Chapter 17: The Strengthening Brought by the Spirit Ring

After Jerry absorbed his first spirit ring, his spirit power did not level up; it remained at level 23.

After all, absorbing a first spirit ring only after reaching level twenty-plus, and it being just a century-old ring, meant the boost to his spirit power was not significant.

Jerry's physical strength had received a massive boost, far better than the effects of his own previous training.

His mental power had also improved. It seemed there were many benefits to absorbing a spirit ring: besides the most basic improvements to physical strength, mental power, and spirit power, one could also obtain a spirit skill.

Jerry practiced for a while and discovered that his cultivation speed had increased by approximately thirty percent.

Jerry realized that innate spirit power represented the baseline cultivation speed. If a person with innate full spirit power had a baseline cultivation speed of 10, then he could only count as 0.5.

The primary meditation method provided by the academy could increase cultivation speed by about 20%. At this point, his cultivation speed was 0.5 x 120% = 0.6.

That was why, after practicing for the first year, his spirit power had only grown by half a level.

Others with higher innate spirit power saw much more obvious improvements.

But he could plant his martial soul, and when his martial soul absorbed spirit power from underground, it was twice as much as from the air.

At this time, his underground cultivation speed should count as 1, and adding the primary meditation method, it should be 1.2.

Adding the ground and underground speeds together, his cultivation speed was 1.8.

With the boost from the first spirit ring, his cultivation speed had reached 2.34.

Plus the decade-old animal fertilizer he made—these fertilizers contained very sufficient spirit power, and as long as the spirit power wasn't exhausted, it could be absorbed continuously. This was probably an inherent characteristic of the plant itself!

There were many plant-type martial souls on the Douluo Continent, but when they practiced, they all summoned their martial souls, operated their meditation methods, and absorbed spirit power from the air through their martial souls to practice.

Even for mimicry cultivation, they would go into the deep forest, which would increase cultivation speed somewhat, but no one had ever planted their own martial soul in the soil. Had the people of this world all been dumbed down?

When he originally read the source material, he felt it was strange. Tang Hao planted the Blue Silver Emperor seed in a damp cave behind a waterfall.

Tang San was an adult, and a deep-scheming person who could steal Tang Sect secret manuals, yet he kowtowed to become a disciple after Yu Xiaogang said a few words.

Yu Xiaogang's Ten Core Theories had many problems if one thought about them even slightly, yet he, a researcher of theory, couldn't discover them.

Where had their IQs gone!

Xiao Wu was a hundred-thousand-year spirit beast; who gave her the confidence to participate in the National Advanced Spirit Master Competition, and even run into Wuhun City?

After absorbing the first spirit ring, his mental power improved, and Jerry also thought of many problems.

The Grandmaster had a theory that a Spirit Master could practice before adding a spirit ring, it would just be slower.

After absorbing a spirit ring, the results of the previous practice would manifest.

Slower!

This problem was not a problem at all for Jerry. Most of Jerry's practice relied on the fertilizer spirit power absorbed from the soil, which was far more than the spirit power in the air.

It was equivalent to soaking in a jar of spirit power; as long as he breathed, he had spirit power to absorb.

So, before adding a spirit ring, Jerry could still practice to level twenty-plus, but after that, the spirit power required was too much, and the decade-old spirit beast fertilizer provided a limited amount.

Jerry didn't have a faction supporting him from behind; otherwise, Jerry felt he could have practiced to an even higher level.

He also tested the effect of accelerating spirit power recovery in his first spirit skill; it was also increased by thirty percent.

Finally, regarding absorbing spirit power into the spirit ring, Jerry tried natural absorption, but the effect wasn't very obvious. When in the soil, he could control whether to absorb spirit power for practice or absorb spirit power into the spirit ring.

Anyway, his spirit power practice was very slow now, so he might as well absorb it into the spirit ring first!

The second spirit ring hadn't been cultivated well yet. According to his current physical strength, even if he couldn't absorb a thousand-year one, he could absorb an eight- or nine-hundred-year one, which was much higher than the seven-hundred-plus years the Grandmaster talked about.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 18 =====