Two spirit bones, one an eighty-three-thousand-year-old Right Arm Bone, and the other a seventy-two-thousand-year-old Left Leg Bone.
Coupled with the seventy-five-thousand-year-old Left Arm Bone already absorbed by the old butler, the three inherited spirit bones from the Clear Sky Sect all had ages exceeding seventy thousand years.
As fellow Upper Three Sects, the gap between the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and the Clear Sky Sect was truly immense.
However, without the Nine Absolute Skills of Clear Sky and the Great Sumeru Hammer, the Clear Sky Hammer would merely be an ordinary top-tier tool Martial Soul, lacking any special characteristics.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul possessed innate treasure appraisal abilities and the talent for Ring Fusion.
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul could undergo dragonization by absorbing Dragon-type or Sub-Dragon-type Spirit Beasts.
Even the Seven Killing Sword, another top-tier tool Martial Soul, had the ability to transform Spirit Rings into Sword Stars.
One could only say that Tang Chen had elevated the Clear Sky Sect to a height it didn't belong.
Yu Xiaogang's statement, "There are no useless Martial Souls in the world, only useless Spirit Masters," was correct in a sense.
But the biggest flaw in that statement was that it shouldn't have been uttered by a useless person like Yu Xiaogang.
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Lin Rong hadn't been sitting for long before the old butler finished absorbing the Left Leg Bone.
However, the old butler did not end his meditative state after absorbing the spirit bone.
On the contrary, a vast and boundless Soul Power erupted from the old butler, its accompanying wind pressure sending Lin Rong tumbling several times in mid-air before he landed against the stone chamber wall.
"Is Grandpa Yu about to break through to level ninety-seven?"
Lin Rong quickly deduced the reason, a look of joy appearing on his face as he thought to himself:
"Calculating the time, it's been over two years since Grandpa Yu broke through to level ninety-six. Grandpa Yu's Soul Power accumulation is already at the peak of level ninety-six; he just needed a catalyst to break through to level ninety-seven."
"His breakthrough now is within expectations."
"Level ninety-seven. At the current timeline, Sword Douluo Chen Xin hasn't broken through yet, so only the Third Worship of the Spirit Hall is at this Soul Power level."
"In terms of Soul Power level alone, Grandpa Yu can now stand alongside the Third Worship of the Spirit Hall in fifth place in the world."
Tang Chen, Bo Saixi, and Qian Daoliu, these three level ninety-nine Peerless Douluo, shared first place.
The Second Worship of the Spirit Hall at level ninety-eight ranked fourth.
Below them, the Soul Power at level ninety-seven would naturally rank fifth.
Additionally, Bibi Dong's Soul Power level during this period was unknown, so she was not included in the ranking.
After a while.
The old butler completed his Soul Power breakthrough, retracting the released Soul Power.
With the breakthrough in Soul Power and four spirit bones on his body, an unprecedented sense of power surged through the old butler's heart.
This caused the old butler, who rarely smiled, to involuntarily reveal genuine joy.
Seeing this, Lin Rong walked behind the old butler, leaning his entire body onto his back, and asked:
"Grandpa Yu, how many of your Extraordinary Meridians have you opened?"
"Seven meridians," the old butler replied briefly, then continued:
"When I broke through to Titled Douluo, this old servant had already opened the Chong Meridian and Dai Meridian, as well as the Du Meridian."
"Over these past two years, with the meridian charts you provided, young master, this old servant has successively opened the Yin Qiao Meridian and Yang Qiao Meridian."
"And during the breakthrough just now, this old servant took the opportunity of the physical modifications from consecutively absorbing two spirit bones to open the Yin Wei Meridian and Yang Wei Meridian one after another."
"It's a shame I couldn't open the last meridian, the Ren Meridian, in one go."
Lin Rong listened to the old butler's account and nodded inwardly.
Without a proper cultivation technique, even if one knew the locations of the Extraordinary Meridians, it was still extremely difficult to open them solely through meditation and circulating Soul Power.
Even the old butler, with his high level ninety-six Soul Power, had only opened two of the eight meridians in two years.
This made Lin Rong's mind turn to the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
"To cultivate the Marrow Cleansing Scripture later, one needs a foundation in the Muscle-Tendon Changing Scripture, but the Mysterious Heaven Skill is different; it has no restrictions, and anyone can cultivate it."
"It seems I need to find a way to pry the Mysterious Heaven Skill out of Tang San's mouth!"
"Although the Mysterious Heaven Skill is useless to me, it will be useful to others under my command."
"Especially Ma Hongjun; with the Mysterious Heaven Skill, his cultivation speed should increase significantly."
"Speaking of Ma Hongjun, he should have broken through level forty by now, right?"
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Star Dou Great Forest.
Ge Long leaned against a large tree, watching Ma Hongjun absorb a spirit ring beside him.
Ma Hongjun was only ten years and seven months old at this time.
At this age, to have broken through to level forty Soul Power, and for Ge Long to have personally witnessed Ma Hongjun absorbing his fourth spirit ring, he still found it somewhat unbelievable.
This cultivation speed, which surpassed common sense, was simply subverting his understanding of the world.
"Where did Lin Xianzhi find such a monster? Although, when Lin Xianzhi first came to Jialing Pass, his own cultivation was only that of a three-ringed Soul Elder."
"Compared to this monster Hongjun, Lin Xianzhi is not inferior at all. Moreover, he is two months younger than Hongjun, which makes him seem even more of a monster."
"Compared to these two monsters, I, at over forty years old, am only a seventy-something Soul Saint. I've practically wasted all these years."
"Are all the young Spirit Masters these days cultivating this fast?"
"How long has it been since I left the Spirit Master world? Has my understanding already fallen so far behind the times?" Ge Long thought, falling into a deep state of self-doubt.
However, when Ge Long glanced at Xu Pan beside him, his heart finally found some balance.
"I can't compare to Lin Xianzhi and Hongjun, these two monsters, but I'm still much stronger than this person."
"My age is similar to his, but I've already cultivated to the Soul Saint stage, while he's only a Soul Emperor."
After a long while.
Ma Hongjun finished absorbing his spirit ring and ended his meditation.
His fourth spirit ring was taken from a Fire Feathered Sparrow over five thousand five hundred years old, also a flying spirit beast with a phoenix bloodline.
After consecutively absorbing four spirit rings from spirit beasts with phoenix bloodlines, Ma Hongjun's Fire Phoenix Martial Soul's phoenix flames underwent a slight change.
The original purplish-red phoenix flames were purified after Ma Hongjun absorbed the Phoenix Crested Sunflower, turning into a golden-red.
And now, the golden-red phoenix flames were transforming into a true red. If observed closely, one could see faint seven-colored flowing light appearing on the surface of the phoenix flames.
If, one day, the phoenix flames completely transformed into a true red and emitted seven-colored flowing light, only then could these flames be considered the Seven-Colored Divine Fire controlled by a phoenix.
To achieve this goal, all nine of Ma Hongjun's spirit rings had to be from flying spirit beasts with phoenix bloodlines, and the phoenix bloodline contained within these flying spirit beasts could not be too weak.
Only then, when Ma Hongjun cultivated to the Titled Douluo stage, would he have a chance to transform his phoenix flames into Seven-Colored Divine Fire.
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