Scanning Attribute Panel, which had undergone significant changes compared to before, Wang Lin was not surprised.
After successfully accommodating the Golden Dragon bloodline, Wang Lin had been researching his own condition, including Attribute Panel, his Martial Souls, his cultivation techniques, and his bloodline.
Especially regarding Attribute Panel, recalling various events from the past, Wang Lin discovered that the changes in Attribute Panel originated more from his own cognition of himself.
Initially, Attribute Panel only had three lines: Name, Martial Soul, and Cultivation. The Cultivation Technique appeared when he started practicing the Eight Sections of Diamond Power.
Spiritual Power appeared as his sealed Spiritual Sea was broken open. Soul Rings and Soul Bones appeared when he absorbed them for the first time.
This showed that the changes in Attribute Panel came from Wang Lin's cognition of himself. Of course, the specific changes were not something Wang Lin could alter just by willing it.
Instead, they were changes produced by the combination of the concepts endowed by Wang Lin's cognition and objective reality.
More importantly, these specific concepts had to be correct. This correctness was also divided into specific and relative correctness.
For example, Cultivation was an absolutely correct concept. Rank 1 was Rank 1; every rank had a specific division. Spiritual Power, the tier of Spirit Tools, and the proficiency of Cultivation Techniques were all like this.
Including the newly appeared Bloodline, there was a total amount, and however much he fused was however much he had. Therefore, they all had specific percentage divisions behind them.
In contrast, relative correctness applied to things like the newly appeared Physical Strength on Attribute Panel. This strength had no absolute division, only an approximate range, so Attribute Panel only displayed an approximate rank.
Because the physical strength of different Soul Masters at the same rank could not be the same. One could not expect a Beast Martial Soul Master and a Tool Martial Soul Master to have the same physical strength.
Beast Martial Souls naturally enhanced a Soul Master's physical quality; this was brought about by the nature of the Martial Soul.
His gaze skipped over the lines of data on Attribute Panel, and finally, Wang Lin's eyes landed on the Rank 73 in the parentheses behind Spiritual Power.
This was the approximate data of his Spiritual Power after receiving the amplification from his soul rings. His original Spiritual Power rank was the Rank 49 displayed in front of the spiritual power; that was the base data.
However, an amplification of roughly sixty percent had already brought his spiritual power cultivation to the stage of a Soul Saint.
It should be known that the improvement of both spiritual power and cultivation was never just one rank added to another. Let alone a Soul Grandmaster.
Even a single rank of soul power for a Soul Master had a huge gap compared to a single rank of soul power for a Soul Scholar.
And now, Wang Lin, who was merely a Soul Ancestor in cultivation, could contend with an ordinary Soul Saint solely relying on his spiritual power. And this was just spiritual power.
Putting Attribute Panel away, Wang Lin took a spine bone that looked like yellow crystal out of his storage soul tool into thin air.
Invisible telekinesis surrounded and wrapped the room to prevent anyone from suddenly disturbing him while he absorbed the soul bone.
Holding the Golden Hawksbill Turtle soul bone, which emitted a faint aura of life, Wang Lin did not hesitate. He took off his upper body clothes and controlled his soul power to slowly flow into the soul bone.
Invisible golden mist precipitated from the crystal-like soul bone, gradually enveloping Wang Lin's upper body.
Swoosh!
Amidst the golden mist, strange golden patterns lit up on the surface of Wang Lin's body. A peculiar chrysanthemum mark shone brightly on his chest.
The blood-gold patterns that were originally hidden on Wang Lin's entire right arm also quietly appeared. Dense golden patterns resembling dragon scales surrounded the blood-gold patterns.
At the same time that the golden patterns appeared on the surface of Wang Lin's body, the golden mist wrapped around him surged toward his upper body and began to fuse with him.
Simultaneously, apart from the chrysanthemum pattern on his chest, his arms, neck, and head, the originally simple vertical golden patterns on the rest of Wang Lin's upper body underwent changes.
Rich life essence surged into Wang Lin's body. Wang Lin was naturally fusing this Golden Hawksbill Turtle spine bone, which was only fifty thousand years old, with the Ice Silkworm Slough.
The rich life essence was not only strengthening Wang Lin's entire body but also infiltrating the Staff of Life in his Spiritual Sea.
A significant amount was even absorbed by the Golden Dragon Lance hidden in the palm of Wang Lin's right hand. A stream of pure soul power immediately surged into his body through his right palm.
Wang Lin sensed this situation but didn't pay it much mind. The Golden Dragon Lance indeed had the ability to absorb life force and convert it into soul power.
With the influx of life essence, the golden patterns on Wang Lin's upper body gradually became straight and distinct, slowly forming irregular hexagons on Wang Lin's back.
These hexagons slowly merged together. As the soul bone continued to fuse, these golden hexagons slowly formed a sharp-edged turtle shell pattern.
Three straight golden lines gradually formed in the center of the turtle shell, existing like ridge lines.
Most importantly, it wasn't just his back. Even the golden patterns on Wang Lin's chest transformed into the appearance of a turtle shell, though the golden chrysanthemum pattern remained in its original position.
As all the mist surged into Wang Lin's body, the Golden Hawksbill Turtle spine bone originally in Wang Lin's hand also disappeared.
Phew!
Slowly exhaling a breath of white mist, Wang Lin opened his eyes. A sharp light flashed in his gray eyes, and his joy was hard to conceal. He called out to Attribute Panel in his heart.
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Cultivation: Rank 48 (45%)
Spiritual Power: Rank 50 (27%) (Rank 74)
Physical Strength: Rank 67 (Improving)
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Soul Bones: ... Omitted, Golden Hawksbill Turtle Spine Bone — Golden Turtle Sheds Its Shell
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Although it was only a ten-thousand-year soul bone and the soul skill name sounded terrible, the effect of the soul skill Golden Turtle Sheds Its Shell was undeniably a divine skill.
It could instantly strip away all negative statuses from the entire body, even though it required consuming twenty percent of his soul power.
This meant that no one could put a debuff on him in the future. Wang Lin got off the bed with great satisfaction, just about to find someone to test the effect of the soul skill.
But a glance into the mirror in the room made Wang Lin freeze directly.
"Holy shit!"
In his shock, he touched the golden patterns on his body that hadn't faded yet. How the hell did this turn into a turtle shell pattern?
He activated his soul power, and the layer of golden patterns on his body surface became distinct. Wang Lin's face instantly turned dark.
Fortunately, seemingly sensing Wang Lin's thoughts, the golden turtle shell patterns suddenly began to contract, swimming to Wang Lin's back like fish.
Wang Lin turned his back and looked at the golden pattern behind him, breathing a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, he could turn the pattern into the appearance of the soul bone. The golden pattern on his back looked as if it had been rubbed onto him using that Golden Hawksbill Turtle spine bone.
Thus, Wang Lin relaxed, feeling fortunate that this Golden Hawksbill Turtle spine bone was not as special as the Golden Dragon Right Arm Bone.
The Golden Dragon Right Arm Bone, aside from its innate soul skill, could transform his right hand into a dragon claw after fusion.
But the Golden Hawksbill Turtle spine bone couldn't do that. Otherwise, if it had the effect of the Golden Dragon Right Arm Bone, wouldn't he have to carry a turtle shell on his back after using the Golden Hawksbill Turtle spine bone?
Even if this turtle shell was most likely golden, it was still a turtle shell.
Imagining the scene of himself wearing a turtle shell, Wang Lin couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. Being strong or not was a temporary matter, but being handsome or not was a lifelong matter.
If he really had to carry a turtle shell, his brilliant reputation would be ruined.