As Ah Yin's words fell, an immense aura suddenly rose, not from the Blue Silver King before Su Cheng, but from the entire forest. A
faint blue light quietly emerged from each Blue Silver Grass, tiny blue specks gathering to form a blue ocean.
The next moment, Su Cheng immediately felt himself at the center of this ocean.
His body thirstily absorbed the energy from this blue sea.
The Nirvana Sutra circulated rapidly, the Longevity Sword appeared in his hand, and the Five Elements Domain spread out on its own.
Under the effect of the technique, although his Soul Master level was stuck at level fifty due to the lack of Soul Rings, his Soul Power was rapidly increasing, his cultivation efficiency far exceeding previous levels.
This energy originating from the Blue Silver Grass was not an ultimate attribute, but in Su Cheng's view, its characteristics were no weaker than so-called ultimate attributes.
Blue Silver Grass, this weed found everywhere at the bottom of the Soul Beast food chain, actually possessed extremely tenacious vitality.
They weren't powerful, yet they could thrive in all sorts of extreme and harsh environments.
It seemed that the "immortality" that Ah Yin spoke of, the ultimate evolution of the Blue Silver Domain, was essentially an extension of this characteristic of Blue Silver Grass.
Countless Blue Silver Grasses selflessly supplied Su Cheng with specks of starlight energy.
Although the blue ocean formed by these specks of light was boundless, the number of plants in this forest was simply too vast, and their existence too ancient; the combined energy was probably not even a drop in the ocean.
Su Cheng sat cross-legged in this extremely comfortable environment, but he didn't immerse himself in it.
Aside from reserving a sliver of energy to be wary of any potential external events, his attention was mainly focused on the sea of energy before him.
At this moment, the True Sight Eye on his forehead emitted a dazzling dark golden light.
This time, the vertical line no longer just opened a thin slit, but projected a screen of light, like a vertical eye phantom, taking in all changes within its range.
The spiritual energy in his sea of consciousness was rapidly depleting, and would be completely exhausted in just a few breaths.
But while the energy was consumed quickly, it was replenished even faster. The Blue Sea endlessly replenished all his depletion, filling his physical, mental, and soul energy with the surging blue light.
This energy, though powerful, was not violent; rather, it was extremely gentle.
There was no sense of impact or pressure, just like when he absorbed Ah Yin's 100,000-year-old soul bone, nourishing him silently.
Gradually, his skin turned completely a crystalline blue, with countless Blue Silver Grasses growing and coiling around him.
Not only him, but Ah Yin, standing beside him, also had countless blue light points flowing into her, strengthening her body and silently enhancing her essence.
The scale of this energy influx even far exceeded that of Su Cheng,
but unfortunately, Ah Yin's strength was limited and her foundation weak at this time, so she could only absorb a portion of the energy, with the majority merging into Su Cheng's Five Elements Domain.
Her temporary spirit body, hastily created by Su Cheng, became increasingly natural, real, and complete in the process. Her meridians were open, her acupoints were perfected, and muscle fibers were gradually forming, seemingly restoring her to her former peak.
However, it was different from before.
At this moment, she was no longer a soul beast in a state of incomplete transformation.
Of course, she was not a mature transformed soul beast, nor had she become a true human.
If one had to describe it, she was probably more like a plant spirit created by heaven and earth, not a human being of flesh and blood, nor a soul beast.
From now on, there was no longer the so-called Blue Silver King; this was her true form.
Ah Yin benefited greatly from this process.
Su Cheng, on the other hand, encountered some obstacles.
Although his physical foundation was slowly strengthening, and four soul rings—yellow, purple, purple, and black—emerged in succession, the fifth soul ring he had been silently waiting for still could not be formed.
A vivid and obvious look of astonishment and confusion appeared on the huge, aged face of the Blue Silver King as he looked at Ah Yin standing beside Su Cheng.
"Your Majesty, he doesn't have the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline?"
Ah Yin opened her eyes upon hearing this, looking at the boy sitting on the ground enveloped in a blue ocean.
Her delicate brows furrowed slightly, and she slowly shook her head.
Just as she had predicted, Su Cheng had no way of using the Blue Silver Emperor clan's awakening ceremony to add a fifth soul ring to himself.
Even if his soul power, physical attributes, and mental strength all met the requirements, it was simply impossible.
The foundation of bloodline awakening was the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline.
On this basis, the Blue Silver King guided the bloodline within the other person's body, and then used the power of the entire Blue Silver Grass Forest to help him awaken and advance.
If he didn't even have the bloodline, it was like water without a source; how could the Blue Silver King guide him?
"Then..." The Blue Silver King hesitated.
Continuing like this would be a waste of effort.
"Let's wait a little longer," Ah Yin said softly.
The energy of the Blue Silver Grass was gentle and mild, and wouldn't cause any harm to Su Cheng's body. Even if he absorbed it as a reserve of soul power for future advancement, it would still be beneficial.
And for some reason, she always had a strange confidence in Su Cheng, feeling that if he said it, he could definitely do it.
Time slowly passed, and the ocean formed by countless points of light silently rose and fell around Su Cheng.
He wasn't in a hurry at this moment.
Su Cheng, who was currently in his true vision, silently observed everything in front of him, as well as the essence of his first few spirit rings.
At this moment, his mental energy was inexhaustible and replenished, making it the perfect opportunity to make good use of his True Sight.
In his view, whether he succeeded this time was not important.
The most important thing was to be able to use this opportunity to glimpse the secrets of spirit ring condensation.
At this moment, in Su Cheng's true vision, countless points of light emanating from the Blue Silver Grass surrounded him, but they could not enter and could not condense into a shape, ultimately turning into energy and flowing into his domain and body.
"What's the difference..."
Su Cheng closed his eyes, constantly thinking and deducing in his mind.
What is a spirit ring? What is a spirit skill?
That's right, Xiao Wu.
If I remember correctly, Xiao Wu, the 100,000-year-old Soft Bone Rabbit who cultivated and transformed into human form, possessed an extremely special ability—self-generating spirit rings.
Every ten levels, she could automatically generate a limit spirit ring that perfectly matched her.
In the original timeline, after Tang San received the energy guidance of the Blue Silver King, he also condensed his fifth spirit ring, adapted to his own limit.
Su Cheng recalled the first few spirit rings he had just observed.
Each spirit ring contained a faint phantom image, corresponding to the spirit beast he had killed in the past.
Upon closer inspection, there were lines he couldn't understand, but their nature was extremely concentrated and singular.
"...I understand."
Su Cheng suddenly opened his eyes.
"It's bloodline concentration. The bloodline concentration of human martial souls is insufficient, far inferior to those humans who have transformed from spirit beasts. To generate spirit rings on their own, a sufficiently strong bloodline concentration is needed as a guide.
"The reason Tang San was able to succeed was because his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline was activated by the Blue Silver King's instinctive ability. "
As for my bloodline, the Blue Silver King obviously couldn't guide and condense it."
Ah Yin knew that the awakening of the Blue Silver Emperor was related to bloodline, but she didn't understand the principle behind it.
Although she had told Su Cheng about it, she obviously couldn't explain the reason clearly.
Su Cheng was different from her.
With his enhanced vision, he could see the inner essence of the spirit rings. A flash of inspiration struck him, and he found the root of the problem.
Those lines were the power of the attribute laws represented by the bloodline.
The so-called spirit skills were merely the external manifestation of the combination of attribute laws and martial soul.
Therefore, there were two requirements for forming a spirit ring: first, the power of the laws contained in the bloodline after killing a spirit beast; second, sufficient energy.
"I should have thought of that sooner," Su Cheng smiled.
He had already thoroughly researched the commonalities between spirit beasts and martial souls, and the level bottlenecks broken by the condensation of spirit rings, during his second simulation.
To generate a spirit ring, three conditions were needed: laws, guidance, and energy!
What are laws?
In Douluo Continent, the spirit master's bloodline is a law, the martial soul is a law, and the core of the spirit ring is naturally a law. The spirit skills attached to the spirit ring are the manifestation of the combination of laws and spirit power.
As for how to draw out the law energy from the bloodline?
Fortunately, Su Cheng had an unconventional method.
The Longevity Sword appeared in his hand, and the Nirvana Sutra circulated rapidly.
Then, a bottle of potion appeared in his hand, the liquid inside shimmering with a pale red glow under the surrounding blue light.
Without hesitation, Su Cheng unscrewed the cap and poured a few drops into his mouth.
Standing beside him, Ah Yin was surprised to find that Su Cheng's aura had changed, becoming unusually explosive and ethereal, with a faint blood aura rising from his body.
At the same time, enormous phantoms of his two martial souls, the Longevity Sword and the Innate Array Diagram, appeared beside him.
Su Cheng ignored his second martial soul.
Instead, he focused all his energy on circulating the Nirvana Scripture, continuously stimulating the bloodline foundation of the Longevity Sword martial soul with his level 50 soul power fluctuations.
Gradually, a halo of light seemed to appear around him .
The next moment,
the blue light points that had gathered around him seemed to have finally found their target, rapidly merging into this halo.
The blue halo deepened in color, eventually transforming into a jet-black soul ring, encircling the other four soul rings.
In the instant it appeared, it seemed to form a strange harmony with the previous four soul rings.
The five spirit rings began to pulse rhythmically.
Then, the age of the first four spirit rings also began to increase synchronously.
The first yellow spirit ring quickly turned purple, and then the first three purple spirit rings gradually darkened and became increasingly profound.
During this process, Su Cheng's black hair gradually turned dark blue, and his facial features became softer and more defined.
But soon, however, his appearance returned to its original state.
Now that his Five Elements are perfectly balanced, his control over himself has reached a new level.
His physical foundation has also improved dramatically, becoming more refined. The power of this small world alone is insufficient to overwhelm his physical foundation and alter his physical appearance.
However, while his appearance hasn't changed, his temperament is vastly different. He appears increasingly natural, seemingly inseparable from the world around him.
The Su Cheng of the past was more like a sharp blade concealed in its sheath, its edge restrained yet undeniably powerful.
But now, he appears gentle and refined, at ease and harmonious.
A-Yin's face was filled with astonishment; she couldn't understand how he had done it.
Although she had subconsciously believed he could succeed, it was more like a blind expectation and trust, without any basis.
Now that her assumption had come true, the scene felt unreal.
"Is there really nothing you can't do…?"
she stared blankly at Su Cheng, her eyes flickering.
Over the past year, the things the other had done, the words they had said, and the little things they had shared in their daily lives began to resurface in his mind, causing his expression to become conflicted.
Su Cheng, however, was oblivious to his surroundings.
With the appearance of his fifth spirit ring, the Five Elements were now complete, and the scenery in his true vision began to undergo a dramatic transformation.
He was gradually drawn to the sights before him, becoming completely immersed in them.
He even forgot to be wary of the changes in his environment.
First, there was complete darkness, or rather, complete whiteness.
It was a void devoid of any matter.
Then, Yin and Yang rotated, and the Five Elements evolved. Based on this, the world was born from nothingness, followed by a long, stable period…
Afterward, the peaceful world began to crumble under various calamities, the foundation of the Five Elements gradually eroding until everything returned to emptiness.
This process seemed extremely long, yet also extremely short; countless years were but a fleeting moment in his eyes.
This was the effect of the True Sight Eye.
In the first perfect amplification of the Five Elements, the effect of this external soul bone seemed to reach an unprecedented level, even revealing a trace of the world's most core laws in operation.
"..."
Su Cheng slowly opened his eyes and sighed.
"Form, Existence, Decay, Emptiness... So that's how it is, so that's how it is..."
Even if the Five Elements cycle perfectly, it cannot escape the final annihilation.
Nothing in the world is eternal.
Even if the Five Elements are perfected, it will inevitably face the end of great annihilation.
Even the world itself, with all Five Elements complete, will one day perish, let alone a person?
At this moment, the Blue Silver King was filled with inexplicable horror.
The young man before him clearly looked full of vitality, his life force exceeding its imagination.
Yet at this moment, he exuded a deathly aura from within.
This deathly aura was not the deathly aura emitted by an ordinary mortal nearing the end of their life, but rather the great destructive meaning of the world heading towards annihilation and everything ultimately decaying.
Under this implication, the boundless vitality contained within this ancient Blue Silver Grass Forest seemed but a drop in the ocean.
Ah Yin noticed a tear sliding down Su Cheng's cheek.
"He's crying?"
At that moment, Su Cheng also felt a chill on his face.
He reached up and touched it, somewhat surprised.
"I'm crying?"
He then chuckled inwardly, "I'm afraid of dying..."
This tear, falling unconsciously, was actually a reflection of his inner instincts.
After a moment's hesitation, Ah Yin softly asked, "Su Cheng... what's wrong?"
"..." Su Cheng was silent for a moment, then said softly, "I'm afraid."
Ah Yin stared at him blankly, "You're afraid too?"
"Why wouldn't I?" Su Cheng's face was calm.
"Everyone has worries and fears, but they're usually hidden deep inside, not outwardly revealed."
"What... are you afraid of?" Ah Yin was somewhat confused and worried.
"I'm afraid of dying," Su Cheng said frankly.
"Die? You'll die?!"
No one could sense the sheer vitality emanating from Su Cheng better than her.
It wasn't something like his cultivation level, physique, or martial soul; it was a state similar to
hers when she was still the 100,000-year-old Blue Silver Emperor. No, even higher than that.
"That's for the future, don't worry about it."
A smile returned to Su Cheng's face as he looked at Ah Yin. "I should live much longer than you."
This time, Ah Yin wasn't angry at his words.
She could sense that Su Cheng was actually feeling somewhat heavy-hearted.
"What exactly happened just now?"
"I saw something, but even if I told you, you probably wouldn't understand." Su Cheng said casually.
The profound sense of annihilation he felt just now was difficult to comprehend without witnessing it firsthand.
After his recent enlightenment, his strength had reached a new level.
But regarding cultivation, he felt a new layer of confusion.
He then chuckled softly.
"However, this is just an unavoidable obstacle on the path of cultivation. Since you don't want to follow the crowd, encountering such things is inevitable."
Seeing Ah Yin staring blankly at him, Su Cheng assumed she was still thinking about the matter of spirit rings he had mentioned earlier.
He comforted her, "Don't worry, I have some ideas about spirit ring condensation, and there will be a solution in the future."
Now that he understood the general principles, developing a universal method was only a matter of time for him.
However, this matter still needed to be considered carefully. The secrets involved were probably quite complex, and popularizing it would be extremely difficult.
At least with his current strength, daring to get involved would be tantamount to courting death.
After bidding farewell to the Blue Silver King, Su Cheng and Ah Yin left the Blue Silver Grass Forest together.
This time, the two of them gained a great deal. Su Cheng, of course, benefited greatly, and Ah Yin also obtained a perfect body.
In addition, the Blue Silver King, as the leader, also gained a lot.
The fluctuations in Su Cheng's Five Elements Domain advancement had an extraordinary guiding effect on it. It could even be said that under the current influence of the Five Elements Domain, all the Blue Silver Grass in the forest had undergone a qualitative leap.
Moreover, the brief aura emanating from Su Cheng during the recent event had greatly benefited it.
Although it hadn't witnessed the scene of great annihilation, it was still beneficial enough.
Besides, even if it had, it might not have been a good thing for it.
Su Cheng possessed all five elements, while the Blue Silver King, as a plant-type soul beast, had wood, representing vitality, as its fundamental attribute. If it were infected by that extreme deathly intent, and couldn't withstand it, its fate would be uncertain.
Walking along the road, Su Cheng suddenly thought of something and turned to look at Ah Yin.
"Can a new Blue Silver Emperor be born in the future?"
"No."
Ah Yin shook her head.
This wasn't because of Su Cheng, but because of her.
In the previous awakening ceremony, she had already completed the reshaping of her body.
She was no longer the Blue Silver Emperor, but her essence was superior to that of the Blue Silver Emperor.
Even so, this Blue Silver Grass Forest was no longer capable of helping another Blue Silver Emperor bloodline awaken.
Su Cheng nodded upon hearing this, not paying much attention to the matter, and then said, "You don't know, do you? Your 'son' Tang San also has a 100,000-year-old transformed soul beast by his side."
Ah Yin was stunned and turned to look at Su Cheng.
"See this bottle of potion?" Su Cheng took out a bottle of potion and shook it gently. "This is a concealment potion that I spent nearly four months researching. It can conceal the aura of a transformed soul beast, preventing it from being detected by a Title Douluo."
"What does that mean?"
"It means that with this, that soul beast will accompany Tang San to participate in this year's Soul Master Competition, and then there will be an opportunity to kill it."
"..." Ah Yin stared blankly at the bottle of potion, then gently lowered her head.
Her azure bangs fell down, casting a shadow that covered her cheeks, making it impossible to see her expression.
After a long silence, he asked softly in a slightly hoarse voice, "Why did you tell me this?"
Su Cheng casually put away the medicine bottle, turned back to look ahead, and said calmly, "Have I ever hidden anything from you?"
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