Although the Ice-Fire Dragon Kings no longer possessed cultivation levels, they lived long lives and had once stood at lofty heights, granting them abundant wisdom.
Wisdom itself was a kind of power. With the help of the Ice-Fire Dragon Kings, Xiao Lin quickly used the ultimate ice-fire energy to activate his body's powerful life force.
This strong life force allowed Xiao Lin to smoothly circulate his qi and blood power.
Soon, under the circulation method derived from the Xuantian Gong—the Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill—Xiao Lin's Vajra Indestructible Soul Power gained even greater offensive and defensive capabilities.
Xiao Lin's qi and blood reached their peak, and his physical quality rivaled that of soul beasts of the same rank and fierce race.
If Xiao Lin used soul power to protect his body, he could crush soul beasts of the same level even without using soul techniques.
"小 Linzi, not bad, not bad. With this physique, even without soul power, if you go to the Extreme North, you won't freeze to death,"
the Ice Dragon King said with satisfaction as he observed Xiao Lin's physical state.
"Thus, Xiao Lin, as long as you have soul rings of sufficiently high age, you can passively enhance your physical qualities massively."
The Fire Dragon King nodded but quickly changed tone.
"However, if you want to add lightning-attribute soul rings, then we are powerless."
"Sticking with ultimate ice-fire and qi-blood power is actually pretty good."
This time, the Ice Dragon King didn't refute the Fire Dragon King and said:
"With ice-fire attribute, after you absorb the soul rings and return to this Yin-Yang Ice and Fire Eye, we can directly use the spiritual energy here to temper your soul rings. But lightning attribute, or other attributes, isn't feasible."
"In fact, if it's a lightning dragon, we can add some dragon power, increase the soul ring age, and temper the soul skill. But lightning attribute enhancement, we can't do that."
When Xiao Lin was confused, the Ice-Fire Dragon Kings explained the reason.
With their former strength, even their energies after death could change the geographical environment.
And the effect could last, as Xiao Lin knew, up to ten thousand years.
These powers were enough for Xiao Lin to swap in soul rings aged hundreds of thousands of years.
After hearing the Ice-Fire Dragon Kings' explanation, Xiao Lin nodded.
But for now, he was not ready to change the soul ring choices for his three-phase power. The lightning attribute soul power was insufficient; he could seek enhancement from the Sea God later.
Since the Ice-Fire Dragon Kings were tempering his soul rings, Xiao Lin didn't want to act rashly and expose their presence inside his consciousness space to the Sea God.
For the second Martial Soul, Xiao Lin planned to find a dragon-type soul beast as the base. If not, he would look into awakening his original body Martial Soul.
The appearance of qi and blood power gave Xiao Lin a new idea.
Why not use the qi-blood channels—the body's meridians, blood vessels, and veins—to form a new Martial Soul?
If the original Martial Soul became the carrier of qi and blood power, Xiao Lin's growth would accelerate dramatically.
This would fix the previous slowdown in soul power advancement caused by bearing qi and blood power.
In other words, Xiao Lin's research now focused on a second Martial Soul awakening and awakening his original Martial Soul—ideally a body-based Martial Soul like the meridians, or maybe the torso bones or spine.
The human spine is responsible for blood formation and is closely connected to qi and blood power.
Moreover, if the torso bone Martial Soul awakened, and Xiao Lin later absorbed a torso soul bone, would that soul bone advance together with his body Martial Soul?
Xiao Lin thought it was worth trying, along with a wing-type external soul bone.
If a wing-type external soul bone fused with the torso bone, and then fused with the spine Martial Soul, all three would become one, evolving together.
By then, Xiao Lin might truly become iron-boned and indestructible!
Well, well, such a three-in-one progress might allow his body to reach the quality of a divine artifact and rival the future quality of his Martial Soul Qiu Long Staff.
If the qualities matched, awakening the second Martial Soul might be easier.
After careful calculation, Xiao Lin finally decided that his second Martial Soul would be the spine.
If a dragon-level fierce beast soul beast with powerful torso bones dropped those soul bones, that would be even better.
In other words, if the two Dragon Kings were to be resurrected, Xiao Lin might even consider using their soul bones.
"By the way, two Dragon Kings, what are your soul bones?"
Xiao Lin suddenly remembered and blurted out the question.
"Our bodies haven't decayed yet. You want our soul bones?"
"One of us is ultimate fire, the other ultimate ice—the dragon bodies don't get damaged so easily."
"Come to think of it, it was a certain dragon that dealt us the most damage."
The Ice Dragon King said, suddenly noticing how cheeky Xiao Lin was acting.
Their soul bones stored vast amounts of soul power; there was no way they would give them to Xiao Lin.
Besides, those soul bones were the key to their resurrection.
The energy of the Yin-Yang Ice and Fire Eye was just soul power manifested from their bodies—what humans would call simple soul ring energy.
With this soul ring energy, the two Dragon Kings planned to temper Xiao Lin's soul rings' quality later, and yet Xiao Lin actually dared to covet their soul bones.
"Hehe!"
Xiao Lin smiled awkwardly, feeling like a naughty kid caught by parents.
Soul bones of ultimate ice-fire attribute might be of quality hundreds of thousands or millions of years old—who wouldn't want them?
Since the two Dragon Kings had once been God King-level powerhouses, their soul bones surely wouldn't be weaker than the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, who wasn't even a god.
Suddenly the air quieted down, and Xiao Lin left the consciousness space and returned to reality.
At this moment, Tang San, who had long finished absorbing his immortal herb, was staring at Xiao Lin with wide eyes, almost pressing his face against him.
"小 San, what are you doing?"
Xiao Lin almost got startled and said irritably.
"Lin Ge, something's wrong with you. You seem to have perfectly absorbed the herb's energy."
Having just finished absorbing the Wangchuan Qiushui herb, Tang San's eyes had become a sort of low-level "fiery golden eye"—able not only to see through soul power amounts in bodies but also to see how much immortal herb energy Xiao Lin had absorbed.
Tang San could even see Xiao Lin's soul power inside his body—enough to recognize Xiao Wu's true form when he returned.
Looking at Xiao Lin's soul power inside him, vast as an ocean, explosive like erupting volcanic lava, yet solid like a massive iceberg—
Tang San was momentarily speechless. If Xiao Lin's soul power weren't limited to level 40, Tang San would have thought Xiao Lin could break through to level 50.
"The Qiu Long Staff did it."
Xiao Lin gave a casual excuse and suddenly noticed Tang San had changed a lot.
He looked much paler, and where his black hair had been, now it was fully the blue-silver grass color.
"小 San, your Martial Soul evolved?"
Tang San smiled and nodded in response to Xiao Lin's curious question.
"Not only did my Martial Soul evolve fully into the Blue Silver King, I'm just a few steps away from becoming the Blue Silver Emperor."
"Also, my Split Mind Control and Purple Extreme Demon Eyes have broken through thanks to the Wangchuan Qiushui herb."
Tang San proudly shared his fortune. If it weren't for the soul power limit of 40, he would have broken through level 43 by now.
"Enough of that. I gained some insight from absorbing the herb and developed a new cultivation method to enhance life force and physical quality. Here, it's yours."
Xiao Lin casually nodded and quickly taught Tang San the cultivation method of qi and blood power.
As expected of a martial arts genius, Tang San quickly understood the cultivation of qi and blood power under Xiao Lin's oral instructions.
He deeply realized how beneficial this qi and blood power was to life force and absorbing immortal herbs.
"Thanks, Lin Ge!"
Tang San showed some excitement and thanked him, then began his first qi and blood power cultivation session.
"What's there to thank? We're all friends!"
In just a moment, Xiao Lin didn't even care, took off his black robe, and plunged into the Yin-Yang Ice and Fire Eye to begin his own cultivation.
(End of Chapter)