This time, for safety's sake, Kong Deming didn't plan to take too long with the absorption.
During the process of absorbing the Soul Ring, Kong Deming's tightly closed eyes trembled, and his brows furrowed.
He seemed to be enduring some kind of pain.
A breath of flame emanated from his eyes, along with a chill of ice.
Su Yu mobilized the Life Force of the Blade of Living Beings to inject, guiding with the First and Second Soul Skills, helping Kong Deming with the refinement.
He also realized what it was.
External Soul Bone.
Two external Soul Bones!
Eyes!
For this, he couldn't help but marvel at his teacher's luck.
Su Yu's role was to assist in refining the Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
The vast Life Force of the Blade of Living Beings could sustain the Soul Master in a peak state almost continuously without any worry.
Kong Deming's efficiency in refining the Soul Ring was always at maximum power, not even considering the impact of Soul Power on the meridians, refining at the fastest speed.
As for any excess damage, Su Yu would use the Power of Life to restore.
After a day, the blood-red Soul Ring gradually shrunk, merging into Kong Deming's body.
"Let's go!"
After absorbing the Soul Ring, Kong Deming didn't even take the time to sense the situation and immediately left with Su Yu.
After they left the Evil Demon Forest, a mighty Spiritual Power swept through, enveloping the entire forest, and the terrifying pressure made all Soul Beasts tremble.
"Well, it's gone, let's find a place to rest first."
Kong Deming had been camping for more than half a month, hunting and absorbing Soul Rings, and was utterly exhausted.
"Teacher, your absorption time was so short, isn't the refinement of the Life Force insufficient, is your physique enhanced enough?"
Su Yu was somewhat worried.
Kong Deming waved his hand and said, "No problem, I can feel it, my physique has increased significantly.
In any case, that Fire Evil Tyrant is top-tier among Soul Beasts, and even if its main attribute is the Spirit Attribute, its Soul Ring's enhancement to the physique is unmatched by other Soul Beasts.
Of course, the most important improvement this time is the substantial enhancement of my Spiritual Power."
Previously, Kong Deming's Spiritual Power had only reached a palpable yet intangible stage, and he had advanced a bit in this stage.
Now, after absorbing the Fire Evil Tyrant's Soul Ring, his Spiritual Power has at least doubled, and although not reaching the peak of the palpable yet intangible, it has at least advanced to the later stage.
When Spiritual Power reaches a certain level, it can interfere with reality, and similarly, can take on some of the pressure of the Soul Ring for the Soul Master.
Of course, this pressure is only temporarily supported during the absorption process.
After all, while the body cannot withstand it, the Spiritual Power has surplus, and during absorption, even if it cannot directly withstand the pressure of the Soul Ring, it can still strengthen the body, making the absorption process easier.
This is something Kong Deming has focused on studying after reaching the tangible yet intangible realm with his Spiritual Power.
Temporarily enhancing the body through Spiritual Power.
This is also a measure he had previously taken due to his insufficient physique.
"This Fire Evil Tyrant has provided the greatest enhancement to me, far exceeding the previous Hundred-Thousand-Year Red Gold Bird."
"Xiaoyu, remember, if you absorb the Evil Eye Tyrant's Soul Ring, during the process, guide the Soul Power of the Soul Ring as much as possible into your eye area.
The Soul Bones of the Evil Eye Race have a high chance of forming eye-like external Soul Bones.
Especially with Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, a Soul Bone is guaranteed, and this Soul Bone isn't originally present in the Soul Beast's body; it begins forming after the Soul Master's hunt and completes during the Soul Ring absorption process."
Before absorbing a Soul Ring, it's rare to find Soul Bones, as they form during the absorption process.
"With a little guidance, the Soul Bone of the Evil Eye Tyrant could likely converge into an external eye Soul Bone."
Su Yu nodded, surprised by this piece of obscure knowledge, but also helpless.
His Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul was only intended to absorb Soul Rings with the Life Attribute, so the Evil Eye Tyrant was out of the question.
"Teacher, did the Martial Soul fusion you anticipated achieve its realization?"
Kong Deming smiled, a look of happiness on his face.
"Congratulations, Teacher."
Self Soul Fusion Skill.
Even though it was a self Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and the fused Martial Soul still consisted of the same person's Soul Power, with only the Martial Souls merging, it was still extremely powerful.
Lacking the shared Soul Power of a dual-person fusion, it required one to bear the burden alone but also eliminated the inconvenience of a dual-person Martial Soul Fusion.
The explosion potential upper limit was equally enhanced.
"Now the conflict between the two Martial Souls can partly reconcile themselves, and my state is also enhanced in the Martial Soul fusion state.
If in this state, a Soul Ring is absorbed, it can also offset some of the pressure for me."
Martial Soul Fusion requires the gap between both sides not to be too large, and conflicts still exist, but the Martial Soul Fusion itself suppresses this conflict as much as possible through commonality.
Kong Deming calculated carefully and found himself quite close to absorbing the Seventh Soul Ring!
"Teacher, if we add the advanced linkage of the Soul Ring, could you directly absorb the Seventh Soul Ring?"
Su Yu recalled his half-developed Soul Ring Linkage Technology and asked.
"Have you developed the Linked Ring Secret Technique?"
Kong Deming looked surprised.
At the time, he chose to construct the 'Yang' character rune instead of developing the Linked Ring Secret Technique because the development of the Linked Ring Secret Technique was far from simple.
Su Yu gave a bitter smile and shook his head.
"Of course not, I was merely exploring the direction for assisting Soul Ring linkage using Soul-guiding Devices and Fusion Soul-guiding Technology."
Kong Deming responded with an "Oh~" and nodded.
That made sense.
The direct development of the Linked Ring Secret Technique could not be accomplished overnight, but utilizing external aids for Soul Ring linkage made it much easier.
This was advice he had given to Su Yu regarding his Intermediate Battle Armor.
At the time, due to time constraints, he hadn't thought about how long it would take to develop the technology for utilizing external aids for Soul Ring linkage and its potential utility for himself.
"Have you found the direction?"
Kong Deming calculated again, considering the Second Martial Soul Linkage as another augmentation to his physique.
Though this augmentation relies on an external aid and will be temporary, with the completion of the Seventh Soul Ring absorption, the augmentation becomes a permanent passive enhancement.
It is feasible!
Kong Deming inquired in detail about Su Yu's current progress and thoughts.
The teacher and student did not return to Mingdu.
They planned to first perfect the Soul Guide Ring Technology before hunting a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and returning to Mingdu.
With the addition of Kong Deming, combined with Su Yu's inspiration and intuition, and Kong Deming's foundational knowledge, the development process was extremely smooth.
In the blink of an eye, half a month flew by.
"Good student, let's go, and continue absorbing Soul Rings!"