Since awakening his Martial Soul, Lin Rong has been busy either cultivating or rushing through various important plans.
His mastery of his own spirit skills has also improved. Thanks to the Marrow Cleansing Scripture breaking through to "Mind Empty, Body Transforms Itself," his absolute control over his own body in that mental state means he can utilize his spirit skills with supernatural skill even without dedicated study.
The same applies to his control over his Soul Power and Martial Soul.
Currently, Lin Rong possesses nine spirit skills.
Four spirit ring spirit skills: Dragon Soul Awakening, Green Leaf Mark, Azure River Shines Upon Azure Sky, Dragon's Roar Thunder Realm.
Four spirit bone spirit skills: Life Pulse, Flower Transfer, Wood Grafting, Void Concealment, Thunder Prison: Heavenly Punishment.
And one domain spirit skill: Evil-Breaking Dragon's Roar.
In addition, Lin Rong has another skill—Ring Fusion.
Ring Fusion isn't a technique, but a talent. Only extremely special Spirit Masters can obtain this skill after awakening their Martial Soul.
For example, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul naturally comes with the talent skill of Ring Fusion, although this ability is quite redundant for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
This is because the effect of Ring Fusion is to instantly release all the Soul Power consumed by a Spirit Master when releasing spirit skills from all their spirit rings simultaneously.
In simple terms, it allows one to unleash their Soul Power to the maximum extent in an instant, concentrating it onto a single spirit skill, greatly enhancing the power of that spirit skill.
However, for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, the first six spirit skills are fixed percentage attribute amplifications, restricted by the Martial Soul.
Even if Ring Fusion is used, the amplification ratio of the spirit skills won't increase; at most, the duration of the spirit skill amplification will be greatly extended.
The only effective use is that Ring Fusion can significantly boost the power of the seventh spirit skill, Seven Treasures True Body.
However, using Ring Fusion is equivalent to using all of one's spirit skills, consuming an enormous amount of Soul Power.
If Ring Fusion were used on Seven Treasures True Body, a Spirit Master with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda would not have much Soul Power left to use other amplification spirit skills.
This is why direct disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect all know Ring Fusion, but very few people are aware that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda possesses such a talent skill.
For Lin Rong himself, at the current stage, Ring Fusion is also a rather redundant skill.
Ring Fusion! Fusing "Rings"!
As the name suggests, the effect of Ring Fusion is only effective on spirit ring spirit skills.
As for Lin Rong's current four spirit ring spirit skills, Dragon Soul Awakening and Azure River Shines Upon Azure Sky are pure amplification skills.
When Ring Fusion is applied to these two spirit skills, it cannot increase the amplification ratio, only extend the amplification duration.
Green Leaf Mark is somewhat special. Lin Rong has also tried it; Ring Fusion cannot increase the distance of spatial teleportation.
Among the four spirit ring spirit skills, only Dragon's Roar Thunder Realm is somewhat compatible with Ring Fusion.
Because Ring Fusion simply enhances Soul Power output, it cannot increase the amplification ratio of Dragon's Roar Thunder Realm. It only makes the barrier's coverage wider and more robust.
The pure output skill that best suits Ring Fusion, Lin Rong currently only has Thunder Prison: Heavenly Punishment, a spirit bone skill, which cannot benefit from Ring Fusion's augmentation.
Currently, Lin Rong doesn't have many attack skills, only one.
But he has never considered creating any self-created spirit skills.
So-called self-created spirit skills are, put simply, a type of technique, an application and development of a Spirit Master's own abilities.
Feng Xiaotian's Gale Wolf Severing Slash and Xie Yue's Crescent Moon are merely techniques based on the characteristics of their own Martial Souls, combined with their own spirit skills, and they aren't even considered particularly advanced techniques.
These techniques are only suitable for themselves; even people with the same Martial Soul cannot learn these techniques if their spirit skills differ.
If this were a Wuxia world, these techniques would be considered crude and unbearable, not even qualifying as basic martial arts.
Even spirit ring spirit skills and spirit bone spirit skills, products of the rules of heaven and earth, are they not still thoroughly beaten by the few ultimate skills recorded in the Tang Sect's Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record?
If a bit of shallow and unbearable technique can be called a self-created spirit skill.
Then, Lin Rong himself, who can fully control himself, every move and every stance can be called a self-created spirit skill.
In Lin Rong's opinion, only Distraction Control, Nine Absolute Skills of Clear Sky, and Great Sumeru Hammer are qualified to be called self-created spirit skills.
Distraction Control can be learned by anyone. Nine Absolute Skills of Clear Sky and Great Sumeru Hammer are not limited to the Clear Sky Hammer; they can also exert their power when using other weapons, although the Clear Sky Hammer is the most compatible.
Regarding this, Lin Rong once again felt pity for Tang Chen in his heart.
The Nine Absolute Skills of Clear Sky alone allowed the Clear Sky Hammer to stand at the pinnacle of all weapon Martial Souls.
And the Great Sumeru Hammer is undoubtedly a divine skill in this world.
Such an astonishingly talented individual, if it weren't for his destiny to be Tang San's great-grandfather, he would have already become a god and flown with Bo Saixi.
In the original work, the first Sea God repeatedly claimed that he had guided the souls of Tang Chen and Bo Saixi to the God Realm to be resurrected.
But who knows the truth behind all the twists and turns, whether it's true or false.
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Under the banyan tree.
Lin Rong attempted to control his own power without relying on the absolute control of his mind state over his body.
Having cultivated the Marrow Cleansing Scripture since childhood, Lin Rong had a high degree of control over his own power.
Although he had not yet reached the level of absolute control over his own power through his mind state, this experience of meticulously controlling his power was something his mind state could not provide.
In his mind state, all external forces were unable to interfere with Lin Rong's mental state.
This also prevented Lin Rong from experiencing the meticulous sensation of controlling power.
Currently, Lin Rong needed to settle down and experience the changes in these matters to improve his spiritual awareness.
His own strength, his own Martial Soul, these were all things Lin Rong needed to calm himself and understand with his heart.
Understand himself, experience all things.
With this dual approach, his spiritual awareness would naturally improve over time.
Until the day when it all came together naturally, Lin Rong would then touch the bottleneck of the third great realm of the Marrow Cleansing Scripture, "Hidden and Manifest, Benefiting All Beings."
Azure-colored Soul Power flowed through Lin Rong, changing into various forms under his control: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit... cycling through the twelve zodiac animals.
If he were in his Mind State, achieving this would be as easy as flipping a hand; it would only take a single thought from Lin Rong.
But that was the power of the Mind State, not Lin Rong's own.
The Mind State's power gave him the result, but it hadn't told him the process.
At this moment, Lin Rong was fully focused, carefully controlling the changes in his Soul Power, condensing the forms of the twelve zodiac animals.
At first, Lin Rong still felt somewhat overwhelmed, and the zodiac forms condensed by his Soul Power were not vivid enough.
After multiple practice sessions, Lin Rong's speed in condensing zodiac images with his Soul Power became increasingly faster, and the images themselves became more vivid.
"I'm a bit mentally exhausted. This is truly meticulous work."
Lin Rong wiped the sweat from his forehead, looking at the dragon-shaped zodiac in his palm.
This was something he had improved bit by bit, using the Dragon Soul of the Nine Bend Vine Dragon as a template.
"It looks much better than at the beginning, but it's still not comparable to what's condensed in the Mind State."
"However, to achieve this level without using the Mind State gives me a small sense of accomplishment."
"This is the experience the Mind State couldn't give me!"
Ring Fusion is not a technique, but a talent.
This sentence was explicitly written in the original work during the promotion match between Huo Wu and Tang San.
It wasn't something I fabricated.
Therefore, Ring Fusion is a talent-based skill that cannot be learned through practice.
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