Chapter 170: God-given Soul Ring and Self-condensed Soul Ring
After the golden bead appeared, it began to float in front of Mo Hui, radiating golden light.
This golden bead was none other than the God-given Soul Ring that Mo Hui had previously obtained.
As he stared at the floating golden bead, Mo Hui's eyes gleamed with brilliance. Since acquiring it, he had spent time studying the God-given Soul Ring. After using one before and researching it for days, he had begun to vaguely grasp its underlying principles.
In Mo Hui's view, the mechanism behind the God-given Soul Ring was actually quite simple—similar to the method he used when he condensed his fourth soul ring using the Hurricane Bird's soul bone. In essence, both approaches used a tremendous energy source to allow a Soul Master to condense their own soul ring.
The key difference was that Mo Hui relied on the massive energy within a soul bone, using its built-in soul power circuit to take a shortcut. The God-given Soul Ring, on the other hand, used divine power.
In the Douluo Continent, divine power was an incredibly high-level energy—far surpassing the energy from the Hurricane Bird's soul bone. It could accomplish many miraculous feats, including directly increasing the age of a soul ring.
So if it could increase a ring's age, it was no surprise that it could also allow a Soul Master to condense a ring outright.
Mo Hui believed the reason God-given Soul Rings provided soul skills that perfectly matched the user was because they eliminated the soul beast factor, allowing the Soul Master to condense a soul ring independently. Naturally, the resulting skill would be the one most compatible with the user.
As for the ring's age—it depended on the user's physical capabilities and the amount of divine power contained in the bead.
Normally, the energy in a God-given Soul Ring was more than enough to create a 100,000-year soul ring. If someone couldn't achieve that, it meant they had wasted a significant portion of the divine power during the absorption process.
Mo Hui then reached out with his right hand and crushed the golden bead.
Immediately, a thick golden mist surged forth and wrapped around his body.
A powerful sense of fullness, followed by pain, swept through him. But Mo Hui had experienced this before, and he calmly focused on condensing the soul ring.
The first time he used a God-given Soul Ring—during the Wind God's test—it took him two months to form a 100,000-year ring.
This time, it only took one month.
When Mo Hui opened his eyes from the absorption process, a blood-red soul ring circled him.
Staring at the 100,000-year soul ring, Mo Hui couldn't help but smile.
After all, in the Douluo Continent, 100,000-year soul rings were the ultimate dream of every Soul Master. And now, he had two—at the Soul Saint stage.
After a brief moment of joy, Mo Hui sighed and muttered, "It's a good thing I'm undergoing the God Tests, with the divine powers of the Wind God and Sea God suppressing me. Otherwise, with my twin spirits, there's no way I could've absorbed a 100,000-year ring like this."
In the history of Douluo, the instability of twin spirits had never truly been solved. Even Bibi Dong had only managed to control it by chance, and the second spirit still carried a risk of explosion upon absorption.
That was with soul rings of 10,000 years.
But this was 100,000 years.
If not for the suppressive environment created by the God Tests, Mo Hui wouldn't have dared to even try absorbing such a soul ring into his second spirit.
After collecting his thoughts, Mo Hui stood up. At the same time, Pidgeot descended from the sky and landed beside him.
Seeing this, Mo Hui smiled, raised his hand, and gently patted Pidgeot's head.
"Thanks for guarding me, Pidgeot. You've worked hard."
"Beep~"
Pidgeot squinted his eyes, clearly enjoying the gesture.
Though he now towered over Mo Hui, to him, Pidgeot was still the little bird who once perched on his shoulder.
"Clap clap clap~"
At that moment, the sound of applause came from the woods nearby. A graceful woman in red stepped into view.
Poseidon approached with a smile and said, "Congratulations on obtaining another 100,000-year soul ring."
Her eyes showed a hint of envy. Though her eight black and one red soul ring configuration was already legendary on the continent, even she had only one 100,000-year soul ring.
Meanwhile, Mo Hui had two—as a Soul Saint.
Mo Hui nodded and responded, "Just lucky, really. Mostly thanks to the God-given Soul Rings. Without them, I wouldn't have had a chance at obtaining two of these."
After all these years of observation, Mo Hui was almost certain this world lacked Di Tian's group of ferocious beasts.
Otherwise, when he and Pidgeot entered the Star Dou Forest to get their sixth soul ring, it would have been impossible for Pidgeot's supernatural vision to miss any trace of them.
If there were no Di Tian and his group, then 100,000-year soul beasts were extremely rare in the Douluo Continent.
On land, the known 100,000-year beasts included: Titan Giant Ape, Sky Blue Bull Python, Death Spider Emperor, Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin, Xiao Wu, and her mother.
In the ocean, there were three more: Demon Spirit Great White Shark King Xiaobai, the Evil Demon Killer Whale King, and the Deep Sea Demon Whale King.
Just ten total—and some of those had already become soul rings.
There might be others, but finding them would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Even Mo Hui couldn't guarantee he could locate them—or how long it would take.
So, the God-given Soul Ring was vital to him. Without it, obtaining 100,000-year soul rings would be an exhausting challenge.
As for self-condensed soul rings, Mo Hui had made notable progress in understanding them thanks to studying the God-given versions. But one issue continued to plague him:
How to gather the massive energy required for a self-condensed ring.
Without that level of dense and refined energy, the concept remained a theory.
And that kind of energy wasn't easy to find. As far as Mo Hui knew, only the green mist inside the alien wind elemental region met the requirement.
No other known place—not even high-level training areas like Hurricane Canyon—came close.
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