When Tang San was at his Fifth Soul Ring, he once, with the help of the Blue Silver King, gathered the energy of the surrounding Blue Silver Grass to bestow upon him a soul ring.
It seemed to be a Lifebound Soul Ring.
Su Yu speculated that this soul ring was more accurately something Tang San had gathered himself.
The Blue Silver King was merely a guide.
Since the Blue Silver King knows this, Old Lan would naturally know it too.
However, he was uncertain if Su Yu could successfully gather a soul ring because of this.
After all, Tang San, as Su Yu described, was different; Tang San, having half Soul Beast bloodline, could gather a soul ring on his own, which could be explained more easily.
But Su Yu was merely a pure human.
"Hah, human and Soul Beast, what difference does it really make?"
Must one have a Soul Beast bloodline to gather such a soul ring?
Then could the Ice and Fire Dragon King's bloodline I used to refine and absorb count?
Human bloodlines cannot be absolutely pure.
Su Yu even suspected that the numerous different martial souls humans had, especially those Beast Martial Souls that closely corresponded to Soul Beasts, had more or less some Soul Beast bloodline within them.
Just not as much as that Divine King.
Moreover, since one could gather a bloodline soul ring, why couldn't a Martial Soul's soul ring be artificially gathered?
Using the Ice and Fire Dragon King's bloodline as the guide, a Qi Blood Soul Ring could be successfully gathered.
Then the soul ring at Level 70 could fundamentally be gathered from one's own Blue Silver Grass bloodline.
In his thoughts, Su Yu had already decided that he must attempt to gather a soul ring on his own next.
"However, before that, there is another problem awaiting me."
Su Yu's Soul Power had already reached Level 69, and he was at any moment ready to break through the threshold to Level 70!
However, the operation of his Soul Power had become quite slow, with the Soul Power condensing to an extremely viscous state, soon to solidify.
This also meant that Su Yu's Soul Power was sufficient to gather a Soul Core.
To gather a Soul Core or not to?
Su Yu's answer was affirmative.
Gathering a Soul Core at Level 70 was the orthodox path from his memory, and since this was the choice made ten thousand years later, the benefits were surely greater.
"Snow Empress, you've gathered a Soul Core, haven't you?"
It's certainly best to understand the details beforehand when gathering a Soul Core.
And as the third-ranked among the Top Ten Fierce Beasts on the original Douluo Continent, the Snow Empress surely had gathered a Soul Core.
Within the body of a Soul Beast, there are only two positions where a Soul Core can be gathered, and these two positions cannot resonate, so in order to gather Dual Soul Cores, it must be completed in the form of Yin-Yang Complementarity.
Unfortunately, the requirements for the physique are too high, and the Snow Empress failed, thus losing the chance to challenge the seven hundred thousand years of Celestial Tribulation.
But even so, relying on her terrifying strength, she still possessed the power of a human Extreme Douluo, and in the Land of the Far North, she could unleash strength comparable to Di Tian's.
Although Su Yu's question was outside the transaction, the Snow Empress did not conceal it.
During this time, Su Yu's help to her had been enormous, and that extreme life energy had made her body quickly surpass its developmental stage, reaching the level of a ten-year-old human.
As long as she cultivated with Su Yu for a while longer, within half a year, she could achieve the developmental level of a sixteen-year-old human.
And her Soul Power could at least be cultivated to the Soul Saint level.
At the Soul Saint level, the cost of unsealing her previous life's power would be much less, and the future would be more secured.
...
After thoroughly understanding the matters related to Soul Core gathering from the Snow Empress, Su Yu began his seclusion.
Before his retreat, he sought out Zou Yun to tell him that he would be in seclusion in the depths of the Land of the Far North.
And for the safety of the caravan, Su Yu allowed them to convey this information to Beiming Abyss.
With Beiming Abyss's approval, the favor would be granted even if Su Yu was not personally present.
Having resolved all the trivial matters, Su Yu peacefully began his seclusion in the core area of the Land of the Far North.
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"The first Soul Core is formed in the Lower Dantian where the Martial Soul is located."
Su Yu moved his Soul Power, and the viscous liquid Soul Power flowed slowly within his body, forming a vortex at the Dantian point.
With every circulation within the body, this vortex's concentrative power grew greater.
In the Sea of Spirit, the two runes "Condense" and "Gather" shone with a purple glow, helping Su Yu compress the Soul Power.
Time passed by.
In the blink of an eye, three months had passed.
The Soul Power within Su Yu was even more viscous, and the vortex in the Dantian had taken shape, with all the Soul Power evenly distributed around the most central point, and the soul power throughout the body had also been adjusted.
As soon as he attempted, he could make all Soul Power shrink uniformly and gather the Soul Core with this point at the center during the circulation of Soul Power.
The most difficult part of forming a Soul Core was not in other aspects.
It lay solely in the choice of this point and the adjustment of the Soul Power.
The core point within the Dantian is the closest point of connection between the Soul Master and the Martial Soul.
This is usually easier to sense and locate.
The difficulty lay in the adjustment of the Soul Power.
The compression and subsequent collapse of Soul Power into a Soul Core is completed in an extremely short time, and within this short time, all the Soul Power throughout the body must be gathered in the Dantian.
During this gathering process, if the circulation of Soul Power is uneven, mistakes will occur during the collapse process.
The greater these mistakes are, the less likely they can be corrected during the collapse.
Su Yu spent a full three months to adjust the distribution of his Soul Power operation as perfectly as possible to ensure that this collapse completed in the most perfect form.
This ensured that there would be no need for last-minute corrections and that the gathered Soul Core would be of the best quality.