After a long while, the crimson flames on the Golden Hawksbill Turtle extinguished, and a fresh red hundred-thousand-year eighth soul ring neatly aligned itself alongside the seven other equally crimson hundred-thousand-year soul rings.
After advancing to a Soul Saint, Tang Yuehua had now become a Soul Douluo, with her soul power level reaching Level 84 Soul Douluo.
Clearly, even after reaching Level 80 Quasi-Soul Douluo, Tang Yuehua's accumulated soul power hadn't been fully released.
Otherwise, her soul power shouldn't have jumped directly to Level 84 Soul Douluo—Level 82 would have been more reasonable.
After all, Tang Yuehua had only obtained a hundred-thousand-year eighth soul ring and hadn't absorbed the hundred-thousand-year left leg soul bone dropped by the Golden Hawksbill Turtle.
'Her soul power level is actually two ranks higher than mine?'
Seeing that Tang Yuehua's soul power had reached Level 84 Soul Douluo, Chu Chengzhou raised his eyebrows slightly and opened his attribute panel to take a look.
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Attribute Panel
Host: Chu Chengzhou
Soul Power: Level 82
Martial Soul: True Spirit Flag
Soul Rings: Black (10,200), Black (10,000), Black (30,600), Black (99,020), Black (29,050), Red (100,000), Red (110,900), Red (100,000)
First Soul Skill: Summon - Sky Azure Tree
Second Soul Skill: Summon - Radiant Lion
Third Soul Skill: Summon - Fire Phoenix
Fourth Soul Skill: Summon - Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear
Fifth Soul Skill: Summon - Mystic Water Turtle
Sixth Soul Skill: Summon - Titan Giant Ape
Seventh Soul Skill: Summon - Dark Demon Evil God Tiger
Eighth Soul Skill: Summon - Spatial Holy Dragon
Soul Bones: Crystal Protection Left Arm Bone (60,210), Elemental Domination Skull Bone (70,200)
Soul Core: First Soul Core (Attributeless)
Skills: Nine Breaths Qi Absorption Technique (Gold), Indestructible Golden Body (Gold), Eternal Thought (Gold), Sun-Piercing Divine Arrow (Gold), Soaring Golden Light (Gold), Illusory Void Realm (Gold), Instant Bloom (Gold), Absolute Control (Gold), Creation Hammer (Red)
AFK Slots: 1. Indestructible Golden Body (Gold), 2. Eternal Thought (Gold), 3. Nine Breaths Qi Absorption Technique (Gold), 4. Creation Hammer (Red), 5. Fourth Soul Ring (Black), 6. Martial Soul: True Spirit Flag (Top Tier), 7. Sun-Piercing Divine Arrow (Gold), 8. Elemental Domination Skull Bone (Black), 9. First Soul Ring (Black)
Four days ago, Chu Chengzhou had added his eighth soul ring in the Great Star Dou Forest, advancing his soul power to the eighth ring and reaching Level 82 Soul Douluo.
Of course, the soul beast he had hunted for his eighth soul ring wasn't a hundred-thousand-year Spatial Holy Dragon.
The Great Star Dou Forest did have hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, but they were extremely rare, especially space-attribute dragon-type soul beasts.
Previously, Chu Chengzhou had hunted a sub-dragon-type soul beast called the Thorn Dragon, which was just shy of a hundred thousand years at 99,400 years old.
This nearly hundred-thousand-year eighth soul ring allowed him to immediately jump to Level 82 Soul Douluo upon advancing to the eighth ring.
After becoming a Soul Douluo, his AFK system received a minor upgrade. While the efficiency of AFKing didn't undergo a qualitative leap, he gained an additional AFK slot.
After three days of AFKing in the ninth AFK slot, the eighth soul ring's age increased to a hundred thousand years. The Thorn Dragon summon underwent a bloodline evolution, transforming its appearance dramatically.
Initially, the Thorn Dragon summon had silver skin covered in black thorns, resembling a T-Rex from Chu Chengzhou's previous life.
However, after the bloodline evolved, while the skin color remained silver, its form transformed into a winged Western-style dragon—a true dragon-type soul beast summon rather than a sub-dragon.
For soul beasts, reaching a hundred thousand years was a significant milestone.
Take the Blue Silver Grass, for example. Ordinary Blue Silver Grass was considered a useless soul beast, but a hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Grass became the Blue Silver Emperor, a top-tier plant-type soul beast.
In terms of bloodline hierarchy, even the weakest hundred-thousand-year soul beast wouldn't be inferior to powerful ones like the Titan Giant Ape.
After the eighth soul ring reached a hundred thousand years, the name of the Thorn Dragon summon in the attribute panel changed to "???", so Chu Chengzhou renamed it the Spatial Holy Dragon and nicknamed it "Little Silver."
If a dragon-type soul beast with less than a hundred thousand years could be called the Holy Light Dragon, then his hundred-thousand-year spatial dragon summon deserved to be called the Spatial Holy Dragon, right?
Perhaps the name sounded a bit grandiose, but it wasn't undeserved.
The strength of a hundred-thousand-year summon wasn't much different from that of summons aged over a hundred thousand years. After Little Silver's age reached a hundred thousand years, Chu Chengzhou slotted his first soul ring onto it.
The Sky Azure Tree summon, Xiao Qing, was his earliest summon, and it was time to upgrade its age.
Additionally, worth mentioning was that five days later, Big Bear would become a hundred-thousand-year Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear summon. At that point, although Chu Chengzhou's soul ring configuration wouldn't match Tang Yuehua's, he would still possess four hundred-thousand-year soul rings.
"Yuehua, any changes to your soul skills?"
Closing the attribute panel, Chu Chengzhou stepped forward and asked Tang Yuehua.
Although the first six soul skills of the Wishful Ring were fixed as "Wishful," each soul ring increased the cultivation speed and comprehension rate by an additional 10% on top of the base 10%, but Chu Chengzhou wasn't sure about the effects of the seventh and eighth soul skills.
Aside from his unique True Spirit Flag martial soul, Chu Chengzhou hadn't heard of any soul master whose seventh soul skill wasn't their martial soul's true body.
As for the eighth soul skill of the Wishful Ring, he couldn't tell whether it remained consistent with the first six skills or introduced new abilities, like the Nine-Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul.
Nodding, Tang Yuehua replied, "The seventh soul skill is the Wishful Ring's true body. When activated, the soul power consumption of Wishful skills is halved.
As for the eighth soul skill, it's still Wishful. Currently, Wishful skills can increase soul power cultivation speed and comprehension by 90%."
"The effect of the martial soul's true body is just halving soul power consumption?"
Chu Chengzhou raised his eyebrows.
Just that effect seemed underwhelming for a hundred-thousand-year seventh soul ring!
In the original story, Ning Rongrong's seventh soul ring was only a black ten-thousand-year ring, far from a hundred thousand years, yet the Nine-Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's true body not only halved the soul power consumption of its own buffs but also applied them to teammates!
Moreover, martial soul true bodies typically had duration and cooldown restrictions. Given how long soul masters meditated during cultivation, if the Wishful Ring's true body only halved soul power consumption, wasn't that rather useless?
"My Wishful Ring true body has no duration or cooldown restrictions. As long as I have enough soul power, I can keep it active indefinitely, turning it on and off as needed."
Tang Yuehua smiled and added.
"That's decent!"
Chu Chengzhou nodded in satisfaction.
Though the effect was somewhat lackluster, being able to activate it freely made it passable for a hundred-thousand-year soul skill.
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