Within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Chen Ming still did not know that because of his butterfly effect, a certain Silver Dragon King who should only have appeared two ten-thousand years later to give herself away had already developed additional fluctuations in the present. He was merely sensing his own power.
Now, according to Chen Ming's perception, his fifth Spirit Ring could probably bear a Spirit Ring of around eighty to ninety thousand years. At the limit, it still could not reach the level of a genuine hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring.
After all, in reality, the physical qualities of the vast majority of Titled Douluo when obtaining their ninth Spirit Ring were still insufficient to absorb a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring.
Chen Ming's current physical strength was powerful enough, and his spiritual power could also suppress the soul of a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast. But the Spirit Power contained within a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast was not only powerful; compared to ordinary Spirit Beasts, it also underwent a qualitative change. The Spirit Power within Chen Ming's body, in the end, still could not overpower this energy.
However, looking at his Dragon Spear, Chen Ming had a bold idea. That was, if possible, he should try his best to obtain a God Bestowed Spirit Rings.
Using the characteristics of a God Bestowed Spirit Rings, he could make the Dragon Spear's first Spirit Ring truly reach the hundred-thousand-year level. This way, not only would it be the most compatible with the Dragon Spear, it could also drive the improvement of his own strength in reverse. Then, for his fifth Spirit Ring, he could absorb a genuine hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring.
It was just that there were far, far too few places in this world where one could obtain a God Bestowed Spirit Ring. Theoretically speaking, Spirit Hall, which held the Angel God, and Sea God Island were places where one could obtain God Bestowed Spirit Rings. But Chen Ming also knew about the current issue with Spirit Hall. The only place he could go was Sea God Island.
But if he went to Sea God Island and accepted the divine trial, then that would undoubtedly limit his future to the mere position of Sea God.
As for the Slaughter City? Although there truly existed the dual inheritances of the Rakshasa God and Asura God there, the Rakshasa God's inheritance was extremely stingy, and it already had a candidate for the Nine Trials.
The Asura God's divine trials were even more problematic. Chen Ming had never heard of anyone being able to directly throw the eight trials they had completed to someone else, letting another person directly pass the ninth trial and become a god.
Moreover, what was very important was that among these two gods' inheritances, there was no mention of either of them ever giving out God Bestowed Spirit Rings. If the Rakshasa God could have given Bibi Dong a few Spirit Rings, then by now, Bibi Dong would have almost achieved complete merit (?) and ascended to godhood long ago.
Although theoretically speaking, he could force Xiao Wu to obtain her sacrifice, or threaten the two super Spirit Beasts Da Ming and Er Ming into sacrificing themselves to him,
Chen Ming had always felt that his behavioral logic should at least have a bottom line. He could not throw away the most basic humanity simply for the sake of maximizing benefits.
If he completely followed the principle of maximizing benefits, then Chen Ming would not possibly become a monster—he would definitely become a monster.
"When the time comes, I'll go back and ask Ah Yin whether there are any Spirit Beasts currently before their hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation that have no way of overcoming the tribulation and can only transform into humans. This kind of Spirit Beast would be just right to coax into becoming my Spirit Ring."
"If it's more than ninety thousand years, that works too. At worst, feeding it a bit of immortal herb would be enough to stimulate it to a hundred thousand years. As long as I control the dosage properly, I can ensure that after it becomes a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast, it still cannot overcome the heavenly tribulation and can only sacrifice itself to me."
After pondering for a long time, Chen Ming finally began attempting to construct a set of secret methods capable of hiding his aura and changing the color of his Spirit Rings. It was only that compared to hiding his aura, changing the color of Spirit Rings was still relatively difficult.
After all, this truly involved the essence of Spirit Rings.
Unlike Huo Yuhao's method of using Imitation as a shell, even merely changing the color displayed by a Spirit Ring involved the fundamental structural issues of the Spirit Ring itself.
This research topic was rather deep, so Chen Ming simply changed to another method. He chose to directly study how to restrain Spirit Rings within his own body, preventing the Spirit Rings from manifesting when he used his Martial Soul.
Although this kind of technique was also profound, compared to involving the essence of Spirit Rings, it was far simpler.
After researching for roughly two or three days, Chen Ming developed this set of techniques. Along the way, he also studied how one should use this state to improve the effects of one's Spirit Abilities after restraining the Spirit Rings. Finally, he bound this secret method into a booklet and casually gave it to Dugu Bo.
For Spirit Masters with beast Martial Souls, restraining Spirit Rings like this could improve their physical strength and the strength of their Spirit Abilities. For Spirit Masters with tool Martial Souls, it could strengthen their tool Martial Souls and reduce the consumption of Spirit Abilities.
For an ordinary Titled Douluo such as Sword Douluo, this would indeed be an extremely important method. It was something that could only be done after one's understanding of their Martial Soul reached a certain degree.
But in Chen Ming's view, it was merely a transitional method for this stage. What he wanted more was that kind of ring fusion secret method, or simply to obtain the Clear Sky Clan's Ring Detonation.
After sorting out all his own aspects and making himself appear not so conspicuous, Chen Ming then picked some medicinal herbs and left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well together with Dugu Bo.
As soon as he returned to Heaven Dou City, Chen Ming received an invitation from the Crown Prince's Residence.
"His Highness the Crown Prince has an urgent matter for me?"
Looking at this sheet of letter paper that had been left in Dugu Bo's residence for at least seven or eight days, Chen Ming felt just the tiniest bit awkward.
After all, theoretically speaking, he belonged to the Crown Prince's Residence as one of its members, the crown prince's study companion. In reality, not only had he never gone to the Crown Prince's Residence, he had not even helped the crown prince in the slightest. He was completely just taking benefits.
Normally, when there was nothing major, it was fine for him to act as a decoration. But when there was an urgent matter and he was not even around, how could it not be awkward?
Carrying his doubts, Chen Ming went to the Crown Prince's Residence. After the guards watching the entrance of the Crown Prince's Residence confirmed Chen Ming's identity, they immediately led Chen Ming into the residence. A servant who could be considered one of Qian Renxue's trusted aides immediately brought Chen Ming into the crown prince's study.
At this very moment, inside the study, Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, was leaning over her desk, looking at a large pile of documents. Her originally meticulously groomed golden hair had already begun to look somewhat disheveled, while various kinds of documents beside her had piled up like mountains.
It was unknown whether it was because the disguise ability of the Angel Spirit Bone was too powerful, but Chen Ming could actually see pure fatigue and a faint trace of dark circles on Xue Qinghe's face. It seemed as though her entire person had been trapped in a state of anxiety for a long time, without any time to calm down and rest.
"Brother Chen, you're finally here. Hurry over and help me."
Seeing Chen Ming appear, Qian Renxue immediately looked as though she had seen her savior. She directly stood up, pulled Chen Ming by the hand, and brought him to the previous position.
Looking at the documents on the desk, Chen Ming's brain operated at high speed. It only took roughly a few seconds for him to completely understand why Qian Renxue's emotions were so stirred at this moment.
Because this truly was an extremely major matter.
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