Giving up on the Deep Sea Demon Squid, Su Ming continued to activate the Sea God Faith.
In the following period, he encountered a total of three Fierce Beasts, all Sea Spirit Beasts with cultivation levels of two to three hundred thousand years, belonging to dangerous species in the deep sea. There was a shark, a whale, and a sea dragon.
"The resources in the deep sea are truly abundant."
If the deep sea could be developed, the Spirit Beast resources of the entire Douluo Planet could likely last for tens of thousands more years.
"That's normal. If the Douluo Continent is considered a plane, with resources distributed by area, then the deep sea is measured by volume. Sea Spirit Beasts are distributed down to four or five thousand meters in the deep sea. Calculating by layering every hundred meters, the utilization efficiency is at least dozens of times that of the same area. Moreover, the ocean area itself is vast, occupying seventy percent of the entire Douluo Planet's surface area."
Calculated this way, the theoretical number of Spirit Beasts in the ocean could reach a hundred times that on land.
The Spirit Beasts of the Douluo Continent have supported the development of the Spirit Master world for tens of thousands of years; the Spirit Beasts in the ocean would only be more resilient.
"So far, we haven't encountered a Spirit Beast suitable for you."
Neither master nor disciple was disappointed.
Although their main objective wasn't achieved during their daily outings, they had alternative gains. With one Sea Spirit Beast each day, their Qi and Blood cultivation progressed steadily.
Of course, Su Ming's progress was mainly the most obvious.
"It's a pity that your 'Borrowed Power' borrows from the Body Martial Spirit of ancient worthies, not your own. Otherwise, this master would find a way to help you with a Martial Spirit Second Awakening, and your strength could see a clear improvement."
Martial Spirit Second Awakening?
Su Ming also gave a wry smile.
Of his three bodies, the Douluo 1 body was a Body Martial Spirit and would probably establish the Body Sect soon. The Douluo 2 body's Spirit Power Martial Spirit also had genuine Body Martial Spirit characteristics, capable of infinite positive feedback, so it also had a Second Awakening.
But the Douluo 3 version of himself did not.
He truly didn't have any Body Martial Spirit characteristics on him.
Although theoretically, all Spirit Masters' Martial Spirits can undergo a Second Awakening, the difficulty of the awakening also determines its cost-effectiveness.
So far, only spending effort on a Second Awakening for a Body Martial Spirit is profitable.
"However, it's not without opportunity. My Elemental Control Martial Spirit is only a conceptual Martial Spirit, without a physical entity, not dependent on any part of the body. But I can find a root for it."
Because of Mu Ye's regret, Su Ming began to reconsider the possibility of his own Second Awakening.
Originally, he held no hope.
But now, upon reconsideration, the situation was different.
The conditions had changed.
"The Douluo 2 me will condense a third Martial Spirit – Elemental Control!"
The foundation of Elemental Control lies in Chaos?
That was Su Ming's previous idea, to let Chaos become an existence similar to the Ice Empress.
But now he had a new idea.
Chaos was still crucial, providing the foundation, but the root would be replaced by Su Ming's soul.
"Use Nana's Specter Martial Spirit!"
Imitate a soul, using the Specter Martial Spirit as the foundation for the third Martial Spirit, thus creating an elemental control spirit entity!
Once successfully condensed, he could try to use the Douluo 2 body to influence the Douluo 3 body, thereby allowing the Douluo 3 version of himself to possess Body Martial Spirit characteristics.
Su Ming began to get excited.
He felt this line of thinking was feasible.
Although it might belong to long-term planning, the boost from a Second Awakening was considerable overall. Even if he had to wait until he became a Titled Douluo for the Second Awakening, it would still count as an enhancement.
[Douluo 1]
After receiving Electrolux's teaching, Su Ming began his relic forgery plan.
After reviving from his second death, he opportunistically found the unconscious Tang Hao and cleanly killed him.
Subsequently, he took A Yin away from the valley and completed his re-cultivation alone.
With a completely new set of Spirit Rings, Little Gold's cultivation level increased again, reaching twenty thousand years. The fourth Spirit Ring also upgraded to thirty thousand years, and the fifth Spirit Ring even reached ninety thousand years.
At the same time, his Spirit Power returned to the 60th rank.
"The sixth Spirit Ring isn't urgent for now; at least I can't hunt it yet."
The sixth ring could attempt a 100,000-year Spirit Ring. Su Ming's first targets were the Great Ming and Second Ming (Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape).
These two were both exotic species, comparable to super Spirit Beasts, and both possessed 100,000-year cultivation.
Most crucially, both possessed powerful physiques, very compatible with a Body Martial Spirit.
"Let's finish setting up the secret realm first."
Su Ming looked at the nearly completed secret realm with satisfaction.
"Let me see... 'Fundamentals of Level One Spirit Tool Formations Construction', 'Spirit Tool Formation Theory', 'Common Universal Formations for Spirit Tools', 'Partial Advanced Formations'."
"These can all be tossed in. Let me check the content."
Su Ming deleted any terms from the materials that shouldn't appear in this era, lest the major powers be utterly confused when they see phrases like 'since the collision and fusion of the Sun Moon Continent and the Douluo Continent for thousands of years'.
He only selected a lot of basic Spirit Tool knowledge and forged an inheritance from a medium-level Spirit Engineer family, complete with unique Spirit Tool production methods.
At the same time, he also included some personal additions.
"Star Soul Iron, exists within meteorites, specific exploration and mining methods..."
"Variable Silver..."
"Titanium Crystal, can greatly reduce the resistance during the fusion of different rare metals, often appears in..."
"There is a Primordial Spirit Iron vein within the Sanbao Mountain Range. The day of our Lin Family's rise is in this generation!"
"..."
Since he was forging a relic, Su Ming naturally threw all the things he couldn't openly give to the Spirit Master world of this era into the relic.
As for exposing the fact that many of his techniques had the 'help' of a relic, it didn't matter.
Regardless of whether the Spirit Masters believed in Su Ming himself or the changes brought by the relic, Su Ming could enjoy the faith because this relic was also made by him, and the things inside were also provided by him.
After preparing the contents of the relic, Su Ming began setting up trials.
These things definitely couldn't be given to the Spirit Master world for free; tests were still necessary.
Su Ming set up a large number of confidentiality measures, making the relic appear like a real one.
Finally, after completing all this, the relic took shape.
"Teacher, help me contact the major powers."
He manually crafted another Spirit Communication Device and contacted Zhu Jiuyang.
"Good, you're still alive, Xiao Ming."
After the second death, Su Ming hadn't shown himself. Although Zhu Jiuyang knew Su Ming could resurrect, he couldn't help but worry.
Only when he truly re-established contact with Su Ming did he relax.
"Who do you want to contact? Any plans? Should I leak a little information to the major powers in advance to facilitate future cooperation?"
"It's about the relic where I obtained the Spirit Tool inheritance. I plan to make it public."
"What?"
Zhu Jiuyang was greatly shocked.
He looked at the message on the Spirit Communication Device, doubting his ears.
Was he going to release this too?
What was his disciple thinking?
Something like this could be completely monopolized.
Once the Blacksmith Association's position was a bit more stable, they could slowly reveal the news of mastering Spirit Tool production methods and complete the monopoly.
Yet Su Ming was proposing to actively share this technology now?
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