Chapter 71: Planetary Consciousness

Zhou Heng looked at the three crimson Blood Qi Soul Rings beneath his feet in disbelief; he had gone to such lengths to obtain Blood Qi Soul Rings, so how could they not even have soul skills?

Could it be because he was not like Tang Wulin, who had the Golden Dragon King Bloodline sealed within his body? Tang Wulin had the Golden Dragon King Bloodline as a template, and every time he obtained a Blood Qi Soul Ring, he would gain a soul skill related to the Golden Dragon King.

He had no bloodline in his body at all, so although the Blood Qi Soul Rings had condensed due to his powerful Qi and Blood Power, he had not gained corresponding soul skills because he lacked a suitable template.

Zhou Heng deduced a highly probable explanation, but he did not know if his speculation was actually correct.

He also did not know how he should solve the problem of the soul rings lacking soul skills.

If one followed the formation principle of normal soul rings, a soul ring was a ring-shaped energy body formed under the regulations of the laws of Douluo Star, using a portion of a Spirit Beast's soul power as its material basis and the Spirit Beast's Spirit Origin as its content.

After a Spirit Master reached a level bottleneck, they could absorb this ring-shaped energy body to break through the bottleneck and reach the next level.

The Spirit Beast's partial soul power helped the Spirit Master break through the bottleneck, and the Spirit Origin, under the rules of Douluo Star, condensed into the soul skill within the soul ring; this constituted the entirety of a soul ring.

His own Blood Qi Soul Rings were equivalent to the Spirit Beast's partial soul power, but because they lacked the Spirit Origin within, it resulted in the Blood Qi Soul Rings lacking the soul skills that normal soul rings should have.

Now, to solve the problem of the soul rings lacking a Spirit Origin, he needed to inject a Spirit Origin into them to form soul skills.

But how does one inject a Spirit Origin into them? Should he inject his own Spirit Origin or a Spirit Beast's Spirit Origin? After injecting a Spirit Origin, would it definitely form a soul skill? These were all questions.

These problems all needed to be solved by Zhou Heng, but after thinking through the principles of soul ring formation, Zhou Heng could conduct experiments slowly to solve the problems.

Zhou Heng shook his head and sighed, intending to retract the Blood Qi Soul Rings and preparing to study these problems slowly in the future.

Dugu Bo watched Zhou Heng's actions of being anxious and then shaking his head and sighing, not knowing what was wrong with Zhou Heng.

Could it be that he was dissatisfied with these three soul rings?

Dugu Bo did not know what Zhou Heng was thinking, nor was it easy to ask, so he could only watch Zhou Heng's actions from the side.

Just as Zhou Heng was about to retract the Blood Qi Soul Rings back into his body, a trace of spiritual power slightly touched one of the Blood Qi Soul Rings.

Zhou Heng immediately felt this trace of his spiritual power being absorbed into the Blood Qi Soul Ring; Zhou Heng hurriedly mobilized his spiritual power to carefully perceive the absorbed spiritual power, but he could no longer feel that trace of spiritual power.

"What is going on?"

The spiritual power absorbed from Zhou Heng did not affect Zhou Heng's state, but how could this Blood Qi Soul Ring absorb spiritual power?

Could it be that as long as he let the Blood Qi Soul Ring absorb his own spiritual power, the problem of the soul ring lacking a soul skill could be solved?

Zhou Heng did not know the answers to these questions, nor did he dare to experiment rashly.

After thinking it over, Zhou Heng decided to first withdraw all his spiritual power back into his Sea of Consciousness, study it for a while, and then make a decision.

Zhou Heng retracted all his spiritual power, gathering it all back into his Sea of Consciousness.

However, just as Zhou Heng gathered all his spiritual power into his Sea of Consciousness, a flash of pure white radiance emanated from between Zhou Heng's brows.

Everything around seemed to stand still, stopping in place.

A voice rang out in Zhou Heng's heart: "Heng, do you... have... what is the matter?"

Zhou Heng was shocked to hear this voice; it was Manxing!

"Manxing! How did you take the initiative to communicate with me?"

"No, it was Heng... who... took the initiative to find Manxing, it was not Manxing contacting Heng." The first half of what Manxing said was still somewhat intermittent, but the second half was already communicating normally with Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng found it hard to believe that he had "taken the initiative to communicate with Manxing."

He didn't seem to have the ability to communicate with a planetary consciousness, did he? How did he communicate with Manxing?

"That's not right, is it? I don't have the ability to take the initiative to communicate with you, so how did I communicate with you?"

"Lan said that you have this ability; as long as you gather your spiritual power, you can communicate with things that have intelligence."

Zhou Heng could not figure out how this was done, but Zhou Heng knew that the Lan whom Manxing spoke of was the planetary consciousness of Shuilanxing.

If the Shuilanxing planetary consciousness said he could communicate with things that have intelligence, then he must possess this ability.

The reason he was able to communicate with Manxing must be because when he gathered his spiritual power into his Sea of Consciousness, he accidentally linked his spiritual power with Manxing's consciousness, which allowed Zhou Heng and Manxing to communicate.

While Zhou Heng was deep in thought, Manxing seemed to have discovered something; its attention was no longer entirely on Zhou Heng, and most of its attention went to do something else, causing Manxing's consciousness to fluctuate.

Zhou Heng's attention was drawn by the fluctuations born from Manxing's consciousness, watching as Manxing transferred most of its planetary consciousness elsewhere to go do its own business.

Feeling a bit curious, he asked Manxing: "Manxing, what are you doing?"

After several breaths, Manxing's voice rang out again: "Heng, there is a meteorite rushing toward the planet; I am consuming some power to guide the landing site of this meteorite into the ocean."

"You even have such an ability? That's right, you are a planetary consciousness after all, capable of controlling everything on the planet; a tiny meteorite poses no threat to you."

Zhou Heng thought about the problem of his Blood Qi Soul Rings lacking soul skills; he might as well ask Manxing if it knew how to solve this problem.

Thinking of this, Zhou Heng asked Manxing's consciousness: "Manxing, my Lan helped me condense three Blood Qi Soul Rings, but these three Blood Qi Soul Rings only have an exterior and no soul skills; do you know how to solve this?"

After Zhou Heng asked the question, Manxing's consciousness paused for a moment before saying to Zhou Heng: "Lan told me that it is not just these three Blood Qi Soul Rings; the soul skills for future Blood Qi Soul Rings will all require you to create the soul skills within the soul rings yourself.

Lan asked me to tell you the knowledge regarding soul rings; do you want me to transmit the knowledge regarding soul rings to you now?"

Hearing that this was done intentionally by the Shuilanxing planetary consciousness, Zhou Heng also understood the Shuilanxing planetary consciousness's intention: things given to you by others will never be as suitable for you as those you create yourself.

This was to let Zhou Heng create soul skills suitable for himself, and it even had Manxing transmit knowledge about soul rings to him; the Shuilanxing planetary consciousness was truly caring for him.

Zhou Heng was even a little moved.

"Manxing, transmit the knowledge regarding soul rings now."

Zhou Heng decided to acquire the knowledge regarding soul rings now, and after acquiring this knowledge, he would return to his body.

He would begin his research regarding the Blood Qi Soul Rings.

Manxing did not oppose Zhou Heng's plan, and a ball of white light appeared out of thin air in front of Zhou Heng, flying toward the space between Zhou Heng's brows.

The white light took only a few seconds to completely submerge into the space between Zhou Heng's brows.

Zhou Heng also felt streams of knowledge flowing within his Sea of Consciousness, waiting for him to peruse them.