Excellent! Truly excellent!
For the Spirit Rings he had absorbed from the Purple Spirit Wolf:, Silver Moon Wolf King, and Sacred Illusion Demon Ape, each one a hundred-thousand-year ring, Ye Yu was thoroughly satisfied with the Spirit Abilities he had gained.
Afterward, within the inner area of the Evildemon Forest, Ye Yu once again transformed into a bolt of lightning, soaring across the skies.
Activating his second Martial Soul, the Spirit Eyes, and channeling the Purple Demon Eye, he continued his search for suitable spirit beasts with spiritual attributes.
Before long, he discovered one.
An eighty-thousand-year-old top-tier spirit beast—rare and powerful, carrying not only spiritual attributes but also darkness and fire—the Nightmare Purgatory Unicorn!
Upon finding it, Ye Yu immediately summoned his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree. With ease, he bound the Nightmare Purgatory Unicorn under its crystalline roots.
Then, drawing out the External Spirit Bone—Demon Willow Fluff—he implanted it into the unicorn's body.
Through the External Spirit Bone's feedback ability, its cultivation was rapidly raised to the hundred-thousand-year level.
Once its cultivation reached that peak, Ye Yu manipulated his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree to strike, killing the Nightmare Purgatory Unicorn outright.
In an instant, countless scarlet motes of light scattered from its body. Above the corpse, a blood-red hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring condensed.
At the same time, an entirely dark-red Spirit Bone burst forth—a crystal-clear left leg bone gleaming with fire and darkness.
After storing away the unicorn's Spirit Bone, Ye Yu sat cross-legged beside the corpse and began circulating the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
Drawing the forming Spirit Ring down onto himself, he began absorption.
With his physical foundation and immense spiritual power, only a few minutes were needed before he had fully absorbed and refined the Nightmare Purgatory Unicorn's hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring.
Testing his new abilities, Ye Yu named them: Fear Aura and Purgatory Flame.
Fear Aura created a domain-like aura, within which all beings with weaker spiritual power than Ye Yu would be forced into terror. Even those strong enough to resist the fear would still find their strength suppressed.
Purgatory Flame, meanwhile, was a fire of the soul itself—capable of burning and annihilating an enemy's spirit.
With this hunt complete, Ye Yu continued roaming the inner area of the Evildemon Forest.
This time, he did not encounter another powerful spirit beast with spiritual attributes. Instead, he unexpectedly discovered a seventy-thousand-year-old Mirror Image Beast.
"A Mirror Image Beast!"
The moment his eyes fell upon the creature—its crystalline body resembling a pangolin, with razor claws and a dragon-shaped head—Ye Yu could not help but grow excited.
Though it lacked spiritual attributes, its abilities were extraordinarily unique.
If he raised its cultivation to a hundred-thousand years and then absorbed its Spirit Ring, Ye Yu estimated that one of the resulting abilities would allow him to replicate other Spirit Abilities, while the other would grant a mirror-image clone.
Spotting the Mirror Image Beast before a cavern, Ye Yu once more flashed down in a streak of lightning. Summoning the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree, he unleashed his abilities.
Against the countless crystal-blue roots—immense, unbreakable, brimming with vitality and regenerative power—the Mirror Image Beast was swiftly subdued.
Just as with the Nightmare Purgatory Unicorn, Ye Yu implanted the Demon Willow Fluff, raising its cultivation to a hundred-thousand years, then killed it outright with his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree.
As the creature died, crimson light poured out once more, a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring forming overhead. But this time, the Spirit Bone that dropped was special.
"This is… an External Spirit Bone?!"
Before him lay a crystalline Spirit Bone shaped like a mirror. Ye Yu was stunned.
That a Mirror Image Beast could produce a hundred-thousand-year External Spirit Bone was unexpected. Yet, considering its innate mirror-copying ability, it made perfect sense.
Having already collected all six major Spirit Bones, Ye Yu would have been unable to absorb another ordinary piece.
But since this was an External Spirit Bone, he could indeed refine it!
Still, before that, he needed to absorb the Spirit Ring first. Carefully stowing away the bone, Ye Yu sat down and drew the crimson ring over his body.
In short order, he succeeded in refining the Mirror Image Beast's Spirit Ring.
As he had predicted, it granted two abilities: Replication and Mirror Clone.
Replication allowed him to duplicate Spirit Abilities, whether his own or his enemy's. Abilities under the hundred-thousand-year level could be copied at full power, while those beyond would be diminished.
Mirror Clone consumed vast amounts of Spirit Power to create a duplicate of himself—complete with Martial Souls and abilities—though somewhat weakened compared to the original.
Even if he sacrificed only a single spirit core's worth of energy, the resulting clone would be capable of sweeping across the entire Douluo Continent.
If he poured in multiple cores… Ye Yu judged that such a clone's strength might even rival a god.
Without hesitation, he fused the External Spirit Bone into his chest, nestling it between his ribs.
He named it: External Spirit Bone – Mirror Heart Guard.
Its abilities were likewise Replication and Mirror Clone, though enhanced through resonance with the Spirit Ring.
Satisfied, Ye Yu mused over the possibilities. With the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree's child bodies spread throughout the world, endlessly feeding him Spirit Power, he had no concerns about exhaustion.
By combining the Mirror Image Beast's Replication with the Mirror Heart Guard's amplification, he could simultaneously copy his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree's eighth Spirit Ability: True Thousand Hands.
Summoning three Blue Silver Thousand-Armed Buddhas to unleash a "Meteor Shower of Pegasus Fists"… Ye Yu could scarcely imagine the devastation.
Now, with yet another hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring absorbed, only one more remained before he reached his seventh ring.
By the rules of the Douluo Continent, the seventh Spirit Ring always bestowed a single ability—Martial Soul Avatar—no matter the ring's age, even if it exceeded a hundred-thousand years.
For his Spirit Eyes' seventh ring, Ye Yu had already chosen the target.
The hundred-thousand-year Evil-Eyed Tyrant.
Once more, he became lightning, streaking deep into the Evildemon Forest.
Finally, in the abyssal darkness below, Ye Yu found it—
A hundred-thousand-year Evil-Eyed Tyrant.