When his spirit power broke through twenty ranks, Su Ming's brows began to furrow.
"It's time to condense the Soul Core. Make sure you don't make any mistakes when engraving the array," Du Bu Si reminded him.
Su Can's expression was serious as he began to engrave the array.
He dared not make any mistakes, quickly placing several prepared rare metals in different positions.
After arranging these array cores, he began to use his spirit power to guide the patterns within each rare metal, constructing spirit power channels in the void.
Finally, a hexagram array formed, suppressing Su Ming in its center.
Feeling the pressure of the array, Su Ming breathed a sigh of relief.
The spirit power within his body was restrained, and the spirit power that could flow through his meridians simultaneously became very little, which meant that his scarce spirit power was enough to spread throughout all his meridians.
This was the key to condensing the Soul Core, as it involved the connection between the condensed Soul Core and the energy within the meridians throughout the body.
If only a few meridians were used to condense the Soul Core, not to mention whether the Soul Core could still circulate spirit power with other meridians after condensation, the impact of the Soul Core's collapse on the other unused meridians alone was a huge unknown.
A complete cycle, this was not enough.
Pressure was still needed.
Fortunately, this array also provided it, compressing his spirit power.
Not only the array, but his spirit power was also compressing itself.
After absorbing the second spirit ring, his spirit power broke through twenty ranks, directly reaching twenty-one ranks, and it hadn't completely stopped, rapidly advancing towards twenty-two and twenty-three ranks.
During this process, his spirit power also received feedback, gradually compressing.
Taking advantage of the spirit power compression, he suddenly converged his spirit power at his Dantian.
Boom!
At this moment, Su Ming felt a roar.
The spirit power in his body was instantly drained and concentrated in his Dantian, forming a vortex.
From countless corners of his body, threads of spirit power emerged. This was the spirit power he had cultivated before but had not manifested, replenishing his dry meridians and seamlessly connecting with the vortex-shaped spirit power.
The vortex gradually stabilized, becoming an important propellant for Su Ming's internal spirit power.
Driven by this vortex, Su Ming quickly completed a cycle of spirit power circulation, taking even less than half the time it used to!
Of course, his spirit power was sluggish and difficult to circulate before.
Compared to his fastest spirit power circulation, the time it now took him to complete a cycle was only sixty percent of what it was then.
This meant that in the same amount of time, he could circulate it two-thirds more.
Not only was spirit power cultivation faster, spirit power recovery faster, but spirit power output was also faster, allowing him to have smoother output.
This was not over yet.
The formation of the vortex was just the beginning; as time passed, the spirit power vortex would grow larger and larger, and the concentration of spirit power contained within would become increasingly exaggerated.
Only when the Soul Core expanded to fill the entire Dantian would it be a true Soul Core.
Currently, Su Ming had merely guided the spirit power within his body to form a rudimentary Soul Core, alleviating the crisis of his spirit power solidification.
"A normal Soul Core is a vortex formed by the compression of spirit power filling the Spirit Master's meridians, directly forming in the Dantian. My total spirit power is much less, and the vortex hasn't even filled the Dantian."
After checking his condition, Su Ming began to feel optimistic.
His spirit power was still rising, and the spirit power he had accumulated before was indeed quite a lot.
And the growth of spirit power, according to his Spirit's feedback, would lead to an improvement in spirit power quality. Now, this improvement became less obvious. A rudimentary Soul Core directly propelled the spirit power to spread out in the meridians. The density simply couldn't increase; before it could be compressed, it was rapidly dispersed to various parts of the meridians by the rudimentary Soul Core. When it was about to become denser, it would be completely absorbed by the Soul Core to strengthen the vortex, while another part, propelled by the rudimentary Soul Core, would disperse throughout the body again.
In this cycle, although the spirit power quality slowly improved, the amplitude was greatly reduced.
"If this continues, I can at least cultivate safely to forty ranks, and after obtaining the fourth spirit ring, I probably won't face the crisis of spirit power solidifying again."
"Hmm, my spirit power is increasing a bit too fast."
Su Ming had just breathed a sigh of relief, but as he felt the changes in his spirit power, he couldn't help but feel distressed.
Too fast.
He had stayed at twenty ranks for four months before becoming a disciple of the Body Sect. In these four months, he had at least risen one rank, but he couldn't manifest it. Plus, this time he absorbed a twelve-hundred-year Star Tree spirit ring, perfectly integrating its cultivation in the form of a Soul Spirit, which increased his spirit power by at least one more rank, along with the energy contained in the two thousand-year whale gels he had consumed earlier.
With such a large accumulation of energy, he directly broke through to twenty-five ranks!
"Hiss, I haven't even enjoyed the pleasure of freely increasing my spirit power yet, so don't let it increase so fast that I have to condense a second Soul Core!" Su Ming wanted to cry but had no tears.
Of course, he wouldn't slow down his cultivation speed to avoid condensing a second Soul Core; that would be putting the cart before the horse.
Isn't freely increasing spirit power about maximizing the speed of spirit power cultivation?
Cultivating at full power is the greatest respect for one's talent.
"Never mind, I'll cultivate to my heart's content first. As for the condensation of the second Soul Core, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. With future technological support, the difficulty can always be greatly reduced."
The dual Soul Cores in the Douluo Continent III era were already very common, and there was enough experience and models for Su Ming to learn from.
"Now, let's check the Sea of Consciousness first."
This was the greatest advantage of Soul Spirits.
Any Spirit Master, once their mental force reached a certain level, could open their Sea of Consciousness under the stimulation of a Soul Spirit. Spirit Masters in the Douluo Continent III era could basically sense the existence of their Sea of Consciousness.
It could be said that the existence of Soul Spirits directly helped Spirit Masters activate half of their mental attribute talent.
Even non-mental attribute Spirit Masters could make progress in mental force not inferior to mental attribute Spirit Masters in the Douluo Continent II era, and even those with slower growth were faster than mental attribute Spirit Masters in the dou one era.
"Over there in the future..."
Su Ming began to communicate with his future self, and upon learning the result from the future perspective, the corners of his mouth unconsciously curved upwards.
Seeing the change in Su Ming's mouth, Su Can and Du Bu Si both breathed a sigh of relief, but wondered why Su Ming hadn't opened his eyes yet.
"There really is power of belief gathering."
This indicated that the status he obtained now could be used by his future self.
"Next, I need to see if I can receive the power of belief that hasn't been collected immediately over the past ten thousand years. If I can, then I can even skip the time spent collecting faith!"
Su Ming didn't have time to test his idea before he was drawn by his own perception.
Dou San's Su Ming had experienced the power of belief.
At this moment, Douluo Continent II era's Su Ming entered his Sea of Consciousness and saw threads of power of belief within it.
"No, why would I have faith now?"
Something must be wrong.
In this era, where would the faith in Soul Spirits come from?