The mutually reinforcing and restraining powers were suppressed, then brought together and fused within the same platform, transforming into one another. Light and darkness restrained each other, just as water and fire restrained each other.
The darkness-and-water attributes completely fused into Chen Ming's left eye, causing it to radiate a strange luster that seemed capable of devouring light itself.
Meanwhile, the attributes of light and flame fused into his right eye, making it resemble a miniature sun.
At this moment, under the effects of mutual generation and mutual restraint, Chen Ming's eyes were no longer merely cosmetic abnormalities.
They had become true eye techniques possessing extraordinary abilities.
Light and darkness intertwined. Water and fire merged.
The circulation between these energies seemed to form some mysterious and profound state.
Yet in the end, because Chen Ming's power was still not strong enough and his attributes lacked sufficient purity, the phenomenon ultimately dissipated into nothingness.
Aside from Chen Ming himself sensing the change, even Azure Luan Douluo and Qian Renfeng—both Titled Douluo-level experts—failed to notice what had just occurred.
Another hour passed before the energy fluctuations surrounding Chen Ming finally calmed completely.
He slowly opened his eyes, stood up from the ground, and stretched lazily, his body releasing a series of crackling sounds like popping beans.
One eye radiated light while the other held darkness. Under the balance of yin and yang, it felt as though everything in the world was laid bare before Chen Ming's gaze.
If his previous vision clarity had been comparable to 2K resolution, then under the enhancement of this eye technique, the world before him had now reached the level of 4K.
And it was far more than simple visual clarity.
His field of vision had become significantly broader, and the distance he could perceive had increased dramatically as well.
Chen Ming subconsciously focused his gaze toward a distant point.
As Spirit Power and spiritual power rapidly drained away, that location unexpectedly burst into flames on its own.
Unfortunately, because there was nothing nearby capable of sustaining combustion, the flame lasted only for a brief instant before extinguishing completely.
Yet merely producing a flame of that level had consumed spirit power and spiritual power equivalent to releasing two Spirit Abilities at once.
Even so, this strange ability still caused Chen Ming's emotions to surge with excitement.
"You've finished absorbing the Spirit Ring?" Azure Luan Douluo's eyes immediately lit up as he looked at the black fourth Spirit Ring surrounding Chen Ming. "How does it feel? What's your fourth Spirit Ability?"
"I feel excellent." Chen Ming nodded. "My spirit power should currently be around level 43. After stabilizing things for a couple of days, I should reach level 44."
"The benefits I gain from absorbing Spirit Rings are honestly tremendous."
"As for my fourth Spirit Ability... it's rather special."
Chen Ming's fourth Spirit Ring lit up.
Black energy flowed into his body, and then Chen Ming began performing a strange dance following the rhythm of the circulating energy.
The movements were fierce and filled with explosive power, resembling a roaring dragon itself and carrying an unstoppable momentum.
As the dance continued, Chen Ming's aura steadily grew stronger, and his speed visibly increased as well.
"My fourth Spirit Ability is called Dragon's Dance. Through a special dance and spirit power rhythm, it stimulates the power hidden within my body."
"For a certain period of time, it increases my attack power and speed by fifty percent."
"This Spirit Ability can be stacked multiple times, up to a maximum of six layers. However, each additional activation greatly increases spirit power consumption, extends the casting time required, and increases the burden placed upon my body."
"If I only use it once or twice, then the strain on my body isn't much different from an ordinary enhancement-type Spirit Ability."
"But starting from the third activation, the pressure on my body becomes obvious."
"The fourth layer is my normal limit."
"As for the fifth layer, I'd probably only be able to move for a short period afterward."
"And the sixth layer..." Chen Ming shook his head slightly. "There's absolutely no way I can stack that level right now."
Chen Ming's Spirit Ability was not particularly overwhelming in terms of single-use strength, but its true value lay in its ability to stack repeatedly.
At maximum stacks, it could increase his attack power and speed by an additional three hundred percent. That level of enhancement was already extremely terrifying.
The reason he currently could not stack it multiple times was primarily due to the limitations of his own physique, not because the Spirit Ability itself was weak.
"Dragon's Dance... what a strange Spirit Ability." Azure Luan Douluo tapped his temple thoughtfully. "But I feel like I've heard of something similar somewhere before."
On the Douluo Continent, there were all kinds of bizarre Spirit Abilities. Many of them had characteristics so strange that they could leave people speechless. Even incantations like Oscar's vulgar Spirit Ability chants could be considered relatively mild in terms of requirements.
Some Spirit Abilities could only be used under specific conditions, such as terrain, time, or special celestial phenomena. Some of the Star Crown Sect's abilities, for example, were restricted by the presence of stars.
Some required special materials to assist their release, and Oscar's Mirror Image Sausage belonged to this category.
There were also some extremely special Spirit Abilities that their holders might never be able to release in their entire lives.
Legend had it that a curse-type Spirit Master once obtained an incredibly powerful curse-type Spirit Ability. However, because the curse was far too powerful, even he himself could not release it normally. Only when he was killed by someone else could he use the resentment born from his own death to trigger the curse and curse the one who had killed him.
It was said that by the time that curse Spirit Master reached his later years, his strength was only at the Spirit Saint level. Yet after he died at the hands of a Titled Douluo-level powerhouse, he relied on his death curse to torment that Titled Douluo so badly that the man suffered an ominous fate in his later years.
Under normal circumstances, the fewer restrictions a Spirit Ability had, the more ordinary its amplification would be. The greater the restrictions, the greater the power of the Spirit Ability.
Of course, this did not rule out special cases such as powerful abilities that came with no cost, or useless abilities that remained trash even with all sorts of restrictions. But under normal circumstances, this was still something that could be used as a reference.
Chen Ming injected the origin of his Martial Soul into the short staff, turning it into a temporary dragon spear. Then he thrust the dragon spear into the corpse of the Blazing Winged Dragon.
Under Chen Ming's control, the Dragon Spear slowly absorbed the trace of Fire Dragon source bloodline hidden within the corpse.
However, because this Dragon Spear was still far from becoming a true Golden Dragon Spear, and because the Blazing Winged Dragon itself possessed only a relatively thin trace of Fire Dragon bloodline, Chen Ming stopped after only a short while.
There was little visible change in the Dragon Spear's appearance.
Only a faint reddish line had appeared along the spear shaft.
As for its source essence, the Dragon Spear had merely gained the slightest trace of fire attribute power.