Flender's growth margin was shockingly large, but unfortunately, he was not the one who grew the most among everyone.
When Yue Guan and Gui Mei landed on Sea God Island, they were at Rank 89 and Rank 88 respectively, both being high-stage Spirit Douluo, just a hair away from breaking through to Titled Douluo.
During these two years, under the pressure of Seagod's Light, the two successfully reached Rank 90, and then obtained a god-bestowed spirit ring guaranteed for participating in a major-Rank Breakthrough for the Gods Trial.
When absorbing the spirit ring, the two truly tried their utmost and crazily squeezed themselves, wanting to elevate the spirit ring's age to a 100,000-year soul ring.
But unfortunately, a 100,000-year soul ring was not that easy to achieve after all.
In the end, after Yue Guan and Gui Mei finished absorbing their spirit rings, Yue Guan's Rank came to Rank 92, and his ninth spirit ring's final age was set at around 93,000 years.
Gui Mei's Rank after the Breakthrough was also Rank 92. However, as an Agility Attack System Spirit Master, Gui Mei's physical constitution was far inferior to Yue Guan, who practiced Power Attack and whose Spirit was the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, a diamond-grade immortal product.
Therefore, the final age of his ninth spirit ring was around 88,000 years.
With this result, neither Yue Guan nor Gui Mei was very reconciled.
Especially Yue Guan; the gap between 93,000 years and 100,000 years was only 7,000 years, but the difference between the two was like heaven and earth.
But matters having come to this, the two could only pin their hopes on the upcoming Gods Trial, hoping that they could, like Gu Rong, obtain the Opportunity to elevate their spirit ring age.
After successfully breaking through to Titled Douluo, the two pondered for a period of time, and ultimately each sought out a Saint Pillar Douluo to challenge.
They had already attempted this challenge many times before breaking through, but because of the gap in Rank, they had never been able to win.
For Late Stage Spirit Masters, the difference of one final ultimate move was truly not something that could be easily smoothed over.
Not everyone was a Genius like Yu Xiaogang, and the Saint Pillar Douluo of Sea God Island were all favored children of heaven who had completed the Sea God's Gods Trial.
However, with the two's Breakthrough, they mastered their final ultimate move, and at the same time, through sparring with the Saint Pillar Douluo, they also learned about the Saint Pillar Douluo's situations.
Ultimately, relying on carefully considered combat methods, paired with the already condensed Soul Power Vortex, the two successfully crossed this hurdle.
It is worth mentioning that during this year of Cultivating in Seagod's Light, Yu Xiaogang and the others did not give up on the development of the Spirit core.
As the earliest person to condense the Soul Power Vortex, Yu Xiaogang continued his erroneous accumulation during this year, and in this process, his Soul Power Vortex began to transform toward a solid state.
Now, the Soul Power Vortex within Yu Xiaogang's Dantian could basically be considered a semi-solid Spirit core.
During the process of everyone's research, Bo Saixi and the Saint Pillar Douluo of Sea God Island were also invited to join the research of the Spirit core because of the battles and exchanges between both parties.
This allowed a completely safe method for condensing the Soul Power Vortex to be successfully researched, after which Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Gu Rong successfully condensed the Soul Power Vortex.
After possessing the Soul Power Vortex, Yue Guan and Gui Mei officially launched a challenge and successfully defeated their respective chosen Saint Pillar Douluo.
At this point, the two's first trial was finally completed, and they also obtained their reward—a reward of increasing all spirit rings' age by 6,000 years.
Yue Guan sighed all day long looking at his ninth spirit ring, which was just one step away from reaching a 100,000-year soul ring.
His ninth spirit ring was around 93,000 years old; adding this 6,000-year reward, the final age of the ninth spirit ring happened to reach 99,000 years, just a hair short of a 100,000-year soul ring.
Looking at his ninth spirit ring, which had a reddish tint within the black, Yue Guan really felt like crying out.
"It was just that little bit short, just that little bit!"
"Why couldn't I have tried harder to persist a bit more back then? If I had persisted just a bit more, my ninth spirit ring would now be a red 100,000-year soul ring!"
Failing to successfully elevate the spirit ring to a 100,000-year soul ring, Yue Guan was very sad, but at least he wasn't completely without hope.
Because after he and Gui Mei completed the first trial, the content of the second trial also presented itself before the two.
"Persist for the time it takes to burn an incense stick in the hands of the Sea God Island High Priest, Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi!"
Just as Yu Xiaogang had envisioned, the two's second trial was indeed to persist in the hands of Bo Saixi.
Besides this, the reward for the second trial was an increase of 8,000 years to all spirit rings' age.
If they could obtain this reward, not only could Yue Guan's ninth spirit ring reach a 100,000-year soul ring, but Gui Mei's could as well.
Therefore, for the final reward, Yue Guan and Gui Mei had to complete this test no matter what.
Gu Rong's improvement was relatively small, breaking through from Rank 92 to Rank 93. Looking at the rewards Yue Guan and the others obtained, his eyes were practically turning red with envy.
However, upon seeing the content of his own test, Gu Rong's face turned ashen.
This was still under the condition that Bo Saixi and the others guaranteed they had learned the Spirit core but would not use the Spirit core in battles against Gu Rong and the others.
At the very beginning of the research on the Spirit core, Yue Guan and the others wanted to hear the opinion of Bo Saixi, who was invincible in the ocean, but because the other party was their examiner, wouldn't telling Bo Saixi about the Spirit core be increasing the difficulty of their own test?
Fortunately, Yu Xiaogang had the kind of personality that would proactively ask questions.
Thus, he proactively described the situation of the Spirit core to Bo Saixi, and asked if she were invited to participate in the research and learned the Spirit core, could she refrain from using the power of the Spirit core in future assessments.
Hearing Yu Xiaogang's description of the Spirit core, Bo Saixi instantly became interested.
After making a guarantee, she obtained the details of the Spirit core and personally probed the Soul Power Vortex within Yu Xiaogang's Dantian.
"A Genius conception, simply unimaginable!"
Bo Saixi gave such an evaluation.
To put it bluntly, a thing like the Spirit core felt incredible even to her, a Titled Douluo who had already reached Rank 99.
She could very clearly judge that if she possessed a thing like the Spirit core, her strength, which could no longer grow, would grow even stronger once more.
How could such an incredible thing actually appear in this world?
Although later, through Yu Xiaogang's explanation, Bo Saixi learned that the Spirit core was inspired by someone else due to an Opportunity.
Yet she still felt that Yu Xiaogang and the others were extremely formidable.
After all, getting inspiration from someone else and transforming that inspiration into one's own possession was not something everyone could accomplish.
In the older generation of Douluo Continent, who didn't know the might of Clear Sky Douluo Tang Chen's ultimate move, Ring Explosion? Yet who dared to learn it?
No one!
Even Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi dared not.
Therefore, Bo Saixi felt that transforming inspiration into one's own power was also a manifestation of talent.
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