"Su Ming, Chen Xin, where did you go?" Qing Luan asked curiously.
His Martial Soul was flight-type, making him the fastest at scouting the continent with the broadest view. He hadn't seen Su Ming and the others at all.
"A sudden inspiration, felt close to a breakthrough, so we secluded ourselves on the spot for a while," Su Ming didn't reveal the truth.
Chen Xin glanced at him and also concurred.
"A flash of insight, secluded for a month."
"What about Dugu Bo?"
"He hasn't awakened yet."
Qing Luan and the others exchanged glances, their eyes carrying a trace of doubt.
Clearly, they sensed something off from Su Ming and Chen Xin's answers.
However, with the two unwilling to say more, they couldn't force it.
After Su Ming and Chen Xin left, they searched the area where the two had reappeared.
Unfortunately, without the Phoenix God's guidance, the Phoenix Minor World wasn't open to outsiders.
However, after exploring for a long time, the Qing Luan Douluo did enter the Phoenix Minor World and never came out again.
Though Yueguan and Gui Mei were curious about the Phoenix Minor World, they no longer fixated on it.
The situation on the Phoenix Continent wasn't favorable, and they didn't plan to develop it further.
"The humans here don't even have nations, let alone the tribal structures seen on the Sun Moon Continent. They have no external exploration whatsoever. All we've determined is the distribution of Spirit Beast resources. Everything else would require time for surveying and extraction."
As Titled Douluos, neither Yueguan nor Gui Mei were willing to waste time on surveying and extraction.
They could only record navigational logs, document the continent's situation, and then wait to depart.
Su Ming didn't have the patience to wait. He needed to complete the Third Trial, so he gathered the people on the continent and, after leaving messages for Dugu Bo and Qing Luan, departed first.
Sun Moon Continent.
Su Ming returned, searched the continent but couldn't find a Spirit Master with a Phoenix Martial Soul.
Helpless, he had to return to the Douluo Continent.
What?
Anyone with Phoenix bloodline would do? Just help them evolve their bloodline and complete the transformation?
Wouldn't that make him a nanny?
It wasn't like back when Su Ming needed to extend the illusory history upstream.
Thus, he gathered everyone again and proposed returning to the Douluo Continent.
The major powers already had plans: some would stay, some would return.
Simultaneously, the major tribes of the Sun Moon Alliance were also willing to exchange, so this return fleet included several hundred additional people.
Compared to the journey there, the return voyage was shorter, with fewer detours, more experience, and the availability of numerous remotely-operated Spirit Cannons and propulsion units provided by the Sun Moon Alliance. The return speed was a full two times faster than the initial voyage.
Of course, the prerequisite was still having peak Douluos on board.
Yueguan, Gui Mei, and Chen Xin were the core 'equipment'.
Without them, even if the giant ship could sail that fast, it couldn't sail that fast, or it would just become food for sea Spirit Beasts.
The return journey was somewhat dull for Su Ming.
He didn't waste time either, choosing to seize the opportunity to break through.
As Dugu Bo had once thought, Su Ming could break through at any time.
Condensing a Spirit Core would allow the breakthrough.
Being busy exploring the continent and establishing pioneering faith, Su Ming had delayed condensing this core.
Aboard the giant ship, Exploration.
A vortex blotted out the sky.
The rare, perfectly clear weather was instantly ruined.
Heaven and earth changed color.
Dark clouds gathered.
Ocean waves churned.
At this moment, various deep-sea disasters frequently appeared.
And the originator of it all was the massive vortex churning space above the giant ship.
"Is that a Spirit Core?" Yueguan stared at the massive vortex in the sky, his pupils trembling violently.
He had never seen a Spirit Core condensing, but based on the aura fluctuations and Su Ming's prior indications, he roughly guessed Su Ming was condensing a Spirit Core to break through.
He just never imagined a Spirit Core could cause such a commotion. Forget him, even a Titled Douluo from the Douluo 2 era arriving here probably wouldn't believe these fluctuations were caused by a Spirit Core.
Above Su Ming's secluded room, a massive projection of his true body also appeared, its Dantian position precisely overlapping with the vortex in the sky.
This confirmed Yueguan's conjecture.
Su Ming waited half a day.
Confirming the Shura God wouldn't intervene, he formally began condensing the Spirit Core.
During this half day, he was actually busy.
He achieved resonance with his Douluo 2 and Douluo 3 selves across the three timelines.
The resonance of the three Spirit Cores distorted space at their respective temporal points.
At this moment, Su Ming deeply felt the exponential change from dual resonance to triple resonance, directly experiencing why triple resonance could stand at the same table as the structure of dual complementary single resonance.
"Spirit Core, condense!"
Instantly, raging waves.
All these celestial phenomena not only originated from Su Ming but were also stirred by his Spirit Core condensation.
At this moment, seawater swirled on the spot, flowing around the Spirit Core projection.
Hurricanes whirled around, forming massive storms.
Thunderclouds rolled, thunderous power enveloping the surroundings, yet seemingly avoiding the Spirit Core projection.
"Is Su Ming really just breaking through to level 70?" Yueguan's expression was grave, his heart uneasy.
He originally thought the strongest on this ship were himself and Gui Mei.
Even if Chen Xin was level 97, their Two Poles Static Domain could immobilize him.
Now it seemed Su Ming was hiding too deeply.
He might also possess Titled Douluo-level power.
And at a peak Douluo standard!
Thinking of Su Ming's terrifying Spirit Ring combination, Yueguan felt it was normal again.
He, a peak Douluo, didn't have a single hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring, while Su Ming had three.
As if responding to Yueguan, Spirit Rings emerged one by one outside Su Ming's true body projection, pressing down above the giant ship.
For a moment, the momentum of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning seemed suppressed as well.
Black.
Black.
Black.
Red!
Orange!
Red!
The astonishing Spirit Ring configuration was suffocating.
Not three reds.
Su Ming's fifth Spirit Ring had turned orange-gold.
Though an unseen ring color, its pressure was undoubtedly greater than Su Ming's sixth Spirit Ring.
The orange ring bore two golden patterns.
Su Ming's fifth Spirit Ring had already been repeatedly elevated by A Yin during his many resurrections, approaching a hundred thousand years. Later, fusing with the two-hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor further raised its year limit to over two hundred thousand.
Orange-gold was the color of Spirit Rings bestowed by Fierce Beast-level Spirit Souls.
The Spirit Rings left by deceased Fierce Beast Spirit Beasts remained pure blood red.
The reason for Su Ming's current ring color mutation was, of course, his Spirit Core.
The resonance across three eras allowed the Blue Silver Emperor Spirit Soul from the Douluo 2 Su Ming to influence his fifth Spirit Ring, causing the mutation.
Whether Spirit Masters from the major powers of the Douluo Continent or tribal Spirit Engineers from the Sun Moon Alliance, all couldn't help but lower their heads.
Too terrifying.
A human Spirit Master could actually cultivate to such an extent.
Su Ming glanced below, his gaze indifferent, paying no heed.
The Spirit Core took shape, the massive true body projection gradually retracting into his body.
Spirit Core, condensed.
Spirit Power simultaneously broke through, reaching level 70.
"After returning, I'll obtain Er Ming's Spirit Ring."
Su Ming knew Er Ming's Spirit Ring year limit wasn't enough for him.
But it didn't matter.
As long as the foundation was compatible.
Later, he could find the Titan Ice Devil King to supplement the year limit.
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