight Breathing Method and the powerful recovery effect of the Resurrection Rune Fragment to slowly erode and absorb the Thousand-Year Spirit Ring.

So Ning Feiliu feels that absorbing a Thousand-Year Spirit Ring is indeed feasible, and there is an eighty percent certainty that it can be absorbed safely.

And once he absorbs a Thousand-Year Spirit Ring beyond his level, perhaps he can get the soul power feedback from the Soul Ring and jump another two levels of soul power?

After all, for Soul Rings under ten thousand years, as long as the body can withstand it, it can basically be absorbed.

Because there is no mental shock from a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast before it dies.

Hearing Ning Feiliu's reasonable and well-founded words, Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan both nodded.

They really couldn't think of any reason to refute him, and even if they had reasons to refute, they had no reason to do so.

After all, for Ning Feiliu, if he succeeds, there will definitely be great benefits.

Success has great benefits, and the probability of failure is relatively small.

Then why not do it?

Everything in the world has risks, but as long as the benefits are large enough, greater than the potential risks, then it is feasible!

"Good," Dugu Bo said, "What kind of Soul Beast do you want? Have you decided? Once you have decided, I will take you to catch it."

"Please help me decide, Teacher," Ning Feiliu shook his head and said, "I don't have much knowledge about Soul Beasts. It is better for you to decide, Teacher, and then I will test it myself..."

"What exactly is my new martial soul and my combat like?"

A handsome guy sheds tears; this theory is getting longer and longer as I write it. Sometimes I feel very painful writing this stuff, feeling like I'm defending a thesis on the spot.

Not writing it doesn't feel right, because you can't just have others agree to let the protagonist do this with a snap of your fingers, right? It's purely a torture segment. I know you don't like to read it, and I don't really want to write it, but I have to write it.

(End of this chapter)