After a long while, the blood-colored flame on the Golden Hawksbill went out, and a scarlet hundred-thousand-year eighth spirit ring lined up neatly outside the seven equally scarlet hundred-thousand-year rings.
After becoming a seven-ring Spirit Saint, Tang Yuehua advanced again to an eight-ring Spirit Douluo, and her soul power level rose to Rank 84 Spirit Douluo.
It was obvious that when her soul power had shot straight to Rank 80 quasi Spirit Douluo earlier, the accumulation in her body had still not fully been released.
Otherwise it should not have been enough for her soul power to rise directly to Rank 84 Spirit Douluo. Rank 82 would have been about right.
After all, Tang Yuehua had only obtained a hundred-thousand-year eighth spirit ring and had not refined the hundred-thousand-year left leg bone dropped by that Golden Hawksbill.
"Her soul power is actually two levels higher than mine?"
Seeing Tang Yuehua reach Rank 84 Spirit Douluo, Chu Chengzhou raised a brow inwardly and opened his attribute panel for a glance.
[Attribute Panel]
[Host: Chu Chengzhou]
[Soul Power: Rank 82]
[Martial Soul: True Spirit Banner]
[Spirit Rings: Black (10200), Black (10000), Black (30600), Black (99020), Black (29050), Red (100000), Red (110900), Red (100000)]
[First Soul Skill, Summon Spirit: Sky Azure Tree]
[Second Soul Skill, Summon Spirit: Light Lion]
[Third Soul Skill, Summon Spirit: Fire Phoenix]
[Fourth Soul Skill, Summon Spirit: Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear]
[Fifth Soul Skill, Summon Spirit: Profound Water Turtle]
[Sixth Soul Skill, Summon Spirit: Titan Giant Ape]
[Seventh Soul Skill, Summon Spirit: Dark Devilgod Tiger]
[Eighth Soul Skill, Summon Spirit: Spatial Holy Dragon]
[Spirit Bones: Crystal Guard Left Arm Bone (60210), Elemental Dominion Head Bone (70200)]
[Soul Core: First Soul Core (no attribute)]
[Skills: Nine Breaths Qi (Gold), Indestructible Golden Body (Gold), Eternal Thought (Gold), Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow (Gold), Golden Light Traveling the Earth (Gold), Void Illusion Realm (Gold), Blossom in an Instant (Gold), Absolute Control (Gold), Hammer of Creation (Red)]
[AFK: 1. Indestructible Golden Body (Gold), 2. Eternal Thought(Gold), 3. Nine Breaths Qi (Gold), 4. Hammer of Creation (Red), 5. Fourth Spirit Ring (Black), 6. Martial Soul: True Spirit Banner (Top-tier), 7. Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow (Gold), 8. Elemental Dominion Head Bone (Black), 9. First Spirit Ring (Black)]
Four days ago, in the Star Dou Forest, Chu Chengzhou added his eighth spirit ring, advanced to eight rings, and his level rose to Rank 82 Spirit Douluo.
Of course, the eighth ring beast he hunted was not a hundred-thousand-year Spatial Holy Dragon.
The Star Dou Forest did have hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, but they were extremely rare, let alone a space-attribute, dragon-type soul beast.
What he hunted before was only a space-attribute sub-dragon soul beast at a little over ninety-nine thousand four hundred years: a Thorn Dragon.
With an eighth ring close to a hundred thousand years, the moment he advanced to eight rings his level rose to Rank 82 Spirit Douluo.
After advancing to eight rings, the AFK plug-in improved a bit again. Efficiency did not change qualitatively, but one more AFK slot appeared.
After three days of AFK in the ninth slot, the eighth ring's age rose to a hundred thousand years, the Thorn Dragon's summoned bloodline shed and sublimated, and its appearance changed drastically.
At first, the Thorn Dragon summon's skin was silver, its body covered in black spikes, looking somewhat like a Tyrannosaurus from his previous life.
After the bloodline evolved, the skin color did not change and was still silver, but its overall form became a winged western dragon. It became a proper dragon-type soul beast summon, no longer a sub-dragon.
For soul beasts, a hundred thousand years is a great threshold.
Like Blue Silver Grass. Ordinary Blue Silver Grass is a trash soul beast, but at a hundred thousand years it is no longer Blue Silver Grass but the Blue Silver Emperor, a top-tier plant-type soul beast.
In terms of bloodline tier alone, even a weaker hundred-thousand-year soul beast would not lose to a powerful one like the Titan Giant Ape.
After the eighth ring reached a hundred thousand years, the Thorn Dragon's name on the panel became ???, so Chu Chengzhou named it Spatial Holy Dragon and gave it the name Xiao Yin.
Even light-attribute dragon-type soul beasts under a hundred thousand years could be called Light Holy Dragons, so calling his space-attribute dragon summon at a hundred thousand years a Spatial Holy Dragon should be fine.
Perhaps a bit lofty, but not unearned.
The strength of a hundred-thousand-year summon did not differ much from one in the ten-plus-hundred-thousand range. Once the Spatial Holy Dragon Xiao Yin reached a hundred thousand years, Chu Chengzhou hung the first ring onto the AFK queue.
Xiao Qing, the Sky Azure Tree summon, was his earliest summon. It was time to raise its ring age.
Also worth mentioning, in five days Xiong Da would become a hundred-thousand-year Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear summon. By then, although Chu Chengzhou's ring setup would still not match Tang Yuehua's, he would have four hundred-thousand-year rings.
"Yuehua, any changes to your soul skills?"
Closing the panel, Chu Chengzhou stepped forward to ask Tang Yuehua.
Although the Ruyi Ring's first six skills are fixed as Ruyi, with each ring increasing soul power cultivation speed and comprehension by another 10% on top of the base 10%, he was not sure about the seventh and eighth skills.
Aside from his special True Spirit Banner martial soul, Chu Chengzhou had never heard of a seventh soul skill that was not Martial Soul True Body.
As for the Ruyi Ring's eighth skill, he could not say whether it would be the same as the first six like the Nine-Hearted Begonia, or a new skill like the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
Tang Yuehua nodded. "Seventh Soul Skill, Ruyi Ring True Body. After activation, the soul power cost of Ruyi soul skills is halved.
"As for the eighth soul skill, it is still Ruyi. At present, Ruyi can raise soul power cultivation speed and comprehension by 90%."
"The True Body only halves soul power cost?"
Chu Chengzhou raised a brow.
With just that effect, it felt a bit unworthy of a hundred-thousand-year seventh ring.
In the original, Ning Rongrong's seventh ring was only a black ten-thousand-year ring, far short of a hundred thousand, yet the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's True Body not only halved its own amplification costs but also worked on teammates.
Moreover, True Bodies have duration limits and cooldowns, while meditation takes a long time. If the Ruyi Ring True Body only halves cost, is that not rather tasteless?
"My Ruyi Ring True Body has no duration or cooldown limits. As long as there is enough soul power, it can remain active continuously, on whenever needed."
Tang Yuehua smiled and added.
"That is not bad."
Chu Chengzhou nodded with satisfaction.
Though the effect was weaker, being usable at will barely made it worthy of a hundred-thousand-year ring skill.
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