The advantages of Gold Force were immense, filling Su Ming with pleasant surprise.
After discovering that cultivating Gold Force could significantly increase Spirit Ring longevity, he quickly conducted tests and found the enhancement effect was remarkably pronounced, not inferior to constantly absorbing spiritual energy within a Spirit Ascension Platform. Even for someone like Su Ming who could readily obtain access to Ascension Platforms, this effect of Gold Force held enormous significance. After all, the spiritual energy output of Ascension Platforms was limited, and it wasted the Spirit Master's time. In contrast, having spirit souls cultivate Gold Force allowed these beings, who had Plenty of spare time, to utilize it effectively.
Just this single point allowed Su Ming to affirm that this cultivation system had great potential for development.
Moreover, Gold Force originated from Abyssal Heaven Refined metal. Once this metal fused with a corresponding lifeform, it could grant that being an ability akin to a spiritual root, allowing them to absorb forces attuned to metal to enhance their Gold Force. The Gold Force cultivated in this way belonged to that lifeform.
It was equivalent to gaining a brand new power out of thin air, like Tang Wulin had.
This was practically no different from an artificial Martial Spirit—directly bestowing another talent similar to a Martial Spirit and thereby acquiring new power.
"Each of you must cultivate Gold Force. Strive to elevate it to the million-year level as soon as possible. The Abyss is right next door; its energy will definitely be sufficient. I will try my best to equip you with Half-Step Transcendent metals most compatible with you. That's the current limit of my forging technique."
Su Ming would naturally prepare the best for his own spirit souls.
Gold Force could be cultivated autonomously, and its advancement speed was extremely fast. Based on Su Ming's preliminary research, the two factors that most influenced cultivation speed were the cultivator and the quality of the metal.
First, the metal had to be at least at the Heaven Refinement level, which, when mapped to the Spirit Master cultivation system, was no less than a top-tier Martial Spirit. Two-Tribulation, Three-Tribulation, or even Half-Step Transcendent metals could surpass some super-grade Martial Spirits.
Secondly was the cultivator themselves. For example, someone like Su Ming, with his strength and realm, cultivating Gold Force would be very rapid in the early stages, up until it matched his current upper limit. After cultivating for just a month, he was already close to reaching a level corresponding to the Spirit Sage rank in terms of Spirit Power. If an ordinary person with no prior cultivation base undertook it, they could only rely on the inherent strength of the metal itself. Even so, it would be a top-tier talent, just requiring starting cultivation from scratch.
Furthermore, Su Ming hadn't yet tested the upper limit of the benefits. He sensed that Gold Force was influenced by the cultivator's realm, perhaps not just their Spirit Power level. The enhancement from his status as Lord of the Plane might also enjoy this bonus. Relying solely on Gold Force, Su Ming was already nearing Spirit Sage strength. In another month or two, this high-speed progression might not stop; it might even rapidly advance to the Titled Douluo or Super Douluo level.
If the cost-effectiveness of Gold Force cultivation enhancing Spirit Ring longevity wasn't convincing enough, then its extremely fast cultivation speed and its ability to quickly catch up to the Spirit Master's full strength were incredibly enticing.
Needing only a few months to possess another layer of power equivalent to one's full strength, filling oneself, and even amplifying oneself to achieve a doubling of power held fatal attraction for Spirit Masters at any stage.
For the vast majority of Limit Douluo, Two-Tribulation or Three-Tribulation metals might be difficult to obtain, but ordinary Abyssal Heaven Refined metal was something they could actually aspire to.
"Because of me, your potential upper limits are actually very high. It's just that your Spirit Ring longevity hasn't caught up. Cultivate Gold Force with all your effort. Reaching a million years might be uncertain, but there shouldn't be bottlenecks before five hundred thousand years. A few months should definitely be enough."
Su Ming instructed each of his spirit souls within his Sea of Consciousness.
The Light Sphere, Hun Dun, Chunqiu, and Hun Yuan—the four spirit souls reacted differently. The latter three showed positive, excited responses. Only the Light Sphere reacted most vehemently.
"No, impossible! How could a few months be enough?" The Light Sphere wailed miserably, crying injustice. "They each only have one Spirit Ring to distribute the cultivation to! I have to enhance three Spirit Rings!"
Su Ming surprisingly agreed with the Light Sphere's argument for once.
In the past, the Light Sphere's laziness was genuine, but this time the reason was indeed substantial.
"Fine, I'll allow you to be slower. However, your cultivation base is the lowest among them."
The Light Sphere fell silent.
Lowest cultivation base...
After assigning tasks to his spirit souls, Su Ming closed his eyes to sense.
He was sensing the Laws of the Abyss.
Meanwhile, within the Abyss...
"The Abyss now has Laws related to forging as well. Hmph, that Su Ming can forge using Abyssal Laws on Douluo Planet. In theory, I, on the Abyssal side, can also use Douluo's Laws for spiritual forging."
He was secretly excited.
He was somewhat covetous of Douluo Planet's forging system.
That Battle Armor technology was exceedingly rare even in the universe.
With forging capabilities, he could craft a set of Four-Word Battle Armor for himself. Then, leveraging the nurturing properties of Abyssal energy, it wouldn't even be difficult to fully nurture the Four-Word Battle Armor into divine artifact-level armor.
"How difficult it is to condense a single Law! My time is limited. I can only let Su Ming forge. Every time he forges using Abyssal Laws, the Abyss's forging Laws take shape faster!"
To accelerate this speed, he even paused his condensation of a God Seat, actively driving the Abyssal origin to cooperate with this process!
Douluo Planet.
Su Ming could naturally perceive this.
It wasn't difficult.
For others, such unintentionally created things would be nearly impossible to know immediately. But Su Ming could. His Spiral Ascension constitution allowed him to directly receive feedback related to rank.
Su Ming's expression wasn't unpleasant; instead, he revealed a smile.
"Gold Force's enhancement effect on spirit souls is considerable. But after all, we have Spirit Ascension Platforms now. For my Douluo 3 self, its significance is far less than for my Douluo 1 and Douluo 2 selves."
However, to cultivate Gold Force, one needed to use the energy tribulation invoked through Abyssal Laws. For Douluo 1 and Douluo 2, obtaining Abyssal Laws was almost impossible.
But it was only almost, not completely without a shred of opportunity!
"The rank from the future, brought to the past, could at least help me locate the Abyss."
In the vast universe, before the God Realm disappeared, no one knew where this Abyss was hiding. If it couldn't be located, even the God of Space couldn't help him descend upon it.
[Douluo 1]
Douluo Continent.
After gathering the trials of the seven Elemental Gods, Su Ming left the Sun Moon Continent. He sent Zhu Jiuyang to the Phoenix Small World within the Phoenix Continent to cultivate using the Nirvana Flame. Su Ming himself returned to the Douluo Continent.
In Douluo 3, Su Ming had finally taken the critical step, obtaining the Pioneering Faith. In Douluo 1, Su Ming was also preparing, seeking ways to pioneer once more, to find the Star Luo Continent, and to locate the Dragon Valley in Douluo 1.
However, before he could set out, the discovery of Gold Force in Douluo 3 caused him to postpone his plan to pioneer towards the Star Luo Continent.
"The Abyss..."
Su Ming from Douluo 2 wasn't the first to attempt sensing the Abyss, because the God Realm was present there.
If the Abyss approached, the God Realm would simply annihilate it, and Su Ming could only stare helplessly.
In Douluo 1, although the illusory history had horizontally extended to include a God Realm, this place was ultimately illusory. Some things could be changed, such as history.
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